For the discussion of American composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993), and associated acts.

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https://fzpomd.net/turtlestew/index.htm Live show/touring wiki

https://www.zappateers.com/login Trading tapes and boots

>Testifies before Congress
>speaks out during the '88 tour and registers thousands of voters.
>talks about running for office
>Goldwater/Ron Paul Libertarian

>Feel something is wrong
>first doctor says nothing is wrong
>second opinion: you're fine
>third doctor finds nothing
>fourth doctor: you are dying of prostate cancer and we caught it too late.

This fucker was murdered.

this guy still releases an album a year.

>>126879633
>>mediocre guitar player
>>never bothered putting any effort into his playing or his songwritting
>>came in the studio with the mothers with half assed ideas, and expected everyone else to collaborate
>>most of the stuff he made is absolute filler trash
>>only ever started getting good by the end of the mothers, but even then never applied himself at all
>>his best album is a handful of good songs among a sea of filler and terribly overproduced
>>pushed that lame steve vai bullshit, never even bothering to learn how to play it properly
>>his solos are awful
>>whiny bitch who threatened to quit whenever people didn't do what he wanted
>>would have been a complete nobody if he wasn't in the mothers to begin with

or you can be self-taught like this guy and have terrible mechanics and still play brilliant solos. but you have to be brilliant first.