Frank Zappa's Apostrophe re-release is a 'must for any serious rock lover'

Express ^ | November 6, 2014 | Paul Stewart

[Eddie01]

FANS of rock's most avant grade figure will adore this 40th anniversary re-release of his cult 1974 album

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[dfwgator]

There was no rift. In fact Collins and Gabriel worked together several times after. Phil drummed on Gabriel’s third album (’Intruder’, ‘No Self Control’, ‘Biko’), and Pete sang backing vocals on Phil’s “Take Me Home.”

Pete just felt it was time to move on, and in retrospect, it was the right time to do it. They never were going to top “The Lamb” with Gabriel, and it freed Genesis to go in another direction that led to even more success for them.

[Eddie01]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-gabriel-leaves-genesis/

some insight anyway...

[Bigg Red]

avant grade

(((
Is that below or above avant garde?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Evelyn, a modified dog
Viewed the quivering fringe of a special doily
Draped across the piano, with some surprise
In the darkened room
Where the chairs dismayed
And the horrible curtains
Muffled the rain
She could hardly believe her eyes
A curious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)
Had caused the doily fringe to waft & tremble in the gloom
Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains...

Arf she said

[Freestate316]

So that was you with your zircon encrusted tweezers gleaming in the moonlight?

[Mr. K]

you mean a mennyl toss flycoon?

[Freestate316]

I saw Zappa live in 1980 at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, and was amazed by his playing.He was definitely underrated as a guitarist.

[kpbruinfan]

“There’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ everyday...”

Played it in a band in college.

“Just like a penguin in bondage, boy.
Way over on the wet side of the bed...”

[lormand]

What is your conceptual continuity?

[mabarker1]

Well, right about that time people
A fur-trapper who was strictly from commercial
Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo peekaboo
And he started into whippin' on my favorite baby seal
With a lead-filled snowshoe

I said, with a
Lead-Filled
With a lead filled snowshoe
He said, peekaboo
I said, with a
Lead-Filled
With a lead filled snowshoe
He said, peekaboo
He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal
He went whap with a lead-filled snowshoe, and
He hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he
That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down
And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous
Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow

The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow
Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous
Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it!

(Here fido)

And then
In a fit of anger
I pounced

And I pounced again

Great googly moogly!

I jumped up and down on the chest of the him

I injured
The fur trapper

Well he was very upset, as you can understand
And rightly so, because the
Deadly yellow snow crystals had
Deprived him of his
Sight

And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said

I can't see
I can't see
Oh, woe is me
I can't see

Well.....you know
I can't see
Nothin'

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye
And the husky wee-wee
I mean the doggie wee-wee
Has blinded me
And I can't see
Temporarily

Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the
Frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about
His deflicted eyes. and it was at that precise moment that he remembered
And ancient eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that
They write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes
As the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named
Nanook,
The only way you can get it fixed up is to go

Trudging across the tundra
Mile after mile
Trudging across the tundra

[Eddie01]

What’s new in Baltimore?

[Eddie01]

http://www.amazon.com/Apostrophe-Anniversary-Vinyl-Frank-Zappa/dp/B00LWLZRIG

[cport]

Yes, along with the snake for a pet and an amulet.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

“Apostrophe” was the first Zappa album I bought, because I had heard “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” on the Dr. Demento Show. When found out that my parents and all my friends hated it, I was hooked for life.

[Chode]

nice to see i'm not the only one with a misspent youth round here

[Tom54]

The Lamb rules!!!!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Some of you might not agree
But ya probably likes a little misery
But think a while and you will see...

[real saxophonist]

Bump

[real saxophonist]

It’s on the album ‘Them or Us’.

[real saxophonist]

Way back at GA Southern in the 80's, our percussion section did 'Echidna's Arf' as a drum feature. It might be on Youtube somewhere. I know a lot of our stuff from that time is.

I'm eventually going to do a symphonic band arrangement of 'Moggio'.