Posted on 01/30/2024 2:31:58 PM PST by dennisw
Frank Zappa's problem with David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ld6RnOLk
Otis Gibbs 91.2K subscribers
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Otis Gibbs has lots of good videos. Here is one on Dire Straits.
When Dire Straits Met Bob Dylan-—— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQdtRhaaNyk
Time hasn’t been kind to either one of these two overrated musicians.
Imagine being so good on guitar that David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, and David Byrne want you in their band.
Good video. Thanks for the link.
Zappa did not like Bowie stealing his guitarist (Adrian).
One would agree we're all entitled to our opinions, but in both cases wouldn't it be more precise to say time and mortality haven't been kind to either one of them?
Like and agree.
I’m 70 and right smack in the middle of their contemporaries. They are two bands I never liked, except for Montana, by Zappa. I thought it was funny. I never liked the Shaggs either.
But I understand that art is subjective.🤣
Zappa always did seem like an asshole.
Both Zappa and “Ziggy” fantastic musicians and innovative performers. but Bowie had a bigger Skill Set, in that he was good on the alto saxophone. In the song Changes, that’s David B. talking the talk during the intro and fade out.
Zappa couldn’t never outmatch Bowie.
Zappa’s lyrics to “I’m the Slime” so appropriately describe the media of today
Bowe was the better businessman.
Yeah, it killed them.
Bowie and Adrian are accomplished musicians.
Frank Zappa however was a prolific genius composer and virtuoso guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeCGm8VipUU
People who don’t understand that have not listened to Zappa’s catalog. ...or if they have and not reached the same conclusion, god help them.
You throw shade at Zappa, you out yourself as an loud mouth idiot.
That was great, thanks for posting.
You are correct. A lot of people think Frank was a drug-addled lunatic and libertine. They are wrong. He was a real genius. And pretty funny.
To my understanding the whole point to Zappa’s commercial music career was to fund his interest in weird modern classical music and to get his written pieces performed by large symphony orchestras. Which is pretty expensive and involved. I always thought that was cool, he was just paying the bills to make music that 30 people might like. He could wail on that guitar in any case.
Freegards
I had a good friend, who was also a very accomplished jazz saxophonist, who for a couple years in his early 20’s followed Zappa around the country like Deadheads followed the Dead. His other influences included Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. He knew music at the fringes, and considered Zappa exceptional.
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