Posted on 10/07/2015 9:56:09 PM PDT by dayglored
I am sorry for all of our loss, too.
Frank was a innovative genius with a Great keen sense of humor.
These are lackluster times compared to back then.
I’m taking solice knowing that work will live on, as future musicians discover and adopt his style, tastey guitar riffs and wit.
Peace to you.
Her daughter Moon Unit had but one hit record, Valley Girls.
That one recording has inspired other music and full length films. She was portraying a concept.
Another powerful source of Laurel Canyon talent and creativity would be Joni Mitchell. She dedicated an album to the people she met and made music with. The album was Ladies of the Canyon.
Ingenue cute to be sure....I wonder if she was in Montreaux at the fire?
How time flies....
I bet she had a “real poncho”
I wonder if she had a sister named Dinah.....
God love her
Frank Zappa broke the mold....
Thank you. I’m just sitting contemplating her loss. I took Frank around Milwaukee for a few days, and we had a great time! Gail used to call anytime Frank was playing nearby. She seemed to be a very nice nice person.
Technically that was her dads record no?
On an album very early 80s
His only real chart hit
Interesting thread. Condolences to family and friends of Gail and Frank Zappa. My cousin Steve (RIP) was a huge Zappa fan. I enjoyed Zappa.
“many 1960s Hippie musicians (such as Frank Zappa)”
Hippies may have loved Frank Zappa but FZ didn’t like hippies all that much. In fact, he mocked them in his musical material and stage performances.
I never liked Zappa;s music or understood his appeal.... oh well. Then you had Captain Beef Heart who was Zappa on steroids,
Absolutely Free - possibly his best work:
Frank Zappa Full Albums:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-97eQ5A7fpvracdpWya75_SfxqNViJm
Call any vegetable, call it by name.
Call any vegetable when you get off the train.
Call any vegetable and the chances are good
That the vegetable will respond to you.
Voices from long ago.....
Joni Mitchell, Zappa, Ray Manzarek of the Doors—all great jazz musicians.
I saw Joni in concert with Tom Scott and L.A. Express.
Zactly!
To this day I still look around for the yellow snow.
I also saw them; I was unimpressed by Zappa and MOI. There were so many bands out there then that were more listenable.
Bump
But apparently he drew the line at hard drugs.
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Any drugs, actually.
He fired Lowell George (who went on to form Little Feat) after Lowell wrote the song Willin.
At least that’s the story Lowell used to tell at shows.
Yes, that would be consistent.
Willin’
By Little Feat
I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I’m drunk and dirty don’t ya know, and I’m still, willin’
Out on the road late at night, Seen my pretty Alice in every head light
Alice, Dallas Alice
I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed
And if you give me, weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’, to be movin’
I’ve been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in, but I’m still on my feet and I’m still, willin’
Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
Baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico, and I’m still
And I been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed
And if you give me, weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’, to be movin
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