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1 posted on 10/07/2015 9:56:09 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: Squawk 8888

Modern music ping?


2 posted on 10/07/2015 9:56:52 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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3 posted on 10/07/2015 10:00:02 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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One of my favorite lead guitar solos— Zappa’s Willie the Pimp— Capt Beefheart at vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hft8AZVlBGs


4 posted on 10/07/2015 10:03:52 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: dayglored

Loved Zappa’s music. Beefheart’s too. They are missed


5 posted on 10/07/2015 10:04:07 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: dayglored

They got married in 1967, and were still married in 1993 when Frank died of prostate cancer at age 52. That’s 26 years together, and only limited by his passing.


6 posted on 10/07/2015 10:04:14 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeG34oNUX9g


9 posted on 10/07/2015 10:09:52 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Obama practices "religion" in the mirror.)
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To: dayglored

I guess Dweezil and Moon Unit just inherited some money.


17 posted on 10/07/2015 10:22:51 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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I saw the Mothers of Invention in concert in NYC in the early ‘70’s. The warm-up band was Sha-Na-Na. It was the most memorable show I’ve ever seen.


18 posted on 10/07/2015 10:28:27 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: dayglored
Dweezil Zappa plays Frank Zappa - 2:20 (2 hr 20 min) of live Zappa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtuqYzJTsM

21 posted on 10/07/2015 10:33:09 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

RIP.


23 posted on 10/07/2015 10:38:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: dayglored
I still pronounce Catholic "cathalic" as in Cathalic girls

With a tiny little mustache

Cathalic Girls

Do you know how they go?...............

33 posted on 10/07/2015 11:06:05 PM PDT by BBell
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Speaking of Frank Zappa -

Long time LA friends told me of interesting lore claiming many 1960’s Hippie musicians (such as Frank Zappa) came from Laurel Canyon, and happened to have parents who had high profile jobs in the military.

Never quite knew what to make of that. However Frank had gone into great detail about what he knew about the Illuminate.

Would of loved to see him live. I liked his later stuff too, ie: Disco Boy, Flakes, Gobblin girl, and Foxhole.

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html

Inside LC part 1 excerpt -

An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967).

One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures to take up residence in Laurel Canyon. Curiously enough though, the self-proclaimed “Lizard King” has another claim to fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel is of much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is the son, as it turns out, of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison.

And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to fabricate an incident that will be used to massively accelerate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself to become an icon of the ‘hippie’/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose. It is, you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s story is in any way unique.

During the early years of its heyday, Laurel Canyon’s father figure is the rather eccentric personality known as Frank Zappa. Though he and his various Mothers of Invention line-ups will never attain the commercial success of the band headed by the admiral’s son, Frank will be a hugely influential figure among his contemporaries. Ensconced in an abode dubbed the ‘Log Cabin’ – which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue – Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the mid- to late-1960s. He will also discover and sign numerous acts to his various Laurel Canyon-based record labels. Many of these acts will be rather bizarre and somewhat obscure characters (think Captain Beefheart and Larry “Wild Man” Fischer), but some of them, such as psychedelic rocker cum shock-rocker Alice Cooper, will go on to superstardom.

Zappa, along with certain members of his sizable entourage (the ‘Log Cabin’ was run as an early commune, with numerous hangers-on occupying various rooms in the main house and the guest house, as well as in the peculiar caves and tunnels lacing the grounds of the home; far from the quaint homestead the name seems to imply, by the way, the ‘Log Cabin’ was a cavernous five-level home that featured a 2,000+ square-foot living room with three massive chandeliers and an enormous floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace), will also be instrumental in introducing the look and attitude that will define the ‘hippie’ counterculture (although the Zappa crew preferred the label ‘Freak’). Nevertheless, Zappa (born, curiously enough, on the Winter Solstice of 1940) never really made a secret of the fact that he had nothing but contempt for the ‘hippie’ culture that he helped create and that he surrounded himself with.

Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian control-freak and a supporter of U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia, it is perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth movement that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to say that Frank’s dad also had little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was, in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa literally grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. The family later moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an icon of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose.

Zappa’s manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels, curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA. Not to worry though; according to one of Zappa’s biographers, Cohen wasn’t in the Congo on some kind of nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was there, believe it or not, to supply arms to Lumumba “in defiance of the CIA.” Because, you know, that is the kind of thing that globetrotting ex-Marines did in those days (as we’ll see soon enough when we take a look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).

Making up the other half of Laurel Canyon’s First Family is Frank’s wife, Gail Zappa, known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy. Gail herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had “heard voices all [her] life”). Many years before their nearly simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with “Mr. Mojo Risin’” himself, Jim Morrison (it is claimed that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer). The very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries – John Phillips and Cass Elliott.


34 posted on 10/07/2015 11:08:18 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: dayglored

RIP, agreed.


35 posted on 10/07/2015 11:12:06 PM PDT by jocon307
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Frank Zappa taught me one life lesson I will never forget, watch out where the Huskies go...


40 posted on 10/07/2015 11:36:08 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Missing Tagline. Reward for return.)
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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.


43 posted on 10/07/2015 11:44:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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Sweet Pic


47 posted on 10/07/2015 11:59:08 PM PDT by wardaddy (The establishment needs destroying)
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Interesting thread. Condolences to family and friends of Gail and Frank Zappa. My cousin Steve (RIP) was a huge Zappa fan. I enjoyed Zappa.


48 posted on 10/08/2015 12:58:58 AM PDT by PGalt
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Although the 60’s was the best decade,*by far*,for rock,folk,Motown,etc I've never had a whole lot of respect for those who made it.And although many,including some here,would disagree I firmly believe that anyone who'd name their kids “Dweezil” and “Moon Unit” is,at the very least,deeply disturbed...if not a filthy pig.
51 posted on 10/08/2015 2:22:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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I never liked Zappa;s music or understood his appeal.... oh well. Then you had Captain Beef Heart who was Zappa on steroids,


52 posted on 10/08/2015 3:10:43 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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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.....


54 posted on 10/08/2015 4:15:51 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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