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To: wideawake
few of his songs, as wholes, will be considered as such.

"Peaches En Regalia" called. It wants to kill you.

50 posted on 06/19/2008 8:13:20 AM PDT by jmc813
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To: jmc813
"Peaches En Regalia" called. It wants to kill you.

Actually, you prove my point.

"Peaches En Regalia" is one of his few songs, as I said, that is considered an important composition as a whole.

Yet those groups who perform it are usually jam bands and jazz ensembles that use the song as a starting point for their own improvisations - replicating it note for note is not the point.

And the song, in its best known version, is - unlike the bulk of Zappa's 70's work - brief, complete in itself and tightly realized. Every part of it works toward creating a beautiful whole.

For Zappa that was an exception, not a rule.

60 posted on 06/19/2008 8:38:58 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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