“Whenever any of the metal head musicians I know bag on Zappa I tell them to try and play one of his tunes.”
That usually does it.
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My experience is that most musicians, old and new, continue to revere Zappa as the genius that he was. But that is the concern...Zappa’s legacy is chiefly resident amongst players. Yea, back in the day he was generally regarded as a weirdo with a few funny songs about yellow snow, valley girls, and dancin fools. But his fan base wasn’t just musicians...in fact most of them were NOT musicIan’s but (dare I say) the not popular/island of misfit toy kids who identified with his style of humor AND knew he was a bitch on guitar. Getting a new generation of kids on that train may be hard, but it is necessary...music is the best, after all.