[DoodleBob]

What in Zappa’s repertoire seemed so “heaven-sent”?

His repertoire.

He seemed like kind of a pissed-off guy.

Nah, just insightful.

[Jim W N]

Let’s see, I didn’t know much about Zappa, but I do remember his album, “Mothers of Invention” and songs like, “...can you imagine, they would freak out in Kansas, etc, etc...”

Funny, original, but I wouldn’t call it “heaven-sent.”

[IrishBrigade]

‘His repertoire.’

I liked his spoofs of the late ‘50’s love ditties, to wit;

‘you cheated me baby
and told dirty lies about me
fooling round with all those other guys
that’s why I had to get my khakis pressed...’

[dfwgator]

My favorite Zappa Quote:

“Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the Sixties, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called ‘Social Studies’. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what’s in it...And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what’s in the document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?”