http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:23:11 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/010947.php#comment-104939 Eric, I don't recall when Frank said "everyone who doesn't "get" me or agree with me is stupid." When was that, exactly? 104939@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:23:11 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/010947.php#comment-104885 Zappa was the man! I saw the Broadway The Hard Way tour in 1988; he spent half the show skewering Swaggart, James Baker and the Reagan Administration. Then he played "Stairway to Heaven" and had the horn section play Page's guitar solo note-for-note. There'll never be another Frank Zappa. 104885@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:58:54 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/010947.php#comment-104760 There's also the "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore" live series. 104760@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:11:20 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/010947.php#comment-104754 Frank's personal smugness (everyone who doesn't "get" me or agree with me is stupid) and hypocrisy (drugs bad-smoking good) made him far more unpleasant than he had to be, but he had a lot going for him as well. I always recommend "Hot Rats" as the best place to start: groovy, jammy blues-rock with a more organic feel than most anything else he did 104754@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:54:54 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/010947.php#comment-104732 Zappa rules! Anyway, have you seen the movie "Parental Advisory"? In it Zappa is one of a group of musicians fighting censorship in Music, and well, he embarasses Tipper Gore in a Senate hearing! Maybe it is based on the incident you describe. PS: What kind of a name is Tipper? Sounds like a name for a clown or maybe a constellation... but definitely NOT a woman. 104732@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:56:25 EST