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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
My young teen daughter is now listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Guns N Roses. All her friends are into 90s alternative rock.
I guess I now feel the same way my parents did when I listened to the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, and Dr John when I was a kid.
Still, it is very strange when my daughter is singing Nirvana. She is also shocked I know all the lyrics.
I am still on a mission to get her to like Captain Beefheart, but that i feel is an uphill road. Maybe start with Zappa.
#nirvana #pearljam #gratefuldead #drjohn #allmanbrothersband #90s #frankzappa
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Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily released in 2013
The children and grandchildren of those who'd emigrated years before, that my father would promptly immortalize with his super 8.
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AUDIOPHILE MAN - MUSIC ALERTS
Zappa, Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Art of Noise and orange Ian Dury vinyl? This week’s Music Alerts is pure wax addiction. 🔥🎶
Click: https://youtu.be/dcRjeQ9H2EQ
#Vinyl #VinylCommunity #NowSpinning #RecordStoreDay #FrankZappa #KimWilde #ArtOfNoise #IanDury -
🎧 Frank Zappa
💿 Road Tapes CD - Venue #3Arrival for today. This is CD 3 from a trilogy of live curiosities Zappa left.
For some reason, these CDs are not easy to get (especially around here in his Majesty's land) 😒
Anyways... one is in... two to go!
#zappa #FrankZappa #CD #rarities #livemusic #trilogy #zappanale #mothersofinvention #RoadTapes #cdcollection #cdcollection #music #musiccommunity #nowspinnig # -
Wer Frank #Zappa spielt, kann kein schlechter Mensch sein.
🥁🎹🎸🎙️👨🏼🎤
#klassikpopetc
#klassikpopetcetera
#DLF #Radio
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I love Flo & Eddie's work in Zappa's Mothers. RIP Mark Volman
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Rainbow Theatre London, England December 10, 1971
(2022 – Europe, 3 x Vinyl, Zappa Records – ZR20038-R)
#nowplaying #nowspinning #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #frankzappa #floeddie #mothersofinvention
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Mark Volman, of Turtles ‘Happy Together’ fame, dies at 78
Mark Volman, the singer who co-founded the buoyant 1960s hitmakers the Turtles and was half of the humorous…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #duo #eddie #favor #favoriteband #flo #FrankZappa #Group #happytogether #howardkaylan #label #MarkVolman #ownname #right #Turtles #whitewhale
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What a stellar recording. I got this regular LP-set as a replacement for the picture discs in the Deluxe box, which sounded really bad.
Frank Zappa - Cheaper Than Cheep
(2025 – Europe, 3 x Vinyl, Zappa Records – ZR20047-1, UMG – 00602475394204)
#nowplaying #nowspinning #vinyl #frankzappa #cheaperthancheep #mothers #mothersofinvention
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Today's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #CaliforniaDreaming. These are the first five California songs that I came up with:
John Lee Hooker: Frisco Blues (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsBAKqBQH_UJoe Simon: San Francisco Is a Lonely Town (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2IkVFM1pKMJackie DeShannon: L.A. (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4r4PqNCtFMThe Johnny Otis Show: The Watts Breakaway (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8j-NzrdM_gThe Penguins featuring Cleve Duncan: Memories of El Monte (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0odI8W2U4#music #blues #soul #doowop #johnleehooker #joesimon #jackiedeshannon #johnnyotis #penguins #frankzappa #losangeles #sanfrancisco
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New #review today: "Only one thing can be said about live albums from the 60s: with few exceptions they are uniformly terrible sounding. One exception would be The Who’s Live at Leeds, and now I present another exception, available as a 3CD or 4LP set, of the original #MothersOfInvention at the Whisky A Go Go on July 23rd 1968, a document of a performance that is legendary, though it has never been released until now." #ExposeOnline #FrankZappa #PsychedelicRock #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/frank-zappa-the-mothers-of-invention-whisky-a-go-go-1968-2.html
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Album Challenge: 20 albums that have shaped you. One album per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, just covers.
#20albums #20albums20days #music #FrankZappa #MothersOfInvention
Day 15: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - The Grand Wazoo (1972) -
My brain decided I needed an especially chaotic earworm, and so this ditty has been stuck on my mental soundtrack for the past three days. Early Frank is some of the wildest Frank. 💖
#FrankZappa #MothersOfInvention #rock #1960s
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– I'm stealing the room!
#OnThisDate, March 23, 200 Motels (Tony Palmer & Frank #Zappa, 1971) is the #FilmDuJour. #TonyPalmer #FrankZappa #USA #MothersOfInvention #RingoStarr #KeithMoon #music #musical #opera #absurdism #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #1970s ★★★★☆
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#1 Freak Out (1966, Verve Records) - Myles of Bad Ideas
Starting with Frank's (well, the Mothers of Invention) first album, here are my thoughts on "Freak Out!"
https://mylesryden.vivaldi.net/2023/11/23/1-freak-out-1966-verve-records/
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Still in a weird-ass mood of the curmudgeonly kind, so here's some more Frank Zappa curmudgeonliness, this salvo dating from 1968.
#MentalSoundtrack
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today on my way to work my music player reminded me, that frank zappa once was doing a song in german, or rather a kind of german. it shall never be forgotten! so here to remember: sofa
#musik #music #musique #frankzappa #mothersofinvention
#^Sofa #1 (Live)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupSofa #1 (Live) · Frank ZappaYou Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 1℗ 1988 Zappa Family TrustReleased on: 1988-...
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Il #4dicembre 1993 ci lasciava #FrankZappa uno dei maggiori geni musicali del XX secolo.
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- Praga 1991 una delle sue ultime esibizioni.
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Episodio 2: Absolutely Free - The Mothers Of Invention - 1967
#frankzappa #absolutelyfree #themothersofinvention #albumreview #reviews #rock #vinyl #music #larocoladelviejobar #episodio2
Hola, nuevamente. Hoy es un caluroso día, ideal para tomar algo y escuchar algo de esta vieja rocola. ¿Me acompañan?
Casi un año después de haber editado su primer disco, el 26/05/1967 The Mothers Of Invention publicaron su segundo album: Absolutely Free. Nuevamente utilizaron los TTG Studios en Los Angeles bajo la producción de Tom Wilson para armar una obra que no íba a ser tan ambiciosa como la anterior, pero que íba a mantener muchos de los rasgos encontrados en aquel. O quizás debería decir que es aún más ambiciosa que la anterior… Bueno, ya veremos.
La banda tuvo algunos cambios. Ya sin Elliot Ingber en el grupo, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada y, claro, Frank Zappa comenzaron a grabar el disco junto a cuatro nuevos integrantes: Billy Mundi, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner y Jim Fielder (este último dejó el grupo antes que el disco saliera a las calles y por esta razón fue eliminado de los créditos).
Según Zappa, acá comenzaron sus problemas con las discográficas. Los límites presupuestarios le traían muchos problemas. Claro, una vez que se acaba el dinero, se acabó el tiempo en el estudio. Y si no terminaste, lo siento. Así sufrió Frank con este problema hasta que pudo construir su propio estudio. Además, peleó mucho contra MGM en cuanto a reagalías. Ocho años de juicio contra la empresa para que ésta le pague lo que le correspondía por los dos primeros discos. Desgastante.
Volviendo al disco, nuevamente su temática es una sátira social y política. Conceptualmente cada una de las caras del disco es una suite constituida por un grupo de temas cortos; todos con la firma exclusiva de Zappa.
¿Vamos a escucharlo? Creo que acá tengo una moneda. Vamos...
El lado A (llamado «Absolutely Free»: #1 in a Series of Underground Oratorios”) comienza con «Plastic People» y realmente es muy difícil intentar explicar un tema así. En principio no tiene una estructura definida. Múltiples voces, algunas cantando otras no, un ritmo por momentos inexistente, gritos, cambios de ritmo, acordes disonantes… La melodía solo está en el estribillo, el cual usa el famoso riff de 10 notas del tema «Louie Louie» de Richard Berry. Intenso.
«The Duke of Prunes» comienza con una lenta melodía poco convencional y luego toma algo de velocidad manteniendo dicha melodía con una marcada base del bajo. La experimentación melódica en ambos temas en notoria.
«Amnesia Vivace» sube la apuesta en cuanto a la experimentación. En estos minutos no hay acordes que guíen a una melodía. Solamente sonidos algo inconexos, tarareos y frases habladas relacionadas con el tema anterior.
Y engancha directamente con «The Duke Regains His Chops», que es una prosecución, tanto en letra y música, del segundo tema. A continuación, «Call Any Vegetable», un lindo clásico que pareciera estar compuesto por dos ideas completamente distintas y contrapuestas. La primera, muy melódica y pegadiza. La segunda, mucho más experimental.
«Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin» es el primer instrumental de la carrera de Zappa y compañía. Siete minutos de ideas que se transforman en un riff veloz con un largo solo de guitarra y vientos; ambos instrumentos con sus propios caminos en la improvisación.
La cara A cierra con «Soft-Sell Conclusion», algo así como el cierre de «Call Any Vegetable». Y al finalizar este parte no sé si me estoy riendo por las jocosas referencias o tengo ganas de comer queso, pasas de uva y vegetales.
En este punto me voy a mantener con la estructura original del disco, ya que en reediciones posteriores aquí hay agregados dos temas extras. Esperemos que el disco se de vuelta. ¡Clic!
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#introductions supplemental 2 re #music
#ClassicalMusic
#Mahler
#RichardStrauss
#Bartok
#Shostakovitch
#Prokofiev
#Schoenberg
#Ligeti
#Penderecki
#Scriabin
#Puccini
#Bach
#Mozart
#Beethoven...and I forgot #FrankZappa from Supplement 1!
