Word: zappa
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...Frank Zappa knew something was seriously amiss when he came across a booklet called A Guide to the Alternative Recordings of Frank Zappa. The pamphlet listed 400 titles -- or about 350 more than the veteran rocker has ever released. "In 25 years I have made about 50 real albums, and somehow guys with little cassette machines have managed to produce eight times as many albums and offer them for sale," laments Zappa...
...Chrysalis). In the two years since his group's groundbreaking album What Up, Dog?, Don Was has become a hotshot producer. But he still knows how to find a groove. The latest offering borrows its funk from James Brown, its harmonies from the Temptations, a heaping of wit from Zappa, and makes it all cook...
...1960s he was pictured on a top-selling poster sitting on a toilet. In the '70s he penned the foul-mouthed rock classic Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Small wonder, then, that the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has had a hard time getting mainstream airplay. But the times they are a-changin', and Financial News Network is betting the cult hero is ready for prime time. This week Zappa debuts as guest host on FNN: Focus, an interview show. As his opening topic, Zappa will explore opportunities for U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union. The 49-year-old renegade...