Word: zappa
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...name itself suggests a formula. Alan J. Wilkis ’04, a singer/songwriter/guitarist from New York with an incongruous drawl, idolizes Frank Zappa and calls Bach “the shit...
...European festivals, the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 4-19), but the crowds who flock there don't care. As founder Claude Nobs cheerfully acknowledges, "I'm the traitor who crossed the line first." It was in Montreux 32 years ago that the Casino burned down during a Frank Zappa concert, inspiring Deep Purple's rock classic Smoke on the Water. "I feel a little bad to be called a jazz festival, but it's our tattoo, we can't change it," says Nobs, who was immortalized in the Purple anthem. ("Funky Claude was running in and out/ Pulling kids...
...serious about reading or writing, traveling aboard a cargo ship such as the Ingrid Oldendorff is a dreamlike interlude of heavenly peace on earth. I suppose it would be the same for people who want to paint or embroider or listen to the works of Frank Zappa: you sleep when you want to, and when you wake up there's really nothing you have to do, which is the state of mind most conducive to doing what you want. The telephone in our cabin was a purely ornamental object...
...Syrian and Iraqi borders 23% of workers surveyed think news is the most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage in 1967 and which Frank Zappa later restored and played in 1976 $44,000 is how much an Enron trademark logo, a 1.5 m tall, stainless steel, tilted "E", was sold for at auction last week...
...music, 1985: the stakes are even bigger than the hair. Tipper Gore (Mariel Hemingway) and a group of Capitol wives are out to legislate against "porn rock." A music-biz lobbyist (Jason Priestley) rallies a coalition against them, including Twisted Sister's Dee Snider (as himself) and Frank Zappa (Griffin Dunne), portrayed ludicrously as a kind of chain-smoking Yoda to Priestley's yuppie acolyte. It's a rich premise, but this farce has all the subtlety of a Twisted Sister video--and about one-tenth...