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jbwelda
FZ distanced himself from J&Y after that mess and got really pissed off that they credited his song (King Kong) as their own on their record. Sued them and got some relief. There are some stories published about Zappa's general disgust with his encounter with royalty.
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TheGreek
Frank Zappa was a super talented huge artist . One heck of a master of the fretbaord and he could hold his own with any soloist . Mega talented guitarist and songwriter.
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dcba
Sure he could solo till the cows came home (yawn!) but overall (and imho) he got it so totally wrong all his life he deserves a special place in the "Hall of Idiots".
Zappa's seminal basic flaw is he had "high" tastes in music (like Varese) but he labored in the "low" pop/rock genre. Therefore he, almost from day 1, had a huge superiority comple toward his peers, whom he certainly considered as idiots.
He thought he could take rock to the next level because he played complex stuff with 12 people onstage. Wrong, Frank just made turgid overstretched slabs of sound.
Then Zappa worked with "high art"/"high music" people like Pierre Boulez and that was another dreadful mistake. Boulez probably despised him and his minimal knowledge of classical music but he was eager to get some popularity among a younger wider audience.
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bob r
The Mothers also backed up Lennon / Ono at the Fillmore in 1971 NYC which is
heard on Lennon;s Sometime in NEW York City album--- was really good !