Missing Frank
 

...an unmitigated, and woefully underappreciated genius. Check out this biopic.

Zappa - Official Trailer - YouTube

I have all his albums converted to mp3. Either you love him on hate his music. I don’t think you’ll ever hear his music performed at the squares. My favorite Apostrophe.

Thanks Dana. This is another thing I like about the Villages. At first glance you might think we all only appreciate the likes of Neil Diamond, the Carpenters and the Eagles (not that there's anything wrong with them), but you'll find a lot of us have a discerning taste in music and regularly drop names of less mainstream and more, um, "challenging" performers.

In any case, the bottom line is music seems to be of utmost importance to so many Villagers, and that's what makes me feel at home here.

I have a diverse taste in music anything as long as it isn’t elevator or bubblegum music and don’t appreciate rap at all. Currently I’m listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Check out his masterpiece Songs of Love and Hate if you haven’t already.

I saw Frank Zappa at the Civic Center in Atlanta '85 Them or Us tour. Whipping Post was their encore. He didn't play any guitar, he just lead with a baton. It was good, didn't have anything but purple light, I couldn't hardly see them. I saw REM the same year and were the same, just a purple light but had a bicycle illuminated on a screen behind them to give a little light. Especially when someone spun the wheels of the bike. They were really good, I always like Murmur.

I saw him perform at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in 1984. I'm sure he was a genius of some sort.

It WOULD be fun to hear “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It” or “Call Any Vegetable” or “Suzy Creamcheese” at some village square. I only saw Zappa in concert once, around 1975. The band was well-rehearsed and very attentive to Frank’s conducting. However, it wasn’t what I was expecting.

When I first looked at this thread I thought you were talking about the only musician who we would all recognize as Frank and that would be Sinatra , who could actually sing and by the way I’m not a fanatic golden oldies guy I love a lot of new music , but when using the word Frank and music together there is only one FRANK

I am a moron, and this is my wife.
She's frosting her cake with a paper knife.
All that we've got here is American Made
it's a little bit cheesy but it's nicely displayed.

Well we don't get excited when it crumbles and breaks
we just get on the phone can call up some flakes.
They rush on over and wreck it some more
and we are so dumb they're lining up at our door.


Favorite multi-media performer ever.

There's a fine line between genius and idiot and Frank Zappa was right on it. He may have been a genius but his music was garbage.

Just last week I heard Blonde Ambition doing Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch in its entirety at Brownwood.

Correct, and that is Frank Zappa.

The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan Tribute) - Bruce Springsteen - 1997 Kennedy Center Honors - YouTube

Well at least we agree on the Beatles!

Only someone who hasn't heard much Zappa would say his music was garbage. One could say the same thing about the Beatles if only hearing You Know My Name, Yellow Submarine, The Inner Light, I Dig a Pony and Revolution 9.

Check this out. Its beauty still makes me misty eyed. Frank Zappa "- Watermelon In Easter Hay -" 1988 [Full HD] - YouTube

Village Girl?
 

Maybe we could write a new verse to "Valley Girl" and call it "Village Girl"?

Like, OH MY GOD! (Village Girl)
Like - TOTALLY (Village Girl)
Brownwood is like SO AWESOME (Village Girl)
There's like the City Fire (Village Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest make-up and stuff
It s like so AWESOME cuz like everybody's like
Super-super nice
It's like so COOL, like Lake Sumter, COOL...

On second thought, maybe it won't require much of a change - anyway, love Frank. A musical genius, for sure.