Does anyone remember Frank Zappa?

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Does anyone remember Frank Zappa?

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He really was a good guitar player IMHO and Vai used to play with him. I guess he hired Vai because he tabbed EVH Eruption.......



This my favorite Zappa tune we used to jam this in one of my bands......the other guitar player loved Zappa...........
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I had his Mothers Of Invention "Freak Out!" album.

Couldn't really get into him... a little weird.
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Mention of "Frank Zappa" always brings back memories - my parents and their friends used to love Zappa and play his stuff all of the time and being in the 70s these were all stoner/hippie types. The Muffin Man song, I used to hear that and being 3 or 4 of course that caught my attention haha The story of Steve writing Frank, meeting him, and being hired by him is great stuff - and some of their stories, too...the story behind Stevie's Spanking haha

I'll just leave the lyrics here:
His name is stevie vai
And he's a crazy guy
Last November, I recall,
He needed a spanking
He decided then
A female specimen
Would be excitin' for a night
To give him a spanking
Laurel was her name
She came to notre dame
He told me just the other day
He oughta be thanking
Her for the spanking
She was large and soft
And she beat him off
Made him drool upon his dork
And gave him a wanking
After the spanking
Hair brush!
Oh! what a hair brush!
(it's not that he requires grooming!
Guys with light blue hair never do!)
Then she did explain:
There's another game
That we can play with this device,
And then a banana!
It was slightly green
Vapors in between
Rising up to fill the room
And cook the banana
She said it was dry
Stevie won't you try
To drool a little drool on it
And grease the banana
Later in the dawn
Laurel carried on
She got right up and dressed herself and
Ate the banana
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Yeah he was weird and his music arrangements were weird but I can appreciate some of the music and guitar playing but I never spun a Zappa record in my life.

One of my best friends that I played in a band with was huge Zappa fan, he passed away in 2005......I miss that guy........ :cry:
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