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Jazz isn't very popular. A surprisingly correct answer even if said in jest. I was serious!

Jazz isn't very popular.

I'm glad that happened. It was great to hear yooze guys in NYC. Whew! dB

I liked those first couple of albums with Ron Wood... dB

Oh I see...those diagrams help. The Madison ain't got nothin' on the G-Spot Tornado. dB

When I was a kid, my Dad called her Ursula Undress. dB

Happy Birthday and manny mo'! dB

Just when I thought I was sure, now I'm not.

...and so? What happened?

I'll respectfully disagree. Those are favorites of mine. Billy The Mountain is a freakin' epic! I will say, though, that hearing them as I did in "real time", it was a bit frustrating to see people think of The Mothers as basically a "comedy" band once their WB/Bizarre sides started getting some play. Those of us who had been on board before knew better. Having said all that, I still think quite highly of those two as part of a well-balanced Zappa diet (and fwiw, I pretty much lose interest after 1975 or so...) I'll listen again soon and see if my experience changes. Those early albums were not part of my original experience and it's been a while since I've listened to them. Maybe this is more like where I'm coming from.

from Uncle Meat: If We'd All Been Living In California... FZ: Ok? Now if you still want to get your name in magazines he wants five hundred dollars a month! JCB: Where does it come from? We worked one gig this month. And now, so, what do we get, two hundred dollars for this gig up here, if we're lucky. If we're lucky, we'll get two hundred. And it'll be two weeks before we get it. Probably. I mean a- . . . after all, uh . . . what is all this shit in the, uh, in the newspaper? We sh-, if we got such a big name, how come, uh . . . we're. . . FZ: That shit in the news . . . JCB: We're starving, man! This fucking band is starving! And we've been starving for three years. I realize it takes a long time, but God damn does it take another five, ten years from now? FZ: There's some months when you're not gonna work as much as other months. There's some months when you're gonna make a lot of money, and if you average it out, you do make more than two hundred dollars a month. JCB: Expenses are sure high, too. If we'd all been living in California, it would've been different. FZ: If we'd all been living in California, we wouldn't work at all! JCB: Ah that's -- true . . . Well, we're not working n-now anyway! We worked one gig this month, Frank! What's wrong with getting two months in a row of this good money? Or three months in a row? Then we can afford to take three or four months off and everybody can . . . After the first month I can get just enough ahead, but if I had two more months, man, I'll get ahead. 'Cause I'm not living very extravagantly, I'll tell you for sure . . .

There must be more people who have an opinion on this?

Also low on my favorites list, Fillmore and Just Another Band from L.A. have an imbalance in the comedy/music ratio. Too much comedy. .

I'm really sorry to hear about this paps. .

She could be a former Olympic athlete from one of those Eastern Bloc nations.

Crazy dance, but I'm not sure. Frank Zappa - G-Spot Tornado

sex toys again? .

uh oh... watch out... Happy Birthday Conn!

www.sequenza21.com - Interview with Terry Riley .

Happy Birthday Paul! :rsmile:

I was thinking it was on Tzadik and under Frith's name..... Is that possible or is my memory foggy and I'm think of another project altogether.... another project: all Frith: Fred Frith - Freedom in Fragments

Happy Birthday Porcy! .

And it was very nice too. It's been a long time since I've heard that one. I picked up this and the new Cow yesterday: Fred Frith - Clearing A very musical take on non-idiomatic free improvisation. After all, Frith teaches composition at Mills. He just gets better and better at this sort of thing.