The Three Stooges

We got a new channel on cable “Antenna TV.” They play a lot of old stuff. On Saturday night they have something like three hours of “The Benny Hill Show,” followed by three hours of “The Three Stooges.”
One thing I notice about “The Three Stooges,” every time they have a chase scene where the bad guys are running after The Stooges, nobody ever looses their hats. Everybody wears fedora hats, if their hat falls off, no matter what’s going on, they stop to pick it up. If somebody running out of a room and their hat falls off, they stop to get it, no matter how many guys are chasing them.

'tis the season to be Jelly

I like the Old Mothers better than the 80′s Mothers. The original Mothers, or up to the band that had Ruth Underwood and the Fowler brothers were more in tune with the music. The 80′s band with Ike Willis and Ray White were good but it sounded like they were more controlled by Zappa and had to do it exactly by the numbers.

Piquantique

My favorite Zappa band,
Ian Underwood (woodwinds/synthesizer), Ruth Underwood (percussion), George Duke (keyboards), Ralph Humphrey (drums), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Tom Fowler (bass), and Jean-Luc Ponty (violin).
Zappa is best when he has Jazz thrown in to his music and you can’t go wrong with George Duke.

Next Friday

Had a discussion at work Monday night. Somebody said they were doing something
next Friday. So I said, "the Friday coming up you won't be here." He said, "It's
the Friday after that." I said, "The Friday coming up is next Friday." So we
kept on going back and forth, then other people chimed in and said I was wrong.
My reasoning is, last week was last Friday, the Friday coming up is the next
Friday.
His reasoning is, the Friday coming up is this Friday, the Friday after that is
next Friday.
To me, if Friday is next in line, it's next Friday.

Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

         

Whenever I mention Frank Zappa to someone, they say something like, (in a drugged out voice) “Light up another one.” I got past the point of telling these people that Zappa was against drugs. No matter what you say to them, they won’t believe you.
I once heard an edit of “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow” on the radio. I couldn’t believe how bad it was chopped up.

Cat Mother - "Last Chance Dance"

I bought this album in the cutout bin long time ago. Never heard of the band before, I just bought it cause I liked the cover. I've been waiting for the longest time for it to come out on CD. I was lucky enough to have a friend on the net who burned me a copy from the album.

This is a microsoft computer painting of the album

"After The mudflap"

I found out that Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush” album cover was taken on Sullivan Street and 3rd. I was in Manhattan and decided to go down to the Village and tried to recreate the album cover.
The building has changed. The grates were gone and I wasn’t going to wait for a little old lady to walk by. It was too hot.
So here it is, “After The Mudflap.”

Sheik Yerbouti

While I got to admit, this is a funny album, this is where I started to lose interest in Frank Zappa. First thing that turned me off is that he started recording digital. Crappy cold sound, too sharp and you couldn’t feel the bass. I don’t know how people thought that digital sound was good. It’s made for stuff like iPODS where you can turn it up and the bass won’t distort the tiny speakers.
Zappa’s lyrics started getting 3rd grade level. He was always sarcastic, now he just starting writing bathroom humor.
I liked his Classical music. I think if Zappa lived, he would have left Rock music and just write Classical. That’s what he always wanted to do anyway.

"Bridge Over Troubled Water"