Re: Zappa

[BreachinThePeace@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2007 2:49:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, kevin@minds-eye.org writes:

I watched Baby Snakes for my assignment and while I did enjoy it, I also
realized why I can't really get into Zappa.  Its not so much the titties
and beer stuff that gets me, its the amount of mockery that fills so
much of what he did.  Sure, mocking disco people or whatever can be fun
for a while, but too much just makes it feel like so much useless bile.

I still think he was an amazing guitarist when he wanted to be though.

Kevin

This is all valid, but it's important to view Zappa in context (I guess). Zappa was VERY anti stereo type. He saw the lack of creativity that a stereotypical society exhibited as one bound to it's own bleak destruction. He simply detested conformative mediocrity. He forced people to think when they cared enough (as you obviously do) to listen to what he was putting across. If you listen very carefully amongst the mockery there lies a definitive social cause and effect. At times Zappa provided a hilarious map of many a commonly traveled social road, paved with his unique satirical commentary. There were few if any musical leaders of his time that were more diverse than Zappa. I mean this with respect to race/sex/musical style/sexual; orientation, what have you. Someone said a few posts ago how Zappa would have had a field day with George the Neanderthal. Fact is Zappa would poke fun at ANYONE that was a main stream conformist. Be they Democranks or Repukingtons. The one thing Zappa encouraged was the intelligent exercise of ones liberal freedom and responsibilities. In other words he encouraged people to vote but never whom to vote for.

 

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