Re: Zappas' guitar playing: was: What a loop has to say

[daniel stevenson <stillllscary@yahoo.com>]

i always thought frank looked comfortable with an axe in his hands....kind of like a conductors wand.i couldnt tell who was playing what solo's on the albums most of the time, but i could hear frank in steves playing back in those days.i thought "jazz from hell"a true masterpiece of gear and musicianship.(plus no wacky vocals)

       zappa~~~~~~~dimeola. find my voice somewhere in the middle

                                               always a good time to think,

                                                                                         scary.

"loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> Per wrote about Frank Zappa:
> "No. He couldn't really play the guitar properly. That's what I like
> with his guitar solos. He knew it and just did it way over the top, "
>
>
>
> Man, Per, I saw Zappa play an all instrumental gig at the Fillmore
>  
> Auditorium
> once with the classic George Duke, Underwoods band with Tom Fowler
> playing electric trombone instead of a bassist.
>
> You could a' fooled me. His guitar playing was off the hook and fantastic.
> To say he couldn't play guitar properly didn't match anything I know about 
> guitar
> playing from having played with excellent guitarists all of my life.
>
> He may have not been up to Al DiMeola technical skills but that was much to
> my delight, I have to say.

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