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

["joe rut" <joerut@lycos.com>]

Hola-

I try to stay out of "I like this/I don't like this discussions", but man, 
I just gotta say that there are very few guitarists that can hold my 
attention playing a 
long "guitar solo".  Frank was one of them.  I always felt like he truly 
"composed" on the spot, and his fountain of musical ideas seemed 
effortlessly 
limitless on a good night.  In terms of playing guitar "properly", all I 
can say is he had a style that was all his own.  I could pick his playing 
out of a lineup 
in just a few notes, sometimes only one.  Granted, a lot of his solos are 
of the same sort (modal explorations over one chord ostinato vamps) but it 
almost amazes me even more that he could wrangle so many ideas out of a 
simple formula.  And tone that just killed me.

Anyway, just wanted to give Frank some props.  Miss him.

Joe


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