Welcome Ettienne. Fine taste in quotes there... ?

See you 'round the forum.

EttieneB wrote: Hey yall im Ettiene

Ive been playing guitar for about 11 years and in bands in and aroud pta and jhb!
Im currently living in Centurion

welcome to forum........ great to see more pta players , what bands you play for as we're almost neighbours , let us know where you performing

Hi and welcome.
I can see that you and Alan are going to get on just fine.
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Hi & welcome aboard Ettiene. ?
Mr Zappa says stuff like that about jazz, while only employing band members that really know their jazz.
I kind of thought he used jazz riffs to play rock music ???
Of course full of wonderfully weird & whacky quotes that I just love too... "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe". ?

"Poodle bites, the poodle chews it."

Welcome welcome!

Hey thanx for all that replied!!!!!
This forum never dissapoints!
And DaFiz i have to kind of agree with u on that yet i got hold of this biography of Zappa's written by a guy called Barry Miles. Its a very good read and the way he wrote the book was only on facts not the hearsay of a ghost writer!! From reading that i do think of zappa in more of a crazy composer kind of way.....yes he played guitar really well but its his writing that just amazes me everytime!!! For a dude that decide f-it all and went to a library to study music theory by himself is freakin scary on an intellectual level if u ask me!!! But yes he did get the best jazz guys to play his stuff and even them struggled with the music. Back to point that guy was a genious wether u like him or not!!!!!

Peace

Do yourself a favour and read Electric Don Quixote by Neil Slaven. That will give you a better, more balanced idea of Zappa (and probably more accurate) than any other single book.

The Miles biography is as skewed to one side as The Real Frank Zappa autobiography is to the other. Nothing really new other than some of the author's own conclusions that draw a bit too heavily from Zappa's public persona.

Still, no-one can deny that Zappa was a genius (in many areas), and that he did have flaws - just not necessarily the ones Miles says he has.?

Thanx Alan I will most def check that out...can't wait!
Peace

DaFiz wrote: Hi & welcome aboard Ettiene. ?
Mr Zappa says stuff like that about jazz, while only employing band members that really know their jazz.
I kind of thought he used jazz riffs to play rock music ???

I think that with Zappa there's always a fair chance that he was speaking in a satirical or ironic context.

I used to have that album. I wish I still had all the albums I used to have.

X-rated Bob wrote:

DaFiz wrote: Hi & welcome aboard Ettiene. ?
Mr Zappa says stuff like that about jazz, while only employing band members that really know their jazz.
I kind of thought he used jazz riffs to play rock music ???

I think that with Zappa there's always a fair chance that he was speaking in a satirical or ironic context.

I used to have that album. I wish I still had all the albums I used to have.

Good album title...

Back on Zappa! Hope u all saw Zappa Plays Zappa. I think dweezil did a great job.....what a guy!