Pet Hates........or FFS

[Pigmy Pony]

Yeh but I'm told you have proper Guinness over there.

[Shovel_Knight]

Yeh but I'm told you have proper Guinness over there.

I have a condition (deficient production of alcohol-breaking enzymes) which makes it impossible for me to drink alcohol. On a good day I may take a sniff of whatever fancy wine my wife orders to go with her dinner.

[Macca]

To be honest, my Zappa records just don't get played anymore, apart from 'Hot 'Rats' and 'Overnite Sensation'. And my steadfast refusal to buy any other format but vinyl for Zappa would make attempting to complete his discography all but impossible.

If I only buy one more Zappa record, YAWYI would be it. I haven't heard it in years. Particular favourites were 'Dumb All Over' and the 'Suicide Chump' part.

If you've never seen it before, 'Overnite Sensation' and 'Apostrophe' were covered in a 'Classic Albums' series. Contributions from Ruth Underwood and Billy Bob Thornton amongst others, definitely worth a watch.

I like Them And Us and Sheikh Yerbouti the best. So I suppose I'm a Zappa Populist, not a real fan. I've a fair bit on vinyl, some on both cd and vinyl. Ship Arriving To Save A Drowning Witch has its moments too. Not listened to that in years, I'm going to get to that.

Anyway he was a super-cool dude and sorely missed. They sometimes show a concert from the 1980s on Sky Arts channel. Just brilliant; the arrangements are so complicated yet they all just sail through it. Worth watching for it to come on again, if you've not got it already.

[Pigmy Pony]

If its the one I'm thinking of, it covered a lot of the 'Roxy and Elsewhere' set, Penguin in Bondage etc.

I think I'm like you, what I like, I like a lot. The rest I struggle a bit with.

[Macca]

If its the one I'm thinking of, it covered a lot of the 'Roxy and Elsewhere' set, Penguin in Bondage etc.

I think I'm like you, what I like, I like a lot. The rest I struggle a bit with.

Frank intended us to struggle I think.

[Hammer]

I went to a Zappa concert in the mid seventies,he spent the entire evening conducting a small orchestra didn't play any of his well known stuff.most of the crowd were well hacked off

[Barry]

I went to a Zappa concert in the mid seventies,he spent the entire evening conducting a small orchestra didn't play any of his well known stuff.most of the crowd were well hacked off

I've only attended one Zappa concert. It was at the Wembly Arena in London and was part of his 'Titties and Beer' tour. It was brilliant. I used to be a big Zappa fan having all but his first LP, but lost interest after 'Waka Jawaka', 'Chunga's Revenge' and 'Live from the Filmore East'. I simply tired of his "vaudeville" and infantile smut. However my interest in Zappa was rekindled when I heard the Ensemble Modern perform parts from 'Yellow Shark' in London, and since then I have been meaning to listen to his other work, such as 'Jazz from Hell' et alia.

[Pigmy Pony]

In that case you may like 'Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar', a three-record box set (I got a mint s/h copy for £30) if you haven't already heard it. It does as the title suggests.

When FZ lets rip with that thing, I can forgive him the smut (some of which I quite like) and the strange time signatures.

He looked and sounded like no one else, and I envy anyone who got to see him.

[paulf-2007]

Yeh but I'm told you have proper Guinness over there.

Dublin is the only place I would drink Guinness, it's like cream. Anywhere else it has a bitter taste.

[struth]

Dublin is the only place I would drink Guinness, it's like cream. Anywhere else it has a bitter taste.

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