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Butsis' Girlfirend?

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Butsi ?

Any non-special guest violin player?

On a show (can't remember which cd, but its an offical release) frank introduces a band member as butsis and then another as butsis's girlfriend. No Idea who he was reffering to.

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Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, February 18th, 1979 (in Peaches III at the end of Tinsel Town Rebellion).

Wasn't Butsis a roadie? Maybe his girlfriend was one too.

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in YCDTOSA vol 1's don't eat the yellow snow, frank mentions butsis and later on in the same song he tries to get him on the stage to recite a poem but nobody knows where he is. i always thought he was a roadie but he might have been some extended member of the band who did not receive any official introduction.

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it would appear that butzis = al malkin:

http://www.united-mutations.com/m/al_malkin.htm

warren c: al's a friend - he's also known as meatball. we used to miss school together, listen to frank and smoke pot. frank offered to tape his life story. he was like the wild man fischer of the 80s.

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''minimart - it's basically a scaled-down supermarket, fits inside a petrol station. sells pies, antifreeze..''

I know a few had problems with him and vice versa but I've read that Frank actually said he hated Jean Luc Ponty after he left the band. Ponty is the only one I've ever read Frank get THAT pointed about.

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Maybe that's yet another reason why Frank commented on "frenchness" in songs and interviews.

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“The person who stands up and says, 'This is stupid,' either is asked to behave or, worse, is greeted with a cheerful 'Yes, we know! Isn't it terrific!" -Frank Zappa

I seem to remember a bit (TRFZB?) where he makes fun of musicians who "wank" during their solos, ending on a climactic repeated high note, in the hopes of getting some nooky backstage. Something tells me he was referring to Ponty in that little pointed remark.

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I bet Ponty tried to bone Gail (maybe he succeeded?) and that's why Frank hates him. I can dig that.

in terms of wanking, he thought the same of zavods solos. I don't thin kfrank would get mad over gail porking conisdering he openly talks about his groupie adventures. a little bit of a double standard n'est pas?

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Even well-known wanker Stevie Vai kept his wanking in check while playing with Frank. I thought he played very tastefully as a sideman.

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i think gail was busy enough

Actually, he was referring to Alan Zavod. Hence the "nice volcano" on YCDTOSA Vol. 3.

He said something similar about Ike.

"Spoo!"

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Ah right. Ike never really got to solo during shows, so he'd throw in little random licks between songs which used to piss Frank off. Perhaps that's it.

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Yes, and he's quite animated on the DHBIM film too.

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

ray collins didn't like zappa too much either, I think. don't know if it was a mutual feeling, though.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

"I forget your name even tho you've been in the group for a while." I wonder who that was?

vcf

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There isn't much chance that you'll get people to like you. The best that most folks can hope for is that people will put up with their shit. MTF

Revel in your otherness. MK

STILL pissed at Tipper. VCF

don't you think he meant a roadie?

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Sometime in the early 80s when FZ was occasionally working with Roy Estrada again (by using him on some of the vocals stuff), an interviewer asked him about Ray Collins and Zappa said something like Collins' voice was in too bad of a shape to use him. That's what I've gathered anyway. Strangely enough, he worked with Napoleon in 1984 and he clearly wasn't in his best vocal form at the time.

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

"Crew" (I thought he was saying "group") . . . D'Oh! Yep, prolly a roadie.

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There isn't much chance that you'll get people to like you. The best that most folks can hope for is that people will put up with their shit. MTF

Revel in your otherness. MK

STILL pissed at Tipper. VCF