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If Frank lived today he wouldn't listen too much of current pop or rock music, because it's mostly shit music. Mabye Mike Patton's work, some avant jazz like Marc Ribot, Zorn and other strange stuff. Mabye Nirvana, Soundgarden...

Btw - I'm from Poland and I'd like to recommend you music of Tymon Tymański - he's guitar, base player, a leader of many bands,vocal. He used to play modern jazz ( with band Miłość he recorded with Lester Bowie) but now he plays fantastic rock music - it's slightly inspirated by Zappa's music, has pastische character.
Check his site - http://www.tymanski.com/

Especially great are records: KURY "P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S." and Tymon and the transistors "Wesele'"
you can listen some songs on the site in Polish wersion, or download from soulseek

And Tom Waits.

He liked Tom Waits since he started anyway.

that was always his opinion on rock and pop.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

I've never heard or read an interview with fz, in which he said that he liked tom waits. source, please?

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

i was going to say that, theyll probably say "tom waits opened for frank..." but that is obviously not proof, he opened for frank because of cohen and lots of people opened for frank that frank didnt like or didnt notice anyway

Well, Zappa did teach his band "Ol' 55."
At anyrate, if Zappa didn't like what Waits was doing back then, I'm sure he would have liked swordfishtrombones and such.

did he? wheres this?

http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/songs/Ol'_55.html

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Faster'n a three-peckered owl!

He liked his 70's Waner label mates Black Sabbath and ZZ Top.

Primus and naked city.

Hel-en Red-dy!

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He liked waits enough to invite him on stage and little perform with the mothers.

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He also liked Nina Hagen and The Slits.

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Faster'n a three-peckered owl!

yeah, once... on a tour on which waits was the opening act for zappa. a handful of concerts in 1974, probably because herb cohen handled both zappa and tom waits at the time.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

tom waits fathers name is Frank

coincidence?

I hope he wore gloves.

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

I bet he liked a bunch of jazz and classical stuff.

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"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you DESERVE it."

No,

Twis-ted Sis-ter!

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"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you DESERVE it."

A fairly safe bet would be Les Claypool -- with or without "Primus" -- in many of his many manifestations.

--Bat

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Yes, this is kind of a silly post, but I do believe that Zappa would have liked / respected John Zorn. The way he does things, musically and in a business sense is similar to how Frank ran things.......

Primus Sucks!

he would get exposed to some of dweezil's favs...didn't he go to a few metal concerts with dweez at some point

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You know, I do like Primus, but everytime I put their records on, they annoy the fuck out of me and I wish they had a different vocalist. Great msuicians though.....Strange eh?

They're excellent musicians, Ler has to be one of the most underappreciated professional guitarists around today, he plays some incredibly technical stuff on most Primus albums. Les' vocals are great to my ears, really fits their style, you couldn't have James LaBrie sing that stuff.