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Mr_Green_Genes
 Post subject: Re: Zappa and Jazz
PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:35 am 
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I guess you mean L. Shankar, but it is perfectly understandable...

Don't know what Miles thought of him, but I know what Frank thought about Miles (considered him an asshole for not talking to him when he introduced himself, as it was to be expected from Miles)...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:49 am 
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jeddy wrote:
Zappa not jazz skilled?

hummmm.....

I guess Ravi Shankar, J.L.Ponty and the great Gearge Duke
should never have invited him to play on their records.

Yep...Ravi Shankar is one of my favourite jazz sitarists, too!

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:05 am 
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just plain doug wrote:
jeddy wrote:
Zappa not jazz skilled?

hummmm.....

I guess Ravi Shankar, J.L.Ponty and the great Gearge Duke
should never have invited him to play on their records.

Yep...Ravi Shankar is one of my favourite jazz sitarists, too!

I guess it was Frank's...

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 Post subject: Re: Zappa and Jazz
PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:21 pm 
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If Frank thought he was a great jazz sitarist then he was, alright!?! :twisted:

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:19 pm 
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BRAVO SIERRA wrote:
So then why did he even show up? I think your analysis is is flawed.
I know many musicians and when they jam with someone or music they are not familiar with they always kick around tunes they all know. I suspect the jam we are talking about was pretty good, just about had to be. The rest of this banter is superfluous.
:? :roll:

Excuse me. When I was growing up we used to talk around the table over dinner and by the end of the meal we would always marvel about the different tacks the conversation had taken and where it ended up. Same principal here mate. You really are a fucking pompous arse.

Whatever else was said, if we believe the report, they were disparaging about it and that makes them assholes. Quote: "It was pathetic"

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:01 pm 
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FalseDichotomy wrote:
Check out this link: http://www.jazzguitar.be/joe_pass_guitar.html

Says that Joe Pass endorsed Ibanez in the 80's, just like Steve Vai. What are the odds that Pass may have played with Vai at NAMM on the Ibanez stage/booth, and this Steve Laury guy has the story all screwed up?


It's possible I suppose. Vai said in a guitar magazine once that he didn't have much interest in transcribing jazz solos since they were pretty much straightforward, but said the chords were more interesting. Or something like that.

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calvin2hikers wrote:
FalseDichotomy wrote:
Check out this link: http://www.jazzguitar.be/joe_pass_guitar.html

Says that Joe Pass endorsed Ibanez in the 80's, just like Steve Vai. What are the odds that Pass may have played with Vai at NAMM on the Ibanez stage/booth, and this Steve Laury guy has the story all screwed up?


It's possible I suppose. Vai said in a guitar magazine once that he didn't have much interest in transcribing jazz solos since they were pretty much straightforward, but said the chords were more interesting. Or something like that.

Only thing Vai was nothing too do with Ibanez Till 1987.i see flaws :roll: 8) :mrgreen:

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polydigm wrote:
BRAVO SIERRA wrote:
So then why did he even show up? I think your analysis is is flawed.
I know many musicians and when they jam with someone or music they are not familiar with they always kick around tunes they all know. I suspect the jam we are talking about was pretty good, just about had to be. The rest of this banter is superfluous.
:? :roll:

Excuse me. When I was growing up we used to talk around the table over dinner and by the end of the meal we would always marvel about the different tacks the conversation had taken and where it ended up. Same principal here mate. You really are a fucking pompous arse.

Whatever else was said, if we believe the report, they were disparaging about it and that makes them assholes. Quote: "It was pathetic"

:roll:



Guess I just can't "marvel" over anything in this debate, I prefer to listen to the pompous man himself,FZ

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polydigm
 Post subject: Re: Zappa and Jazz
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BRAVO SIERRA wrote:
Guess I just can't "marvel" over anything in this debate, I prefer to listen to the pompous man himself,FZ
You see, that I agree with, this thread is not that interesting. But, why do you come here in the first place? For me, it's the human interaction, and that doesn't always have to be "fluous", does it?

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