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I think I will simply stop trying. Last night I tried to get her to listen to Little House I Used to Live In and Pound for Brown (a Ensemble Modern version). Zero recognition of the amazing talent. How could this be so? Should I stoop to Peaches or just forget about it?

She used to, but gradually she is recognizing the cool funky and more melodious stuff... Thanks Dio-Fa!

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Hang it up. Seriously, I've tried for 32 years to no avail. But, many years ago I actually got her to go to an FZ concert with me!

She walked out after about half an hour.

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

She has different musical tastes than I do. I still haven't gotten the payback from when I took her to see KISS, but someday I'll have to see a country act of some kind.

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

My ex broke my brand new Joe's Garage over her knee way back when. I paid her back with one of her insipid Mose Allison records. We were divorced about a year later.

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

My wife can tolerate Zappa in bits because "it all sounds the same", to which I reply, "yeah, like Bon Jovi".

Braggart.

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

This topic made it's debut about 10 years ago not that it's not time to bring it up again. I'll buy a beer for the guy that wants to dig up the original thread.

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

You didn't go for the six-pack?

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

My wife is very easy going and can tolerate most of the music that I play. Tolerate it because she will be in another room. When we sit down to eat I can get away with most of the modern jazz that I play, Hendrix, Cream, Jethro Tull blah, blah but they other day I had Billy the Mountain (from JABFLA) playing whilst I was cooking and she absolutely could not bare it. I don't think I'll put on side 2 on Saturday night for her.

What a loser.... Oh hang on....!

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

Gots ta leave one for KUIII!

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

I told my wife she might have liked the FZ classical performances I recently attended. You know how that goes: you try to get her excited about the show, show her that it might please her because it wasn't too "way out" or sophisticated, let her know there's no nasty lyrics to deal with, and you get your hopes up that she'll give in. Then, she busts your bubble. In this particular case, my wife's response was, "Yeah, and monkeys will fly out of my butt." I never learn. I just never learn.

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

I gave up hope years ago, even though I thought I had something when She heard Watermelon and said she liked it....until I told her who was playing...

Now, once in a while i'll take out a CD from the collection (MOFO is a good one) and i'll fetish it right there on the table or the couch, taking out the liner notes and re-reading it all. Then she'll turn to me and say "You're a very sick man!"....I love doing that!

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"You can fly like a Penguin when you're dealing with Turkeys."

Feeding the Monkies etc should be right up her alley...

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If I'm not alone... How long have I been asleep?

One of my prerequisites for a girlfriend is that they can handle Zappa
Otherwise, what's the point?
Doesn't mean the relationships last, but it's more fun while it's happenin'!

So you've learned to live with loneliness?

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Honk

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Thanks for the music Frank.

Well I'm about to get sick from watching my TV

One of my wittier friends has come up with the moniker "Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Isolation" for that exact reason.

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Oh No! I don't believe it...
You say that you think you know the meaning of love...

Thanks Doug. I'll bring a sixer by the next time I'm in Ontario.

Sure I'm lonely, but my tiny sick tears keep me company

Aging hippie chicks will usually tolerate Zappa, before they decide to become born again real estate agents

In my experience as a "slowly-aging, very hip, young person," most ladies my age think that they'll like FZ's music, up until they actually listen to it, at which point they realize they've opened up a veritable Pandora's Box of "sneering, over-indulgent experimental noise" (to quote one of my ex-girlfriends).

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Oh No! I don't believe it...
You say that you think you know the meaning of love...