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[quote author=Arkay link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#0 date=03/24/04 at 21:44:24]??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???<br>:P <br><br>Awright, if anyone cares to read what is usually a good magazine, but currently on my shit list...<br>Check out the March 2004 issue of Uncut.  The following is an excerpt of their ridiculously idiotic review of Baby Snakes:<br><br>"Frank Zappa was an irrelevent figure by the late '70s.  Having meandered off into cul-de-saces of muso noodling and puerile satire, the 39-year-old by now mistakenly imagined himself to be the American Varese<br>...<br>Adrian Belew , Terry Bozzio and other annoyingly self-satisfied sidemen<br>...<br>tiresome band and fans<br>...<br>the music from this show at the Palladium in NYC is horrifyingly wanky:heartless jazz-prog, intricacy for intricacy's sake.<br>...<br>an exceedingly tiresome 163 minutes<br>..."<br><br>??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???<br>:P [/quote]<br><br>It seems that someone is condamned to be "political correct". So we should say "OK, it's a free opinion, we respect opinions, etc. etc., bla bla bla"<br><br>Well, I disagree and I say that the guys of this journal  should change their job. If it is true that this journal is usually good, then the Editor in Chief made a big professional error in publishing this.<br>The style of the sentences you selected is agressive and there is no analysis at all.<br><br>I usually detest musical critics: in some cases they are frustrated persons, frustrated musicians who are jalous of those who are able to play and have success. They never had a good blow-job or never had at all! <br>But there are also very competent persons who try to carry out correct musical analyses leaving apart their personal musical tastes.<br><br>The author of this article seems to be one who has taken a pen in his hand not later than 3 days ago.<br>Fucking asshole !<br>

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[center][quote author=MentalTossFlycoon link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#2 date=03/24/04 at 22:30:41]"Uncut" sounds like a gay porn mag to me...<br><br>Arkay: whatchu doin' reading that stuff? I'm tellin' Miss Kitty.[/quote]<br><br> <br><br>[quote author=Arkay link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#0 date=03/24/04 at 21:44:24]  <br>March 2004 issue of Uncut:<br>"Frank Zappa had a very sexy figure by the late '70s.  Having meandered off into cul-de-saces of sexual noodling, the 39-year-old boy, now mistakenly imagined himself to be the American Dream...<br><br>"Adrian Belew , Terry Bozzio are the self-satisfiedsidemen."<br><br>"From this show at the Palladium in NYC is horrifyingly wanky heart-felt jizz, with intimacy for intimacy's sake."<br>...<br>"A GROOVY ORGY exceeding a tiresome 163 minutes..."<br>..."<br>[/quote]<br> ;D<br>[/center]

[quote author=SenseOfDoubt link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#7 date=03/25/04 at 05:58:36]thanks man, ill try it out...<br><br>of course i have the original dvd (and the does humour belong in music dvd, too... ) i never copied anything of zappa.[/quote]<br>i bet you've tried singing like him in the shower before....we all do it, i do it in front of the mirror

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ew.      I can kinda sing like him, but only if I do I'm The Slime, which for a woman is sort of odd anyway. But back to the subject, one bad review from a English mag (and we all know how the British press loved Frank) is not enough to condemn it. It's still a great one, and you can always read Mojo if you like

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[quote author=Arkay link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#3 date=03/24/04 at 22:45:42]Monster - In truth, its a London magazine and I've only read it twice before, but those issues were a bit better.<br><br>MTF - Miss Kitty bought all 3 issues!   <br><br>But, since the offending article is bugging me and its not that long, I'll break my wrists and type it out:<br><br>Frank Zappa<br>Baby Snakes<br>two stars<br><br>Frank Zappa was an irrelevant figure by the late '70s.  Having meandered off into cul-de-sacs of muso noodling and puerile sature, the 39-year-old by now mistakenly imagined himself to be the American Varese. <br>The live footage from Baby Snakes hails from a 1978 Halloween show featuring Adrian Belew, Tery Bozzio and other annoyingly self-satisfied sidemen.  Only Roy Estrada provided any continuum from the original prankster spirit of the Mothers Of Invention.<br>Most of Baby Snakes is devoted to the on-or off-stage antics of Zappa and his tiresome band and fans.  For a man who wrote the sublime "Peaches En Regalia", the music from this show at the Palladium in NYC is horrifyingly wanky: heartless jazz-prog, intricacy for intricacy's sake. <br>Muso wanking isn't the only crime of which Baby Snakes is culpable.  Misogyny and homophobia wind like threads through the film.  Estrada develops a frenzied interest in a blow-up sex doll, repeatedly jamming its head into a dressing-room sink, while Bozzio constantly queens it up in that faintly suspect manner we've all grown to loathe.<br>Endless jibes at disco and Peter Frampton have also not dated well.  Zappa is no more mean-spirited than say, Kim Fowley, bot nowhere near as funny.  The sniggering immaturity of the FZ world view at this point is dismaying after the acute satire of post-Sgt Pepper masterpiece We're Only In It For The Money 10 years earlier.<br>Baby Snakes, "A Movie About People Who Do Stuff That Is Not Normal" (in case the point isn't clear), would make for an exceedingly tiresome 163 minutes but for the surreal and disturbing claymation of Bruce Bickford, with whom Zappa first worked on 1974's TV special A Token Of His Extreme.  Dazzlingly druggy and squirmily sexual Bickford's work still is.<br>BARNEY HOSKYNS<br>DVD Extras: None<br>[/quote]<br><br>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[quote author=Batchain115 link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=15#15 date=03/25/04 at 09:31:06]<br><br>Mojo has been desperate enough to hire that hack? <br><br>Fuck all! Anyone who's brain-dead and has a head fulla shit and still gets hired must "have something" on somebody!<br><br>Does anyone care to inform not him -- he wouldn't understand it -- but any turds who publish his crap that he's a desperate choice to pick for any "critical" job?<br><br>--Bat[/quote]<br><br>After reading the whole article (thanks RK !!!) and the different replies I must correct my statement: he has not taken the pen for the 1st time three days ago. However, I maintain my judgement and I still think he has never had a blow-job.<br><br>More seriously, a good Director should refuse to publish this kind of texts because there is, clearly, something personal and all the article does not look professional.<br><br>That journal must be boicotted by Zappa fans, writing a letter to the director of the journal.<br><br>

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[quote author=Arkay link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=0#3 date=03/24/04 at 22:45:42]<br>BARNEY HOSKYNS<br>[/quote]<br><br>I'll bet this FAG likes The Strokes, The Vines and The Hives!  ::)<br>Fuckin' Faggot!

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WOW! I don't post often but I feel I must in this case since I brought this blasphemy into our house. <br><br>MTF--porn? not in this case, but when necessary, hell yeah!!! <br><br>Though I have been married to Arkay for about 6 years I only began to appreciate the true brilliance of FZ in the past 18 months. You have to admit, though talented he is an acquired taste. I only saw Baby Snakes for the first time (sober) about 4 weeks ago. <br>Not to play devil's advocate, but perhaps this writer just doesn't get it. It took me some time and serious listening to "get it".<br>But all of you are on the money here. His editor should have read what this guy wrote BEFORE publishing it. But isn't that what this world has become, in everything. To alarm, create discussion, argument, dissonance?<br>It's better if we disagree, it's what will always separate us. Or at least that's what "they" want to believe.

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Fuck all the people with a pen in their hands...<br><br>I will be more specifically so they might understand...

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[quote author=Miss_Kitty link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=15#20 date=03/25/04 at 17:46:04]<br>His editor should have read what this guy wrote BEFORE publishing it. But isn't that what this world has become, in everything. To alarm, create discussion, argument, dissonance?<br>It's better if we disagree, it's what will always separate us. Or at least that's what "they" want to believe.[/quote]<br><br>It is also my point that the editor accepted to publish that shit. I disagree with him (her ?) but probably<br>you have found the true reason. We "MUST" be politically correct but it is the political "INCORRECT" who seems to pay in these last years.<br><br>I insist an official boicott to this journal is an action to do.<br>

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[quote author=MentalTossFlycoon link=board=rant;num=1080193464;start=15#24 date=03/25/04 at 22:20:07]Well, before we all get our panties in a bunch, consider this:<br><br>The type of people who would buy this video are not the type of people who would be scared away by a bad review. Frank got bad reviews all the time. It's not like this is some Charlie Sheen movie, where a bad review will cut into ticket sales.<br><br>If anything, this review will probably generate way more sales of the video than it takes away. This putz has alerted a lot of people to the fact that the video exists; and they'll run out and buy it regardless of what the putz said.<br><br>As P.T. Barnum was fond of saying, there's no such thing as bad publicity.[/quote]<br><br>Hmmmmm  gotta say you're right. Good point. <br><br>

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