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How come nobodys talked about "aybe sea"?<br><br>Thats WAY better then Sleep Dirt, any day of the week

[quote author=_bb_ link=board=wishList;num=1032807787;start=0#11 date=10/09/02 at 09:50:25]ah hardcore zappa-fan & recordstore owner told me he once heard a bootleg of an entire acoustic-set bootleg.<br>regretfully, he couldn't tell me more.<br><br>does anyone know about this? <br>maybe there're some things of this sort in the Vault, it could be a nice thematic release...[/quote]<br>there's no such thing.  i've been collecting FZ boots like a horny ape for over 20 years and i've never heard of anything the likes of what you have described.  i'm not even aware of a tape of this sort in circulation.  god would i love to be proved wrong though.

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[quote author=Chris_Federico link=board=wishList;num=1032807787;start=30#33 date=11/14/02 at 10:35:38]I agree, Shiborugu. "Aybe Sea" is an absolutely  breathtaking little song, with Frank on steel-stringed acoustic guitar and Ian Underwood on piano, creating an extremely original sound. It does conjure seafaring images, but the title's a clever spelling of the first three letters of the alphabet (like I needed to point that out).<br><br>Beauty-wise, it's up there with "Twenty Small Cigars" and "Watermelon in Easter Hay."<br><br>CF<br>[/quote]<br>i couldn't agree more.  Aybe Sea is one of my all-time favorites.  i think FZ's intimate duet or trio tracks are some of the best in the catalogue.  Aybe Sea, Twenty Small Cigars, Sleep Dirt, Canard Du Jour...<br>

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Yep agree with you all there, Franks acoustic playing was fantastic, Aybe sea/my guitar/Sleep dirt/ all great. Did he use a metal pick for his acoustic playing cos is style sounds very unique?

anyone hear (or hear of) zappa playing acoustic guitar in concert?

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Just to say that there is a very nice acoustic version of Sofa on Kazaa & Winmx dont know who is playing it, but it is worth a listen all the same.

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Let's not forget Stucco Homes from ROTSOSUNPYG; kinda reminds me of Nine Types Industrial Pollution (Uncle Meat).<br><br>VCF

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STILL pissed at Tipper. VCF

[quote author=mr_myxyltpyx link=board=wishList;num=1032807787;start=30#34 date=06/02/03 at 15:23:13]Just to say that there is a very nice acoustic version of Sofa on Kazaa & Winmx dont know who is playing it, but it is worth a listen all the same.[/quote]<br>That is Michael Hedges who got to play it for Frank a few months before he died. Michael Hedges was killed in a car accident a few years after this. Dweezil did a song called "Secret Hedges" as a tribute on his CD "Automatic".

Another good acoustic moment is the first half of "Project X" on "Uncle Meat" before it becomes more avant-garde. It is a very simple strum underpinning some neato woodwinds. "Sleep Dirt" is my favorite. I downloaded the tabulature to it so I can torture myself and another victim to play it perfectly, of course!Masochism lives!!

I, too, am into self torture.  From where did you download the SD tab?<br><br>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

anyone seen this: norman gunston tv show, australian, 4 min<br><br><br><br><br> <br>

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Don't forget the amazing acoustic guitar work on THE OCEAN IS THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION......This is FZ acoustic at his finest!

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[quote author=slime.oofytv.set link=board=wishList;num=1032807787;start=30#37 date=08/25/04 at 16:16:41]anyone seen this: norman gunston tv show, australian, 4 min[/quote]<br>Yep. The sort of 'best of' vid. 'The Gunston Tapes' used to sell around my local shopping centres (this is where i purchased mine) for a couple-a-bucks. It is truly fantastic and was the only official Gunston released item to contain the interveiw. Well there is another point to this posts beside telling you I have seen it. It is now available on DVD, and is selling at my local music store...but, lotta good that does anyone else, right? But who  knows...maybe it will be available internationaly... ::) (yeah right)

if you re-arrange-subtract multiply and divide some of the letters of acoustic Frank, you can nearly make ustinkfrank  ::)

Forgot to mention...its a fuckin killer interveiw! And a fuckin killer jam!