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Is Frank Zappa's work reaching todays teenagers?

Maybe. Who knows?

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Well, School of Rock seems to like it.

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Not in a very big way. There will always be the rare young person that discovers him and think it's the greatest just like most of us did way back when but to say he's "reaching todays teenagers" in a general way, no. Hell, even when I "discovered" him back in '76 at or near the height of his popularity I didn't know anyone else he was reaching at my high school.

If only one child is changed it will have been worth it...

my 16 year old son is starting to get heavily into FZ.

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That's great! Does he get exposed to Frank's music very often?

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I'm still laughing at that one.........thanks doug, you made my weekend.......

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It would be very funny, if it weren't very sad. Ah, heck, it is funny...

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Became a fan at 16, and have been an avid listener ever since. Very few of us, but teenage Zappa fans exist.

Oh, man, that's the bomb as they say. Can't wait to steal it for use in a Beefheart context.

Maybe But was not in the mid Eighties when vinyl took a dive

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NO; The only way to get kids exposed these days is to put the library of FZ's work back on I Tunes. Sad but TRUE

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The back catalog went from oop to available as on demand cd-r back to out of print again over a year or 2? Now that the ZFT v Ryko lawsuit has come to a close maybe we will see vinyl and itunes issued by Ryko?

+1

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

+4-ish. I don't think iTunes will magically produce a flood of young Zappa fans, but the availability would probably help. I understand Gail's desire to protect the quality of Frank's work, but exclusivity is probably not a good way to get his music out there.

Man, I remember when a new Coconuts opened here about 15 years ago and how thrilled I was by the impressive bevy of FZ releases they had. Up until then, I was lucky to find more than a handful of FZ CDs in a store.

I'm taking my 14 year old son to see ZPZ and RTF next week. Of course he knows I dig Zappa but so far the only thing I think he's locked into is Dancing Fool. He's been taking piano lessons since he was six and he's attending an "arts" high school and recently adding guitar lessons so here's hoping he is further inspired by the events of next Wednesday.

You can lead a horse to water,but you can't tuna fish,or a teenager.

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If he doesn't come away from the concert impressed I'm gonna send him down to live with you for a few years. Sort of the opposite of sending him to military school but the same principle.

Watch out,I might turn him into "the next big thing". (or) Sell him to Dweezil as a roadie-intern-protege'.

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