HJ wrote:
Yeah, it would have to be in the 1960s, but then the Jazz book that Fritz mentions seems off the mark.
If you have the patience to cut through the bullshit and check all the information back, you will see that the 50s date was corrected in later editions of the book...
HJ wrote:
In any case, I find it absolutely unlikely that Zappa would never, ever have mentioned that he had attended a music course abroad in his early 20s. So, I completely trust Gail when she states that Zappa left the US for the first time in 1967.
It is indeed hard to imagine why Zappa would actively omit that information from his bio. Maybe a keen sense of being apart from the "serious" music world, or whatever. In case it did happen, I guess we will never know...
I also trust that Gail speaks at the best of her knowledge when she says Frank's first passport was taken before the Mothers trip to Germany (67 I guess), but the then 5 year passport validity period would be compatible with the alleged date...
I also trust Frank's words and data from the interviews and texts he wrote and stuff... But I also have heard an interview where he categorically affirms, when asked if he ever played on stage with Pink Floyd, with all that self assuring attitude that only Frank had, that he NEVER PLAYED with them on the Amougenies festival, not with Pink Floyd...
You know what I find (as I guess did Vietatto and Feral found) extremely absolutely unlikely, a long long shot?? That Frank was sitting in a water spring in a US high school and than Stockhausen just passed through the hall and said hi...
HJ wrote:
Of course, it must be it, that prompted the whole Holiday in Berlin incident
PS.: All that funny jokes about murders and conspiracies and stuff are nothing more than low
Ad Hominen attacks over the hypothesis that Frank somehow once participated in the Darmstadt course. It does not really add to the puzzle. I didn't create it out of my arm pit or out of my ass, as English speaking people like to put it... It has been recorded on at least two independent/rather independent print sources from respectable members of the world's music community... What I am trying to do here is investigate it the best way I can, because I have this riddle in my head since 1995.
After all the debate and testimonial evidence gathered I got inclined over the non-validity of that claim, but, still I wouldn't be 100% surprised if it happened to be found as a truthful claim. And still to say it is not valid implicates in checking out what was the cause and origin of this error (plain confusion, mistake, bad intention, etc...)
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