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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD?

I have this concert on bootleg, and it certainly is good.
But me thinks there are solo's from this same period on the 3 record set SUNPYG and on BUFFALO that are waaaaaaaayyyyyy more enjoyable (see how i am NOT using the word better/best here ?) than this particular one.

And don't even get me started on solo's from the 70's
Also, let's not forget some of the solo's on YCDTOSA Volume 5, disc 2...

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Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

may be not his best ever , on lenons 'sometime in new york city '
well baby please dont go , its worth checking out
its not standard blues changes

I think Unica was was going for the sensational title to get people on to this thread. It may be the best, who knows? What is the criteria for judging one solo over another to be the best, I think you'll find yourself heading into the murky waters of personal opinion and there are about six billion of those PLUS this one, mine. The more I listen to un-official concert downloads the more I'm of the opinion that it's a Zen thing. It's that day, how he was on that day, mood, tiredness grumpiness, feeling good with the band and equipment sort of thing and then in that instant of the guitar solo what springs out is what it is. I have favorites of tone and tempo but over all it's the mood and that mood for me is bitchen, it just sounds bitchen. I'll be checken out the whole concert on this one.

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Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation
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I think this solo is amazing...def one of my favs
cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_i_HVBD9ks

close second

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

This is FAR better than the above posted solo.

And this solo is a PERFECT example of just how much FZ's concentration, continuity & musicality flourishes whenever he was ON...

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ONE NATION UNDER SOCIALISM



Because of Obamination's spending & socialist BS, America and much of the world will endure one of the worst depressions in history in 5...4...3...2...

73 was a extraordinary year for FZ's guitar...

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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

wow!! that was amazing!

How many times did Frank play the guitar in public after 1988? I know he took it with him when he was invited to the old Iron Curtain countries. This 1991 performance is very emotional to me, because he could do anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCXS9WK ... annel_page

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

I don't know about best when its all so fantastic.

I don't know if Frank would have liked the internet but jesus i'm so grateful for it, back in the day when i was a teenager i'd try to find anything i could about Frank and for the most part it was pretty slim.

Thanks to this forum, i've found more new stuff i a few weeks than the previous 20 years, crazy but i'm stoked.

These links to live solos are just amazing, does any one know any history about the 91 gig, it looked mighty special?

I have been informed that Frank performed in Budapest onstage with his guitar on this day 1991. That makes it highly likely that FZ last performed publicly with guitar 18 years ago. A significant day. click on the link today.

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

Something about FZ how he could put the guitar down for years at a stretch
not having all his performance calluses and he still pulls off a wonderful solo
that is so reminiscent of how when he always picked up a guitar performed
compositionally in a most unique manner.
FZ pushed the envelope beyond rating the guitar Olympics.
Anyone who performs in that style catches my attention.

What the BEST FZ solo ever was was never important to me.
I was just happy t see 7 to 9 or whatever solos a night.
Each one of them a unique gem carved out of the mountain.

Dweezil chisels tomorrow night 7:30 PM.
http://www.zappaplayszappa.com/tourdates.html

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Trendmonger's Moment Of Clarity

FZ "Read It And Weep"
April 17,1981

Frank Zappa left the ZFT in Control of his Vaults and Artistic rights.
We the fans are not in control. We have a choice to use our eyes and ears or read it and weep.

My favorite Zappa solo of all time would be the running commentary he does throughout the Live In New York version of Sofa

'Son of Orange County' from Roxy.

Beautiful. My fave, though Yo Mama is right there too.

Guy

It's imaginary

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BANNED and FAT

I've been awfully fond of "Bowling on Charen" since I first heard it on the KIng Biscuit radio show in 1978. (I know it's from halloween 1977, but I didn't hear it until a 1978 broadcast.)

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Bill

1973 is the best year of zappa guitar, composition and haircut

That's a good one (kind of short).

I like the City's from 1980 like this hog heaven-ish one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfLmuv7KXU

Watermelon in Easter Hay.......

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

Wild Love (28min. 45sec.)
Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO, 1977 11 11

His guitar just drifts along, on and on...

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

I love this solo and this whole show - it is a hot one, and I bet they were freezing outside there...!

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

Hey, I've been there! Okay, about 23 years later...

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

There is a Part in(on) the concert where FZ says it's colder than a Mother Fooker

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

Bowling on Charen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfIZgHnork
The Palladium, NYC October 28, 1977 (Early Show) Broadcast on "King Biscuit Flower Hour" (Original broadcast date: 30th April 1978 )