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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:26:43 CST
From:         crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: zappa, etc.

Russ Gelinas has been asking about which FZ to get.  How come nobody
has mentioned "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore" Volume anything?

Actually, Volume 1 is better than Volume 2(?) -- the one with the
Stockholm(?) concert.  I've got a bunch of the live CD sets.  Oh, yeah.
"Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar" is fabulous, too.
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Bob T sez:

>A thousand pardons O Holiness...I do not want to suffer your wrath, so I will
>humbly step aside and remain simply *a* Bob (not *the* Bob)...B-)

Actually, dear Bob T, not only is your apology accepted, but please
accept one of mine.  The REAL Bob is "Bob" Dobbs!

You also ask why I trash Fleetwood Mac -- I dunno.  Just don't like
them.  Maybe it's time I started talking about something I do like.
OK -- albums that have touched me lately: Sonic Youth: "Dirty",
Dinosaur Jr.: "You're Living All Over Me" (I didn't say that I'm
anything close to up-to-date); Lard: "The Last Temptation of Reid"
and ELP: "Black Moon" (but I think I have gone on record as raving
about that one.  Oh, yeah -- half of the Yo Yo Ma CD with the Brahms
double concerto (sucks) and one of his trios (heaven).  New NIN
(really got my blood pumping).  Most of the new Ministry (I liked
everything but the metal solos).  And an oldie but goodie: Ma/Previn's
Elgar Cello concerto.  OK, now flame me, gang!  It's about
time I got some of my own back.
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Also to "that redhead" -- Marsha Ferzig!  Your name came to me just
as I pushed the Deliver button.  I've really enjoyed your posts and I
hope I didn't offend you too badly.  But all we men are pigs anyway;
some of us are just worse than others (oink).  In mitigation, both
my kid (at U of Alabama) and I love Legos.

What do I need to send you to get your a cappella tapes?  Grovel, grovel.
BTW, have you heard Todd Rundgren's "A Cappella"?  I got it in the
dollar bin and absolutely fell in love -- ended up buying a lot of
his middle stuff which IMHO wasn't nearly as good as "A Cappella".

I actually did remember before your very kind post.  Incidentally,
Red, (and I'm really disappointed about your not being a Brady)
your comment about your Grandma not appreciating your dating a
Rev. really struck a chord (that's as musical as this paragraph
is going to get).  I hadn't realized how deeply some folks felt
about a cross around somebody's neck (e.g.) being a symbol of The
Enemy until (of course) it happened to me (in southwestern PA)
when a bunch of cross-wearers crucified me for my (unconscious at
the time) Unitarianism.  But that's another (and probably mostly
boring) story.
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I've just subbed to RMUSIC-L and it's really confusing!  About half
my replies in this one were responses to that list until I went back
and read the mail.
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Mike Masuda said (and the other Mike really confused me, too -- I
thought it was you saying that African-American thing -- oh, well):

>How do you think people come up with new chords on the guitar?
>I think most of them come about from just messin around on the
>guitar, or a blatant misfire on a chord being played by an amateur.

Reminds me of the opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night" which is
simply a barre on the 5th fret.  Everybody's played the open strings
and it sounded rotten -- it took the Beatles to turn it into a song.
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Hey, Bloomster, I stole your format for this one.  Thanks.  More
later.
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| Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen        | Most people wouldn't know music if it|
| crispen@foxy.boeing.com       | came up and bit them on the ass -- FZ|
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