Frank Zappa - The last song of the last concert of the last tour, Geneva 1988-06-09

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"Illinois Enema Bandit," Geneva, 1988-06-09: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8zmQD1vnE&NR=1

THE PRESENT-DAY COMPOSER REFUSES TO DIE!

:toast:

[Initech]

1. What a fitting end.

Of course there's no end to the late, great Zappa's vast, vast catalog.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I was really happy to discover that was the last song.

I've been going through yet another "re-appreciation" lately, pulling his stuff into iTunes.

In the mid-70s, I was walking past a record shop in San Francisco with some friends, and in the window they had a Zappa bootleg from the Flo & Eddie era called "Poot Face Boogie." I don't know why that registered with me, but I chose it as my pet name for self-created Zappa mix CDs, and I have Volume 1 and Volume 2 "Poot Face Boogie" CDs in the car at all times...the first beginning with the original Mothers and ending with Flo & Eddie, the second running from "Bongo Fury" through "Joe's Garage" with the songs "The Torture Never Stops" and "Mammy Anthem" from the first volume of "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore."

I appreciate it all, but admit that my favorite stuff was the guitar-heavy tracks.

:toast:

[Initech]

3. I go through phases where all I listen to is Zappa.

The man was a fucking genius. Even both on and off stage. All the stuff he did for free speech rights, the things he said about the Christian right taking over, that made Zappa legendary. Broadway The Hard Way has to be one of my all time faves just for that very reason.

[hifiguy]

4. Zappa will be universally seen

as one of the towering geniuses of 20th Century culture if humankind survives the next fifty years. The informed sort already know this to be a fact.