An autographed SAS postcard from FZ,
signed in 1981 to a confused,
but very proud twelve year old kid;
"Martias" (yours truly).
I first saw Frank Zappa in 1981 (I was twelve then) and I didn't understand
a thing of the music being performed.
All the songs were strung together
as one composition, the audience had to sit down all the time (whenever someone
got too carried away and started to dance
Frank told them gently to get back to their seat so him and the
band could continue
"to play music").
My buddy J�rgen, whom I went to the concert with, bought the Frank Zappa album
"Sheik Yerbouti" and neither of us understood it either and put it
away.
A couple of maturing years later I bumped into "Overnite Sensation" and
things changed monumentally. I couldn't believe the coolness of the songs on that record
combined with the superb musicianship and most important of
all: attitude. Unlike some quasi-complicated
fusion-crap, Zappa always had a point with his sometimes extremely complex
tunes. This really appealed to me and
over the years I have bought every Zappa record available and got to see him
a second time in 1988.
There's a Zappa record for every mood. My fingers search over the CDs on the
shelf for the record(s) of the day. It's like the Cronenberg movies or
Tintin
comics, when you�ve listened, watched or read through all of them, go back and begin forward.