A Zappa / Khukuri Connection?

While not a true Zappaphile, I can vividly (much TOO vividly) remember those long summer afternoons working under the VW with my shadetree mechanic compatriots caught up in the thrilling suspense of Billy the Mountain.

Tom
 
A little more Cheepniz please!


........the giant poodle from the planet throonobulax is rampaging the village!!!....
 
Hmm ... maybe we should hold the next HI gathering at St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast....

Is that a real khukuri or is that a Sears khukuri? (Everything is related to khukuris....)

-Cougar :{)

P.S. Let's sneak out just before dawn and test our knives on the little jockeys on the rich people's lawns....

:{)
 
Personally I'm into 50's & 60's pre-acid rock such as Buddy Holly at one end and the Stone's "High Tide and Green Grass" album at the other end, and into folk music and some bluegrass.

But what I found amazing was a report a few weeks back of a new trend for classical artists getting together with bluegrass groups and bluegrass musicians playing with orchestras.

I wasn't surprised. Even with my hearing aids I could listen to the pipes of Scotland playing a reel, and remember the similarities to the Virginia reels I'd heard.

What really fascinated me was that they reported that classical and bluegrass groups each had the same number and tone range and power although different instruments for each of the parts.

Did anyone else hear the report or have other info relative to this? There's bound to be dozens of way more musically educated folks out there that can enlighten me.

One of my s.w.a.g. conjecture's as to why they congregated in the Appalachins is they might have had the headsman after them back home and came here for a longer life and consequently "headed for the hills" soon as they could.

If the above is wrong (probably) set me straight.
 
My mother, bless her heart, was a music minor in college -- played 5 instruments, including the piano and could sight read flawlessly. She won the Kansas state competition for girl's contralto solo when he was a senior in HS. She was determined that I should follow in her footsteps of music but after 3 years of piano lessons for me and still unable to play chopsticks she gave up on me and I pursued a career in scholatic sports instead. She had no interest in sports and I had little or none in music.

So, that is that story.

You think you know little about music, Rusty? Well, meet somebody who knows nothing.

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Uncle Bill
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This is really strange...
I am a music buff (especially rock) and have been in bands all my life but have never really heard anything by Zappa. Whenever his name came up I always wrote it off, probably because of his lack of "mainstream" (pop) commercial success. We were going to an event a few weeks ago and our trainer popped in a Zappa CD. It was "Joe's Garage vols. 1 & 2". I decided to listen with an open mind and I was blown away. To this day, I have only heard those songs once apiece and I can still remember many of them. He was an extremely talented musician and songwriter and with his talent he could have garnered MAJOR mainstream success but chose to do "his thing" instead. To do that and still be mega-successful on a cult level is admirable. It almost seems as if he didn't really take himself, his music or his talent seriously. I intend to expose myself to more of his work in the future...

Peace-
Orion
 
Frank was not only a guitar master, but his lyrics are some of the most biting political and social satire of our time.
 
Somehow or another, I bypassed Zappa during my develomental stages. I graduated highschool in the 60s and proceeded to get into some fringe stuff (Hendrix, et.al.) but for reasons I don't understand I never got into Zappa. Well, thanks to this forum, and this thread in particular, I'm filling in the gaps of my cultural awareness. I've secured some Zappa stuff and, much to the chagrin of my grown children, I'm playing it on a regular basis and finding myself enjoying it. I don't know that I'll be getting a Zappa tattoo anytime soon, but I can see why you Zappa freaks get into the music.
 

Frank Zappa had no khukuri. But a surprising proportion of the folks here seem to dig his stuff. I have no explanation.

It may be a respect for craftsmanship thing. While it's not obvious to everybody on first hearing, there is a huge amount of detail and fit and finish in Zappa's work, and this appeals to the same people who like QUALITY khukuris.

I am guessing.



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The detail and other wonderful qualities in Frank's work were apparent even on the first album, Freak Out. His work is wonderful, powerful,but also intimidating and more than a little extreme, like the Khuk kooks
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[This message has been edited by HJK (edited 10-19-2000).]
 
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