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December 4, 2005

‘a guy who wrote dots on paper’ [musik] — anders @ 1:52 pm

Once upon a time there was a guy who thought that music was important and that rock n’ roll songs ought to say something different in their lyrics. So he wrote a few hundred of these items, trying to get his point across to the people in the U.S.A.

Twenty-five years later, most of the people in his own country had never heard any of his music (it had been systematically “removed” from the mainstream of American broadcasting and made mysteriously absent from many important retail outlets). But he kept on doing it anway because he believed that one day things would get better.

Idag för 12 år sedan gick Zappa bort efter ett par års envis kamp mot cancern. Det är i princip omöjligt att beskriva hur pass mycket den här mannen och hans musik, tänkande och sarkasmer har betytt för mig. Ibland när jag funderar på det så kan jag nästan bli lite rädd. Men en dag som denna är det helt OK att gräva ner sig riktigt ordentligt i samlingen och förbanna sin (relativt) unga ålder. Alas, what could have been… jajaja.

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  1. Kondolerer…

    Comment by Sølvi — December 6, 2005 @ 2:02 pm

  2. Håller med dig! Slår ett slag för hela LP:n “One size fits all” (1975). Eller för roliga låten “Flakes” från “Sheik Yerbouti” (1979). “The present day composer refuses to die” (Edgar Varèse). Bästa hälsningar, Lorre

    Comment by Bengt — December 23, 2005 @ 10:40 pm

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