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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
- Subject: Re: Concert Tales
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.194049.21548@vexcel.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:40:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.045040.20819@netcom.com> <BRIAN.93Jan24074553@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu> <malcolm.727941911@wrs.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
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- In article <malcolm.727941911@wrs.com> malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes) writes:
- >
- >One of my favorite memories is a show in Philly in November 84, and
- >at one point I decided to walk down the side aisle so I could get
- >a brief closer look at the stage and the players. Right after I walked
- >down the aisle Frank came to the center of the stage and did a guitar
- >solo that had me laughing because the textures sounded so much like
- >Fripp and King Crimson to me. I raved about it to friends at the show
- >and they just had a blank stare... "Crimson...?", they didn't hear it
- >at all. A year later I found an audience tape of that show and I was
- >again convinced of what I heard. About 4 or so years later I bought
- >the GUITAR cd box and much to my surprise found that solo from the
- >Philly show lifted as a piece on the cd, titled "Republicans". For
- >me that clinches it - Republicans, Elephants (republican party mascot),
- >Elephant Talk, King Crimson..., not to mention the Belew connection,
- >and that Crimson had been touring a few months before.
- >
- > - Malcolm
-
- I once heard a radio interview of Frank and a caller asked him what he
- thought of Robert Fripp and he said, "Robert who?"
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