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- From: srm1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (steven.r.marcovici)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
- Subject: Re: Editorial cartoon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.191022.2607@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:10:22 GMT
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.728132290.jrk@cs.columbia.edu>
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- In article <CMM.0.90.2.728132290.jrk@cs.columbia.edu> "John R. Kender" <jrk@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
- >From the pen of Jim Borgman, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, syndicated
- >nationally (watch for it!), as appearing on the Op-Ed page of the
- >Bergen (New Jersey) Record this morning:
- >
- >Five panels, entitled "Thank you for SHARING this attempt to REACH
- >SOME NEW AGE INAUGURAL CLOSURE"
- >
- > [snip snip]
- >
- >Panel 2 (biggest panel), A nine-person rock group, with (apparently)
- >FZ on drums, in stove-pipe hat, all before massive backdrop saying
- >"ZAPPA IS GOD": "Aging boomer group Fleetwood Mac reunited with
- >supergroup Cream in a rendition of 'Stairway to Heaven,' after which
- >the entire 32-45 generation dissolved into confusion."
- >
- > [snip snip]
- >
- >2) Did FZ ever wear a stove-pipe hat? On Hot Rats he is shown
- >somewhere in London wearing a bowler, but I don't recall any
- >stove-pipe.
- >
- I don't know, BUT Mick Fleetwood certainly did. And to the level of fidelity
- provided by a cartoon, I expect that you are confusing Mick's slim, bearded
- visage with that of FZ. The caption does say that members of Fleetwood Mac
- and Cream combined for the event; so the drummer would be either Fleetwood
- or Ginger Baker (but by my arithmetic that would yield 8 people, not 9).
- Your description does bring to mind Mr. Fleetwood, INCLUDING the hat.
-
- -Steve srm@garage.att.com
-