![]() ![]() Not until he discovered the Synclavier did he find a musician flexbile enough to play it like he wrote it (but I honestly think he still preferred the band because they could not only play the stuff, they could also 'put the eyebrows on it'). Zappa was constantly juggling his desire to work as a composer with the need to keep his family in food and clothes, and a working band on the road so that he could develop his craft. Zappa fans, like myself, know that they were much more than 'comedy music', as would have you believe. ![]() What Slaven also does is to look at all of the albums that Zappa created and evaluate them in their context. The usual cast are there, and the events that surrounded Zappa's life are narrated in good detail. However, he does have one advantage over FZ - he can also write about his death, and the impact that that had. Clearly Slaven is not going to do as good a job as Frank Zappa (in the Real Frank Zappa Book), who has an unfair advantage in being able to remember most of this life better than everyone else. A labour of love, and one that needed to be done. ![]()
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