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FZ
May 1, 2015 23:53:00 GMT
Post by mitchfit on May 1, 2015 23:53:00 GMT
Denis Diderot 1713-1784
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
perhaps among the first to observe that genius and insanity were merely different branches of the same tree:
"Ah, how close the insane and genius touch; they are imprisoned and enchained; or, statues are raised to them"
based on how far out into left field his music was, i always felt that Frank Zappa was far above average intelligence.
today i saw an interview with him done for MTV in 1984.
it firmly confirmed my beliefs about the man.
amazed how close to my own his feelings about current popular music are.
[but then most of my friends say i'm kinda crazy, also.]
i do have to applaud MTV for having the integrity to go ahead and release this:
enjoy, mitchfit
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FZ
May 2, 2015 7:25:49 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 2, 2015 7:25:49 GMT
Much as I love FZ, and agree with most of his opinions, he was IMO wrong about punk. Punk was a lot of fun, and a quite lot of punk players were reasonable if not good musicians. The line about 'forgetting your chops' is also referenced in the FZ tune 'tinseltown rebellion', which ironically is lousy IMO. Also, FZ knocks 'the blues' a lot, although there's usually a blues based tune or two on most of his albums. That aside, he's correct about pretty much everything else, and was usually correct years before anyone else was. Here's a 'bluesy' FZ track called occams razor - anyone recognise parts of it?
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