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On the level. Everyone who went to that wedding still jokes about it.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 09:01 PM) Whoa, the Who will not make the top 50?? That's crazy. I'll be pleasantly surprised to see them in the top 3, but I'd be floored if they weren't in the top 50. Still kicking myself for not including Led Zeppelin on my list.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 10:31 PM) Adrian Belew! He played for Zappa on Baby Snakes as well as with Talking Heads on Remain in Light and The Name of the Band is Talking Heads. Can't say I'm familiar with King Crimson or Laurie Anderson (although I've heard a few King Crimson songs), but I'd bet he's the guy. He's absolutely the guy. And he's been fronting Crimson since their 1981 reformation although Robert Fripp is still the heart and soul of the band. He's also on Laurie Anderson's Home of the Brave. On the FZ side of things, Belew also played on Sheik Yerbouti, delivering the awesome vocals on City of Tiny Lights and also providing the bad Bob Dylan impersonation on Flakes.

Long ago at a friend's wedding up in New York, we loaded up the open bar with some great microbrews, but we didn't want them being drunk by the average wedding-goer who was just as happy drinking Bud and Miller. So we devised a plan by which anyone walking up to the bar and quoting a line of Blues Brothers dialog to the bartender was on the approved good beer list and could drink from the stash. It worked great until the father of the bride noticed some good beers going around and asked for one, only to have the barman try to prompt him to provide a magic quote by asking him what he thought of Illinois Nazis. :lolhitting ^^ True Story ^^

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) Keep you eyes peeled for their beers if you haven't had them. It's available all over the country, but the varieties are limited. We just got peche mortel here and that's all we get. But in Chicago you can get 3 or 4 styles. As far as I know, Florida doesn't get anything they brew, but I'll keep an eye out.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 07:23 PM) Well it's obviously Warren Cuccurullo then, but Colaiuta also has a link to Duran Duran. According to his wiki page at least, he was involved with Duran Duran's self titled album (aka The Wedding Album). He apparently played drums for one track on the album, while Cuccurullo was the lead guitarist. On that note, I don't understand how someone goes from making music with Zappa to Duran Duran. Talk about polar opposites. Here's a tough one (I think at least, I only found out about it via wiki): Zappa and John Mayer I'm not sure how legit the connection is, but Mayer was a guest on an album which a former Zappa band member was also a guest. OK, I'll credit the Vinnie answer for Duran Duran (which I didn't know), though it looks like he nly played on a single track. I got nothing on the John Mayer question. How about linking FZ to Talking Heads/King Crimson/Laurie Anderson (yep, all by one guy)?

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 08:14 PM) Weird Al cites Zappa as an influence, and parodied him with the song "Genius in France." Genius in France is an UNBELIEVABLE Zappa homage!! It nails at least a dozen different FZ era sounds and dozens of FZ songs, hooks, musical "ears and eyebrows", etc. Plus Dweezil plays guitar on it. :headbang

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 07:55 PM) Something tells me there's a Steve Vai connection there, but I don't know when it happened. Yeah, Steve Vai is exactly right. Vai was on most studio and live FZ alums from '81-87 (as you are aware), and then played guitar for Roth on the Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper albums and (I believe both) tours.

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 28, 2009 -> 07:03 PM) I just got back from Montreal. The highlight was the Dieu du Ciel brewery. My fiance and I went through 10 beers between us. Some of the highlights were: rosee d'hibiscous which was like a champagne and fruit cocktail; a rauchbock which was just a wonderful beer to end the night with (plenty of smoke, onions and sausage) Premiere Niege - a fantastic beer that became my fiance's favorite EVER. This was flavored with anise and it perfectly complemented the smoke and wheat flavors. It was light but incredibly complex. I wish I would have had a pen and paper when I drank it. They also had an alt, which I had, but it wasn't all that impressive. That is a world class brewery and I recommend that everyone try to make it there some day. It's French speaking, but our waitress (and almost everyone in Montreal) thankfully was a competent English speaker. Sounds like a phenomenal brewery, thanks for sharing a grand experience.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) Can't say I agree with that thought. Just in time to chime in and give the nod to Blues Brothers over Animal House, but it's a close call.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 04:13 PM) Vinnie Colaiuta?! Nope, the other one. Hint #2: Frank refers to him as "Sophia Warren" in one of the band introductions in the Stage series.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) I didn't know that about Don Preston. I was referring to The Sunflower. Are you a big Canned Heat fan? I saw them live once just a few days after they had played at Woodstock. They were still pretty stoked about that experience. Bob the Bear Hite talked about how cool it was that they flew in on a helicopter. Unfortunately for me, it so happened that the Sunflower had quit the band just before Woodstock. Of course I didn't know this so at the concert I was like "who the hell is that? That's not the Sunflower?". Found out later it was Harvey Mandel and of course he was pretty darn good himself. One of his guitar strings broke during one song and so I was treated to an impromptu long bass solo by the Mole. It was great! Turtles: Flo and Eddie and Jimmy Pons who had played with the Turtles and the Leaves (!). Now we're rolling! Yeah, I like me some Canned Heat, mostly from loving their Woodstock set back when I saw the concert film for the first time as a kid. QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) Didn't Zappa get a couple of the guys from the Turtles to play with the Mothers in the early 70s? I think they might have been involved with 200 Motels, but I can't be certain about that. I know Ringo was also involved with that (as you previously mentioned), and I'm pretty sure Keith Moon was as well. Yep, as Ed said, Flo and Eddie and Jim Pons were from the Turtles, which explains the whole Groupie Routine song on the Fillmore Album culminating in the "Number One Hit With a Bullet" being a kick-ass version of the Turtles' Happy Together. Jim Pons is also the one who sings the German lines that translate to "Give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat, floating sofa" during God's monolog on the version of Sofa from Stage Vol. 1. Keith Moon played the rampaging Nun in 200 Motels. QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 03:21 PM) Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman aka The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie first joined up with Zappa on the album Chunga's Revenge. They were indeed in 200 Motels (an awful movie but kinda fun to see). Next: Frank Zappa and The Monkees?? Other than the Roxy and Elsewhere Mothers lineup (Napoleon, Ruth, George Duke, Jeff Simmons, and Chester Thompson), the Flo and Eddie incarnation is probably my favorite. And I looove 200 Motels, but more as a Conceptual Continuity piece of the Zappa body of work than as great cinema. Zappa and the Monkees was actually going to be the next one I was going to toss out there. My favorite connection is the walk-on (literally, and with livestock!) cameo FZ makes in the Monkees' Movie Head. A hint on the FZ/Duran Duran connection for Felix, this musician is one of two Zappa bandmembers specifically mentioned by name as the Catholic Boys that the Catholic Girls were "learning to blow" on Joe's Garage.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 02:17 PM) Perhaps too hard. Aynsley also worked with John Lennon, who played in an obscure band with George Harrison, who was in the Travelling Wilburys with Jeff Lynne who was in ELO. OI couldn't even tell you who was in Duran Duran, so you got me. Oh, I certainly could have connected a six degrees of separation type link — probably a couple — but I was looking for the most direct connection. Cool pathway, though. How about an easy one with FZ and the Turtles?

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 02:10 PM) Zappa and Deep Purple? Well done with Eddie Jobson. The most famous FZ/Deep purple connection is, of course, Montreux Switzerland, and the casino burning down during a Mothers show due to "some stupid with a flare gun", as immortalize on Smoke on the Water.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 26, 2009 -> 08:39 AM) Aynsley Dunbar went from working with FZ to working with Journey. Frank Zappa to ELO Good job with Aynsley. For the ELO connection, I've only come up with something tenuous, in the form of Ringo Starr. Ringo starred in 200 Motels as Larry the Dwarf, and he has appeared as a guest studio musician on a more recent ELO album. If there is a more solid connection I will keep thinking about it. Here's another one for you to work on: FZ and Duran Duran?

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 26, 2009 -> 03:39 PM) I give up. We'll leave that one open. How about Frank Zappa to Canned Heat? Two Canned Heat connections I know of. The most important is that Sunflower Vestine, an early MOI member (pre Freak our, but he's on some FZ demos and rarities that have been relesaed) was a guitarist and founding member of Canned Heat. The second connection is that MOI core member Don Preston spent a small amount of time with Canned Heat. On the subject of Canned Heat, I am a cardholding member of the Bob the Bear Hit Society ("He Came, He Walked Around, He Died"), although not in good standing because the only real stipulation for being a member is you have to drink your beer with your left hand and I can't remember to do that. OK, next Zappa connection: FZ and Jethro Tull.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:42 PM) Tsk. Here I thought I was the only guy that bought that album. Here's the real test -- How many Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen LPs do/did you own?

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:34 PM) you want some of this? It's Go Time!! Mendelbaum! Mendelbaum!! Mendelbaummm!!!

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:36 PM) Steam has to be #1, I'm just waiting for #2, which at my age, is a big deal "You show that Turd who's boss!"

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:32 PM) Ya ever hear of Lothar and the Hand People? They put out I think only one album back in probably 1968. Anyway it was a really good album and they used the theramin quite a bit. Yeah, My Guitar God friend that I used to gig with raved about them (but he smoked a lot of weed in the old days) and played me some songs (yes he actually owns them on vinyl!). Wild stuff.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:31 PM) Duuude, TMBG, then Ren and Stimpy? You're like the brother that I never had! The Danes Call it Quality, Brother.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:24 PM) He was reading the list here. Now it makes sense. Why no Stryper?

Yak Shaving Day didn't make the list? effin' wtf?!??

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:20 PM) I had a friend ask me, "Why no Emerson, Lake and Palmer?" I wasn't sure how to respond. I'm not even sure what the question was.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:17 PM) I thought you already had . . . Shut it!