Battle of the Bands - Frank Zappa LbNA #12032
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 6, 2004 |
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| City: | Newtown |
| County: | Bucks |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Hikers & Hounds  |
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| Found by: | Paisley Cakes |
| Last found: | Dec 23, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Dec 12, 2015 |
Battle of the Bands – Frank Zappa
Difficulty level – Easy
Time – About 45 minutes round trip, if this is the only box you’re hunting. But you pass right by Mr. Garcia and his crew on the way, plus there’s an up-and-coming band from Colorado a little further up the trail.
Frank Zappa – This is probably the hardest clue intro to write and I borrowed heavily from an online biography. I hate to use cliché’s but Frank Zappa was truly a genius in so many areas. He was innovative and contemptuous all at once. Frank refused to be confined to the verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus recipe that is still so prevalent in music today. He believed in absolute freedom of expression and really didn’t give a rat’s ass about album sales. Frank often said that his life was changed forever when in 1954 he read a Look magazine story on the Sam Goody record chain, which cited its ability to sell such ''weird'' music as ''The Complete Works of Edgar Varese, Vol. One.'' When Zappa finally found a copy, he embraced its avant-garde dissonance, though his parents would let him play it only in his room. It was there, then, that the musical mix began, for Zappa was just as deeply into Howlin' Wolf and the Orioles.
Frank Zappa is perceived in many parts of the world as an important figure in rock history. In the US however Frank is more of a fringe novelty. It didn’t help that Frank continually pissed of the music establishment and once called rock journalism ''people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.''
If you’ve never heard a Zappa record H&H highly recommends “Apostrophe” and “Joe’s Garage” the latter being a rock and roll sci-fi exploration of a world where music is illegal. Frank once said ''My job' is extrapolating everything to its most absurd extreme.'' Frank died of prostate in 1993 at age 52.
A little known fact is that Frank Zappa is the origin of the name of Lowell George’s band Little Feat. George was an early member of Franks band “The Mother’s of Invention”. Frank used to make fun of Lowell’s tiny little feet. When Lowell George left the Mother’s to start his own band, he took his nickname with him and Little Feat was born.
Here is an excerpt from Joe’s Garage lyrics:
Joe’s Garage
We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin',
"TURN IT DOWN!"
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
Even if you played it on a saxophone
We thought we was pretty good
We talked about keepin' the band together
'N we figured that we should
'Cause about this time we was gettin' the eye
From the girls in the neighborhood
They'd all come over 'n dance around like . . .
So we picked out a stupid name
Had some cards printed up for a coupla bucks
'N we was on our way to fame
Got matching suits
'N Beatle Boots
'N a sign on the back of the car
'N we was ready to work in a GO-GO Bar
ONE TWO THREE FOUR
LET'S SEE IF YOU'VE GOT SOME MORE!
People seemed to like our song
They got up 'n danced 'n made a lotta noise
An' it wasn't 'fore very long
A guy from a company we can't name
Said we oughta take his pen
'N sign on the line for a real good time
But he didn't tell us when
These "good times" would be somethin'
That was really happenin'
So the band broke up
An' it looks like
We will never play again . . .
Clues:
Coming from the Grateful Dead box continue along the trails as it bends to the left. In a little while look for a pathway on the right marked by logs on either side of it. It leads to a disc golf platform. Before you reach the platform turn left and walk in until you spy a dead tree. Frank is inside the large hole in the tree working on his next epic adventure in sound.
Difficulty level – Easy
Time – About 45 minutes round trip, if this is the only box you’re hunting. But you pass right by Mr. Garcia and his crew on the way, plus there’s an up-and-coming band from Colorado a little further up the trail.
Frank Zappa – This is probably the hardest clue intro to write and I borrowed heavily from an online biography. I hate to use cliché’s but Frank Zappa was truly a genius in so many areas. He was innovative and contemptuous all at once. Frank refused to be confined to the verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus recipe that is still so prevalent in music today. He believed in absolute freedom of expression and really didn’t give a rat’s ass about album sales. Frank often said that his life was changed forever when in 1954 he read a Look magazine story on the Sam Goody record chain, which cited its ability to sell such ''weird'' music as ''The Complete Works of Edgar Varese, Vol. One.'' When Zappa finally found a copy, he embraced its avant-garde dissonance, though his parents would let him play it only in his room. It was there, then, that the musical mix began, for Zappa was just as deeply into Howlin' Wolf and the Orioles.
Frank Zappa is perceived in many parts of the world as an important figure in rock history. In the US however Frank is more of a fringe novelty. It didn’t help that Frank continually pissed of the music establishment and once called rock journalism ''people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.''
If you’ve never heard a Zappa record H&H highly recommends “Apostrophe” and “Joe’s Garage” the latter being a rock and roll sci-fi exploration of a world where music is illegal. Frank once said ''My job' is extrapolating everything to its most absurd extreme.'' Frank died of prostate in 1993 at age 52.
A little known fact is that Frank Zappa is the origin of the name of Lowell George’s band Little Feat. George was an early member of Franks band “The Mother’s of Invention”. Frank used to make fun of Lowell’s tiny little feet. When Lowell George left the Mother’s to start his own band, he took his nickname with him and Little Feat was born.
Here is an excerpt from Joe’s Garage lyrics:
Joe’s Garage
We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin',
"TURN IT DOWN!"
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
Even if you played it on a saxophone
We thought we was pretty good
We talked about keepin' the band together
'N we figured that we should
'Cause about this time we was gettin' the eye
From the girls in the neighborhood
They'd all come over 'n dance around like . . .
So we picked out a stupid name
Had some cards printed up for a coupla bucks
'N we was on our way to fame
Got matching suits
'N Beatle Boots
'N a sign on the back of the car
'N we was ready to work in a GO-GO Bar
ONE TWO THREE FOUR
LET'S SEE IF YOU'VE GOT SOME MORE!
People seemed to like our song
They got up 'n danced 'n made a lotta noise
An' it wasn't 'fore very long
A guy from a company we can't name
Said we oughta take his pen
'N sign on the line for a real good time
But he didn't tell us when
These "good times" would be somethin'
That was really happenin'
So the band broke up
An' it looks like
We will never play again . . .
Clues:
Coming from the Grateful Dead box continue along the trails as it bends to the left. In a little while look for a pathway on the right marked by logs on either side of it. It leads to a disc golf platform. Before you reach the platform turn left and walk in until you spy a dead tree. Frank is inside the large hole in the tree working on his next epic adventure in sound.