Fantastic 2021 Christmas Eve Celebrating A True Musical Genius, Frank Zappa
by Robert Wilkinson The December 21 Solstice would have been the 81st birthday of one of the great composers and guitar players of the 20th century! He's a last degree Sagittarius! Zappa was a unique force of Nature. Here’s a little from Wikipedia to give you a taste of what this musical genius was all about: Frank Zappa, (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock,jazz, orchestral and “musique concrete’” works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varese, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music...
