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Location: Michigan | i do not have satellite radio
but i can't remember the last time that i heard a zappa song on the fm dial.
has his music disappeared on standard radio or is he only played on satellite radio ???
has frank been abolished from fm radio play ? GWB |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Do you have a good computer connection?
You can create a Frank Zappa station on Pandora....
But they will play other music that the Music Genome Project thinks that you will like.
And yes... All that they play on FM is that corporate-approved crap.
And I don't think that they have 'college radio' like they did when I was a kid. |
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Location: closely held secret | Sure they do, Art...
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Location: NJ | I am gross and perverted
Im obsessed n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think Im delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin out
From your tv set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin along on your livinroom floor
I am the slime from your video
Cant stop the slime, people, lookit me go |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | That was the same tune I was thinking of Al...
Frankly other than Valley Girl and something off of Sheik, I never heard a Zappa tune on the radio.. |
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Location: Tennessee | I was in a bar last night that had drink coasters advertising an upcoming Zappa Plays Zappa shows. Seems as if this has turned into a full time gig for Dweezil and crew - they come through here a few times every year.
I can pick up four or five college radio stations here. Some of what they play is quite interesting and a lot of it is just forgettable. But I've never heard any of them play any Zappa. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | radios still play music? I thought they were music free commercial broadcasts.
I thought you had to have satallite to get music these days. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
I can pick up four or five college radio stations here. Some of what they play is quite interesting and a lot of it is just forgettable. WHen I was a kid I was in a hardcore band that got some airtime on KALX there (Cal Berkley's station). Very politically incorrect content.
It would have fit both categories, interesting and forgettable. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Beal:
radios still play music? I thought they were music free commercial broadcasts.
I thought you had to have satallite to get music these days. So Sad...
I just listen to Pandora or music that I have on my Windows Media Player.
I listen to corporate radio and they play three songs, then twelve commercials.
So I listen to NPR... Talk, Blues, Symphony Music, take your pick.
(No commercials, just two weeks of begging six times a year)
But no Frank Zappa. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I was a DJ for the University of Houston radio station during my college days (communications major).
We played all the weird shit we could find at the time cause we figured nobody listed to us anyway. I usually worked the 8-12 shift 3 nights a week (with no classes before noon on Tues/Thurs).
Back in those days it was you and the control booth so it was pretty boring and lonely. Bout the only fun was when a girl or two would drop by and a full side of an obscure LP got tossed on the turntable.....the longer the better.
Got lots and lots of promo LP's which was probably the best part of the experience (+ the credits for class).
I did get reprimanded for playing the Mothers Live at the Fillmore East (I loved Flo and Eddie) but the head of the station didn't care for Bwana Dik, Willie the Pimp, Mud Shark, Billy the Mountain, etc. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Chester the Molester |
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Location: south east Michigan | If she were my daughter I'd.... smother that girl in chocolate syrup and strap her on again!
Well she's my teenage baby and she turns me on, we like to do the nasty on the White house lawn"
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Not quite radio friendly these days. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I usually did the night shift 8 until.... and as we were a carrier current station I would continue after we were technically "off the air" for parties. I didn't have to run commercials and such, and I'd just leave the transmitters on at the dorm that was having the party.
Anyway, I was pretty used to playing what I wanted, but had to fill in for the morning show once. I forgot that they piped the station into the dining halls and coffee house all day.
The Univ. of Hartford Music School snobs apparently didn't appreciate the likes of Blue Oyster Cult, Frank Zappa, Ozzie, and others with their morning granola... I was never asked to do the morning show again. :) Kindofa win win for me. :) |
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| Zappa was played quite a bit on 2 or 3 local FM stations here during the 70s.
As for radio, I haven't listened to any of that in probably 25 years - it was always crap even when it was good.
Mostly now I just find obscure players on youtube like Cisco Houston, Rosco Holcombe etc.
Here's one for you all..lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBk3jwNSteo |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Music is the best! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
That was the same tune I was thinking of Al...
Frankly other than Valley Girl and something off of Sheik, I never heard a Zappa tune on the radio.. I was never big into Zappa, but I remember hearing a song I believe called "Joe's garage"
or something like that on the radio ALL the time back in the 70's/80's???? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Yeah, Joe's Garage got a lot of airplay. Another one that I don't believe ever showed up on an album (Dweeze?) was "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted". |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Another one that I don't believe ever showed up on an album (Dweeze?) was "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted". [/QB] That's on You Are What You Is, a cracking album. I was lucky enough to see Zappa when he was promoting the album in the UK, he had a VERY young Steve Vai in the band.
Good days, happy days. |
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frank zappa??? has he been put into the archives on fm radio ???
