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Zappa was a real musician, whatever one thinks of his music. I'm not clear that Beefheart was anything more than weird, cranky, and smartass.
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Zappa was a real musician, whatever one thinks of his music. I'm not clear that Beefheart was anything more than weird, cranky, and smartass.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoI understand that Ian Underwood was also not really at the same level as some of the others, so I think that Zappa had a "Personality Quotient" that he used.
- AlbertCory 2y agoreally? This seems to be some serious cred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Underwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Underwood
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoActually, that makes a lot of sense. What I heard, was that he wasn't really a "top shelf" musician, but I never heard anything about his composition, which, I suspect, would have been even more important to Zappa.
- kazinator 2y agoWikipedia: "With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, [Beefheart's] group barely survived and were even arrested for shoplifting food (Zappa bailed them out)."