Zappa

God it's irritating what the Zappa family trust have done in the past few years. What kind of shit are they playing at. I always thought that the obvious thing to do was to employ someone to organise the vault & plan monthly releases of gigs as per King Crimson's site. Have a members club where you could download mp3's etc. Yet they seem hell-bent on releasing some of the crappiest parts of Frank's career & not even making them that easy to get hold of. Let's examine what we've had so far. Joe's Domage & Corsage & Xmasage are all totally poo. Ignore them and you'll be happy. Buffalo is a great gig - no questions there - more of that please. Trance Fusion is a collection of boring guitar solos from a period where even Frank himself said he wasn't that good. His solos basically went downhill throughout the 80's. He was still greater than almost anyone else but the band didn't have the power of the 74-80 golden solo era......Petit Wazoo is very poorly mixed, Imaginary Diseases is boring. FZ OZ is great in parts - but the strangely small band means the music only just hangs together in many places & Andre Lewis' keyboards can hardly be heard.
Maybe there really isn't that much stuff in the vault worth hearing? Are we all being strung along?
As to the video releases - jesus! I mean Frank kept hinting that he thought he was some kind of cinematic innovator but has there been any film made by him that's any good? No, there isn't.
That said, he is god. All you have to do is listen to One Size Fits All as loud as possible after a glass of wine and all your doubts about the other stuff will just melt away.
Don't get me started on the Zappa plays Zappa gigs - ugh!