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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète 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 Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands… more »

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They had existed as a group
Called the Soul Giants
They had a leader named Davy Coronado
Who played tenor sax, and I
Was brought in as a substitute
Guitar player because, uh, ray
Collins, who was the lead
Singer with this group
Had had a fight with the
Other guitar player and
Had beaten him up and, uh, they
Had a job, a weekend job
And Ray called me and asked
Me to come down and
Substitute and so, after playing
With them and, uh, enjoying the experience
And liking what I heard, I
Suggested that we develop, uh
Original material and try and
Make records davy coronado, who, um well, he
Was absolutely correct, he
Said, "If you try and play original material
You'll
Get fired" Because in order to keep a job
In a bar band in those go-go days
You had to just play what was on the
Radio or these stupid little dance songs he
Said, you know, "I can't do
This, uh you know
I need to earn a living" And so he
Left and I convinced the guys to
Learn some original songs and Davy
Was right, we got fired, every place
We worked we got fired but eventually
We got a record contract
And I don't know whatever happened to Davy

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