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Babyfeet:
Hello Tom
I was on hold on the telephone with my mechanic.
I noticed something weird about the hold music. 
It was easy listening soft jazz.  Keeny G
Except there was some malfunction and two soft jazz tracks were playing at once. 
Which made it less sacharine. Not good, but.. strange time signatures.
Similar enough instrumentation to make it difficult to tease apart the 'songs'.
Anyway I realized that I was now listening to the exact same sound
that one hears on all the later Frank Zappa Albums - the instrumentals-
not the toilet talk singalongs.
Here's the phone number, but I can't vouch that it'll happen again. It's in
Renton, Washington State (basically Seattle) ask to be put on hold.
they close at 7:00pm Pacific Time on weekdays.  425 204 6649

So; the contest is "Zappa or Kenny Geez"? Or something more snappy.
I leave this precious child on your door step; for you to name.
Two soft jazz song(ish)s would be played at once, then a zappa song
would be played.  Then the listener would have to guess which was
the zappa song. 

Is more explanation necessary for this dynamic-
yes dynamic- new game to take hold?
Probably, you would need to hear it to appreciate this. 
I'd like to tell you to click on a link to hear what I'm talking about.
But for once, this link does not yet exist.

Maybe there's no game.  Just a demonstration to all crestfallen
Zappa fan(atics) who lament his passing and want more new
Zappa that more can be had. There's an endless supply.
Zappa on Tappa. Sheesh.
Try it as though more zappa is something you'd want to hear.
Then you will know.
Babyfeet

The Cleef:
zappa rules you drool

Ynyr:

--- Quote from: The Cleef on October 23, 2006, 10:31:20 PM ---zappa rules you drool

--- End quote ---

I agree.

Babyfeet:
Zappa rules? You're gonna love that hold line. 
Call and demand to be put on hold. 
You will be like little girls in that Poltergeist
movie, hearing Zappa music from beyond the
grave, except that it's not really Zappa and it's
not a toy telephone-
IT'S REAL!

The Cleef:
That hold music was dissonant. Sounds like the pianist was holding down nem' sustain pedals and getting chromatic. I doubt that Kenny G ever got that non-smooth but the tune wouldn't be from the Zappa catalogue neither. I was only on hold for a minute so I can guess that it could have been any modern jazzbo-group from the past thirty years. Aside from Eric Dolphy, Jazz is pretty terrible (I agree with Tom S. here). Zappa isn't Jazz....he's Rock in Opposition without as much the art-bent. Look into it. Here's a kind of modern day Zappa musician...Bob Drake.
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