Frank Zappa - STUDIO TAN
- historydeletesitse
- Nov 15, 2023
- 1 min read
May 12, 1980 – Frank Zappa on the Dick Cavett Show
My introduction to Frank Zappa, I saw this on TV in a hotel room on vacation with my family in Florida. Returning home after this trip I found Frank’s Studio Tan LP in the bargain bin for $3.99 at Rink’s department store in Evendale. Pulling a 99-cent sticker off another LP and putting it on the Zappa record I bought it for a buck and change, took it home, dropped the needle on “Greggery Peccary” and my life was changed forever.
Great story replete with stealing as a kid from none other than...Rinks (what did Gold Circle have it back-ordered?!) Did something similar at 12 or 13 at Record Bar in Kenwood (you weren't working there...yet, and I've since quite shoplifting). Zappa's music is so unique in that it has left field themes that initially make the listener go WTF is this!? It has the shredded guitars, and it has the statistically dense composition factor coupled with the improvisational jazz-like jam factor that really sets it apart from anything else in popular music (was going to say in "modern music" but Zappa's music is still way ahead of it's time, and he never really had a "timeless classic" at least not…