r.i.p. fz

i knew that this would eventually show up on youtube: vid of frank zappa, who left the planet 14 years ago tomorrow, conducting the audience on an australian talk show in a spontaneously composed piece of music -- kinda like he usedta do with his bands onstage sometimes.



i musta seen frank eight or nine times back in the '70s -- more times than i've seen any other performer, in fact. but these days, my favorite music of his is the symphonic stuff he did at the very end of his life -- the yellow shark with the ensemble modern, and the synclavier realizations on civilization phaze III, including this one.