[against_the_grain]

Hard to believe some of the stuff I'm reading here....But each has their own opinion. Art will forever remain in the eyes of the beholder.

Zappa's music was just incredible. I liked up through the mid to later 70s, and to a lesser extent....the 80s.

His compositions, the multitude of players he had...and his own guitar technique and choice of notes enthralled me to no end. I won't even get into an argument here about this as he and his music are top 5 all time for me.....There is so much variety in his dozens and dozens of albums...that anyone who 'wholesale' disses him, has obviously not heard all he did.

You can hear 99 of 100 songs he did...and that 100th will be so totally different than the 99 previous...that yeah...even the harshest skeptic might find out...wow, that is a good number. People who diss bands RARELY have heard much....first off, they're turned off initially so they don't WANT to listen to anymore....and that's where the ignorance comes in. I find most don't know 1/10 of his output. To me, that's too bad. Hey...I'm the same way about bands I don't like. Do you think I've sat down to TRY to see if I like something of 'theirs' ?.....Especially some band that has over 50..nearly 100 releases ?....Hell NO.....but at least I admit that part. That yeah, I might would like one of the hundreds of tunes someone like that would've released, but I won't take the time.....I think that's what's happened to Zappa detractors...