Zappa vs Zappa - What would Frank Z. think of this...

Not sure daddy would be proud.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/business/media/whats-in-a-name-just-ask-frank-zappas-feuding-heirs.html?_r=0
 

Sometimes I am bizarrely comforted by the fact that both my parents were killed in separate accidents when I was a toddler and I am an only child. My widowed grandmother, who raised me, has long since passed and I am left to watch such petty, vindictive self serving nonsense among other "families" take place. What is it with the human animal?

i just came to post the same thing, also 30 minutes ago, it's all a bit sad really

Legal insanity. When a guy can't use his own last name, nor display a photograph of his own father due to legal restrictions, that's just plain nuts. And to make it even more surreal, the entity enforcing the prohibitions has the disingenuous name of "Zappa Family Trust". With mom 'n dad gone, that leaves only the two kids to comprise the Zappa family, which apparently the family trust does not represent. Insanity.
 
And you're right; Frank would not approve.

Back OT.
 
Bollocks I say.

Rain
P.S. Am i the only one who sees every one of their posts "last updated 30 minutes ago" immediately after posting?

The same here !

This is Gail's legacy. "Controlling people" always create divides between other people, between those who are submissive and those who aern't. I've seen it before but it took me a lot of years before I saw it for what it is. Power and/or money are at the root of most, if not ALL evil.
Sad.
 
J

craigb

jbow
Power and/or LOVE OF money are at the root of most, if not ALL evil.

 
Sorry, felt the need to modify your statement.  There's nothing wrong with money, quite the opposite!  It's the blood of an economy and, like blood, it doesn't work if it accumulates all in one place and doesn't circulate.
 
This is also one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible (from 1 Timothy).
 

Yes, thank you... that is what I meant to say.
 
Julien
 

Didn't he release a solo album just last year?  
 
I'm guessing that his fanbase is primarily interested in Frank's catalogue. Maybe because they can only stomach so much "odd music" and prefer when it's certified "classic". So the focus is on Zappa Plays Zappa.

jbow
This is Gail's legacy. "Controlling people" always create divides between other people, between those who are submissive and those who aern't. I've seen it before but it took me a lot of years before I saw it for what it is. Power and/or money are at the root of most, if not ALL evil.
Sad.
 
J

jbow
This is Gail's legacy. "Controlling people" always create divides between other people, between those who are submissive and those who aern't. I've seen it before but it took me a lot of years before I saw it for what it is. Power and/or money are at the root of most, if not ALL evil.
Sad.

J

 
(wrote this for you J)
 
The same thing has happened in my family, and mom, pretty much did her own thing, and while I am not exactly in favor of it, the hard/harsh part is that none (that's right NONE) of the 9 children have any say on anything, and the whole library gets sent to Lisbon and it will likely remain in crates for the next 200 years or so. and probably busted by an over eager ocean that invaded the basement of the cathedral or building that it is at.
 
The worst part is the publishing, since mom did not think, EVER, that the children were anything but ... just children ... that would not know or understand "literature", because they were not professors with 2.1 kids and a car and some kind of "tenure" to prove that they have arrived at the academic club that knows and decides that you and I are peons, and not worthy of attention or opinion.
 
Gail made the same mistake. My mom made sure that if the 9 kids could not agree -- and we never have -- on something, that it could not be done. Guess what ... same thing at Zappa ... one is a struggling musician and the rest are just hang'ers on, and collecting the free money! And in this case, the hang'ers on are winning, since Dweezil's is more interested in playing than worrying about anything else.
 
For this reason, I think that Dweezil needs to life the proverbial MAD finger in the next album and say, that his music is now number one, and that the ZFT is no longer going to gain a single cent from his own work and such. At that point, the ZFT's ability to keep the music moving forward, will fail ... and lose a lot since they are not folks that know "public" and "people" and they are only interested in alienating those not "behind them".
 
It's their choice ... it's their trust. In my book they do not see the forest for the trees or how many trees even makes a forest! Likewise, we have dumb issues ... my mom trusted someone to publish this and that, and a year later when the book came out ... you should have seen the list of dirty laundry ... and some of my sisters were not happy, and I would have filed a lawsuit to re-establish the trust and nail that book to the bathroom TP rack!
 
As I said, one of the saddest things is ... every house and every country has a GOD and the children don't mean poop ... and sometimes, even writing it here, is sad ... there will be another post that ignores it and spreads even more poop on it. Sympathy not necessary, but a little respect would be nice, and there is none more often than not! Even for what is personal and has nothing to do with the intellect of the .... whatever!
 
So tired of it all!