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Off duty for the next nine days. It is great. More time for music...
While walking home across the lake I pondered the following words:
"... to help the next poor sucker on this one way trip." (FZ)
That is the kind of a thougth I like. It may be that there is some sort of truth buried within those words. For me it is very important to try to help 'the next poor sucker...' But ! Is life a one way trip or is it round and round, birth after birth or back and forth something? And in jumps religion, ideology or what ever one keeps his/hers solid foundation... ( And in the world of physics rock or anything else may not be so solid.) Ideological differences make us quarrel, make us go to war. ( Though it's also because of power, glory, greed, world dominion...) Sometimes ideologies, our choices of the world view, may make us do good things to each other. Sometimes they make us evil. ( What is evil is an other question...) Ideologies war with each other and suddenly we don't do no good things to 'the next poor sucker'.
Frank Zappa was somewhat a controversial man. His thougths in his lyrics were not always nice. He saw the world from a different angle, from a different point of reference. I think he tried to say things the way the persons in his lyrics said - the way he imagined them to think, to act etc. He was not the person of his songs. He was an actor and had some fun. Or was he a scientist studying all the weird, wonderful and funny ways we people think and act...? The line above is a very good example of a seemingly simple but deep and important thougth. And in that sense it was propably not acting or a result of vivid imagination. Maybe he saw the world so that we should try to help each other... But I like Frank Zappa especially because of his instrumental music. He was one of those rare - very rare- people playing mostly rock-oriented music, who could write valid compositions for a whole symphony orchestra. So many rock musicians can't even read music... (Though this is more and more not so in Finnland because of the very good music education system.)
Juha H.
While walking home across the lake I pondered the following words:
"... to help the next poor sucker on this one way trip." (FZ)
That is the kind of a thougth I like. It may be that there is some sort of truth buried within those words. For me it is very important to try to help 'the next poor sucker...' But ! Is life a one way trip or is it round and round, birth after birth or back and forth something? And in jumps religion, ideology or what ever one keeps his/hers solid foundation... ( And in the world of physics rock or anything else may not be so solid.) Ideological differences make us quarrel, make us go to war. ( Though it's also because of power, glory, greed, world dominion...) Sometimes ideologies, our choices of the world view, may make us do good things to each other. Sometimes they make us evil. ( What is evil is an other question...) Ideologies war with each other and suddenly we don't do no good things to 'the next poor sucker'.
Frank Zappa was somewhat a controversial man. His thougths in his lyrics were not always nice. He saw the world from a different angle, from a different point of reference. I think he tried to say things the way the persons in his lyrics said - the way he imagined them to think, to act etc. He was not the person of his songs. He was an actor and had some fun. Or was he a scientist studying all the weird, wonderful and funny ways we people think and act...? The line above is a very good example of a seemingly simple but deep and important thougth. And in that sense it was propably not acting or a result of vivid imagination. Maybe he saw the world so that we should try to help each other... But I like Frank Zappa especially because of his instrumental music. He was one of those rare - very rare- people playing mostly rock-oriented music, who could write valid compositions for a whole symphony orchestra. So many rock musicians can't even read music... (Though this is more and more not so in Finnland because of the very good music education system.)
Juha H.
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