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Re: Charles Ulrich's The Big Note

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Subject: Re: Charles Ulrich's The Big Note
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by: Dixon - Thu, 5 Oct 2023 10:05 UTC

On Monday, 23 August 2021 at 16:24:58 UTC+1, Bice wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 23:21:37 GMT, eich...@comcastsucks.net (Bice)
> wrote:
> >
> >I finally got around to buying a copy of Charles Ulrich's book, "The
> >Big Note - A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa".
> I read about and listened to Apostrophe and Baby Snakes over the
> weekend, and since I had the day off today I read the chapter on The
> Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life while listening to the CDs this
> morning.
>
> The most interesting bit that I learned about BBYNHIYL is the section
> of The Torture Never Stops Part 1 from 3:03-4:56 quotes the theme
> songs from a bunch of old TV shows: I Love Lucy, My Three Sons,
> Mission Impossible and The Addams Family. I'm pretty sure I had
> caught the Mission Imposible reference before, but somehow I had never
> noticed the other three. I'm particularly embarrased about never
> noticing the Addams Family quotes before - that's one of my all time
> favorite TV shows, I even own the whole series on DVD.
>
> It was also interesting to read about all the edits and quotes in The
> Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue. Trying to put it all in order while
> listening to the track was like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
>
> Lots of quotes from Keneally posts in a.f.f-z in that chapter. I
> actually remember reading some of those posts back in the day.
>
> -- Bob
Funny, I just started reading the book with the intention of doing the same. The group was mentioned in the acknowledgments and I haven't looked in on usenet/Google Groups in donkeys years so I came to see. I feel like a baton is being handed on...

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Charles Ulrich's The Big Note	Dixon