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   Message 39,141 of 39,879   
   Les Cargill to Martin Gregorie   
   Re: What would Frank Think Now...?????   
   15 May 18 17:07:09   
   
   From: lcargill99@comcast.com   
      
   Martin Gregorie wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:05:44 -0500, Les Cargill wrote:   
   >   
   >> Bill wrote:   
   >>> The old geezer  wrote:   
   >>>> 1982 -  Rock star Frank Zappa announced he wouldn't tour Europe   
   >>>> because it was "too expensive and too Violent."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> TOG   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> 2019 - I’m sending my hologram out on tour while I work in my basement.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   > FZ seemed to get such a buzz from performing live that I can't see him   
   > sending out a hologrammic replica.   
   >   
      
   True. Frank more resigned as a bandleader than quit touring.   
      
   >>>   
   >> Seriously - he should have sent Dweezil - as long as the seals on   
   >> Dweezil's ego could take it.   
   >>   
   >> ZPZ has been a nice thing.   
   >   
   > Agreed - wish they'd play the Cambridge Corn Exchange again.   
   >   
   > As for the hologrammic thing, I'd far rather see a bunch of pretty good   
   > musicians jamming with another pretty good musician than miming to a   
   > hologram, no matter how good the musician in the hologram wuz.   
   >   
      
   it's become a world of cardboard cutouts...   
      
   > I'm currently listening to "Dizzie on the French Riviera" - a wonderful   
   > album. I wish I'd been at the recording session but wouldn't want to   
   > watch a film of it even if one existed.   
   >   
   >   
      
   --   
   Les Cargill   
      
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