Frank Zappa interview from The Cutting Edge

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Ahmet Ertegun?

Probably not. Zappa had so much respect for Ertegun that he named one of his sons after him. But he was the type of record executive will to release things that he didn't completely understand, and was willing to stand by music that he believed in and give an artist more than a single chance.

Albert Grossman, the founder of Bearsville Records, probably fit that stereotype more closely, but still allowed artists to experiment and even fail.

I was just wondering because I knew FZ had a lot of respect for him and that Ahmet Zappa is named after him. I have a documentary about Yes and Jerry Greenberg talks about Mr. Ertegun on it, and he tells a story about when he brought the idea of releasing a Muppets album on Atlantic, and Ahmet let him do it even though he had no idea what it was. I only asked because FZ's impression of whoever is similar to Greenberg's impression of Ahmet.

yes its great that you can choose to not only listen to what the record companies want you to listen to but the internet is also destroying the art form of music when its so easy to get it people dont have the same respect for it as they deserve

We are in the Information Age right now. The fact that someone can produce a CD for a couple thousand dollars and make it accessible to the masses is a good thing. There is more variety in music now then there ever has been.

I posted that comment 4 months ago but im willing to rehash this conversation. Executives are less relevant now.

who the fuck censured this....didn't they learn anything from Zappa?!?!?

good post

I wonder what Frank would have thought of Hipsterfork.

No no it's cool haha. I was just saying that Frank would have loved Dan, maybe not his music. But as far as what he's doing. And they're lyrics are pretty similar too in some respects. I'm just saying as far as youtube and myspace go, Frank Zappa would be in love with this era because music is so accessible and the man behind the desk saying, "Eh, no one will listen to this! I won't produce it!" No longer has as big of a say. I like Dan Deacon, but after 3-4 songs my ears start bleeding. haha.

That would be my critique of him as well, his songs are so poorly mixed, and they're almost proudly poorly mixed, I don't think he ever met a digitally produced track he didn't like. And his whole appearance of big loud bright colors remind me of my hipster kids I know but would rather not hang out with.