Moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Bootlegs were a lot more important in those days ... because the radio waves did not play Frank's music, and it wasn't until "Overnight Sensation" that it started getting played a bit more.
In Santa Barbara, just to give you an idea, the FCC had old ladies planted to count how many bad words and bad music was played, so they could turn it in and hurt the rock station KTYD. In Los angeles, I seriously doubted that KMET and/or KLOS violated the standards at all ... but I hear that Jim Ladd got in trouble for playing the "Money" that was not censored (missing the word on the radio version albums!), even though KLOS was, apparently, not fined for it, more than once!
All in all, too much of the earlier stuff is really not quite playable on radio, and it is much better suited for today's wide open Internet streaming, where you can hear these things that people are talking about ... In 1975 you COULDN'T. It's important to remember that.
I would like to hear that band ... someday ... I specially was extremelly disappointed that on a night that they are sharing the stage with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty and Lenny White, that ZPZ was not very good and they sound poor and not with it, as if DZ was trying to do things on his own and the band was not with it. A Band like the one that you are talking about, has a lot more to fight for, from musicianship, to a very caring appreciation for the artist ... to many other things, because any other comparison, would mean they are shit! ZPZ ... doesn't compare very well, and I find that the direction is way too focused on Dweezil, who is not as open and talented as his father was ... and we can not compare him to Frank! And shouldn't!
Oh gosh yes, Cadillacs were quite the thing. But of course Sammy Kaye was popular in the swing community.