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 Post subject: Racist Joe
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Down in France z what's your favorite African American Zappa song
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JPD stole Brown Moses from me. He obviously hacked into my drafts.


...So I'll go with Dirty Love
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JPD stole Brown Moses from me. He obviously hacked into my drafts.

I did not!
The NSA posted it on their "of national concern" website.

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Ha!

Dirty Love is a better song anyway. But not necessarily better for this mysterious topic.
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downer mydnyte wrote:
Ha!

Dirty Love is a better song anyway. But not necessarily better for this mysterious topic.

I always thought Dirty Love was a song about poodles not black people. :?
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KUIII
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Village of the Sun is about Sun Village, CA a predominantly black community near where Zappa was living in Lancaster. Johnny Franklin, who is namechecked in the song, was an African-American who was in an early Zappa band (the Blackouts, I believe). The “Stumblers” mentioned in the song were old, drunk black guys (possibly homeless?) that could be found there.
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downer mydnyte
 Post subject: Re: Racist Joe
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KUIII wrote:
downer mydnyte wrote:
Ha!

Dirty Love is a better song anyway. But not necessarily better for this mysterious topic.

I always thought Dirty Love was a song about poodles not black people. :?

Maybe the thread topic could have been more specific...
Snakemo wrote:
what's your favorite African American Zappa song

Dirty Love is performed with African Americans.
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downer mydnyte wrote:
KUIII wrote:
downer mydnyte wrote:
Ha!

Dirty Love is a better song anyway. But not necessarily better for this mysterious topic.

I always thought Dirty Love was a song about poodles not black people. :?

Maybe the thread topic could have been more specific...
Snakemo wrote:
what's your favorite African American Zappa song

Dirty Love is performed with African Americans.

Not trying to start a fight, but probably at least half of the Zappa catolog was performed with black musicians regardless of style or lyrical content.
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Plook
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Could Jimmie Carl Black be considered a black musician?
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you are what you is (a brilliant zappa word: appropriot, as in "appropriate" as in proper as well as in the sense of "to take", combined with griot--)
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downer mydnyte
 Post subject: Re: Racist Joe
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KUIII wrote:
Not trying to start a fight, but probably at least half of the Zappa catolog was performed with black musicians regardless of style or lyrical content.

Yes, I know. Why would that start a fight? Is Dirty Love not black enough for you? Is that it?

The author of this thread never specified that it was for Zappa lyrics about African Americans. The music for Dirty Love has a pronounced African influence.
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