Saturday morning, residents of Hawaii received an alert of incoming missiles, with a tag that "this is not a drill." Panic ensued, and it was 38 minutes before the news followed that it was a false alarm. How did it happen? The explanation was that an employee pushed the wrong button. There is speculation that it was an option in a drop-down menu. The video above is an easy explanation, because it's happened to all of us. -via reddit
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And there you go. Musicians are a minority. Frank Zappa is known to the vast majority who know him at all as a singer.
Sure he was a guitarist, a political activist, a composer and other things too. He was a multi-talented and multi-faceted gent, but ask most people what he was and they will say "singer" or maybe just "Frank Who?"
Arnie kinda beat me to it (the Zappa thing), but to expand a little bit: Frank Zappa is probably most well-known as an incredibly inventive and technical guitarist, at least among musicians. he was writing "prog rock" stuff before that genre was really a "thing", and Dweezil Zappa has been doing his "Zappa Plays Zappa" project for a few years now. Dweezil said he had to study and practice his dad's music for two years before he even put his touring band together, because it's so complicated!
Frank also wrote a lot of, um, "unique" lyrics, which he's also well-known for. while i'd consider Frank a good singer, that was probably most done out of necessity, to get his lyrics across.
so yeah, Frank was a composer, first and foremost; it was probably just a useful convenience that he could sing well, although his voice wasn't particularly unique (meaning that i doubt many people could identify Frank by his voice alone, especially compared to singers who have extremely identifiable voices, like Geddy Lee or Johnny Cash or Elvis.)
two more quick Frank Zappa fun facts: he actually appeared in the beginning of an episode of The Monkee's tv show (as himself), although his intro didn't really have anything to do with the episode at all. and despite popular belief, Frank actually didn't do ANY drugs at all!
I think what Dendoica means (and I could be wrong) is that Frank Zappa was also a composer. Just about any song you hear of his, he completely wrote the music, lyrics, etc.
I'm a fan of his and really familiar with his work but a lot of times I think of him as a singer because he is usually the main singer. So you're both right.
Also, I'm a fan of your talent. You've got great comedic timing.
I am definitely not an expert on Frank Zappa.
I did a voice-over gig once with Dweezel and I also did one with Moon Unit, his kids, they were both great.
But I thought Frank Zappa was a singer.
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That's almost as bad as an Elizabeethan era reviewer talking about part-time actor William Shakespeare.
I've certainly heard that said of the movies sudden ending.