{"id":190,"date":"2006-02-23T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-02-23T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T16:06:46","slug":"fz-free-zone-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/23\/fz-free-zone-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"FZ Free-Zone (Almost)&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, you can&#8217;t get <strong>Frank Zappa<\/strong> recordings for free in OKC, you can&#8217;t find them (almost)&#8230;.  A friend asked me to do some guitar work on a version of &#8220;<em>Montana<\/em>&#8221; he did and I couldn&#8217;t find my CD copy of &#8220;<strong>Over-nite Sensation<\/strong>&#8221; anywhere (My Vinyl copy is in storage and would probably take months to dig-out), so, I thought, just a quick trip to any music store, no problem&#8230;..  Well, five stores later, I found one lonely copy at the second <em>Best Buy<\/em> store I visited&#8230;.  <strong>FZ<\/strong> recorded around 60 albums in his short career and the most I found at any location was five!&#8230;.  Target didn&#8217;t even have any rock albums that started with &#8220;Z&#8221;&#8230;..  Wal-Mart faired better with a &#8220;<strong>Warren Zavon<\/strong>&#8221; album&#8230;..  CD Warehouse had one copy of &#8220;<strong>Freak-Out<\/strong>&#8220;&#8230;.  As you might imagine, <strong>FZ<\/strong> air-play is zero in the OKC zone&#8230;.  Pretty Damn sad as I consider him second only to <strong>Hendrix<\/strong> in guitar playing and originality&#8230;.  &#8220;<em>I Gotta Get Outta This Place<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>For your enjoyment, here are two original <strong>FZ<\/strong> stick-on passes&#8230;.  The &#8220;<strong>Them or Us<\/strong>&#8221; is a paper after show guest pass and the &#8220;<strong>Vets Memorial<\/strong>&#8221; is a fabric backstage pass&#8230;.  In my collection, unused and preserved for us <strong>FZ<\/strong> fans&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/fzbackstage.jpg' alt='Frank Zappa' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, you can&#8217;t get Frank Zappa recordings for free in OKC, you can&#8217;t find them (almost)&#8230;. A friend asked me to do some guitar work on a version of &#8220;Montana&#8221; he did and I couldn&#8217;t find my CD copy of &#8220;Over-nite Sensation&#8221; anywhere (My Vinyl copy is in storage and would probably take months to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}