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Thread started 03/23/07 1:20pm

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Frank Zappa. Ruth Is Sleeping.

Now this is art. Yes, this is a piece written by the late Zappa. Haunting, brilliant.

http://youtube.com/watch?...ed&search=
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Reply #1 posted 03/23/07 1:33pm

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It was the first piece that I tried on the Synclavier. (...) It dates from around '82-'83. It sat around for a number of years until the Roland Digital Piano became available (...). When I heard that, I did some more work on it, and printed out the sheet music for it. There's a version for solo piano which is very, very, very difficult, and there's this version, for two pianos, which is less difficult, but still hard. Ali [N. Askin] took the version for one piano, and since he is a piano player, worked out the fingering positions and the ways to split up the solo piano version for two players. (...) The title derives from the fact that sometimes during rehearsal of the '72-'73 band, while I was giving instructions to other members of the group, Ruth Underwood would curl up underneath the marimba and go to sleep.

~Frank Zappa



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Reply #2 posted 03/23/07 1:59pm

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Yea, yea, but did you like it? lol
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Reply #3 posted 03/23/07 2:00pm

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Prince needs to work on the Synclaviar. Enough of that cheesy sound.
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Reply #4 posted 03/23/07 2:37pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

Yea, yea, but did you like it? lol

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If I didn't like I wouldn't waste time contributing to your thread. cool


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Reply #5 posted 03/24/07 12:01pm

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The Audience kicks ass. woot!
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Reply #6 posted 03/24/07 1:25pm

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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all."
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