One of the best damn guitar instrumentals ever

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. A lot of people lose sight of how good of a player Zappa was because of his famous off-beat humor

and general "weirdness." But yeah, that's some amazing playing right there from one of the all-time greats.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Zappa's play was highly cerebral.

And you’re right about his being misunderstood because of lyrical topics. No one could play better. His life ended way too early.

[Eko]

3. Eh,

Zappa was great, but one of the best guitar instrumentals ever, no not really. His constant use of the minor pentatonic scale is kind of like saying the same five words just in a different way the whole time. I enjoy his music, Zappa guitar is one of my favorite 20 albums, but its not in the level of tons of other guitarists. I just get bored with the same 5 tones all of the time, sorry. This is one of the best guitar instrumentals ever in my opinion, but opinions are like,,,,,,,,,,

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Haha John McLaughlin... the guy could play!

[Eko]

6. Shoot,

he is still out there playing and rocking it, he just did a tour with my favorite guitarist and previous teacher Jimmy Herring recently that rocked!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Nice!! Still miss Jimi though... in a league all his own.

[malthaussen]

9. I'll still go with Rory Gallagher...

... but rating guitarists is a mug's game (although technical skill can be objectively rated).

-- Mal

[bif]

10. Saw John a couple months ago

The guy can still play!

[ProgRocknProgPol]

5. Loving these posts! Zappa was one of the greats.

His son Dweezil also makes fantastic music.

[light Worker]

8. Zappa sure came a long way from his first TV appearance here (what a hoot!)...

[Codeine]

11. Good stuff! But it's hard to beat Maggot Brain.