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Old 03-04-2012, 03:25 PM   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by blastingas10 View Post
I don't think he was on Zappa's level of genius.
Zappa did withhold quite the level of musical intelligence, but Beefheart's creativity aspired to that same level of ingenuity. Zappa still used song structure in most of his works, but Beefheart abandoned that post entirely.
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