What is art, what is rock music? It's difficult to describe its codes, its gestures, its aestethics and its perception but for the most part it can be experienced only, and only as an expression of our culture -- being in a movement of constant restlessness and mirroring all graspable parts of society. How can the feverish emptiness of endlessly repeated ecstasy be transformed into something that can be sensed, something heard and seen and be paid for? After all, this music is not qualified through the consciousness of its creator but through the states of mind created by its perceptors.
Frank Zappa expressed it in 1974 when Fido (a 'modified dog'?), was questioned about "conceptual Continuity" and answered thus: "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(')" ('Stinkfoot').
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