What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

@lewm I suggest you get a copy of The Yellow Shark. There are also re releases of Hot Rats and Uncle Meat out now. These predate the Flo and Eddie era when his performances started getting R ratings. If you care to see a live performance get the DVD  ROXY The Movie. This features what I think is one of his most gifted small units including George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Ralph Humphry. If you like drums and percussion in a jazz like setting you will really like this. 
I mentioned frank Zappa in relation to Staying Alive from Saturday Night Fever because he perpetually made fun of Disco music.

Raul, I afraid you are very wrong about this. We know a lot more than you think about the human brain and we are learning more every minute. Because of the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease there has been an explosion of research over the past 10 years. I have been to three conferences on exactly this subject. You will see the benefits of this in medical practice shortly. I am talking from experience. You are not. Yu are making assumptions which are outdated.

Listening to music in a dark room (all lights off) is the same as listening with your eyes closed, no visual distraction. In many situations it is difficult to turn all the lights off. Or I'm just being lazy and don't want to get up and turn off the lights. In Collage we use to get stoned, turn off all the lights and listen to stuff like Tubular Bells. Actually, I think I was tripping once.

He listen with eyes open in a dark room,

I listen eye open half time only and not in a complete dark room... There is a thin light that make me able to spot location between me and the room disposition...

I only speak about my experience here not science at all...

I oberved that eyes opened completely with this information about the body location the link between the music imaging in particular is modified, in some way improved in relation with the perceiving body then in a different space than the purely musical dimension...more a sound space for the perceiving body than a musical space in itself...

But closing the eyes increase timbre perception for me make the imaging emerging in his own musical space with no more so direct reference to the perceptive body....More a pure consciousness perception...more music than sound...If it make sense...

I like the 2 ways.....

But i prefer to listen always in a dark room, with orange thin light diffusing his aural atmosphere.... I use himalayan salt lamps...I will not say here that the salt crystal "OBJECTIVELY" improves at peanuts cost the atmosphere of listening but it improves it even if it is in a hypnotic and placebo way..... Test is simple place them near speakers listen and remove them.... Here is one of my experiment that i can not be sure if it is placebo or not but the effect is there.... Placebo is also a TOOL to use by wise doctor... But the improvement is there illusory or not....Myjostyn will be happy with this example.... 😁 i give him some help the poor....

«We are learning more every minute. "Then" You are making assumptions which are outdated.»-Groucho Marx

« I am outdated myself saying so. »-Groucho Marx

lewm,
All of his silly (but clever) lyrics aside, Frank Zappa was very creative and loved to move out in different directions and try different things. Try some early things like Freak Out, or them later like Overnight Sensation. A        more instrumental album that is a real keeper is The Grand Wazoo. I listen to it frequently. 
Frank was really smart about one thing from the beginning of his career, much like Ian Anderson and Ozzy Osbourne, he always surrounded himself with top talent, like Ruth Underwood, and always great drummers like Aynsley Dunbar and Ralph Humphrey.

@mijostyn : "  Listening to music in a dark room (all lights off) is the same as listening with your eyes closed  "

No, is way different because our eyes adapted very fast to the dark room and then we will " see ".

Yes, I can be out dated but even that and even your information you don't answer yet where is the electrical source of the human been, not neuro-transmitters or nervous terminations and the like but the electrical source: from where is developed.

In the other side: eyes open or eyes close is not what determines what we listen and we listen " sounds " generated by music instruments that produce pressure waves in the air and that's what we perceives.

R.