TommyJay:

I heard that as synth. Hard to say. According to wiki:
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Ian Underwood — keyboards, flute, saxophone, clarinet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_en_Regalia
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Everyone else, including Zappa, are playing rhythm. So Underwood is carrying the whole melody/harmony load himself.

After Underwood left Zappa, he went on to a helluva studio session career on keyboard.

Zappa was quite demanding. Musicians with a Zappa cred usually did OK.

As to boring music, I have a friend whose Pandora algos must be something else. The music sounds modern but there is NO MELODY. People are just doing the lyrics, dragging out the vowels, with some kind of musical backup which has no connection to the singer. Yeah, they go up a couple of notes, down, here and there. Thinking about leaving the concert whistling a new song…it is to laugh.

And I’ve heard the same kind of thing in department stores and various other places in bits and pieces.

There’s a lot I don’t get and this is one more.

Now, if the Bee Gees had done MacArthur Park….

That is a lovely rendition of “And I Love Her” from Metheny! Those middle period Beatles melodies, before Revolver-Pepper, could be so amazing and touching.

And that actually is Santa Fe Plaza, though radically transformed into a movie set. I haven’t seen “Fandango.” I might have to get to it. I think Kevin Costner does his job as a Hollywood leading man.

My sister looped on a Pat Metheny album to get through a hideously hard statistics project.

Even though it’s not the best representation of the above, in honor of huxley’s love of the Beatles, here is “And I Love Her” by Metheny. I’d never heard it before, but it is very nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYcZ6s3z1jg

This one is Metheny’s music used as a score for an early Kevin Costner film “Fandango”. It’s a wedding scene supposedly set in Santa Fe’s Plaza (probably isn’t). Metheny really likes synth. and reverb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaU94SXj9Y

–Frank Zappa, “Peaches en Regalia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQKP3Ehucg

Zappa wins the monster musical talent award for doing all of it — rock, classical, jazz, R&B, doo-wop — at a high professional level. He seems to taught himself *everything*.

He released 62 albums.

I’ll check the Paul interviews. Behind the boyish exterior and silly love songs there’s one fiercely burning talent.

Sir Paul even has a classical catalog:

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mccartney/guides/paul-mccartney-classical-works-guide/

I’ve heard his “Ecce Cor Meum” and it sounds like good classical music to me.