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Frank Zappa Exposing the illuminati. Frank Zappa's Vault. Zappa delighted in breaking new ground in sound. Frank Zappa in 1975. Photo courtesy Ryko/Doug Metzler, 1975 By Todd Whitesel By the time I got turned onto Frank Zappa’s music in 1985, the guitarist/composer had already released more than three dozen albums. My first exposure to Zappa was a vinyl copy of “Zappa In New York,” a double-LP of live material recorded in December 1976. I was fascinated by the arrangements of tunes, such as “Manx Needs Women” and “The Purple Lagoon/Approximate.”
Zappa was a pioneering artist in many ways. He was also a pioneer in sound. “I remember Frank was also as meticulous about sound as he was about his music,” recording engineer Bernie Grundman said. “A Movie For Your Ears” By the time Zappa began recording the tracks for “Hot Rats” in mid-1969, he was already a seasoned producer with nearly a decade of experience behind him. The demise of quadraphonic music was like so many high-res formats that followed. In the liner notes, Dweezil Zappa recalls discovering the tape. Audio photograph? Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - The Suites | Mixed Meters. On Wednesday October 23 the Los Angeles Philharmonic performed Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - The Suites, an event marking Disney Hall's tenth anniversary. It was an elaborately staged, spare-no-expense, more-than-ninety-minute concert version for soloists, actors, chorus and massive orchestra. It was exceptionally well done. It was great fun. It was like a rock and roll concert.
Sadly, however, it was sold out and one night only. I'd like to thank the Philharmonic, and especially conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and also Chad Smith, Philharmonic VP for Artistic Planning who shepherded this project from the beginning, for allowing me to observe all the orchestra rehearsals. Gail Zappa, Frank's widow, and her team, also deserve thanks for putting Frank's music into a performable format. I haven't been so excited about a live music event in a very long time. The action is seen through the eyes of a touring rock band. Yes, the action in 200 Motels is completely self-referential. 200 Motels? Great Guitar Solos, #2: Frank Zappa. Unbeknownst to many conventional minds, Frank Zappa was a multi-faceted national treasure. Zappa the mad scientist composer moved freely between rock, doo-wop, fusion, reggae, and orchestral music. Zappa the social satirist skewered everything from Flower Power to televangelism to the valley girl patois.
Zappa the indie label founder produced highly original albums by Wildman Fischer and Captain Beefheart that otherwise never would have seen the light of day. Zappa the activist spoke out against record labeling before Congress and jousted with a frothing fundy on a famous episode of "Crossfire. " Zappa the world citizen was appointed cultural emissary to Czechoslovakia in the middle of the Velvet Revolution. And Zappa the lead guitarist was a force to be reckoned with. Over the course of 25 years, Frank Zappa's hot leads graced a sprawling catalog which included the strictly instrumental "Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar" series and the fretboard-heavy "Guitar. " Where some solos (e.g. Zappa delighted in breaking new ground in sound. FRANK ZAPPA-MOTHERS... DIRECTLY FROM MY HEART TO YOU. Little Richard - Directly From My Heart To You. Frank Zappa - Palladium, NYC 1978-10-31 (full concert)
Frank Zappa OUTTAKES You Are What You Is (unissued different versions) Frank Zappa. Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar. Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize.
Early life[edit] Synclavier[edit] Frank Zappa - Mudshark variations. Frank Zappa - I'm Losing Status at the High School (1963) Frank Zappa - More Trouble Every Day - From "A Token Of His Extreme" Training Of 1975. Frank Zappa's A Token Of His Extreme Finally Being Released ::Zappa News ::antiMusic.com. Frank Zappa created a TV program called "A Token Of His Extreme" during the summer of 1974 and at long last the program will be released for the very first time commercially on June 4th by Eagle Rock. Zappa appeared on the Mike Douglas Show in 1976 and had this to say about the program, "This was put together with my own money and my own time and it's been offered to television networks and to syndication and it has been steadfastly rejected by the American television industry. It has been shown in primetime in France and Switzerland, with marvelous results. "It's probably one of the finest pieces of video work that any human being has ever done.
I did it myself. Kayos sent over these details: The program was recorded on August 27, 1974 at KCET in Hollywood and feature Zappa on guitar, percussion, vocals; George Duke—keyboards, finger cymbals, tambourine, vocals; Napoleon Murphy Brock—sax, vocals; Ruth Underwood—percussion; Tom Fowler—bass; Chester Thompson—drums. ...end. Frank Zappa - What's My Line, TV Appearance 1971.
Frank Zappa Montreux 1971 (the famous concert with the fire) Tuva’s Videos. Frank Zappa jamin with Johnny Guitar Watson and Friends. Joe's Corsage. The story of the . . . the music of the Mothers is the story of, uh . . . a combination of what I knew about music from . . . from my studies plus the musical capabilites of the players in the group as I found them, you know, which had . . . .
Somewhere along the line, I had to teach them a lot of what they didn't know about music. I started out playing rhythm & blues when I was about 14 or 15 years old in San Diego. And, uh . . . I was playing nothing but blues 'til I was 18 and, you know, I was really honking and I started out playing drums with a band and got tired of listening to other people's guitar solos.
So . . . eventually I started hearing a little folk music. The original guys in the band had been brought up on nothing but rhythm & blues. Interviewer: When . . . when is this that you're talking about exactly? Two years ago. In '65? Yeah. And we got to town, we expected to find all kinds of, you know . . . uh, all the bands gotta be really far-out.
The Grandmothers of Invention. Frank Zappa plays The Beatles (27/2/88 soundcheck & concert audio) Frank Zappa: Biggest Threat To USA Is A 'Fascist Theocracy' (video) Frank Zappa Late Night with David Letterman August 10, 1982. (88) Mothers Of Invention. 2012: What We Knew and When We Knew It. (or: What We Knew and When We Knew It) In August 2012, the unthinkable happened: the Zappa catalog got reissued again, and this site suddenly had a renewed purpose. The first question on everybody's mind is "do I need any of these new CDs? " The individual album pages will eventually contain in-depth answers. Here, however, you'll find your one stop shop for quick and pithy answers...in two formats, no less: First, a handy-dandy set of tables (well, err, one for now). Second, a list! In general, the albums worth repurchasing are ones that are new analog transfers, plus "Them or Us.
" Note that the 2012 compilation, "Understanding America," does not use the 2012 audio; instead, it's a mishmash of older variations. Warning: Some of this content is still speculative, and it is ever evolving. What You Need and Why: The Table (Assuming Ownership of the 1995 Rykodisc Remasters) Album-by-Album List Legend: Green means buy.
Frank Zappa - 1970 A Snail In My Nose. Frank Zappa (VIDEO) Uncle Meat (the movie) FRANK ZAPPA: THE COMPLETE LIVE NEW YORK PALLADIUM 1981. Frank Zappa & The Grand Wazoo Orchestra (1972-09-10 Hollywood Bowl) Frank Zappa (VIDEO) Mondo Hollywood (movie) Frank Zappa - 1991.06.30 - Bucsu Festival, Budapert, Hongrie (My Gypsy Friend) Frank Zappa - 1991.06.30 - Bucsu Festival, Budapert, Hongrie MP3 | 128 kbp/s | 25:28 Min | 31.6 MbGenre: Progressive Rock | Rare bootleg My Gypsy Friend ("limited edition" CD-R :) * Taban, Budapest, 30-Jun-1991 Length: 25:28 Label: Stink Foot Disc SFD CD 010 Musicians: The band of Gynla Babos, Frank Zappa and Gabor Demsky 1. Introduction (00:48) 2. Recorded on an open-air stage near Budapest in June 1991, at a concert to celebrate the exodus of Soviet troops from Hungary (as seen on the TV documentary Zappa Pest).
Track 1 has Zappa's aquaintance Gabor Demsky, mayor of Budapest, introducing him, and tracks 2-3 have Zappa jamming on guitar with the Gypsy band of Gynla Babos. The boot itself is a preposterous limited edition CD-R. IINK. We're Only In It For The Money. Hey Punk, where you goin' with that flower in your hand? Well, I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band. I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band. Hey Punk, where you goin' with that button on your shirt? I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play my bongos in the dirt. Yes, I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play my bongos in the dirt.
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that on your head? I'm goin' to the dance to get some action, then I'm goin' home to bed. Hey Punk, where you goin' with those beads around your neck? I'm goin' to the so he can help me be a nervous wreck . . . Hey Punk! {*style:<i>(Hey Punk!) Hey Punk! {*style:<i> Punky! (Hey Punk!) Hey-hey! Go man, go . . . go man, go . . . Just a little bit softer Punk, I think I love you! {*style:<i>Come on, Roy Questi dominga?
{*style:<i>Let me see that nose, it didn't . . . Orale! I wanna know for sure! {*style:<i>Leave my nose alone please! What are you trying to do? He's gonna stand over there Bigashi' nunga! But this is Cheetah Buirote Ay! Frank Zappa “2012 AAAFNRAA: The Complete Baby Snakes Soundtrack” now avaiable on iTunes | Music News. Frank Zappa - 1979 - Baby Snakes complete soundtrack. Frank Zappa - 1979 - Baby Snakes complete soundtrack MP3 | 192 Kbp/s | 2:50:26 Hours | 235 Mb (82+82+71)Genre: Progressive Rock | (MP3 ripped from DVD) Baby Snakes Amazon.com Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal," Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City (a zany enough proceeding in its own right) with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford, with whose work Zappa was obviously smitten.
Onstage, Zappa is a live wire, the audience is appropriately rambunctious, and the band--an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention--is tight as could be. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants lack any trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Release information & comments Bonus: Also appearing on a TV screen during the animation sequence: George Duke Ruth Underwood Napoleon Murphy Brock.
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. Vol. 1-6 [Purple Box] (1995) {Rykodisc} [combined re-up] You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 1 (1988) Volume one kicks off with a "field recording" of Flo and Eddie in a Florida airport, talking about nearly throwing up on stage. What a way to begin a marathon live set. After that we finally get part of the Sofa mini-rock-opera, but not as much as appears on the Swiss Cheese / Fire boot. The Mammy Anthem is a rippin' instrumental version of Thing Fish's Mammy Nuns. The second disc of volume one begins with a version of Plastic People that makes it very, very clear that the song is based on Louie, Louie. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 2 (1988) Volume two features a complete performance by the lineup of FZ, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler and Chester Thompson.
By the time this band got to Helsinki, they had been playing together for quite a while, so they were able to blow through these songs with amazing speed and precision. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 3 (1989) Disc two is much better. Rock Prophecy. The night that cable-TV's Arts & Entertainment channel aired a re-broadcast of Biography, an hour-long show on the late Frank Zappa, last January 1995, I was rather busy and video taping this documentary slipped my mind. But a friend of mine flipped on his VCR in time. What he captured (gasp!) Is one of the most bizarre bits of Hendrixia ever seen. My friend had read the Jerry Schatzberg interview in UniVibes #15 (p. 5) about the photo session for Zappa's We 're Only In It For The Money album. "Instead of flowers and wonderful dreams," said photographer Schatzberg, "Frank wanted garbage and old food and what you see around on the floor.
" "I went to the Village, man, I found out the streets weren't paved with gold, there aren't no gold streets in New York, there's just a whole lot of old banana peels layin' around, that's all. " - Jimi The Schatzberg shoot was done in New York's Village on July 18, 1967. The entire scene flashes by in ten seconds with a Zapruder-like eeriness. Ray Collins, singer and Mothers of Invention co-founder, dies. Related story: Please greet Ray Collins, Claremont's own Mother Column: Ray Collins, a gifted musician and wayward soul Ray Collins, the singer who hired Frank Zappa to join the Pomona band that became the Mothers of Invention, died Monday at age 75.
A Pomona native and Claremont resident, Collins was admitted to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on Dec. 18 after a massive heart attack. He had been in a medically induced coma until Saturday, when he was taken off life support. Collins sang with various local bands after leaving Pomona High School in 1956. In need of a guitarist, he suggested Zappa, whom he had met in 1961 and who lived in Ontario and Cucamonga. Collins sang lead on some tracks of that album as well as 1967's "Absolutely Free" and "Cruising With Ruben and the Jets" from 1968. "Too much comedy, too much making fun of stuff," Collins said in an interview in 2009.
For his work with the band he received a small settlement from Zappa and moved to Claremont in 1991. Frank Zappa baby snakes _09 - 21 december 1979.mpg. FRANK ZAPPA - BABY SNAKES. Sound Colour Vibration - Frank Zappa: Trudgin' Across the Tundra. Zappa singer Ray Collins in Hospital and in a Coma. DAVID ALLEN: No need to dress for meal out; staff doesn't. EVER WANTED to see the employees at Molly's Souper in their pajamas? Perhaps the thought had never occurred to you. It hadn't to me, but that's what I encountered when I sat down to lunch Wednesday in the Upland eatery: women and men in flannel PJs waiting on customers and busing tables.
Until Christmas, that's how they're dressing. It's an annual tradition, owner Molly Brouse explained, that they call the 10 Days of Christmas. (I thought about taking a photo but it seemed indecent somehow.) Sleepwear isn't limited to the staff. "If customers come in in their pajamas, they get a free apple crisp and hot cocoa," Brouse said.
Cute. Brouse would likely sit me down and hand me a written exam, for which I wouldn't have studied. On the other hand, I would have apple crisp and hot cocoa. RAY COLLINS was a co-founder with Frank Zappa of the band the Mothers of Invention and, long retired, is a sort of unofficial greeter in the Claremont Village, where he's one of the downtown characters. XjgWm.jpg (1280×1015) Frank Zappa and Parents, 1970 | LIFE With Rock Stars … and Their Parents. They had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine illustrated a different side of the lives of rock stars. Like other mere mortals, they often came from humble backgrounds, with moms and dads who bragged about them, fussed over them, called them on their nonsense and worried about them every single day. Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural and generational divides that existed between his subjects.
Here, LIFE.com brings back Olson’s nostalgia-sparking photos — Marvel at the decor! Gaze in wonder at the shag carpets and bell-bottoms! — and shares his memories of hanging out with pop culture icons of the Sixties and Seventies, as well as their mums and their dads. Gail Zappa: Regarding Frank Zappa. Buy The Lost Broadcasts by Frank Zappa CD DVD from Gonzo Multimedia. You Call That News? Original Mother Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood dies « Obituaries « Weirdomusic.com. The Mothers of Invention 1967. The Lost Episodes. Frank Zappa - 1968.10.26 - Olympia - París. Frank Zappa - On The Bus, Live Guitar Solo. The Mothers - Florentine Pogen. Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet, and George Duke Lecture 1975 Part 8. Frank Zappa - Black Napkins, Monster Solo, Live 1976 (Part 2) Frank Zappa - Black Napkins Oct.28, 1976.
Frank Zappa - Sleep Napkins (Sleep Dirt) live in Vancouver 1975. Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt Guitar Solo. Live from Carnegie Hall: Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention. The Felt Forum on Halloween - Frank Zappa and Frankenstein. The Mothers of Invention - Project X. Frank Zappa - Live Guitar Solos. ||__ Freak Out In Cucamonga _|| ZAPPA Freak out (EXPORT master tapes-USA MGM -Genuine) Ray. World Of Frank Zappa Bootlegs. Uncle Meat - vinyl with two booklets. :: www.zappateers.com. Frank Zappa, businessman. Frank Zappa - Son Of Orange County, East Lansing 1974. Mediatype:audio AND subject:"Ben Watson" Frank Zappa, Sofa. Mothers Pics ´67 :: www.zappateers.com. Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983? Frank Zappa - Echidna's Arf & Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? - 1974, Boston (audio) Mike Keneally - Echidnas Arf. View topic - ZAPPA MEMORABILIA! Frank Zappa - Call Any Vegetable - 1970, San Francisco (audio)
Frank Zappa RARE LIVE DVD 1971 w/Flo and Eddie~BILLY THE MOUNTAIN, MUDSHARK, HAPPY TOGETHER. Frank Zappa & MOI - Live Medley, Fillmore East 1970. The Mothers Of Invention_Beat Cub 1/5 (live,1968) The Live Jam with Bunk and Don - Part 1 by ANT-BEE (1992) Don Preston & Bunk Gardner- Sullivan Hall, NY, NY 4/1/10 "End of King Kong" IINK. George Duke - Feel. Index :: www.zappateers.com. Zappa GRITA! Burnt Weeny Sandwich.