You don't think it has something of the "Going to a go-go" about it? (The Sharonettes version)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
Did you just say that the original version of Freak Out was a single lp? or are you talking about a UK release of it?
It's famous for being about the first rock double lp, among other things.Came within 5 weeks of Blonde On Blonde apparently.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, the first release of "Freak Out" in the UK was a single LP.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I guess the "Mister America" parts are kind of a "Going to a Go Go" groove.
― timellison, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I guess!
― timellison, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
Nine Types of Industrial Pollution isn't bad AT ALL - it strikes an annoyingly polite tone that often put me off him but I love the crashing percussion part it starts off on (the percussions on this is varied and actually provides weighty counter to the guitar) and keeps me interested with these mutant cocktail jazz excursions that hang together ok and builds to an intense prickling..
I'll check a few more links and see what else i can find.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Zappadan starts Tuesday
― President Keyes, Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Is anyone else on the Zappa trust mailing list? They sent out an email letting people know they could be distributors of an official live pre-Roxy & Elsewhere show. It was the Zappa version of Amway. Incredibly weird.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I sat down an made a road trip CDR kind of centered around the more rockin' early Zappa/Mothers. Got up to 1971 when I ran out of space.
Hungry Freaks, DaddyI'm Not SatisfiedTrouble Every DayInvocation and Ritual Dance of the Young PumpkinWhy Don'tcha Do Me Right?Who Needs the Peace Corps?King Kong VIPeaches en RegaliaWilly the PimpMy Guitar Wants to Kill Your MamaThe Orange County Lumber TruckTransylvania BoogieRoad LadiesTell Me You Love MeChunga's RevengeWillie the Pimp (Fillmore East '71 version)
― earlnash, Thursday, 10 October 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
200 Motels live. Anyone go?
I'll try and listen to a few bits later...doubt the music will be any good. Profanity is rarely shocking to me so I'm thinking lame lame lame. An event-less event, and the track record for surrealist films that aren't made by Bunuel can't be much good.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 November 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the link -- listening to it now. For some reason I thought the BBC's iPlayer wouldn't work for a U.S. IP address, but this plays fine.
Why don't you think the music will be any good? The occasional dirty words aren't relevant.
― He got...JACKED UP!!!!! (WilliamC), Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
mentioned here.
― fit and working again, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
(xxp) Me!
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
It was hugely fun, one of the best shows i've seen in a good while.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 11 November 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
There is a really killer instrumental guitar record within "Lather". I haven't tried editing it down into a play list, but there is some great guitar playing on some of the instrumental tracks like Filthy Habits, The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution and Leather Goods.
― earlnash, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
RDNZL, Sleep Dirt and Filthy Habits have my three favorite studio guitar solos by him. He preferred soloing in concert iirc, but he seemed to be exploring the instrument in the studio a little more during the mid 70s, including a fretless guitar that he said had an interesting tone but was a bugger to keep in tune.
― If I had hands and you had a neck (WilliamC), Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Anyone pick up Roxy By Proxy yet? I really want to but the Trust overcharges for everything.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 22 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Well, I "Picked it up" hem hem, but I haven't heard much of his oveure so hey hey..
― Mark G, Saturday, 22 March 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Would have been 74 today.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5gCb1th90
― how's life, Monday, 22 December 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Finished Neil Slaven's FZ biography yesterday – very disappointing. He aggregated just about everything published about the guy, but did absolutely no new interviews with any principal characters from FZ's life. I wonder if Gail's strong-arm tactics were at play. A lot of these people are getting old and dying -- if there's a proper bio of the man to be written, somebody better hurry up.
― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I think I've mentioned this on some other threads, but I've recently seen a couple really good Zappa documentaries by Tom O'Dell that are worth checking out.
From Straight to Bizarre - a very detailed look at Zappa's labels http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Zappa-Straight-Bizarre-Unavailable/dp/B00B68PK4G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421091642&sr=8-1&keywords=frank+zappa+bizarre
or on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_bnR1SZRM&index=1&list=PL8flSFeCsFvL4TVFypWCptZ6mASDufeI2
Freak Jazz, Movie Madness and Another Mothers - covers the Flo & Eddie yearshttp://www.amazon.com/Frank-Zappa-Madness-Another-Mothers/dp/B00MA15AIO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421091592&sr=8-1&keywords=frank+zappa+1969-1973
Was impressed with how in depth these both were and the interesting interviews with former Mothers and other FZ collaborators they managed to get.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
more like wank crappa
― ienjoyhotdogs, Monday, 12 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
amirite
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/1967_frank_zappa_linda_ronstadt_radio
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Alex Winter is making a documentary: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/frank-zappa-documentary-by-alex-winter-starts-production-20150724
I'm equal parts dubious and hopeful.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
...and UMG and the Zappa Family Trust say "hey, let's do this all over again" — http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/frank-zappas-family-plans-massive-new-release-schedule-20150729
A few things to be happy about...The Roxy MovieThe LA Philharmonic performance of 200 MotelsAhmet taking over day to day management of the ZFT from Gail
― rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
If the Roxy Movie finally comes out I'll be happy. They've been talking about putting it out for seemingly decades now.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
RIP Gail Zappa
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Thursday, 8 October 2015 04:31 (eight years ago) link
RIP Gail – you were the best thing that ever happened to Frank, but maybe just a wee bit overprotective of him after his death.
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
Shame, RIP Gail.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
I don't know - I think a lot of artists would like to know that someone would be so fierce a guardian of their work after they're gone.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 8 October 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure they would! That's the main reason my feelings about Gail are so conflicted. No fan of an artist is owed a warts-and-all look into that artist's psyche to try to figure out what made them tick. We'd love to have it, but we don't deserve it just by virtue of our interest. I don't even know if, without Gail's dogged protectiveness, we would have gotten that look at FZ by now, or if Alex Winter's film will give us any insight we don't already have.
I admire the hell out of her while acknowledging my frustration.
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Thursday, 8 October 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
feeling your take on that, WmC
hay at least she released Bat Chain Puller!
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 October 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
RIP.
― Turrican, Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/business/media/frank-zappas-house-can-be-yours-for-9-million.html?_r=0
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Damn my bad Powerball luck.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
Interview with Alex Winter about the doc he's making
http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201604291630/a
― that's not my post, Saturday, 30 April 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
Schism:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/business/media/whats-in-a-name-just-ask-frank-zappas-feuding-heirs.html
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Saturday, 30 April 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
jeez, what a miserable bunch
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 30 April 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
The zapples don't fall far from the tree.
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
If you'd told me 2 of the kids would be on the inside running the trust and 2 on the outs, peeved, I would have had the groups switched.
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Easy to tell who Gail's favourites were.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
oh man I bet Frank would've loved to see this
― frogbs, Monday, 2 May 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link
he would've sued all of them
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 2 May 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, even when Gail was alive it sounds like she was just doing Dweezil a favor, and he still had to pay a shitload of licensing. I dunno, I think if you name your kid Dweezil you pretty much owe him whatever he wants.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:34 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah no kidding...the split between Dweezil & Ahmet is weirdly depressing to me
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 2 May 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
Frank is still outsmarting his public from beyond the grave.
― The WLS National Batdance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 May 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
There's a Zappacast (available on iTunes) called "remebering Gail Zappa" that discusses what happened before this became public. The good news is that there´s a new release announced for May (Road Tapes 3, a recording from 1970 Flo&Eddie band before they became "Vaudeville"(.
― EvR, Monday, 2 May 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/611vGp3jKDL.jpg
Can someone photoshop this into the shape of a broken heart?
― how girl's (how's life), Monday, 2 May 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link