Applied Zappigraphy

[Joe Barron]

For the record, I never wrote that blurb - just pasted it over from the link I posted above it.

OK, you're forgiven.  0:)

Which version of Bogus Pomp Joe, the one on 1975's Orchestral Favorites or the Nagano/LSO Volume 2? My favorite from the Nagano/LSO albums is Sad Jane (on Volume 1), especially the first movement.

I have both, but the one I'm familiar with is the Orchestral Favorites version  (which also reappears on Lather).

Marvin Rosen, God bless him, played Naval Aviation in Art? on his radio show not long ago.

[Guido]

Thanks for the replies (and insights) guys!

Joe - I like this Dupree's Paradise piece - great fun and some lovely stuff going on.

[Joe Barron]

I have both, but the one I'm familiar with is the Orchestral Favorites version  (which also reappears on Lather).

My mistake. Bogus Pomp does not appear on Lather. Regyptian Strut does.

[Gurn Blanston]

I merged these 2 topics (which are really merely 1 topic) together to concentrate the Zappa essence all in one place.

[karlhenning]

Let the Conceptual Continuity flow . . . .

[karlhenning]

De gustibus and all that, but I hardly think of "Peaches en Regalia" as gorgeous.

[Joe Barron]

De gustibus and all that, but I hardly think of "Peaches en Regalia" as gorgeous.

I once suggested to my recorder group that we play it, but we couldn't find a suitable arragement.

[Joe Barron]

This is interesting: Zappa's music is enjoying a healthy afterlife. Not only is his catalog still in print, but, as the CDs listed here attest, many other musicians and ensembles, particularly jazz and classical groups, have been recording his work in new arrangements. This phenomenon seems to me unique in the history of pop music. I can't think of any other rock figure who has inspired this kind of activity, and I'm wondering why that is. Perhaps Zappa's compositions stand up as compositions, rather than one of a kind recordings of the sort that the Beatles released. Like Bach, Brahms and song writers like Gershwin and Porter, he wrote music that other musicians want to play and reinterpret.

Or maybe they just regard him as an inspirational figure. 

[Spotswood]

Some fascinating zappa performances ... by kids

Black Page #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/IzxAlydF51U

And #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ISQbeG6BcVE

[Spotswood]

My article on an upcoming Project/Object concert may be seen here.

Ray White was a joy to interview, but he talked so fast.

[Saul]

There you go.

That man looks like a wildebeest.

[Kaiser]

Just picked up (and watched) the Freak Out List DVD based on the recommendation from James above. Very enjoyable - always good to listen to input from Don Preston, Ian Underwood and George Duke. The visuals attached to the musical selections were a bit silly at times, but of course better than having a single camera aimed at an LP revolving on a turntable. The brief clips of Zappa rehearsing the Varese pieces were amazing - if only the ZFT would see fit to release that "Rage and the Fury" thing. Hopefully in my lifetime! Thanks for the heads up on this very enjoyable film!
-------- Chris

[karlhenning]

Just picked up (and watched) the Freak Out List DVD based on the recommendation from James above. Very enjoyable - always good to listen to input from Don Preston, Ian Underwood and George Duke. The visuals attached to the musical selections were a bit silly at times, but of course better than having a single camera aimed at an LP revolving on a turntable. The brief clips of Zappa rehearsing the Varese pieces were amazing - if only the ZFT would see fit to release that "Rage and the Fury" thing. Hopefully in my lifetime! Thanks for the heads up on this very enjoyable film!
-------- Chris

Hmm, I'm surprised I didn't recommend it here.  Very enjoyable DVD, indeed.

[Kaiser]

Hmm, I'm surprised I didn't recommend it here.  Very enjoyable DVD, indeed.

I would have been surprised if you hadn't seen this Karl! As a companion to this DVD, Canadian Radio 2 did a wonderful audio-documentary about Zappa as a composer with some wonderful recollections from Ruth Underwood. Worth a listen for sure. Imagine my surprise when she name-checked composer Steve Margoshes whose daughter was in one of my history classes the year the documentary aired! Here's a link:

http://www.guertin.com/zappa/cbc2.html

[karlhenning]

An impulse purchase last week (along with a Count Basie CD and four more Thelonious Monk CDs) was the Blue Note reissue of King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa.

This is thus my first time listening to the "Ur-text" of Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra . . . but I am also enjoying the adaptations of "The Idiot Bastard Son" and "America Drinks and Goes Home."

Interesting to learn that the Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra is substantially longer (19:20) than the subsequent Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra (under eight minutes).

[karlhenning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/jwhtL0LNoQw

Hmm, this looks pretty good; must be a DVD out there of the '88 tour.

[karlhenning]

"Vaultmeister."

[MN Dave]

Just picked this 70th anniversary commemorative up at the local bookshop .. bonus!

Looks good. I like MOJO for the most part.

[Szykneij]

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa- 70th Birthday Celebration 

House of Blues Boston
Sunday 12/19/2010
Doors: 07:00 PM
Show: 08:00 PM
Prices:
$29.00 - GA Standing Room
$65.00 - Reserved Seating
Ages: all 


House of Blues Boston
15 Lansdowne St.
Boston, MA 02215
(888) 693-BLUE (2583

http://www.houseofblues.com/tickets/eventdetail.php?eventid=65821

[Karl Henning]

♫ On the second day of Zappa,
I played an mp3:
"Willie the Pimp"
& "Lonesome Electric Turkey"