He was so good at fanfares (eg Regyptian Strut, theme from Run Home Slow, etc).
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
"greggery peccary" is sort of what i wish zappa were like lyrically all the time, just these go-nowhere contemptuous cartoon satires of the entertainment industry + making fun of hippies
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
i despise joe's garage, hateful piece of shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 August 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
otm
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Monday, 24 August 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
sounds right
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
ums btw if you've never heard sleep dirt you would probably enjoy it, the best tracks from the läther project arranged as a suite intended as a follow-up to hot rats. läther is, again, lyrics of the new york stuff and the sheik yerbouti tracks aside, great, but sleep dirt is in my experience the only of the compromised albums läther was divided into that really works on its own (studio tan is too much of the more mannered composed fusion stuff at once and orchestral favorites is too much of the modern classical cartoon stuff at once)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
not heard of that, will check it out!Zappa is very frustrating. tbh I kind of wish he wasn't so talented so I could just write him off, but his best stuff is really striking and unique
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
as a liberal snowflake i did not enjoy almost anything that happened on sheik yerbouti
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
god that "dupree's paradise" video upthread is so fuckin rad. jean-luc ponty shreds
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
yeah sleep dirt is great. you might want to avoid getting the version with vocals though.
However, with the CD release in 1991, Zappa added new overdubs to the recordings. Zappa asked singer Thana Harris to add vocals to three songs. Zappa had originally envisioned "Flambay", "Spider of Destiny", and "Time is Money" as part of his abandoned 1972 musical, Hunchentoot, and thus, these songs were originally intended to be sung.
― visiting, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm not going anywhere near that. i'm v thankful for (most) of the 2012 reissues of the zappa catalog, they really removed the main obstacle to exploring zappa: how much he loved to ruin his own music
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
(i say most bc i had to look up specific box sets to find the original mixes of freak out!, uncle meat, cruising with ruben and the jets, and zappa in new york, so, like, it's still not easy)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
lmao that when joe gets out of prison the world has been converted into a WELFARE STATE oh no!!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
For some reason Bongo Fury has totally passed me by, will give that one a listen
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
ok my main problem with shut up 'n play yer guitar is there's too much guitar
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah, even though I’m a fan of his guitar playing by and large, I don’t find him interesting enough to sustain that kind of listening. I did just put on YCDTOSA 2 tonight, and although I still think some songs are played too fast, overall the first disc is really impressive.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
I was still in my first flush of FZ adoration when Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar came out (I bought it in its original mail-order incarnation as 3 individual LPs) but I can imagine it being wearing. The followup set of solos, Guitar, is the one that tries my patience.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
I just got tix to see Dweezil play highlights from Roxy and Elsewhere and Apostrophe, it’s the 50th anniversary of both. I’ve never seen him, and those are two of my favorite Zappa albums. I’m excited.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:42 (three months ago) link
Any Zappa alum in the current Dweezil band?
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:01 (three months ago) link
The advertising didn’t say.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
Listening to first disc of ‘Shut Up and Play yer Guitar’ last week, it occurred to me if Autechre was a prog rawk band it would probably sound something like this. There is not a straight beat on that whole record.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:18 (three months ago) link
I was also watching one of those videos on the tube going over Zappa’s chord progressions and the time signature madness in some of those tunes, is pretty wild.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:21 (three months ago) link