Feels like it might be a little early to be posting another Tributo a Zappa recording, but what the hell, I dig this one too. It's performed by Joni Kontrol Band.
Category: Music
Cocaine Decisions / Classical Music
Not Cocaine Decisions the song (though that's what I was looking for when I found it!), but Frank discussing the corrosive force of the drug. And then a segment where he says classical music is as formulaic as pop music.
Uploaded by hazzaroonee, who doesn't give a certain source but says it's UK TV 1983.
Amor de Mama
Via the aptly-named TRIBUTOaZAPPA, Motherly Love en español. If I'm reading it right, the group performing it is called Los Huespedes Felices.
Apparently there's a whole series of Spanish Zappa tribute albums at halloffame.es. My Spanish is embarrassingly bad for someone who's spent his whole life in Arizona, so I don't know how easy they are to come by in los estados unidos (in fact my Spanish is so bad I had to look that up; I almost put "estadios unidad"), but I think I might have to look into it later.
Frank's Favourite Topic
Sound's still out, so another one from afka, this one a couple decades older than the last. Frank's Favourite Topic: Creeps Are The Backbone Of This Country, by John Bryan, Open City, 1967. That's an LA paper and as far as I know John Bryan is American, so God knows why "favorite" is spelled with a "u".
Sharp Words
Another from afka: Sharp Words From Music's Cutting Edge, By Ron Chepesiuk, Gallery, June '89. Pretty typical late-'80's Zappa talk about politics, voting, the music industry, etc. -- but it's late and I've been fighting computer issues all damn weekend and my audio's not working, so this is what I've got at the moment.
Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder Cover
I suppose this is one of those songs where I should start with a disclaimer that I'm not posting it for any kind of personal reason; I remain a happy newlywed. I just think it's a fun song -- a wonderful homage to 1950's love ballad, with equally wonderful lyrics that subvert the genre. But yes it was on a very long list of "Zappa Songs I Should Not Put On My Wedding Playlist". Hell, I think the entirety of Freak Out! fits that description.
And if that's not enough, this is a great damn cover, by one George Possley. I couldn't find a good copy of Frank and the Mothers performing it themselves (aside from actual album rips, which, again, I prefer not to repost), but it's just as well, because I found this.
Frank Zappa and the And
Via afka.net, I find a preview of the new academic text Frank Zappa and the And, published in February and available at Amazon.
Purple Lagoon
SNL, 1976, featuring John Belushi as the Samurai Baker. Uploaded by dai2008002iad.
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
This definitely veers into territory where it's more amazing that it exists than it is to actually try to listen to. Still, here's Zappa with Flo & Eddie doing What Kind of Girl?
Uploaded by BritIronRebel, who doesn't give a year, but probably early '70's.
Conehead
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 1978; I previously posted Yellow Snow Suite from this same show. This post, once again, is by tomtiddler1.