Dweezil discusses the sounds on Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe.
From the Eagle Visions Classic Albums DVD, available at Amazon.
Category: Music
You Kids Don't Know Grand Funk?
The wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drumwork of Don Brewer?
Out To Get You, Zappa and Grank Funk Railroad. From the album Good Singin', Good Playin'.
Okay Fine, Fer Sure, Fer Sure
In honor of the two young ladies who sat at the next table over at the restaurant we ate at tonight:
The Closer You Are
Palais Omnisport de Bercy, Paris, 1984.
Billy Connolly
From uploader pianobanter, who says it's from the World Tour of Australia.
Happy Chuck Jones Day!
Bending the rules on tonight's Frank Zappa post, but probably not as much as that time I used it to talk about Manos.
Per ComicsAlliance, today would have been Chuck Jones's 100th birthday. Click on over there to watch Duck Amuck. As for me, I'm going with Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa performing You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch with the Max Weinberg 7 on Conan O'Brien in 2000:
As Conan notes, that song's featured on Dweezil's excellent album, Automatic.
You Are What You Is
An a capella rendition by the Persuasions.
Pretty fucking cool, if you ask me.
Per Wikipedia, Zappa funded the Persuasions' first LP. One more thing I love about Frank: he loved good music in all genres, and was generous with his money when it came to helping talented artists. (Could be bullshit, of course, given that it (1) is Wikipedia and (2) has a "[citation needed]" next to it, but even if this story's apocryphal, we know he helped guys like Alice Cooper get started.)
This is from the album Frankly a Capella, released in 2000 and still available. I'm a big advocate of supporting your local record store, but if you don't have one anymore, well, here's a damn Amazon link.
Penn Says
Penn Jillette discussing Zappa Plays Zappa and Dweezil's technical proficiency. Kinda cuts off weirdly at the end, which is odd because it's from the official Penn Says account.
I don't think I'd say that Dweezil is a better player than Frank, but I think Frank probably would. Frank was a phenomenal guitar player but he was a composer first. Dweezil is most definitely a guitar player first.
You know what I wish I could see? Penn and Frank yammering about politics. I imagine they'd have a lot to agree on but Frank would be less kind to Corporate America. That's just my guess as Some Guy With a Website, though.
"Some Guy With a Website" is a phrase coined by August J Pollak, of someguywithawebsite.com.
Gunston
A Zappa interview by Norman Gunston, who is, according to uploader royism, an "Australian TV icon".
Zappa's got his usual grumpy interview face on, but I find it hard to believe he's not in on the joke.
Vai's Audition
One of the greats talking about where it all started. Good shit.