Tag: Frank Zappa

Rehearsal

2012-09-12, 9:22 pm
Categories: Music

Bits of Fifty-Fifty and Montana, and a few other snippets besides. Sydney, 1973.

Call Any Vegetable

2012-09-11, 10:01 pm
Categories: Music

Uploader sonsoloidee says it's from Montreux, '71; commenter npspec34 says it sounds like the UCLA concert in '72. I assume much the same band and arrangements at those two shows.

Improvizace V A Dur S Frankem Zappou

2012-09-10, 11:12 pm
Categories: Music, Politics

Per uploader Brock2097:

Frank Zappa and Prazsky Vyber, "Improvizace V A Dur S Frankem Zappou," performed live on June 24, 1991 at the "ADIEU C.A." concert in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to celebrate the collapse of Soviet rule in the country. Released on Prazsky Vyber albums "Adieu C.A." and "Komplet."

Thanks to http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/ for images and info, and thanks to FZ and the members of Prazsky Vyber for this performance.

Improvisation with guitar jam/duel between FZ and Micheal Pavlicek

Nice.

It ties into the bit I quoted in the other night's post about the biggest enemies of the Communist Czech State being Jimmy Carter and Frank Zappa. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, the former Soviet Union's still none too friendly a place for political musicians.

Still, hell of a thing, to have been there right after it all came down.

How They Do It

2012-09-09, 9:03 pm
Categories: Music, TV

A neat little bit on the notation and improvisation. A bit of Approximate and Cosmik Debris. Ruth Underwood is a highlight.