FRANK ZAPPA - "DUPREE'S PARADISE" (reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "Dupree's Paradise" by Frank Zappa!
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Electric violin by the GREAT Jean Luc-Ponty!
Trombone: Bruce Fowler
Bass: Tom Fowler
Drums: Ralph Humphreys
Synth and flute: Ian Underwood (original MOI and husband of Ruth til 1986)
The title of this song refers to a bar Frank and The Mothers played at named Dupree's Paradise Lounge.
Thanks James!
Ruth is present as well.
what about The Funky George Duke
Side note: Experts agree, the violin is the most difficult instrument to play.
I had Jean Luc Ponty's first solo albums or at least on of the first ones, on cassette tape back in the late 80s and I played that tape so many times It came apart in my car cassette player. Really bummed me out.
Damn. Back in the day only Zappa freaks got this. It's so fulfilling to see young people get it. These were incredible musicians who were so far ahead of their time and tech. Love Frank's attire. Thanks for bringing this back. You 2 are the best.
Thanks for watching Brian!
You mention Zappa’s technique on the guitar. I was a percussionist in my youth but grew up watching and listening to great guitarists. My peers and I would watch and compare and talk about riffs and shredding and speed and amazing fingering playing near the pickups. But with Zappa it became obvious to me that when he soloed it wasn’t simply about technique. His kind of playing follows theoretical ideas about melodic composition. He often starts with a figure and then builds tension and variation on it and finally searches for resolution. Any technique he does use is just to make the guitar produce the sounds he hears in his head. In longer solos he might try several themes. This is why when you follow along the history of his work you see the improvisation in one song becoming the basis for the theme of another song. He did this consistently enough that he later could release albums of nothing but guitar solos like Shut Up n Play Your Guitar.
As a percussionist I am also thrilled to see you are going to listen to the Black Page. After listening to #1 and #2 you should listen to the New Age Version from his album Make a Jazz Noise Here. The evolution of The Black Page is amazing.
Yes..he has a theme he begins with and then variations of the theme and meltdown and reconstitute...he attempts to have continuity...which is hard
yes. nicley said
Jerry Garcia did this on a lot of solos as well
He's impossible to keep up with , like I have close to 100 albums now ,and still I hear new stuff I don't have , and I haven't heard some of it for years , phew , how on Gods earth he produced so much ,he's the greatest ,composer , conductor , Virtuoso Guitarist, in the 20th Century, the complete package ,and the new stuff is magic
Frank gave George his first synth. George wasn't sure what to do with it at first, but once he realized he could "bend" notes with it, like Frank did on the guitar, it opened up a whole new world for him. He really got the old creative juices flowing then.
I'm going to draw the ire of Zappa fans, but I've never enjoyed Jean-Luc Ponty's playing. It just sounds like a hillbilly went to Europe and learned violin.
Wow, thanks for the info John!
😆we respect your opinion Allo Trope!
@@allotrope2978 He was a master on that violin, still is btw
@@stevedotwood I have no doubt about that, I just have a subjective objection (that sounds like an oxymoron) to the sound. I much prefer the electric, humorous and classical sides of Zappa's sound. Synths, guitars, synclavier.
Trombone....Bruce Fowler, brother of bassman Tom Fowler.
In 1969, Frank Zappa composed the music for Ponty's solo album King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (World Pacific, 1970).[4] In 1972 Elton John invited Ponty to contribute to his Honky Chateau (1972) album. At the urging of Zappa and The Mothers of Invention who wanted him to join their tour, Ponty emigrated with his wife and two young daughters to the United States and made his home in Los Angeles.[1] He continued to work on a variety of projects - including two of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra albums Apocalypse (1974) and Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975) and tours until 1975,[1] when he signed with Atlantic.
( from wiki p.)
Thanks for the info Fastnbulbouss!
also tapered
I'm glad to see you guys have reached the "Advanced Class" right now. You cannot expose a Zappa newbie to something like this. It's too concentrated for them to understand as a ZapPadowan. George and Frank had such wonderful synergy. He's my favorite, by far, of Frank's keyboard players. I love the funkiness. Jean Luc Ponty (violinist) is as much of a virtuoso as Frank is with the guitar. They were known to clash over music theory, too.
What is still amazing is how he was able to write music for those other instruments. Keep digging! There's still more Zappa gold to be found!
Thanks Larry!
Yes , Larry , I make them sit and watch , people seem to listen more , and not just hear , but my Daughter 23 , loves this , and lots more as well , it warms my ol heart , VALE FRANK cheers
My favorite of all of Frank's drummers (Ralph Humphreys), and the compitition is high when summing up Frank's drummers. J.L.P & G.D were complete monsters. I was really born in the wrong time.
The only thing you missed discussing was Frank''s fashion statement, only he could look cool in that get up! It is an earlier incarnation of the band you are used to seeing, no Chester on Drums, that was Ralph Humphries. Tom Fowler on the bass with his brother Bruce on the trombone. That was the amazing Jean Luc Ponty on violin. And of course George, Ruth, and her husband Ian Underwood on flute(at the time anyway). This is possibly the best video available that shows how Frank 'ran' a show in the 70s, conducting the band through George's intro was a great example of it. I hope it gave you a better taste of how much of a showman Frank was, his stage presence was electric, he held the band and the audience in the palms of his hands. Thanks for enjoying it!
☺️Frank’s outfit is something else, but it does suit him. Thanks for the info Peter. We’re so glad we got to watch this!
indeed, Frank was not only a guitarist, not only a composer, he also conducted the ensemble as an extension of himself in terms of what he wanted to hear, and stuff.
If there's anything better than having two Fowlers on stage it was when he had three. Walt is MIA here. Love the videos when Ralph was still the drummer. Love watching you two digging Frank and the gang!
Thanks so much Chazblitz, what a great performance!
@@SightAfterDark Fun factoid: there are actually 5 Fowler brothers, all of them musicians. Steve and Ed never played with Frank though. Various combinations of Fowler brothers have done all sorts of stuff involving jazz, movie and TV soundtracks, etc., etc.
And of course George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty are renowned jazz musicians.
This is a very apt description of the song, its origins and Zappa's mindset. And Dan, it contains the quote you've mentioned about Zappa's rhythms being derived by speech patterns, an interesting and insightful read.
“In my compositions,” Frank Zappa wrote in The Real Frank Zappa Book (1982), “I employ a system of weights, balances, measured tensions, and releases.” He compares these to a Calder mobile: “a multicolored whatchamacallit dangling in space, that has big blobs of metal connected to pieces of wire, balanced ingeniously against little metal dingleberries on the other end.”
It’s an aesthetic that permeates Dupree’s Paradise - one of a trio of pieces Zappa arranged for Pierre Boulez and his Ensemble Intercontemporain, who recorded them on the 1984 album The Perfect Stranger. The release, which was nominated for a Grammy, pairs these instrumental compositions with pieces featuring Zappa at the Synclavier. Zappa had long been intrigued by modernist classical music since developing an obsession as a teenager with Edgard Varèse, “the idol of my youth.” Boulez gets a shout-out as early as 1966’s Freak Out!
Dupree’s Paradise wasn’t an entirely new work written just for Boulez. It began as the jazzy, meter-shifting tune we hear at the opening of the piece, which Zappa used in concerts starting in 1974 to introduce his band as they improvised around it. In his liner notes to the album (whose cover art portrays a dog wearing a dress and sunglasses, seated in a highchair), Zappa describes the quintessentially beatnik scene he had in mind: “Dupree’s Paradise is about a bar on Avalon Boulevard in Watts at 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday in 1964, during the early morning jam session. For about seven minutes, the customers (winos, musicians, degenerates and policemen) do the things that set them apart from the rest of society.”
Zappa’s Varèse-inspired point of reference is apparent in his sheer exuberance with the ringing, clanging, abutting piles of sound he marshals. Zappa takes the opening optimistic tune down the rabbit hole, from which it emerges at times sounding like Gershwin, at others like a serialist’s lost weekend. As for his rhythms, Zappa notes they are in general derived from speech patterns and “should have the same sort of flow a conversation would have.”
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This is about the whole package why i looove Zappa.
Talent, real music, improvisations fun, humor, wool suites, live performance (even in icey conditions)
Zappa is the man
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this footage. It’s probably my favourite live performance. This band was imo the best he had.
Thanks for being here!
JLP kills it...E-Violin. If you know JLP, most of his music sounds as it did in this video. Lots of solo albums and also appears in the Mahavishnue Orchestra. (Very Progressive Music IE: Birds of Fire)
This was a Great tune...! I wish these Videos were available way back in the day. Never expected to see any of this...!
Why do I love all kinds of music? THIS is why. Thanks for sharing Peter. Many gems in this concert footage. George Duke is a jazz fusion and RnB legend. He has some great stuff with Stanley Clarke and Billy Cobham among others and solo of course. I believe that he was related to Whitney if I'm not mistaken. Jean Luc-Ponty on violin is a fusion legend as well. ✌
FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!
This show occurred on 8/21/1973. I saw the same lineup, with the addition of Kin Vassy on vocals, earlier that year on 4/8/1973 at McKale Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson. All tickets were $5.00, and Jesse Colin Young and Focus were the opening acts. The show ran from 7:00 PM to precisely 1:00 AM, with Dupree's Paradise being the final song.
At about 12:35 AM Frank simply announced that they would be closing with Dupree's Paradise, and with a series of hand gestures, the band launched in. Just before 1:00 AM, Frank gestured the music from an intense buildup to a slow vamp. He then pantomimed pulling out a large sheet of paper which he proceeded to methodically crumple down into a tight ball and then toss away, all during which the music mimicked every one of his hand movements. The final notes came to an abrupt stop and the house lights came on. There was no encore as their contractual time ended at 1:00 AM, but there didn't need to be one.
As an aside, Zappa was honing much of the music for the upcoming Apostrophe album during this tour. "Stinkfoot" was introduced as "Imaginary Diseases". "Montana" wasn't yet named, but Zappa introduced it by having a roadie hand a box of dental floss to a fan in the front row with the instruction to hold the end and pass the box upward. When it reached the top row, he asked everyone along the line to floss, stating that it, complete with all the resulting "nuggets", would later be given away as a door prize.
Awesome!
Oh George ❤️
Man the director of this live shoot was a God
Yes, not a stray shot, seen so many other terrible videos of artists, this one is fantastic
My first FZ concert, Stockholm 1973.
Oh wow.
For me to! Probably my first concert ever. It was disturbing when they put of the cameras and the band just continued to play. It must have been cold, but it was only August... I don't remember. The entrence was 3 SEK = less than a dollar. A few years ago I saw Dweezil just down the hill. 🙂
@@erikahlander3489 Wow again. So it was only August? XD That can give us who live in more tempered regions of the planet an idea of how warm summer must be in Stockholm.
Cool! Not great about the weather, but sooo great that you got to experience that! Thanks for sharing!
@@SightAfterDark It is an outdoor scen "Soliden" in a sort of cultural park and zoo, "Skansen" Still used. Entrance fee to the park. The concert was free. National tax-payed TV-program "Oppoppa" on vivo including 15 min Zappa (Cozmic debris + Penguin in bondage). After the program Mothers continued to play with audience. TV recorded for maybe 45 min, but the concert continued at least additional 30 min. Stockholm has almost no nights in the end of June. In the end of August it is getting dark in the evenings earlier and tempersture is dropping. Maybe 15 Centigrade. It is 50 years ago! I dont remember. I checked on RUclips: FZ added the nice latest-fashion dress after the first 15 minutes!
I was in high school and had a test the next day. The hippies had gathered around the windmill to the left. You could smell a sweet smoke from that direction! Lot of people. "Over-Nite Sensation" was released later in the fall. It was the second Zappa album I bought. The bebop tango (in my head on the way home) wasn't released on record untill 1974.
Dweezil played at an indoor scen "Cirkus" just outside the gate of that park in 2017. Great concert with Mats Öberg as a guest artist. Mats played with Frank Zappa in Stockholm 1988 when he was 17 (?)
This was Frank's best band in my opinion
Yip.
The follow up band with Napoleon Murphy Brock and the addition of Chester Thomson on drums, to give a double drummer line up was in my view equally good.
The best thing about Dupree’s Paradise to me is that no version of the intro is the same. I have listened to a bunch of versions of it, and this is probably my favorite, if only for George Duke’s heroic echoplex solo. The more they played it over time, the more it became an “event” at Mothers concerts involving backstage in-jokes and antics of various kinds. But the intro is always exciting.
The violinist, Jean Luc Ponty played with Stephane Grappelli who played with Django Reinhart. Some serious chops there. And to answer your question if it was an electric violin, here is a quote from his wikipedia page: " Ponty has been an avid user of five-string electric violins (with a low C string) since 1978. He sometimes uses a six-string electric violin called the Violectra, with both the low C and low F strings (not to be confused with the "violectra" he played from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s that had the usual four strings but tuned an octave lower). He combined violin with MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals. This resulted in his signature, almost synthesizer-like sound."
Thanks!
Frank toured with Ponty in his band once. I clearly remember seeing that concert in the Paramont Theater in Portland Oregon. So good. Never missed Frank. And Ponty is really special.
What excellent musicianship concentrated on one stage! And everyone had magnificent ideas in their soli. With two brothers and a married couple, to boot. Frank drew fantastic musicians like a magnet. And George Duke had a big solo career after he left Frank Zappa, doing some sort of funk jazz. Watch one of his concerts on RUclips, as he also played some Zappa material here and there.
Man this is music.. Nothing out there like it ,even now.. You guy's clapping 👏 cracked me up... Looking forward to the next Zappa instalment. Thanks guys
I Love this video. Jean Luc tries to set his violin on fire he's playing so intensely
Zappa would sometimes tell the story of a jam session at Dupree's Paradise Lounge on Avalon Blvd in Watts: "Round about 4:30, all the derelicts in the neighbourhood line up and pass out along the edge of the green stucco wall on the outside of the building with the little posters on it advertising political candidates who are going to clean up the area. Dupree's Paradise is featuring tonight - or this morning - as it's featured for so many years in the past, Bobby Turner at the Hammond organ, wearing a houndstooth-check jacket that's just a little bit too short for him, but he got it on sale. And he's sitting there, backing up an endless stream of horn players who all want to jump on the stage and out-honk each other in one avant-garde ego trip after the other, as they try and figure out the chord changes to 'Bye Bye Blackbird'. But the bartender, being the wise gentleman that he is, under careful instruction and tutelage from the club owner himself, comes over and says, 'All right you schmucks. Play some blues or these people won't drink!' ..." FZ in concert, NY, Nov. 22nd 1973, according to The Big Note book.
Great info, thanks Christian!
Saw this Allstars lineup in 1974 on the 2nd row auditorium venue with Ellis D. Duke on keys, Jean-Luc Ponty are both masters with many amazing Fusion LPs. Chester Thompson on drums joined Genesis on tours once Phil Collins became lead singer. The entire band was nonstop insanely talented and complex. I felt as if I was being injected with ceaseless exhilarating simulation for 2+ hours. Great choice!
Jean Luc Ponty was like the Hendrix of violin. He has a lot of great solo stuff too.
Dupree’s paradise is a remarkable song, which in 1974 was opened by the radical Freeform introduction by George Duke, frequently including other musical mayhem, before leading into a classically constructed theme, in turn followed by an opportunity for improvisation by the band members. There are many good versions, mostly audio only, but at least three, including this one, Roxy, and token of his extreme on video. They are all good. This is indeed a classic performance. This version was in fact my introduction to Zappa. The musicianship is great with three very elegant solos by Ponty, Bruce Fowler and FZ himself. The whole concert is worth watching.
Bassist is Tom Fowler, brother of the trombonist Bruce, who was also on stage
How cool, thanks Andrew!
One of Franks best melodies. Soloing and noodling aside, this is such a beautiful piece! Great request, great reaction!
If you didn't know ? There is a husband & wife and 2 brothers on this stage.
Ruth & Ian Underwood (persussion, vibes, marimba & flute and keyboards, respectively)
And Bruce & Tom Fowler ( trombone & bass, respectively).
And all the best of the best !! Love FZ ❣❣❣
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Best trombone violin guitar fusion . Thanks to you young musicians for listening, this stuff is important. Watch Frank after Jean Luc's solo. He looks at Bruce and says I ain't following that.
😆thanks Tom!
Yeah, George’s part at the beginning is improvised, as Frank conducting the rest of the band is also.
Just watched this again. It's mentioned below by John Robert's that Frank introduced George to the synth. George was a purist and had no interest, but Frank put a synth on top of his piano, and told him to do whatever he felt like. George started to mess around with it little by little, and the rest is history. I believe there's a video of George telling the story. I am quite sure it's not an electric violin, if they even existed back then. I think it's an amplified violin played with all kind of effects, including wah-wah. Frank had done this even in the late 60s with all sorts of instruments, including, but not limited to, saxophone, flute and bass-clarinet. Ruth is playing vibes/vibraphone on this one. I've mentioned before ( maybe as my alter ego TheUtke) that Ruth never played xylophone w Frank. It's worth noting that she never took a solo, being classical trained. On the one occasion where she is, she's actually just playing excerpts from Be-Bop Tango (a tune you should look into, the Roxy & Elsewhere version). Great reaction, as always. Love from Singapore!
Thanks for sharing Christian! That’s interesting that Ruth never took a solo. Shout out to Singapore 🇸🇬!
1.In case no-one's said it, the tune is named for a bar/jazz venue. There's a handful of live tapes from late '73/early '74 where Frank does a comedy routine about the patrons of the Duprees Paradise Lounge [one of which appears in abridged/dislocated form on the dreaded Un-Concert Broadcast].
2.Jean Luc Ponty was somewhat notorious in the '70s for his addiction to mid-solo volcanic-climaxes, as heard here. [A trait he shares with Santana and with fellow Zappa-ite Allan Zavod]. To hear him at his most concentrated and least showy I recommend two albums from opposite timespans, Jean-Luc Ponty Experience and Rite Of Strings.
3. This spring/summer 1973 band is almost my favorite FZ ensemble - lots of hard improvisational stuff, not much vocal entertainment [except in Australia and in those shows where Kin Vassy was guesting with them]. Though their audio quality isn't too great, the two longer-than-usual shows in Passaic and Princeton are really rewarding.
Thanks for the recommendations Grithron2!
This whole show is incredible
Zappa is phenomenal been a fan for Years!!!!!
George Duke is right there with all the greats, rip
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Lucky enough to see this version of the band at Wembley in '73. They were astonishing and personally, for me, apart from the original Mothers of Invention, the supreme example of a band able to play Zapppamusic with great skill and warmth.
You guys are so awesome for doing all these zappa reactions. So cool. Much love
Thanks so much for being here Patrick!
Wow, never seen this before. What a band!. Whole band killing it, special kudos to George, Ponty, Frank and Ralph on drums.I only know about 6/7 albums plus a few live bits of Zappa (prob less than 1% of his output) so really enjoying this journey with you guys..as an aside, was wondering if anyone has recommended Snarky Puppy's 'Lingus' (I think any of those guys would be appreciated by Frank) on your Patreon page. If not, I guess I'll have to go over there and do it myself !! lol....thx guys, good one Ken
Thanks for watching Ken! We appreciate you!
interesting band..snarky ..very good players.
whole show is epic awesomeness - my fav Zappa band - single Ralph - JLP - just sick
Check out Bruce Fowler's imdb page. His film credits will drop your jaw but, amazingly, his time with Zappa only makes the trivia section
Was that Jean Luc Ponty on the strings?
absolutely was JLP
FYI. There’s a classical version too. It’s elaborate and just brilliant.
I know this song, but I haven't seen this performance before. Classic Zappa!
Glad you enjoyed Andy!
Frank at his sartorial best, lol. Always liked this. This is "real" "stories without words"!!!
It was really great to watch!
Love this band, great choice. Some other great material out there from this concert. As for Franks outfit... Only Frank.
Still lovin your show.
Keep well
Frank’s outfit is definitely one for the books!Thanks for your support Zippy Doodah!
The actual composition starts at 8:26. Check out some of the other versions of Dupree's Paradise on The Helsinki Concert, and Make A Jazz Noise Here.
Thanks Reid!
,Jean Luc Ponty , electric violin !!! This was the first Zappa band I was exposed to.
Bruce Fowler may have appeared with Frank over a wider time span than any other band memebers. Check him out
on 'Make a Jazz Noise Here" to see him at the other end of Franks days of touring. Also nice to see Ian and Ruth on
stage together. When you two get back to the Hot Rats album keep Ian Underwood in mind,
as he and Frank mostly dubbed all the tracks on that sucker! Ian describes himself (on Uncle Meat) as
"the straight member of the group" and was one of the early Mothers who could read Frank's dense notation.
As for Jean Luc....he is great, but my money is still on Sugarcane Harris as Franks greatest electric fiddle player!
George Duke managed to fit his own hard-bop/soul-jazz approach into Frank's music and make the combination work perfectly.
He also loved to throw in quotes of jazz tunes, which Frank generally recognized and would follow up on.
So many different versions , I know my fave , and we are listening to it
Music for Electric Violin & Low Budget Orchestra by Jean-Luc Ponty is essential listening. He, George Duke, and Ian Underwood did an entire jazz album (King Kong) of Zappa music in 1969.
It was the music and stage presence that Frank had that has kept me a fan for 56 yrs. Frank really has no equal, and this song is a good example of that. So glad you love Zappa, love your reactions .✌️❤️😃
Thanks!
As I am Norwegian and listen to George's introduction, it make me think of the Norwegian contemporary music composer, Arne Norheim. The myth says that Frank did enjoy Norheim's music. Also the myth says that Frank visited Norheim.
George Duke 😍😍😍
Excellent! Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny. ~ Frank Zap;pa
Absolutely beyond belief just how amazingly brilliant that is. This world is a much much poorer place without the one and only mr frank Vincent Zappa 😞
RIP
In August and September 1973 Frank and his band of great musicians made their European tour, I was lucky enough to see them in Rome on August 31 1973 at the Palasport. The first unforgettable Zappiamo concert!
Nice!
Goosebumos when zappa starts playing
For real!
Only Frank would know how to conduct music like this.
I Love when Jean-Luc Ponty plays with Zappa! (& I love George Duke!) - August 21, 1973 Stockholm, Sweden, btw~
Crank some Frank🎼🎸🎼🎸🎼🎸🎼
I love Frank ! and this band a lot
M(i)aster Zappa! Gratias you both! First time I see this video & it is so great to be here with Zappa's lovers
Glad you like the video!
I only saw a truncated version of this, so thank you for unwrapping the whole thing 🤗
Jean, Jean, Jean. Amazing. I grew up with this stuff and still enjoy it as an old fart.
I wonder what it would be like playing Watermelon In Easter Hay at this temperature, let alone listen to it ☀️
Sifa looks groovy and very nice today! both of you guys do
Thanks for the compliments❤️!
Frank was like Houdini in a straight jacket with that solo...i think his fingers were stuck on the middle fret...George Duke played with Stanley clarke,billy cobham...he had a few no 1's on Billboard chart..Frank has to take the mickey out of himself otherwise critics would take him to task for being serious...This is very complete Zappa with percussion and horns and synth which blends well with horns...bass is trombone players brother...Fowler brothers...there is a third brother on trumpet and fluegelhorn..he played early Zappa but reappears 1988 tour.
Thanks Mike!
The bass is Tom Fowler. The trombonists brother.
I'm pretty sure Dupree's Paradise was a bar or club in southern CA
I just love your conversations 🤗
Thanks so much Thomas!
... Zappa è ineffabile... cioè non è catalogabile... hehehee.
Bravissimi.
Un saluto.
🤘🤟🤘
...that was also Jean Luc Ponty jazz violinist...nice review.
Thanks so much Felix!
The drumming during the trombone section is ridiculous
George Duke was a straight keyboardist when he joined the Mothers. Frank convinced him to learn the synth from Don Preston
Frank never asked anybody to do anything he could´nt do himself.
Yes, Frank could afford everything on the guitar without being a virtuoso (in its common meaning) but having an open mind, because he said that the tone is in your head, not in the gear itslef... And if this video was cut off a little further, you could hear "Join the march and eat my starch" :) .... Cheers!
I think this was in Helsinki, Finland. That's why it was so, so cold on stage
Oh hell yeah. Been waiting for this one!
ah yes, the next part of frank for you to explore, conductor frank
baby snakes / dub room special movies for reference!
Man on the violin is Jean Lüc Ponti
Got to say you two are brave!!!
Oh, Stockholm. There's an album called 'Live in Helsinki' from this tour
Fowler on the bass is upper level.
My understanding from an interview with George Duke was thatZappa gave George a Synth & told Mr. Duke to mess with it & try bending the notes . Violin was by Jon Luc Ponty, who played with Mahavishnu & George Duke on his own records. Bass & Trombone are The Fowlers Brothers.
Thanks for the info Kamackazi!
Try the Roxy show from the same year, That is also wild.
Duke RULES.
So many time signatures! Crazy
Frank's Petit Wazoo Orchestra
I was there!😁
Where is this video? I can't find it anywhere!!! AMAZING
Really enjoy watching your reactions to the Zappa "catalog", thanks! 👍
Thankfully there a many good suggestions - and it seems like you have been "Zapped"!. Though not a Patreon, I would like to recommend the composition "RDNZL" - the version from the album "Läther" or "Studio Tan". I think you would appreciate that one as well.
Thanks for being here Claus!
Always love the the middle finger up the wazoo signal.
Got to say Frank sounds surprisingly close to McLaughlin here.
The Noonward Race from Mahavishnu to be more precise.