Zappa Trust Vaultmeister Joe Travers Speaks about Latest Releases from Vast Frank Zappa Archive
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2020
- LOS ANGELES, CA -- TAPintoTV’s Executive Producer Brian Brodeur recently spoke with Joe Travers, accomplished drummer and longtime archivist for the Zappa Trust, about his experiences maintaining Frank Zappa’s vast collection of recordings for the past 25 years, and the latest releases from the Zappa archive.
Travers, who attended Berklee College of Music and has toured with acts like Duran Duran and Lisa Loeb, has been the archivist for the Zappa Trust for 25 years and is known affectionately as “The Vaultmeister.” He started in 1995, almost two years after Frank Zappa’s death in 1993. “It’s been an unbelievable experience,” Travers said.
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Saw Joe Travers with the Zappa Band (and King Crimson) recently. He did a fantastic job, the band sounded like FZ was right there, right as ever.
There's a great video with Joe walking round the old Zappa vault, showing off all the masters for Zappa and Beefheart, and rare tapes from the Cucamonga days!
Glad I saw this on RUclips. Joe is the back bone of the family now.
If I could pick any job I wanted, then Joe's Vaultmeister spot would in the top 3!
So nice to see this duo together again.
Seen Joe several times with Dweezil. He's a great drummer!
A masterful drummer.
Honestly,...I feel the trust is releasing SOME material that Frank himself would have never released.
Joe is the best
is ahmet trying to channel joe, or visa-versa? who could imagine? you know.
I have been wondering what they did with his vault. Since they sold off the Zappa house and had to move his entire home vault to somewhere but where did his vault contents end up?
ZAPPA IS KING, whos elvis
How many more brilliant albums are Ahmet and the embers of the ZFT going to ruin before they are done? They have all but obliterated the online legacy of Hot Rats by SEO of the dreadful sessions album. 90% of the ZFT releases have been terrible, featuring material Frank would never have wanted to be public. There is a perfectly good back catalogue to work with, which could be generating a steady income almost without any publicity or work, but here we have a series of sub-par products that do nothing to keep Frank's genius alive, and only weaken his position as the pre-eminent musical genius of the 20th century. Shameful dereliction of their duty of care in the pursuit of money.
I disagree. He was well aware of building his legacy and knew full well that anything he did , however undeveloped, would eventually be made available to anyone that would listen to it. Otherwise he would not have saved it in his archives.
He seemed so otherworldly to most of his listeners that learning anything about him is interesting. And he knew that.
Its true that he had no time for stupid But he was aware that most of his fans were less smart than he.
As far as his family making money off of his name, thats fair. You or I would capitalize on that too
@@jessewoody5772 If Frank had wanted his family to carry on the business then he would not have written a will which specified that upon his death the business should be sold off and the proceeds split between the five remaining family members. Gail knew about the will, a copy of which was found amongst her belongings when she died.
The archive was definitely NOT for publication, but was part of Zappa's obsessive work ethic. He would draw upon the archive to inform his ongoing creativity, but he released so much of it in his lifetime that it's very easy to argue that the ZFT are forever scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Zappa was a unique person, and there is no end to what can be known about him. He was a very public figure, and a fascinating character in all kinds of ways, but our interest in the man must include honouring his dying wishes, and it's very clear to me that Zappa himself did not want his music to be handled by his family, probably because he had an inkling of what Gail and Ahmet would do to it.
I would much rather the archive was made available as part of a library, catalogued and cross referenced against itself in an academic and conservable way.
The family could have lived very well off the proceeds of the back catalogue without releasing all those dreadful posthumous albums.
There are so many ways the catalogue could have been made into a vital part of the legacy of 20th century music, but every new substandard ZFT release diminishes the impact of the original works, some of which stand head and shoulders above anything achieved elsewhere.
Gail and Ahmet even sued Dweezil for the crime of keeping his father's music alive, which tells me everything I need to know about what the ZFT is really about. £££$$$
So Zappa's own last will and testament wasn't followed or was that a will which he had changed before he died? I doubt k could find his last will and test. in any public docket of any probate court at this point. Not doubting you, but wondering how you know
@@weebgrinder Dweezil talked about the will (and his mother's role in hiding it from the family) on the Marc Maron podcast not long after she died. I'm not in the US, but I did a little research and in the state of California the existence of a will is enough to make it legal as long as it's made when the person making it is in of sound mind and there are witnesses to its making. It doesn't have to be registered or recorded anywhere. Since Gail had it in her possession she must have known of it, and were she still alive she would have been open to remunerative action by any aggrieved party.
Frank was Gail's only source of income, and she did everything to raise the kids and look after the home when he was away for months on end having sex with any willing woman (of which there were many), so it is perhaps understandable that she took what she could. But rather than work to enhance Frank's legacy I think there were times with some of the releases where she was deliberately trying to air Frank's dirty laundry. Either that or she and Ahmet were so cloth eared they could not hear how bad some of the material was. Frank was a big experimenter, and we are all familiar with the amazing results, but there were many failed experiments along the way which Frank would have in all likelihood never released.