Violin, Jean Luc Ponty, one of the best electric violinists you will ever hear. And yes, all of it was committed to paper before it was played, he was not just a great composer and musician, his ability to arrange pieces of music as complex as he wrote was astounding. This is a single song, one Frank wrote, composing every piece of instrumentation, and the complexity makes it sound improvisational. His guitar solos were the main part of his performance that veered into improvisation, with the band following his lead to keep up with what he did. This particular band was astounding, and their skills made creating his uniquely styled music sound so damned good. As far as live performances, and I expect you mean video versions, are rare. Live performances in general are abundant, he put out six double CD sets of live performances called, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. On top[ of that, he was a master at editing, he would splice live performances into studio recordings, so there is live material strewn through a lot of his work. Sloppy is actually improvisation, watch attached clip on how he approached live shows. ruclips.net/video/A6ZzTr-a2L8/видео.html Watch it, he really lays out his approach quite clearly Keep digging friend, you just touching the tip of the iceberg that is FZ!
Jean Luc Ponty is incredible. I am blessed to have seen the Rites of Strings concert in 1994. Jean Luc Ponty, Al Di Meola and Stanley Clark. My favorite song from the tour is "Renaissance". check it out! It's "musicians that are really good, doing their thing".
Only Robert Fripp, Guitarist and founder of the band King Crimson, could come close to the genius that is Frank Zappa. the greatest composer of the modern era.
It's a flute It's a violin, and this is this best video of Jean Luc Ponty I've seen. It's a trombone Reverse the audio mix Reverse the PIP Time your comments as the audience does; something succinct after a solo or some other amazing thing I'll be watching you.
Yeah I'm ashamed of myself... I think of something to say and so I say it. only when I rewatched some of my videos did I realize how much I was talking over all the great music 🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️😞
You really should take a listen to his orchestral stuff. Just before he passed away there was a performance he produced by a European Orchestra called the Ensemble Modern (sp?). The event was called the Yellow Shark, and I'd suggest the tune "G-Spot Tornado". (Btw, its live and Frank conducts)
Check out this version, though: ruclips.net/video/0e8Tk_xSuso/видео.html This follows the only recording of Dupree's Paradise actually released on an official Zappa album (indeed, performed by the same ensemble, but some 35 years later, so obviously not the same musicians), 1984's "The perfect stranger". It's the same piece, and very different at the same time.
On another note, they all followed his lead, he conducted the band. I know you like Steve Vai, here is an interview with him about the recent Zappa documentary, something you should check out. He talks about how a show would go, and how the band needed to watch his cues, as he put it, no one knew what he would do. Check it out, you will enjoy it and learn a bit more about FZ. ruclips.net/video/D7jM1mh0764/видео.html
Nice! Keep on doing Zappa's music and check the albums for yourself. And don't hesitate to listen again and again the same songs, you'll find something new each time.
OK... first of all... you deserve a thumbs up for reacting to non-commercial music... one criticism you need to hear as people have pointed out... you should try to talk a little bit less. I am starting to understand it's part of your charachter. So.. don't get offended. But try to reel it back just a little on the commenting during the music. Having said that I will answer some of your questions. 1. The guy was playing a flute... you had it right, trust your instincts. 2. The first 45 seconds and the last 45 seconds of the song are written (You didn't hear the start, because you talked over it, but you heard it at the end) after that, until tghe end... everything is improvised.. 3. It's a BIG MUFF and a MORLEY wah wah in a half cocked position to get extra treble that Frank used as distortion, but what you are hearing is pick-ups out of phase on top of that, and the guitar has a very special electronics board. By the way... you can buy that guitar. It has been remade and marketed by Gibson... the FZSG. 4. The Barcelona concert from 1988 has very many songs that people might be requesting... you can find it on youtube and it has a songlist with markers, i think. So if you're looking for a LIVE version of something, you might find it there... I personally think you should react to BOTH things... if you can't find a live version of something, then listen to the ORIGINAL VERSION. 5. My Zappa request... I'll be soft on you and not request a 20 minute long song, and STILL I will give you a song that has great guitar, great musicianship, and you can find a live version. THE BLACK PAGE. The version you should react to is BARCELONA 88. There are many versions, but this one is very nice. HERE IS THE LINK: ruclips.net/video/KDO3DDyGu_A/видео.html enjoy... it's only 6.45 seconds.
Wow thank so much I really appreciate your comment. After rewatching some of my reaction videos I did realize I was talking way to much so I'm trying to cut back on that in my future reactions 👍🙂
Personally I feel you should listen to LP versions to get the original songs and then see how Frank expands the songs on stage. Give a listen to the LP cut of Watermelon In Easter Hey to see what I mean. I would like to see you react to some of his early work - Brown Shoes Don't Make It, It Can't Happen Here, the entire LP We're Only In It For The Money and the Uncle Meat LP (which is 3 sides of basically different variations of the Uncle Meat Theme). I saw FZ several times over the years - every show was amazing. I had a friend who didn't really like Frank but would go to his shows with me. She said she had no idea what she would hear but she she knew it would be incredible.
Zappa composed a lot of the material, but also left a lot of opportunities for the musicians to improvise solos. He also would conduct his band to create music spontaneously according to hand signals; basically playing the band like an instrument. This video shows some samples of his conducting technique: ruclips.net/video/8_ApXjLB00o/видео.html
Sorry guys I posted the wrong Frank Zappa video last Sunday I had actually already posted that one 😬🙄 so I had to take it down and here's the right one. Hope you enjoy it 👍🙂
This is a new one for me. I’m a long time fan of Frank and these reaction videos have been great fun to binge. You ought to check out his 1968 bbc performance of the song King Kong. It’s an early Zappa staple and very chaotic and jazzy. Also, try Montana from the same concert from this video. Also try Inca roads from his, a token of his extreme. My favorite Frank stuff is his pre 1980s stuff, and by checking out your reactions I think that you’ll like that stuff too. Anyway I’m gonna subscribe and put on my notifications to see your new reaction videos. 🤘
Going back to one of your earlier videos, "What you think you sound like as to how you really do" you need to react to SRV "Life Without You" live from the Capitol Theater for starters if you want to see the GOAT, that is if you haven't seen it before. You'll attract a big audience as he has many followers. Always react to him live and then you can proceed to "Texas Flood" live at el Mocambo, Voodoo Child" live from Nashville and by then his following will inundate you with directions.
Its intensley written, and very difficult to learn to play. Each and every note is prewritten. Composed. Etc. Frank challenged hos musicians to play what he wrote, and brought out the best in them most all composed on piano first, and a musicians notepad .
This is a written piece of music, very well rehearsed, memorized , but certain points allow for improvisation.
True, but it is mostly improv. The actual theme is barely a minute and the rest is a series of solos where the chord changes for each player
George Duke on keyboards, Jean Luc-Ponty violin!!! Both world renowned on their instruments.
I can see why 🤯
Violin, Jean Luc Ponty, one of the best electric violinists you will ever hear. And yes, all of it was committed to paper before it was played, he was not just a great composer and musician, his ability to arrange pieces of music as complex as he wrote was astounding. This is a single song, one Frank wrote, composing every piece of instrumentation, and the complexity makes it sound improvisational. His guitar solos were the main part of his performance that veered into improvisation, with the band following his lead to keep up with what he did. This particular band was astounding, and their skills made creating his uniquely styled music sound so damned good.
As far as live performances, and I expect you mean video versions, are rare. Live performances in general are abundant, he put out six double CD sets of live performances called, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. On top[ of that, he was a master at editing, he would splice live performances into studio recordings, so there is live material strewn through a lot of his work. Sloppy is actually improvisation, watch attached clip on how he approached live shows.
ruclips.net/video/A6ZzTr-a2L8/видео.html
Watch it, he really lays out his approach quite clearly
Keep digging friend, you just touching the tip of the iceberg that is FZ!
Very very good comment. Highly recommend watching the above linked video.
Thank you so for saying that. !
...im just tryin to tell ya,....
Jean Luc Ponty is incredible. I am blessed to have seen the Rites of Strings concert in 1994. Jean Luc Ponty, Al Di Meola and Stanley Clark. My favorite song from the tour is "Renaissance".
check it out! It's "musicians that are really good, doing their thing".
All versions of Dupree’s Paradise, except for the version recorded with the Ensemble InterContemporain, were recorded live.
"It's not rock, it's not jazz, it's not blues... it's FRANK ZAPPA"... You nailed it!!
Only Robert Fripp, Guitarist and founder of the band King Crimson, could come close to the genius that is Frank Zappa. the greatest composer of the modern era.
Zappa's Roxy and elsewhere stuff has live performances on you tube.
It's a flute
It's a violin, and this is this best video of Jean Luc Ponty I've seen.
It's a trombone
Reverse the audio mix
Reverse the PIP
Time your comments as the audience does; something succinct after a solo or some other amazing thing
I'll be watching you.
Talking over Frank's guitar playing should be a criminal offence.
Yeah I'm ashamed of myself... I think of something to say and so I say it. only when I rewatched some of my videos did I realize how much I was talking over all the great music 🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️😞
You really should take a listen to his orchestral stuff. Just before he passed away there was a performance he produced by a European Orchestra called the Ensemble Modern (sp?). The event was called the Yellow Shark, and I'd suggest the tune "G-Spot Tornado". (Btw, its live and Frank conducts)
And what a piece! Even the relatively flat synth version from 1986 is a masterpiece.
“The Muffin Man” song 👍
Check out this version, though: ruclips.net/video/0e8Tk_xSuso/видео.html
This follows the only recording of Dupree's Paradise actually released on an official Zappa album (indeed, performed by the same ensemble, but some 35 years later, so obviously not the same musicians), 1984's "The perfect stranger". It's the same piece, and very different at the same time.
On another note, they all followed his lead, he conducted the band. I know you like Steve Vai, here is an interview with him about the recent Zappa documentary, something you should check out. He talks about how a show would go, and how the band needed to watch his cues, as he put it, no one knew what he would do. Check it out, you will enjoy it and learn a bit more about FZ.
ruclips.net/video/D7jM1mh0764/видео.html
Nice! Keep on doing Zappa's music and check the albums for yourself. And don't hesitate to listen again and again the same songs, you'll find something new each time.
Frank wrote most of his music out on sheet music and left room for improvised solos
OK... first of all... you deserve a thumbs up for reacting to non-commercial music... one criticism you need to hear as people have pointed out... you should try to talk a little bit less. I am starting to understand it's part of your charachter. So.. don't get offended. But try to reel it back just a little on the commenting during the music. Having said that I will answer some of your questions.
1. The guy was playing a flute... you had it right, trust your instincts.
2. The first 45 seconds and the last 45 seconds of the song are written (You didn't hear the start, because you talked over it, but you heard it at the end) after that, until tghe end... everything is improvised..
3. It's a BIG MUFF and a MORLEY wah wah in a half cocked position to get extra treble that Frank used as distortion, but what you are hearing is pick-ups out of phase on top of that, and the guitar has a very special electronics board. By the way... you can buy that guitar. It has been remade and marketed by Gibson... the FZSG.
4. The Barcelona concert from 1988 has very many songs that people might be requesting... you can find it on youtube and it has a songlist with markers, i think. So if you're looking for a LIVE version of something, you might find it there... I personally think you should react to BOTH things... if you can't find a live version of something, then listen to the ORIGINAL VERSION.
5. My Zappa request...
I'll be soft on you and not request a 20 minute long song,
and STILL I will give you a song that has great guitar, great musicianship, and you can find a live version.
THE BLACK PAGE.
The version you should react to is BARCELONA 88. There are many versions, but this one is very nice. HERE IS THE LINK:
ruclips.net/video/KDO3DDyGu_A/видео.html
enjoy... it's only 6.45 seconds.
Wow thank so much I really appreciate your comment. After rewatching some of my reaction videos I did realize I was talking way to much so I'm trying to cut back on that in my future reactions 👍🙂
Personally I feel you should listen to LP versions to get the original songs and then see how Frank expands the songs on stage. Give a listen to the LP cut of Watermelon In Easter Hey to see what I mean. I would like to see you react to some of his early work - Brown Shoes Don't Make It, It Can't Happen Here, the entire LP We're Only In It For The Money and the Uncle Meat LP (which is 3 sides of basically different variations of the Uncle Meat Theme).
I saw FZ several times over the years - every show was amazing. I had a friend who didn't really like Frank but would go to his shows with me. She said she had no idea what she would hear but she she knew it would be incredible.
Thanks, you made some really good points it would be interesting to compare the live and studio versions. 🤔🙂
Guy in the back. George Duke. Check him out.
Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs it
no live performance but cool song
Zappa composed a lot of the material, but also left a lot of opportunities for the musicians to improvise solos. He also would conduct his band to create music spontaneously according to hand signals; basically playing the band like an instrument.
This video shows some samples of his conducting technique: ruclips.net/video/8_ApXjLB00o/видео.html
Sorry guys I posted the wrong Frank Zappa video last Sunday I had actually already posted that one 😬🙄 so I had to take it down and here's the right one. Hope you enjoy it 👍🙂
You really need to turn your mic off during the performance !
Yeah I probably should
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BIG mouf!!!!
I'm just ribbin ya.
I think itz kool..... U were verbally showing, ur mind wuz blown!
Now you know what music can be
This is a new one for me. I’m a long time fan of Frank and these reaction videos have been great fun to binge. You ought to check out his 1968 bbc performance of the song King Kong. It’s an early Zappa staple and very chaotic and jazzy. Also, try Montana from the same concert from this video. Also try Inca roads from his, a token of his extreme. My favorite Frank stuff is his pre 1980s stuff, and by checking out your reactions I think that you’ll like that stuff too. Anyway I’m gonna subscribe and put on my notifications to see your new reaction videos. 🤘
Welcome to the enigma that is Frank Zappa
Trombone is a brass instrument.
Check out Jean Luc-Pontys album Cosmic Message it's really nice what h can do with a violin 🎻
The mouth that never stops.
dude won't shut up ever and listen. At least he is self aware
Mabye I should be a rapper 🤔
Can I suggest 'Inca Roads '(A Token Of His Extreme, 'LIVE') ✌.........anyone wonna back me up ?🤔
Check out black napkins( mike douglas show), and watermellon in easter hay, then whats new in baltimore , ...then well talk Frank talk.
That's Jean Luc-Ponty one of the best violinist in the world
Most FZ songs have tightly written sections and sections the are much more free form.
Going back to one of your earlier videos, "What you think you sound like as to how you really do" you need to react to SRV "Life Without You" live from the Capitol Theater for starters if you want to see the GOAT, that is if you haven't seen it before. You'll attract a big audience as he has many followers. Always react to him live and then you can proceed to "Texas Flood" live at el Mocambo, Voodoo Child" live from Nashville and by then his following will inundate you with directions.
Pay attention!
This is not whimsicle flushance.
Its intensley written, and very difficult to learn to play. Each and every note is prewritten. Composed. Etc. Frank challenged hos musicians to play what he wrote, and brought out the best in them most all composed on piano first, and a musicians notepad .
He also lets each musician be themselves while getting the best outta them
Youre half deaf, youre still wet behind the ear, wake up
You're talking SO MUCH I've gotta leave.