Applied Zappigraphy

[Karl Henning]

Interesting reference, thanks, James. Curiously, was just listening to Absolutely Free last night.

Dave, looks like my wait on Chunga's Revenge has paid off....

[Ataraxia]

Dave, looks like my wait on Chunga's Revenge has paid off....

Indeed!

[Karl Henning]

Ataraxia, come home!

Just Another Band From LA . . . when's it going to be available?

[Karl Henning]

Just Another Band From LA . . . when's it going to be available?

Found it. Who knew?  My ears are jonesing for "Billy the Mountain." And as little patience as I have for some of the liberal scatology, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums does make Joe's Garage an obligatory revisitation.

[Karl Henning]

Happy birthday, Frank Zappa! Don't eat even the celestial yellow snow!

[Karl Henning]

The first album, Freak Out, I didn't find a greatly rewarding experience of itself;  more a "this is how it started" illustration.  The seeds for musical ambition (such as his was) were already there, but, as one might expect, Zappa worked with whom he could . . . doo-wop, R&B folks. (All the same, to be sure, Zappa had a fondness for doo-wop and R&B, himself.)

Just wanted to emend this.

The earlier opinion was based on the first Ryko-Disc reissue of Freak Out! At that time (for whatever passel of reasons) I found the album . . . underwhelming.

I have since basked in the re-mastered monaural glory of the album.  So, I may technically continue to agree with the idea that Freak Out! largely has a "this is how it started" value, but with no disgrace.   It is in fact an album to which I return now and again with sonic pleasure.

And now, for your optional entertainment, from a later Zappigraph: "Once Again, Without the Net."

http://www.youtube.com/v/o8iK2FNgUPA

[Karl Henning]

Did my eyes deceive me, or are there no mentions of Joe’s Garage?  Juvenile, yes, but fun nonetheless.  The guitar work in Watermelon in Easter Hay is superb, and Packard Goose could never have been written by anyone else.

Replying to so old a post, just because I have recently revisited Joe’s Garage . . . and I had largely forgotten all the wonderful stuff that runs through "Packard Goose." Your praise is not misplaced a whit.

[Karl Henning]

What about Captain Beefheart?

I do not listen to Trout Mask Replica all that often.  (And most of the time, I cherry-pick a track or three; it is a long time since I listened to the album as a whole. I find it a worthwhile experience, only one needs to be in the mood. Not drunk, just in the mood.)

Safe as Milk, Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot, though, I listen to frequently, indeed.

[Karl Henning]

It's almost like trying to keep up with the Bruckner editions.

(* chortle *)

[7/4]

This just in from Ed Palermo and his big band...

RIGHT ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER FROM NYC! BEAUTIFUL OUTDOOR CONCERT!

Wednesday June 26
(rain date Thursday June 27) at

Summer Concerts on the Hudson
Lincoln Harbor Park
on the Weehawken, NJ waterfront
(just a few hundred feet north of the Chart House restaurant)

7-9 pm
Tel: 201-716-4540   Website: http://www.hrpac.org

Directions: click here
Free of charge!  Free parking!
The music of Frank Zappa and more.

[Karl Henning]

You going, dude?

[7/4]

Unusually busy week at work. I still haven't heard this band play. So...no, unfortunately.

[Beorn]

Zappa liked three Beatles songs:

"I Am the Walrus"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"Paperback Writer"

Damned good taste, that.

[Karl Henning]

Aye.

He even (stop me if I've told you this already) had the band learn the "Walrus" for the 1988 tour:

http://www.youtube.com/v/AgXrhvf_7pE

". . . severe damage" . . . love it.

[Beorn]

Cool. 

[7/4]

David Ocker was a copyist, synclavier programmer, and clarinetist for Zappa.
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/David_Ocker

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - The Suites
http://mixedmeters.com/2013/10/frank-zappas-200-motels-suites.html

[Karl Henning]

From an enthusiastic Amazon review of Uncle Meat:

Listen to "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" alone, in a darkened room, with the volume turned up and prepare to weep tears of joy.

A testimonial, dear friends!

[Karl Henning]

R.I.P., Don Pardo

http://www.youtube.com/v/O69zZ2kXW3o

[Karl Henning]

R.I.P., Don Pardo

http://www.youtube.com/v/O69zZ2kXW3o

Pity about them never getting that photograph to him!  And I love how he half-remembers Michael Kenyon:  The Illinois Enema Bandit!

[Karl Henning]

I do not listen to Trout Mask Replica all that often.  (And most of the time, I cherry-pick a track or three; it is a long time since I listened to the album as a whole. I find it a worthwhile experience, only one needs to be in the mood. Not drunk, just in the mood.)

A few weeks ago, I listened to Trout Mask Replica practically in toto, two or three days in a row-ish.  It's peculiar, no denying that;  but I do like it.