1001realapes
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Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 21, 2010, 15:16
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Mojo has done something right
for a change , and released an
all Zappa issue for Franks 70th
Happy Birthday Frank !
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Dog 3000
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Re: Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 21, 2010, 22:06
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Annual taste of Frank:
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/2010.12.17.htm
1st hour - FZ live with John & Yoko & Flo & Eddie, and classic album of the week "Cruising With Ruben & The Jets" (original LP mix of course), plus Flo & Eddie post-FZ:
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.12.17_1.mp3
2nd hour - No Zappa per se, just "jazzrock with a Zappaesque feel"
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.12.17_2.mp3
3rd hour - "Billy The Mountain" live & uncut (32 minutes!), plus Edgard Varese and Jean-Luc Ponty.
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.12.17_3.mp3
PS - Captain Beefheart Day #70th is this January 15.
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geoffrey_prime
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Re: Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 23, 2010, 03:53
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Yeah, thanks for the "heads up", bought a copy today...well worth the money..and nicely capitalises on the recent coming together of the Zappa-related folk for the Roundhouse w/e.
(So glad to see Jeff Simmons getting a bit of air-time too.. )
Whilst in "Smiths"..had to spot and subsequently buy a Motorhead special "Classic Rock" edition, built around their new album. OK, it's £15 but you get the new album, magazine, badge etc ..all-in-one...and you get to support Lemmy and the boys moving fwd! Worthy patronage, for me..
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IanB
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Edited Dec 23, 2010, 08:15
Re: Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 23, 2010, 08:13
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Haven't bought one of the monthlies in eons but I might actual invest in a copy of this one.
It's funny how the British media's view of FZ changed after he died. In fact I think it was a Mojo review of "Yellow Shark" that was the first thaw. Then the Ben Watson book a couple of years later and more recently the Zappa Plays Zappa revival show at Albert Hall. All small steps to rehabilitation. And not hindered by the (ahem) "reassessment" of Classic Rock in all its forms since 1992 ish when people started to be more honest about the music they really liked rather than the music they wanted other people to think they really liked.
Before that, certainly between Zoot Allures (when I first heard his music) and his death my recollection was that he was severely under valued as a composer and guitar player and largely dismissed as a libertarian purveyor of sophomore pornography. Which he was at times, but that was never the whole of the story.
BTW anyone who does not own Yellow Shark should invest immediately. Especially for the guitar solo-phobic. Important record.
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Dog 3000
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Re: Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 23, 2010, 17:25
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PS - didja know Lemmy's birthday is . . . tomorrow, i.e. Xmas Eve?
65 years warty!
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Frank Zappa - 70th
Dec 23, 2010, 20:09
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65!?!!
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