Frank Zappa

[cloon]

basically, the man was a genius. he was a visionary that revolutionized his own unique music styles and inspired so many. his avant-jazz style guitar style was both innovative and impressive. one of the greatest musicians of all time with a musical legacy spanning over three decades.

i don't want to make a big speech (but i could) so i'll just tell you that this thread it to discuss the man, his music, his projects and all things affiliated with Frank Zappa. American composer.

i don't have many of his albumes, but so far Joes Garage is my favourite. i love this album so muh, i'll find myself listening to all of it 3 times without noticing the time. right now i'm learning 'What's new in Baltimore" on guitar, and i love that song too.

proof that he inspires? the man has a planet named after him!....and a fish......and a jellyfish.....

well, anyway, discuss and pay due respect to the man.

[Catatonik]

Frank Zappa can be thanked fro bringing us Steve Vai as well.

Did ya know that? :P

[mow]

FINALLY!!!

a Zappa thread :knk

[theoneandonly]

wow never thought this thread is ever being made...

[Urban]

something grabbed my meat
...yeah...classic

[mow]

Make A Jazz noise, Hot Rats, Sheik Yathrob (or however it's spelt) Is there Humor in music, plus a zillion more records. Zappa defines the term genius.

[GSurge]

Could you tell me more about this guy? I've never heard of him. I am musically sheltered.

[mow]

Sure thing mate :thumbs.

Zappa Zappa Zappa, where to begin? an extremely intelligent, artistsic,driven, ambitious, creative, ridiclously strict and effiecnt musician. Influnced by composers such as Edgar Varèse and Igor Stravinsky, and various genres such as blues, jazz (bebop and free jazz specifically), just to name a few.

He was a drummer, a guitarist a percussionist you name it he played it. He's bands and quartets were infamous for their brilliant drum works, and the complexity of their compostions and the insane temp changes, rythems.

Franks guitar style was extremely unique and indiviual in nature, a trait that made him one of the most respected guitarist, not just in the Jazz world, but music world in its entirity.

But to see Zappa at his best, we come to his compostions. A master of condaction and arrangemnt of avant-grade.

That's a breif of Zappa as solo artist.

but then, there was he Mothers of Invention.

Mothers of invention was an R&B band, previously called The Soul Giants. Zappa joined in as a guitarist,. but quickly took lead in the band and then renamed it to The Mothers Of Invention.

combining there efforts with Tom Wilson (producer of bob dulans, Highway 61 revisited, and the free wheeling bob dylan). TMOI recored their first record (which was a double disk); Freak Out!, which is quite possibly one of the most brilliant, ground breaking and diverisifed debut by a band yet. The record blended R&B, jazz and a huge does of experimentiation, capturing the freak culutre of the times.

frnak Zappa wasnt just a guitarist, composer and band leader. He was also a superb songwriter. The second album, Absolutely Free saw Zappa writing about the hypocrisy of american socitey at the time, and how it nullifed and supressed altenative cultures to grow and thrive.

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thats a brief run down of zappa during the 50s to 60s. the 70's thru 90's still had more to show about the man ingenius creativity and brilliance, but Im too lazy to type about that now XD

[Nybarius]

Let's not forget his connection with Don van Vliet.

[mow]

I cannot believe I forgot to mention him and Captain Beefheart =[

The Don met Zappa in highschool, around 1957 I think. At the time Zappa was playing with The Blackout (or was it the Whiteouts? o.O).

anyhow, The Don and Zappa became close friends who influnced each other musically, and did a fair share of collabs throught the 60s and 70s (the most note worthy one is on Bongo Fury ).

Man, my Zappa collection is ridiclously small. My dad had all Zappa's cassettes, from the 60s till 80s, including bootlegs.

[Catatonik]

I posess disgustingly small amounts of Zappa

Need to fix that.

[Meijin]

I posess disgustingly small amounts of Zappa

Need to fix that.

Fix it right now! :mad

:laugh

[mow]

I heard a great deal of his material;, but all I have atm is Freak Out, Make A Jazz noise Here (disk 1 & 2), Hot Rats, Shut Up and Play Yur Guitar (all three disks)

I am pathetic :(

[cloon]

has anyone got Apostraphe? my guitar teacher told me to grab a copy a while ago but i havn't been able to find it in stores.

the man was a genius indeed. who else but zappa could compose such a song that contains a guitar solo played along with a loading zone announcement?

Freak Out! is a good one, one that i've got in my pathetic zappa collection. i'll have to build it up soon. wow, 12 posts in a night after i made the thread. howcome this thread was never created before?

[Catatonik]

So much fucking music, and so little time and money.

I am not even complete my Devy or Opeth Collections, nor my Therion, Judas Priest, Emperor, Faith No More, Primus, Led Zepellin, Hendrix, Zappa, Glen Miller, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Blackalicious, Last Emperor, Pink Floyd, Beck, Ween...you get the idea.

[cloon]

yeah, i know what you mean. so much music.....so little time (and money).

has anyone seen any of the movies he did?

[¤Naruto-Kun¤]

wow never thought this thread is ever being made...

you said it man..
this may be a dumb question but...who the hell is Zappa?

[cloon]

moe explained a bit above, so scroll up. other than that, you can go to zappa.net (i think that's his site) and get some of the mans music! now!

[organizedcrime]

*bump*

Forunately and unfortunately, this post isn't just for bumping. In a horrible accident, I somehow deleted next to all of my Frank Zappa albums (Grand Wazoo, Uncle Meat, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, and We're Only In It For The Money, while retaining Hot Rats, Them or Us, and Waka/Jawaka). I was going to look for more albums anyway, as it'd been a while since I'd gotten more.

Would anyone happen to have those albums and possibly more of them for sharing?

Pfft, this thread needed bumping anyway.

[Efraim Longstocking]

Indeed it did!

Of those you mentioned you'd lost I only have Grand Wazoo.

Other than that I have Them or Us, Studio Tan and The Man from Utopia + some best of album.

[DragonSlayer]

I got Grand Wazoo and Weasels Ripped My Flesh out of the ones you lost. Hoping Simpatik will handle Grand Wazoo, I can upload Weasels.

I also got:

Freak Out!, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Over-nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Zappa in New York, Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti, Sleep Dirt, You Are What You Is, The Yellow Shark and The Lost Episodes.

[Hagen]

Freak Out is a great great great album.

[organizedcrime]

Gee, how am I supposed to respond to this without acting like a spoiled brat? @_@

I got Grand Wazoo and Weasels Ripped My Flesh out of the ones you lost. Hoping Simpatik will handle Grand Wazoo, I can upload Weasels.

Yeah, that sounds (is) good.

I also got:

Freak Out!, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Over-nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Zappa in New York, Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti, Sleep Dirt, You Are What You Is, The Yellow Shark and The Lost Episodes.
Four of those caught my eye, Freak Out!, Apostrophe ('), Joe's Garage, and Sheik Yerbouti, although asking one person to upload five specific albums seems crazy.

If you're unable to get those other four, just Weasels will be alright. Rather, any combination is fine, really (since this is a pretty big favor you guys are doing)

[DragonSlayer]

I'll upload them. I'm going to upload Sleep Dirt too because it's underrated.

Just gimme 2-3 days.

[organizedcrime]

I'll upload them. I'm going to upload Sleep Dirt too because it's underrated.

Just gimme 2-3 days.Oh sure, take your time. Thanks for the extra one :amuse

[DragonSlayer]

Ok, Freak Out!, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Apostrophe ('), Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti and Sleep Dirt are up. If you want them, just post in this topic and I'll send a PM with the links.

[poona]

I've heard that Frank Zappa's really great but I've not heard any of music, any recommendations on which recordings I should hear first?

[Cell]

Never heard him. :\

I need too.

[DyersEve]

I haven't listened to him before either.

*runs to Pandora*

[DragonSlayer]

I've heard that Frank Zappa's really great but I've not heard any of music, any recommendations on which recordings I should hear first?
Hot Rats is said to be really good but I never heard that one unfortunately. Out of the ones I have heard, I'd start with Apostrophe ('). And then Freak Out!.

In fact, I'm gonna get Hot Rats now.

[less]

^Agreed. Apostrophe (') is a great starter.

[Arty]

I absolutely love Zappa in the Mothers period. Not a bad album in sight. Absolutely Free is goddamn incredible.

I'm more of a fan of his early solo work. Like Chunga's Revenge and Hot Rats.

I'm willing to pimp any Mothers albums anyone wants.

[spinstate]

I haven't heard any Frank Zappa, so any pimpage would be appreciated :)

[Moridin]

I could pimp the best of zappa, its got a pretty comprehensive overview of some of his best stuff

[spinstate]

Well what are you waiting for :P

[Jef88]

I could pimp the best of zappa, its got a pretty comprehensive overview of some of his best stuff
:cry
thank you soooooooooo much
i have 3 cd's of him :nuts

i think i pimped Moe once with "does humor belongs in music"

Love Zappa

any one got Hot Rats :wtf
i can repay with:
-best of Zappa
-does humor belong in music
-sheik Yerbouti




proof that he inspires? the man has a planet named after him!....and a fish......and a jellyfish.....

well, anyway, discuss and pay due respect to the man.

and a spider =D

[jkingler]

Ah, yes! bACK ONLINE! tIME TO dl, MOTHERFUCKERS!

*DLS THIS IMMEDIATELY*

[Jef88]

great to hear that Joe :spaz
cant wait to hear what you think about the album

[DyersEve]

Listening right now, thanks for the pimp Taira!

[Arty]

Beefheart pimp ahoy! (http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=128741)

[Jef88]

Yarr great pimp week
frist zappa than beefheart
:knk

[Shariyakugan]

Just recently discovered Frank zappa.
This guy was awesome.
He died of prostate cancer right, some years back?