Dot Stein, "Zappa Plays Zappa (And How! Music and lyrics [ edit] there were some problems with the bassplayer, people not getting along with the bassplayer. But once I was thrust into that position and there was so much work that had to be done, that had to take precedence. When Yuppies Go To Hell [parts on MAJNH]), Packard Goose Medley, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, Sofa, Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Stinkfoot, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Orange County Lumber Truck, When Yuppies Go To Hell, I Am The Walrus, Zoot Allures [TBBYNHIYL], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, City Of Tiny Lights [incl. Before the show Morgan and I discussed what we would do and so we just decided to play the jam that they were doing, sneak into 'T'Mershi Duween' and then get off the stage. I like you, and I like what you doexcept for all the mistakes you've been making." You really need to have at least three horns, maybe four even. With Frank spinning many plates including his home video business and his dabbling in foreign trade the job fell on bassist Scott Thunes. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, But as I saw it, all he cared about was the band knowing their stuff, and he wasn't trying to make friends in the process, which I respected, and we became good friends during this phase. Except for the unreleased material, of course, I learned everything off the records (and CD's, when applicable). Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), one of the world's most gifted musicians, toured with 'his own band' 1 for the last time in 1988. I can just imagine me telling Frank 'Come on, man, let me sit in, I know how to play 'Muffin Man'. And that's what I'm doing with my music. Held over from the 1984 group were Bobby Martin, keyboards, synclavier, vocals; Ike Willis, rhythm guitar, vocals; Scott Thunes, bass, mini-moog; and Chad Wackerman, drums, electronic percussion. Entdecke FRANK ZAPPA. For the next few months, there was a thread of hope that we'd go back on tour, and everybody was kind of waiting for the next call. With Fabio Treves on harmonica (*). Scott ruled rehearsals with an iron fist and rubbed a few of the horn players the wrong way. So there was a lot of material that we could have learnt. So that was a lot of fun for me and very challenging. That was the "He says, 'Anyone who has a coat like that must know something,' and he hired me," laughs Harry Andronis, house mixer for Frank Zappa since the 1988 Broadway the Hard Way tour. I tried it for one summer of rehearsals, and by the end of it . The songs that Frank Zappa performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the May 20, 1988 concert at Le Znith in Paris, le-de-France, France: The Black Page Packard Goose / Royal March From L'Histoire du Soldat / Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto no. Bob went up there, took this thing and he was trying to impress this girl security guard. Frank Zappa Tour 88Broadway The Hard Way, 1988, p. 3 Management WEG/Tom Hulett 11111 Santa Monica Blvd., 20th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90025 (213) 477-8900 Road Manager Dwayne Taylor Stage Manager Ray Upton Remote U.M.R.K. Scott Thunes, interviewed by Thomas Wictor. I said "I need another Diet Coke though". DS: There are some good little musical inclusions that resulted from that too. I wasn't really ever the guy to rely on for this blazing keyboard solo, but among other things, I could play the keyboards. Naturally the other Zappa fans who were somehow connected and lucky enough to be watching the masters sound check turned on me and all pointed at me. He put the sheet music in front of me and I started playing it from memory, since I can't sight read. Scratch & Sniff, TRF], A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, City Of Tiny Lights, I Ain't Got No Heart, Let's Move To Cleveland, Bamboozled By Love, Big Swifty [parts on MAJNH], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Cruising For Burgers, Outside Now [parts on BTHW], The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [incl. I Left My Heart. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. This is a very effective way of getting our younger generation to take part in the vote to elect our politicians. Sometimes not, though. It just occurred when Frank was in a bad mood and Listen to Peaches en Regalia from Zappa 88. I knew what keyboards Bobby Martin used, so for me it was just a matter of telling Frank what sounds I wanted to play. He took it very seriously and he was very 'pfff' (he imitates the noise of a whip) and anybody else didn't want to hear it so simple. Jam [Bavarian Sunset, TRF]), Sofa (q: Lohengrin), The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Cosmik Debris, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, Trouble Every Day, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: Carmen), The Torture Never Stops Medley, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Bolero, Stairway To Heaven (q: Rhymin' Man, Hallelujah I'm A Bum), I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, No known unofficial recording of this show. CalledZappa 88: The Last U.S. Show, the album offers two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music, including 28 tracks from the Long Island event and two from earlier concerts that same month in Rhode Island and Maryland. Gorgo, TRF], Big Swifty* (incl. I am not a technical wizard. I do not think that Bogosian provided any burps, and he was the only other third party in FZ's sampler who made strange sounds that I am aware of . Lohengrin, Carmen, 1812 Overture) [parts on MAJNH], Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage (q: Lohengrin), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [solo on BTHW], Who Needs The Peace Corps? .
I don't even think about it. Did you start shaking? Yankee Doodle Boy), Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Trouble Every Day (q: Smoke On The Water), Penguin In Bondage (q: Jingle Bells), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel (incl. On February 2, 1988, Zappa launched what would prove to be his final tour, playing 81 dates in North America and Europe through June 9. Mystery Song #4), One Man One Vote (synclavier), Sofa, Bolero, Filthy Habits, King Kong, Sinister Footwear, The Black Page, Stainless The Maiden, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Panty Rap (incl. This parody weds music from three Lennon-McCartney songs to lyrics that make fun of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became embroiled in a prostitution scandal only weeks before Zappa delivered this concert. I don't have the chops of a Tommy Marsnot many people dobut I'm no slash; you don't get into Frank's band if you can't really play. [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Zomby Woof [parts on TBBYNHIYL], King Kong [parts on MAJNH], Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Cruising For Burgers, Rhymin' Man [BTHW], Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland (q: Lohengrin), Whipping Post*, I Am The Walrus* (incl. But he just got spoiled rotten and nobody We played the US and Europe and then it was over. Well, Frank can't sight read all that well either, and he's looking over my shoulder to see if I'm playing what's in front of me, but he can't really tell. MG: So it was like 'If you wanna do it, you can do it'? But my reading is so slow that it always proved more efficient to learn things by ear Scott (Thunes, bassplayer and as "Clonemeister" in charge of teaching and rehearsing the band in '88 -aa) wrote me a chart for the piano accompaniment in the Bartok piecea fairly simple part but it took me hours to learn it. Pound for a Brown 05. I went down and jammed with the band, but it never quite came about. It includes latter-period compositions as well as very early ones like I Aint Got No Heart, which first appeared onFreak Out!, the artists 1966 debut LP. We Asked Him! I got to the audition and Frank told me to play, "Cheapness." Frank Zappa Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, NY - Mar 21, 1988 Mar 21 1988 Frank Zappa Towson Center Arena, Towson, MD - Mar 23, 1988 Mar 23 1988 Mar 25, 1988 Frank Zappa Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - Mar 25, 1988 Mar 25 1988 Following concerts Frank Zappa Printemps de Bourges 1988 - Apr 9, 1988 Apr 09 1988 If I'm sitting around the house, I don't play it. E: Collapsed?? MG: Wow, that's wild. RM: That was for the monitor mixer, Marqueson. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
IB: The samples you played on the 88 tourthe dog barks and bubblesdid you create them? We were lead to his dressing-room and we started talking. which is from Graz which is "hairpiece.". 8. (incl. I had that job in 1978. DS: Right. Happy Birthday, Chad! Jorma said to the audience as they began to play "What's wrong with this picture?" Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist) . Before the concert, I was so nervous my hands were shaking badly. Trance-Fusion, TRF], Pick Me I'm Clean, Bamboozled By Love, Sofa [TBBYNHIYL], q: Titties And Beer, Bobby Brown, Sharleena (q: Over There), Rhymin' Man, Elvis Has Just Left The Building [parts on BTHW], Bolero, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Star Wars Won't Work [MAJNH], Whipping Post, The Black Page, We're Turning Again [YCDTOSA6], Alien Orifice [parts on MAJNH], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Dupree's Paradise [parts on MAJNH], Easy Meat, Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Bamboozled By Love, Ring Of Fire, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven (incl. Entdecke Musik Express Sounds Nr. I know that's what I said, tooMann did. Jam**), Sofa, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [most on MAJNH], Advance Romance, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty [parts on MAJNH], Texas Motel Medley, Peaches En Regalia, Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], Packard Goose Medley, Heavy Duty Judy [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Bolero [TBBYNHIYL], Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Stairway To Heaven, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), Stinkfoot [parts on MAJNH], Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Sharleena, Dupree's Paradise, Marqueson's Chicken, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, The Torture Never Stops, Keep It Greasey, Cruising For Burgers (q: Handsome Cabin Boy) [parts on MAJNH], Sofa (q: Billy The Mountain), Crew Slut, The Black Page, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Alien Orifice, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Bamboozled By Love, Zoot Allures, Cosmik Debris, Stolen Moments (q: Big Swifty), Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Cruising For Burgers, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Strictly Genteel, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Sharleena, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, I Ain't Got No Heart, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Stairway To Heaven, The Torture Never Stops Medley, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, Cosmik Debris, Inca Roads [solo on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (incl. ", "Yeah, but in a twisted way," he said "I'm not running for anything. Love it or hate it, though, youll have to agree that theres never been anyone quite like Frank Zappa. America the Beautiful, 2023 MusicFestNews | All Rights Reserved, Heatwave Music Festival 2023 Returns with GRiZ, Tisto, Kx5, Gryffin, LSDREAM, Loud Luxury and Malaa at the Helm, The Revivalists Plot Massive North American Summer Tour with The Head and The Heart, Band of Horses, Lineup Announced for the Earl Scruggs Music Festival. another bass player? Privacy Policy. 12" Bildscheibe. Frank said fuck that and sacked everybody. The heart was a pedal board that had hundreds of little relays, quarter-inch jacks, and little circuit boards wrapped up in duct tape just piled in there, nothing labelled, nothing documented. Where else can you find a record from one artist that embraces doo-wop (Love of My Life), classical music (Stravinskys Royal March from LHistoire du Soldat, Ravels Bolero, and the theme from Bartoks Piano Concerto #3), and rock (Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven and the Allman Brothers Whipping Post)not to mention I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Theme from Bonanza, and a show-closing America the Beautiful? 3 Any Kind of Pain Dupree's Paradise Inca Roads Advance Romance Cookie Notice He checked out of this life earlya victim of cancer at age 52but before he did, he released some five dozen albums. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by RobGordon35, Mar 19, 2014. 01. FZ: Oh, just a whole bunch of stuff. so obnoxious that nobody wanted to be around him. I had never heard the Best Band . And those moments, if I wasn't able to get a hold of myself, I could get a little out of control (laughs). Everyone except me said no. It was the worst possible combination of events for him. '(loud laughter). The Nassau Coliseum show features the first time the complete Beatles medley has been issued: Norwegian Wood > Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds > Strawberry Fields Forever.. I can play all the technical and demanding parts; that was no problem. (referring to the absence of the rest of the Airplane band members). Good luck guys and all the best! I considered him my greatest influence. Dot". . [Marque] Coy and Andronis had worked together in the '70s for Chris De Burgh, a superstar in Europe (if barely an opening act in the U.S.). Pink Floyd Sets Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set. What made you decide to tour at this point in time? It wasnt quite Zappas last live performance, but it did turn out to be his final concert in the United States. [parts on BTHW], Texas Motel Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Stolen Moments [parts on BTHW], Murder By Numbers* [BTHW], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Catholic Girls [parts on YCDTOSA6], Crew Slut [parts on YCDTOSA6], Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, What's New In Baltimore?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, Inca Roads, Zoot Allures, Texas Motel Medley, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? Anyhow, the band used my burps on the rest of the tour, making fun of the TV Evangelist, but interrupting their "speeches" and bullshit with my obnoxious burps. The only times that I would really just vibe on it and just completely get off on it beyond my wildest dreams was when we were on stage and Frank was taking a long solo that didn't require me to back him up and I would just be sitting there watching him play. His books include the recently published Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters as well as Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, and Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters. It will be available digitally or in a two-CD set. I am honored. 08. It's like this: there is the band and there is the guy who runs the band and then Frank. Do you remember that? CD, but I listened last night. . All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. That's what it was, that's right. AnyWHO, I let one rip and Frank (who had his back to the empty venue while he was conducting his band) turned around, leered at us, and said "which one of you did that?". I lobbied to get the Fowler brothers back in The whole band watching, waiting, I thought he wanted to rip my face off verbally but no, when I got up there, he said "Can you do that again into the sampler?". The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Inca Roads, Sharleena, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big [FZFP], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk*** [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Happy Birthday To You, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops Medley, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, A Few Moments With Brother A. It's the only other place to go after that. )," The Milwaukee Journal, November 6, 1988, Axel Wnsch, Aad Hoogesteger, Harald Hering and Achim Mnz, "Urban Leader: Ed Mann and Tommy Mars interviewed in Wuppertal 10.3.91,", Andrew Greenaway, "Where Were You In 1984!Interview With Ed Mann,", Dr. Then we did 1988 and that was when he could justify having a full horn section, because just one trombone is strange orchestration-wise, you know? It was the band we Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. Frank's last show of the 1988 tour. Frank Zappa hadn't toured since 1984, when his seven-man band played 109 shows, 36 in the U.S., 32 in Europe, and another 41 back in the States, all from July through December. follow. Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. There would be no other way to react. Watermelon In Easter Hay, FZ tries out tonight's loops, Sleep Dirt, Sofa, Girl From Ipanema, Zoot Allures, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk (q: Old Rugged Cross) [parts on BTHW], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Voter Registration Rap / A Few Moments With Brother A. It will also be available as a four-LP 180-gram vinyl box, on black vinyl or as a limited-edition purple vinyl variant exclusively through the official Frank Zappa online store or uDiscover. In April came a double album of guitar solos in the manner of the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar series, simply called Guitar, and the first in a series of double . Q: Could you give us some details about these problems? We agree. [FZ] himself is a registered Democrat and a strong Dukakis supporter. I have since been told that Morgan, while on a trip to LA, met Frank who in turn put Morgan up for a few days in one of the guest rooms, and that, as a gift, Frank gave Mats Oberg a piece of equipment formerly employed by Tommy Mars. . in connection to these futile acts of vandalism.). I 20. In fact, I remember clearly expecting it to be Hot Tuna (and you're right it said Hot Tuna on the tix). SCENE: You haven't toured since 1984. If it had been a woke up on the wrong side of the cave. 1988 European Tour (44) 1988 US tour (37) Halloween Run 1977 (6) Songs; Albums; Avg Setlist; Covers; With; Concert Map; Songs played by . Then, at the end of the tour, this war broke out between the bass player and the drummer.
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