I played this (loudly) at work late one night and my boss acted like she'd never heard an electrically amplified bass clarinet with a wah-wah pedal before.
This had to be the hardest band to ever play in. Steve Vai said they had to know 80 songs and before each concert Zappa would make a set list at random. Vai said it was so demanding he would forget they were playing in front of an audience
Something interesting to consider, in light of your comment, ongo bongo, Tommy Igo, a famed drummer and band leader leading the Birdland Allstars, does the same thing. He sets the tunes on the set list 30 seconds before a concert. He said in the in the concert I saw that he does this to keep it live. “It is Jazz, after all.” It wouldn’t surprise me if the same was done by the likes of Zappa.
@@ongobongo8333 If Trey Anastasio can learn 80 songs to perform 2(?)* shows with members of the Grateful Dead with no setlist I'm pretty sure Steve Vai and Zappa can do the same. No disrespect to the first group I mentioned either, Zappa's guys were just that good. *Edit: I think it was probably closer to 8 or 9 shows, and at the very least 80 songs
@@ongobongo8333 Learn some music history instead of just listening to songs. It seems like nobody my age even knows the name Zappa, it's such a huge shame
same dude!.. all those melody's and theatrical musical of alienisation clarinet and of that schizoic finger picking style and of course those ultra dimensional lyric's.. justtt blown my mind away!. i miss him so bad. there's no other musician like him
ua-cam.com/video/ztoeFXJsxJI/v-deo.html is a cool conversation with some of the percussionist who played with frank zappa and played on his records. its worth listening to because it provides an insight into what it was like to work with him and they tell many stories that give you an insight into who he was. Ruth is a legend
My dad was WAY into Zappa... Finally, as a man in my 30's, do I get it. I never realized just how incredible this music is until now... Damn, I missed out on what he was trying to get through to me...
God the solos by Ian and George will never not get me teary eyed. The way that Zappa wrote music that focussed virtuosity while still maintaining the awesome chemistry of an ensemble is amazing. He made room for the talent around him, which most musicians were too narcissistic to do
I was just thinking along those lines! The synergy is the thing and, at that point, no one person is leading and nobody knows where it's gonna go....awesome and free form sound.
When I was 16, I saw Zappa in '74 at the Paramount in Seattle. And that was about a week *after* seeing Rush open for Kiss at the same place. That was an interesting stretch of time. Mind blown in all different directions.
I was at that Paramount show as well, only I was 27. Many thanks to the many parents of kids that would have been almost your age for making some really good seats available when they discovered that "don't eat the yellow snow" was merely the beginning of a bizarre tour of Frank's head.
Saw Frank and the Mothers play live at the Fillmore East back in the '70's. One of the best live shows I ever attended! RIP Frank, you were an innovator!
ZAPPA ; Are you kidding ; No other guitarist can ever reach his playing... He was not the fastest, nor the most technical... But... He could play extraordinary good, his genuinenly composed masterpieces, sometimes so complex, that no other musician could play. No doubt a genius, who is compared with a few only geniouses as Beethoven, Hendrix, Charlie Parker, the most revolutionary artists in their epoche...
This was my first contact with Frank Zappa, after 1 year I listened to several of his albums, and after reading a lot about his life, I came to the conclusion that this guy was a genius
Goddammit, there may not exist anything more in the world that I love than watching George Duke feeling himself whilst rocking out on the keys. Heavenly.
I wrote a song for Frank in 1980 titled " Lyre Lyrics". He said it was too short at 3 hours 10 minutes. I turned it into a PhD on Phyto-Hydrophobic fluid dynamic applications in marine environments.
I read that dissertation, but I think I misinterpreted it, cause now I have to stare at the baby on the "Nevermind" cover for at least one hour a night.
No Frank didn't hate people, he was just avoiding the inevitable by slamming that which was to consume him. My wife met him at school in the 70's, he was cool, talkative, down to earth, maybe unsettled in some of life's matters, that's why he took it out in his music. His way to cope.
This song is also pretty Universally applied to all sorts of types peddling the "supernatural" to gullible types - from TV preachers to astrologers. He went on to campaign pretty hard against the Televangelists in the late 80's. I think he'd be shaking his head at the Confluence of the Trump supporters & Evangelicals nowadays.
Knew I guy who was into Zappa back in the day. Never really gave it a go so was none the wiser. This live version is simply magnificent. Love the change in tempo with horns coming in at 6m57s
Saw this concert in Sydney in 1972-3 and was in the front row. Zappa saw me passing joints around and gave me a bad look, he didn't approve of dope of any kind.
Sadly Frank missed the boat on a few issues: Coffee and Nicotine are both addictive and destructive drugs. More over he wasn't interested in food in general both these issues no doubt contributed to his early departure. Many smart people miss the food-mood, bio-mechanical aspect of our existence. One of my favorite musicians, miss you Frank.
As much as I love Zappa, he was extremely ignorant and hypocritical when it came to drugs. He drank alcohol, and he smoked cigarettes, and he drank coffee.
That's Ian Underwood, one of the original cast of the "Mothers" (which is what they called themselves originally, until the record exec.'s made them add "of Invention"). Anyoldways, I.U. was an excellent sax player as well as bass clarinet- and also often on keyboards. His wife Ruthie, is the percussionist playing the marimbas-(she worked with F.Z. for a long time). The Fowler Bros.(Tom and Bruce) on bass and trombone- the awesome George Duke on the keys, Jean-Luc Ponty on violin. However, I am not positive who was on drums here, I would have to check-(rather than give the wrong info). I saw Frank a number of times live (six, at least) during the 70's and they always performed up to expectations, no matter who was in the group at the time.
I know that feeling oh so well. 🎤✌ Also this is my favorite version😃 Look at the band here look at this fuckin lineup😎😎😎76 it was about this time in my life that my friends were all calling me fruie by somewhere in 78 is when I became Fruie the Cosmik Debris. (true story) Ps Google won't let me have (the) in my title here go figure.
Frank Zappa may be gone from us, but as far as musical immortality he's one of the Immortals. He could play rock, pop, jazz, classical, hard rock, progressive rock, every genre was turned on its head by him. He wrote very funny unique lyrics full of great insight and commentary. The man did everything. He was certainly the best musician for putting jazz and rock together in a way that actually worked. I currently write poetry and am thinking of a book of it upcoming. It's very different from anything Zappa did, but at the same time beneath the pastoral surface he's there in it and if I were to embark on music I'd carry all that he gave me with me. Frank really did music a huge favor by all that he accomplished. He will always be missed.
FZ the musician, guitarist extraordinaire and master story teller! Grew up listening on LPs and radio, but so lucky now to watch his videos thanks to Youtibe
I never gave frank the respect he deserves as a musician when i was younger. Once i picked up a guitar and attempted to learn zomby woof i realised he was a true master of the guitar and song writing.
@@victotronics I don't recall questioning if she soloed. Maybe you are replying to someone else? FWIW I heard heard this version of the band live at WPC and I loved it. Outstanding ensemble. Jaw-dropping good.
Makes my heart feel good to see all these positive comments from first time Zappa listeners. He was a huge influence on me in my younger days.White barrels mescaline and green pyramids come to mind off the back.☮️
Listening to this I realize Frank, ironically enough, would have been a superb guitarist for the Allman Brothers. I jest of course. But Frank is an awesome blues player as well as a jazz fusion & rock guitarist. He never ceases to amaze.
Great! Zappa was a genius indeed. There are so many moments in this one piece that show this...all the little breaks, the timing of these unpredictable changes are superb. Zappa's musical vision changed rock, ushered in fusion sounds and jazz influence and big-band energy that later showed up in BS&T and Chicago.
I'm so glad to have grown up on Zappa's music. I was 13 years old in 1966 when I heard Freak Out. I would listen to that album constantly. I was always hopping from one foot to the next waiting for the next Zappa album. He was a serious role model in my young life.
I'm a massive Zappa fan, but I can't begin to imagine how I would have reacted to hearing Freak Out when it was released, based on the context of other music of that era. I don't think I heard him until I was 15 or 17 and that was in the late 90's which, I'm assuming, was a much different time.
Greetings Eileen,I happen to have a Zappa influenced song to recommend to you Entitled 'Where I Come From' by Robert Nix hope you have a wonderful weekend now.
My son took me to see Zappa Plays Zappa this past Mother's Day, they even played Trouble Coming Everyday, due to the riots in Baltimore. Dweezil really did his Dad proud, 2nd time I saw them, saw Frank 3 times, always a great show, the best one was at Painters Mill. Sadly they are both gone.
Zappa and this same group played at the Orlando Sports Stadium in 1974(?) I stood right under Frank. That was a fun experience at that time. Of course, my ears rang for 2 or 3 days after the concert.
the fewer the notes often the easier it is to play. pentatonic scale especially safe because generally all of the notes sound good over the right chord, so you mostly gotta pay attention to rhythm.
Anybody who tries to belittle Zappa for touching on a pentatonic scale during a blues progression just doesn't get it. The guy could play anything he heard in his head. In multiple scales all over the fingerboard. He is unique and elite.
@@seangrexa4707 saw an interview once where he said, when playing live, he had zero idea of what he was about to play when soloing. THIS kind of approach is a musicians dream. Every solo different/improvised/spur of the moment. From him, it's not surprising and, still very cool. Which scales/riffs/notes/bends/slurs/slides/picking techniques used? Zappa: Yes 👍
This was such a great period for creative music. Today everything is freeze dried and pre -packaged. You'll never see anything like this on narrow minded plastic shows like The Voice, American Idol or America's Got Talent. Thanks for posting, Long Live You Tube!
Popular music was no different back then. Different types of music but the format was the same really. Pop music has always been cookie cutter crap for the masses. And the good music is hard to find.
@@edwright4857 kinda like “the devil went down to Georgia” few exceptions in life were man beats satin, jinn, masons!! Though Frank may of very well been a mason him self considering his background before him. Oh well. Masterpiece here no matter what way you look at it
What a great '70s gig, with the diverse components of a black keyboardist, a French violinist, a female percussionist. And Ralph Humphries on drums. And the bluesy F.Z. on guitar.
Just found out that drummer Ralph Humphrey left us about three weeks ago aged 79. Perhaps not as well known as Chester Thompson, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta or Chad Wackermann etc, but one hell of a fine drummer. RIP.
No I did not forget Aynsley Dunbar, the idea was to note the passing of Ralph Humprey, and then I mentioned some who came after him. I wasn't out to list or rank all of Zappas drummers or anything of the sort.@@tourozerbs1008
Zappa truly had the best of both worlds as a musician - he had a good balance of great musicianship based on conventional standards while also being wildly experimental as an artist. Despite being a technical virtuoso, he was also a non-conformist and never settled for anything generic.
EXCEPT, FOR ONE THING: AFTER Ronnie Raygun said Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall, And he DID, FRANK ZAPPA was given The HONOR, by PREZ Reagan, to become and serve PHENOMINALLY as THE FIRST-EVER TRADE AMBASSADOR OF THE U.S. TO RUSSIA!
Jean-luc Ponty é um dos meus músicos favoritos de todos os tempos. Suas músicas são incríveis, são composições ricas, muito jazz, muito prog, muito rock e a cada álbum uma surpresa, uma proposta inovadora que percola pela world music, sempre trazendo elementos de outras culturas desse mundão! Grata surpresa saber que fez parte da trupe do Zappa que é outro que dispensa comentários.
Recorded i Sweden in August 1973. The Apostrophé album wasn't released until march 1974. At this concert he also played Penguin in Bondage that didn't appear on record until on the Roxy & Elsewhere that was released over a year after this concert. The fact is that not even Overnite Sensation was released at this point. The band plays almost nothing that the audience can have heard before. One of the pieces is Dupree's Paradise that didn't made onto a record until the 1980's.
Ecouter la musique de Franck c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Dans le courant de l'art abstrait dont FZ marque la vitalité et l'intérêt toujours renouvelés, le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers impalpable. Couleurs, composition, rythme, constituent un langage qui donne voix à l'exaltation - Merci Franckie !!!
vv0422 En fait, au départ, je voulais écrire que ça me paraissait aussi beau que la rencontre fortuite d'un parapluie et d'une machine à coudre sur une table de dissection.... ça aurait été sûrement plus bref et en même temps plus percutant (mais bon, les substances m'ont fait dériver :( Souvent "cent fois sur le métier il faut remettre son ouvrage" La prochaine fois je serais plus cohérent - Cordialement cher ami -
Rediscovering this in 2018. Why have I missed out on this genius for all these decades! Got me crying like a little child again. It's so beautiful! I feel reborn.
I cant believe I lived thru this era, Zappa, Tull, Yes, ELP , Doors, Floyd, Hendrix, Dan, Chick, Carlos, Clappers, Cocker, Stones, The Ruttles, EWF, War, Bootsie, Sly, ...arrrrggh !.
This performance is incredible, Frank Zappa and his musicians were so amazing. I love his jazz pieces and long solos with the different instruments, the notes speak more than any words ever could really
never enough, can i get. from the folks that love him the most, a great musician, a great man, father, etc. THANKS frank, i really hope i meet you on the other side.
Excellent musicianship. Tight band. Everyone is dope. My only complaint is they don't show the bass player more. He funked it up and kept it in the pocket. And I'm not a bass player, I just appreciate the groove!
Zappa also looks like a Turkish rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Barış Manço. He was an iconic figure who brought rock music to Turkey. Me and my friends are sometimes kidding around saying Barış Zappa or Frank Manço when we talk about Zappa or Manço.
I got to witness the greatness at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby back in the late 80's. For the encore Frank and George did I am the Walrus. Just the two of them and a peak into the future of music. Frank rolled out this huge computer and he played every note and every nuance, including strings and horns, on it while Mr Duke sang.
george didn’t perform with frank after 1975… you’re thinking of ike willis… this is the concert you saw… ua-cam.com/video/LmnLXC2TZdw/v-deo.htmlsi=_3pNS4Ot2r2MSYc-
Jeez... I miss Frank. Tom Petty said that the day game show winners got signed to recording contracts, was the day the music died! I couldn't agree more.
WONDERFUL MUSIC and performance THANK YOU BROTHER Frank for all your music , from one of your Danish admirer who joined you and The MOI cocert 1970 in Forum Copenhagen. THX again
During the "Joe's Garage" tours, the radio stations promoted a contest for neighborhood garage bands to host Zappa & his band...the Portland, OR winner was walkin distance from my place Greatest way to spend a day
In my opinion, the 1970's was the best decade for FZ! It was just enough outside but also had some clutch pocket grooves; way before all the synclavier stuff. I truly adore the rhythm section with Tom Flower, bass and Ralph Humphrey some of the greatest pocket playing in the 70s. Also a huge kudos to Ruth Underwood , the best female percussionist of all time! Hopefully, the Zappa Trust will keep releasing this classic era of FZ !
I can’t be the only here in 2024, RIP Zappa thanks for touching the hearts of many generations and many more to come
Your not alone 😉
✌😎 RIP FZ still digging your precision, Maestro
July 2024..I'm making sure my neighbors hear some Zappa !
I'm here,so yeah
Im here...Was singing a few in my Semi todah..Juat for home, lets rock
I played this (loudly) at work late one night and my boss acted like she'd never heard an electrically amplified bass clarinet with a wah-wah pedal before.
not a wah, an envelope follower. you don't have a pedal it just wahs every note.
Cute.
Hahaha
I was first introduced to this video back in college in an audio class and it blew my mind, the studio version seems not as cool by comparison
DID SHE DO THE DYNAMO HUMM?
This had to be the hardest band to ever play in. Steve Vai said they had to know 80 songs and before each concert Zappa would make a set list at random. Vai said it was so demanding he would forget they were playing in front of an audience
bullshit
Something interesting to consider, in light of your comment, ongo bongo, Tommy Igo, a famed drummer and band leader leading the Birdland Allstars, does the same thing. He sets the tunes on the set list 30 seconds before a concert. He said in the in the concert I saw that he does this to keep it live. “It is Jazz, after all.” It wouldn’t surprise me if the same was done by the likes of Zappa.
@@ongobongo8333 If Trey Anastasio can learn 80 songs to perform 2(?)* shows with members of the Grateful Dead with no setlist I'm pretty sure Steve Vai and Zappa can do the same.
No disrespect to the first group I mentioned either, Zappa's guys were just that good.
*Edit: I think it was probably closer to 8 or 9 shows, and at the very least 80 songs
@@ongobongo8333 Learn some music history instead of just listening to songs. It seems like nobody my age even knows the name Zappa, it's such a huge shame
@@ongobongo8333 Absolutely not. Zappa's and Prince's bands were the hardest, along with Steely Dan.
RIP George Duke.
You were one hell of a keyboardist.
Tore it up so much he made the color cameras go black and white.
remember when he was the band leader on Arsenio Hall show ?
@@greghortonsr.5428 Facts, drop you off into some funk!!!!
@@greghortonsr.5428 When was he the band leader on that show?
The tide was high and he was holding on...
Frank Zappa is a genre.
A very underrated comment!
@@fourseasons4105 very very underrated comment.
Fucking love your profile picture as well! Cheers!
most underrated comment !
Truest words ever said. The sort of music you can just kick back and chill too
Zappa was a man of common sense. Made the guitar solos different every time on stage, the audience deserves this.
more than common sense, i think it is a matter of himself getting bored of doing the same all the concerts
It always goes so well with the song too
Its called improvisation all musicians should do.
You mean like Jerry Garcia did?
Jerry Garcia is nowhere close to Zappa
The more I learn about Frank Zappa the more I realize how highly talented and intelligent he was.
Respect!
same dude!.. all those melody's and theatrical musical of alienisation clarinet and of that schizoic finger picking style and of course those ultra dimensional lyric's.. justtt blown my mind away!. i miss him so bad. there's no other musician like him
ua-cam.com/video/ztoeFXJsxJI/v-deo.html is a cool conversation with some of the percussionist who played with frank zappa and played on his records. its worth listening to because it provides an insight into what it was like to work with him and they tell many stories that give you an insight into who he was. Ruth is a legend
True, funny, and brilliant
Creative genius
Apparently his IQ was 172
My dad was WAY into Zappa... Finally, as a man in my 30's, do I get it. I never realized just how incredible this music is until now... Damn, I missed out on what he was trying to get through to me...
I was in a Zappa's cult at 16!
Is it too late??
Now what kind of a Garoo r u are u anyway?
@@flaccidego4291 that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!
@@victordavila2030sério??
God the solos by Ian and George will never not get me teary eyed. The way that Zappa wrote music that focussed virtuosity while still maintaining the awesome chemistry of an ensemble is amazing. He made room for the talent around him, which most musicians were too narcissistic to do
nOw Waht KiNd oF a Ga-RoO aRe U aNyWaY?
Reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughn if I'm being honest
I was just thinking along those lines! The synergy is the thing and, at that point, no one person is leading and nobody knows where it's gonna go....awesome and free form sound.
Did Zappa write out the solos as part of the compositions?
One of the greatest and most underrated musicians to ever walk the earth.
Underrated by who?
@@morganghetti The Grand Wazoo.
I agree...Zappa deserved a Nobel Prize !
Never got enough air play, the poor people who never got turned on to this genius, sometimes u have to come out of the rabbit hole.
absolutely
Glad to see children enjoying jazz fusion, blues type music. Never thought I'd see Jean Luc Ponty on the same stage with Frank Zappa.
Jean Luc was a member of the band "The Mothers of Invention".
Nice boy from Montreal Canada!
Hot rats!
Dupree's Paradise from the same live! Violin solo is AWESOME!!
@@mumfordmunsley2002 Ponty’s from Avranches France, near Normandy. Zappa’s the one who brought him to America in the late 1960’s.
@@BarrySmithviolin You're right, all this time I thought he was a Canuk...
Just heard this on the radio on its 50 anniversary. Unbelievably good. We need Frank Zappa desperately today.
When I was 16, I saw Zappa in '74 at the Paramount in Seattle.
And that was about a week *after* seeing Rush open for Kiss at the same place.
That was an interesting stretch of time.
Mind blown in all different directions.
I was at that Paramount show as well, only I was 27. Many thanks to the many parents of kids that would have been almost your age for making some really good seats available when they discovered that "don't eat the yellow snow" was merely the beginning of a bizarre tour of Frank's head.
I saw Zappa at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in 1974 (November). One of the epic musical experiences of my life.
A gold time for music now a days ewww
@Jack Burton I know rush is so much better.
hell of a week
RIP Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993), aged 52
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Man, this George Duke solo here kicks my ass every time. Chills.
Frank was the greatest concert performer of a generation.i saw him twice and it was phenomenal
Saw Frank and the Mothers play live at the Fillmore East back in the '70's. One of the best live shows I ever attended! RIP Frank, you were an innovator!
AndyGinterBlues I wish I lived in the 70s
AndyGinterBlues Sofia the off ofviysgf#x General Dylan alopecia Patty
+forest20 yeah but you would be old now like I am.
+jessica torres I agree
Yeah, I'm old too. I saw Frank New Years Eve '74 Long Beach Ca I'm a lucky ass dog. So to speak.
I feel Zappa is way underrated as a guitar player even by his own judgement.
Zappa was the greatest guitarist never known
He alright 😉
ZAPPA ;
Are you kidding ; No other guitarist can ever reach his playing... He was not the fastest, nor the most technical...
But... He could play extraordinary good, his genuinenly composed masterpieces, sometimes so complex, that no other musician could play.
No doubt a genius, who is compared with a few only geniouses as Beethoven, Hendrix, Charlie Parker, the most revolutionary artists in their epoche...
The man conducted symphonies
He was a genius. And he couldn't just limit himself to be only a guitar player.
This was my first contact with Frank Zappa, after 1 year I listened to several of his albums, and after reading a lot about his life, I came to the conclusion that this guy was a genius
Every time I watch this I feel goosebumps on my skin. Greetings from Brazil
Caralho
Goddammit, there may not exist anything more in the world that I love than watching George Duke feeling himself whilst rocking out on the keys. Heavenly.
I wrote a song for Frank in 1980 titled " Lyre Lyrics". He said it was too short at 3 hours 10 minutes. I turned it into a PhD on Phyto-Hydrophobic fluid dynamic applications in marine environments.
Robert Bright wow, you met Frank Zappa? How was he?
He was just like Frank Zappa!
I read that dissertation, but I think I misinterpreted it, cause now I have to stare at the baby on the "Nevermind" cover for at least one hour a night.
Robert Bright Me Too!!!!
I could record your composition on my bagpipes and we could split the money we make ?
No Frank didn't hate people, he was just avoiding the inevitable by slamming that which was to consume him. My wife met him at school in the 70's, he was cool, talkative, down to earth, maybe unsettled in some of life's matters, that's why he took it out in his music. His way to cope.
Beautiful comment
Zappa left college in 1959 and held a distain for "traditional" higher education. He would only be at school only to use books related to music.
He also was telling us about 2020 back in the day. He explained what happened in the music industry and how the youth destroyed it.
This song is also pretty Universally applied to all sorts of types peddling the "supernatural" to gullible types - from TV preachers to astrologers. He went on to campaign pretty hard against the Televangelists in the late 80's. I think he'd be shaking his head at the Confluence of the Trump supporters & Evangelicals nowadays.
*some astrologers
There are no words - However this was the Overnight Sensation configuration. We were blessed to see him in our time. And oh how he is missed.
With Zappa, musicianship is always first class. Upper deck.
Also music business class
Don Bagley thinking of Zap and co...,
At first I thought you'd written 'utter dreck'.
Knew I guy who was into Zappa back in the day. Never really gave it a go so was none the wiser. This live version is simply magnificent. Love the change in tempo with horns coming in at 6m57s
One of the most amazingly talented and sometimes misunderstood musical artists of all time.
This is the first song by Frank that I have heard and I have to say now I am totally a fan. Brilliant.
George Duke straight up KILLING it on keyboards.
Funky as hell.
I knew it.
That's just George Duke doing George Duke things
as always
Now whaht kiND oF a gHa-Rooo r u anyway???
Saw Zappa at the Uptown Theater in KCMO 1984. Absolutely awesome. One of the best guitarists I have ever seen.
Saw this concert in Sydney in 1972-3 and was in the front row. Zappa saw me passing joints around and gave me a bad look, he didn't approve of dope of any kind.
Sadly Frank missed the boat on a few issues: Coffee and Nicotine are both addictive and destructive drugs. More over he wasn't interested in food in general both these issues no doubt contributed to his early departure. Many smart people miss the food-mood, bio-mechanical aspect of our existence. One of my favorite musicians, miss you Frank.
icurhuman2 true that.man never got high...think about that a genius without expanding his mind on hallucinogenics
As much as I love Zappa, he was extremely ignorant and hypocritical when it came to drugs. He drank alcohol, and he smoked cigarettes, and he drank coffee.
icurhuman2 Zappa. died of prostate cancer.
Would fire any band members if he caught them doing drugs
Excellent bass clarinet solo! Sounds like he put it through a wah-wah! :D
That's Ian Underwood, one of the original cast of the "Mothers" (which is what they called themselves originally, until the record exec.'s made them add "of Invention"). Anyoldways, I.U. was an excellent sax player as well as bass clarinet- and also often on keyboards. His wife Ruthie, is the percussionist playing the marimbas-(she worked with F.Z. for a long time). The Fowler Bros.(Tom and Bruce) on bass and trombone- the awesome George Duke on the keys, Jean-Luc Ponty on violin. However, I am not positive who was on drums here, I would have to check-(rather than give the wrong info). I saw Frank a number of times live (six, at least) during the 70's and they always performed up to expectations, no matter who was in the group at the time.
Ralph Humphrey on drums
It was fantastic.
I whas There that night in skansen Stockholm sweden 1973 When Frank played, i whas only eleven year old. It Was a Great consert.. Thankyou.
It feels great to be able to remember Zappa in 1976 live
I know that feeling oh so well. 🎤✌
Also this is my favorite version😃
Look at the band here look at this fuckin lineup😎😎😎76 it was about this time in my life that my friends were all calling me fruie by somewhere in 78 is when I became
Fruie the Cosmik Debris. (true story)
Ps Google won't let me have (the) in my title here go figure.
Fuck! this band is tight isn't it!?
Keith Hall Yeah i remember this band to
no shit joepepe
This is my very first time listening to frank zappa and holy shit this is amazing 🙌🏼
This is the first time I get it. Apparently you gotta go for the live stuff!!
Amazing life choice.
Same here.
buy Apostrophe!
Welcome and enjoy!😁👍🌿
Frank Zappa may be gone from us, but as far as musical immortality he's one of the Immortals. He could play rock, pop, jazz, classical, hard rock, progressive rock, every genre was turned on its head by him. He wrote very funny unique lyrics full of great insight and commentary. The man did everything. He was certainly the best musician for putting jazz and rock together in a way that actually worked. I currently write poetry and am thinking of a book of it upcoming. It's very different from anything Zappa did, but at the same time beneath the pastoral surface he's there in it and if I were to embark on music I'd carry all that he gave me with me. Frank really did music a huge favor by all that he accomplished. He will always be missed.
FZ the musician, guitarist extraordinaire and master story teller! Grew up listening on LPs and radio, but so lucky now to watch his videos thanks to Youtibe
I never gave frank the respect he deserves as a musician when i was younger. Once i picked up a guitar and attempted to learn zomby woof i realised he was a true master of the guitar and song writing.
These men behind the instruments are INFINITE.
And WOMAN too! Ruth is outstanding!
@@Dang... Did she ever get to take a solo? Yes, she's outstanding.
@@victotronics I don't recall questioning if she soloed. Maybe you are replying to someone else?
FWIW I heard heard this version of the band live at WPC and I loved it. Outstanding ensemble. Jaw-dropping good.
Makes my heart feel good to see all these positive comments from first time Zappa listeners. He was a huge influence on me in my younger days.White barrels mescaline and green pyramids come to mind off the back.☮️
sounds like some metaphysical stuff, exactly what this song is slamming! i love the duality of the 70’s
The fact that he took bits of phrasing from both earlier solos is mind blowing.
Listening to this I realize Frank, ironically enough, would have been a superb guitarist for the Allman Brothers. I jest of course. But Frank is an awesome blues player as well as a jazz fusion & rock guitarist. He never ceases to amaze.
I would have LOVED to see Frank jam with the Allman Bros .
Have you heard him do Whipping Post?? Awesome! And he admired Duane..
Zappa facing Duke on his solo says a lot of his personality and how hard it was to WORK (play) with him.
Great! Zappa was a genius indeed. There are so many moments in this one piece that show this...all the little breaks, the timing of these unpredictable changes are superb. Zappa's musical vision changed rock, ushered in fusion sounds and jazz influence and big-band energy that later showed up in BS&T and Chicago.
Frank is fondly remembered for his work but his speech sticking it to Al and Tipper Gore got my utmost respect.
Loved Dee Snyders testimony in that case. Showed up dressed in his metal attire n killed it
Al had nothing to do with the PMRC. The PMRC was a "bipartisan" atrocity.
George Duke --- total BEAST on keys!
I miss both Frank and George
Franka Zappa was amazing artist...
For colective memory of the humanity.
I love this song :)
One man's vision of the blues. RIP Frank. Gone too soon.
Yes he was. Too bad diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer was not what it is today.
I'm so glad to have grown up on Zappa's music. I was 13 years old in 1966 when I heard Freak Out. I would listen to that album constantly. I was always hopping from one foot to the next waiting for the next Zappa album. He was a serious role model in my young life.
"Help, I'm a Rock!" Just blew my mind!
j.r. addams
We wore that album out in the summer of '66 at Echo Lake, CA
I was 12.
I'm a massive Zappa fan, but I can't begin to imagine how I would have reacted to hearing Freak Out when it was released, based on the context of other music of that era. I don't think I heard him until I was 15 or 17 and that was in the late 90's which, I'm assuming, was a much different time.
j.r. addams me too
What a group of masters!!
I was lucky to hear this version of the band live. Thanks for posting.
I really like it when they jam out on their instruments and get such a look of concentration and excellence while playing their solos. Amazing.
Greetings Eileen,I happen to have a Zappa influenced song to recommend to you Entitled 'Where I Come From' by Robert Nix hope you have a wonderful weekend now.
@@redskies4530 thank you!!!!! I appreciate it and will give it a listen.
Yeah you're right, Frank zappa is a great musician and I love his songs, okay tell how long have you been his fan?
@@johnmoris6565 since the 80’s when I was a kid growing up in the 80’s I’d dial the pumpkin hotline everyday after school.
@@eis904 wow that's nice you're really a true fan of Frank zappa, okay tell me wish of his song do you love most?
My son took me to see Zappa Plays Zappa this past Mother's Day, they even played Trouble Coming Everyday, due to the riots in Baltimore. Dweezil really did his Dad proud, 2nd time I saw them, saw Frank 3 times, always a great show, the best one was at Painters Mill. Sadly they are both gone.
Came here after seeing an Instagram short where Mr. Zappa talked about his guitar skills. He was talking some big talk so I couldn’t resist
Zappa and this same group played at the Orlando Sports Stadium in 1974(?) I stood right under Frank. That was a fun experience at that time. Of course, my ears rang for 2 or 3 days after the concert.
Zappa's solo....all pentatonic scale (looks like D minor), five simple notes....genius...underrated as a guitar player, but one of the greatest ever.
the fewer the notes often the easier it is to play. pentatonic scale especially safe because generally all of the notes sound good over the right chord, so you mostly gotta pay attention to rhythm.
Anybody who tries to belittle Zappa for touching on a pentatonic scale during a blues progression just doesn't get it. The guy could play anything he heard in his head. In multiple scales all over the fingerboard. He is unique and elite.
Yes, like Hendrix
@@seangrexa4707 saw an interview once where he said, when playing live, he had zero idea of what he was about to play when soloing. THIS kind of approach is a musicians dream. Every solo different/improvised/spur of the moment. From him, it's not surprising and, still very cool.
Which scales/riffs/notes/bends/slurs/slides/picking techniques used?
Zappa: Yes
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An epic tune, hearing it always brings me to loud vocals and a smile from ear to ear.
makes me want to pull out my eyes and stuff them in my ears so i can see what im hearing, absolute majik x x
great comment!
The old trans-anatomical synaesthesiac musical-appreciation trick, eh? Works like a charm! Cheers!
Taking a large amount of acid is always a good way to see what you hear
We were so enamored by his art that we forgot how hard he worked to reach this level.
So great to hear... really some of his greatest work...
SuperAtoZman Says, I always loved Frank Zappa...
One of the All Time Greats.
This was such a great period for creative music. Today everything is freeze dried and pre -packaged. You'll never see anything like this on narrow minded plastic shows like The Voice, American Idol or America's Got Talent. Thanks for posting, Long Live You Tube!
Snarky Puppy. Take a look on them ;)
"You'll never see anything like this on narrow minded plastic shows like The Voice, American Idol or America's Got Talent. "
Thank God
Dude, listen to King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. Check out the album Flying Microtonal Banana, or listen to their perfromances on KEXP
Popular music was no different back then. Different types of music but the format was the same really. Pop music has always been cookie cutter crap for the masses. And the good music is hard to find.
But,as always,"Seek and ye shall find". In this case,of course,UA-cam.....For both old and very current non- pop sounds
Ahhhhhhh … you know he lived for the solos. Bless his heart and soul for giving us so many great ones.
So true
I was there, Skansen Stockholm -73 ,sweet 14 I was (and the band was SMOKING!)
"The price of meat has just gone up and your ol'lady has just gone down"
Most savage lyric of all time?
Could be.
@@paulengel2330 and never fluush a taampoon?
The Savages are at the Gate!
@@edwright4857 he just check mated the gate
@@edwright4857 kinda like “the devil went down to Georgia” few exceptions in life were man beats satin, jinn, masons!! Though Frank may of very well been a mason him self considering his background before him. Oh well. Masterpiece here no matter what way you look at it
That was the most elaborate roasting I've seen in my life
E o cara fazia um ótimo blues, além de jazz, rock'n roll e etc, fazia tudo de primeira, muito bom, um grande gênio que se foi.
What a great '70s gig, with the diverse components of a black keyboardist,
a French violinist, a female percussionist. And Ralph Humphries on drums.
And the bluesy F.Z. on guitar.
Listen to that gorgeous bass..!
Just found out that drummer Ralph Humphrey left us about three weeks ago aged 79. Perhaps not as well known as Chester Thompson, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta or Chad Wackermann etc, but one hell of a fine drummer. RIP.
You forgot Aynsley Dunbar :)
No I did not forget Aynsley Dunbar, the idea was to note the passing of Ralph Humprey, and then I mentioned some who came after him. I wasn't out to list or rank all of Zappas drummers or anything of the sort.@@tourozerbs1008
Zappa truly had the best of both worlds as a musician - he had a good balance of great musicianship based on conventional standards while also being wildly experimental as an artist. Despite being a technical virtuoso, he was also a non-conformist and never settled for anything generic.
EXCEPT, FOR ONE THING:
AFTER Ronnie Raygun said Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall, And he DID, FRANK ZAPPA was given The HONOR, by PREZ Reagan, to become and serve PHENOMINALLY as THE FIRST-EVER TRADE AMBASSADOR OF THE U.S. TO RUSSIA!
Well, Maybe Not Exactly Generic.😂
So good, I literally started crying. Wow. I am so grateful that music exists.
🖖🏼
A pure Classic....Timeless Master-piece.
This is just dreamy. As wonderful in 2018 as it must have been (before my time) in the 70's. His music will last forever.
Jean-luc Ponty é um dos meus músicos favoritos de todos os tempos. Suas músicas são incríveis, são composições ricas, muito jazz, muito prog, muito rock e a cada álbum uma surpresa, uma proposta inovadora que percola pela world music, sempre trazendo elementos de outras culturas desse mundão! Grata surpresa saber que fez parte da trupe do Zappa que é outro que dispensa comentários.
Now whhhatt kine of a Ga-Ruh r you anyway?
Recorded i Sweden in August 1973. The Apostrophé album wasn't released until march 1974. At this concert he also played Penguin in Bondage that didn't appear on record until on the Roxy & Elsewhere that was released over a year after this concert. The fact is that not even Overnite Sensation was released at this point. The band plays almost nothing that the audience can have heard before. One of the pieces is Dupree's Paradise that didn't made onto a record until the 1980's.
I sure do wish Frank was still with us. His music was genius in it’s social commentary. Not to mention technically brilliant!
Ecouter la musique de Franck c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Dans le courant de l'art abstrait dont FZ marque la vitalité et l'intérêt toujours renouvelés, le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers impalpable. Couleurs, composition, rythme, constituent un langage qui donne voix à l'exaltation - Merci Franckie !!!
Frank, pas Franck, et puis il faudrait commencer à diminuer les doses!
vv0422
C'est pas facile mais je vais faire un effort ! :D
Super! mais ne t'inquiète pas, j'y suis bien arrivé alors que ce n'était pas gagné d'avance. Je te souhaite une bonne soirée.
vv0422
En fait, au départ, je voulais écrire que ça me paraissait aussi beau que la rencontre fortuite d'un parapluie et d'une machine à coudre sur une table de dissection.... ça aurait été sûrement plus bref et en même temps plus percutant (mais bon, les substances m'ont fait dériver :( Souvent "cent fois sur le métier il faut remettre son ouvrage" La prochaine fois je serais plus cohérent - Cordialement cher ami -
J'aime bien votre humour zappatesque Bonne journée à vous.
Rediscovering this in 2018.
Why have I missed out on this genius for all these decades!
Got me crying like a little child again. It's so beautiful!
I feel reborn.
Frank always had the most amazing talent with him. Ian Underwood on sax, JL Ponte on violin, Geo Duke on keys.....
I've never seen anyone do a blues solo like that on the Piano. Holy shit!
Just made me realize how much I miss going to Zappa concerts.
I cant believe I lived thru this era, Zappa, Tull, Yes, ELP , Doors, Floyd, Hendrix, Dan, Chick, Carlos, Clappers, Cocker, Stones, The Ruttles, EWF, War, Bootsie, Sly, ...arrrrggh !.
+mike .D now i live with Justin Bieber
All You Need is Cash!
jenis adiction
Many of us wonder the same
By Carlos you mean Carlos Santana, I guess?
This performance is incredible, Frank Zappa and his musicians were so amazing. I love his jazz pieces and long solos with the different instruments, the notes speak more than any words ever could really
Zappa was an artist, a storyteller and one hell of a musician all in one.
Well that was just outstanding. Just what the doctor ordered.
Wow, that Humphrey drum fill at 00:38, and Duke's keyboard solo really brought it home.
never enough, can i get. from the folks that love him the most, a great musician, a great man, father, etc. THANKS frank, i really hope i meet you on the other side.
Excellent musicianship. Tight band. Everyone is dope. My only complaint is they don't show the bass player more. He funked it up and kept it in the pocket. And I'm not a bass player, I just appreciate the groove!
I find it funny that Frank Zappa looks like my music teacher.
Surely it should be the other way round
I'm sure of it!!
its gotta be the other way around...
Zappa also looks like a Turkish rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Barış Manço. He was an iconic figure who brought rock music to Turkey. Me and my friends are sometimes kidding around saying Barış Zappa or Frank Manço when we talk about Zappa or Manço.
Wrong, your music teacher looks like frank zappa
I got to witness the greatness at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby back in the late 80's.
For the encore Frank and George did I am the Walrus.
Just the two of them and a peak into the future of music.
Frank rolled out this huge computer and he played every note and every nuance, including strings and horns, on it while Mr Duke sang.
george didn’t perform with frank after 1975… you’re thinking of ike willis… this is the concert you saw…
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he was amazing so damn funny too wicked guitarist for sure
Jeez... I miss Frank. Tom Petty said that the day game show winners got signed to recording contracts, was the day the music died! I couldn't agree more.
Wow
But somewhat true.
This is stupid.
Callum Davage t. Kelly clarkson fan
Im not so sure he said that, but I hope he wasn't dumb enough to think that.
WONDERFUL MUSIC and performance THANK YOU BROTHER Frank for all your music , from one of your Danish admirer who joined you and The MOI cocert 1970 in Forum Copenhagen. THX again
With the Oil of Aphrodite and the dust from the Grand Wazoo!
First time I’ve seen a sax played through a wah
I still haven't. That is a bass clarinet.
Cris Wood of the old Traffic band used a wah--wah on his 'sax'. This is a bass clarinet.
Miles Davis played wah wah trumpet
Didier malherbe of Gong would play with a wah in the 70s
During the "Joe's Garage" tours, the radio stations promoted a contest for neighborhood garage bands to host Zappa & his band...the Portland, OR winner was walkin distance from my place
Greatest way to spend a day
In my opinion, the 1970's was the best decade for FZ! It was just enough outside but also had some clutch pocket grooves; way before all the synclavier stuff. I truly adore the rhythm section with Tom Flower, bass and Ralph Humphrey some of the greatest pocket playing in the 70s. Also a huge kudos to Ruth Underwood , the best female percussionist of all time! Hopefully, the Zappa Trust will keep releasing this classic era of FZ !
Late 60s / early 70s my favorite...
That time- change-riff at 6:57 gives me shivers
Peter Comer died recently. He loved you're music. All the way from plymouth UK xxxx
The Ruth Underwood constant is such a comforting sound...