How Vinnie Got The Zappa Gig - Vinnie Colaiuta
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I can listen to Zappa stories for hours. Vinnie is a true legend. God bless Dom Famularo. A fabulous ambassador for drums and the drumming community
Be sure & check out the whole interview as well as the NAMM panel on our channel with Vinnie! ua-cam.com/video/WxOirev4Nqk/v-deo.html
Sucks that Dom passed
Dude played with Frank Zappa who was notoriously difficult on choosing who was playing
His music...Respect for Vinnie Colaiuta.
State the fvcking obvious.
did ok with j beck as well
The pride of Brownsville, PA. He never forgot that either.
"Ike Willis was over there...and he said to me: 'Did he ask you to wait, too?'" 😀
Best drummer Frank and Jeff Beck ever hired. Vinnie can play anything and his dynamics are off the charts.
Beck had Simon Phillips who ain't bad.
@@xxryder1 There's not a bad drummer that's played with either guy but Frank himself said Vinnie could play anything in time and few of his drummers could do what he did. Philips is great...Bozzio was great...Vinnie to me is just the best
@@gregmock6808 I get it bro, you're right.
Aynsley Dumbar
Substitute the word "worst" for "best" here and you've got something. Aynsley Dunbar was INFINITELY greater a drummer for both Frank AND Jeff Beck (look it up) than this soulless chops-meister could ever hope to be in his dreams. That's why DUNBAR was Frank's MOST recorded drummer, not this music school victim with infinite skills yet not a musical bone in his body.
Zappa loved Vinnie. He said he was his favorite drummer. That's high praise considering the list of top players! Bozzio,Thomson,Humphreys,Dumbar, Tripp, Mundi,Wackerman. All fantastic drummers.
Incredible lineup.
Don't forget wacky Jim Gordon
Also I didn't remember that Art Tripp played with Zappa. Love Captain Beefheart!
@@tmm4461 But Wackerman spent the longest period of time with the Maestro - Mr. FZ. Longer than anybody else, eh!
@@-Finlander- His solo work is great too.
One hell of a player as is Dom. Still can't believe Dom has left us :(
Who is Dom?
@@chrislenahan4477 Dom Famularo is the guy interviewing Vinnie. The Session Panel was started by Dom and he conducted all the interviews. Great player, lovely guy and also known as the "global ambassador for drumming." So sad that he left us!
Goosebumps! And....the REST IS HISTORY!! What a Player!!
Vinnie Colaiuta Is The Real Deal. A Professional, Disciplined Musician.For Me He Is A True Inspiration For Living Purpose Filled Life. One Of The Drummers That Brought My Attention To Drummers. Straight Up One Of The G.O.A.T. 🥁🎵☮️🌎🌍🌏✊
Ike Willis sat across the aisle from me in Biology class at Washington Univesity
Okay, and? 🤓😎
THEN WHAT HAPPENED ?
@@tomstiel7576 Once upon a time, The End.
Wow love to hear more about this . He was so great and I have no idea about his early life and background
Yeah, Ike Willis is well known biologist.
He tells stories a lot like Vai does!!😊
You should Google Vai's story about Vinnie, if you haven't seen it already. It's great.
Vinnie is otherworldly good!!
Dom was such a good interviewer. RIP
Zappa surrounded himself with the very best artists.. He brought out the best in them. Beautiful, original music was the result. I'm forever grateful.
"Hey, Zap's looking for a rhythm section." Haha sounds like from a mob movie. Great stories these. Great guy too.
Kinda young, kinda WOW!!
Edit: More Vinnie, please 🙏
Without a doubt…. Vinnie is one of the greatest to do it.
This so ranks up there with Steve Vai's story about his Zappa audition... "Frank was BRUTAL to me! Just ask Vinnie!"
What a great interview and story. I love being a drummer...such a rich community of terrific people.
I love this story!! Not my first time...
I did not know about the 'Fowler family', all I knew was that Tom Fowler is an amazing base player. I love listening to his work.
Tom Fowler, Walt Fowler and Bruce Fowler all played with Frank on ROXY & Elsewhere.
Walt & Bruce played with Frank during the '88 tour. Too bad Tom wasn't available (or not asked) to play bass on that tour.
Scott Thunes, a very competent player to be sure, played in that band and they imploded over issues with him.
Man, thanks, such an amazing story. Vinnie’s such a cool guy & one of greats‼️
Excellent! Total history here...
Some might call it luck. I call it destiny: where preparation meets opportunity. And he's such a great human being as well. Great story.
And such a phenomenal drummer… he went on to play with Jeff Beck.
Wow. Edge of the seat retelling!
Amazing story... Vinnie is the real deal.. percussionist extraordinaire...
Incredible story.
A great story...presented by two GREAT artists in their own riight. RIP Dom and thanks so much for posting.
It seems like Frank Zappa was a proving ground for musicians!!! I'm not familiar with all of the musicians who played with Frank but the ones that I'm familiar with such as Vinnie, the late great George Duke, and Chad Wackerman went on to have stellar careers because they had to be impeccable!!!
Find the Steve Vai audition story.
@@AntiMyth I thought Steve played with Frank too but wasn't sure.
Amazing!!!
🙏❤🌹 Frank & Dom 🌹❤🙏
What an incredible success story!
Saw him with Zappa in 81. Steve Vai on guitar; Arthur Barrow on bass. One of Zappa's better bands.
I saw those guys in London and it is still the best gig I have ever seen.
Love hearing how such talented people get their break.
Great story teller!
Good to know that there are still a few pros out there
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, as the saying goes.
Great story
Incredible! Love it, thanks. It's like watching a movie
Great storytelling.
Amazing story.
I love the Zappa tryout stories. Steve Vai's story was great as well.
That is an amazing story.
This is so incredible 🥺
Bloody hell, this is superb!
~~ some things you hear over & over about FZ - he would audition a LOT of people - he’d make his decisions on the rejects almost immediately - you didn’t have long to impress FZ - those who made it into the band were expected to work practically around the clock - as FZ did - on a gig day, you didn’t just do one sound check lasting an hour or 2 in the middle of the day - you were sound checking ALL DAY long - right up until the gig - and during that time FZ might be composing new music and directing you on how to play it - you had to be familiar with his entire catalogue as you never knew until gig time what he'd put on the setlist - and he was recording absolutely everything ..
Great Story….wow….👏👏👏
Man this was so interesting, was sad to see it get cut off… Is the entire interview available on here anywhere?
The entire interview is available, I watched it about a year ago. Click on the Sessions Panel, I bet you can find it.
@@John-fc7wc i’ll give it a look, thanks!!
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Fascinating stuff!
Incredible story. Thanks Dom!
Great story!
"I must have been up here a whole minute already! Wow!"
Lol. Those auditions must have been so intense.
Quite a story. Zappa sounds like a real task master. He drove around in a Rolls-Royce? He was successful early on?
Find the Steve Vai audition story.
Amazing. I would love to see this movie.
GOAT meets the GOAT
That was better than I expected.
Colaiuta in Modern Drummer magazine back in the 90s. Made drummers think they needed to be musicians.
Colaiiuta is a drum master
"Kinda young and kinda wow"
Wow. No pressure. Jeez.
How the great Vinny Colaiuta got a gig with the great Frank Zappa
❤
I miss Dom and his energy and enthusiasm
a cattle call audition. 3 lines of 150. can you imagine the talent that was in those lines.
Frank had seconds to listen and plucked out Ike Willis and Vinnie. wow.
Omg, I remember as a drummer walking into a cattle call one time at B.B. Kings Blue Club in Orlando. 30+ drummers, one guitar player, I think one bassist and a keyboard player. Those three guys ended up being asked to stick around as the audition band for this ridiculous line of drummers and the audition went much like Vinnie's. 15 seconds and the producer said "Next" on most of them. A couple of guys actually got to play a full minute. I was one of only a couple who were asked to play more than one song. Unfortunately I still never got a callback. 😥 It was to put house bands on cruise ships but I think the project never got off the ground and now the clubs have closed.
That is the fate of a working musician who is not a working musician.
Wow! I want to hear more 😅
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Where are they now? Did they all take the vow?
Well where is the rest of it!?
I’ll miss Dom’s interviews.
We will too but will continue to honor his legacy & mission with more interviews, as he asked us to!
Where's the rest of the interview ?
Dom. Please interview Prairie Prince. That would be great
Dom's dead...
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The thumbnail 😂
tom fowler was a phenom on bass
Tinseltown rebbelion it is...
Stories about zappa are more entertaining than most of his musicw
Seven days by Sting
If you thought Fletcher was brutal...
why would Frank Zappa hold open try outs ?
Zappa demanded much discipline and prowess from his players, but not from himself as a guitarist. Talented but highly affected as opposed to Allan Holdsworth, who only asked for him to be creative in their own way. Funny how that works sometimes.
Because Zappa demanded from others the discipline Holdsworth demanded from himself. There's an interview with Wackerman where he says Holdsworth was so hard on himself never repeated a lick (and lucky him that got to play with both Zappa and Holdsworth). And I do think that's way more respectable than carrying a musical ensemble like the military.
Colaiuda is so good I hate him.
Where did the Rolls Royce and "Spago" money come from?
Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation. Frank rented a bus and flew a banner on it while parading in front of Warner Bros. thanking them for getting one of his songs in the Top100 on Billboard
Aint tht funny
I wonder how many drugs Zappa was on.
13, I think.
Soulless chops-meisters like this guy (who I saw with Frank in New York in 1978) are part of why we're living through a musically inconsequential age.
It's so good and then it ends?????? Why ?? Where's the full interview????
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Incredible story.