I saw this tour in Poughkeepsie, NY. I went with a friend who was not particularly a fan of Frank. When this song began Zavod was rolling around on the stage doing The Fish or something. It was odd but entertaining, sort of, and as soon as he got up and played his solo...All the weirdness went away and the Civic Center went silent, mouths agape, and just listened.
A visceral lineup they could turn on a Dime Absolutely nail everything and Frank was free to do an explore places. He had never gone and wasn't afraid to go to because this band was so tight and spectacular. Which caused him to be relaxed and monstrous on his solos On that fender strat
Allan Zavod, interviewed by Avo Raup, July 16, 2003 "Every night was a different program, but every night we always played "Cleveland", never missed a night. He was a great leader. He had to keep everybody happy in the band. The way you make them happy is you played a big solo every night, but made it different. He didn't say it but we made it different every night. I never played the same solo twice. I played it a hundred and fifty times but I never repeated the same solo, and him, too, always new. So it was always a new adventure every night. The only thing is we always played that one piece every night, every concert, but it was always different, so that's why he played it every night. Then he was inspired and he inspired me and I inspired him. So after a couple of months I looked at Chad [Wackerman] and I went: you take with Phil here. So I played like in jazz, you play four bars, then drums will play four bars, then you come back and play eight bars. I used to love that about Phil Evans so I was doing that with Chad. It was my piece, whatever I wanted to do and it was working. Frank loved it, if it was going well, go with it. There was never any discussion, just a musical language. He never said: Oh, this is going well. You didn't have to speak it because music is a universal language so if it's going well everybody knows it without having to say it. I just pointed at Chad like this (shows). So he realizes I wanted him to play a major solo. So every day he's getting more and more drums, the drum solo is getting bigger and bigger, but that never made my solo smaller. I used to play piano and sometimes the bass, too and then Frank would play his solo. And it grew into this big beat. And how could he not play it every night. The drummer gets to play his solo, the piano plays a major solo, the bass plays a major solo, he gets to play a great solo. It was a jam, it was a jewel in the crown and it was an instrumental, it was meant to be. It had many different names. I don't know if that's one of my best solos but he liked it and he put on the album." (thanks William Estragon)
Wow - I never saw this footage before! Great line up FZ, Ike, Bobby Martin, Alan Zavod, Chad Ray White and Mr. persoanlity...Scott Thunes. I was lucky enough to see this exact band in the summer of 1984 at the Pier in NYC where FZ shot "Does Humor Belong in Music" Thanks for posting!!!!!!
Chad is certainly a well oiled machine, and innovative, I agree. But it's Zappa's solos in these LGTC's from '84 that really blew me away.. he really was on top of his game at this point in his life IMO and his band could turn on a dime. he's so relaxed and free w his solos, and each version seems to go into unexplored territory, he took risks live, which many bands cannot do (..or do successfully)
Amazing footage! Very interesting to see and hear the whole band, all natural, without edits, mixes or different camera angles. And of course a great performance of all of them! Thank you very much for this.
Hasn't lost any of it's musical relevance... Nice pirouettes, Scott and...! Is this the same recording that appeared on "Does humor belong in Music"? Ooops, the tape reel is tampered a bit clumbsily.... makes me laugh though! Who is on keys? Quite briliant!
I saw this tour in Poughkeepsie, NY. I went with a friend who was not particularly a fan of Frank. When this song began Zavod was rolling around on the stage doing The Fish or something. It was odd but entertaining, sort of, and as soon as he got up and played his solo...All the weirdness went away and the Civic Center went silent, mouths agape, and just listened.
A visceral lineup they could turn on a Dime Absolutely nail everything and Frank was free to do an explore places. He had never gone and wasn't afraid to go to because this band was so tight and spectacular. Which caused him to be relaxed and monstrous on his solos On that fender strat
Allan Zavod, interviewed by Avo Raup, July 16, 2003
"Every night was a different program, but every night we always played "Cleveland", never missed a night. He was a great leader. He had to keep everybody happy in the band. The way you make them happy is you played a big solo every night, but made it different. He didn't say it but we made it different every night. I never played the same solo twice. I played it a hundred and fifty times but I never repeated the same solo, and him, too, always new. So it was always a new adventure every night. The only thing is we always played that one piece every night, every concert, but it was always different, so that's why he played it every night. Then he was inspired and he inspired me and I inspired him.
So after a couple of months I looked at Chad [Wackerman] and I went: you take with Phil here. So I played like in jazz, you play four bars, then drums will play four bars, then you come back and play eight bars. I used to love that about Phil Evans so I was doing that with Chad. It was my piece, whatever I wanted to do and it was working. Frank loved it, if it was going well, go with it. There was never any discussion, just a musical language. He never said: Oh, this is going well. You didn't have to speak it because music is a universal language so if it's going well everybody knows it without having to say it. I just pointed at Chad like this (shows). So he realizes I wanted him to play a major solo. So every day he's getting more and more drums, the drum solo is getting bigger and bigger, but that never made my solo smaller. I used to play piano and sometimes the bass, too and then Frank would play his solo. And it grew into this big beat. And how could he not play it every night. The drummer gets to play his solo, the piano plays a major solo, the bass plays a major solo, he gets to play a great solo. It was a jam, it was a jewel in the crown and it was an instrumental, it was meant to be. It had many different names. I don't know if that's one of my best solos but he liked it and he put on the album." (thanks William Estragon)
Wow - I never saw this footage before! Great line up FZ, Ike, Bobby Martin, Alan Zavod, Chad Ray White and Mr. persoanlity...Scott Thunes.
I was lucky enough to see this exact band in the summer of 1984 at the Pier in NYC where FZ shot "Does Humor Belong in Music" Thanks for posting!!!!!!
Chad is certainly a well oiled machine, and innovative, I agree.
But it's Zappa's solos in these LGTC's from '84 that really blew me away..
he really was on top of his game at this point in his life IMO
and his band could turn on a dime.
he's so relaxed and free w his solos, and each version seems to go into unexplored territory,
he took risks live, which many bands cannot do (..or do successfully)
dude this twisted vhs audio makes this song more odd and cool
RIP Allan, you were amazing !
Fantastic solo from Chad here. Fun to watch him play with the electronics.
... and Zappa just sitting there. Surrounded by such talented musicians!
Mijn Kleindochter is nu 14 staat in mijn Telefoon met deze Melodie word Ik blij van
Nice job Allen ! Thats wicked pure!
one of my faves from one of my fave tours! zappa rules. thanks!
Amazing footage! Very interesting to see and hear the whole band, all natural, without edits, mixes or different camera angles. And of course a great performance of all of them! Thank you very much for this.
5:20 Alan pops off
RIP VOLCANO
is this from the autobiography?
Bob Ule Nice volcano!
Incredible footage 😂
Wow dude u saaved this since 1984 cool arf!!
NOT ONLY funny, but FZ could ROCK and what a BAND ! His compositions, especially the HOT RATS album, were VERY INTERESTING, too !
I went to the Dallas Texas show of this same tour
That simultaneous jump and spin was nice
SIR THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!!!!!! MOARRRR PLIZZZ
Oh Yes
Vulcano´s solo of Allan Zavod-.
ZAVOD!
This band brings back a lot of memories,some don't like it that much because Frank had littler percussion but i like it
the solosssssssss
Ils avaient fait le meme à Bercy.Willis & autres agiteant des serviettes autours de Zavod pour le ventiler pendant son invraisemblable solo!!!!!
Hey, nice volcano!
RIP Allan
i'm only here for the volcano
6:19 Is that _The VOLCANO_ ?
It's quite frothy, I must say.
10:42!!!
Man!! That’s amazing! Do you have Moggio?!! It’s from the same era
Hasn't lost any of it's musical relevance... Nice pirouettes, Scott and...! Is this the same recording that appeared on "Does humor belong in Music"? Ooops, the tape reel is tampered a bit clumbsily.... makes me laugh though! Who is on keys?
Quite briliant!
Bobby Martin
Bobby Martin and Alan Zavod. It's Alan doing the piano solo
Chad Wackerman RULES!
VOLCANO SOLO!
Does humor belong in music?
I bet Frank went and had a smoke during the piano solo. :)
+Jon Doe He'd smoke it right on stage lol
@@Joepepelombardo He thought cancer couldn't get him.
Sounds like a supervillain theme.