Frank Zappa! Cheap thrills

[Radar Love]

Cheap thrills in the back of my car
Cheap thrills, how fine they are
Cheap thrills up and down my spine
I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine

Cheap thrills all over the seat
Cheap thrills, your kind of lovin' can't be beat
Cheap thrills up and down my spine
I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine

Cheap thrills...




and the Mudshark interview 'never heard of anyone having it with an octopus...'


Great album! Rediscovered this weekend.

Any Zappa aficionados out there? What else have I been missing?

[Muntu]

Radar Love said:

Cheap thrills in the back of my car
Cheap thrills, how fine they are
Cheap thrills up and down my spine
I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine

Cheap thrills all over the seat
Cheap thrills, your kind of lovin' can't be beat
Cheap thrills up and down my spine
I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine

Cheap thrills...




and the Mudshark interview 'never heard of anyone having it with an octopus...'


Great album! Rediscovered this weekend.

Any Zappa aficionados out there? What else have I been missing?

Apostrophe (seeing as this is PH ), Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage,

[Blib]

Where do I start?

Sticking to one aspect of the man's music. Zappa was a true musical genius IMO. Releasing many,many albums including loads after he so tragically passed away. Zappa was, among many other things, a virtuoso guitar player, how about the 'Shut Up and Play Your Guitar' series of albums?

How good was he? Check this out!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ybG_mXqTp7E&feat...

Completely misunderstood and undervalued, he will be sorely missed.

R.I.P. Frank

eta: Also search out his first album. 'We're Only In It For The Money'. and the sublime 'One Size Fits All'

Ooh....also the 'You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore' series and 'Live In New York' and....i'd better stop now.

Edited by Blib on Monday 21st April 23:30

[whitechief]

Because it's Pistonheads;

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6KE1CHu0X8w

Edited by whitechief on Monday 21st April 23:37

[Dai Capp]

'The best band you never heard' and 'Joes Garage' - great records.

Most people say it was Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix or some other such luminary such as Satriani that made them pick up the guitar. For me it was Zappa.

Anyone who cites 'executive irritation' as the reason for releasing a record which was a 40 minute guitar solo gets my vote!

Cheers

DC

[Don]

Personal favourite: Titties and Beer.

"Now barf her back up, Devil, do you hear?"

The man was a genius. And the guys who played with him were fantastic - Steve Vai on "impossible guitar parts". Very strange music - but a lot of fun.

[NDA]

My toilet blew up yesterday afternoon,
The plumber he told me, never flush a tampooon....

Sheik Yerbouti is a great album, Thing Fish should be avoided (!), dreadful. Joe Garage is great - there are loads of albums.

I have a recording of an interview with FZ that was made in the 1980's and never broadcast - a telephone interview. I keep meaning to put it on CD and send to his family for their own use/distribution.

[andy_s]

Don't you go where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow...

[suthol]

andy_s said:

Don't you go where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow...

Close but no cigar.

Watch where the huskies go and don't you eat the yellow snow. ( watching it now )

Edited cos I posted through red wine last time.

Edited by suthol on Wednesday 23 April 13:25

[andy_s]

suthol said:

andy_s said:

Don't you go where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow...

Close but no cigar.

Watch where the huskies go and don't eat the yellow snow. ( watching it now )

[Forthright MC]

Blib said:

Where do I start?

Sticking to one aspect of the man's music. Zappa was a true musical genius IMO. Releasing many,many albums including loads after he so tragically passed away. Zappa was, among many other things, a virtuoso guitar player, how about the 'Shut Up and Play Your Guitar' series of albums?

How good was he? Check this out!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ybG_mXqTp7E&feat...

Completely misunderstood and undervalued, he will be sorely missed.

R.I.P. Frank

Edited by Blib on Monday 21st April 23:30

^^ sums it up really IMO!

he was a cracking guitarist indeed just check this!,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OW53fiwyskA

"Dumb All Over" is the FZ tune for me!

[catso]

suthol said:

andy_s said:

Don't you go where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow...

Close but no cigar.

Watch where the huskies go and don't eat the yellow snow. ( watching it now )

Or as a variation on the theme and after catching a fur trapper in the act of whipping on his favourite baby seal with a lead-filled snow shoe;

"That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down
And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous
Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow

The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow
Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous
Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it!"

Zappa's great.......

[ratbane]

NDA said:

My toilet blew up yesterday afternoon,
The plumber he told me, never flush a tampooon....

Sheik Yerbouti is a great album, Thing Fish should be avoided (!), dreadful. Joe Garage is great - there are loads of albums.

I have a recording of an interview with FZ that was made in the 1980's and never broadcast - a telephone interview. I keep meaning to put it on CD and send to his family for their own use/distribution.

...this great information cost me half a weeks pay,
and the toilet blew up later on the same day."

Simply too much zappa to recommend.

IIRC in an old edition of Q, of the tens of albums he produced, there were at least 5 albums with 5 gold stars. Now that IS a compliment.

Even on the lesser albums there are great bits.

My faves are Sheik Yerbouti, Joes Garage 1 to 3 (sublime Watermelon in Easter Hay), Bongo Fury, One Size Fits All (Chester Thompson rates Inca Roads as his finest drumming).

Someone who can bring us a piece of sarcastic humour like "Heavenly Bank Account" has to be a genius.

I seem to recall Melvyn Bragg suggesting that in several hundred years, that Zappa would be remembered as the best composer of the C20th.

Try reading Barry Miles' book on Zappa.

[Blib]

Or, Frank wrote 'The Real Frank Zappa'. Published by Picador in 1989. I found it a couple of weeks ago on a book stall in a market in Hampstead.

[NDA]

RIP Frank....

Father and daughter....

[Malam]

I'm a great fan of Zappa...here's me jamming along with him...;-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7e5pyVi3Fg

[whitechief]

Malam said:

I'm a great fan of Zappa...here's me jamming along with him...;-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7e5pyVi3Fg

Nice guitar, I have one of these

[catso]

Malam said:

I'm a great fan of Zappa...here's me jamming along with him...;-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7e5pyVi3Fg

Nice playing, but did you need to stuff a salami down your jeans?......

[rumpelstiltskin]

Just stumbled across this on the tube,great insight into Steve Vai's audition for Zappa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cplMM3d_Q&feat...

[Blib]

rumpelstiltskin said:

Just stumbled across this on the tube,great insight into Steve Vai's audition for Zappa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cplMM3d_Q&feat...

'Linda Ronstadt'
Thanks for that! A fascinating insight. I dunno about you but the way Stevie Vai described it I could hear Frank's voice!