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Frank Zappa / The Peripatetic Scholar
What influenced Frank Zappa? Everything!
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Just watched this last week. Very good.
Bumping.... this is a must see for those interested in the evolution of a musical conception. Zappa is unique in the annals of rock.
@LinearLineman you may enjoy this too. House party in the last year of his all to short life.
Frank Zappa - Salad Party Home Video Feb 15th 1993 (Unreleaased Footage), with Chieftains, Huun Huur (Tuva Singers) and Johnny Guitar Watson as guests.
List from freak out cover.
The Freak Out List by Frank Zappa
Pamela Zarubica
Art Laboe
Hal Zeiger
Jim Guercio
Henry Vestine
Alice Stewart [Stuart]
Lillian Rudolph
Mark Cheka
Herb Cohen
Tom Wilson
Fyllis
Lucille
Jack Tillar
Don Cerveris
Vic Mortenson [Mortensen]
Terry Kirkman
Frankie Lee Simms
Sonny Boy Williamson
Buddy Guy
Albert Collins
Little Walter
Maurice Ravel
Joe Polly
Don & Dewey
Lee Zagon
Steve Mann
Skip Diamond
Silvestre Revueltas
Arnold Schoenberg
Joe Perrino
Jerry Ullberg
Donna #1
Donna #2
Loeb & Leopold
Sacco & Vanzetti
Gene & Eunice
Robert Craft
Carl Greenhouse
Dave Aerni
Bob Keene [Keane]
Nick Venet
Jim Economides
Alois Haba [H�ba]
Leo Ornstein
Elvis Presley
Barry McGuire
Don Julian
Tiny Tim
Cordwainer Smith
Theodore Sturgeon
Robert Sheckley
Randy De Wees
Dick Barber
Eberhard Kronhausen
Yves Tanguy
Lenny Bruce
Ravi Shankar
Chatur Lal
N. C. Mullick
Jules Feiffer
The Bokelmans
Floyd
Ernie Tosi
Shirley Eiler
Mr. Ballard
Brian Epstein
David Crosby
Herman Rudin
Joe De Santis
Bruce Gordon
Frank De Cova [DeKova]
Roland Kirk
Wolfman Jack
Snuff Garret
Molly Bee
Ernie Freeman
Lew Irwin
Fred C. Dobbs
John Tasker Howard
Cecil Forsythe
Charles Brown
James Joyce
George Di Carl
Diane Baker
Melvin Belli
Bulent Arel [B�lent]
Mauricio Kagel
Leonard Allen
Dr. Brossman
Jerry Murnane
Uncle Ed
The Hypnotist
Animal Huxley
Salvador Dali [Dal�]
Vincent Persichetti
Carol
Sabicas
Charles Middleton
Lance Reardon
Sabu
J. Arthur Rank
Luigi Nono
Sylvia Brigham
Steffie
Avedis Zildjian
Little Arthur Matthews
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Bill Stulla
Rosemarie De Camp [Rosemary DeCamp]
Bobby Jamieson
B. Mitchell Reed [Mitchel]
Cordy
Ruthie
Joyce
Jesse Kaye
Phil Spector
Evy
Lyn Johnson
Pete
Leonard Gorczyca
Don Vliet
Pepper
Lauren
Charles Mingus
Pierre Boulez
Anton Webern
Igor Stravinsky
Willie Dixon
Guitar Slim
Edgar Varese
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
Elmer Valentine
Phil Tanzini
John Beck
Mario
Bob Reiner
Eric Dolphy
Bram Stoker
Cecil Taylor
Bill Evans
Johnny Otis
Preston Love
Slim Harpo
Karl Kohn
Bob Narciso
Johnny Guitar Watson
Tim Sullivan
Sonny Tufts
John Wayne
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Junior Madeo
Jeff Harris
Bobby Atler
Daddy-o Curtis Crump
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Joe Huston
Chuck Higgins
Big Jay McNeely
Jim Sherwood
Sandy Schwanekamp
Nadine Reyes
Kaye Sherman
Donald Woods
Richard Berry
Huggy Boy
Vernon Greene [Green]
Hunter Hancock
Willie Mae Thornton
Lightnin' Slim
Roger Huntington Sessions
Charles Ives
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Terry Wimberly
Johnny Franklin
Teddy Bunn
Jeepers
Paul Buff
MK Ultra
Zappa is my favourite composer.
After Camille Saint Saens
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Truer words have never been spoken. We miss you, Frank.
Great, will watch this later. Big fan, I’ve picked up almost all of his albums over the years, which wasn’t cheap.
‘The dialectics of poodle play’ is a good, obsessive read if you’re into him, and the BBC documentary is good too:
@Moderndaycompiler
Thanks for the extensive list!
I guess it could be reduced to about 10 people that had significant influence to FZ's characteristic style.
We can learn from him that if one wants to create something exceptional, it's a good idea not to focus on the average mainstream.
He repeatedly said that in his music, anything could happen anytime in no particular order, and that describes his works quite well.
Also, let's not forget the fantastic musicians in his bands who have contributed a lot to make his music even more enjoyable over the years.
Yep.
Roxy The Movie really shows how good that particular band he had was.
Such a shame about Roy Estrada, guy was insanely talented.
A C20th auteur, a 'musician's musician' if ever there was one.
I always feel for those who just 'don't get it', admittedly for some there's a fair few scatological & distinctly 'un PC' hurdles to get over first
Persevere & you will inevitably discover a 'gateway' track into a dense, rich musical world, it's well worth the effort.
Been listening for 30+ years & still not bored.
Six minutes of unadulterated beauty ...
Far easier going than 'The Negative Dialectics' but straight from the source & a highly entertaining read, even if you're not necessarily a fan of the music.
http://pierroule.com/ZappaRealBook/TheRFZBook.htm
"This book exists on the premise that somebody, somewhere, is interested in who I am, how I got that way, and what the fuck I'm talking about.
To answer Imaginary Question Number One, let me begin by explaining WHO I AM NOT. Here are two popular 'Frank Zappa Legends'. . .
Because I recorded a song called "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the Hot Rats album in 1969, people have believed for years that the character with that name on the Captain Kangaroo TV show (played by Lumpy Brannum) was my 'real' Dad. No, he was not.
The other fantasy is that I once 'took a shit on stage.' This has been propounded with many variations, including (but not limited to):
[1] I ate shit on stage.
[2] I had a 'gross-out contest' (what the fuck is a 'gross-out contest'?) with Captain Beefheart and we both ate shit on stage.
[3] I had a 'gross-out contest' with Alice Cooper and he stepped on baby chickens and then I ate shit on stage, etc.
I was in a London club called the Speak Easy in 1967 or '68. A member of a group called the Flock, recording for Columbia at the time, came over to me and said:
"You're fantastic. When I heard about you eating that shit on stage, I thought, 'That guy is way, way out there.'
I said, "I never ate shit on stage." He looked really depressed -- like I had just broken his heart.
For the records, folks: I never took a shit on stage, and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973."
Yeah got that one too
Pauline Butcher’s book is an interesting read - pretty lightweight, Hello magazine stuff, but a nice insight into the early years of the Zappa Mother’s communal years.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freak-Out-Life-Frank-Zappa/dp/0859654796
Yeah, I've got that one too & a few more. It's a nice bit of background to 60's life in Laurel Canyon.
Don't get me started, I'll be 'waxing lyrical' to his genius endlessly
Some of the recordings he made of the Tuvan throat singers ended up on this posthumously released LP, I believe this was also his final recorded guitar solo.
Great to see the Zappa fans deploy! Did I miss Schoenberg on the list? He was a biggy for Frank.
Had to write an essay on any composer of our choice for our History of Western Music final back in college. Chose Zappa. Got an A.
Hahaha, good work ! Similarly managed to work it into a degree dissertation once upon a time - entitled ‘FZ & the MOI’s commentary on American counterculture of the 1960’s’, or something along those lines.