Insights on the genius of Frank Zappa you won’t find anywhere else. There are many podcasts out there that you can engage to make you smarter. And just like you listen to Zappa to expand your auditory imagination beyond the mainstream, you listen to BOB to take your intelligence beyond the popular body of knowledge.
Bob’s work is like one 50,000-hour-long podcast-the most colossal oral work of all times. No more than two degrees of separation away from any influential figure or event of the past 100 years, and able to recall dates and facts with surgical accuracy, Bob is the Homer of the electric age.
This channel combines BOB and Zappa to take your Zappa knowledge to another level!
bobonzappa.com has been dedicated, from the beginning - 10 months ago - to erasing that meme - Zappa loses to Glass... sir. Welcome aboard - may the best asshole win!
@@johnbarnas879 Zappa's on a whole other LEVEL that nobody has learned to talk about, yet. Here's an attempt to approach that LEVEL: ionandbob.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-skeleton-key-to-zappas-projectobject.html
The other use/meaning of the word "apostrophe": [[ As a literary device, "apostrophe" refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object, such as Yorick's skull in Hamlet... or Fido on APOSTROPHE. ]] So who or what is Moon addressing in her memoir?
Frank won't be banned if I'm in charge of translating Frank's work. I managed to sneak iON past the censors during the past 14 years, so Frank should be no problem... in spite of the effects of Moon's memoir.
I met TM,SV,AB and another band member out back of a show at the paramount in Portland Oregon. We were chatting and a guy walks by saying wanna buy some acid , TM says no thanks we all took some.
The Leslie is a rotating speaker that creates a tremolo or vibrating effect on the instrument. You can modulate the speed and acceleration of the speaker, which can create interesting sound modulations.
52:54 Bert, Roxana, Bob on tonality, the synclavier and Bach vs Zappa 1:08:48 Artificial creation of sound 4:43:28 Bob's account of how he first reacted to the ending of Captain Beefheart vs The Grunt People
It's not a flippant question. The concept of the "satellite conductor" is one of the major keys to Frank's "conceptual continuity" - especially the "novelistic" or "story line" of the "Big Note", the "movie for your ears". To understand this point, one should study a statement Frank made to TIME MAgazine after he broke up the Mothers of Invention in August, 1969. Here it is: [[ ... Moon Unit. A self-thought composer whose idols are Stravinsky and Varèse, Zappa thinks that he would have been taken a lot more seriously if he had chosen a classical life. His current success, however, is the best proof possible of the cross-pollinating of movies, television and recordings now occurring in Hollywood. These days even the freakiest musicians can go independent, be their own managers, producers and A & R men - and make money. Working in the basement of his Laurel Canyon home, which he shares with his wife Gail, their daughter Moon Unit, and a baby son whom they call Dweezil. Zappa is editing his first film Burnt Weenie Sandwich, a documentary about the Mothers. His second, Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People, is ready for the camera. Neither one of them could possibly compare to the $4,800,000 flick he hopes to do next. Zappa is ready, willing, able and graphic in talking about that one if someone listens. "It opens in a concentration camp in the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where the Establishment has founded up all the hippies, the Mothers included, to re-educate them in the American verities, with lectures on things like the American hamburger. Whenever anyone falls asleep in class, he is killed by a huge torture machine which carves the name of his crime in his back. In the end, the Mothers and the other hippies are saved by Mothra, the giant moth of movie fame, and Godzilla, and Gorgo, and King Kong, and all the old monsters, and in the Armageddon it is discovered that the camp had been run by Colonel Sanders, who turned out to be nothing more than an electric doll in the glove compartment of a Volkswagen bus which was being used as a Chicken Delight truck.” ]] All of the components in the last scenes of "Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People" (1969 version), "Hunchentoot", and "Them Or Us" are imbedded in the plot above. All of his albums are paragraphs of this "story" he told TIME. The more one becomes familiar with the details of Frank's "creation", the more the statement above is understood as the outline of the "science-fiction" opera he was laying out for us for over 25 years, beginning with the first version of "Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People" in 1964. More to be said soon.
