klkdc 2 years ago 4:20 - Intro 5:49 - The Black Page #2 11:26 - Band introduction 12:33 - Packard Goose (Medley) 14:55 - Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat" 15:57 - Theme From "The Bartok Piano Concerto #3" 17:20 - Packard Goose (cont) 19:25 - Sharleena 26:01 - Bamboozled By Love 31:21 - Black Napkins 37:39 - When The Lie's So Big 41:14 - Planet Of The Baritone Women 43:58 - Any Kind Of Pain 49:14 - Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 56:44 - Sofa 59:22 - Find Her Finer 1:02:02 - Big Swifty 1:13:49 - I Ain't Got No Heart 1:15:46 - Love Of My Life 1:18:02 - The Torture Never Stops -- 1:36:04 - Bolero 1:41:27 - Watermelon In Easter Hay 1:46:10 - Whipping Post 1:51:40 - I Am The Walrus 1:55:11 - The Illinois Enema Bandit
I saw him at Wembley, London and two nights later in Birmingham, UK. Almost completely different sets (maybe four or five pieces in common). Unbelievably tight band playing stunning arrangements.
@@zombywoof1015 ~ The band learning, rehearsing, and memorizing that much material for a tour is amazing. I saw Pink Floyd's Pittsburgh show in 1994, excellent show, but it was in May or June. The "Pulse" video was from that fall, and it was a virtually identical show, several months later. When you think about it, good as the Floyd show was, it was the same program, night after night. Zappa changing it up night after night, and the band doing it without a hitch, really says something about the work this band did for this tour. Again, amazing.
I'm from Spain and was 15 years old when this fabulous show was broadcasted live in Spanish TV and Radio FM. I recorded in a tape the music from FM Radio and still I have that old cassette, and I also recorded in video VHS. That changed my life and the way I listen, study and make music and play guitar. At first I thought it was strange music, like circus music with some strange guitar from time to time... But years passed and little by little I began to like it , and now I think he is one of the greatest musicians of all time.
FZ is one of the undisputed creative geniuses. His juxtaposing of material and the expert execution of it, with his entire band of top notch musicians, is a joy to hear and WATCH in action. Whoever put in the time and effort to make this available - THANK YOU!
14:29 - “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” - Remember!!
Ahh, at last ....(hhehehheheee) you are healed !! Welcome to humanity !! At 1:10:00 it begins ....... something nice, where I just was, when writing to you ! "Finally absorbing" is never complete, try THING FISH ....or Best Band you never heard or JAZZ noise !! ......(them or us) ?
same. 34 yrs old. ive always know about Zappa. A friend of mine was studying his madness in high school but I couldnt get into it. I was too serious. What a shame hehe
Geez, when I was a kid Zappa was bad, very very bad, and then I chanced on hearing the lyrics "ram it up your poop shoot" and that just confirmed everything and I never bothered to pick up any of his music, although I heard he was a great musician. Now, at 46 years, I am watching this and realize that I love his music, it incorporates all the elements that I like, and it is very intellectual. These guys on tour with him look like they are having a blast playing these pieces.
He was and is pure genius....and possibly THING FISH can explain all your worries about society at large or through another thrilling broadway show !! I would send you a link , or just purchase the album, some of the best music and life recommendations you ever got in your life !! (hehehehehehe..... you would be "healed") or ..... beauty knows know pain, could heal all make up afflicted !!
I'm a 40 year musician / drummer & musically speaking "Zappa's mind should have been preserved until the technology is available to reveal his musical genius to the world". Zappa's release of "APOSTROPHE" is a great example of his mental musical depth that few can fathom , not just the lyrics but the bar he set that's forever unreachable even for other musical geniuses like Thomas Dolby as just one example but anyone that's chosen in the wide world of music will fall as miserably short in comparison to the depth of his music. I had the privilege to see Zappa in Memphis at a place they built to be as close to acoustically perfect as possible & that show in 1981 still stands out in the top 3 of the 973 ticket stubs I have in my photo album. Music equipment then & now is useless to talk about , we'll skip that & only say that if Zappa would have had today's equipment can you imagine?!! I've still got my concert shirt that shows Zappa's face (in black & white) on the front & he has an oven mitt that's neon green that says "them or us". Frank brought the house down w/yellow snow , Apostrophe (the crust of the biscuit is what people's ? it's the Apostrophe)!!! I could go on & on & on with my thoughts on FZ (the RED BLOODED PIONEER of so much God gifted talent put to music & lyrics) but I'll stop here for now because I don't know if there's even another "true" FZ fan out there that will read what I've said thus far about "the man" , "the forevermore music legend" , & once again > "THE PIONEER" ... Later , Malcolm "Memphis TN." Wilson 12-4-16
Well Apostrophe was only one album, what about Sheik Yerbouti , Joes Garage , Overnite Sensation, Tinseltown Rebellion, or a kicking Them or us album with Steve Vai ?! The most extreme seem to be his own solos of which very many can be seen here in this video !! Watermelon in Easter Hay ...or .... Sharleena show some of his skill !!
Man do I miss going to see him and his band. I went to every tour from 1975 until 1988 best shows I ever had the pleasure to see. the man was a awesome musician and awesome guitarist.
Seen him five different times in Chicago. Once at a college auditorium just 15 or 20 feet away from him watching him jam his guitar for about three hours. A musician's, musician. Way ahead of his time. Best thing about growing up in the seventies and eighties? Going to Zappa concerts!!
Frank Zappa was an amazing creative musician. His were the tightest bands at that time with the best arrangements. Anyone who thinks he was just somebody in a crowd needs to do more research.
I have been a fan of hard rock guitar for twenty years and I've never heard anything that really tops the solos he played during this set Lol As good maybe but better? No
4:20 - Intro 5:49 - The Black Page #2 11:26 - Band introduction 12:33 - Packard Goose (Medley) 14:55 - Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat" 15:57 - Theme From "The Bartok Piano Concerto #3" 17:20 - Packard Goose (cont) 19:25 - Sharleena 26:01 - Bamboozled By Love 31:21 - Black Napkins 37:39 - When The Lie's So Big 41:14 - Planet Of The Baritone Women 43:58 - Any Kind Of Pain 49:14 - Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 56:44 - Sofa 59:22 - Find Her Finer 1:02:02 - Big Swifty 1:13:49 - I Ain't Got No Heart 1:15:46 - Love Of My Life 1:18:02 - The Torture Never Stops -- 1:36:04 - Bolero 1:41:27 - Watermelon In Easter Hay 1:46:10 - Whipping Post 1:51:40 - I Am The Walrus 1:55:11 - The Illinois Enema Bandit
There is nothing even remotely comparable to Zappa these days. His shows were always impeccable and perfect. Thanks Frank for everything you taught me.
This is just beyond awe-inspiring,no matter how many times i listen to or watch Frank Zappa it always feels fresh,it always feels like i,ve discovered the greatest treasure for the first time,a sign of a truly great artist.
Omg I'm freaking out living all these years wondering if any parts of Broadway the hardway was captured live on film....I'm so excited thank you God for creating frank Zappa
This show is a work of art. A collage producing a whole, a unit, an orchestra of highest musical expression and art in Theater/Stage amalgamated to a show that is in fact, in my view, a whole, comparable the greatest masters of classical composition. A master from whom to learn. Enjoy !
Yeah, I hear it often ....with my stereo full on !! Real musicians, playing real music !! ...and Jazz or IMPROV is so soothing !! It is no commercial or pop junk, ,......at 1:06:00 ...the electric voices in notes can seem "trivial".
many thanks for the COMPLETE show! I saw the '88 band EVERY night at THE BEACON on Broadway! Frank had the synclavier + the killer self destructing band! Ed Mann was playing acoustic guitar on his synth percussion pads...all hell broke loose and slimed all over us.. the dynamic eric buxton sitting in my Chevy, waiting for tickets ALL NIGHT.....
Ben Holbrook Its only expected if you post any comments anymore on You Tube but I don't care-I have found some very cool people on some videos and some of the most vile foul mouthed little tough guys as well.Zappa is the greatest musical mind of our time!!A complete and total genius one of the smartest hippest and funny cats to ever be
I really like the part(torture never stops, 1hour and 21min. into the vid) where Ike Wills seemingly makes a mistake, and FZ and Scott Thunes start cracking up. They have trouble containing themselves and Ike Willis has the seeming "hardest time", getting it together. I could not stop laughing and it is wonderful to see professionals being able to laugh or be ale to exibit joy while being so professional. True showmanship of understanding and humor. No denying. FZ you are immortal.
Thank you brainphreaky. I saw Frank 7 times but never with his big band, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video. It actually made me cry once again for the loss. I wish there was some way I could download it or buy it on DVD.
This has to be one of my favorite concerts. You know how once in awhile you see Frank like he never played the guitar like never before, on a Straty to.
Mr. Martin was truly the ace in the hole of the 80's era of Zappa tours. Fantastic voice that elevated everything to such a beautiful level of blend. Great multi-instrumentalist as well. Nothing against the rest of the band, as they are fantastic (understatement for sure) as per usual...especially Mike Keneally and Scott Thunes (as a bass player, I can't overlook Scott).
Thanks for sticking this up. I love Franks music. There is some wonderful stuff on here. Where are we gonna find another like Frank. I miss him so much.
Yeah, I admit or comply , and have you seen Jeff Becks performance < This Week Jeck Beck playing at Ronnie Scotts, 720 hp ?? friggin awesome..... and Vinnie Coliauto is perfect !
Time is suppose to heal all wounds...but I miss Frank Zappa more with each passing year. Watching FZ play guitar was like watch Vladimir Horowitz play the piano...talent connected to a higher power. Unreal.
sonically it's hard to escape who you are. Even with Zappa's wide ranging musical genius, all the same little things and similar phrases turn up everywhere. Plus a Zappa solo can be determined miles away. You would think with that kind of gift, the offerings would vary more.
+alienstarguest Yeah, a double-edged sword to be sure. The (possibly) negative would be the amount one repeats oneself, but also in not being able to escape certain things one does, you become instantly recognizable, which trumps (god I hate that word as of late!) all I think.
I haven't heard anyone better. I just did recall what several of his band members keep saying: Frank was total underrated as a guitarist. I mean how ironic can the world possibly be?
Apparantly there's a hell of a lot of footage from the 88 tour still sitting in the ZFT vault according to mike keneally. Something from this tour really needs to be released as a testimonial to frank.
haggai samuelson You can thank Gail for that. I don't understand why she hoards all this stuff and only releases it in dribbles. I don't believe Frank would want it like this.
Saw that tour in Boston in 1988, with my brother and my wife when she was 6 months pregnant. Frank had a cold, so the poor guy had a bottle of NeoSynephrine on a stool next to him the whole show. Man, he looked like he was miserable, but he soldiered on thru the whole show.
Ike Willis has always had such an amazing voice!!!! ... and "Any Kind Of Pain" is such a great version... as well as "Outside Now" on Broadway The Hard Way"... In my opinion...
many thanks for uploading! Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
There is an hour’s worth of video from the rehearsal / sound check from a show 3 months earlier- on you tube - search Tower Theater Upper Darby PA - I think 2/14/88
I remember standing for bands like Marshal Tucker and Charlie Daniels, Rick Derringer, the Fiixx, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, the Ramones, etc. I'll have to sit down sometime and see if I can recall all the bands I've seen. When I was in my late teens, early twenties I think I was going to at least a show or two every month. Music addicts we were. Lol Peace, bro!
Frankincensed Hi dude, I have just picked up my laptop from the repairers, so I haven't been on youtube for about a month now. I was the same when I was younger, I don't think I could remember every local, national, or International bands I have seen..lol.. Peace to you too Bro. nice to hear from you again. :-)
Ziggy Zappada My hard drive took a dump. Cost me $300 bucks. I need the computer for my work, so I can't go too long without it. But I also miss RU-vid and my 300-plus Frank videos.
Como se suele decir, yo estuve allí.Uno de los mejores (junto a los del maestro fripp) conciertos de los que he asistido en mi vida. De verdad quede completamente rendido frente al torrente de musica que destilaba la BANDA de Frank
He's pretty much regarded the greatest musical act side by side with the Beatles if you do enough digging in the music community lol.. if that ain't enough recognition I don't know what is? The only thing he probably never received proper acknowledgement for, was his guitar playing ability, even that's debatable.
@@andycobb6062 The "hall of fame" is just a marketing exercise and means bugger all. In terms of recognition, ask a random person to name five Beatles songs and five Zappa songs.
Fascinating and very complex, beautifully played sophisticated modern symphonic and jazz mixed in with over the top, hardly subtle satire. But what would his music be without some silliness? Hot Rats indeed!. And as a guitarist of 50 years, I can tell you that he was a master.
don G basically, he was a rock guitarist that could also read and write music like any classical composer. So he wrote rock music like it was for a symphony. What resulted was extremely high art, but he also had a great sense of humor to counterbalance the snobbery. Don’t make me type more, I want to keep listening lol
One of my great regrets was missing the final tour of Zappa. The CD's of it are hilarious and unreal. We'll never see that kind of modern music art again, I'm afraid.
+CribNotes I was 13 at the time and wasn't allowed to goto a gig on my own. Nobody I knew enjoyed him though so I had to miss it. Something that upsets me to this day.
tehf00n Sucks, right? One of my teenage guitar students offered me an extra ticket for the show. I had another obligation which I could have cancelled but I figured, "I'll catch Zappa next time. It'll probably be a smaller band like the 1984 tour anyway...." Ended up being his last tour....with a full horn section!! Doh!!!
The Honest Voice of Expression. Tell the kids about Zappa! in the hopes that they will listen/hear the freedom. Or at least respect the Talent integrity in Music is rare, and missed
Well, I suppose if you're fan of progressive jazz, he may be palatable -- but he always marketed himself as a rocker, at least in the early years -- and most of the early stuff was supposed to be, if not rock, then satirical comment on rock. The Jazz from Hell album strikes me as a lot of fooling around on a keyboard, but nothing really coming together or sustained. He was an experimentalist, but I don't think any of his experiments produced anything really worth listening to.
Marketing, gimme a break, even Zappa was young. Marketing Pfft... The Industry has it's mogols. I hear"d..... Mr. Zappa chose his own path. And, I am, not sure if I ever listened to the,jazz from hell album. I'll look it up after. :) Satirical, F'n right! And Great at It! He saw the humor in the hypocracy and expressed it, thru sound and passion. Listen to " More Trouble Everyday" and tell me what's Rock. :). And yes, Jazz can be weird,true but that's what makes it Jazz,,,Aye. It grows on ya! I'm tell'n ya! He had to self promote so he stayed prolific. Some of his musical experiments were out there for sure. But there is a quality in the confusion of it that I get. To me, Zappa is the Guy that went down to the crossroads and told the Devil to go FUCK Himself. lol Titties and Beer!
Atomic Lobotomy Atomic, Zappa was a blues based guitar player, a comedian, and a social commentator. But most of all, he would consider himself a 20th century composer from the lineage of Stravinsky, Webern, Varese. In other words, most people have no understanding of what he was doing. And well trained musicians know, the material he wrote for his bands could be incredibly complicated rhythmically. To this day, I don't know how he got eight guys to play some of those lines in sync with each other. A super pain in the ass to play, even for top notch classical musicians.
Gott, ich liebe diesen Mann!! Ihn mir anzuschauen ist immer ein adäquates Mittel um wieder gut drauf zu kommen, wenn sich eine depressive Stimmung breit macht...Thanx, Frank!
Frank Zappa....... i saw him live 6.5.88 in Hamburg. He come on stage and we give im standing ovations. what a great feeling...... a lot of red roses fly on stage, a lot of slips....a great concert..... thanks a lot, Frank Zappa. You give me 200 nice partys,1000 nice moments. and this bombastic gig. Arno from Lüneburg Germany
HAHA! Love Bobby Martin's (or perhaps Zappa's) lyrics during "Whipping Post" at 1:46:33 "..and gave me no head..I had to spend the whole night chokin' my chicken.." (classic Frank!)
Thanx. was lucky to catch this tour in England. My only FZgig. Was gutted when the news came that he had to cancell the rest of the shoows due to ill health. R.I.P. Great one!
@ R.B. Martin so cool to read your words. Nice to meet you here. Thanks to your pasion to play this music. Hey I listen at work and it blows me away. Bolero from Frank, yes thats it. I love Franks solo on Toture never stops and Watemelon in Easter Hay is one of my most love songs. Frank is a genius and his band also. This music makes me a wonderfull night shift.
