Frank Zappa - Dupree's Paradise (1973) 

Ruth is probably my favorite Zappa band musician. To me, she is the centerpiece of the sound of this whole era in their history.

She doesn't seem to be an improviser. Or perhaps she thinks she can't take a solo after Jean-Luc Ponty ! I was in the same situation when I played mallet keyboards, I could play anything written (not like Ruth of course), but I was not on the level with pros jazzmen. Improvising on marimba is no piece of cake, you really have to know where you are going. That's why the kids must improvise. A fellow teacher told me once : people can learn to read music tardily, but if you don't teach improvisation when they are young, it's too late when they are grown up.

Ruth was a top notch orchestral musician drafted by Frank. For me, it's her xylophone work that defined the Mothers/Frank's best sound. And that's sayin' a lot.

@@elizabethstatom4456 and she Is BUILT!

@@snorkleaye She's a stick.

Thanks for quoting me! :)

The air molecules are fully ready to engage and respond, like sticky colas looking for pollen.

Frank Zappa one of the best 🎸🕑🎼🎶

Je suppose que ça veut dire qu'un compositeur est quelqu'un qui impose son idée à des choses inattendues, souvent grâce à des musiciens imprévisibles... ? J'aime bien l'idée... Vive la liberté !

He called music air sculptures

My wife was listening an Elton john track as I entered the room ... I was silent for a few seconds and then I said: that jean luc ponty on violin. Jlp has a recognizable style.

I had the misfortune when I saw Ponty with Mahavishnu, c 1972, it was so over-mixed volume for the New, plush medium sized Perth (West Australia), it was an unbearable noise. Much better venue for smaller more refined groups. Hope the stage mix was more tolerable. Good to see Ponty here with such peers.

You may be thinking of Jerry Goodman with Mahavishnu.

and Miles

@@frankbotterweck8938 what is the track/?

Watch Steve Vai’s video when he talk about auditioning for Zappa.

Nathan Goss or Bozio’s.

And Wackerman’s story of his audition. Haunting! Haha. Jesus it would raise your game. FZ must be a savant without the personality disorder.

Rotti-X I’m not sure he wasn’t without some kind of personality disorder to be quite honest. 🤣😂🤣

I saw them in Gothenburg. 13 years old. Standing on a bench looking over the fence. Did not have a clue who it was then. Saw Zappa 4 times after that. ❤❤❤❤❤

I had a couple of albums by Jean Luc back in the 80"s

Imaginary Voyage, Cosmic Messenger! ( late '70's) were my favorites

Oh, Wow !! For Real ! I wondered what sounded familiar to me. I figured that it must have been an inspiration to another musician that I couldn't put my finger on but it's just him in his early years. Just phenomenal man !!

as ALL-WAYS

Zappa was an arrogant asshole

agreet

Yes. I'll always be wondering what he would be doing now

Check out the full version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BKpd0l-O77U.html

Frank is the best!

Frank isn't dead. He just smells funny......

He and George Carlin always Evoked Truth with their Lyrics, monologues, and Sarcasm to Expose the Harsh Realities We Deal with Daily!!! May they RIP ✝

So deep in the pocket he was never coming out.

His brother Bruce is on the trombone

he looked stoned and was workin his ass off to make sure fz didnt notice,,,,,,

Love the way he backs up Ponte all the way through his solo😊

Fowler played on some of Ponty's early solo albums....

Of course he FZ recruiting

They were, but I think Ralph was my favorite.

Welcome

Me too. I am a fairly well schooled pro guitar player and only when I retired did I have time to drift back into Zappa and his top level understanding of theory. Plus handling a band that size, internationally. His brilliant testimony to Congress over lyrics and free speech was genius and virtuoso.

You are not alone…

jerry goodman light years ahead

Ponty is amazing. Ive got most of his albums, even a bunch of stuff that he played on of other peoples. did you know he was on Elton John - Honky Chateau?

@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Your opinion is irrelevant. He ‘s not comparing him to anyone. He just says he love his playing. And BTW, Ponty is a more emotional player than Goodman. Better is a term used by men that can’t deal with being ordinary.

@@SlaughterEngine jean-Luc Ponty = why I learned french - or tried! FZ & the mothers = why I gave up piano, & gave away my psychedelic collection. but i was so much older then.

OMG...YES!!!

What headphones do you recommend? I've been looking for a pair that will reconnect me to the audiophile experience I so want again.

@@abatista181 Sony XM4s or XM5s. Noise-cancelling, bluetooth; pretty expensive, but thoroughly worth it.

Sennheiser hd800 is one of the best out there, if you have $2k

Sony MH755's are one of the best IEMs, if you have 10$.

Shit ugly zappa changed the World of boring assholes 🤣

Да уж нахер особенно с Бахом! Проспись дружище.....

Gregory Peckery is a monumental classical masterpiece. So is Lumpy Gravy Primordial. He really was ahead of everyone else, it’s astonishing

Stravinsky and Zappa owned 20th century music...

Totally Agree with U

You are right, but there's nothing wrong with guitar gymnastics

Also Frank,as well as John were executing Composer like duties as well. They rehearsed constantly and they surrounded themselves with straight killers of their particular disciplines.

Frank adored John!

There's a MTV interview with Zappa from the early 1980s, available on RU-vid, in which he says that he was one of the only guitarists anymore who still improvised his solos. Most of his colleagues carefully planned and rehearsed theirs note-for-note. Zappa said that, whenever he was about to begin a solo, at that moment he literally had no idea what he was about to do.

@@martinauger3293 There is if the technicianship isn't backed up with good musicianship

I agree with you. Funny thing is, I just saw someone say this somewhere else, just a few days ago (and two years later).

A lot more to listen to .

You'll love Hot Rats, Grand Wazoo, Waka/Jawaka and Chungas Revenge I bet then.

The Baby Snakes movie is one you should check out for sure! Jealous you're just finding out about him! He was an American Treasure and true patriot.

With that many ppl in your band playing that sht they would literally starve to death in todays world

Try Joe’s Garage.

His brother ain't too shabby either!

music never required any of that

@@YQN2149 not required but it was more commonplace and expected (except for the plaid suits part)

@@YQN2149 MUSIC requires talent and open mindedness. playing notes on an instrument, whether they sound good or not, does not.

One thing Zappa never compromised on was the talent required to play in The Mothers or his "solo" efforts. Nothings but the best playing here and all of the other iterations of his bands.

@@spaghettiopizza8686 Thanks for the support on my comment.

Check James Rossi with super secret band in Pdx 🤯🤯🤯

I guess youve never listened to vintage Kansas😢

mahavishnu orchestra🤘🏼

Check out Zach Brock's violin solo on Mr. Montauk by Snarky Puppy, dude actually got praised by Mr. Ponty himself when Stanley Clarke asked him at some point about the new cat "who got the stuff" at the moment.

You really need to get out more. Lauri Anderson.

Mahavishnu orchestra has many jazz rock violin freakouts

We'll all be brown and Islamic. No one will really care.

YES < This comment! I agree!

@@1neAdam12 Ignorant son of a bitch!

@@sleeplessaquarius Stinking maggot!

Nazi turd!

HOT RATS ...BURNT WEENIE SANDWICH...WAKA JAWAKA HOT RATS...THE GRAND WAZOO...IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!! TAKE THAT, STRAUSS, BEETHOVEN, ET AL!!!!!!!!!!! GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When so many bands were going for the gold, FZ was already golden. Sheer genius.

Everybody do yourselves a favor and listen to Duster by Gary Burton Quartet (1967)... and Elastic Rock by Nucleus (1970). Peace. Lol

I feel like Miles and Zappa were working towards the same thing, just from opposite directions. It’s like the transcontinental railroad lol. They met in the middle

@Gabriel Eleres The Free Spirits - Out of Sight and Sound (1967)

You lucky devil, to be just embarking on that wondrous journey! Happy hunting.

Oh my goodness I hope you live long enough LOL I’m 62 years old I didn’t learn Frank until my 30s ...now I’m addicted… and I understand!! I always played guitar weird acording to my bandmates ?and then when I heard Frank I realized it’s what comes out of your soul

@@lobster4501 oooh 62. You're just a kid like me 😊 I've come to realise that all my idols are in their 70s and 80s. And still going strong. Except for Bowie who I also adore. Haven't really had time to explode zappa yet, but I will. 😊

@@heavymeddle28 Start with something "simpler," this is pure jazz ...He has done everything in musical styles...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CbeFjEHE-XY.html

@@tomaskrantz7114 thanks man. I'll give it a go 😊

Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah ! ! OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH I'm SOOOOO bright and clever NOW !!! :) :)

this song is like 4th dimension.....

At least have circuits rewired

yes and my IQ is 10 points higher than former...(now:12)

You're right! Just in time, too, cause I only had 2 brain cells left & THEY were arguing.

Like this: The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

@@davidcorcoran7581 And look around us now .

...with a spatula

I loved Apostrophe but all his mothers albums too....Help! I'm a rock....

Don't forget Vassar Clements

TRUE- BUT WHAT OF STEPHEN GRAPELLI ? ( WITH DJANGO REINHART )

Much along the lines of Big Swifty, which is also a colossal listen.

You hated Zappa?

JL Ponty is almost in a class of his own. Up there with Sir George Duke and his Majesty Frank. Not that there aren’t other great musicians on that stage but Ponty has a way of letting his music enter a different domain.

Big Ponty fan for decades. Have caught him live twice. This may be his best performance. Never a huge FZ fan but mining this era is changing my mind!

@@mattkiner5419 This is the best era for Zappa - early 70s with George Duke, Ruth Underwood and Chester Thompson.

What about Sugarcane Harris on Violin? - he:s just as good as Ponty , but other Style. (Hot Rats? / don't remember...

Man I couldn't agree with you more! What an incredible performance he gives here! Just sends my soul soaring to hear musicians play like this! And Jean Luc is just on another planet! For me hearing music like this is such a senses overload, that I almost can't take it! Word's can't really describe how great it is!

"Chivalry isn't dead, it just smells funny.." -FZ

@@andydavenhall "Politics Is the entertainment branch of Industry.." - FZ

@John Rapp and you are not Rapp!

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.” ― Frank Zappa

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ― Frank Zappa ''And all the best original music was written and performed by you and your bands Frank'' ; {-

It does! With just a bit of luck you can get very happy. Few decades ago i got hold of a pristine 1970s Philips/AKG headphone set (N6330). Later on for !5euro a dito NEC bd1000 recordplayer i still have and the list goes on.. very-very happy audio days for the rest of the time given ;-)

Ariel Pink does do some stuff like this but his music is a little more reliant on nostaligia and social commentary then beautifully orchestrated improvs like this

Also I guess if you listen to Badbadnotgood some of their melodies are very insprired by FZ

Mahavishnu Orchestra was making music like this also

that is a great point my friend, I couldn't have said it any better myself!! high 5 to u !!

Leo Cachero jean luk ponty and george duke also played in mahavisnu orchestra

yes his music strikes chords like no other. purely beautiful and free

Frank producing the greatest ever jazz guitar solo amen

chaosmos24 I've never seen this until today. Listened to it 4 times already. The Best.

I was just thinking the same thing. I never knew there was a Jean-Luc Ponty version

are you zappatistas or what?

Yeah. This is another big nugget I stumbled onto. There's a lot of Zappa waiting to be discovered. This is amazing.

Yes, I dare say Jean-Luc beat the shit out his fiddle with a Ponty stick.

plenty of music like this. you just gave up.

@@Frip36 who sounds like Zappa today? I'd really like to hear some of that.....I listen to quite a lot of contemporary music, but i don't think i've heard any that is quite like this. Share the wealth, friend

dude... there's so much great music today, it's ridiculous... Riccicomoto - assassino construction Brickman - Reborn (Nadja Lind Remix) Terry Lee Brown Jr. & The Timewriter - Is This Life (Original Mix) Zero Cult - City Voices Solar Fields - The Road to Nothingness Øfdream - First Woe Ishome - Ken Tavr [Fuselab] CRAETION - Contemplation Analog Trip - Declaration Of Silence (Ilias Katelanos Remix) Allan Zax - Where Dreams Entwine (original mix) Aes Dana - The Missing Words WD2N - Apollo (Balcazar & Sordo Remix) Dominik Eulberg - Eintagsfliege Dreamstate Logic - Etheric Echoes Free Flow Flava - Senbonzakura Nacho Marco - The Next Life (The Timewriter Remix) Saint Seduce & Winston - Sedna Luvless - In My Arms (SNIP) * Black Ops 007 Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird of Prey) (peregrine falcon video)

There’s music out there like this now. There isn’t any musicians out there like this now.

There is plenty of great “contemporary” new music but nothing quite like this and much of what FZ gave us. Dweezil has done a great job of keeping his dad’s music alive in the live performance space and is an insanely talented guitarist. (I dare say even more so than his dad - and I have seen them both many times.) Although he sometimes takes the songs for a bit of sonic exploration, they are still FZ’s creations. RIP.

That was just painful to hear. He played some nice solos but this was was just horrible. Incredibly sloppy.

@@EbonyPope Ok doomer.

@@mikehartmann3858 No it was garbage, he really doesn't know how to construct a solo compared to the other players in his band....I mean he has Ponty and George Duke, why would anyone who's not schooled in jazz follow them, it's absurd.

Really gets to the point. Bravo maestro 👏.

@@EbonyPope Not sloppy..... just Frank....

Kurt rosenwinkel would love this maybe he knows , Kurt is like Frank. His Chris's cafe performances are fantastic , check him out

That's it! Jazz fusion.

Go listen to black midi.

Zappa , got the best from the best , when he had em , i notice when he gets a hot lot of musicians,he self indulges and uses their collective brillance to make another bigger better instrument he can mannipulate , and they placate his desires ,coz they the best practised and their the best at what they do , Zappa utilises a soup spoon if it got a sound for somewhere.imagine him with the best if the rest Dream time

Zappa was garbage

@@marlon-jl4ge Thanks for your input, champ. I'm sure you've created many a masterpiece in your time on planet Earth.

@@awentimes shit ugly zappa changed the music World of boring assholes 🤣 🤣 🤣

Love the way Zappa stops right in the middle of the music and lights a cigarette...or something else?

AGREED !!! Phenomenal

Makes me want to go out and buy one!! Damn good!!

I hope in the year since you wrote this you have had the opportunity to explore more of Zappa's work. Once you get him, there is no turning back. I have been a fan for thirty years and he is one person whose work continually cycles through on my play list.

Great solos all around !

phish

There will be another, but that doesnt mean frank wasnt great :)

back in the days before TV directors thought it was their job to make the music more exciting by making crazy fast cuts and wacky angles

it might have something to do with the music having less substance these days

Yeah... Zappa was truly the man!

Yep.

Listen to the New Brubeck Quartet album "A Cut Above." Chris Brubeck's trombone is amazing, particularly on "Forty Days/Sermon on the Mount." Of course, the rest of the album showcases his brilliant fretless bass playing.

You could find them all over the world, but they use secret signs ;-)

We are a rare breed! 🖖🤞🤙👍

arf arf

@@dvened "come here little puppy, get the slipper"

I’m of that mind, David! I agree, he was one of our GREATEST Composers, Period

It was music's climax !!! Does not come back !!!

Where wert thee in1966 ? Frank was a-waitin' fer thee.

@@danielgiraud1118 where was I in 1966. Nowhere until the 1st of may. That’s when I was born

@@cliffspencer9989 : Rires ! Tu n'as pas compris. Je voulais te faire remarquer que tu as tout raté, tu as raté la meilleure époque de Zappa avant qu'il fasse du Jazz et c'est de ta faute. Il fallait sortir de ventre de ta mère 12 ans avant mah wee boybee.

@@danielgiraud1118 sorry Daniel to my detriment I don’t speak French

@@cliffspencer9989 : It's a good thang ye dinnae speak'st french, that forked language spoken by a filthy race o' eejits (idiots), alle incapable of intelligence. An' wot's worse, they alle consider themselves superior tae other countries an' think that anything that isn't purely french, like foreign languages or world muzyk, is o' nae value at alle, and 'fore they think fer a moment, they reprobate and reject it out of hand. They cannie e'en speak'st English properly. It's true that these days, the youngsters know a few words, but, Ô cardinal sin, they feel obliged tae adopt the stinkin' Amerikan accent an' adopt words a-belongin' tae a silly vocabulary, without subtlety, finesse or refined elegance. A remarkable example : today, alle generations use the English word : "cool" a-thinkin' they're using it correctly, but they art nae. They alle adopt this word tae warmly welcome good news or an event, but ev'ryone without exception doth ignore that this word (cool) means the exact opposite o' wot they want tae express. Here's the translation of my message already sent : Laugh ! Thou hast missed the point. I wanted tae point out tae thee that ye missed the whole thang, thou missed Zappa's best period 'fore he did Jazz, and that's thy fault. Thou hast tae come out o' thy muther's womb 12 years 'fore, mah wee boybee. 1st class regards.

I saw 7 and have the same regret

I saw none as I became a fan 3 years after his death. You are fortunate indeed.

Caught 5. Radically different every time.

I saw him 8 times. Every show was different

Yeah....nowadays, Derek Trucks Band may just fill in that gap.

Absolutely well said .Agree

Whiskey River Well, I'm a teenage musician, and I'd say that the industry has really taken it's toll on music as an artform. There are some musicians around today that are incredibly inspired and skillful but it seems like most of them sooner or later are suffocated because of how obvious the marginalization of their music is. Your music gets marginalized even before anyone's heard it, because people aren't expected to make music popular and therefore they don't care about it if it isn't already "popularized". What makes music popular nowadays is huge companies, and they don't give a shit about artistic anything, the only important thing is money.

Unfortunately John, you are absolutely correct. After reading your comment, I realized just how wrong I might have been to even suggest there is no talent today. An example of how I should have thought before I spoke too swiftly. And even more disappointing, is that I have no ideas or solutions that can change this dismal environment of which you speak. There were many magnificent bands from the 70's that literally disintegrated because they could not reach as broad or as large an audience as Frank did; basically, they just couldn't earn a living playing their music, no matter how wonderful it was. Luckily, they were able to cut a few albums before they disappeared; which is a great deal more opportunity than the young musicians of today have. Many of us who were fortunate enough to experience the musical renaissance of the 60's and 70's, are very well aware of today's oppressive obstacles that our current youth face; corporate greed and twisted cultural constructions sweeping the landscape like a giant sheet of cellophane, suffocating any breath of musical brilliance that might enlighten the populace so intellectually numbed by the wasteland of pop music........... Never give up John, always follow your heart and your passion; there will always be someone willing to listen.......

Well, nobody should even be expected to have the solution. Zappa himself said in the 80's that music won't ever reform as art rather than product/commerce. Maybe not entirely true, but sure is grim at this point in history and with the rise of MTV in those days it must have really been bleak. Only advice I can give to people who want to support music as a passion and not just as a business is this: Listen. Always listen to what's going on, go to shows, tell those musicians that what they do is special and that you appreciate it and tell other people how they should check it out as well. If you want good music to reach an audience, you need to be that audience.

Whiskey River Indeed! Majority of today's youth have had their concept interpretation circuits pickled by Taylor Swift and the like. Still great music out there, but it's not going to be found under the multi-millions of views category any more than FZ's will be. But Frank opened us up to challenging perceptions back in the 60's and continues to reach new "hungry freaks" through his marvelous music. Love him and miss him...

The heart is the gateway portal to heaven upon Earth 🌎 and the Earth is Yo Mama. I sometimes see visual art when I hear the solo off that song on the last track of the album titled "Sheik yerbouti" 💕🙏🥰

@@lisadavie5282 You should never smoke in pajamas

That is not true, Frank composed many compositions that were vehicles for solos such as king kong and what's on display here with dupeee's. The written part is all the backing and the theme, and then solo's played over these that were improvised and changed every time the same song was played.

@@dutchbannger6503 exactly!

including the drums

Hell ya Tim!!! It's so 70's it almost hurts lol best Frank era is early to mid 70's so dam good

@@mikedevine3984 👍👌👍

That pants and jacket ensemble is to 70s clothing as avocado green was to kitchen appliances. That and ammonia-piss yellow...

A stiff breeze and those jacket lapels would generate enough lift to become wings.

I think he is definitely going to be considered among the most prolific composers of the 20th century

no he sucks

@mijnmening1 bro you realise that in '73 when this was filmed Rush didn't even have Neil Peart or ever toured the US? or that Zappa's debut in 1966 predates all bands you mentioned (except for the Who)?

@mijnmening1 also in terms of inventing genres, the famous jazz-fusion that exploded in the 70s and 80s was very much pioneered by zappa

@Berliner Stadtschloss the only correct thing you mentioned about zappa was that he smoked and died in 93

the Muthers o' Invention were somethin' else an' How !