Frank Zappa Plays RDNZL 

You couldn't write a better commentary. I love ya!

Perfect...simply perfect...FZ would've liked your critique!!!

I Like him so much, FZ was a very Special man- great !

He created so Special Music and acted soo cool !

When I saw him live, I saw it in reverse, kinda. He sat down on a stool, nonchalantly opened a thermos to sip on (presumably) some coffee, had a cig, and tapped his foot, while three players wailed on some fusion. Then when he was ready, he got up and ripped a solo.

Amen

:')

I had the same feeling the very first time I listened to zappa. The nerves in my skin were so electrified that I thought it was raining. I was outside, the weather was fine, it was summer.

Zoot Allures from that era with Scott Thunes on bass was always awesome!

Have had Rat Tomago on repeat for oh Around two months now That and Watermelon

I cant think of anyone more prolific? Hmm I must away to google and great googley moogley!!

It will probably take until the next turn of the century for humanity to fully appreciate FZ's music. Well, if we make it that long without plunging back into the Stone Age...

@@a2ndopynyn I don't quite agree with you. FZ gets already the recognition he fully deserves. Watch all the different covers by first class orchestras and people who just love FZ but are not professionals.

Yes, this was before corporate crap music completely took over the music industry

I saw him twice, even during a recorded concert nearby Milano

@@identifiantidentifie397 I saw him three times, twice in 1984 and once in his final tour. Greater I have never seen! The idiotic local "critics" went on a fault-finding fest, a few concluding, "the encore was OK". But they were idiots! Absolutely!

I have a second cousin that was (is?) a sound technician. He worked for Zappa and Fleetwood Mac back in those days. He said that Zappa would not allow any drugs on his watch. Fleetwood Mac, the opposite. Back then, I would have thought the opposite. Today, I see it...

Totally agree. What a brilliant piece of music. The energy of this band just so incredible... Vinnie on drums is the icing on the cake ....

@@frankbreuer8849 That's Wackerman but yes Vinnie is great too

I would've given anything to have auditioned for him, but probably would have been rejected.

horst baur all of his musicians are/were classically trained... including Frank... he even influenced his little buddy there...Steve Vai!!

mmhhm yeah ... indeed, but: are´nt there 1000s of performers, matching the same criteria? What Zappa (quite sure) would have dizzed & zerofied is: the unexpected break in playback, paused for useless and annoying tube-commercial. THESE are SCARY. Really SCARY, cause rendering the outstanding result of hard working people to a chopped to a mess! (I didn´t watch the full file - disappointed, not willing to be disturbed a second time.) Amd, imho, if I had my 32h-Franky-overdoze, it´s a refreshing experience alternatively watching a disoriented band, falling drunken on stage with no timing, no plan, no quality. Sometimes, the repetitive character of phrases and licks in composition are behaving like any repetition else: tending to be boring. So it is possible, NOT to resume playback, when universe sends you ignorant content-management-idiots, who don´t care about the flow of expression or a (even highly respected) artist´s aim.

majestic Scott Thunes work in here

And I probably will listen to it forever

With the interlude to the solo, you just know something truly special is coming.

Agreed, this is an absolutely killer solo

@@griffinb6365 Yes! Massive!

One of the greatest composers of the 20th century

Lars Christiansen ... I would agree but add ANY century... his understanding and ability to get these guys to play his music still amazes me... thanks Lars for making me write about it... again.

great composer of dodecafonic music of the XX century

free music

greatest composer of all time

Carl 123- There is no such thing as the "greatest guitarist of all time" but FZ is mighty good and plays some very interesting and distinctive solos.

I wouldn't say the greatest guitarist but possibly the greatest guitar composer of all time. Frank was absolutely musically brilliant and not only did he get out of the box but he had no box.

I've seen interviews in which Zappa threw shade on his own guitar abilities. I didn't take it as false modesty but I didn't agree with him. That said, as fine a guitarist as he was,he will be remembered as a composer.

@@weekendsgigs1223 That is a fair statement.

Yep.

such a great rhythm section!

I have to agree and only wish I'd been there.

I love his solo on Montana when he wore that funny squared pants

I think the best RDNZL solo is on Road Tapes #2

lmaoo nice call

Edward Maxwell . And a big swig of milk.

Alvin Lee, ladies and gentlemen, -

Al Di Meola

Joe Satriani

Warren Cuccurullo

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The Shakespeare of Classic Satire Fusion Rock 500 years from now. They will write Space Operas to this stuff. Zappa's catalog is massive. Movie scores will feature Zappa charts.

Nice!!

thanks to freddy im a sexual spastic @@frytz14

😂😂😂

I say: "Thank you Frank." 😎😎😎

I lay awake nights sayin' "Thank you Frank"

That,s from Screaming Jay Hawkings btw

Playing over the bar line.

That's what have his clean tone playing that attack, and what facilitated his unique rhythmic phrasing. Most guitarists who just try to play his solos just don't get it.... It was rare to hear even groupings coming from him.

He held a guitar pick like it was a paint brush, is how it always looked to me. I think it's one of those things that you can teach yourself when you're a little kid; by the time you're through puberty, neural pathways just don't form as easily any more. Check out some video of Steve Morse live and watch his right hand technique. Different than FZ's of course, but no less amazing.

@@a2ndopynyn One hand is a chicken, one hand is a spider, and they fight each other.

agreed. and in a weird cool place too.

Robin Reverb I thought The Big One was Halloween 1978?

Yea they really gotta get on the ball with some more video releases. Enough of these USB stick Halloween shows trying to replicate Frank's humor somehow by including the silly masks & stuff. I say they should let the material speak for itself & not focus so much on the package design. I also wish they hadn't turned the mustache & soul patch into the official logo...too cheesy. But I digress. More video releases!!

@@JimSVoit Soul patches are for hipsters who can't grow in a full beard ,FZ wore an Imperal on his chin not a soul patch .

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I always thought that too.

@@Craig-dv3ji yup

I can beat that one: There's a jazz vibraphone player in NYC named Chris Dingman.

...He ain't no Vinnie....

yes and but also the band was on its second major run of touring thus more fluid from playing over the material. some of the best guitar solos are from 1982 no doubt.

@@DeadPerspective - You're both correct. The US audiences were more interested in the comedy stuff; Yellow Snow, Dancin' Fool, etc. I was a teenager during this era of his music, and although I liked the longer guitar solos, I was really into the funny aspect of the lyrics. Plus, I was late enough to the party that very little of his work was still in print. (I knew nothing of used record stores.) For me, Frank was sort of like a cross between Weird Al and Led Zep. As I got older and CDs came out, his older stuff started getting re-released, and I was (a little) more mature, more able to appreciate what he was doing.

@Zolar Czakl - Hahaha, I'm finding you all over Zappa posts. I saw Frank 2 shows in one night in 1981. The late show is still the best Zappa concert I ever attended. I disagree that he ever gave better to the Europeans. The '82 tour was a continuation of the '81tour and tours always evolved. Frank tended to play more instrumental music in Europe because of the language barrier. I'd put the U.S. dates up against the spring dates in Europe any time. They are very similar, with the obvious variations coming from the solos.

I always loved the '81-'82 band...maybe because this was the first time I saw FZ. Seems to me this lineup was underappreciated compared to other tours.

The band was great and this video really presents them in a great way. Frank's guitar playing was off the hook on this tour. Unfortunately, a lot of the recordings available from the tour are not the greatest quality, Still, for me, I will listen to those recordings because the music is so amazing!

This run of shows from Italy 1982 was insanely great.

Agree wholeheartedly!

I was in Italy in '82. The whole country was buzzing after the world cup win. It was a brilliant time. Would have loved to see the Bolzano gig.

Thank You! I've been trying to place where this solo was from xenocronistically!!

Itai Matos ...ah, Don’t think he believed in that place...

AMEN!

Correctamundo!!!! Man that second disc of YCDTOSA 5 is the BEST. A full show from 82 would be freakin amazing!!!!!!

Craig Wall where is the hologram show ?

@@ZTravelDream I'll be at the Boston show on April 26.