Zappa Plays Zappa : public performance Echidna's Arf from Roxy & Elsewhere, excellent quality, plus Village of the Sun as bonus... I lowered the video quality a bit so the two would fit. Enjoy !
I went to see Frank Zappa twices and he never played Village of the sun wich I found a shame because it was my favourite Zappa song. So I was pleasently surprised that they playes during a ZPZ concert...echnida's arf (of you) was also a favourite ... from my favourite zappa album, Roxy & Elswhere. Great stuff!!
Yes, that is. Steve Vai started his carreer with Frank Zappa, in Zappa's latest years I think. That's why he maybe in this DVD. Also, Terry Bozio, played with Zappa.
@AtanasovPetar His playing is more in the Modal Jazz tradition and the vamps that he blows over are reasonably static. However harmonically in other cases he is incredibly rich. Part of his harmonic vocabulary reminds me of later American Minimalism.
theres a bootleg kicking about from a few years after this and they play G-spot tornado (its labeled as purple lagoon though) and its like 95% accurate to the synclavier version from jazz from hell... its practically a midi file... like robots. i agree with you on the humourless comment, going to see them next week in edinborough, tis the closest im going to get, i was 6 when frank died
Steve Vai has always been awesome, evolving, still freaky and zany. If you watch Stevies Spanking, it's cool to see how Vai sounds like Zappa then and Zappa in that clip sounds like Vai now. No matter what he's is just the best. Zappa made Vai, in every sense though.
q buen disco roxy y elsewhere de zappa... esta buena la version de echidnas arf of you, pero me gusta mas la version del disco roxy... zappa un maestro
@AtanasovPetar You seem to have deviated from the point which was my classification of Zappa's harmonic sense. It is a very idiosyncratic take on a Jazz idea and at times is very noodly but he does modulate incrementally and it is in principle a primitive form of Modal Jazz. Search "Frank Zappa, His Bizarre Relationship With Jazz". It's a good BBC Radio 4 documentary on this very topic, albeit less technically.
Where's RUTH?? they played it slower too, I bet its hard to play, this is AWESOME though. Show everyone u know. This Album "Roxy & Elsewhere" best disk ever!!!!! show your kids!
@maximumsatann Doesn't change the fact that has nothing to do with jazz and nothing to do with good improvisation.It's noodling around.It's possible to make good improvisation on a static harmony but you need very good rhythm overall specially if you want your improvisation to have some sense.I would say that is what he lacks most.
@maximumsatann No...i heard his stuff and most of it has boring harmony.He did some great things in his own style of playing/writing but can't match with musical sophistication in any way with the jazz guys like Chick Corea.
@maximumsatann You just connected 2 opposite things!!Modal Jazz and Static harmony.I never heard more stupid thing in my life.Jazz music has modal harmony NOT functional.That means the harmony modulates often so you have to change scales with the chord changes.Functional harmony is when you don't have modulations and all the chords relate to 1 root.Frank Zappa doesn't modulate!So i have no idea how did you came up in your mind to link those things.
what i'm saying is that there's totally a lack of joy in here, like they're so concentrated to execute the piece that they lost the main joyful thing of the whole, really just take a look at any live zappa performance! I'd rather prefer they play it badly than dead like this!! except for Napoleon everything sounds worst than a midifile!!!
