Frank Zappa - Andy
Do you know what I’m really telling you? Is it something that you can understand?
Frank Zappa - Billy The Mountain: The Carnegie Solos
From the new 4CD Carnegie Hall set. Thanks to size limitation, you are spared the drum solo, but everything that precedes it is all eyebrows. Maybe not as many eyebrows as this version, but slightly more eyebrows than this one. I could listen to these all day.
Happy Birthday Frank Zappa!
Frank Zappa - Studebaker Hoch
They should just release a compilation of solos from various 1971 performances of Billy The Mountain.
Frank Zappa - Funk jam from Pygmy Twylyte
George Duke’s solo launches yet another short funk jam in this outtake from the August 27, 1974 KCET session that eventually became part of Dub Room Special.
Frank Zappa - Introduction
Live at the Montreaux Casino, Switzerland, December 4, 1971.
Who would have guessed that a show that began with such an awesome jam would have ended so tragically?
Frank Zappa - Samba Funk
From the recently released “Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison” CD, which compiles three tracks that Zappa had originally intended for such a title, with two more synclavier works, including this previously unreleased one, which is about as far from either samba or funk as one might possibly be able to get.
Zappadan Caturday
(via dailyzappa)
Frank Zappa - Magic Fingers
Open up your pocketbook, get another quarter out, drop it in the meter mama, and try me on for size.
Frank Zappa - Clowns on Velvet
Recorded live at the Ritz in New York, November 17, 1981, featuring Al Di Meola with a guest guitar solo. Frank wanted to release it, but Al said no because he thought he sucked, so this is the only time I’m aware of that bootleggers acted in accordance with Frank’s wishes.
Frank Zappa - Sinister Footwear II
Frank was so good at guitarbation, we can only be thankful that he chose to do it in public.
Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
From Joe’s Garage 1979
RIP Frank Zappa
December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993
Frank Zappa - A Pound for a Brown / Sleeping in a Jar
From the brand new Carnegie Hall 4CD set. One of my favorite Zappa songs for the first day of Zappadan.
Zappa Awareness Month closes with this video of his final live guitar performance.
