Well not right now, but will be in a couple hrs after I get home... Picked up a NM Crusin With Ruben and the Jets today at lunch for 10.00! My old crackly copy has not been out in several years and the CD is just not the same.
Zappa Live in Stockholm Sweden, Aug. 21, 1973 ...so I had this streaming on the widescreen last night at full volume through the sound system and I couldn't stop grinning and loving every second. ...I would love, LOVE!! to have an official release either DVD or CD. Any chance of that happening? BTW - Tom Fowler is one funky mofo on the bass and doesn't get a lot of mentions in the Zappa universe.
....not on disc, but I've been lovin' this mix. the "Son of Mr. Green Genes" from Paris in '68 is KILLER! I need more!!
You just put me in a bowl and smoked me. I love FZ but Keneally's music speaks to me on a glandular level. I wish I had "Strange Impulse" from whatever Tar Tape it was on -- so Rundgren-esque-ish-y. Lately I've been spending a lot of time listening to "Sleep Dirt". Ridiculously imaginative postpartum rock-influenced pop-fusion. Imagine a morning without donuts instead replaced with scones and clotted cream -- music to clog the arteries.
At The Circus from the Beat The Boots II series. Just got my hands on it two days ago. I now have every title in the series.
For the past couple of weeks I've been listening to every live Zappa thing I can find on YouTube. There are some amazing recordings out there and the music is so, so fantastic. Man, Frank really knew how to deliver a show. So much fun!
I bought all of the recent Zappa live reissues. Just listening to `Buffalo' now. Terrific stuff. `Broken Hearts Are for....' sounds like.......Phish!!
I am a Zappa newbie and have been playing that one over and over. I love it but for the love of God, could someone explain "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" to me? It is fantastic although I think a lot of it is over my head.
I made a CDR of the best tracks of the Meat Light, following roughly the old Uncle Meat order. Then I stuck some Burnt Weeny tracks on the end. Some dialog was left out. It's just to play on a boom box as I read a book. I gave up on iPods with the boom box.
It's a tale of the fantasy of man who..... '...runs the world from city HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!'
Streaming WOIIFTM. The stereo separation at the "what's the ugliest part" section is really cool. I never paid attention before.
Lumpy Gravy. I don't understand it at all but love the way it sounds. Is there any meaning to snippets of dialogue or is it supposed to be nonsense? Sorry if this is a dumb question but as mentioned above, I am new to Frank Zappa's music. I made a CD R with the 2012 Lumpy Gravy along with the mono version of WOIIFTM off of Lumpy Money.
I'm one of those freaks that know it backward & forward.. It has been said that Frank took ALL the 'piano-people' dialogue, and placed them into the album at random. It was mostly improvised, with Frank only interjecting words once in a while. You can hear other 'bits' in the "Lumpy Money" set, and "Civilization"!
I had one in the car CD player, but I switched cars for a few days (the new Beach Boys comp in that one); tonight I got in the first car with my wife, who was endlessly stretching out some conversation she seemed to think we were both invested in. The CD was in the middle of a sax workout, so it stunned me for an instant (when did this Beach Boys album feature sax like this,,,?!). Recalled it was probably Zappa (but which one!), so I inched the volume up. As I did, my wife's one-way "conversation" got more and more agitated. I kept quiet, nodding and making all the appropriate facial gestures of agreement, acquiescence, , only to show I was listening and being polite, as I patiently waited for her to come up for air, finish her point, get the hint...and finally, she did pause- -long enough to lean in, turn off the player, and say, "Well, I don't think we need that on all the way downtown, do we..." No idea what Zappa record I was spinning tonight...but from my wife's reaction...whatever it is, it is now my favorite Zappa record.
Such a ****in' great album! I'm working my way through the new Halloween box. Well, just started, I finished the first show. Love it so far, both sound and performance.
