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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » Dweezil Zappa ensuring that poppa Frank's music lives on
| Dweezil Zappa ensuring that poppa Frank's music lives on [message #283137] |
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http://www.projo.com/music/content/projo_20060610_zap10x.2cc 2b61.html
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, June 10, 2006
BY JESSE FOX MAYSHARK
New York Times News Service
In the liner notes to the 1966 album Freak Out!, by the Mothers of
Invention, you can find the following things: annotations on the 14
songs, an advertisement for a map that promises to reveal the
"Freak-Out Hot Spots" of Los Angeles, and a hat-tipping list of 180
influences, musical and otherwise.
You can also find a boxed credit, standing apart and alone, that says,
"All selections arranged, orchestrated and conducted by Frank Zappa."
Forty years on from that debut, a band led by Zappa's son Dweezil and
featuring several of his former associates is seeking to illuminate the
rigorous ambition and musical iconoclasm of his work. The Zappa Plays
Zappa tour, which arrives at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on Tuesday,
is the first memorial effort by his family since Zappa died of cancer
in 1993.
"My overall goal in doing this is to present Frank's music to a newer
audience," Dweezil Zappa, 36, said in a phone interview from the Los
Angeles area last month, the day before heading out for the tour. "I
think his music, for one reason or another, kind of skipped some
generations that didn't get a chance to discover it."
He has recruited a roster of guests that includes the guitarist Steve
Vai, the drummer Terry Bozzio and the singer-saxophonist Napoleon
Murphy Brock, all of whom recorded and toured with his father in the
1970s and '80s. The tour has been a long time in the making.
"It took me close to two years to get some of the stuff I wanted to get
together," Zappa said.
As a cultural figure, Frank Zappa is in the odd position of being both
relatively widely known and artistically obscure. His name and face --
with its trademark handlebar mustache and goatee -- remain familiar to
millions of people who would be hard-pressed to name many songs beyond
novelty hits like "Valley Girl" (which featured Dweezil's sister Moon
Unit) and "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow."
That is what Dweezil Zappa and his mother, Gail, hope to remedy with a
tour that they envision as an annual event.
"Hopefully people will understand that this music is alive and well,"
Gail Zappa said by phone, "and it's going to be around for a long, long
time."
The set list for the tour includes some of Zappa's most adventurous and
challenging pieces, such as "Inca Roads" and the notoriously difficult
"Black Page," which Zappa originally wrote as a drum solo for Bozzio
(the name comes from the density of notes that covered the sheet
music).
Dweezil Zappa said he was especially drawn to the albums he remembers
from his childhood in Southern California, from the era after his
father dissolved the Mothers of Invention.
"He was blending rock and jazz and classical in the middle '70s in a
way that nobody else was," he said.
Zappa's children -- Moon, Dweezil, their younger brother Ahmet and
their younger sister Diva -- were involved with their father's music in
various ways from young ages. (Given Zappa's relentless recording and
touring, it may have been the only way to bond with him; Moon has said
that she suggested the idea for "Valley Girl" via a note slipped under
the door of his recording studio.) All four shared writing or
performing credits on Zappa songs from the '70s and '80s. Frank also
produced Dweezil's first album, "Havin' a Bad Day," in 1986, and
released it on his Barking Pumpkin label.
The Zappa siblings have gone on to an assortment of show business
projects. Dweezil has recorded another half-dozen albums, sometimes
with Ahmet providing vocals, and has been the host of shows on MTV and
the Food Network. Ahmet, who married the actress Selma Blair in 2004,
is currently working on a book, his mother said. Moon has acted on
television and in films. Diva has also had small television and movie
roles, and released a single with Dweezil in 1999 that featured Tipper
Gore on drums. (Gore, wife of the former vice president, was a target
of Zappa's ire during her decency campaigns in the '80s. But she
subsequently became a friend of Gail Zappa, who supported Al Gore for
president in 2000.)
But Frank Zappa's work has remained central to the family. Both Dweezil
and his mother come across as fiercely custodial of that legacy,
fighting against copyright infringements and advocating for the music
to be played as it was written.
"My job essentially is to protect the intent of the composer and the
integrity of the work," said Gail Zappa, 61, who had been married to
Frank for 26 years when he died.
Zappa Plays Zappa is at the Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Place, Boston,
on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 to $50. Call (617) 679-0810 or
visit www.ticketmaster.com.
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