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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life
| ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283199] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 05:14 |
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Music Review
Zappa Plays Zappa: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life
By NATE CHINEN
Published: June 14, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/arts/music/14zapp.html
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/14/arts/14zapp_ CA0.jpg
Dweezil Zappa performs in tribute to his father, Frank Zappa.
Billy Tompkins for The New York Times
The bad news is that the band featured in Zappa Plays Zappa, the
sprawling tribute that touched down at the Beacon Theater on Monday
night, was upstaged by an opening act. The good news is that the
opening act was Frank Zappa.
No, he didn't materialize. But as the house lights darkened for some
rarely seen video of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Roxy in
1973, the effect was more than a little séancelike. There he was, a
study in lanky gravity, deadpanning about dental floss on "Montana"
and developing a corkscrew guitar solo on "Dupree's Paradise." The
video ran longer than a half-hour, long enough for the audience to
feel transported.
The guitarist Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, knew exactly what he
was doing when he arranged for this overture. Mr. Zappa has described
his touring production as more than the first family-sanctioned salute
to his father, who died in 1993. It's intended as an argument for
Frank Zappa's legitimacy as a composer and as an outreach to a new
generation of listeners.
On Monday it was all those things, to varying degrees. (The outreach
was the least successful effort; most of the crowd looked old enough
to have been at that Roxy show.) Mr. Zappa led a sharp assemblage of
musicians in a program complete with harrowing intricacies,
inscrutable grandiosities and several of his father's alumni as
featured guests.
Chief among them was the saxophonist and flutist Napoleon Murphy
Brock, who handled lead vocals for most of the night. Mr. Brock
sounded comfortable even with the music's most angular intervals. And
he was deliciously goofy and sardonic, often bounding or whirling
about the stage.
Those energies helped compensate for Mr. Zappa's demeanor, which was
serious, even studious, in tone. His lone attempt at conducting
doubled as a dose of audience participation and underscored his
father's superior authority in both areas.
But Mr. Zappa's guitar playing was duly impressive — he imbued "Inca
Roads" with the proper combination of spacey atmosphere and feverish
technique — and his careful organization of the concert was evident.
Moreover, his egoless approach cleared a space for Mr. Brock and the
other guests, the drummer Terry Bozzio and the guitarist Steve Vai.
Mr. Bozzio's natural showpiece was "Black Page," a drum feature
originally composed with him in mind, and he handled its notorious
convolutions — what Frank Zappa once called its "statistical density"
— with power and flair. Mr. Vai was equally gripping, and more
musical, on a medley of "Montana," a bucolic "Village of the Sun" and
a tricky "Echidna's Arf (Of You)."
But again, the biggest guest was Frank Zappa himself, who reappeared
onscreen more than three hours into the concert. This time he played a
guitar solo on "Chunga's Revenge," and his son's musical coterie
supported him, so to speak, with unobtrusive passion.
The tour runs through June 24. A list of dates can be found at
zappa.com/zpz/tourdates.html.
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283202 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 05:53 |
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In article <0ivu8255iqlusucs0k09k96gccd5ubepb2 [at] 4ax.com>,
Shrike <caltrops [at] newsguy.com> quoted:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/arts/music/14zapp.html
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> Mr. Zappa has described his touring production as more than the first
> family-sanctioned salute to his father, who died in 1993.
They keep saying that. But it might be more accurately described as the
first salute to FZ that they have chosen to describe as the first
family-sanctioned salute to FZ.
Some people might consider Gail's engaging Ali N. Askin to assemble
orchestral scores of the 200 Motels suites for performance at the
Holland Festival in June 2000, attending said performances, and giving
an interview together with Askin and conductor Jurjen Hempel to
constitute sanctioning the performances.
Or how about the Ensemble Modern's Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
CD, for which Gail wrote four pages of liner notes?
And there's another meaning of "sanction" according to which at least
one Project/Object tour might qualify.
> But again, the biggest guest was Frank Zappa himself, who reappeared
> onscreen more than three hours into the concert. This time he played a
> guitar solo on "Chunga's Revenge," and his son's musical coterie
> supported him, so to speak, with unobtrusive passion.
Has anyone identified the show from which this solo was taken?
--Charles
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283203 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 06:09 |
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Charles Ulrich <ulrich [at] sfu.ca> wrote:
> They keep saying that. But it might be more accurately described
> as the first salute to FZ that they have chosen to describe as the
> first family-sanctioned salute to FZ.
For that matter, what about Zappa's Universe? Sure, Frank wasn't quite
dead yet at the time, but it'd be hard to call that anything other than a
salute to him.
-Poot
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283204 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 06:13 |
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Charles Ulrich wrote:
> > But again, the biggest guest was Frank Zappa himself, who reappeared
> > onscreen more than three hours into the concert. This time he played a
> > guitar solo on "Chunga's Revenge," and his son's musical coterie
> > supported him, so to speak, with unobtrusive passion.
>
> Has anyone identified the show from which this solo was taken?
>
> --Charles
Someone put an audience video up on youtube, and from the red jumpsuit,
Les Paul, and video I'm guessing that it might be the same concert
featured in the Dub Room special, so uhhhh that's the 81 Halloween show
yes is it?
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283205 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 06:43 |
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In article <1150258428.465809.218180 [at] g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Gary" <midicad2001 [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> Charles Ulrich wrote:
> > > But again, the biggest guest was Frank Zappa himself, who reappeared
> > > onscreen more than three hours into the concert. This time he played a
> > > guitar solo on "Chunga's Revenge," and his son's musical coterie
> > > supported him, so to speak, with unobtrusive passion.
> >
> > Has anyone identified the show from which this solo was taken?
>
> Someone put an audience video up on youtube, and from the red jumpsuit,
> Les Paul, and video I'm guessing that it might be the same concert
> featured in the Dub Room special, so uhhhh that's the 81 Halloween show
> yes is it?
According to FZShows <http://home.swipnet.se/fzshows/8182.html>,
Chunga's Revenge was not performed on Halloween 1981.
--Charles
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283214 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 18:10 |
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In article <ulrich-FD5C8E.21451013062006 [at] shawnews>,
Charles Ulrich <ulrich [at] sfu.ca> wrote:
> In article <1150258428.465809.218180 [at] g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "Gary" <midicad2001 [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Charles Ulrich wrote:
> > > > But again, the biggest guest was Frank Zappa himself, who reappeared
> > > > onscreen more than three hours into the concert. This time he played a
> > > > guitar solo on "Chunga's Revenge," and his son's musical coterie
> > > > supported him, so to speak, with unobtrusive passion.
> > >
> > > Has anyone identified the show from which this solo was taken?
> >
> > Someone put an audience video up on youtube, and from the red jumpsuit,
> > Les Paul, and video I'm guessing that it might be the same concert
> > featured in the Dub Room special, so uhhhh that's the 81 Halloween show
> > yes is it?
>
> According to FZShows <http://home.swipnet.se/fzshows/8182.html>,
> Chunga's Revenge was not performed on Halloween 1981.
Nonetheless, I have been informed that Chunga's Revenge was the opening
solo at the early show that night and can be heard on the recording
seeded at Zappateers <http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2835>.
--Charles
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| Re: ZPZ in NYC last night: Best Band He Never Heard in His Life [message #283215 ] |
Mi, 14 Juni 2006 18:50 |
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Anyone notice whether "Montana" from the Roxy video is the one heard on
YCDTOSA 4?(This is also the version heard on the audience tape from
that run.)
Pat Buzby
Chicago, IL
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