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VANITY: Take five and listen to a phenom. Frank Zappa playing <u>Pink Napkins</u>
YouTube ^ | Unknown | Frank Zappa

Posted on 10/19/2021 4:15:59 PM PDT by ex91B10

For your pleasure (or not!).


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: frankzappa; pinknapkins

1 posted on 10/19/2021 4:15:59 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: ex91B10

Not what one would expect from Zappa, whether before or after the bong hit. The frenetic play with effects against a slow, aetherial vamp results in a “can you follow me” set of measures worthy of note.


2 posted on 10/19/2021 4:27:04 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: ex91B10

he is missed.


3 posted on 10/19/2021 4:29:58 PM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: ex91B10

One of his signature tunes. A jazz standard today.


4 posted on 10/19/2021 4:31:58 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: ex91B10

Same song on The Mike Douglas Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE


5 posted on 10/19/2021 4:36:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ex91B10

I read that all his guitar tracks were live takes. He hated playing in the studio so they would tour, do the songs and take an isolated track of his guitar to add to the studio recorded tracks later.


6 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:36 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Let's Go Brandon!!!)
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To: ex91B10

Good link. Thanks I needed to hear some Zappa today.


7 posted on 10/19/2021 4:41:47 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: SaxxonWoods

“he hated playing in the studio”

Zappa’s studio was his home. He lived and breathed studio.

Zappa liked his improvisations while playing live. So he constantly recorded multitrack on all his shows.

He was also known to take Solos from song A and apply them to song B. He mixed and mashed live recordings.


8 posted on 10/19/2021 4:54:56 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Yes, that applied to everything but his lead guitar tracks. And he was a master in the studio, as you know.


9 posted on 10/19/2021 5:45:28 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Let's Go Brandon!!!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Zappa recorded guitar solos in the studio. I have followed him since his 1st album. All that early stuff through early 1970s was done in the studio including his solos.

Later on after he had the technology to multitrack recordings all his live shows and get clean recordings of his guitar solos — be began the mix and mash technique of mining his guitar solos.

He recorded the early shows as well but there was less ability in the 1960s to capture individual guitar solos as the recordings were 2 track and later on 4 track etc.


10 posted on 10/19/2021 6:22:20 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ex91B10

bkmk


11 posted on 10/19/2021 6:36:40 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: plain talk
-- I have followed him since his 1st album. --

Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese?

That all the farther back i go ....

12 posted on 10/19/2021 6:44:27 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Who are the Brain Police?


13 posted on 10/19/2021 7:08:04 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Frank didn’t smoke weed.


14 posted on 10/19/2021 8:18:22 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Correct. He didn’t do any drugs.


15 posted on 10/19/2021 9:00:54 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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There was an interview towards the end of his life... on NBC, I believe....where he referred to tobacco as his favorite vegetable.


16 posted on 10/19/2021 10:12:04 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Cboldt

Suzy creamcheese concept goes back to 1st album. The song is on 2nd album. You go back to his beginnings as well.


17 posted on 10/20/2021 8:05:53 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: gundog

And coffee as “black water”.


18 posted on 10/20/2021 2:58:36 PM PDT by ex91B10 (Just because you can doesn't mean you should. )
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