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Frank Zappa: ^ | Today | Hkusp40

[hkusp40]

Listening all those non-essentials brought me back to FZ and his timeless classic about the "flakes". http://youtu.be/RFvtoJrK1Zg

[jurroppi1]

PErhaps we should call bho Bobby Brown.

[jurroppi1]

One of my friends got me the DVD set for Christmas a few years back. Pretty awesome stuff indeed!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Watch him now, he’s goin’ down...

[Slump Tester]

I saw a show one year where they had a footage of Frank on a big screen and Dweezil and the band were jamming right along with him. It was great.

Dweezil may have became as good of a guitarist as his dad, but Frank not only played all that kick-ass stuff, he WROTE it as well. He'll never have an equal!

[jurroppi1]

yeah, I hold Frank in pretty high regard myself - at least musically. I never got a chance to see him live, but know a few people who did. Great stories...

[Rodamala]

I was living in Galesburg, Illinois back in 2006 and 2007. I drove up to Minneapolis, in the fall of ‘06 when the ZPZ tour came through town on their second leg... Terry Bozzio was spectacular, what an amazing talent... as was Steve Vai. Napoleon Murphy Brock, as I recall, was not as animated as I remember when I saw him with Project/Object at a jazz club in Trenton, NJ a year or two earlier.

I am glad that I had taken the road trip to go all the way up to Minneapolis for the ZPZ tour, though... DZ was extremely focused, very technical, as FZ compositions typically are.

Tight... I can only describe the performance as tight... closest thing we might ever have to bringing Frank back.

[Slump Tester]

Here's a youtube of Frank playing with Grand Funk.

When they get to the guitar jams, it's pretty obvious who's playing!

[jurroppi1]

That’s a trip, never heard that before - at least not in that context. I didn’t realize Zappa played with Grand Funk.

Thanks for sharing!

I’ve always liked Scott Thunes (being a bass player myself I suppose that makes sense). I would credit him with getting me into Zappa as much as anyone.

[Slump Tester]

He produced a couple of their albums, and I guess he just had to jump in on this one.

BTW - I didn't realize it when I posted that first YouTube, but that was just a lo-res copy of their DVD. If you like it, it's worth buying the real mccoy - WAY better video and menus!

[Slump Tester]

Here's an interesting tidbit about Zappa and Grand Funk I found on Wiki.

[jurroppi1]

that is a pretty interesting little tidbit indeed. I had read some of the comments at YouTube below the vid you posted the link to. Now more of them make sense.

[Eddie01]

I saw “Zappa does Zappa” at Meadowbrook in Michigan 2011, Dweezle was touring with Return to Forever - Chick Corea, Stanley Clark. Nepolean Murph Brock played with both groups.