Frank Zappa changes guitar strings and tries the new Floyd Rose (rare audio)

[superkulmedkniv25]

Is he using a bottleneck here, or is he just bending and whammying a lot?

[SpocksToupee]

@superkulmedkniv25 He keeps mentioning that the guitar is fretless, so that's why he's getting microtones that are impossible to get with a fretted guitar, so it's a combination of the Whammy and no frets

[MrArtEffete]

v 8903definitely a "huh, never had a guitar that COULD EVEN DO THIS..." kinda thing in the beginning, followed by a "hmmmm....does this stuff work on here?" kinda thing, then a "huh, I like that lick. Maybe I'll try to work that into something" thought cycle.... then that thought cycle basically continues. pretty cool though. It shows "playing" is about "play"

[Hutchentoot]

Frank was fucking with it!!! Love it.

[rickariche]

awesome!! thanks dude.

[SteveSparx]

circular picking



[darkstar9480]

Frank could be playing a guitar strung with al dente spaghetti and you'd still know it was him...

[BitterBosh]

For the slightest moment, I thought perhaps Frank would play us the Looney-Toons theme...

[TheCorkSniffer]

I only heard mention of the Floyd. He is playing the fretless Strat that dominated the conversation.

[LuneyTune72]

Little did they know that the Floyd Rose sucks and the whammy always makes it out of tune...

[violentauntie]

MORE! Sweeps away the soundfilth damage of the infidels. Thnx YourArf.

[MonsieurMaus1]

Holy Yerk, Thx a LOT!!!

[Bob6stringer]

Lotsa non-Western musings on that fretboard. Some of the finest soloing I've heard anywhere, really. The kind of thing I love to hear, so playful. Definite favorite-keeper, thanks Arf.

[jackdelawack]

rehearsals were at Zoetrope if I recall correctly went to one in 82..

[BlackNapkin61]

omg!!

OMFG!!!

this is pure gold!!!

YourArf!!!!!!!

FFS!

Best thing Ive heard for a long ...long ...time

Jeeeeeeez !

[jackdelawack]

you are killing me thank you very much......

[acloakwithahood]

Warming up on some Zoot Allures, and Yo Mama, and Black Page #1 with Ed Mann.

[FlyingFooBalls]

where did this come from

[Yowsa777]

Please can you tell me what is the model of Seymour Duncan pickup, that you see in the neck position of these photograph...???

Thanks In Adance...!!!

[ThreeLeggedMongoose]

@Yowsa777

i heard somewhere that it some type of hot stack, something standard. i have gotten great frankish sounds that are on my channel using a little 59 in the neck, duckbucker in the middle, and hot rail in the bridge with a fender american deluxe s1 switching system (frank had a strange switch system as well)

[SteveSparx]

"You will in a minute"