Please!!! Do a new upload of this fantastic moment in music history. Better quality would be great. It's a little hard to follow Ruth and Luc's fast motions ;-) Thanks in advance! (Have not seen this anywere else on the net. I would call it "ultra rare" for a big fan like myself).
Wow, Nice video, never seen it before, interesting version of Greggary too. I love the way Frank used the stage as a way to improve ideas, I mean, as you can see, this is a very early verswion of Greggary Peccary, still really good, though. Shame it's so short.
Look for Zapp on Steve Allen Show on You tube... he was trainign to be a conductor. when he realized it was tough he invented jazz rock fusion. Too orchestrated to be totally improv
Much of the public was pretty ignorant of Zappa's genius. But not musicians. They knew where to go to play the good stuff. If you list the musicians who played with Zappa it's the Who's Who of the Music Hall of Fame.
Whether playing with Zappa or McLaughlin, Jean Luc Ponty never lost his own language. His play has always been unique and noticeable but very versatile as well.
That is one of the most elaborate piece in rock history. You can hear the counterpoint of all the different parts throughout. But if you have top notch musicians that rehearse for 2 months(according to Zappa himself in interview)before you even start playing in front of people that's the result you get. Just awesome music by awesome musicians.
This is so casually brilliant, masterful, unpretentious and virtuosic it defies proper description. I've been listening to Frank since high school and still discover things that are so new and amazing that its like he never left us and is better than ever!
@goldragons - Very well said- Still new and amazing- and just like you said- it's like he never left us and is better than ever- As a schoolkid I was listening too- and i loved it- but it was way over my head in it's brilliance- It still f---- is and i'm 49 now
I know what ya mean Man. Zappa Meant it. He wasn't trying to be hip. He created an intelligent artistic statement for the ages like the old musical masters its just that he happened to be a freak! Good for us! xD Join The March That Eats My Starch!
Some of Zappa's stuff reminds me of Carl Stalling.....the composer for all the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. I read where when they were trying to track down the sheet music for the staging of "Bugs Bunny On Broadway", there was none to be found. They had to go back and isolate & figure out each instrument's part from the original recordings.
It never ceases to amaze me that there are no music stands anywhere. It is no small feat to memorize these parts, much less to play them so well. By the time they recorded Roxy and Elsewhere, they were playing this material at warp speed!
This is the kind of music that I want to be llistening to, Jean-Luc's solo is gut wrenchingly beautiful. I have the CD Imaginary Diseases and it has father Oblivion on it, but this has some good stuff that's not on the disc. Imaginary Diseases, IMHO, is the absolute best post Zappa Has Left The Building CD release, if you like Zappa you need to own it, it's fantastic.
@reldditmot I may be wrong, but isn't this Farther O'Blivion? (Imaginary Diseases was my reference for this). I know Frank often used and reused things. For example, you could also argue that this is the Bebop Tango of the Old Jazzmen's Church.
This is the Overnight Sensation Band!! Ruth Underwood is amazing as well as the Fowler brothers, George Duke, Ponty, Ralph Humpries on drums and Zappa the genius and band leader!!!
Thank you to the uploader, and personally, I can live with the title. Ruth, though. I don't know. I was around back in the 70s, as a kid, and Ruth sort of reminds me of my stepmother. LOL.
Ponty's solo is SO inspired...how to make a pentatonic shine!
On the same track there is also another awesome Ponty solo, this time exploiting tha wah wah on the violin (for the first time ever AFAIK)...
BTW, this live concert was also released in the bootleg (Beat the boots I) "Piquantique", listing this track as "Father O'Blivion". I think it's a experimental rhapsody mixing Greggary Peccary material with bebop tango and other stuff Zappa was working on by the time. Great music!
Don't know why you are concerned about "what" it was called elsewhere. If the title was from a bootleg, then they clutch at any straw going. This is definitely Greggary Peccary. You can sing along with it if you want. Nocternal Swine. No offence meant.
@tallismaryward I'm just clarifying the correct documentation, it's not very informative calling a track something which it isn't, I have been collecting FZ for many years, and know the importance of documenting these historical pieces correctly..No offence :D
@tallismaryward to be settling this he says it is called join the march and eat my starch on the actual vid zappa often wrote a song and then added lyrics and changed the name
This is the track list for this concert: Cosmik Debris, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Kung Fu, Penguin In Bondage, RDNZL, Montana, improvisations, Dupree's Paradise, Join The March And Eat My Starch, Farther Oblivion, he did not perform Greggary Peccary on the '73 tour..
Go to 5:25 on the album release, and you'll hear the section that is posted...
FZ was performing the "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as early as 1972, as heard on the "Zappa Wazoo" concert cd (released in Nov. 2007 but, originally recorded in Boston Mass, 1972.) He only performed it live as an instrumental...
I've got a Zappa concert from Italy where they open up with "Token of My Extreme", in '74, but it wasnt on record until a few years later. Then there's "Wino Man", he played it with Flo & Eddie, but didnt record it until "Zoot Alures" (I think).
Just out of interest, the piece is called Farther O'Blivian (not Father from Apostrophe). I've got the full gig somewhere & it's pretty much all as good as this.
There's a "Beat the Boots" CD called Pitanque. which has this exact same performance on it.. you could probably find it in a CD show (if such things still exist) or here on da internet....
Nobody can touch Zappas amazingness and creativity, no one ever will. The people who had the chance to play in his band came the closest and the hardcore fans well we come after. My friends and I were trading Zappa bootlegs when the rest of the kids were trading baseball cards, and doing the disco thing. :P
i don't get it.... greggary peccary is from the Studio Tan album released in 78, right? so how come this is the 73 line up and it sounds nothing like the song?
Si bien se destaca la figura de Zappa, también hay que reconocer a un jóven violinista Jean Luc Ponty, el maestro en sus voladas con otro grande de la música...Ojo que esta George Duke y Tom Flower, músicos que tocaron con Jean Luc .....este es para los tontos que desprestigian la carrera de Ponty....hay que tener respeto por los grandes y si tocó con Zappa es por algo a pesar de se pelearon. No mezclemos peras con manzanas.
Los nombres de los temas de Zappa son de no creer: "Suite del pecarí gregario", "Un perro modificado", "¿Nunca te habías lavado esa cosa?", "Mi guitarra quiere matar a tu madre" son dignos ejemplos. Juá, juá!
Very close. I am going with Ralph Humphreys on drums. For a time, Zappa toured and recorded with him in the early seventies along with co-drummer Chester Thompson.
jean-luc was too big of a talent to stay with frank; despite the coolness of the group, the musicians were subsumed to frank's art
the only group that has come near the musicianship of zappa has been the polyphonic spree, but they don't have near the range or catalog of frank, what he did is unprecidented in modern music
frank was pretty cheap also, the supporting musicians didn't make alot of money and frank was very stingy with paying royalties to band members, so many just played for him when they weren't in a better contractual arrangement
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Why does everyone think Zappa is so brilliant? I think he is weird. I have never liked a single song he is responsible for, but I must say that I did like this one a little. I suspect it is because of Jean Luc Ponty. Now that man is talented. If you were turning a person on to Zappa for the first time, what would you tell them to listen to? I'll give him another shot. Thanks.
The song that got me into Zappa was Willie the Pimp, but he also has some great instrumental songs like Peaches en Regalia, Apostrophe, and We Are Not Alone. He has so much material that pretty much everyone can find something they like; I love the guy and I've probably only heard 60% of his music. Some great albums to check out are Hot Rats and Overnite Sensation. He also has a cool cover of Stairway to Heaven on youtube; the album is "Best Band You've Never Heard in Your Life."
nobody heard more than 20% of his work.. there's a shit load of thing we never heard hiding in "the vault" and there is about 80 of his record on the market now.
Sheik Yerbouti is the first album i got from him and now i own 33 albums and there aint any single song i dont like.
If you like Ponty, then why not give a shot to "King Kong", a Ponty album from 1970 wherein he covered Zappa material. Some excellent instrumental arrangements and Ponty's playing is top-notch. If you liked this one even a bit you might dig "King Kong".
Unbelievable. I have probably 10 or 12 JLP discs and I have never heard of this "King Kong". Shame on me LOL.Thank you sooo much for that recommendation. I am sure it rocks. I'll be takin' your advice very soon.
I just heard on French radio Ponty told he left because Zappa saw the public didn't follow when he started to get more in jazz, he went back to a more "middle of the road" style (if you can say that about Frank Zappa ;))and less improvisation and Ponty finished by playing the same riffs every night.
Yeah, that's George Duke on keys, evidently before Frank managed to get him to sing! Most of the classic Roxy group in place - Tom Fowler (bass); Bruce Fowler (trombone); Ruth Underwood (perc); Ralph Humphreys (drums); Ian Underwood on saxes yet to be replaced by Napoleon Murphy Brock. I reckon they *could* get a record deal today - maybe not a major one but people like Jaga Jazzist, EST and the Bad Plus seem to be successful in this kind of field these days: there must be an audience for it.
The drummer is Ralph Humphrey, he was with Don Ellis Before, and is heard on the Overnite Sensation album. A short time later than this performance Chester Thompson joined and they played with two drummers for a while.
The full version is over 20 min long. The studio version of this awesome song was originaly released on the the album 'Studio Tan'. Frank intended to release it in 1977 on his 4-disc album 'Lather',but the record company made him release it as 4 different albums :'Zappa in New York','Studio Tan','Orchestral Favorites',and 'Sleep Dirt'. Finaly,in 1996,three years after his death, 'Lather' was released the way Frank intended,in a 3-CD set. The best thing to do is buy Lather like I did.
Amazing ... Zappa was / is the Best.
Heygoodonya 3 months ago in playlist More videos from fairfieldtheatre
bloody awesome
trioptimumscapes 3 months ago
Some of the greatest musicians to ever walk the earth... but where was that trombone solo I was promised???
evanmcc6 4 months ago
Brilliant!!! I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Frank when I was a youth and I took my 14 year old son to see Dweezil.
thefeepy 5 months ago
over-nite sensation line-up
herrdruhl 5 months ago
probrojeffro well put
boyboyduff 5 months ago
Please!!! Do a new upload of this fantastic moment in music history. Better quality would be great. It's a little hard to follow Ruth and Luc's fast motions ;-) Thanks in advance! (Have not seen this anywere else on the net. I would call it "ultra rare" for a big fan like myself).
svenbennybenny 5 months ago
pasan los años y me sigue conmoviendo zappa
MrGmicha 6 months ago
Wow, Nice video, never seen it before, interesting version of Greggary too. I love the way Frank used the stage as a way to improve ideas, I mean, as you can see, this is a very early verswion of Greggary Peccary, still really good, though. Shame it's so short.
Nintendofan981 6 months ago
dramatic violin and the great Zappa Band.
Bakunin53 6 months ago
this line up could do no wrong
Ui2019 7 months ago
Ponty seems a little overwelmed.....did Jerry Goodman ever play with Zappa?
cabinfeverish 7 months ago
Look for Zapp on Steve Allen Show on You tube... he was trainign to be a conductor. when he realized it was tough he invented jazz rock fusion. Too orchestrated to be totally improv
jmullaney2002 7 months ago
This was a great teamwork...........
rondy2 7 months ago
just amazing!!... both genius!... jean luc, and zappa...
rykevolgnikcufecin 7 months ago
Ingenious idiotically sublime mayhem.
MrTenitis 7 months ago 2
Zappa is one of the greatest composers of alltime!
If you worked with him... YOU were badass!
longboarder1960 8 months ago
ahaahhhhahahahah Jean Luc Ponty with Zappa. maybe it's vice versa, isn't it? lol
keo774 8 months ago
Desde el Perú donde estés Frank te saludo
angelgenesis127 8 months ago
Zappa was very crazy!!!!
robertolp78 8 months ago
♥♥♥
ingridhelican 9 months ago
Its funny how some songs you really have to listen to several versions to realize something wasn't an accident.
dickfncheney 10 months ago
Frank was a great composer Why did he have to go so early? His music is and stays very good.
thegerrie19561 10 months ago
@thegerrie19561 It's because he was so far ahead that God had to to take him. If he didn't, surely our heads would have imploded.
EoFproductions 8 months ago 2
Selv Tak You
MrWrof 10 months ago
Frank Always loved a good Trombone Solo
JimiBobbyJack 11 months ago
That's an inspired solo by Ponty.
partidoalto1 1 year ago
I stared at Ruth 'til I went blind,but I could still hear
queensasp 1 year ago
@probrojeffro
you're right with your sight!
stefangeorgmueller 1 year ago
Swifties.
THIS is Big Swifties
petecockcroft 1 year ago 2
Two great musical minds together like this is always a treat for we humans.
popgrubbs 1 year ago
Much of the public was pretty ignorant of Zappa's genius. But not musicians. They knew where to go to play the good stuff. If you list the musicians who played with Zappa it's the Who's Who of the Music Hall of Fame.
probrojeffro 1 year ago 9
Whether playing with Zappa or McLaughlin, Jean Luc Ponty never lost his own language. His play has always been unique and noticeable but very versatile as well.
1950jimbei 1 year ago 3
That is one of the most elaborate piece in rock history. You can hear the counterpoint of all the different parts throughout. But if you have top notch musicians that rehearse for 2 months(according to Zappa himself in interview)before you even start playing in front of people that's the result you get. Just awesome music by awesome musicians.
lucancherby 1 year ago
I can dance to this! Wait! give me some acid first...ahhh....See! I told you:)
hartistry1957 1 year ago
This is so casually brilliant, masterful, unpretentious and virtuosic it defies proper description. I've been listening to Frank since high school and still discover things that are so new and amazing that its like he never left us and is better than ever!
goldragons 1 year ago 2
@goldragons - Very well said- Still new and amazing- and just like you said- it's like he never left us and is better than ever- As a schoolkid I was listening too- and i loved it- but it was way over my head in it's brilliance- It still f---- is and i'm 49 now
keltyk 1 year ago
@keltyk
I know what ya mean Man. Zappa Meant it. He wasn't trying to be hip. He created an intelligent artistic statement for the ages like the old musical masters its just that he happened to be a freak! Good for us! xD Join The March That Eats My Starch!
goldragons 1 year ago
@goldragons Yes!
myklmusic 1 year ago
@keltyk Yes!
myklmusic 1 year ago
Some of Zappa's stuff reminds me of Carl Stalling.....the composer for all the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. I read where when they were trying to track down the sheet music for the staging of "Bugs Bunny On Broadway", there was none to be found. They had to go back and isolate & figure out each instrument's part from the original recordings.
195511SM 1 year ago
Proper introduction, preamble and pulchritood...
marconibungalows 1 year ago
ponty, ruth, y todos los musicos de ZAPPA son genios musicales
IcamolEdgar 1 year ago
Instruments? Live? WTF?
JRLFC 1 year ago
@JRLFC LOL Nice one! : D
goldragons 1 year ago
WHat A fantastik fuqing song...Zappa was a crazy muzik genius..same as J. L....
vivelavidarocka 1 year ago
It never ceases to amaze me that there are no music stands anywhere. It is no small feat to memorize these parts, much less to play them so well. By the time they recorded Roxy and Elsewhere, they were playing this material at warp speed!
sean3415 1 year ago
Ruth is a big musician! I believe she´s quite a singer too, don´t she?
paulocapella 1 year ago
EXCUSE ME, that should have been, FARther Oblivion, not Father Oblivion ( an entirely different tune ).
mlcoo17 1 year ago
This is the kind of music that I want to be llistening to, Jean-Luc's solo is gut wrenchingly beautiful. I have the CD Imaginary Diseases and it has father Oblivion on it, but this has some good stuff that's not on the disc. Imaginary Diseases, IMHO, is the absolute best post Zappa Has Left The Building CD release, if you like Zappa you need to own it, it's fantastic.
mlcoo17 1 year ago
3:12 - 4:50
altohippiegabber 1 year ago 2
@reldditmot I may be wrong, but isn't this Farther O'Blivion? (Imaginary Diseases was my reference for this). I know Frank often used and reused things. For example, you could also argue that this is the Bebop Tango of the Old Jazzmen's Church.
FZmustacheFZ 1 year ago
This is the Overnight Sensation Band!! Ruth Underwood is amazing as well as the Fowler brothers, George Duke, Ponty, Ralph Humpries on drums and Zappa the genius and band leader!!!
oregonbobv 1 year ago
Thank you to the uploader, and personally, I can live with the title. Ruth, though. I don't know. I was around back in the 70s, as a kid, and Ruth sort of reminds me of my stepmother. LOL.
MellowCricket 1 year ago
SWIFFFF-TEEEEEEES....
memalley 1 year ago
Ponty is so amazing
boomaga 1 year ago
Ponty's solo is SO inspired...how to make a pentatonic shine!
On the same track there is also another awesome Ponty solo, this time exploiting tha wah wah on the violin (for the first time ever AFAIK)...
BTW, this live concert was also released in the bootleg (Beat the boots I) "Piquantique", listing this track as "Father O'Blivion". I think it's a experimental rhapsody mixing Greggary Peccary material with bebop tango and other stuff Zappa was working on by the time. Great music!
bordaigorl 1 year ago
@bordaigorl i think zappa did it earlier on the chunga's revenge album
dressedtosmellgood 1 year ago
Every single time I listen to this, JLP's solo makes me virtually shiver. love it.
moondog450 1 year ago 2
Wow !! Jean-Luc looks like my ex-boyfriend here! I could watch both for hours!! :)
vanitysadeparis 1 year ago
jean luc is awesome nuff said.
bigben1986 1 year ago
Don't know why you are concerned about "what" it was called elsewhere. If the title was from a bootleg, then they clutch at any straw going. This is definitely Greggary Peccary. You can sing along with it if you want. Nocternal Swine. No offence meant.
tallismaryward 1 year ago
@tallismaryward I'm just clarifying the correct documentation, it's not very informative calling a track something which it isn't, I have been collecting FZ for many years, and know the importance of documenting these historical pieces correctly..No offence :D
reldditmot 1 year ago
@tallismaryward to be settling this he says it is called join the march and eat my starch on the actual vid zappa often wrote a song and then added lyrics and changed the name
dalwynlwcus 1 year ago
This is the track list for this concert: Cosmik Debris, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Kung Fu, Penguin In Bondage, RDNZL, Montana, improvisations, Dupree's Paradise, Join The March And Eat My Starch, Farther Oblivion, he did not perform Greggary Peccary on the '73 tour..
reldditmot 1 year ago
Why have you named it the Greggary peccary Suite? GP wasn't released until 1978 and clearly isn't played here???
reldditmot 1 year ago
Go to 5:25 on the album release, and you'll hear the section that is posted...
FZ was performing the "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as early as 1972, as heard on the "Zappa Wazoo" concert cd (released in Nov. 2007 but, originally recorded in Boston Mass, 1972.) He only performed it live as an instrumental...
jasonpchesney 1 year ago
This track was titled Join The March And Eat My Starch! Not Greggary Peccary,(I'm not disputing that FZ performed it before it's release)
Regards, Shaun..
reldditmot 1 year ago
I've got a Zappa concert from Italy where they open up with "Token of My Extreme", in '74, but it wasnt on record until a few years later. Then there's "Wino Man", he played it with Flo & Eddie, but didnt record it until "Zoot Alures" (I think).
skankspankr 1 year ago
Nice to see these guys together
Cynthia5315 1 year ago
Ponty's solo is incredible, more so who it influenced. Check out Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home", the guitar solo is definitely inspired by Ponty.
stillspooky 1 year ago
Jean Luc Ponty's solo is freakin bananas!!
KCBinDC 1 year ago 2
Pure musical genius.
FIXIErider 1 year ago
jean luc's solo is epic!!!
funkymonksf 2 years ago
too much for little brains i guess :D
SOIBand 2 years ago
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This Crap gives me a headache.
Just like all Zappa does.
piratesport 2 years ago
Go on then... on yer bike.
Bobby Brown.
theoldrevolution 2 years ago
Wow, it amazes me this is out there. I've always loved the music of Greggery Peccary. And here it is live. Just wow.
NorthernDownpour77 2 years ago 4
Exellent
calpont 2 years ago
that is the shit hottest solo from JLP Ive ever heard. WOW
moondog450 2 years ago
Is Ruth not the most gorgeous musician ever?
moondog450 2 years ago 33
@moondog450
No, Scheila Gonzalez from Zappa plays Zappa is the hottest...
CBrusich 11 months ago
It looks like Tom Fowler on bass (his brother Bruce is playing trombone).
And, folks this is one bitch of a composition to play. Lets see
one of the so called current popular bands try this shit.
I saw this band in 1973 and sat there with my jaw dropping the whole time.
curiousnomad 2 years ago 4
All 3 Fowler bros. played for Frank. What an awesomely, talented family.
.....no band today, n'even ZPZ, could play this...like this!
GOLEAFS1967 2 years ago
I saw them in 1975, and they slayed me !
nasty704 2 years ago
i thought maybe it was scott thunes playing bass; it looks like his bass. maybe he came later, not an expert on zappa chronolgy.
grserm 2 years ago
@grserm Well, there's a lot more bass players who use a Fender Jazz bass! ;)
Yeah Scott Thunes came later. Hell of a bass player, too
foutupourfoutu 1 year ago
genius zap
mayorelvis2 2 years ago 2
What a Ponty solo! Awesome, it sounds nothing like his Enigmatic Ocean solo's somehow, totally different.
titusbeertsen 2 years ago 2
We'e busy makin em , just fer you
TheTralfaz 2 years ago
The guy playing the keyboard is George duke
royrand 2 years ago
Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrds!
OldeFarquer 2 years ago
LOL
exentr 2 years ago
wow...that ponty's solo is just AMAZING!!!!
TTFAF4ever 2 years ago
Who is making those new brown clouds? Who is making those clouds these days?
grayhobbs 2 years ago
Ralph plays drums on Dancing With the Stars now
hihats 2 years ago
Jean Luc Ponty is gifted out of his F ing mind!!
I could listen to him all day!
pookeeeee 2 years ago
Just out of interest, the piece is called Farther O'Blivian (not Father from Apostrophe). I've got the full gig somewhere & it's pretty much all as good as this.
BoabBarca 2 years ago
Great music. They all look so THIN!
Steveco 2 years ago
So you're saying Zappa lived in the 1800's?
mustaine14 2 years ago
Ponty's solo is soo cool. I wish I could own this footage on disc and listen to it forever
sirotahaggen 2 years ago
when i read your comment i didn't imagine his solo would be this awesome!!
jazzfunk1992 2 years ago
There's a "Beat the Boots" CD called Pitanque. which has this exact same performance on it.. you could probably find it in a CD show (if such things still exist) or here on da internet....
worriedaboutlife 2 years ago
And as always, Bruce Fowler and Jean-Luc are unbelievably good.
LaRocheFoucauld 2 years ago
Nobody can touch Zappas amazingness and creativity, no one ever will. The people who had the chance to play in his band came the closest and the hardcore fans well we come after. My friends and I were trading Zappa bootlegs when the rest of the kids were trading baseball cards, and doing the disco thing. :P
AmericanDiaz 2 years ago 4
AIR HOCKEY!!!
mcumella 2 years ago
this music makes me feel alive.
Hell yeah Frank.
xMotherx 2 years ago 2
Just a great fucking band!
vanderbiltst 2 years ago 4
incredible precision from Ruth Underwood, any modern day orchestra would be thrilled to have a percussionist like her...
marcvdm1111 2 years ago 4
wow!
buffalobands 2 years ago
I'M SORRY WHERE WAS I @
firstbooob 2 years ago
i don't get it.... greggary peccary is from the Studio Tan album released in 78, right? so how come this is the 73 line up and it sounds nothing like the song?
cherryorchards 2 years ago
what dont you get dude, its early zappa and its fuckin great. enjoy
chile601 2 years ago 4
Simple: written earlier but released later on, from the vault or played as a new version
pennnchef 2 years ago
fair and more fair enough . . . tight and right
fiddlerfart 2 years ago
One of the best group of Mothers ever.
TheBoneRanger1968 3 years ago
Let's hear it for Ruth's Underwood and Jean-Luc's Ponties!
MajorSecord 3 years ago 14
Si bien se destaca la figura de Zappa, también hay que reconocer a un jóven violinista Jean Luc Ponty, el maestro en sus voladas con otro grande de la música...Ojo que esta George Duke y Tom Flower, músicos que tocaron con Jean Luc .....este es para los tontos que desprestigian la carrera de Ponty....hay que tener respeto por los grandes y si tocó con Zappa es por algo a pesar de se pelearon. No mezclemos peras con manzanas.
claudinqui 3 years ago
Studio tan is the best
improja 3 years ago 2
Los nombres de los temas de Zappa son de no creer: "Suite del pecarí gregario", "Un perro modificado", "¿Nunca te habías lavado esa cosa?", "Mi guitarra quiere matar a tu madre" son dignos ejemplos. Juá, juá!
chungafrescor 3 years ago
I think the personnel is (if anyone knows better please correct me)
Ruth Underwood-Vibes/percussion
Jim gordon-drums
George Duke- Key
Tom Fowler-Bass
Bruce Fowler-Trombone
Jean Luc Ponty- Violin
Zappa-Guitar
and I don't know the cat on bass clarinet
Ponty is killing though
Fretlessness 3 years ago
The drummer is Ralph Humpfey.
The clarinet is the great Ian Underwood.
wmd1 3 years ago 3
Very close. I am going with Ralph Humphreys on drums. For a time, Zappa toured and recorded with him in the early seventies along with co-drummer Chester Thompson.
See Overnight Sensation album.
RFIDemocracy 3 years ago
This is one of the best performances by the Zappa band I have ever seen.
stratusfunk 3 years ago
Zappa must be one of the best if not the best american modern composer af all times.
vivelavidarocka 3 years ago 3
yeah he's the best
jasmincar 3 years ago
Yes. George Duke is playing the keyboards.
arklat 3 years ago 2
its george duke playing the keyboards???
locobeis 3 years ago 2
FRANK ZAPPA GEHÖRT ZU DEN GRÖSSTEN MUSIKERN DES 20.JAHRHUNDERTS: ICH LIEBE IHN UND SEINE GENIALE MUSIK
THANK YOU FRANK ZAPPA
we love you
Knoxoleum 3 years ago
Madness ... never heard this version before.
IncaRoad01 3 years ago
You should try to find a copy of the Sydney shows at Horden Pavilion in July 1973.Incredible.
wmd1 3 years ago
where the fuck are we going to find this
jasmincar 3 years ago
Napster used to be great for that kind of thing.
You can still find a lot of great bootlegs on ebay, I've found many hard to find items there.
People all over the world love Frank & someone is bound to have something you never knew you wanted.
wmd1 3 years ago
for me this is frank at his best love it love it xxx
1peoplesun 3 years ago
Zappa was a true GENIUS.
And PONTY is truly AMAZING. I love them!
bordaigorl 3 years ago
zappa 4ever :-)
lucianocraveiro 3 years ago
jean-luc was too big of a talent to stay with frank; despite the coolness of the group, the musicians were subsumed to frank's art
the only group that has come near the musicianship of zappa has been the polyphonic spree, but they don't have near the range or catalog of frank, what he did is unprecidented in modern music
who dressed frank for this concert anyway?
gowerjl 3 years ago 2
frank was pretty cheap also, the supporting musicians didn't make alot of money and frank was very stingy with paying royalties to band members, so many just played for him when they weren't in a better contractual arrangement
gowerjl 3 years ago
I heard they got payed pretty well, the music was just so hard it required 10 times as many rehearsals
GreggaryPeccary 3 years ago
I think Frank was able to dress himself
GreggaryPeccary 3 years ago
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Zappa is a nutty fck. =D
Hillbred2g 3 years ago
who is the drummer in that video...I would like to know thanks
drumanjan 3 years ago
That would be Ralph Humphrey.
nbajw55 3 years ago
Thank you for this great video Im a big Zappa fan and JeanLucPonty...Awesome
drumanjan 3 years ago
ok we all love Ruth.Lets move on...Let us all move to Montana!
melange56 3 years ago
hell no!
jasmincar 3 years ago
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Why does everyone think Zappa is so brilliant? I think he is weird. I have never liked a single song he is responsible for, but I must say that I did like this one a little. I suspect it is because of Jean Luc Ponty. Now that man is talented. If you were turning a person on to Zappa for the first time, what would you tell them to listen to? I'll give him another shot. Thanks.
agat0r 3 years ago
The song that got me into Zappa was Willie the Pimp, but he also has some great instrumental songs like Peaches en Regalia, Apostrophe, and We Are Not Alone. He has so much material that pretty much everyone can find something they like; I love the guy and I've probably only heard 60% of his music. Some great albums to check out are Hot Rats and Overnite Sensation. He also has a cool cover of Stairway to Heaven on youtube; the album is "Best Band You've Never Heard in Your Life."
acc1890 3 years ago
Awesome, man. Thanks.
agat0r 3 years ago
nobody heard more than 20% of his work.. there's a shit load of thing we never heard hiding in "the vault" and there is about 80 of his record on the market now.
Sheik Yerbouti is the first album i got from him and now i own 33 albums and there aint any single song i dont like.
obgyno 3 years ago
If you like Ponty, then why not give a shot to "King Kong", a Ponty album from 1970 wherein he covered Zappa material. Some excellent instrumental arrangements and Ponty's playing is top-notch. If you liked this one even a bit you might dig "King Kong".
stereom 3 years ago
Unbelievable. I have probably 10 or 12 JLP discs and I have never heard of this "King Kong". Shame on me LOL.Thank you sooo much for that recommendation. I am sure it rocks. I'll be takin' your advice very soon.
agat0r 3 years ago
depends what kind of music you listen to
zappa has jazz, rock, experimental, etc...
get hot rats, absolutely free, and roxy and elsewhere.....then tell me if you like frank zappa
mario21128 3 years ago
wrong. the bassist is tom fowler. his brother bruce is playing trombone.
mandrew81 3 years ago
This is the group I saw in 74. Unfortunately Ponty had left. IT WAS THE UNSUAL BRILLIANT 2.5 HOURS of music I'd EVER SEEN from the second row!!!!
Saw Ponty 2 years later with Mahavishnu Orchestra.
wigginsdesign 3 years ago
I just heard on French radio Ponty told he left because Zappa saw the public didn't follow when he started to get more in jazz, he went back to a more "middle of the road" style (if you can say that about Frank Zappa ;))and less improvisation and Ponty finished by playing the same riffs every night.
YOUYOU47 3 years ago
Music for the cartoons Marcel Duchamp and Luis Bunuel should have made.
voidforpurpose 3 years ago
bass clarinet??
mmmgjl 3 years ago
and ponty
DontStopTheBeat1090 3 years ago
dig Ruth.
DontStopTheBeat1090 3 years ago
Dukey Stick on keys?
radcam69 3 years ago
Yeah, that's George Duke on keys, evidently before Frank managed to get him to sing! Most of the classic Roxy group in place - Tom Fowler (bass); Bruce Fowler (trombone); Ruth Underwood (perc); Ralph Humphreys (drums); Ian Underwood on saxes yet to be replaced by Napoleon Murphy Brock. I reckon they *could* get a record deal today - maybe not a major one but people like Jaga Jazzist, EST and the Bad Plus seem to be successful in this kind of field these days: there must be an audience for it.
auntiephos 3 years ago
Wow, great band but I really love Ruth Underwood's marimba playing. can you imagine someone like Frank Zappa getting a record deal today?
Darrylizer1 3 years ago
Zappa: perhaps the greatest composer of the 20th century.
felixlpilon 3 years ago 5
"perhaps" ?? ^^ yeah, you're right, one of the greatest composer of ever
trojanlol 3 years ago 2
The genius of Frank Zappa never ceases to amaze me!
pteeng1 3 years ago 3
zappa es la polla con cebolla
sonatonemaster 3 years ago
to answer an earlier question its Ralph Humphrey on drums.
yaksuit 3 years ago
to answer an earlier question its Ralph Humphrey on drums.
yaksuit 3 years ago
This is the most musical Zappa theme in my opinion. Well, this and the whole Uncle Meat album AND Burnt Weeny Sandwich.
MoonSunChild 3 years ago
Who is on drums.. Really precise player. The whole thing is just great.
doubts 3 years ago
chester thompson??
donksvelaamp 3 years ago
The drummer is Ralph Humphrey, he was with Don Ellis Before, and is heard on the Overnite Sensation album. A short time later than this performance Chester Thompson joined and they played with two drummers for a while.
Hamerguy68 3 years ago
George Duke on keys! Too cool!
Coowallsky 4 years ago
....51
cherryorchards 4 years ago
just love how he introcuces the song....
ive seen this video over 50 times
cherryorchards 4 years ago 2
I love the "Frightening little skills" part (the opening segment in this version).
FunnyDigestion 4 years ago
from which album is this from? cant really keep up with the whole 1500 frank zappa did
cherryorchards 4 years ago
The full version is over 20 min long. The studio version of this awesome song was originaly released on the the album 'Studio Tan'. Frank intended to release it in 1977 on his 4-disc album 'Lather',but the record company made him release it as 4 different albums :'Zappa in New York','Studio Tan','Orchestral Favorites',and 'Sleep Dirt'. Finaly,in 1996,three years after his death, 'Lather' was released the way Frank intended,in a 3-CD set. The best thing to do is buy Lather like I did.
RalfsLab 4 years ago
that sounded expensive, but thanks a lot! ;)
cherryorchards 4 years ago