Frank Zappa - Documentary (part 3 of 6)

[ophone77]

My favourite FZ band is the one with George Duke and Napoleon Murphy Brock, the one you can find on albums like Overnite Sensation and Roxy & Elsewhere!

[psftrules]

We need Zappa today !

[garmonbozia318]

Anybody know which album that version of summertime is on?

[MultiMrMuffinman]

What is there to dislike ?!!!!

[michaelp5590]

That totally looks like John McLaughlin at 1:13 playing ping pong

[TheFigueroa007]

Is that John Mclaughlin at 1 12?

[MrMariodave]

A fuLL Song from 1978 on film. If only they wouldn´t have cut in the interviews and voiceovers.

[chuobio]

1:31 - Why would you be more likely to get a blowjob at a RS concert, providing there are no drugs involved?

[ShivaTheAuspicious]

@chuobio put two and two together...its a big rock concert...tons of loose women with loose moral, specially back then. Seems pretty self explanatory

[chuobio]

@ShivaTheAuspicious You're right, 'cause Frank Zappa is not a rock artist. Good point.

[tarantism]

love the pacific 231 reference @ 5:30 - 7:00

search it on youtube it's a great short film

[peekay06111962]

gott

[kickinitonthetube]

who's on drums at 2:29

[phoneboothplus1]

@kickinitonthetube I think it's Vinnie Colaiuta.

[zim1966]

@phoneboothplus1 a very young Chad Wackerman if u look its Scott Thunes on bass guitar so i know its Wackerman on drums using his old slingerland setup

[remoteviewing0]

that version of the purple lagoon opening the norway concert is fucking fantastic

[Sausahga]

Once in several hundred years you get somebody like Frank Zappa and most of what he does gets ignored and needs to fight ten times as hard to get it done.

[DaVooz]

Is that Bobby Martin at 2:24?

[abracain]

@DaVooz Peter Wolf

[DarkZekeX]

what piece is that at 2:10? and which of his albums is it from? I'm not referring to Keep It Greasy.

[Zappa551]

@DarkZekeX Its called Purple Lagoon:)

[5jerry1]

@DarkZekeX

It's called "The Purple Lagoon." It's from "Zappa In New York" and "You Can't Do That Ons Stage Anymore, Volume 4."

Someone else may have answered already, but I haven't read all the comments; I'm reading the out-of-order comments while watching the video.

[Zappa551]

What is the name of the song in the start?

[DiosIIIPadre]

@Zappa551 Summertime, from George and Ira Gershwind

[cfyves]

One thing Zappa's music demanded was the art of listening..... to accompany his compositional art. A cleverness, a playfulness, a seriousness, a riskiness.... a genuineness.....  a greatness.

Miss U Frank.

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

that dude was holding his lit sig in his ear..wtf

[DrBongWater]

J.S. Bach was not famous as a composer until 80 years after his death.

[jazzmanEE]

of course you will get a blowjob at a rolling stones concert ..that's cause the rolling stones music simply blows.

You are really missed in today's society Frank.

RIP

[deepindercheema]

John McLaughlin playing Table Tennis at I:12 ? He has a good technique.

[LightningStrat]

Lol @ deepindercheema's comment. :D

[synestheticmusic]

keep it greasey is so better here than the joes garage version

[greasykitchen]

A young Mike Keneally at 4:32!!

[iconoclast911]

This is a really good documentary film. Great footage of a great artist

[zamzonez]

His logic is research,observation common sense and the freedom to create and live life to the fullest,at least making fun of the bullshit that is always somewhat in the way... YOUTH power,,, that's why the dumbing down of america via school/govt indoctrination centers is paramount to ruining a formally productive innovative country,,, we can recapture and move on,, manufacturing futuristic green stuff, and art, would be cool america would rule  as one with our brothers of every country ,,freaky

[jmm1000]

look how (rightfully) proud Frank is of his new band at 2:10 !

Thanks Ed!

[nicufluf]

knowing how frank thought, I expect he was thinking "i wonder how many wrong notes they're gonna play?"...

[jmm1000]

how true

[jmm1000]

First day with the classic lineup Aug 26, 1978 Open Air, Ulm, Germany -

FZ--lead guitar/vocals

Ike Willis--guitar/vocals

Denny Walley--slide guitar/vocals

Tommy Mars--keyboards/vocals

Peter Wolf--keyboards

Ed Mann--percussion/vocals

Arthur Barrow--bass/vocals

Vinnie Colaiuta--drums

[newpicnictime]

does anyone know what music is played from 4:05?

thanks

[robcastellani]

Sounds like the Be-Bop Tango but sped up.

[hinneinisannidanni]

It's "Manx needs women". It can be found on "Zappa in new york".

[Finnegan1337]

I often think that Frank must have been a huge The Residents fan

[berniefranks]

I dunno, bubba. If anything I'd think it was the other way around. The Mothers had been around several years before the Residents came onto the scene. They're both incredibly unique groups, but there isn't really much identifiable influence on one or the other.

The Residents influence in Primus's music, however, is incredibly pronounced...

[manatsunoshi]

the line about government forgetting kids is genious. or maybe it's just flattering me cuz i'm young... :P

[fusionhar]

Frank must have been so frustrated by the pathetic masses without a brain cell between them. RIP Uncle Frank

[foutupourfoutu]

who performs this version of summertime?

[znubzz188]

ok, he says institutions suck. I can see logic in that, but what is HIS logic behind what he says?

[improja]

go listen the lather album and you will fucking love this man

[jasmincar]

this guy is so much blowing my mind

[FrozenStormrider]

That Purple Lagoon disco version at 2:10 is really funny.

[LilAbortedJesus]

this is a pretty good documentary.

[roasticle]

why is the only retort for criticism to say they should go back to britney spears?

[erroneous61]

Krank tha Frank!

[dmguitarist14]

frank is the best musician ever. if you don't like it, go back to britany spears and jack off or somethin

[Mick342]

Okay.

[obgyno]

the best part is that he does

[jamesharvey]

I don't think he does at all. I think it's kind of juvenile. I guess I'm saying this as someone who used to be into Frank Zappa. I liked his stuff years ago, but now I don't think his 'funny' lyrics are funny and I don't think his compositions or arrangements are particularly good, either. And yeah, his politics are pretty adolescent.

I'm not saying you shouldn't like Frank Zappa; just that for me, his work was something I eventually grew out of liking.

[obgyno]

i agree that his lyrics and his statement are quite "juvenile" but they do have a meaning. I believe he had just this way of saying things in a simplified and exagerated way so that the message gets to your brain the easier as possible. certainly due to all this rehearsal- trying to get crazy ideas in his "employees" mind. I understand that maturity can get you tired of his "pee-pee" humour but i do believe that in these nonsymbolic-strange things he did, theres a message which is not juvenile.

[ossiorn]

And whose work are you listening to now james?

[jamesharvey]

Right at this very moment it's a green lantern mixtape of the beastie boys, but I guess that's not really relevant

Ok: Composers: Phillip Glass, and then a bunch of old classical composers. All these guys have moved me way more than Frank Zappa's composition which just kind of leaves me cold these days

Funny lyrics and comedy songs: Tom Lehrer is pretty swell, he's one you should check out, and then I guess there's dudes like Noel Coward

Frank Zappa is good at what he does, for what it is.

[jancivil]

I don't think you're a musician. that's very suspicious choices you made, IME. Ashamed and reactionary much?

[nickinchina]

Yeah we're all able to enjoy the great stuff you wrote. Oh, Wait! Your just a critic. Get real if you think you've outgrown Zappa. He died 15 years ago light years ahead of the state of your peanut brain. And as for music, have you written anything? Didn't think so.

[Juulian83]

blow job jajaja frank is the best!!!!!!!!

[Farksisten]

What is Peter Wolf saying at 03.26?

[basspfosten]

[spoken in a heavy Austrian dialect]: "[when you join Frank's Band] you gotta eat a rat for some time." "talent's just one... it takes so much more than just talent!"

[franciscovaldevez]

Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix are the greatest musicians ever, the real geniuses.

[junipree]

your a nerd

[Thirdgen83]

Frank Zappa wrote shitty music, so I don't care HOW good of musician he was...

[phlakaton]

To each their own. I found him to be a true genius.

[Karlitoriv]

WTF!!!?? Are you serious? Go listen to britney man, she can really write music...

[pympym1]

Does anyone know what music is played 5-6 mins. into this segment, during the train ride?

[timglade2000]

It's "Pacific 231," composed by Arthur Honegger.

[69inchnails]

"It seems the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad world wide, it maybe the only thing that binds all nations together, 'cause of the incompetence of all their governments." (Wise words from a wise man).

[Kaminoisee]

after they show the flo and eddie version around 1:00 what is that song called? is really mellow and sweet

[shararararararara]

Gershwins summertime, there are a shitload of versions of the song on YouTube

[Kaminoisee]

is there any official release of that song from zappa?

[zappawazoo]

Visitad el FORO DE LA MÚSICA DE FRANK ZAPPA.

Buscad "Frank Zappa Indice" en vuestro buscador.

Para todo aquellos que conoceis al maestro, como para todos aquellos que serán privilegiados de conocerlo!!!!

Un Saludo!!!

[Rotoplooker2000]

Wow.. I didn't know there was another good quality film of the 88 band other than the Barcelona show. It appears to be a professional multi-camera, board audio production. Does anyone have any additional info on the clip of the 88 band in this video?

[Farksisten]

Can someone translate what Peter Wolf says?

[pylgrym]

Mothers Live Fillmore East - Vynilus Unobtanium....

[batpuller]

I'm a Band Leader.

[UrbanGraffito]

I'm the Grand Wazoo. Fuck you if you don't like my hat!

[thebiket]

No it's the Puprple Lagoon no Approximate

[thetortureneverstops]

fucking amazing! thank you

[bird3149]

Off the tip of my head, I hear Black Page, Aybe Sea, Keep It Greasy and Sharlena.

[chapter24]

I think it's Keep is Greasy from the Joe's Garage LP (acts 3 & 4)

[Kaminoisee]

Can someone say the names of the songs played here? i know a few, but some others i dont, specially the one after he says this is the world premiere of a new band, im thinking this is with the the 2 keyboardists, ike willis, and maybe warren cucurullo

[GreggaryPeccary]

The songs of the open-air concert are Approximate and Keep it greasy. The overdubbed one is Manx needs women, the last one is Sharleena.

[shorrosh]

and Vinnie Colaiuta

[Ignatzberlin]

There are so many cuts in the music...that's unneccassary - why couldn't they leave the originals?

[bunnyhead71]

Someone, Anyone, Could you please tell me what the name of this documentary is? I have NEVER seen it before, and I am trying to find a copy from an overseas Zappa friend. Let me know. Also what year is it from?

[stevenmiles]

Frank went to Mission Bay High school in San Diego Calif. There the teachers told me a little about him. Once in an art class first day he arranged all the chairs so all the girls surrounded his desk. Also after getting up in math class to teach the class. Troubled teachers soon found his intellect superior to there's. There were problems, but later resolved.

[KarlKackmann]

freak me out frank!

[GoblinGirl]

Frank Zappa refuses to die!

[mickinorbit]

thank you so much for posting this. it's one of the best tv-specials about frank zappa. some stuff of this dokumentary was filmed about 3 or 4 month before frank died. so this is the last zappa performance on film ever.

thank you. mick, germany

[lghalihaf]

ne ver seen this before thank you all for this treasur

[Nuditeaf]

um... shnerken klurken

[useev]

gefällt mir gut früher nur gehört jetzt auch vor augen es bleibt himmlich