Frank Zappa - I Come from Nowhere

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

1982

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Music

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• Frank_Zappa
• I_Come_from_Nowhere
• Ship
• Arriving
• Too
• Late
• to
• Save
• Drowning
• Witch

[Landotter1]

One of my favorites.... Wore out my cassette in '84 and haven't heard it since... Thanks for posting it.... song changes keys as I got older... doesn't sound the same to me.... haaaaaaaaaaaa

[MrMariodave]

@rgaleny This was played by a real band.

[ZombiesWerePeopleToo]

this, I assume, was before the extreme jazz influences

[superiormusicman]

Awesome, Steve vai credited as impossible guitar haha

[zretaw]

<3 Roy Ralph Moleman Guacamole Guadalupe Hidalgo Estrada..

[waveydavey100]

i grew with it, the verse is odd. the solo did it

[djdjany]

A melted song. Fantastic. Frank is enormous.

[rgaleny]

@jancivil Thank you. I like getting notes on his operation modes.

[jancivil]

@rgaleny in 1982 the synclavier sounds were all Chowning FM, very transparent, 'thin' sounds. he was writing music on paper to be performed; the most complex thing on this album is Envelopes, which for sure is a score he wrote on paper - as he had done since around 1954 - which eventually was performed with Kent Nagano directing LSO. It isn't likely that he was taking the time to type-input whole scores AND write out on paper what he was showing the band which was performing most of this by 1981

[jancivil]

@rgaleny in 1982 the synclavier sounds were all Chowning FM, very transparent, 'thin' sounds. he was writing music on paper to be performed; the most complex thing on this album is Envelopes, which for sure is a score he wrote on paper - as he had done since around 1954 - which eventually was performed with Kent Nagano directing LSO. It isn't likely that he was taking the time to type-input whole scores AND write out on paper what he was showing the band which was performing most of this by 1981

[jancivil]

@rgaleny no, with rock tunes he taught the band the basic ideas and worked an arrangement with the band. so one band's version will be different owing to the personnel, at least somewhat. half of this is a live jam in the studio. Drowning Witch was live and edited for a hybrid version. He wrote the music for Drowning Witch on paper and had it copied for this band. a lot of things that appear in the final version are not in the original sheet music. I have copies of it.

[feralmusic]

arthur barrow plays bass in the 1st half, patrick o'hearn plays bass in the 2nd half, apples and oranges complimenting each other perfectly. frank was a genius.