Frank Zappa - Thirteen - 1978 (part 1)

27th October 1978 (second show) - The Palladium, New York City.

Band: FZ, Patrick O'Hearn, Arthur Barrow, Denny Walley, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf.
Special guest L. Shankar on violin.

Category:

Music

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• frank
• zappa
• shankar
• nyc
• palladium
• thirteen
• 1978

[ghostofzappa]

The interplay between Vinnie Colaiuta and Shankar 2,50-3,25 never fails to send shivers up the spine.

[Io1564]

@mugfordpete

The violin player is Lakshminarayanan Shankar.

[SteveSparx]

best audio always~ ty

[noodlesmealey]

i forget my cigarettes......oh wait,i stuck them up my ass going through the airport.

[mugfordpete]

who the hell is playing violin? is it eddie jobson ? i think maybe ... i only wish i got to see hiom, frank more than once !!!!

[drumforlife720]

oh my god i feel naturally high. No wonder Frank didn't let the musicians he played on tour with take drugs

[Foosh222]

@fadethetrade It's definitely true that his solos attracted a lot of fans but that's because he was a great guitar player. His solos were more melodic, and soulful, which is a term I don't usually use because every musician must play with some feeling. But Zappa had so much more of it than Van Halen, Satriani, or Vai, and Franks improvisation didn't consist of just repeatedly shredding the same patterns and pentatonic and harmonic minor scales. Plus Vinnie was better than any Van Halen drummer.

[fadethetrade]

@Foosh222 I think the reason frank brought in vince originallly was that frank needed to get back to mainstream guitar playing before the other virtuosos,Halen,Vai,Satch etc. blew ahead of frank on guitar,which they did in a virtuoso way. Frank used the great vince rhythmic patches and polyrythms to improv over with long ,sometimes tiresome soloing.

[Foosh222]

@fadethetrade Haha, nice!! Well Chad Wackerman wasn't a bad replacement.

[taurine13]

@jpphoopha sitar. French spelling sorry.