Frank Zappa_Dancing Fool

October 1978, NBC television show "Saturday Night Live"

"All right, let's go....""


Frank Zappa(vo)
Vinnie Colaiuta (drs), Arthur Barrow (b), Ed Mann (per), Tommy Mars (key/vo), Denny Walley (g/vo), Peter Wolf (key), Patrick O'Hearn (b), Lew Del Gatto (a.sax), Howard Johnson (b.sax), Tom Malone (tb), Lou Marini (t. & s.sax), Alan Rubin (tp)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Frank
• Zappa
• lead
• vocal
• Dancing
• Fool
• 1978
• Saturday
• Night
• Live
• Vinnie
• Colaiuta
• Arthur
• Barrow
• Ed
• Mann
• Tommy
• Mars
• Denny
• Walley
• Peter
• Wolf
• Patrick
• O'Hearn

[frostbyteSB]

Notice how low to the ground Vinnie's drum stool is!! I guess that's he liked it in those days!

[dai2008002iad]

Oh! thank you for the comments, Mr. frostbyleSB^^

[frankiemionetto]

Zappa later became a Guest judge on Denny Terrio's "Dance Fever" Guess there is hope for everyone!

[dai2008002iad]

Ahahaha ! Very nice !

Thank you frankiemionetto^^

[darioinfini]

Hey thanx so much for posting this. The jerks at NBC who keep taking these things down -- WHAT good does it do you to do so? You dont sell the damned clip, all you do is deprive of us of enjoying it.

THIS time I'm saving it so they cant deprive me again. Thanx bud!

[dodecafono]

I'mmaybetotallywrongbutI'ma Dancing Foooool

[robmadore1]

happy bday Frank! and i guess a happy bday to me too haha.

[peterrothschild]

One of Zappa´s very best songs!

[Mrbordershock]

i love the ending xD

[foutupourfoutu]

@edthekingoffunk No it's not, Ralph quit the 2 drummer band (the other being Chester Thompson) in mid 1974. VInnie joined in 1978

[ddrums001]

I saw this years ago on SNL! And the drummer always stood out to me! Maybe because back then I thought the kit he was playing on was mad pretty or the drummer was such a beast, not knowing back then that it was actually Vinnie!! WOW! He was a big influence to me and I didn't even know it!!

[kz1000ps]

That is without a doubt VINNIE COLAIUTA on the drums. A very young, very shaggy Vinnie but Vinnie nonetheless.

[Qwazier3]

Would love to have seen Frank as an American Idol judge. He would've brought a bizaarity to that show that would make it worth watching.

[DyingSID666]

@octofish Its Vinnie on the drum kit.

[octofish]

I haven't watched that since it aired live. That was great to see again. Yes, that's Ralph on the drum kit. Ralph is insane. Vinnie joined minutes later. I saw him with Vinnie and Steve Vai in 1980 at the Uptown in Chicago. Great show.

[loislombardo]

that girl look scarewd