Category: Zappa Audio/Video

So Where Were The Spiderz?

Last time i checked the Film Festival Ghent site just to see when Monster Road was going to be released in Belgium, it said “Complete program available from September 22”. Fortunately (for him) Idiot bastard son has got a copy already; i wonder, would it be a video cassette? a dvd? is it possible to buy this movie, or will it be, some time in the future? Some guys have all the luck…

Quaudiophiliac Tracklist

With thanks to Le Monde journalist Sylvain Siclier’s comment a couple posts back, here’s the tracklist for Quaudiophiliac:
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01 Naval Aviation in Art?
02 Lumpy Gravy
03 Rollo
04 Drooling Midrange Accountants on Easter Hay
05 Wild Love
06 Ship Ahoy
07 Chunga Basement
08 Venusion Time Bandits
09 Waka/Jawaka
10 Basement Music #2
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From the french press-release: “QuAUDIOPHILIAc is the Holy Grail (…) for Zappa fans and completists around the world, presenting previously unreleased tracks alongside re-mixed and re-edited material from the huge FZ back-catalogue, from Lumpy Gravy and Chungas Revenge to Sheik Yerbouti, Joes Garage and Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar all in spectacular Quadrophonic Surround!”

Weekend Edition

Good morning! Some various bits and pieces to keep you occupied during the weekend: Mike Keneally has launched radiokeneally.com featuring “non-stop streaming audio featuring music from all of my albums (including titles long out of print), unreleased live and studio recordings, collaborations with other artists, demos and alternate mixes, schoolchildren singing Keneally songs and, I think, more!”. Go rip him off! You might also enjoy a complete live broadcast of italian band Orchestra Spaziale performing Zappa (grazie evaristo)! Lastly, I’m transcribing an interview Dweezil Zappa had with Sound On Sound Magazine (Sept issue) about the technical side of things at The Vault – many thanks to Ian for sending me the scans. Class dismissed!

Quaudiophiliac

It figures.
I go on holiday for a week, and stuff happens at the ZFT.
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GZ: “Not a hunch, not a rumor. We have announced a DVD-Audio release. It is scheduled for a street date of 14 September on DTS label. It is surround sound and is made up of tracks originally mixed/recorded by FZ during the 70’s. It is essentially an audio documentary of ideas by FZ about quad and 4 channel mixes and multichannel recordings. Dweezil tweezed these items into a full on program now entitled QuAUDIOPHILIAc. Obviously, it will not translate on ordinary radio.” Can you say “petite wazoo“?
(artwork via FrenchPowered)

Anniversary – FZ’s last performance

It’s 13 years ago today that Zappa played in Budapest with hungarian jazz-musicians. Here’s an interview with Gyula Babos, guitar player – in english, for you. He’s from the jazz world, so I think he didn’t REALLY knew FZ’s stuff, but anyway, his point of view can be interesting. By the way, our friend Grizzly made it possible to listen to this jam (except soundcheck).
You can hear the change from 3/4 to 5/4 in “Impro 2” (it was called “One of a Kind” on a bootleg) at arount 10 minutes, after the bass solo.

Monster Road To Hit Ghent

A while ago I asked Jim Haverkamp if there was any possibility of getting to see Monster Road (see also) in Belgian theaters. He responded asking which filmfestivals he could submit the film to, so I told him about the annual Film Festival of Ghent. Jim sent a tape of “Monster Road” to the Flanders festival this week, and then, coincidentally, they wrote him inviting him in – good vibes!