Frank Zappa Fans ----->

If you don't have Trance-Fusion, you need to get it. Released in 2006 it is a compilation of some of the best zappa guitar solos from 1977-1988.

Probably the best SBD zappa recordings I have ever heard....dark and nasty stuff


1. Chunga's Revenge
* Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa

2. Bowling On Charen
* Guitar solo from Wild Love, performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show)
* Originally called The Squirm

3. Good Lobna
* Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December 4, 1984
* Refers to an episode of The Simpsons: "New Kid on the Block," in which Bart says this line. Series creator Matt Groening is a Zappa fan.

4. A Cold Dark Matter
* Guitar solo from Inca Roads, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988

5. Butter Or Cannons
* Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984

6. Ask Dr. Stupid
* Guitar solo from Easy Meat, performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979
* Refers to a reoccurring segment from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Series creator John Kricfalusi is also a Zappa fan, and Zappa provided the voice of "The Pope" on one episode of the series.

7. Scratch & Sniff
* Guitar solo from City Of Tiny Lights, performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988

8. Trance-Fusion
* Guitar solo from Marque-Son's Chicken, performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988

9. Gorgo
* Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988
* May refer to the 1961 science fiction film (Zappa is known to be a fan of monster movies), or Gorgonzola, the Zappa family's cat.

10. Diplodocus
* Guitar solo from King Kong, performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984

11. Soul Polka
* Guitar solo from Oh No, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988

12. For Giuseppe Franco
* Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show)

13. After Dinner Smoker
* Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988

14. Light is all that matters
* Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland,performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 (late show)

15. Finding Higgs' Boson
* Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8, 1988
* Refers to the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.

16. Bavarian Sunset
* Guitar solo from post-I Am The Walrus jam, performed at Rudi-Sedlmeyer Sporthalle, Munich, Germany: May 9, 1988

Any mags got a decent condition copy of Zappas Freak Out LP??

Happy birthday mr Zappa

And happy solstice!

So love(d) that man!

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Gotta question for any of you that might have some original vinyl. I have a memory of a quote (not Edgar Varese) that was on at least one (maybe more) early album cover. Pre '70, maybe inside of Absolutely Free. I can't remember exactly how it goes - started something like "the identity of the...", the gist of it was something like "it doesn't matter who I am that's saying this, it's what I'm saying". Kinda anti-celebrity.

Anyway, that's how I recall it. Ring a bell, anyone?

Absolutely Free: The Complete Libretto:
Music has always shown how people think and feel, according to John Tasker Howard. He is probably right. The music of the MOTHERS speaks of the feelings of what might be described as THE VAST MINORITY. The feelings of the people on the fringe of everything ... the ones who don't care if they're IN or OUT ... don't care if they're HIP, HEP, SWINGIN' or ZORCH. This is the audience the MOTHERS want to reach... those few who have the power within themselves to cause or motiviate social change but have never used it for one reason or another. If you are reading this and understand it (even if you have short hair and watch TV 18 hours a day), it is time that you realized WHO and WHAT YOU ARE. It is time you realized what the words to our songs mean.

This album was recorded the week before Thanksgiving, November 1966 in Los Angeles at the Sunset-Highland Studios of T.T.G. Inc., in a series of 4 sessions (about 25 studio hours). It was edited and re-mixed in New York City at the MGM Studios in 5 sessions (about 35 studio hours) the following week. The album was finally released around May 26, 1967 ... the reason for the delay? Partly because of this libretto. The original plan was to include within the album, the words in this brochure. The record company attempted to censor the words and a long involved discussion ensued. We were forced to manufacture this product.

The music itself took several years to compose (AMERICA DRINKS & GOES HOME was written in 1964 ... most of the other segments were written before or shortly after FREAK OUT!, our first album, was released in 1966). We hope that this material will help you to enjoy our work on a more personal level.

Thank you
Frank Zappa
for the MOTHERS of Invention