Frank Zappa - The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part VI

God! It’s God! I See God!

FZ Project/Object No.#15

(A Miles Mellough Joint)

Source material comes from the following:

Absolutely Free (1967)/Uncle Meat (1969)/Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

200 Motels (1971)/Waka/Jawaka (1972)/Over-Nite Sensation (1973)

Zoot Allures (1976)/Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar Some More (1981)

Ahead Of Their Time (1993)/Civilization, Phaze III (1994)/The Lost Episodes (1996)

Mystery Disc (1998)/Joe’s XMAsage (2005)/Greasy Love Songs (2010)

Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison (2011)/The Crux Of The Biscuit (2016)

and incidentals from various FZ/MOI recordings (1966-1996)

By Miles Mellough

Birds With Broken Wings

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Thanks Miles

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Project Object Series:

The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part I

  The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part II

 The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part III

The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part IV

 The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part V

Frank Zappa - The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part V

Esta vida é cheia de surpresas... Depois de muito tempo que o Professor Miles Mellough encerrou suas atividades no excelente Blog "Birds With Broken Wings", recebo um email dizendo que ele havia dado continuidade ao FZ - Project Object Series... E já me enviou os links. Para quem ainda não sabe, Dr. Miles fez um excelente estudo da obra de Frank Zappa e re-classificou sua música seguindo uma temática única e interessante. Segue este maravilhoso trabalho e um imenso agradecimento ao Dr. Miles.

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#13

 'From Chunga's Basement

"Miles Mellough"

 I recently put together another FZ P/O called, 'From Chunga's Basement, Vols.1&2.' It's a jazz oriented collection, almost entirely instrumental, and roughly 50% older and 50% posthumous material. Vol.1 is subtitled, 'The Show They Never See' and Vol.2 is 'Playground Psychotics' . If you'd like, you're welcome to share them as a new addition to your Complete FZ collection

'The Show They Never See'

  'Playground Psychotics'

 Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#14

 

Masterworks Reimagined & Revisited

"Miles Mellough"

Both of these P/O's basically came about as a result of my need for a Zappa fix. I was never fully satisfied with my version of 'Masterworks,' and I liked a couple of the new songs that were released on 'Meat Light,' so I went back and tweaked it a bit. 'From Chunga's Basement' on the other hand was just an excuse to piece together a Zappa jazz mix (I happen to like his jazzier material quite a bit). Some songs are new, some are old, and the remainder are somewhere in-between. Old socks in new shoes essentially. Not too many edits, but then a lot of my editing is meant to be overlooked (ie: songs shortened, rearranged, bits dropped in, etc). The idea for this is to blur the lines of distinction between what were Zappa's own edits and my own. Unless the listener is intimately familiar with his material, they probably wouldn't know which edits were intentional, and which were after the fact - resulting in a one-of-a-kind listen. So there you go.

 Masterworks Reimagined 1

 Masterworks Reimagined 2

 

 

By Miles Mellough

Birds With Broken Wings

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Thanks Miles

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Project Object Series:

The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part I

  The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part II

 The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part III

The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part IV

Frank Zappa - The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part IV

Biografia:

Por 1956, a família Zappa mudou-se para Lancaster, uma pequena cidade agrária no Antelope Valley do deserto de Mojave perto da Edwards Air Force Base, no norte do Condado de Los Angeles. A mãe de Zappa encorajou-o nos seus interesses musicais. Apesar de desgostar da música de Varèse, ela foi indulgente o suficiente para dar ao seu filho uma chamada de longa distância para o compositor como um presente de aniversário de quinze anos. Infelizmente, Varèse estava na Europa no momento, então Zappa falou com a esposa do compositor. Ele depois recebeu uma carta de Varèse agradecendo-o pelo seu interesse e contando sobre uma composição em que ele estava trabalhando, chamada "Déserts". Zappa achou muito excitante viver na cidade deserta de Lancaster. Varèse convidou-o a visitá-lo se ele fosse a Nova Iorque. O encontro nunca ocorreu (Varèse morreu em 1965), mas Zappa enquadrou a carta e a manteve, mostrando-a pelo resto de sua vida. Na Antelope Valley High School, Zappa encontrou Don Vliet (que depois expandiu seu nome para Don Van Vliet e adotou o nome de palco de Captain Beefheart). Zappa e Vliet tornaram-se amigos próximos, compartilhando um interesse em gravações de R&B e influenciando musicalmente um ao outro ao longo de suas carreiras. Pela mesma época, Zappa começou a tocar bateria em uma banda local, The Blackouts. A banda era racialmente diversa e incluía Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood, que depois tornou-se um membro do Mothers of Invention. O interesse de Zappa na guitarra cresceu, e em 1957 ele ganhou o primeiro instrumento do tipo. Entre suas influências iniciais, estavam Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Howlin' Wolf e Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. (Nos anos 1970 e 80, ele convidou Watson para tocar em alguns álbuns.) Zappa considerava solar como o equivalente a fazer "esculturas de ar", e desenvolveu um estilo eclético, inovador e pessoal. O interesse de Zappa em compor e fazer arranjos aumentou nos seus últimos anos de ensino médio. Pelo seu último ano, ele estava escrevendo, arranjando e conduzindo apresentações de peças de avant-garde para a orquestra da escola. Ele se formou na Antelope Valley High School em 1958, e depois reconheceu dois de seus professores de música no interior de seu disco Freak Out! Devido às muitas mudanças de sua família, Zappa esteve em pelo menos seis diferentes escolas e ficava frequentemente entediado e dado para distrair o resto da classe com excentricidades juvenis. Ele deixou a faculdade depois de um semestre, e manteve depois um desdém pela educação formal, tirando seus filhos da escola com quinze anos e recusando-se a pagar sua faculdade. Zappa deixou sua casa em 1959, e foi para um pequeno apartamento em Echo Park, Los Angeles. Depois de conhecer Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman durante a sua curta estadia em Pomona College, eles mudaram-se juntos para Ontario, e casaram-se em 28 de dezembro de 1960. Zappa trabalhou por um curto período em publicidade. A sua permanência no mundo comercial foi breve, mas deu-lhe a compreensão de como funcionava. Ao longo de sua carreira, ele teve um forte interesse na apresentação visual do seu trabalho, desenhando algumas das capas de seus álbuns e dirigindo seus próprios filmes e vídeos.

Project/Objects, Nos.#10-12

"Miles Mellough"

Nos.#10-12 mark the last (at least for the time being) of the Frank Zappa Project/Object Series. With these final three P/O's, I'd dispensed with my original motive in which I'd set out to test Zappa's theory of conceptual continuity as it pertained to his recorded body of work. After completing the laborious and (I believe) most validating 'Masterworks Reimagined,' I felt that I'd adequately demonstrated Frank's assertion that his entire body of work was in fact one gigantic piece of music that could be sliced and diced and then reassembled into a new form that was as coherent and listenable as the original. With '35mm Mothermania,' I simply expanded the musical portion of the film soundtrack to the 'Uncle Meat' movie (not to be confused with the album, 'Uncle Meat'), although I doubt that my entries were ever intended to be a part of the project which never saw the light of day. 'Boss Sounds' on the other hand is my own tribute to Frank and the do-wop music he so loved, placing his cheesy "teenaged love songs" into a replication of a late 50s radio show replete with commercials, traffic reports and dedication lines. The last P/O, 'Bognor Regis: Friday And Saturday Night' utilizes various (and less heard) live recordings from the Mothers Of Invention all pieced together to approximate an actual nights performance -- 2 nights actually, 2 shows complete with introductions, encores and zany Mothermania.

On a final note regarding this series, I offer a tidbit from Frank who loosely quoted once said, "The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting, it's literally. For other arts, it's figuratively, because without this humble appliance, you can't begin to know where the art stops and the real world actually begins." 

Frank Zappa, American Composer (1940-1993)

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#10

'35mm Mothermania'

Step in the hot poop here

1) Opening Theme from Uncle Meat: The Movie

(w/Introductions)

2) "We're coming to the beginning of a new era."

3) Excerpt from 'Revenge of the Knick Knack People' (True Speed)

4) All Night Long

(with, yet without Eric Burdon)

5) "Now that's commercial!"

6) Improvisations at the BBC (Live)

7) Son of Mr. Green Genes (Live)

8) Black Napkins (Live)

(w/The Mike Douglas Show House Band)

9) Whiskey Gone Behind (Live)

10) Mondo Hollywood (Live)

11) It Must Be a Camel (UMRK Remix)/"Now that's underground."

12) Outside Now (Demo)/"What the fuck's wrong with her?"

13) Peaches en Regalia (UMRK Remix)

14) "Hi, I'm Phyllis Altenhaus."

15) Excerpt from 'Charles Ives' (Live)

16) Toads of the Short Forest, Pt.2 (Live)

17) Little Umbrellas (Original Mix)

18) "We're working on a new composition."

19) The Gumbo Variations (UMRK Mix)

20) Zoot Allures

21) "It just makes me sick the way he changes!"

22) Degrees of 'Variant No.#1'

23) Excerpt from 'The Jelly' (Live)

24) King Kong [In All It's Glory and Command] (Live)

Source material for '35mm Mothermania' comes from the following:

Hot Rats (1969)/Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

Zoot Allures (1976)/The Uncle Meat Movie Soundtrack (1988)

YCDTOSA, Vol.5 (1992)/Lumpy Money (2009)

Animalism (The Animals) (1966)

Olympia, 1968/Apocrypha

Boy Wonder Sessions/At The BBC

and others quality boots

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#11

Boss Sounds, Pt.1

Dig the lowdown here

1) Program Transition (a.k.a. 'Secret Greasing')

2) 'Big Daddy's' Radio Intro from 'The Purple Grotto'

3) W.P.L.J.

4) No, No, No (Alternate Version)

5) Big Leg Emma

6) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break with 'Dolphin's of Hollywood' Radio Spot

7) Stuff Up The Cracks

8) Fountain Of Love

9) Directly From My Heart To You

10) I'm Not Satisfied (Pachuco Version)

11) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break with 'R n' R Extravaganza' Promo & WPLJ Dedication Line

12) Electric Aunt Jemima

13) Mr. Green Genes

14) Jelly Roll Gum Drop

15) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break

16) You Didn't Try To Call Me (Greasy Version)

17) You Didn't Try To Call Me (Spiffy Version)

18) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break

19) 'Muriel Cigars' Radio Spot & WPLJ 'Boss Sound' Traffic Report

20) Cheap Thrills

Boss Sounds, Pt.2

Trip on the down low here

21) How Could I Be Such A Fool (Oily 'Demo' Version)

22) Anyway The Wind Blows (Cheesy 'Demo' Version)

23) I'm So Happy I Could Cry

24) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break

25) Motherly Love (Slick Brylcreem 'Demo' Version)

26) Plastic People (Slick Brylcreem 'Demo' Version)

27) Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy

28) Hitch Hike

29) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break

30) 'Bear Whiz Beer' Radio Spot

31) Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (East L.A. 'Demo' Version)

32) Anything

33) Wowie Zowie

34) Deseri

35) Love Of My Life

36) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break with WPLJ 'Boss Sound' Weather Report

37) Later That Night

38) I Ain't Got No Heart (Cholo 'Demo' Version)

39) Oh, No

40) 'Big Daddy's' Mic Break & Radio Sign Off with 'Rock n' Roll Extravaganza' Promo

41) The Air

Despite the fictitious names employed by 'Big Daddy' Miles Mellough on WPLJ,

all songs were actually performed by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

in their last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio.

The exception is 'Big Daddy's' theme song, which was performed by 

Mike Bloomfield and The Electric Flag.

Pedro, the listener who requests a dedication is played by Cheech Marin,

and Chip, the helicopter traffic reporter is played by Todd Rundgren.

Source material for 'Boss Sounds From The Boss Town, Vols.1 & 2' come from the following:

Freak Out! (1966)/Absolutely Free (1967)

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)/Uncle Meat (1969)

Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)/Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

 Joe's Corsage (2004)/Greasy Love Songs (2010)

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#12

Bognor Regis: Friday Night
Rockin' teenage combo here

1) Intro
2) Peaches En Regalia
3) The Orange County Lumber Truck
4)The Return Of The Hunchback Duke
5)Trouble Every Day
6) Uncle Rhebus
7) You Didn't Try To Call Me
8) Petroushka
9) The Bristol Stomp
10) Baby Love
11) (There's A Big Dilemma About My) Big Leg Emma
12) No Matter What You Do
13) Why Don't You Do Me Right
14) Transylvania Boogie
15) A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
16) Shortly: A Little Suite For Electronic Combo (In Several Movements)
17) Passacaglia

Bognor Regis: Saturday Night
Bogus representation here

1) Intro
2) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.1: The Bucolic Opening Sequence
3) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.2: Uncle Meat Conceives His Monster Man
4) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.3: Building The Beast
5) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.4: Electricity
6) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.5: He's Alive! The Monster Man Is Alive!
7) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.6: Frightened Villagers At The Gate
8) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.7: Uncle Meat Realizes The Error of His Ways
9) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.8: Monster Man Escapes Through The Back Door
10) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.9: The Angry Mob Gives Chase
11) The Birth Of Frankenstein, Pt.10: The Exciting Conclusion
12) Sleeping In A Jar
13) Bognor Regis
14) The Big Medley (In Under 3:30)
15) (In Thee Back Room Of) Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe
16) No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve
17) King Kong (Unchained)

18) The Subcutaneous Peril (As Viewed From Another Perspective)

The infamous Mothers of Invention 
Standing from L to R: Bunk Gardner, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black and Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Seated from L to R: Ian Underwood, Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood, FZ and Don Preston

Originally published on:

Birds With Broken Wings

by Miles Mellough

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Thanks Miles

The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part I





Mais Zappa



All Zappa in Valvulado

Frank Zappa - The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part III

Biografia:

Zappa entrou na sua primeira banda, The Ramblers, na Mission Bay High School, em San Diego. Ele era o baterista. Pela mesma época, seus pais compraram um fonógrafo, que o permitiu desenvolver seu interesse na música, e começar a construir a sua coleção de gravações. Singles de R&B foram primeiramente comprados, iniciando uma coleção grande que ele manteve pelo resto da sua vida. Ele estava interessado em sons pelo seu próprio fim, particularmente os sons de baterias e de outros instrumentos de percussão. Pela idade de 12 anos, ele obteve uma caixa de bateria e começou a aprender o básico de percussão orquestral. O profundo interesse de Zappa na música moderna começou quando ele leu um artigo na revista Look que comentava um LP tão obscuro como The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Volume One. O artigo descrevia a composição de percussão de Varèse Ionisation, produzida pela EMS Recordings como "uma esquisita mistura de baterias e outros sons não simpáticos". Zappa decidiu procurar a música de Varèse. Depois de procurar por mais de um ano, ele achou uma cópia (reconhecendo o LP por causa da foto de Varèse parecendo um "cientista louco" na capa). Não tendo dinheiro suficiente com ele, Zappa persuadiu o vendedor a fazer um desconto. Assim começava a sua paixão pela música de Varèse e pela de outros compositores clássicos modernos que durou pela vida toda. Zappa cresceu influenciado por compositores de avant-garde como Varèse, Igor Stravinsky e Anton Webern, grupos de R&B e doo-wop (particularmente grupos pachuco locais) e jazz moderno. O seu próprio pano de fundo étnico heterogêneo e a mistura diversa social e cultural em Los Angeles e arredores foram cruciais na formação de Zappa como um praticante da música underground e das suas futuras atitudes em relação aos movimentos de "mainstream" sociais, políticos e musicais. Ele frequentemente satirizava novidades musicais, como a psicodelia, ópera rock e disco. A televisão também exerceu nele uma forte influência, como demonstrado pelas frases de temas de programas e jingles publicitários encontrados nos seus trabalhos futuros.

Seria interessante dar uma escutada no Sr. Varese para entender melhor a "Rock Chamber Music" do Zappa.

Varese - Arcana Ameriques Ionization

Project/Objects, Nos.#7-9

"Miles Mellough"

If you've been following this series, then by now you probably already know its intention ----Take Zappa's contention that all of his recorded material follows a conceptual continuity, then utilize virtual razor blades to deconstruction his canon to finally reconstruction it all into a project/object that demonstrates his theory.

'Stuffing Up The Cracks' begins with Zappa's synclavier based 'Mothers Of Prevention' as its foundation and then builds upward and outward from there. 'Tricks And Treats' meanwhile employs a few surprises, hence the name. Lastly, 'Masterworks Reimagined' is probably the granddaddy of them all --- a total of 61 tracks condensed into the running time of a standard CD. 'Masterworks...' is Frank's conceptual continuity taken to task right down to the very nuts and bolts, and its built around his prolific N.Y.C. Apostolic and Mayfair studio sessions of the late 60s.

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#7

Stuffing Up The Cracks

Get the fix here

  

1.) Porn Wars, Pt.1

 2.) Mother People

3.) The Uncle Meat Variations

4.) Chunga's Revenge

5.) The Clap

6.) Porn Wars, Pt.2

7.) Lonely Little Girl (Excerpt)

8.) Theme From Dupree's Paradise

9.) I'm Stealing The Towels

10.) This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Fish Sandwich (Prologue)

11.) Tuna Fish Promenade

(Spot the differences)

12.) Underground Psychedelic Acid Rock Freak Out Music

13.) Get A Life

14.) Porn Wars, Pt.3

("A Kayak, On Snow {A Poem}")

15.) Time Is Money

16.) Stuff Up The Cracks (Remixed Version)

17.) It Must Be A Camel

("The first thing that attracted me to The Mothers was...")

18.) Trouble Every Day

19.) Help, I'm A Rock

20.) Porn Wars, Pt. 4

21.) Outside Now, Again

22.) Dramatic 'Po-Jama People' Intro

23.) Soup n' Old Clothes

(Spot the differences)

24.) The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque

25.) America Drinks And Goes Home

Source material for 'Stuffing Up The Cracks' comes from the following:

Freak Out! (1966)/Absolutely Free (1967)

We're Only In It For The Money (1968)

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)

Uncle Meat (1969)/Hot Rats (1969)/Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

Chunga's Revenge (1970)/200 Motels (1971)/One Size Fits All (1976)

Sleep Dirt (1979)/Shut Up n' Play Yer Guitar (1981)

The Perfect Stranger (1984)

Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (1985)

YCDTOSA, Vol. 5 (1992)/Civilization, Phaze III (2006)

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#8

 Tricks And Treats

Re-upped with the missing 'tricks' included this time!

Research the dope here

  1.) "Hoopla! This is Frank Zappa as your bogus temporary disc jockey..." 

2.) We Can Shoot You, Pt.1

3.) Spider Of Destiny

4.) We Are Not Alone

5.) You Didn't Try To Call Me

6.) The Idiot Bastard Son

(Jean-Luc Ponty)

7.) The Dog Breath Variations

8.) Leather Goods (30% Off)

9.) Peaches En Regalia

(The Ed Palermo Big Band)

10.) Outrage At Valdez

11.) Ya Honza (In Small Part) 

 ("I think the first thing that gave me a clue was...")

12.) Watermelon In Easter Hay 

(Colin Towns & The NDR Big Band)

  13.) What Will Rumi Do?

(Ensemble Modern)

14.) Big Swifty

15.) Fountain Of Love (Greasy Version)

("I'm a band leader")

16.) Wedding Dress Song

17.) Handsome Cabin Boy

18.) Oh No

(LeBocal)

19.) The Legend Of The Golden Arches

20.) Medley: Zoot Allures/Big Swifty

(Ensemble Ambrosius)

21.) Strictly Genteel

Source material for 'Tricks And Treats' comes from the following:

Freak Out! (1966)/Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968) 

Uncle Meat (1969)/Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1969)/Waka/Jawaka (1972) 

Sleep Dirt (1979)/London Symphony Orchestra, Vol.2 (1987) 

The Yellow Shark (1993)/Läther (1996)Mystery Disc (1998) 

Son Of Cheep Thrills (1999) 

and incidentals from various other FZ CD's

Plus: Jean-Luc Ponty: King Kong/Ed Palermo: Plays The Music Of FZ

Colin Towns NDR Big Band: FZ's Hot Licks & Funny Smells 

Ensemble Modern: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions 

Le Bocal: Just Another FZ Memorial Barbecue 

Ensemble Ambrosius: The Zappa Album 

and swarmy incidentals from 

The Mystic Moods Orchestra: Stormy Weekend

and other old folk's record albums

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#9

 Masterworks Reimagined

'The Apostolic/Mayfair Sessions'

Unearth the dirt here

1) "The Way I See It, Barry"

2) Theme From 'Lumpy Gravy' (a.k.a. Duodenum)

3) The Idiot Bastard Son (Unused Intro)

4) How Did That Get In Here?, Pt.1: Main Section A

5) Lumpy Gravy: Unit 3A

6) How Did That Get In Here?, Pt.2: Main Section B

7) "Hello Teenage America"

8) It's His Voice On The Radio (a.k.a. Lonely Little Girl): First Section

9) John Cage

10) Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Pt.1

11) Lonely Little Girl (Original Composition), Pt.1

12) Lumpy Gravy: Unit 2

13) "It's My Job"

14) Lonely Little Girl (Original Composition), Pt.2

15) Lumpy Gravy: 'Oh No' Variation

16) Who Needs The Peace Corp?, Pt.2: The Big Finish

17) Nasal Retentive Calliope Music

18) Mother People, Pt.1: Rousing Intro & Body

19) The World's Greatest Sinner (Excerpt)

20) Mother People, Pt.2: Equally Rousing Close

21) Mom & Dad, Pt.1

22) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Unused Excerpt)

23) Mom & Dad, Pt.2

24) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Same Unused Excerpt As #22)

25) Mom & Dad, Pt.3

26) Supplimental V/Blorch Booster Injection

27) Lumpy Gravy: Section

28) (Not So) Absolutely Free (Severely Restricted)

29) How Did That Get In Here?, Pt.3: The Exciting Far-Out Jazz Section

30) Lumpy Gravy: Unit 9

31) N. Double A, A.A.

32) It's His Voice On The Radio (a.k.a. Lonely Little Girl) [Again] 

33) Theme From 'Burnt Weeny Sandwich'

34) "Freak Me Out, Frank! Freak Me Out"

35) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Unused Excerpt) [Previously Used]

36) Flower Punk (UMRK Remix)

37) Hot Poop

38) Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown

39) Aybe Sea

40) The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

41) The Air

42) "I'm Advocating Dark Clothes"

43) Uncle Meat Variations: 'The Munchkin March'

44) Another Hit

45) Uncle Meat Variations: 'The Munster Mash'

46) Random Psychosis

47) Uncle Meat Variations: 'The Chromium Barrio Bash:'

Fuzzy Dice, Bongos & Dramatic Conclusion

48) "Hey Kids! Let's Have A Hootenanny"

49) Foamy Soaky ('King Kong' and 'Oh No' Variation)

50) Sink Trap: Do We Have To Hear This Yet Again? ('Oh No' Variation)

51) Intelligent Design & Dense Slight

52) Project X: First Section

53) Telephone Conversation

54) The Idiot Bastard Son

55) Absolutely Free, Pt.3 & Very Cool Ending

56) The (Compleat) Legend Of The Golden Arches

57) "The First Thing That Attracted Me"

58) Weasels (Partly) Ripped My Flesh

59) It's His Voice On The Radio (a.k.a. Lonely Little Girl):

Big Psychedelic Freak Out Conclusion

60) You Can Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (The Underwear)

61) Cheesy Outro (from the 45rpm single 'Lonely Little Girl')

Source material for 'Masterworks Reimagined' comes from the following:

Lumpy Gravy (1967)/We're Only In It For The Money (1968)

Uncle Meat (1969)/Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)

Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)/Lumpy Money (2009)

plus a few other bits & pieces from various FZ odds & ends both legit & bootlegged

Originally published on:

Birds With Broken Wings

by Miles Mellough

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The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part IV

Mais Zappa

Frank Zappa - The Complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series - Part II

Biografia:
Frank Zappa nasceu em Baltimore, em 21 de dezembro de 1940. Sua mãe, Rose Marie (de nome de solteira Colimore), era de ascendência italiana e francesa, e seu pai, Francis Vincent Zappa, era um nativo de Partinico, Sicília e tinha ancestrais gregos e libaneses. Frank era o mais velho de quatro irmãos, e tinha dois irmãos e uma irmã. A família mudava-se frequentemente de moradia durante a infância de Zappa porque seu pai, um químico e matemático, teve vários empregos na indústria de defesa dos EUA. Depois de um breve tempo na Flórida na metade dos anos 1940, a família retornou a Maryland, onde o pai de Zappa trabalhou nas instalações do arsenal químico de Edgewood, no Aberdeen Proving Ground. Eles mantinham máscaras de gás em casa para o caso de ocorrer algum acidente no arsenal, que estocava gás mostarda e ficava próximo. Isso teve um profundo efeito no jovem Zappa: referências a germes, guerra biológica e outros aspectos da indústria bélica são encontradas em seu trabalho. Durante a infância, Zappa ficava frequentemente doente, sofrendo de asma, dores de ouvido e problemas nos sinos. Um médico tratou o último injetando uma pastilha de rádio em cada narina de Zappa; pouco se sabia naquele tempo sobre potenciais perigos de ser submetido mesmo a pequenas quantidades de radiação terapêutica. Imagens e referências ao nariz aparecem tanto na sua música quanto nas suas letras, assim como nas capas de álbuns com colagens criadas pelo seu colaborador visual de longo tempo, Muitas das doenças de Zappa na infância poderiam ter surgido da exposição ao gás mostarda; além disso, a sua saúde piorava quando ele estava na área de Baltimore. Em 1952, a sua família mudou-se, principalmente por causa da saúde de Frank. A sua habitação seguinte foi Monterey, onde o pai de Zappa lecionou metalurgia na Naval Postgraduate School. Pouco depois, eles foram para Claremont, e então para El Cajon antes de finalmente se mudarem para San Diego...

Project/Objects, Nos.#4-6

"Miles Mellough"

Continuing in my effort to make the complete Frank Zappa Project/Object Series available once again, I pick up with 'Son Of Jazz Noise And Randomonium,' an obvious companion piece to 'Jazz Noise And Randomonium' (which was P/O, No.#3). Both are deconstructions of Frank's jazzier ensembles. Meanwhile, 'Skins, Strings, Electric Things' is just that -- a complex piecing together those Zappa elements that he loved to sprinkle throughout his recordings into a cohesive whole. This one draws from disparate sources in Frank's catalog. Finally, 'The Mothers On Parade' synthesizes material created exclusively by The Mothers Of Invention, nearly everyone's most favorite of the many ensembles that were assembled by Frank over the years.

Keep in mind that these P/O's are not merely individual full length songs all strung together in some sort of neat little playlist. Everything has been edited, rearranged, reconfigured, diced, sliced and run through a blender, then poured into a brand new mold with the objective of creating an alternative view of Zappa's wonderfully provocative and challenging work. 

 Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#4

Son Of Jazz Noise & Randomonium 

 Uncover the details here

 1.) The Black Page (New Age Version)

"Boing!"

2.) St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast, Pt. 1

3.) Zomby Woof (Excerpt)

4.) Cosmik Debris (Excerpt)

5.) Fifty-Fifty (Solos)

6.) St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast, Pt. 2

7.) Father O'Blivion (Excerpt)

8.) Apostrophe (')

(Blink And You'll Miss It)

9.) Uncle Remus

"I may have left them in my other bag"

10.) Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Pt. 3

11.) Village Of The Sun

12.) Echinda's Arf (Of You)

13.) Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Pt. 1

(Minus Miss Ruthie's Solo & An Untold Number Of Additional Bars)

14.) Stolen Moments

15.) Murder By Numbers (w/Mr. Sting)

16.) Penguin In Bondage (Excerpt)

17.) Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Pt. 2

18.) Eat That Question

19.) Black Napkins

(Randomonium Boing!)

20.) Big Swifty, Pts. 2 & 3

21.) Penguin In Bondage Again (Excerpt)

22.) The Untouchables

23.) Bacon Fat

"They're really getting professional now"

24.) Sofa No. 1

25.) Son Of Mr. Green Genes (Truncated)

"We all like order in Germany, you know?"

26.) T'Mershi Duween (Truncated)

27.) Dog Breath Variations

28.) Uncle Meat

Source material for 'Son Of Jazz Noise & Randomonium' comes from the following:

Hot Rats (1969)/Over-nite Sensation (1973)

Apostrophe (1974)/Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)

One Size Fits All (1975)/Make A Jazz Noise Here (1991)

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vols. 2 (1988) & 5 (1992)

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#5

Skins, Strings, Electric Things

Discover the components here

Part 1

(Guitars, Drums, & Synclavier Noises)

1.) Let Me Introduce You To My... 'Filthy Habits'

2.) Sexual Harassment In The Workplace

3.) What's New In Baltimore?

4.) A Different Octave

(An explanation of 'The BIG Note' and 'Negative Light'

to which Gilly replies, "I had a dream about that once!")

5.) Beat The Reaper, Pt.1

6.) Waffenspiel

7.) Sleep Dirt

8.) Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution

9.) Project X, Pt.1

10.) Little Greggery Peccary's Big Intro

11.) The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution (Spot The Differences)

("There are some months when you're not going to work as much")

12.) N-Lite (Lite)

Part 2

(More Guitars, Drums, & Miscellaneous Hullabaloo)

13.) "You! You there with the hard on!"

14.) Zanti Serenade

15.) Well (w/John Lennon & Yoko Ono)

16.) "Where is Johnny Velvet?"

17.) Return Of The Hunchback Duke

(a.k.a. The Little House I Used To Live In)

18.) FZ/JCB Drum Duet

19.) There's No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve

20.) Five-Five-Five

21.) Imaginary Diseases

22.) Stucco Homes, Pts. 1&3

Source material for 'Skins, Strings, Electric Things' comes from the following:

Uncle Meat (1969)/Sleep Dirt (1979)

Shut Up n' Play Yer Guitar (1981)/Guitar (1988)

YCDTOSA, Vol.5 (1992)/Playground Psychotics (1992)

Civilization, Phaze III (1994)/Läther (1996)/Imaginary Diseases (2006)

Frank Zappa Project/Object, No.#6

The Mothers On Parade 

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1.) Bogus Introduction & Dramatic Build

2.) Duke Of Prunes

3.) Amnesia Vivace

4.) The Duke Regains His Chops

5.) Duke Of Prunes: The Exciting Part!

6.) King Kong (In Full Regalia On The BBC)

7.) No No No (Varnished Version)

8.) The Little House I Used To Live In

(Formerly 'The Duke' a.k.a. 'The Return Of The Son Of The Hunchback Duke')

9.) Call Any Vegetable

10.) Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin

11.) Soft Sell Conclusion

(And Ending Of Side #1 On Absolutely Free & #1 In A Series Of Oratorios)

12.) Who Are The Brain Police? (Remixed Version)

13.) The Voice Of Your Conscience

14.) The BIG Medley

(Let's Make The Water Turn Black/Harry, You're A Beast/

The Orange County Lumber Truck No. #1/Oh No/

The Orange County Lumber Truck No. #2)

15.) America Drinks

16.) Status Back Baby, Pt.1

17.) Lemme Take You To The Beach

18.) I'm Not Satisfied (Remixed Rock Version)

(Not The Greasy Do-Wop One)

19.) Cheap Thrills (Clean Varnished Version)

20.) The Little House I Used To Live In, Pt.3

21.) Status Back Baby, Pt.2

22.) Uncle Bernie's Farm/Son Of Suzy Creamcheese

23.) The Return Of The Son Of Suzy Creamcheese

24.) My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (Alternate Version)

25.) Flower Punk

Source material for 'The Mothers On Parade' comes from the following:

Freak Out! (1966)/MOFO (2006)

Absolutely Free (1967)/We're Only In It For The Money (1968)

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)/Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1969)

Studio Tan (1978)/Ahead Of Their Time (1993)

and audio from a YouTube video

Originally published on:

Birds With Broken Wings

by Miles Mellough

 "Birds With Broken Wings"

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