#Tinseltown Rebellion

[pazzesco]

FZ | Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

FZ | Nanook Rubs It

FZ | Stink-Foot

FZ | Cosmik Debris

FZ | Camarillo Brillo

FZ | Dumb All Over

FZ | Inca Roads

FZ | Willie the Pimp

FZ | Dinah-Moe Humm

FZ | The Torture Never Stops

FZ | Penguin in Bondage

FZ | Po-Jama People

FZ | Duck Duck Goose

FZ | Baby Snakes

FZ | We’re Turning Again

FZ | It Just Might Be A One Shot Deal

FZ | Catholic Girls

FZ | Jewish Princess

FZ | Yo’ Mama

FZ | Harder than your husband

FZ | A Token of my Extreme

FZ | Bamboozled By Love

FZ | Tinseltown Rebellion

FZ | What’s New In Baltimore?

FZ | You Are What You Is

FZ | I’m The Slime

FZ | Uncle Remus

FZ | Muffin Man

FZ & MOI | Stuff Up the Cracks

FZ & MOI | Cheap Thrills

FZ & MOI | Jelly Roll Gum Drop

FZ & MOI | Tengo Na Minchia Tanta

FZ & MOI | Who Are The Brain Police?

FZ & MOI | The Air

FZ & MOI | Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague

FZ & MOI | Hungry Freaks, Daddy

FZ & MOI | Directly From My Heart to You

FZ & MOI | Get A Little (Live)

FZ & MOI | My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

FZ & MOI | The Orange County Lumber Truck

FZ & MOI | Who Needs the Peace Corps?

FZ & MOI | The Idiot Bastard Son

FZ & MOI | Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder

FZ & MOI | You Didn’t Try To Call Me

FZ & MOI | Trouble Every Day

FZ & MOI | Dog Breath

FZ & MOI | Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

FZ & MOI | What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?

FZ | Sexual Harassment In The Workplace

FZ | Zoot Allures

FZ | Peaches En Regalia

FZ | The Gumbo Variations

FZ | Son of Mr. Green Genes

FZ | Sleep Dirt

FZ | Apostrophe’

FZ | Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich

FZ | Black Napkins

FZ | Pink Napkins

FZ | Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

FZ | Down In De Dew

FZ | Chunga’s Revenge

FZ | Transylvania Boogie

FZ | Take your Clothes Off when you Dance (Jazz)

FZ | We are not alone

FZ | Strictly Genteel

FZ | Duke Of Orchestral Prunes

FZ | Tink Walks Amok

FZ | Filthy Habits

FZ | Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus

FZ | Eat That Question

FZ | Blessed Relief

FZ | Trudgin’ Across the Tundra

FZ | Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra

FZ | G-Spot Tornado

FZ | Sofa #2

FZ | RDNZL

FZ | Watermelon In Easter Hay

FZ | The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath

FZ | The Poodle Lecture

FZ | Dirty Love

FZ | Cheepnis

FZ | The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit

FZ | Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy

FZ | Once Upon A Time

FZ | Sofa #1

FZ | Camarillo Brillo (Live)

FZ | Titties And Beer

FZ | Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt

FZ | On The Bus

FZ | Crew Slut

FZ | Texas Motel Suite

FZ | Cosmic Debris (Live)

FZ | Zomby Woof

FZ | Son of Orange County

FZ | Bolero

FZ | Stairway To Heaven

FZ | Speed Freak Boogie

FZ | Baked Bean Boogie

FZ | Uncle Remus (Live)

FZ | Watermelon In Easter Hay (Live)

#jukebox #music #zappa #frank zappa #mothers #the mothers #mothers of invention #moi #m.o.i. #composer #singersongwriter #musician #bandleader

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #230 - Steve Vai, The Ultra Zone, 1999

Il sogno di ogni fan è di avere un contatto con il proprio idolo. Questo pensò un giovanissimo ragazzo di Long Island verso la fine degli anni ’70. Steven Siro Vai, figlio di immigrati del pavese, provetto e spericolato chitarrista, manda una registrazione amatoriale e la trascrizione di alcune complesse partiture per chitarra a Frank Zappa, suo mito: tra queste, trascritta nel 1978, quando aveva solo 18 anni, quella leggendaria di The Black Page ("la pagina nera" dovuta al fatto che la partitura presenta una incredibile concentrazione di segni musicali). Il genio di Baltimora, incuriosito ed impressionato da quel tipino, prima lo chiama a sé come trascrittore ufficiale, poi invece lo ingaggia nella sua band, a cui affida le leggendarie e super complicate parti di “Impossible guitar” o le famose “Strat Abuses” nei suoi dischi da Tinseltown Rebellion (1981) a Jazz From Hell (1986). In Them Or Us (1984) Zappa addirittura dedica un intero e iper sofisticato brano a Steve, l’iconica Stevie’s Spanking che inizia così: His name is Stevie Vai\And he's a crazy guy\Last November, I recall\ He needed a spanking.  Steve Vai è già una leggenda tra i chitarristi quindi quando nel 1984 pubblica Flex-Able, suo primo disco solista, pieno di acrobazie chitarristiche che infiammano gli appassionati: nel frattempo, dopo che una chitarra custom che gli piaceva si ruppe mentre suonava ad un concerto, siglò un contratto di collaborazione con la Ibanez, famosa casa di produzione di chitarre giapponese, che lo elegge a uomo immagine, e Vai disegnerà una propria linea di strumenti, la Jem 777, famosissima negli anni ’80 tra le migliori Super Strat anche per via della Monkey Grip, una maniglia intagliata sul corpo della chitarra, che permetteva legati più facili da eseguire e di non prendere la chitarra per il manico, che era molto sottile, con il rischio di romperlo. La carriera solista inizia a riempire di premi il giovane Vai, che vince numerose votazioni come chitarrista migliore del mondo sulle riviste specializzate. Ha il tempo per suonare con gli Alcatraz, fare due ottimi dischi di heavy metal con David Lee Roth che ebbero grande successo (soprattutto Skyscraper) e solo nel 1990 ritorna con l’album Passion And Warfare, dove la sua arte chitarristica inizia a prendere una forma più definita, tra virtuosismi, fusion e fraseggi di genio metal inarrivabili. Nel 1993 nuova band con cantante il canadese Devin Townsend: Sex & Religion ha belle canzoni in Deep Down Unto The Pain, Dirty Black Hole e la title track, che ebbe anche un certo airplay radiofonico, ma spesso la voce di Townsend è troppo sguaiata e mal si accorda con la metamorfosi spirituale che Vai intraprende in quel periodo. Pubblica pochissimo, si ritira in una sorta di rinascita religioso-filosofica, poi torna in grandissimo stile con una formazione a tre con Joe Satriani (che fu uno dei suoi primi maestri) e Eric Johnson, i G3. I tre virtuosi della chitarra elettrica fanno faville, per la gioia dei fan, e per tutto il 1997 e il 1998 è un susseguirsi di concerti. Parte di quelle esibizioni sono racchiuse in un pirotecnico e incredibile live, G3: Live in Concert, immancabile nella collezione di dischi per tutti i fan della chitarra elettrica. Nel 1999, il ritorno in grande stile per uno degli album chitarristici più belli di sempre: The Ultra Zone esce nel settembre del 1999 ed è un portento. Nelle parole dello stesso Vai, “L’Ultra Zone è quell’aria indescrivibile che si può raggiungere solo zittendo la mente e lasciando parlare l’anima, la musica può arrivare di aiutarti”. In scaletta ben 13 pezzi, metà strumentali e metà cantati da Vai, tranne Asian Sky dove canta Koshi Inaba, voce del gruppo giapponese B’z, il cui chitarrista leader,  Tak Matsumoto, suona anch’egli in questo brano. Gli strumentali sono superbi: The Blood & Tears campiona preghiere orientali, Voodoo Acid, con vocine in pieno stile zappiano e accreditate in pieno stile del Maestro come “spoken part” è lunatico e fantasioso, Oooo e la stupenda Windows To The Soul sono toccanti prove di tecnica chitarristica. Ma le due gemme sono due sentiti omaggi a due giganti dello strumento, ed amici di Vai, scomparsi da poco: Jibboom per il texano Stevie Ray Vaughan, ritmata e intrigante, e la solenne e splendida Frank, dedicata al grande Zappa. La sua carriera continuerà con ritmi meno severi, tra esibizioni live con la nuova G3, con Yingwie Malmsteen al posto di Johnson per incredibili scenari di assoli alla chitarra, e un riordino ricercato e intelligente dell’immenso archivio, e su questo punto bellissimo è The Elusive Light And Sound Vol.I, che raccoglie le idee e le registrazioni fatte per film, opere teatrali e televisione. Un gigante delle 6 corde e uno dei chitarristi più geniali e preparati di tutti i tempi. Zappa non sbagliò a dargli una possibilità.

#steve vai #the ultra zone #1999 #recensione

[spreadtunes22]

Freak out, absolutely free, we're only in it for the money, lumpy gravy, cruising with Ruben and the Jets, mother Mania, Uncle Meat, hot rats, burnt weeny sandwich, weasels Ripped My Flesh, chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East June 1971, 200 motels soundtrack, just another band from LA, Waka Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe, Roxy and Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Zappa In New, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Sheik Yerbouti, Orchestral Favorites, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Ships Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch, The Man From Utopia, Baby Snakes Soundtrack, The Perfect Stranger, Them Or Us, ThingFish, Francesco Zappa, The Old Masters Box, Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong In Music, the Old Masters box II, Jazz From Hell, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II, Guitar, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol I and II, Broadway The Hard Way, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol III, The Best Band You've Never Heard In Your Life, Make A Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore IV, V, and VI, Playground Psychotics, Ahead Of Their Time, The Yellow Shark, Civilization Phase III, The Lost Episodes, Lather, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone, Mystery Disc, EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely), FZ:OZ, Halloween, Joe's Corsage, Quaudiophiliac, Joe's Domage, Joe's Xmasage, Imaginary Diseases, Trance Fusion, Buffalo, The Dub Room Special, Wazoo, One Shot Deal, Joe's Menage, Lumpy Money Project/Object, Philly '76, Greasy Love Songs, Congress Shall Make No Law, Hammersmith Odeon, Feeding the monkies at Ma Maison, Carnegie Hall, Understanding America, Road Tapes, Venue #1 , Finer Moments, AAAFNRAA Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack, Road Tapes, Venue #2, A Token Of His Extreme, Joe's Camouflage, Roxy By Proxy

#jazz #contemporary classical #orchestral #rock music #blues rock #blues music #comedy rock #disco music #funk music #improvisational #virtuosity #doo wop #experimental music #space rock #livemusic #60s pop #baroque #avante garde #reggae #rebellion #honesty #imaginative #60s music #70s music #80s music #synthesizer #computer music #californiamusic #composer #hard rock

[somethingvinyl]

Tinseltown Rebellion, Zappa’s first album of the ‘80s after a year spent on the road in 1980, is alright but ultimately forgettable. It’s a largely live album—the line between live albums and studio albums has been blurry in Zappa’s world for a long while, and this does have overdubs and some studio material, but it’s presented as a concert album with applause and between-song banter prominent.

Lyrically, this album has little to recommend it—it continues the downward spiral. Side 1 is misogyny top to bottom, The Blue Light is just irritating, the title track is a takedown of punk/new wave that lacks the punch and insight of his hippie takedown of the ‘60s. The album is encumbered by long spoken bits encouraging women in the audience to throw their underwear on the stage to make a quilt (eyeroll inducing) and running a dance contest (why does he put so many of these on his albums? He knows we can’t see it right? They’re always so boring). But musically, it’s damn good. The band (amorphous because the songs were recorded over the course of a couple tours) sometimes includes FOUR guitarists (Ike Willis and Ray White on rhythm, Zappa himself and baby shredder Steve Vai on lead) and almost everyone sings—Zappa, Willis, and White all do lead vocals. It’s a band specially designed for bombast. The sound is massive and intensely arranged. It’s also something of a final form… Zappa’s previous bands were heavily influenced by the other personalities in them, but from this album on his rock bands all sound basically identical even as he constantly swaps out members. In live album fashion, the best cuts on this album are the old material. This is technically the debut of For the Young Sophisticate—an earlier version appeared on Läther, which was unreleased until after his death, and this version is better. There’s great renditions of much earlier material, from first Mothers to Flo & Eddie. The album ends with a good rendition of Brown Shoes Don’t Make It and Peaches III, a blistering rearrangement of Peaches en Regalia from Hot Rats that rivals the original.

This is a minor Zappa album, the little brother of You Are What You Is. A rewarding album for diehard fans, but quite nonessential. It’s also the first on his new Barking Pumpkin label—Phonogram, who distributed Zappa Records, refused to release the I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted single (damn, shoulda photographed that one), so Zappa started a new label about it. Modern vinyl reissues feature the Zappa label on the A side and Barking Pumpkin on the B.

#frank zappa #vinyl

[t5ltherapy]

#BlackPanther #ChewingGum #MichaelaCoel

[elvisomar]

Frank Zappa  |  Peaches III  |  Tinseltown Rebellion (1981)

“Let’s hear it for another great Italian...”

#frank zappa #peaches iii #tinseltown rebellion #peaches in regalia #music

[myearspleasure]

SAMEDI 27 JUILLET 2019

FRANK ZAPPA - A TOKEN OF HIS EXTREME

FRANK ZAPPA - TINSELTOWN REBELLION

FRANK ZAPPA - ZOOT ALLURES

THE MARS VOLTA - NOCTOURNIQUET

THE RACONTEURS - HELP US STRANGER

#music #record collection #vinylrecords #frank zappa #the mars volta #the raconteurs

[pollenlikesnow]

to do:

lumpy gravy (1968)_

hot rats (1969)_

chunga's revenge (1970)_

200 motels (1971)

waka / jawaka (1972)_

apostrophe (1974)_

zoot allures (1976)_

zappa in new york (1978)_ LIVE

studio tan (1978)_

sleep dirt (1979)_

sheik yerbouti (1979)_

orchestral favorites (1979) LIVE

joe's garage (1979)_

shut n play yer guitar (1981)_

shut n play yer guitar some more (1981)_

the return of the son of shut up n play yer guitar (1981)_

tinseltown rebellion (1981) LIVE

you are what you is (1981)_

ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch (1982)_

the man from utopia (1983)

baby snakes (1983) LIVE

zappa vol i (1983)

the perfect stranger (1984)_

them or us (1984)_

thing-fish (1984)

francesco zappa (1984)

frank zappa meets the mothers of prevention (1985)_

does humor belong in music? (1986) LIVE

jazz from hell (1986)_

zappa vol ii (1987)

guitar (1988)_ LIVE

ycdtosa vol 1 (1988) LIVE

broadway the hard way (1988) LIVE

ycdtosa vol 2 (1988)_ LIVE

ycdtosa vol 3 (1989) LIVE

the best band you never heard of before (1991)_ LIVE

make a jazz noise here (1991)_ LIVE

ycdtosa vol 4 (1991) LIVE

ycdtosa vol 5 (1992) LIVE

ycdtosa vol 6 (1992) LIVE

the yellow shark (1993)_ LIVE

civilization phaze iii (1994)_

frank zappa plays the music of frank zappa (1996) LIVE

FZ:OZ (2002) LIVE

imaginary diseases (2006)_ LIVE

buffalo (2007) LIVE

wazoo (2007)_ LIVE

the hot rats sessions (2019)_

this is gonna be my entire next week or so

[tedkaymusic]

Tinseltown Rebellion and Yellow Purple special and The Introverted Genius and Rec89

#art #artworkrockart #tedsart

[oreste-la-peste33]

Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa (1981)

[spreadtunes22]

Zoot Allures

Studio Tan

Zappa In New York

Sleep Dirt

Sheik Yerbouti

Joe's Garage

https://open.spotify.com/album/6uJkCskko3O83SRYWQVsjS?si=ZL01toLiTkC8Tvh8Y7D_aQ

Orchestral Favorites

Tinseltown Rebellion

You Are What You Is

Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar

#frank zappa #comedy rock #disco music #rock opera #theatrical #80s music #70s music #70s rock #live music #comedy music #Spotify

[somethingvinyl]

Vinyl Club today was somewhat disrupted by a fire alarm before it started. We evacuated, the fire department arrived, I lamented having left the record case in my classroom. But all was well and we were able to start only a few minutes late. The rumor is a Hot Pocket put onto a Bunsen burner in a Chemistry room down my hallway—and we certainly smelled Hot Pocket.

Arrival Music: Tony Trischka, Bluegrass Light (interrupted much earlier than usual by fire alarm)

The Playlist:

Men at Work, Overkill

Courtney Barnett, Need a Little Time*

Of Montreal, Labyrinthian Pop

Iron Maiden, Running Free

Mother Mother, O My Heart*

The Beatles, Yellow Submarine#

Stevie Wonder, It Ain’t No Use

Cover to Cover (kind of): three versions of Peaches and Regalia by Frank Zappa

Neko Case, Oracle of the Maritimes

* Student picks

# Pick by my insistent 3-year-old (“Hope you like that song, because we’ll be listening to it every week.”)

In our kinda Cover to Cover, I played the evolution of Peaches en Regalia in its three appearances on Frank Zappa albums. Students loved the funky, surprising nature of the Hot Rats 1969 original, liked the vocals but were overall underwhelmed by the Flo & Eddie 1971 version, and were quite enamored with the 1980 Tinseltown Rebellion version. They liked how it reminded them of old video games, and thought it really took them on a journey.

#hot pocket on a bunsen burner eh #i dont put much stock in student rumors #but i kinda hope that one is true #vinyl appreciation club #vinyl #vinyl collection #tony trischka #men at work #courtney barnett #of montreal #iron maiden #mother mother #the beatles #stevie wonder #frank zappa #neko case

[thrak576isback]

Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion #frankzappa #lp #vinyl #nowlistening #nowspinning #vinylcollection #33rpm #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #recordcollection https://www.instagram.com/p/CBY2x63ptwF/?igshid=1breplarudvnk

#frankzappa #lp #vinyl #nowlistening #nowspinning #vinylcollection #33rpm #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #recordcollection