Hey there
Has any one of you literate folks read this?
Covers some of my favorite period and this could be very interesting if it's well done:
https://www.amazon.com/DISCORPORATE-...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Hey there
Has any one of you literate folks read this?
Covers some of my favorite period and this could be very interesting if it's well done:
https://www.amazon.com/DISCORPORATE-...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Last edited by Steve F.; 12-05-2017 at 01:56 PM.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
I've read a few of his other Zappa books and they are all good.
Interesting! First time I've heard about it too.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DISCORPORAT...udio+1966-1967
Not sure if this helps or not, but there are three positive reviews (albeit quite short) at Amazon UK.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
There are very few good books on FZ. I haven't read this one.
For the more fact-oriented persons, Greg Russo's book is exemplary. Upcoming books by Charles Ulrich and Mick Ekers look promising.
The Ben Watson tome has many brilliant and humorous (in his own peculiar way) segments.
There is some academic work of value, primarily : Brett Clement's dissertation (A study of the instrumental music of Frank Zappa), and William Morris Price (An analysis of the evolution of Frank Zappa's Be-bop Tango).
Interesting anecdotal reading : Pauline Butcher and FZ's books.
The rest : mostly found it all on the web, made a "book" out of it landfill.
I've read Pauline's book and thought it was GREAT. I have read FZ's book as well.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Apart from the Zappa/ Ochiogrosso book which I liked a lot I read a three volume book about Zappa by French author Christophe Delbrouck. It's about 1500 pages , chronological and very detailled, a bit academic but an excellent read for Zappa fans.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
To Zappa as a rude prankster, it is. But to Zappa as a Great American Musical Eccentric, it's perfectly fitting. There really wasn't anybody else who bridged musical cultures as much as he did - from blues-rock and dirty jokes for 13-year-olds, to completely serious classical compositions for orchestra, to everything in-between, up to and including both at the same time. And as such, it's also quite illuminating that the work is in French: FZ shines a light on American culture in a way that French intellectuals seem to find absolutely fascinating, in the same way and for the same reason they find Jerry Lewis fascinating.
There are some excellent French authors who write about "popular" music among them Christoph Delbrouck , Eric Deshayes and Aymeric Leroy and editors willing to publish them like' Le Mot Le Reste' ( most of Aymeric ' s books have been published there )and a very good book about French Underground and 'Le Castor Astral' where theZappa books by Delbrouck have been published as well as the French edition of the Robert Wyatt bio.
There has also been an interesting weekend at the new Paris Philharmonie dedicated to theVelvet Underground with John Cale among others. I saw the last concerts with V U covers in a full philharmonic with people in cocktail dresses dancing to Waiting For My Man ...
Last edited by alucard; 12-09-2017 at 12:09 PM.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Also of value :
Billy James : Necessity is. The early years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
Andrew Greenaway : Zappa the hard way [history of the 1988 tour]
Fred Frith's article about Zappa's guitar playing (NME, 11/1974)
I own the following books on/by Zappa and thoroughly recommend all of them:
The Real Book
Necessity is: the early years of the Mothers of Invention
The Hard Way
My life with Frank Zappa
Coming soon, the Zappa reference book of the century
http://www.newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554201462
I love how thoughtful and reserved this reviewer is - truly in Frank's wheelhouse. . . "Xenochronically??"
"Charles Ulrich's The Big Note is your Amazingly Breathtakingly Complete, Definitively Encyclopedic, Frankly Gargantuan, Highly Interesting And Informative, Jaw–Droppingly Knowledgeable, Lovingly Monumentally Notoriously Obsessive, Precisely Quote–filled, Quintessentially Researched, Stupendously Terrifically Useful, Voluminously Weighty, Xenochronically Yeomanly Zappa–centric Guide to Conceptual Continuity. Destined to be the essential Zappa listening companion for the 21st century.
–– David Ocker, Zappa copyist and musician, '77 –– '84
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Charles's book won't be the place to go for amusing anecdotes and road stories, but it will be THEE Encyclopedia Zappatica with every little detail you could possibly wish to know about every song in the Zappa canon. Can't wait to peruse the finished product.
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