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Posted: March 29 2014 at 22:32

I will order this at my earliest opportunity.

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Posted: March 29 2014 at 12:15

Roxy By Proxy is great!!!!

As I mentioned yesterday, Ruth Underwood wrote extensive liner notes describing intricate detail as to what she and the other band members were doing within the pieces, giving unusually deep insight as to what was going on on stage.

The music itself is amazing. While some titles are the same as the Roxy and Elsewhere album, it appears that, for the most part each is from another show (R&E came from 2 Roxy shows, and "elsewhere"). Pieces pop up here and there that sound like sections spliced in on the heavily produced and overdubbed R&E, but no full tracks are duplicated.

"Inca Roads" is somewhere between the more free-form version released previously (I forget which album it was on) and the studio version on OSFA.

The Uncle Meat and King Kong medleys are astounding, and "Cheepnis" is performed first as a percussion only piece, giving us a nice view of the basics of the songs, before the full version is performed.

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Posted: March 28 2014 at 20:37

At the present, I have 35 Zappa LP'S, my least visited albums are Sheik Yerboutie, the Joe's Garage trilogy, and You Are What You Is, oh, and 200 Motels. Definitely some great music and singing to be found, but not fully to my tastes. I love Tinsel Town Rebellion a lot though, and a few after that. Most eartime is spent with his '67-'77 albums nevertheless.

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Posted: March 28 2014 at 20:14

I got it today!!!!!
I won't have a chance to listen until tomorrow. Ruth's liner notes are fantastic.

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Posted: March 27 2014 at 13:01

jayem wrote:

Meurgley wrote:

jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

Yes, that's the dialogue at the beginning of Regyptian Strut, the first track on Läther.

WOW...It is the one...Feel free to tell how you've found it!

It is rare on the net (a youtube link, now gone?, must have been my first hearing of it), but there's at least a link: Won't psys and great poets as talented as Morrisson bow down to it...

http://www.deezer.com/track/62655875

I believe that the Zappa family spends a lot of time looking for videos uploaded to Youtube without their consent, and has them removed. So something you see there today may not be there tomorrow.

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Posted: March 27 2014 at 12:46

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jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Yes, that's the dialogue at the beginning of Regyptian Strut, the first track on Läther.

WOW...It is the one...Feel free to tell how you've found it!

It is rare on the net (a youtube link, now gone?, must have been my first hearing of it), but there's at least a link: won't psys and great poets as talented as Morrisson bow down to it...

http://www.deezer.com/track/62655875

Edited by jayem - March 27 2014 at 13:25

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 06:49

Just listened to Freak Out again - thats a nasty piece of propaganda isnt it? LOL

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 06:35

jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

Yes, that's the dialogue at the beginning of Regyptian Strut, the first track on Läther.

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 18:30

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!!!! I finally got a notice that my RBP shipped !!!!

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 18:05

To whom?

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 17:47

!!!! I finally got a notice that my RBP shipped !!!!

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 16:20

uduwudu wrote:

jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

Closest to that I can think of is The End by The Doors "Father?" "Yes son?" "I want to kill you".

Btw, this is inspired but incorrectly interpreted from the original poem Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This version is quite dramatic but has an element of psychotic premeditation absent from the source.

True, that's always bothered me about the so-called Oedipus Complex -- in the original work, the guy kills his father and marries his mother unknowingly, and then feels like crap when he finds out. Common usage of the term has been applied to knowingly falling in love with your mother. Understandable, but misleading.

Edited by HolyMoly - March 25 2014 at 16:21

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 15:46

jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 09:36

HolyMoly wrote:

A Butthole Surfers song comes to mind (Sweet Loaf), but you're probably not referring to that.

Actually it's a good sound alike !! But my emmental brain only suggests this structure : the father only tells he listens, then the son goes on and his voice becomes weird.

After hours searching yesterday, now I doubt if it ever has existed in Zappa's recordings, or any others at all.

Thanks for Sweet Loaf !

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 09:11

rushfan4 wrote:

Zit bacteria named after Frank Zappa.

Fantastic news, thanks for sharing Scott Thumbs Up

Somehow this piece of information slipped under the news radar in Denmark.

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 09:06

A Butthole Surfers song comes to mind (Sweet Loaf), but you're probably not referring to that.

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 09:03

jayem wrote:

My own list of favs is currently being sketched... Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

Nope.

Edited by Evolver - March 25 2014 at 09:03

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 08:19

My own list of favs is currently being sketched...

Right now I'm looking for the beginning of a track where we hear a dialog like "Father ? Yes son tell me I listen" and a strange yet funny following. Does it remind anyone of a Zappa piece ?

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