King Kong vamp, Danny Boy*, It Ain't Necessarily So* / Summertime*, Royal March from Aida, Lohengrin, Carmen, 1812 Overture / There Goes My Baby, Peaches En Regalia, Dickie's Such An Asshole (q: It Ain't Necessarily So), When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain (q: It Ain't Necessarily So), Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (q: It Ain't Necessarily So), Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], Bacon Fat, Stolen Moments, Porn War Jam, What's New In Baltimore?, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Trouble Every Day (q: Big Swifty), Penguin In Bondage (q: Bacon Fat), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Stairway To Heaven, Strictly Genteel. With Fabio Treves on harmonica (*). Whipping Post, often used as the encore for shows on tours from 1981 through 1984, comes from Providence Civic Center on March 16, and Stairway to Heaven comes from the March 23 show at Towson Center in Towson MD. With all of the time and money spent to prepare and promote the tour, not to mention the potential within the talented band and crew, now in 2021, its an even more historic loss considering FZ was to never tour again.. Saying 'It was 'not sufficient that he hated him, he turned everyone else against him' (para). Love of My Life 05. And then I'd look out into the audience and I'd look up at the lights, and I would just suddenly reflect on the fact that this was really happening. 12" Bildscheibe. Alright I got one last [secret word] . All the equipment was borrowed from Frank. parts of Lonesome Cowboy Nando, YCDTOSA6; incl. II 19. 1 16. While right in the middle of this song, you know, and I think that is inexcusable and so I stopped the show and told him to apologize, and "Don't ever do it again.". had been dreaming of. Dickies Such an Asshole 10. Did you start shaking? Frank said fuck that and sacked everybody. He resented the "ganging-up" taking place without anyone confronting him personally before calling a big old band meeting and bringing Frank into it. "Ok, he said, get her a DIET Coke, and make it snappy". Cookie Notice Then, at the end of the tour, this war broke out between the bass player and the drummer. Right after that, though, Frank decided he wanted to take some time off, so the band was sort of on hold. It's actually fairly pathetic but I managed to get through it and, hopefully, do a good job. I mean I didn't have any problem with anybody. West. "He says, 'Anyone who has a coat like that must know something,' and he hired me," laughs Harry Andronis, house mixer for Frank Zappa since the 1988 Broadway the Hard Way tour. The first 20 min are Aud, the rest is SBD. EM: Yes. Jazz From Hell (Track). It's the only other place to go after that. The 12-member band played 37 shows from February 2 to March 25 of 1988 on the first leg of the U.S. tour. .' Another 40 or so have followed posthumously and theres no end in sight. M: But the thing was that we didn't actually ask if we could play with him. ", "All the way up to L.A., I had my brother drive while I practiced songs like "Sinister Footwear 2" and "What's New in Baltimore?" Sheik Yerbouti Tango riff; q: Girl From Ipanema), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, What's New In Baltimore?, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Inca Roads, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Happy Birthday To You, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, King Kong (q: I Love Lucy, Yankee Doodie, Entry Of The Gladiators, Girl From Ipanema), Stairway To Heaven (q: Yankee Doodle Boy), I Am The Walrus, Sofa, Cruising For Burgers, Crew Slut (q: T'Mershi Duween), Strictly Genteel (q: Batman), Stinkfoot, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Why Don't You Like Me? But as I saw it, all he cared about was the band knowing their stuff, and he wasn't trying to make friends in the process, which I respected, and we became good friends during this phase. It includes latter-period compositions as well as very early ones like I Aint Got No Heart, which first appeared onFreak Out!, the artists 1966 debut LP. wanted to play with him because of the way he acted. MG: Mats, how did you manage to play with Zappa's band? We don't do that. Dot". This tour is one of the most memorable, musically and otherwise. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by RobGordon35, Mar 19, 2014. FZ: Oh, did you ever see that Cheech and Chong movie where they play these two Arab brothers? He took it very seriously and he was very 'pfff' (he imitates the noise of a whip) and anybody else didn't want to hear it so simple. So we would use it during the improvisations or during 'Norwegian Wood'. There is the magic story of the death of the best band you never heard in your life. However, it was not to be. Sure enough I belted out 4 amazing burps, and a couple tiny useless ones and he took them into the sampler (key board looking thing?) I know the 'nephew' burps from 1981 quite well as I was there for the recording; what I heard on the CD are not his. Finding Higgs' Boson, TRF], Peaches En Regalia [TFZAMBB], Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Sharleena, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Whipping Post, Stinkfoot, What's New In Baltimore?, Heavy Duty Judy, Find Her Finer [TBBYNHIYL], Big Swifty (incl. What made you decide to tour at this point in time? . I was just getting started on this gig and I was like the new kid on the block basically, or one of the new kids on the block. I thought for sure I was about to get my face ripped off and expelled from the Zappa sphere. And that's what I'm doing with my music. There's actually a great book on the '88 tour if you're interested called, I didn't say Zappa had a vendetta against him, only that it seems that by the end he was exasperated by the Scott situation and pulled the plug. Learn how your comment data is processed. After several displays of a complete lack of maturity on the part of the accusing musicians (culminating in someone scraping Scotts name off of a cake that was presented to the band by a promoter in Germany), Frank asked the offending players if they couldnt try to get along until the end of the summer leg of the tour. 1984: 20th Anniversary World tour; 1988: The last tour; Orchestral concerts; Pre-tour Rehearsals (1977-1987) Unreleased, radio, and weird stuff; 1984: 1984 North . Bruce did the "Ooouuueeeouuugggg", not to be confused with Walt's "Aaaahhhhhhhh" or "Bep-Bep-Bep". . Scott was put in a difficult position because he was given the job of running the band; it's really difficult. [] And that's what I let him know. One Man, One Vote 14. RM: That was for the monitor mixer, Marqueson. When Frank was off in the early part of the day doing interviews or whatever, it would be [bassist Scott] Thunes' job to rehearse the band. FZ: Well, sure, because there was a female security guard who was hired to be part of the staff at the place and Bob Rice who was basically hired as a roadie decided to use this enema that was dangling on stage as a prop. I made it clear, I wasn't "only in it for the money". I know that's what I said, tooMann did. If there was a hum or a buzz, there was no way to tell why. Chances are good youll enjoy this album. Whatever Happened to Stephen Talbot, Leave It to Beavers Gilbert? Dot's Blog, May 27, 2006, "Frank Zappa," Recording Academy Grammy Awards, Matt Galaher, "Just Another Band From Ume: Zappsteetoot,", Mike Keneally, "Really, Keneally?,"keneally.com. "In 1987, when I was living in San Diego, I heard that Frank was rehearsing a new band to do another tour, something he hadn't done since 1984. Wins: parts of Oh No, MAJNH], Texas Motel Medley (q: T'Mershi Duween), The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL, incl. After 88, I felt that we knew each other and the truth beneath all of the difficulty, and so I let it go at thatand to fate regarding circumstance that may bring us together again. Like all concerts on this 1988 tour, the Long Island one begins with Zappa telling his audience that they can register to vote right there at the show and imploring them to do so during intermission. Your e-mail address will not be published. [parts on BTHW], Bacon Fat, Stolen Moments, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Heavy Duty Judy, Zomby Woof, Chana In De Bushwop**, I Am The Walrus, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (q: Isn't It Romantic, Rhapsody In Blue), Jezebel Boy [BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Big Swifty (q: Laura), Advance Romance (q: Big Swifty, Isn't Romantic, Girl From Ipanema), The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post*, Strictly Genteel. In physical form the last time we spoke was June of 1988 in Italy. Frank affectionately crowned me "Dr. I said "I need another Diet Coke though". TOP | MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | NOTES & COMMENTS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY, 1988Chronology Sources, Notes & Comments, John Swenson, "Frank ZappaA Misunderstood Man,", Joe Morgenstern, "Frank Zappa's Getting Out The Vote (! The only times that I would really just vibe on it and just completely get off on it beyond my wildest dreams was when we were on stage and Frank was taking a long solo that didn't require me to back him up and I would just be sitting there watching him play. At first, I was enjoying playing the guitar again. Frank Zappa hadnt toured since 1984, when his seven-man band played 109 shows, 36 in the U.S., 32 in Europe, and another 41 back in the States, all from July through December. The band was not amused, this was a sound check that was already around the 2 hour mark, for some reason they kept going over Bolero repeatedly, but then again Frank was a perfectionist. I guess his strange humor sort of struck me because I was a strange kid. Bob went up there, took this thing and he was trying to impress this girl security guard. []. the band. We told Frank that we played 'T'Mershi Duween', which was not released at that time, just on bootleg, and then he got really interested and he just said they were going to play 'Big Swifty' where everything could happen, and that they were going to have some audience participation, and that he thought it was a good idea to send us up on stage during the jam. But once I was thrust into that position and there was so much work that had to be done, that had to take precedence. But when the concert started, I felt this was cool and it was gonna go well. I just still had a lot of that energy . That was the last time I worked for Frank. 1 + 5 von 1984 Nena Tote Hosen in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! to be used, you know? Mystery Song #4, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes riff, Zoot Allures), FZ tries out tonight's loops (incl. . Unfortunately, the tour proved to be a turbulent experience for FZ due to conflicts among the band members, and this ultimately cut short the existence of this lineup. He checked out of this life earlya victim of cancer at age 52but before he did, he released some five dozen albums. For fans, of course, there is also an additional emotional dimension to the tour. . there were some problems with the bassplayer, people not getting along with the bassplayer. And with Steve Allen, he served as co-host of a benefit at the nightclub 4D for the Fundamentalists Anonymous Legal Task Force, an organization devoted to assisting disenchanted members of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL Club to get back their money. Since that band was so great, but the problems were only Zappa could shift between serious and silly as easily as he could segue from one musical genre to another. Gorgo, TRF], Big Swifty* (incl. Guest appearances by Mats berg on Keyboards (*), Morgan gren on drums (*), and Dweezil Zappa on guitar (**). The seeds of dissolution were sown during pre-tour rehearsals in L.A. I exhaled so strongly I almost fainted. Frank Zappa with Scott Thunes why didn't Frank fire him and continue with My uncle produced the 1973 Stockholm TV special that Zappa did, so he knew this guy. I got to the audition and Frank told me to play, "Cheapness." [parts on BTHW], Texas Motel Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Stolen Moments [parts on BTHW], Murder By Numbers* [BTHW], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Catholic Girls [parts on YCDTOSA6], Crew Slut [parts on YCDTOSA6], Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, What's New In Baltimore?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, Inca Roads, Zoot Allures, Texas Motel Medley, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? We were lead to his dressing-room and we started talking. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl album through Zappa's label Barking Pumpkin Records in October 1988, and subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989. 01. Sharleena 7. Who Needs the Peace Corps? By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. you know you wait that long to play with Frank, I just wanted to continue. Then, at the end of the tour, this war broke out between the bass player and the drummer. And then he patted me on the shoulder. Other groups that go out with horn sections, their basic function is to play the little punches and pads and boop-boop-boops in between what the electric instruments are doing. Inca Roads vamp), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Packard Goose Medley, Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Inca Roads, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Stinkfoot, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Big Swifty, The Untouchables [parts on BTHW], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Filthy Habits, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Texas Motel Medley, Sharleena, Whipping Post, The Black Page, Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q. In 1988, I went on Zappa's "Broadway the Hardway" tour and never asked for a penny for massaging Frank and the rest of his giant band. TIL that Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante went to audition for Frank Zappa's 1988 touring band but left the rehearsal room before actually playing, saying later that " I wanted to be a rock star, do drugs and get girls, and that I wouldn't be able to do that if I was in Zappa's band." r/todayilearned 22 days ago u/therefore4 I thought it was a dream actually. But no, it was time to perform. Next, they traveled to Europe, where from April 9 to June 9 they played 41 more dates. Zappa - relaxing after the tour in the cluttered, comfortable video lounge at his home studio - has mixed feelings about his triumphant return to the six-stringed realm. I called his office and told them that I sang, played keyboards and guitar, and knew he stuff; if he was interested he could give me a call. We got in touch with him and he said Frank will probably want to stay in his hotel room and compose and he doesn't want to talk to his fans very much but I'll do my best. CalledZappa 88: The Last U.S. Show, the album offers two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music, including 28 tracks from the Long Island event and two from earlier concerts that same month in Rhode Island and Maryland. (?). I Left My Heart In San Francisco], What's New In Baltimore?, Inca Roads [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Ring Of Fire, Bolero, Bobby Brown, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Ring Of Fire, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, Advance Romance, Any Kind Of Pain, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Cosmik Debris, Cruising For Burgers, Keep It Greasey, Sofa, Bolero, Crew Slut, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Heavy Duty Judy, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Texas Motel Medley, Sofa, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty (q: My Sharona, The Radio Is Broken), Bamboozled By Love (q: When Yuppies Go To Hell), Bolero, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, The Black Page (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights (q: Did You Ever See A Dream Walkin'? II / Lonesome Cowboy Burt (or Jim) / The Torture Never Stops pt. MG: Wow, that's wild. At the end of the tour, Frank decided he wasn't going to play anymore, because the rest of the band had told him they wouldn't go out with me again. Basically what they're being asked to do is not to play chords, or harmony parts behind guitar solos. setlist.fm Add Setlist. I know there was some sort of fighting within the band and FZ called the whole tour off, but what did it all stem from? If you think touring can be fun, think again! Frank's only enjoyment was playing guitar solos, and those fell apart; he ended up not doing any. Happy Birthday To You, q: Girl From Ipanema), We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Why Don't You Like Me? I have since been told that Morgan, while on a trip to LA, met Frank who in turn put Morgan up for a few days in one of the guest rooms, and that, as a gift, Frank gave Mats Oberg a piece of equipment formerly employed by Tommy Mars. Royal March From LHistoire Du Soldat 17. He put the sheet music in front of me and I started playing it from memory, since I can't sight read. Sometimes not, though. I Am the Walrus 09. And the guy who runs the band teaches the rehearsals and all that stuff, and if it's not the right energy, it doesn't come across, it doesn't work somehow . so obnoxious that nobody wanted to be around him. But he just got spoiled rotten and nobody "I got the call from the production manager, and I was gone," Dondorf recalls. I call it, "Broadway The Hard Way." . The SBD cuts during the post I'm The Walrus Jam, Heavy Duty Judy, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain (q: T'Mershi Duween), Trouble Every Day (q: T'Mershi Duween), Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Cosmik Debris, Inca Roads (q: Fernando), Advance Romance, Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasey, The Torture Never Stops Medley (q: Fernando) [incl. The songs that Frank Zappa performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the May 20, 1988 concert at Le Znith in Paris, le-de-France, France: The Black Page Packard Goose / Royal March From L'Histoire du Soldat / Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto no. Entdecke Musik Express Sounds Nr. It will be available digitally or in a two-CD set. "Ok, get her a DIET Coke!" When I drink Diet Coke, all hell breaks loose. IB: The samples you played on the 88 tourthe dog barks and bubblesdid you create them? Also returning from the 81 and 82 campaigns was Ed Mann, percussion, synclavier, vocals. Finally, he stops me and asks, "Are you sight reading this?" The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Marqueson's Chicken, Elvis Has Just Left The Building [parts on BTHW], Cruising For Burgers, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now [parts on BTHW], Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty*, Rhymin' Man, Sinister Footwear, City Of Tiny Lights, The Torture Never Stops Medley [incl. Jazz From Hell, Nominations: AnyWHO, I let one rip and Frank (who had his back to the empty venue while he was conducting his band) turned around, leered at us, and said "which one of you did that?". It wasnt quite Zappas last live performance, but it did turn out to be his final concert in the United States. Yeah, I don't remember it ever being supposed to be Airplane. Packard Goose Pt. Obviously they assumed that the result of this attempted hijack would be the hiring of a new bassist. I could also play the Bartok. The heart was a pedal board that had hundreds of little relays, quarter-inch jacks, and little circuit boards wrapped up in duct tape just piled in there, nothing labelled, nothing documented. When he told me that, I said, "I'll gladly quit." the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. That kind of pissed you off. Peaches En Regalia 07. Sofa #1 13. . 8. I did almost no reading with Frank. It wasn't like the 1977 band or '78 or '79 band or even the 1982 band. ), Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Zoot Allures, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Texas Motel Medley, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown [incl. So that was a lot of fun for me and very challenging. Frank's last show of the 1988 tour. It seemed like the right thing to do, and I did want to get involved in the voter registration. So for that to be my first professional gig and for it to be such a whirlwind experience from literally 24 hours from being an unknown musician playing in bars in San Diego to being in Frank Zappa's band, it was . All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. Bolero 11. It was his birthday that night and we did some unusual things. I mean obviously there were moments where I was hyperventilating with glee, but if you'd asked me a couple of years before that happened, "How would you react if you went from complete obscurity to playing in Frank Zappa's band?" Fire And Chains) [parts on King Kong, MAJNH], What's New In Baltimore?, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Stairway To Heaven, Promiscuous [BTHW], The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?, Time Is On My Side, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Uncle Remus, Strictly Genteel, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever, Paperback Writer, Taxman, Within You Without You, Stinkfoot, Andy, Inca Roads, Uncle Remus, Outside Now, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Medley, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Norwegian Wood, King Kong (q: Whipping Post, Who Needs The Peace Corps? When I asked him about this, he told me that the first stroke on the bass drum pedal was considerably louder than the volume Chad had been using. [Marque] Coy and Andronis had worked together in the '70s for Chris De Burgh, a superstar in Europe (if barely an opening act in the U.S.). View the statistics of songs played live by Frank Zappa. Make A Sex Noise), Stairway To Heaven (q: Hall Of The Mountain King), Bolero, Rhymin' Man (world premiere), Sofa, Andy, Inca Roads, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Sinister Footwear, Packard Goose Medley, Big Swifty, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Find Her Finer, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads (q: Florentine Pogen), Sofa (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Stairway To Heaven (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Partial audience video exists. [parts on BTHW], Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, The Torture Never Stops Medley [Lonesome Cowboy Burt on TBBYNHIYL], Packard Goose Medley, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Bamboozled By Love, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Andy, Inca Roads, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Packard Goose Medley, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (incl. Mystery Song #4), One Man One Vote (synclavier), Sofa, Bolero, Filthy Habits, King Kong, Sinister Footwear, The Black Page, Stainless The Maiden, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Panty Rap (incl. I Left My Heart. According to an interview with Frank, a campaign was instigated by a couple of the horn players to rid the band of Scott Thunes on the grounds that he is a terrible bass player. 1. Lyric mutations and such. Before the concert, I was so nervous my hands were shaking badly. Broadway the Hard Way is a live album by American musician Frank Zappa recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. G Spot Tornado, Strictly Genteel), Disco Boy, Teenage Wind,Truck Driver Divorce, Advance Romance (q: Never On Sunday), Guitar Loops (q: A Pound For A Brown, Truck Driver Divorce), You Are What You Is (q: Never On Sunday), Mudd Club (q: Never On Sunday, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing), I'm The Slime (q: Never On Sunday), Stinkfoot, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Meedley [incl. I can just imagine me telling Frank 'Come on, man, let me sit in, I know how to play 'Muffin Man'. Well, Frank can't sight read all that well either, and he's looking over my shoulder to see if I'm playing what's in front of me, but he can't really tell. Usually Frank liked it. He wanted to know about Zappsteetoot, and he asked us if we could play 'The Be-Bop Tango', 'Mo n Herb's Vacation' and 'Night School'. I am honored. The Nassau Coliseum show features the first time the complete Beatles medley has been issued: Norwegian Wood > Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds > Strawberry Fields Forever.. Returning were the Fowler brothers Walt, trumpet, flugelhorn, synclavier; and Bruce, trombone plus three new members Paul Carman, alto sax, soprano sax; Albert Wing, tenor sax; and Kurt McGettrick, baritone sax. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Whoever, whatever happens, you know, I'm on his side, totally. The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, I Ain't Got No Heart, Black Napkins, Sharleena, Inca Roads, Advance Romance, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (incl. Jorma said to the audience as they began to play "What's wrong with this picture?" It was the timing of the thing. Packard Goose Pt. In April came a double album of guitar solos in the manner of the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar series, simply called Guitar, and the first in a series of double . In 1988 when Frank came to Stockholm with the Broadway the Hard Way tour, me and Mats got to meet and play with Zappa on his gig in Stockholm, as guests! The rest of the time they're playing really complicated parts that are challenging to them, so that keeps 'em on their toes. Listen to Peaches en Regalia from Zappa 88. Theme From The Bartok Piano Concert No. Frank Zappa hadn't toured since 1984, when his seven-man band played 109 shows, 36 in the U.S., 32 in Europe, and another 41 back in the States, all from July through December. But my reading is so slow that it always proved more efficient to learn things by ear Scott (Thunes, bassplayer and as "Clonemeister" in charge of teaching and rehearsing the band in '88 -aa) wrote me a chart for the piano accompaniment in the Bartok piecea fairly simple part but it took me hours to learn it. We agree. [parts on TBBYNHIYL, incl. MG: (jokingly) What happened then? He made himself NR NEUWERTIG. . but it makes a difficult position for the guy who has to run the band. 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