🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
📅 Date: 1981
🌍 Country: Europe
🏷 Label: CBS 66368
🎛 Features: 3 x vinyl Box Set Limited Edition

This is a three vinyl box set, originally released as individual albums.
- Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
- Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More
- Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

These are all guitar instrumental tracks. No orchestrals, no famous songs... only guitar from live performances between 1977 and 1980. Zappa carefully selected and edited these improvisations into complete pieces, creating one of the finest showcases of his guitar playing.

Personally, I have never been a great fan of Zappa's guitar solos. They can go for too long, and Zappa was very technical when it came to playing guitar solos. He uses a different approach to his solos, having the whole band follow him, rather than the usual rhythmic guitar solos other bands do.
I like the melodic guitar solos more, hence my preference goes for Mike Oldfield when it comes to guitar performers.
Then again, even Jimmy Carl Black from the Mothers once said in a documentary that Zappa was not a great guitarist when he joined the Mothers.

This box set might be a challenging listen, but it is a treat for Zappa's guitar fans.

Got this box set not too long ago. Particularly because there are some good guitar solos, and particularly the in-between tracks have the same type of intro as he did on Läther, Joe Garage and Thing Fish.
It's a nice box to have if you like rock guitar solos.

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Juan Belda & the Bit Band - Memories of a Loser

"A deeply personal blend of jazz, avant-prog and experimental music, rich in atmosphere and character."

https://getmusic.fm/l/BRLnUN

#electronic #jazzfusion #avantprog #jazzrock #rio #music

Today's Winner

I was thinking it was no contest, until the runner-up (Dangerous Type; The Cars) came on. A reasonable challenger, but we still had a pretty clear winner.

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - Chicago
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzCWLOHUes

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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (2002 Remaster)

Chicago

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Chest is an album by the American band Nels Cline Trio. It was the first release on Little Brother Records.

The album was recorded in June 1993 at Sage & Sound by Geoff Sykes (except "Beardism/Call Crouch" and "Power Ballad for Woodward A." which were recorded July 11, 1995, at New Zone Studio by Wayne Peet); however it was released only in 1996, as Nels Cline thought it too extreme for his label at the time, Enja. The artwork is by Carole Kim.

The Rocket praised Cline's "frenzied bliss and noisy prowess." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGBWo_T72c

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Inspired by what I'd seen on Reddit, bulked out by new purchases and direct approaches from musicians, topped up with a selection of albums from my collection, here's a video of what I listened to in May:

https://youtu.be/QycCnDIN3UI

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#prog rock
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#rockprogressivo
#electronica
#ambient
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The ProgBlog May 2026 playlist

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FÄLAREN – Ljora

RELEASE YEAR: 2026BAND URL: https://falaren.bandcamp.com/album/ljora What a delightful surprise this was! Not being familiar with this intriguing and explorative outfit beforehand, I had no idea what to expect but suffice to say that I was blown away by the gripping soundscapes that constitute Ljora. Fälaren inhabit a space located somewhere between jazz rock, folk music, psychedelic rock, and shoegaze - a space where genuine warmth, heartfelt vocals, evocative melodies, reflective words, […]

https://eternal-terror.com/2026/06/01/falaren-ljora/

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Dimanche prochain, je suis en concert avec @stoht au Fort du Dellec à Plouzané.

Pour écouter le dernier album c'est ici :
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRNvGjV5wEknzbR39LoEy2m0WOfOkvft8&si=Jdx7XWOSAP2mwL8W

#Concert #JazzRock #Plouzane

Now playing this jazz rock collab project from Donny McCaslin and Canadian multi-instrumentalist Ryan Dahle. Apparently McCaslin's other Blackstar bandmates Tim Lefebvre, Jason Lindner, and Mark Guiliana are all on here somewhere, but I can't find any credits to see where exactly.

McCaslin Dahle - MXD (2026)

https://mccaslindahle.bandcamp.com/album/mxd

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MXD, by McCaslin Dahle

9 track album

McCaslin Dahle