WGOMFrank Zappa – Watermelon In Easter Hay
https://wgom.org/2026/04/05/frank-zappa-watermelon-in-easter-hay/
ungenannter 🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Frank Zappa – Zappa '80 Munich
Recorded Live at Olympiahalle- Munich July 3, 1980
3 LP Set Zappa Records – ZR20042-2
Zappa Official Release – #125B
Europe 2023
#vinyl #frankzappa #zappa
Bas LangereisFrank Zappa - 'Bongo Fury - 50th Anniversary Edition' (5cd+bluray) (1975) (2026)
The legendary collaboration between #FrankZappa and #CaptainBeefheart. This is the original album with bonus tracks, plus the two full Austin concerts in that #Zappa recorded. Fantastic! Essential.
Karen MardahlI just saw the 2024 biopic about Maurice Ravel called "Boléro" that was directed by Anne Fontaine. I saw it out of curiosity because I simply don't know much about Ravel or how the piece was composed. The movie was OK because it is just a dramatisation based on a book. However, at the end, the piece is actually played on its own (about the last half only) with Raphaël Personnaz (the actor playing Ravel) conducting the orchestra with one ballet dancer dancing through and next to the orchestra. That is when I choked up and teared up. I have always loved the piece. Ravel wrote other music, which I don't know as well. Ravel came across - in the movie - as a perfectionist and someone deeply fascinated by sounds around him. I have the impression it wasn't the one piece he wanted to be remembered for, but the last 10 minutes of just playing the music - no film storytelling, just music storytelling - hit some chord in me, and I found beauty in it. Watching the "OK" movie part was worth it for those 10 minutes. (Danes: watch it on Filmstriben, of course.)
By the way, the movie intro was a great collection of various musicians doing their version of Boléro. Very cleverly done. Which is where I learned Frank Zappa had his own version, which includes the slide trombonist doing a bit of ballet at one point!
Frank Zappa - Bolero (Ravel)
Frank Zappa - 'Road Tapes - Venue #1' (2cd) (2012)
Recorded live in Vancouver BC on 25 August 1968, this is an excellent #FrankZappa concert with the original #Mothers. Super setlist and playing, some great #Zappa guitar, fine sound (all in glorious mono).
Fra"Ieri alla televisione
Mi hanno detto di stare tranquillo
Non c'è nessuna ragione
Di aver paura
Non c'è proprio niente che non va"
Patrick HadfieldMonday's earworm - yes, Monday's - was a very specific version of Frank Zappa's Peaches En Regalia, arranged by Colin Towns twenty years ago. Which I looked for but couldn't find - very little of Towns' seems to be online.
I watched the Zappa documentary as a result.
But today I came across this concert recording from last year - several tracks played as a suite. I've set it up for Peaches, but the whole tihng is great!
Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (And Funny Smells) | Colin Towns | Geir Lysne | NDR Bigband
RockerNRollerFrank Zappa - 'Apostrophe (')'. 🎸🟡❄️💿 (22 March 1974)
Following a similar formula to 1973’s 'Over-Nite Sensation', with tight, proggy, funky, groove-driven shorter songs packed with Frank Zappa’s sharp, bizarre humour and complex, inventive arrangements, this is often considered the album that pushed him further into the mainstream at the time, thanks in part to the novelty hit "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". As some of the material was developed during the same recoding sessions as 'Over-Nite Sensation', Tina Turner and the Ikettes make another, and final, appearance on a Zappa record, providing backing vocals on two tracks. Whilst parts of the production may sound slightly dated compared to subsequent albums, the musicianship remains as stellar as ever. Nonetheless, 'Apostrophe (')' remains an important record in his discography to this day in my opinion, and I greatly enjoy it whenever I give it a spin, especially on its anniversary.
#frankzappa #vinyl #vinylcollection #Apostrophe #music
Following a similar formula to 1973’s 'Over-Nite Sensation', with tight, proggy, funky, groove-driven shorter songs packed with Frank Zappa’s sharp, bizarre humour and complex, inventive arrangements, this is often considered the album that pushed him further into the mainstream at the time, thanks in part to the novelty hit "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". As some of the material was developed during the same recoding sessions as 'Over-Nite Sensation', Tina Turner and the Ikettes make another, and final, appearance on a Zappa record, providing backing vocals on two tracks. Whilst parts of the production may sound slightly dated compared to subsequent albums, the musicianship remains as stellar as ever. Nonetheless, 'Apostrophe (')' remains an important record in his discography to this day in my opinion, and I greatly enjoy it whenever I give it a spin, especially on its anniversary.
#frankzappa #vinyl #vinylcollection #Apostrophe #music
I Heart NoiseFrank Zappa - 'Carnegie Hall' (4cd) (2011)
Recorded October 11 1971, this is #FrankZappa & the Veaudeville band in the legendary #CarnegieHall NYC. Two nights, two shows, two totally different set lists, amazing #Zappa performances (long versions of King Kong and Billy The Mountain!), one opening set by The Persuasions and all this in glorious mono.
