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1993
ISSN: Unknown
Pages: 104
Language: English Category: Mags
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Index : Frank Zappa :- The Mother of all Interviews Zappa Music to Make your skin crawl :- "The girl in the Magnesium Dress" (a transcription,yes!) "The (Unanswered) Cluster 1a" "Insight from stuffed shirts, tight collars, and old geezers" Nicolas Slonimsky :- The Century's preeminent Lexicographer nails FZ down Kent Nagano :- Premiering Zappa with the LSO Andreas Molich-Zebhauser :- Preparing Ensemmble Moderne for the Frankfurt Fetstival Warren De Martini :- Ratt guitarist turns Zappa stylist Aynsley Dunbar :- Former MOI drummer Dweezil,Ahmet,Moon&Diva Zappa :- Like Father like Munchkins Matt Groening :- The Simpson's Creator:"Frank was my Elvis" "Barking Pumpkin Records,Munchkin Music,Barfko-Swill, Frank & Gail Zappa,Proprietors" How it all works with Gail Zappa - Wife,Mom,Fighty-Biyey's feeder, Music Mogul "The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen" Dave Dondorf :- In the URMK:It breaks,He fixes Spencer Chrislu :- Engineer of the right formulas in the Baby Milk Factory Ali Askin :- Just another Bavarian Music Preparation specialist Todd Yvega :- Software surgeon,Sample Trimmer,Smarter than a Synclavier Simon Prentis :- Hmmm...How show "Yellow Snow" in Japanese? Marque Coy :- Head Mechanic in Joe's Garage Harry Andronis :- Mixmaster outside the kitchen Van Carlson :- Emmy-winning electronic photographer On vinyl,tape,cd - The first authorized Complete FZ Audio/Visual catalog Significant others - Joel Thorme & Beverly D'Angelo [GP:] What do you think of Don's [Van Vliet's] music? [FZ:] The best of it is unbelievable, and the worst of it is under the influence of some really bad AR people at Warner Brothers. But there are things on Trout Mask Rephca that are unbelievable, and on Clear Spot also. [GP:] Is there more from the Trout Mask period. [FZ:] There are some other things. Yes. [GP:] Do you think those will ever come out? [FZ:] I don't know. There were things in the original sessions that he didn't want to have used. The original plan for the album was to do it like an ethnic field recording. He and his group lived in a house out in the [San Fernando] Valley, so I wanted to take a portable rig and record the band in the house, and use the different rooms in the house as isolation--very slight. The vocals get done in the bathroom. The drums are set up in the living room. The horn gets played in the garden, all this stuff. And we went over there and set it up, and did tracks that way. I thought they sounded good, but suddenly he was of the opinion that I was just trying to be a cheapskate producer, and not do any studio time. So I said, ``Well, you want to go in the studio? Let's go.'' So-- [GP:] There's a little bit of it on the a1bum, isn't there? [FZ:] Yeah. There's some stuff off of a cassette machine that we wanted to have in there--``Dust Blows Forward, Dust Blows Back.'' [GP:] And ``The Blimp.'' That's yours. [FZ:] I was in the studio mixing some other tapes, and the band that's playing on ``The Blimp'' is actually the Mothers Of Invention. The vocal on ``The Blimp'' was recorded by telephone. He had just written these lyrics, and he had one of the guys in the band recite it to me over the phone. I taped it in the studio, and recorded it onto the piece of tape that I had up at the time, which was my track. So, that's how that came about. [GP:] And now your version of ``The Blimp'' is out on the re-release version of Weasels Ripped My Flesh, too. [FZ:] It's also going to be on this new episode of ``You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore''. The piece is called ``Charles Ives.'' We used to play it on the '68-'69 tour. |
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