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Nome canonico: Zappa, Frank
Nome legale: Zappa, Frank Vincent
Altri nomi: ZAPPA, Frank Vincent
ZAPPA, Frank
Data di nascita: 1940-12-21
Data di morte: 1993-12-04
Luogo di sepoltura: Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA (unmarked)
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Luogo di morte: Los Angeles, California, USA
Causa della morte: prostate cancer
Istruzione: Chaffey College
Antelope Valley High School
Attività lavorative: composer
musician
film director
Relazioni: Zappa, Moon Unit (daughter)
Zappa, Ahmet (son)
Zappa, Dweezil (son)
Zappa, Diva (daughter)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995)
Grammy Awards (1988, 1996)
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
Breve biografia: Frank Zappa was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experimentation, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his generation.

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The Real Frank Zappa Book (Picador Books) di Frank Zappa

When I discovered the music of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention way back in 1970, I wasn't ready for it. W/in a few mnths I was all about it. I was 16 & this was, indeed, the music that got me really excited. It was experimental, it was rock'n'roll, it had some politics, it had some satire, it was complicated, it did the trick for me. I 1st heard the Mothers of Invention live when I skipped school on my graduation day to hitch-hike north of Baltimore to hear them in Harrisburg. THEY WERE GREAT! Very funny, very together. They were also starting to deteriorate into juvenilia. Nonetheless, Zappa continued to crank out the records that I was interested in & a new release was always exciting.. until things like some of those mid-70s live albums came out. Anyway, the more experimental & jazzy Zappa was, the more I liked him; the more "Titties & Beer" he got, the more I got bored. Then I lost interest altogether. Shortly before he died he started doing a few things that interested me again - about wch I was quite happy! Then, fuck it!, he died in 1992 - a mere sprat! W/ a zillion recordings left behind but so much more that he cd've done. Too bad.

So here's an authorized ghost-written autobiography. What Zappa enthusiast cd resist? All that droll commentary, setting the record straight & the like. No doubt, Zappa had alotof stupid bullshit written about him by alotof incomprehending hostile people over the yrs & no doubt it's still almost MIRACULOUS that his music STILL isn't played on rock radio stns while the most producer-created DREK sickens the airwaves unto death, BUT, LET'S FACE IT, Zappa pulled it off w/ balls & perseverance almost unprecedented in the rock music industry. Hats off to his memory!… (altro)

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tENTATIVELY | 3 altre recensioni | Apr 3, 2022 |

Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa di Frank Zappa

1 Peaches En Regalia 3:37
2 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (Single Version) 3:34
3 Dancin' Fool 3:43
4 San Ber'dino 5:57
5 Dirty Love 2:57
6 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 3:31
7 Cosmik Debris 4:14
8 Trouble Every Day 5:49
9 Disco Boy 5:08
10 Fine Girl 3:29
11 Sexual Harassment In The Workplace 3:42
12 Let's Make The Water Turn Black 2:01
13 I'm The Slime 3:34
14 Joe's Garage (Single Version) 4:08
15 Tell Me You Love Me 2:33
16 Montana (Single Version) 4:08
17 Valley Girl 4:50
18 Be In My Video 3:39
19 Muffin Man 5:32… (altro)

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carptrash | Mar 19, 2022 |

Freak Out! di Mothers of Invention

1 Hungry Freaks, Daddy 3:27
2 I Ain't Got No Heart 2:33
3 Who Are The Brain Police? 3:33
4 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder 3:39
5 Motherly Love 2:43
6 How Could I Be Such A Fool 2:11
7 Wowie Zowie 2:51
8 You Didn't Try To Call Me 3:16
9 Any Way The Wind Blows 2:54
10 I'm Not Satisfied 2:38
11 You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here 3:38
12 Trouble Every Day 5:49
13 Help, I'm A Rock 4:43
14 It Can't Happen Here 3:55
15 The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet 12:16

Credits:

Bass, Guitarrón, Soprano Vocals [Boy Soprano] – Roy Estrada
Composed By, Arranged By, Orchestrated By, Conductor [Conducted By] – Frank Zappa
Drums, Vocals [Sings In Some Foreign Language] – Jim Black*
Guitar [Alternate Lead & Rhythm Guitar With Clear White Light] – Elliot Ingber
Lead Vocals [Lead Vocalist], Harmonica, Tambourine, Finger Cymbals, Performer [Bobby Pin & Tweezers] – Ray Collins
Liner Notes – Suzy Creamcheese
Mixed By [Remixed From The Original Master Tapes] – Bob Stone, Frank Zappa
Performer [The Mothers' Auxiliary] – Arthur Maebe*, Benjamin Barrett, Carl Franzoni, Carol Kaye, David Wells*, David Anderle, Edwin V. Beach, Emmet Sargeant, Eugene Di Novi*, Gene Estes, George Price, John Rotella, John Johnson*, Joseph Saxon, Kenneth Watson*, Kurt Reher, Neil Le Vang*, Paul Bergstrom, Plas Johnson, Raymond Kelley*, Roy Caton, Virgil Evans, Vito*
Performer [The Mothers' Auxiliary], Featuring [Featured On Hypophone] – Kim Fowley
Producer [Produced By] – Tom Wilson (2)… (altro)

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carptrash | Mar 11, 2022 |

The real Frank Zappa book di Frank Zappa

I've never been into Frank Zappa's music but I thought "here's the type of person who led an interesting life" so I checked out his autobiography. Zappa certainly has a few stories of rock 'n' roll excess which he balances with his childhood and family life. Some of the stories are amusing, some are outlandish and some are iconic (see, for example, his review of the events that led to his immortalisation in "Smoke on the Water").

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MiaCulpa | 3 altre recensioni | Jul 14, 2020 |

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