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Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
4 1⁄2 is a mini-album by British musician Steven Wilson. It was released on 22 January 2016. It collects songs that were written during the sessions for Wilson's previous two studio albums.
This DVD features performances and interviews with some of the best drummers to ever work with Frank Zappa: Terry Bozzio, Chester Thompson, Chad Wackerman, Ruth Underwood, and Ralph Humphrey.
Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman
Jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth teams up with pianist Alan Pasqua for this concert recording. The two jazz greats were captured on camera as they performed alongside fellow musicians Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip at Yoshi's in San Francisco. Tracks: 1. The Fifth 2. Looking Glass 3. Fred 4. I Must Be Jazz 5. Blues For Tony 6. San Michele 7. Pud Wud 8. Protocosmos 9. Red Alert
Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa review This tribute to the music of Frank Zappa was recorded live at Jazzopen, Stuttgart, July, 1994. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa DVD The band is comprised of Ike Willis, Bruce Fowler, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Tom Fowler, Arthur Barrow, Ed Mann, Jay Dittamo, and Chad Wackerman. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa movie This appropriately offbeat tribute to Frank Zappa, filmed live in Stuttgart, includes performances from Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, and Jay Dittamo playing enduringly popular hits like "Bamboozled by Love," "Be-Bop Tango," and "Sofa." This is the only Arthur Barrow video. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa video Stars also making their debut in this video: Tom Fowler, Jay Dittamo, Ike Willis.
Recorded live at Musician's Institute, Hollywood, CA, Solos & Duets features the incredible drumming of two of today's most exciting drum artists, Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, Steve Vai) and Chad Wackerman (Men At Work, Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth). Included along with the spectacular individual and duo performances are interviews as well as the drummers' note-perfect duet of Zappa's infamous "Black Page #1.
The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featuring interviews with Zappa and backstage scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire film is divided into chapters discussing the most important themes in Zappa's life and work.
Frank Zappa's May 17, 1988 concert performance was captured and broadcast by Televisión Española. None of the song performances would make it onto albums showcasing this iteration of Zappa's band, his last touring rock group. The broadcast itself would not be used by Zappa either, as the television station presented him with a faulty VHS instead of the master tape. This concert video lives on only as a bootleg.
In a little over an hour, 'VIDEO FROM HELL' provides a preview of current and projected Honker releases, including 'BABY SNAKES', 'THE TRUE STORY OF 200 MOTELS' and 'UNCLE MEAT' (all 1987 releases) along with segments of 1988 shows still in preparation ('YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE'- which will be released after the multi-CD package, 'I NEED YOUR LOVE' - the homespun philosophy of Al Malkin, and 'AN AMERICAN DISSIDENT' - the homespun philosophy of Frank Zappa).
Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.
Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. Previously only available through mail-order, it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005.
