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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Also, the Bizarre World of Frank Zappa tour, featuring Ray White, Mike Keneally, Robert Martin and Scott Thunes, is coming to Amsterdam on 5/17. I'd like to go (White and Keneally are two of my favorite Zappa band members) but tickets are kindey pricey (about 60).

I was talking about the hologram tour here. Still not sure if I'm going...
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Zappa Plays Zappa did a great job at "Peaches en Regalia."
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Nice.

"Jelly Roll Gum Drop" doesn't make me laugh so much but it's one of my favorites on CWR&TJ. One of those highly underrated Zappa gems.
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...now!
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Nice!

My vote for funniest Zappa song is still "Stink-Foot" (though it used to be "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama").

Also, the Bizarre World of Frank Zappa tour, featuring Ray White, Mike Keneally, Robert Martin and Scott Thunes, is coming to Amsterdam on 5/17. I'd like to go (White and Keneally are two of my favorite Zappa band members) but tickets are kindey pricey (about 60).
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Aww yeah Hot Rats GET. No, I actually didn't own this classic on CD before. Got it yesterday as a belated birthday present.

Unfortunately, it's the '12 Universal version, which is the same as the original vinyl version with the inferior, shorter edit of "The Gumbo Variations." I'd like to get the Rykodisc version sometime, though it might be a bit hard to find at this point...
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Don't know, but he was there for all four of the shows.
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Zappa In New York capped off a terrific year for the ever-prolific and always-moving musician which included shows around the globe including his second Australian tour and one and only Japanese jaunt, the release of his album Zoot Allures and Grand Funk Railroads record Good Singin Good Playin, which he produced, a string of Halloween shows and a performance on Saturday Night Live which ended up having a profound impact on the Palladium shows. Following an on-air collaboration with SNLs announcer Don Pardo and the shows house band, Zappa invited them to be a part of the shows after three of the horn players so loved playing with Zappa that they asked if they could be involved. As Travers and Brown write in the illuminating liner notes: Out of nowhere, the concept of adapting horns to the scheduled concerts became a reality. Frank was immediately swept up in the pleasure and challenge of writing and arranging parts for the existing material.The collection showcases some of Zappas most masterful guitar playing and electrifying arrangements as he leads an exceptional band featuring Ray White on vocals and guitar, Terry Bozzio on drums and vocals, Eddie Jobson on keyboard, Ruth Underwood on percussion and synthesizer, Patrick OHearn on bass and vocals and David Samuels on timpani and vibes. Don Pardo provided sophisticated narration and the brass section, featuring jazz duo the Brecker Brothers with Randy Brecker on trumpet and Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone, was rounded out by the SNL players: Lou Marini on alto sax, Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax and Tom Malone on trombone.

I don't have much to add to this but I will say that the Zappa in New York band is actually my favorite Zappa lineup of all time (why did they only play 4 shows?! We needed a whole tour with these guys!). So yeah, the fact that we're finally getting all of the full concerts they played - plus a bunch bonus content - is awesome news to me. Pretty high chance I will be buying the 5CD box set version of this.

I take issue, however, with the notion that "nobody knew" "Any Kind of Pain" existed way before the 1988 tour. We diehard Zappa fans have known this for ages! Speak for yourself, news article writer person!!
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The Zappa In New York 40th anniversary editions are available for pre-order now and all digital pre-orders will receive an instant grat download of the unreleased rarity The Purple Lagoon/Any Kind of Pain. Recorded on the first night of the four-night stand, the track features Zappa performing the chorus of the song Any Kind of Pain in the middle of The Purple Lagoon. What makes this so significant is that nobody knew this existed or that Zappa had the idea for this song more than a decade before it was released in 1988 on the live album Broadway The Hard Way until the Zappa Family Trust archived the tapes and made the fascinating discovery. More proof that Zappa was creating at an unmatched pace and always thinking years ahead. Pre-order Zappa In New York 40th anniversary edition now: https://ume.lnk.to/ZappaInNewYork40

We are excited to bring you this new Deluxe version of Zappa in New York: an opportunity to re-examine and celebrate the source material of a great album while exploring the events of Franks life in late December 1976, Collections like these really show of the work ethic of a musical genius, exclaims the Zappa Family Trust in the album notes.

Zappa in New York includes expanded packaging which features previously unseen live photos by Gail Zappa alongside extensive liner notes by band members Ruth Underwood and Ray White (who were part of Zappas band for these shows) as well as an insightful essay by Joe Travers with Australian writer Jen Jewel Brown. Underwood also contributes a solo piano version of The Black Page that has been newly recorded for this special edition. The Black Page has proven to be one of Frank Zappas most intriguing and enduring compositions. It is performed in many kinds of venues all over the world. It is taught and studied in schools. Perhaps most exciting is that it is adaptable and lends itself to a variety of orchestrations and re-workings, as FZ himself demonstrated. I am proud that after forty years, mine is finally among them. It is my love letter to Frank and Gail, Underwood writes in the liners.

The 3LP set, pressed at Pallas in Germany, features all-analog mastering of the original album mix, unavailable since first issued. Plus, an additional LP of select bonus content from The Vault. The digital release marks the debut of the original mix.

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Zappa News: Two new albums announced: Zappa in New York - 5CD Deluxe Edition and Zappa in New York - 3LP 40th Anniversary Edition. Release date for both of these: 3/29.

Here's the news article from zappa.com about it:

Frank Zappas Beloved Live Double Album 'Zappa In New York' Celebrated With Suite Of 40th Anniversary Releases

ORIGINAL MASTER MIX, NEWLY REMASTERED AND AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ITS DEBUT

5-DISC COLLECTION FEATURES OVER THREE HOURS OF UNRELEASED PERFORMANCES FROM THE LEGENDARY 1976 FOUR-NIGHT STAND PLUS EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL FROM ZAPPAS VAULT

AVAILABLE ON MARCH 29 VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe

PRE-ORDER LAUNCHES TODAY; DIGITAL PRE-ORDER INCLUDES INSTANT GRAT DOWNLOAD OF UNRELEASED RARITY THE PURPLE LAGOON/ANY KIND OF PAIN

Los Angeles January 24, 2019 In 1976, Frank Zappa played four historic sold-out concerts at The Palladium in New York City the week between Christmas and New Years. These thrilling shows described by band member Ruth Underwood as theatrical, outrageous and raucously funny, but also filled with startling and gorgeous music, dating from Franks 1960s output to literally the moment the curtain went up served as the source material for the live double album Zappa In New York which was constructed from the best-played performances with overdubs later recorded in the studio. Originally slated for release in 1977, the album was delayed for a year due to record label censorship issues, mostly over the controversial song Punkys Whips, and finally released in 1978. One of Zappas most beloved collections of songs, the now classic album included a sensational live version of Sofa alongside nine new compositions, including the complex percussion-based piece The Black Page, which has become infamous in the drum community as the ultimate challenge, the Devilish comedic sendup Titties & Beer, and the notorious aforementioned Punkys Whips about Punky Meadows, the flamboyant guitarist for the band Angel.

In celebration of its eventual release in 1978, Zappa In New York will be released on March 29 via Zappa Records/UMe as a suite of expanded anniversary editions to commemorate the albums recent 40th anniversary. Overseen by the Zappa Family Trust and produced by Ahmet Zappa and Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the expanded versions will be available as a 5CD box set, 3LP on 180-gram audiophile grade vinyl and digitally. The 5-disc collection, which will be housed in a limited-edition metal tin shaped like a NYC street manhole cover and includes a replica ticket from one of the shows, consists of the main album in its original mix, newly remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2018 and available for the first time since its debut. The four additional discs are loaded with relevant Vault nuggets and more than three hours of unreleased live performances from the NYC Palladium concerts, representing every composition played during the concerts and the best alternate performances of every tune Zappa picked for the original album, all newly mixed in 2018. To achieve the highest-level sound quality, the audio team went back to the original two-inch 24-track multi-track master tapes and transferred every reel at 96kHz 24-bit wavs.

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kinda young, kinda wow!
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Nice! Charles Ulrich has a fantastic Zappa site. Didn't know he had written a book!

http://www.fzpomd.net
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Friendly reminder that if you go to the official Zappa YouTube channel (linked to in the opening post) and click on "playlists," you can - totally legally - listen to a number of Zappa albums. For some reason, these videos used to be blocked for me (possibly because of some European copyright stuff) but now they're not anymore. Yay! At the moment, the following albums are available over there (listed in chronological order):

Freak Out!
Absolutely Free
We're Only in It for the Money
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
Hot Rats
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Chunga's Revenge
The Grand Wazoo
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe (')
One Size Fits All
Bongo Fury
Zoot Allures
Studio Tan
Sleep Dirt
Sheik Yerbouti
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
The Man from Utopia
Them or Us
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
Jazz from Hell
The Yellow Shark
Everything Is Healing Nicely
Road Tapes, Venue 1
Dance Me This
Chicago '78
Halloween 77: The Palladium, NYC (the costume box set edition)
The Roxy Performances
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no, white nationalism is a thing too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism
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i said "white nationalists" rather than "nationalists" for a reason. there's a difference.
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metaIslug posted...

Topic title implies a discussion about Israel, but it's really just a proxy for another left/right bicker

discussions about israel are almost always left/right bicker
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it's probably no coincidence that there's a huge overlap between "anti-globalists" and white nationalists/neo-nazis, no.

it's probably also not a coincidence that trump has talked about the evils of globalism.
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Nanis23 posted...

I am really curious as to what @Mr_Lasastryke considers human rights violation

this is kind of a broad question. you can begin by watching theroux's ultra zionists documentary.

but you fucking live in israel so i doubt you seriously need me to inform you about the country's human rights violations. it's clear that you're purposefully closing your eyes when it comes to this and you think israel can do no wrong because you consider arabs to be evil (as evidenced by your "i wish all arabs were like you!" comment to yoblazer, as if him being a cool arab guy is some kind of super weird anomaly).
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Vlado posted...

"Jews are totally fine people, as long as they don't try to have their own country."

lmfao @ the American left

they can have their own country, they just shouldn't constantly violate human rights.

i know this is hard to understand for someone who thinks assad is some kind of hero, but...
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sephyg's attempts to gotcha the left make me lose brain cells
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NFUN posted...

so far his advice applied to both of your last two posts

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not necessarily harsher, but if you could contribute criticism that's actually worthwhile that would be swell
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i am dutch, yes.

merry christmas btw!
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kevwaffles posted...

You really should just start leaving out the last sentence in all your posts, Lasa.

thank you for your incredibly insightful criticism
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

At the end of the day, even the most "Liberal" cities in America are still part of a free market society, and in a free market society, there will always be income inequality, and even if San Fran went full blown Libertarian Wild West, it would still exist.

i know i shouldn't be entertaining an argument fucking sephyg made but yeah, this is what it comes down to.

lol @ the idea that san francisco is a "liberal utopia." no city in the US comes even close to being liberal.
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StealThisSheen posted...

For as much as the right uses the term, Trump is the biggest "snowflake" of them all.

never forget "the theater should be a safe space."

trump's supporters, who throw the term "snowflake" around more than any other group of people, are ironically also the biggest snowflakes.
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