Frank Zappa
Guitar World: According To Frank Zappa
(UME)

Newly issued on vinyl, this 1987 Guitar World magazine cassette contained eight tracks, and included an unreleased solo. 

Of course, this is only a glimpse at the worth of the man. In manners peculiar, he was a composer, cultural satirist, and that rare instrumentalist who was so much at one with sounds, themselves, that there was no discernible dividing space. 

"All the great music's already been written by guys with wigs," he famously remarked. 

That's quite restrictive. Even oppressive, in its implication. (Why compose at all, if from the outset you believe your effort to be negligible?)

As only a finite number of notes and combinations thereof exists, no melody hasn't already been sung. And surely in numerous iterations. But particular expressions of limited tones at hand, ones that are choreographed by individual spirits in given moments, can make for music of unique and rewarding aspect.

Evident by listening is that Frank Zappa understood. 


Recommended: "Sleep Dirt," "Friendly Little Finger," Excerpt from "Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra,"
"Things That Look Like Meat," "Down In de Dew," "A Solo From Heidelberg," "A Solo From Cologne," "A Solo From Atlanta"

Videos: "Friendly Little Finger"  (1976 Zoot Allures LP version)

1963 Steve Allen Show appearance by young "musical bicyclist" Frank Zappa


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