Frank Zappa was the greatest guitar player

[edthecynic]

Here's another great guitar solo, after the flute solo.
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This band is famous for this screamer.
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[CrusaderFrank]

Chunga's Revenge has always been a favorite of mine,
YouTube - Chunga's Revenge solo, 1980

What a great find!

That's not Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, who is it?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Dweezils first attempt at The Septuplets from Hell

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[jfullen]

Have been listening to Zappa since I was 16 and i am 49. You are absolutely right.

 

[Darkwind]

Well, when My son was taking his first guitar lessons of the acoustic kind, he learned Zappa...

And then moved on to more advanced music and riffs...

 

[edthecynic]

Chunga's Revenge has always been a favorite of mine,
YouTube - Chunga's Revenge solo, 1980

What a great find!

That's not Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, who is it?

David Logeman

 

[edthecynic]

YouTube - Frank Zappa - Montana - 1973 Stockholm

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Chunga's Revenge has always been a favorite of mine,
YouTube - Chunga's Revenge solo, 1980

What a great find!

That's not Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, who is it?

David Logeman

Never heard of him. The collaboration between Vinnie and Frank is just otherworldly and I still can't find a way to link to "Heavy Duty Judy" From Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar

 

[CrusaderFrank]

YouTube - Frank Zappa - Montana - 1973 Stockholm

I used to wear those pants! OMG!

Awesome find!

I think that's the same line up from "The Helsinki Concert"

WOW!

 

[JW Frogen]

Let's be frank here, the world is a less without Frank Zappa.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Let's be frank here, the world is a less without Frank Zappa.

You have to wonder if God isn't really selfish since he took John Lennon and Frank Zappa and left us stuck with Bruce Springstein and Mick Jagger

 

[edthecynic]

What a great find!

That's not Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, who is it?

David Logeman

Never heard of him. The collaboration between Vinnie and Frank is just otherworldly and I still can't find a way to link to "Heavy Duty Judy" From Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZO7qEqFtG4&fmt=18]YouTube - Frank Zappa - Heavy Duty Judy, Live Saratoga 1984[/ame]

 

[BigSteve]

Zappa was great, no doubt.

The best?

Maybe, maybe not.

I've seen Al Di Meola and Peppino D' Agostino do things with a guitar that would turn your hair white...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

David Logeman

Never heard of him. The collaboration between Vinnie and Frank is just otherworldly and I still can't find a way to link to "Heavy Duty Judy" From Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZO7qEqFtG4&fmt=18]YouTube - Frank Zappa - Heavy Duty Judy, Live Saratoga 1984[/ame]

Yeah. There's a version with Chad Wackerman on "The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life" who I think was also the drummer in 1984 and that's the one I heard first.

When I heard the version on "Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar" fuck!!...it was like a crash landing on the planet Mercury and being exposed to the solar wind...it is the greatest guitar work ever...no offense to any of Frank's other drummers but once you grok the Vinnie and Frank Show, the other solos sound like child's play.

I don't have musical ears so I had to listen about 12,000 times to "Get it" because the musical interplay is spontaneous but all at warp speed.