For Frank Zappa fans....HURRY!!
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Topic: For Frank Zappa fans....HURRY!!
Posted By: cstack3
Subject: For Frank Zappa fans....HURRY!!
Date Posted: June 28 2025 at 23:33
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Dig this!! https://youtu.be/2Gdw7lFYdCw?si=zE2vihHHaLm-1OyT%20" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/2Gdw7lFYdCw?si=zE2vihHHaLm-1OyT Cheaper Than Cheep, the live concert film, is now streaming on YouTube for 72 hours only! Tune in before the curtains close on Monday, June 30th at 9am pacific. Order ‘Cheaper Than Cheep': https://Zappa.lnk.to/cheaperthancheep The 1974 unreleased made-for-TV concert movie ‘Cheaper Than Cheep’ is finally being released 50 years later! This never-before-heard-or-seen two-hour concert reveals the most intimate performance ever captured from the 1974 Mothers line-up, direct from the lovingly resurrected and restored original vault audio and videotape masters. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 11:01
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I, too, chanced upon that upload last night! It was really late, so I'll have to watch it sooner than later. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 11:12
Watching now. It's very good. 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 11:41
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Hi, AWESOME No doubt the best album I have heard this year, and the quality of the playing and group, was amazing and insane, and not something that you will ever find around. This just makes so much progressive and progrock look and sound so small!!! What a great band! One little thing that is weird ... the lyrics, as subtitles (no worries there) but they are a touch too slow all the way through out the film. But that's a bit of a minor issue, as I think that most of us that will watch this already know the lyrics. Fantastic stuff. I'll purchase the CD's/DVD for sure ... this is too good not to have. ... And just watching George, Napoleon, Ruth, Chester, Frank, Jeff ... yeah ... about time this gets redone and sent out, and we know they have a heck of a lot more in the vault! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 12:17
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Very jazzy set from Zappa and his phenomenal band. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 13:30
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I'm watching this right now and taking notes! The band is REALLY amazing!! Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson etc. are all in TIP-TOP form!! "Movin' to Montana" @ 26:16 "Inca Roads" @ 41:13 "Penguin in Bondage" @ 54:01 More to follow!! Hope you get to view this, it is AMAZING!! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 14:43
| ^It is amazing, but I like Roxy: The Movie better. The dual drumming on "Cheepnis - Percussion" is magical. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 15:12
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^I watched the ENTIRE film, it was amazing!! Grump, I need to watch Roxy per your recommendation! FZ invented a very cool fusion of jazz, blues-rock, American soul/R&B, and even some classical elements!! I'd seen him in concert twice, so I knew the material and players very well. 5 stars!! Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention November 29, 1975 Auditorium Theater - Chicago Frank Zappa November 28, 1980 Uptown Theatre - Chicago ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 15:23
| ^Saw Frank several times when he came to Kansas City in the mid 70's to mid 80's. Once he played two shows in one night at the Uptown Theater in KC. Saw both shows, and the set lists were completely different. Always amazing shows. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 16:14
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Thanks a lot! Deadlines, deadlines, and Glastonbury... still will watch this. ------------- I make typos so you see I'm not a machine, but I may be a machine pretending to not be a machine. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 29 2025 at 16:20
Nice to "meat" another FZ fan!! The musicians in this latest YouTube film are: Frank Zappa George Duke Ruth Underwood Napoleon Murphy Brock Chester Thompson Tom Fowler Jeff Simmons ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Grumpyprogfan wrote:Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 01:16
| Just watched it on YT through my smart TV app. Great to watch on a bigger screen! Quality stuff from Frank and co. as always. And I never knew the origin of the name "Dupree's Paradise"! |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 14:40
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Just missed it :( ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 00:24
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I was SUPER impressed with percussionist Ruth Underwood! What an amazing talent!! (and, easy on the eyes!) ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 09:07
Indeed! ------------- I make typos so you see I'm not a machine, but I may be a machine pretending to not be a machine. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 02 2025 at 07:45
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Hi, This was better than "Roxy & Elsewhere" which was, sadly enough a bunch of different shows in different places, for the most part, and you really don't get to enjoy and appreciate the work of the band non stop even though it is the same folks. Here it was from the start to the end, and you had a chance to just fly with it, and appreciate some nifty musicianship that just drove the whole thing to a level that the majority of rock bands will never come close to. A really nice thing to see that brings back the immense joy of "progressive music" when it really counts, instead of it being a mirror image of a copy! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 03 2025 at 00:17
Thanks, M, that is an excellent review, and I have to agree!! I was transfixed and watched the entire production from beginning to end! I only wish more of our prog heroes had done projects like this at the height of their creativity....the movie "Yessongs" is fun, but full of crappy editing & camera-work. And I don't think there is any movie of "The Lamb" or "Tales." BTW, I just turned 70 years young on July 1! Still rocking in Arizona!! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |