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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Zappa plays Zappa RAH circle seats sound quality
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on: June 18, 2006, 03:41:30 PM
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The Dweez and the gang played at the RAH London and the sound (in/from my seats[circle]) was very bad. The reverb was so saturated that Napoleons voice was muddy and awful, the Dweeze's guitar was similar and way too quiet. When he was playing lead it was barely audible ,same with Stevie. I walked down to the outside of the stalls and hey presto perfect sound. This was without the most disappointing gig i have every been to. The previous week I saw Dave Gilmour from seats near where I was for ZpZ, AND the sound was perfect, in fact Dave Gilmour is one of the best gigs I have ever been to. To put things in perspective I have been to about 40 or 50 gigs in various typ4es of venue, I am 42 and a Zappa fan for 20 years, I have most of Zappa's commercial output(50+ albums and a few live shows from Zappateers) so I know what to expect Did anyone else here see Dweezil from the circle seats of RAH London?
I spoke to half a dozen people during the intermission and they agreed that the sound from the circle was baaaaad.
I downloaded a bootleg via torrent of the show and it was perfect)obviously recorded from good seats, just before peaches' I shouted turn it up at the top of my voice, I could not hear this on the bootleg (though there was the usual "SHUT UP AND Play your guitar shouted by someone whom thought it was very original and funny)
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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Re:Books on Zappa - which one?....
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on: October 22, 2005, 11:48:14 AM
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"The Complete Guide to the Music of Frank Zappa" by Ben Watson, this is a good little book 4”x5”, 191 pages of quite deep analysis of Zappa’s albums. A bit easier than the author’s deeper analysis “the negative dialectics of poodle play”. This is an excellent handy pocket sized reference of Zappa’s musical/lyrical output. It’s analysis of each album covers the cultural influences and references for the lyrics, details of when and where each album was recorded and a few pic and album cover artwork.
"The Real Frank Zappa Book" By FZ and Peter Occhiogrosso. This is Zappa’s official autobiography, although not really an autobiography ‘cos Zappa had help from Peter Occhiogrosso to write it. I have not finished reading this book yet, I am about ¾ way through. 352 pages of Frank’s own words reassembled to make a book! Excellent reading if you want to understand the man and his views on many things. Funny in parts and quite revealing about his methods of writing music and an excellent explanation of the complexities of music theory/production. in terms anyone can understand. Also inside information of the way the music industry works and the bureaucracy and politics of rockbands and orchestras.
My advice would be to read them all over the next few years. Some however are quite high-brow heavy weight works ( The Negative Dialectics of Poodle play by Ben Watson) and will have you reaching for the dictionary and as many reference books you have.
“The Complete Guide to the Music of Frank Zappa” by Ben Watson is a good start if you want to understand some of the obscure references buried within the lyrics of Franks work and other details in a album by album analysis. |
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