London ’72
Are you up for some vintage Grand Wazoo? Of course you are. Gilles will be providing your fix in the week to come: The Oval, London, 16 September 1972 — up for download as of… now! Enjoy.
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You are reading London ’72 which was posted on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at 8:00 am by Barry's Imaginary Publisher. This entry is filed under Frank Zappa, Friday Boots.
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October 12th, 2007 at 12:59 pm »
Thanks for this! The sound quality is atrocious but never mind, this brought back some memories. It was a tad unusual to have a ‘rock’ gig at the Oval Cricket Ground (it still is) and for it to be FZ was even more surprising. Somewhere in the attic, I’ve got the special edition of the Evening Standard newspaper for that day which features FZ on the front page. The Grand Wazoo took a lot of people by surprise, particularly the critics. I think they were expecting Hot Rats.
Also on the bill were Jeff Beck and Hawkwind. Hawkwind were rubbish but Jeff Beck was good – played with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm »
Class.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:39 pm »
Also on the bill was Linda Lewis. I think I was there but I do not remember seeing Xorg so perhaps I was not there at all!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:52 pm »
Very interesting listening despite the poor sound quality. What happened to Ansley Dunbar? Is Jim Gordon the guy who murdered his mother?
October 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pm »
You can find Ansley Dunbar here. He recently recorded with Tim Bogert (see above).
The last we heard of Jim Gordon he was still in Atascadero for killing his mother.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:31 pm »
The last one, VPM, is quite new to me. Never heard it before.
Creative music.
Now I understand why FZ in his later , ultimate years absolutely endeavored to rediscover, reinvent & deconstruct this.
Do you want an intellectual term for this? Atavistism.
For instance : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavistic
All that sort of things – not within one generation- no, within the lifetime of one composer. Great composers just do it that way.
Sorry ’bout this,KUR , chief.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:06 pm »
simply fantastic music
October 12th, 2007 at 7:24 pm »
I assume that if there is a good quality recording of this, the ZFT would have released it…
October 13th, 2007 at 12:12 am »
Thanks! Coincidence: this orchestration is very close to the one we’ll be hearing tomorrow from the Modern Art Orchestra featuring Mike Keneally. Can’t wait!!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:33 am »
Variant Processional March = Regyptian Strut
October 13th, 2007 at 1:33 am »
Think It Over = The Grand Wazoo
October 13th, 2007 at 2:13 am »
and on th Grand Wazoo info it says this:
“Lee Clement
Grand Wazoo: gong on “Eat That Question”
Your guess is as good as mine.”
Was it some secretary who happened to be passing or do I misremember?
October 13th, 2007 at 12:52 pm »
This was no doubt the Wazoo tour. I wonder if Frank lost his shirt on this. I could check the dates online, but I wonder which came first the Album or the tour? Because I wonder when the names on the pieces were changed. Great music, I gave the recording quality 2 stars. But as I always have said I rather listen to great music on a crappy stereo than 3 dog night on a Bose…
October 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm »
Hi Mike! Check out this Chronology – the whole thing is quite interesting!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm »
A quote from urbangraffito:
Bernard, I don’t quite understand how you’re applying this term to FZ’s music. Care to elaborate?
October 14th, 2007 at 7:34 pm »
Too many nasty notes by certain horns here like on Imaginary Diseases. No wonder Frank didn’t release any live recordings from this period by himself.
M.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:01 am »
Yes, I was there too, and I remember it happened still with daylight, on the closing of the first part of the Rock at the Oval, and the crowd was mostly sat on the grassfield, and some were dancing to that odd music, which was one of the few times it was presented live.