jbow
 
I got an email telling me that they now have Blackfoot too... Train, Train... take me on outta this place.
 
J
 

Looks like someday soon I'll have to check them out and find out what that Spotify thingie is all about...

sharke
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Given that the Zappa family owns the rights to all of his music (as I understand it), I would have thought that getting up there on Spotify would have been their #1 priority and I'm surprised it's taken them this long. ...

The Zappa Trust has been very much against the digitalization of his work for some time. Many of us have posted for a long time, that she had no choice, and if she didn't allow it, tomorrow someone else would, and then the future would take hold on its own.
 
She has serious questions about what to release, and yes, they own almost all of it, but there is a lot of stuff they don't, and 200 Motels is one example. There are others. The main issue has been for some time a group of vociferous fans that wants the rest of the material from the "Roxy and Elsewhere" released, and kinda ignore the rest of his work. While that concert was special and the 2 LP thing was ONLY about half the concert, in the end, it was more about appeasing the rock radio audience than it was about the music itself, and this Gail, correctly, stood by Frank's words and wishes. But it's a losing battle.
 
 
My main concern, and this is an issue in America, specially, where everyone here is more concerned with the rock music, than they are the composer and his/her work, is that the majority of Frank's music is going to be hidden and ignored and no one will endup appreciating any of it, other than a few "hit songs" for classic rock radio crap!
 
AND, that is NOT, where Frank and his work deserve to be in terms of his ability and composition. But how many of you have heard any of his orchestral works? They make any comoser in the last 50 years look like a child doing nothing but fooling around with harmony and nothing else!
 
How like pop/rock music and top ten that is!

I think it should ALL be on Spotify so that people can be exposed to all of it. Saturday I listened to Wakajawaka and Hot Rats. Chunga's Revenge will be next. Then I want to get into the early stuff I missed. I had Were ony in it for the money when I was really young and listened to it over and over... but I missed Uncle Meat, Lumpy Gravy and the others. I think I still know every word and inflection on woiiftm. I used to really like The Fillmore East album but over time it became a little over the line for me... it is still funny though and Just Another Band From LA... listened to that one a LOT... rifa! I liked The Grand Wazoo too. I guess my favorite songs have to be Peaches en Regalia and Willie The Pimp.
 
I never cared for Yellow Snow very much.
 
So... perhaps if it is ALL out there people will be exposed to music they would otherwise never hear. I'm glad she has tried to honor Frank's wishes but one thing is certain... when you go to the grave you lose all control of what is left here among the living. I think for anyone to criticize Gail at this point would be out of line. She should be supported in whatever she decides... IMO.
 
I, for one, am very happy the music is there.
 
J

Back in 1991 or so I bought the double live album "Make A Jazz Noise Here" on cassette. I played it so much the tape was completely worn out withinw a few months. So I bought it again, and wore that one out as well. Eventually I just cut the crap and bought it on CD. I think I listened to it every day for about 18 months. I was just blown away by the display of musical skill on that album, both in Zappa's arrangements and the playing of the individual band members. To this day, I could probably whistle or hum every note on the LP, including all of the whackiest atonal jazz solos. Those guys can blow some horns, and Scott Thunes' bass playing is spectacular.
 
But I think my all time favorite Zappa album is One Size Fits All. I started listening to it when I was 3 and I've never gotten bored of it. To me that is Zappa at his best. I love the sound they had during that era. It was a perfect match of dirty rock and avant garde virtuosity. And to me, the guitar solo on Inca Roads is perhaps one of the greatest ever recorded. If I could phrase like that, my life would be complete. I've dreamed that solo in its entirety on more than one occasion - its burned into my brain like a tape recorder. The solo on Montana, from much the same era, is guitar perfection as well. Have you noticed that Zappa virtually never used vibrato? He just didn't want to shake those notes.

"He just didn't want to shake those notes."
 
But he did want to Sheik Yerbouti.