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Triad Progression Arrangement 4
Will Barrow Lyrics
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Dead Man
Very nice, and thank you. I like the history and the transcriptions. I've listened to this album nearly aleph-null times, but there were bits I missed that I saw in the transcriptions.
I think "Wet T-Shirt Nite" was a better title. I also prefer "Toad-O Line" for the pun with toe the line.
I once saw someone online (the USENET days) who was deeply offended at "Sounds like you just got an ice pick in the forehead." That's second-wave (inaccurately named) feminism for you. But that line was destined to become part of my mythology. I sometimes say "that's about as stupid as someone could get without the handle of an ice pick protruding from the forehead."
I'm afraid that's not my favorite, though. Mine is "Watermelon in Easter Hay" for the phrasing. Also, since I was wrongfully imprisoned for political reasons, I know exactly how Joe felt. Zappa's skill at phrasing and coloring his guitar notes isn't talked about nearly enough. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" has so much in the guitar sound, I have a hard time coming up with another guitarist in the same galaxy. I decided I needed a minor blues on my prison MP3 player and picked that one as the first. Gil Evans' "Las Vegas Tango" was the second.
Note also the single-note repetition in "Andy."
Robert English
@Tyler Bartram Nothing specific, especially since this wasn't the song playing all the way through in full instrumentation, I was going by what you were saying more than anything.
I have a huge Zappa collection and he has been one of my favorites since I discovered him as a kid in the 70's. Every time when a new album came out I ran out and bought it as soon as I could scrape up the funds, and listened to it the minute I got home. After some years my collection had grown, and having heard the ones I had several times, I started finding all of these connections, then realized they were references to hotels, things happening in bars, being on the road, so the easier to see connections, but it ran deeper than that, deep into the music too, and more and more started showing up as time went by. Even now when i listen to one of his albums I find nuances i never noticed before, or saw in the same light, and there's so freaking much music from him it's mind boggling.
I am a musician myself, but learned by ear, and so cannot deconstruct it by terminology like you, but the note combinations and modes... are reappearing here and there, so after being very familiar with his work, it got easier to go: "That's a reference to Greggery Peccary" or similar!
Frank was known for taking older recordings and pulling out tracks and using a guitar solo as a bass line for a new song and things like that, had many unfinished pieces and unused tracks of instrument takes... Thing he changed that got shelved, and never threw anything away, and also had an archivist trying to make sense of it all and putting in order, who probably had to ask Frank all kinds of questions requiring Frank take a listen... so it's no wonder he would do that given his high intellect. Hard to figure out how much of it was on purpose to lay trails of clues for his fans, to tie his body of work closer together, or him just seeing things as needing closure is hard to tell. Probably all of it.
Although I can see him writing certain sequences of notes and playing with them as you pointed out and for the reasons you gave like because he liked them, but I have to believe maybe more so for what they are often used for in popular and his own music in a tongue in cheek kind of way, with the fanfares hinting on TV shows and news broadcasts, modes used in horror movies and that sort of things to play with what people are familiar with. He had a way of having the music sort of add a whole other layer of lyric under the lyrics, exaggerating or pinpointing emotions, including the ones no one would admit to... He's definitely a hard nut to crack.
I Worked for a famous rock band on Virgin, and knew his publicist at the time and she planned to get me to meet him, but it was right as he fell ill, and so it never happened. You or someone like you should have interviewed him, and I bet he would have loved it, because you would have asked the kind of questions he would have been glad to answer, unlike all of the superficial crap most ask that he so loathed! Shit, he would probably have asked you to stay for a few days. I heard burnt weeny sandwiches aren't as bad as it sounds. (<:
Tyler Bartram
Thanks again so much to Arthur! What Zappa piece would you like to see next?
robot calus
@mkcool18 I loooooove night school
mkcool18
Peaches en Regalia and Night School
Meemorp
St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast!
Gianluca Piccirillo
Moggio
Mauricio Matel
Drowning Witch!
Ed Palermo
Tremendous work, Tyler. The music world needs more of you. And Arthur Barrow is incredible.
Tyler Bartram
I can't tell you how much that means to me, Ed. Thank you!
H P
Conceptual continuity abound! Thanks for taking the time for making these videos; they are truly awesome.
RosemanMusic
Thank you so much for doing these videos! To me Zappa's music always made sense intuitively but to see it laid out in all it's glory really helps me understand why.
P.S. I made a comment a while ago about how I heard "Number 2" in a concert the Zappa Band did. Now I understand they played the complete insert at the show I was at. Was such a sick show.