Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from May 26, 2021 Favoriting

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting May 26, 2021: The Frank Zappa Pavilion

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An assemblage of the composer/guitarist’s career with The Mothers of Invention
and beyond, from classic encounters with Suzy Creamcheese to cultural and political satire
to band jams to sharing the stage with Stockhausen.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
The Mothers of Invention  Are You Hung Up?   Favoriting We’re Only In It For The Money  Verve  1968  Eric Clapton on the phone, and a threat. 
The Mothers of Invention  Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme   Favoriting Uncle Meat  Bizarre  1969  One of Zappa’s signature themes makes its debut, with Suzy Creamcheese confession. 
 
The Mothers of Invention  It Can’t Happen Here   Favoriting Freak Out  Verve  1966  From the band’s debut, considered one of rock music's first concept albums, stamped with Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the emerging “freak” scene of Los Angeles. 
The Mothers of Invention  I’m Not Satisfied   Favoriting Cruising with Ruben and the Jets  Verve  1968  The album's concept centers around a fictitious Chicano doo wop band. 
Frank Zappa  The Nancy & Mary Music   Favoriting Chunga's Revenge  Reprise  1970  From the the third solo album by guitarist Zappa, with a band now including former Turtles members Flo & Eddie, and marking a shift away from both political satire and jazz fusion. Live in concert at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Ian Underwood, sax; George Duke, electric piano and scat; and Aynsley Dunbar, drums. 
The Mothers of Invention  The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny   Favoriting We’re Only In It For The Money  Verve  1968  A tape montage from an album that satirizes left and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 
 
Frank Zappa  The Black Page #2 (The Easy Teenage New York Version)   Favoriting Zappa in New York  Discreet  1977  Zappa introduces and plays the piece considered notoriously difficult. 
Zappa Plays Zappa  The Black Page #1 & #2   Favoriting Zappa Plays Zappa  YouTube  2006  Zappa’s son Dweezil and band, with special guests guitarist Steve Vai and drummer Terry Bozzio. We hear both the drum version and then with the melody played by Vai. 
Frank Zappa  Son of Mr.Green Genes   Favoriting Hot Rats  Bizarre  1969  Zappa's first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers, features holdover Ian Underwood as well as Captain Beefheart and Don "Sugarcane" Harris. 
The Mothers of Invention  Nasal Retentive Calliope Music   Favoriting We’re Only In It For The Money  Verve  1968  Zappa, beyond his passion for 20th Century experimental music, was an early adopter of many new technologies including multi-track recorders, pitch-shifters, harmonizers, and synthesizers. 
 
The Mothers of Invention  Mom & Dad   Favoriting Uncle Meat  Bizarre  1969  At the time, police misconduct got attention for harassing counter-cultural types or, as Zappa often reminds us, “creeps”. 
The Mothers of Invention  Absolutely Free   Favoriting We’re Only In It For The Money  Verve  1968  I think this may refer disapprovingly to mind-altering substances. 
The Mothers of Invention  Trouble Every Day   Favoriting Freak Out  Verve  1966  What do they call that thing when you are obsessed with the news? This could be a BLM anthem. 
The Mothers of Invention  We Can Shoot You   Favoriting Uncle Meat  Bizarre  1969  Zappa exercises his Edgard Varèse muscle. 
Frank Zappa  I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again   Favoriting Lumpy Gravy  Verve  1967  From the debut solo album by Zappa, performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. By contract, he could not play, but conducted. 
The Mothers of Invention  The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue   Favoriting Weasels Ripped My Flesh  Bizarre  1970  The album consists of mixes combining live and studio recordings with more focus on improvisation. 
 
Frank Zappa  While You Were Art II   Favoriting Jazz From Hell  Barking Pumpkin Records  1986  A Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's improvised guitar solo on the track "While You Were Out" from the album Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981). Also on a Rykodisc CD. 
Frank Zappa  Get Whitey   Favoriting The Yellow Shark  Barking Pumpkin Records  1993  This is from the last Zappa album to appear in his lifetime, and features live recordings from the Ensemble Modern's 1992 performances of Zappa's orchestral compositions. In 1991, Zappa was chosen to be one of four featured composers at the 1992 Frankfurt Festival (along with John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Alexander Knaifel). 
Frank Zappa  Columbia, S.C. (Part 2)   Favoriting Little Dots  Zappa Records  2016  From a live album consisting of recordings from the 1972 Petit Wazoo tour. Recorded at the Township Auditorium, rescued, restored, and released by the Zappa Family Trust. A sort of John Barry tribute. 

 
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Listener comments!

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david w:

A legend: Mother’s Day of 1964, the R&B group Soul Giants put their new lead guitarist Frank Zappa in charge, who then changed the band’s name to The Mothers. When record label executives balked, Zappa repurposed an old proverb, and The Mothers of Invention were born.
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Webhamster Henry:

Hello, Mothers!
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david w:

Henry! Number one son!
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Webhamster Henry:

On Ruth!
  5:03pm
ruth:

Hello W.hamster et al
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

from Flo & Eddie to Ensemble Moderne
  5:07pm
sufferwords:

Agreed- after yellow snow I checked out/aged out
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Zappa doc takes you into FZ's tape archive. It's like the FMU library of Zappa tapes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:08pm
david w:

Yes, Henry! And welcome sufferwords!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:15pm
WR:

Who do I lodge my complaint with? I'm not Satisfied!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:16pm
david w:

Never settle, WR. Ruth handles arbitration here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:20pm
david w:

@Henry: I like that avatar.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:22pm
doctorjazz:

Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnicks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:23pm
david w:

Hi, doctorjazz, welcome to the dance.
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gailvachon:

Hi.
  5:24pm
ruth:

Hi Dr. J & WR
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
WR:

Immediate delegation of potential problem. True management material.

I stopped keeping up with Zappa after Billy the Mountain. Then I learned of The Yellow Shark and haven't fully caught up yet.

Hi Ruth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
david w:

Hi, Gail. Beefheart or Zappa?
  5:25pm
ruth:

Gail!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:27pm
david w:

Gotcha, WR. Yellow Shark makes an appearance later.
Avatar ♥ 5:28pm
gailvachon:

Beefheart.
Zappa is kind of annoying.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:30pm
doctorjazz:

Missed Zappa in real time (found the shtick too offputting). The more I hear him these days, the sorrier I am that I wrote him off.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Zappa used to do Halloween shows at the Palladium, an excellent venue for him. That is now the site of a huge NYU Dorm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
Rich in Washington:

I was just recently saying that there's a not a ton of Mothers and solo Zappa representation on the Mothership and the Otherships, so this is wonderful!.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

My brother is a much bigger Zappaholic. His wedding recessional was Peaches en Regalia.
  5:36pm
ruth:

This is good DW never heard it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:36pm
david w:

I met Zappa once, at the Palladium, somehow got myself into the VIP section. He was not enjoying himself, and I had nothing to offer.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

@David my 'avatar' is something I made for WFMU-TV many years ago, slightly edited and re rendered at icon size.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

[I not only designed and animated it, I wrote the animation program #fullofmyself]
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:39pm
Rich in Washington:

Frank Zappa was my first ever rock concert. I also remember what I was doing when I heard he died.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:39pm
david w:

Thanks, Rich. Doing our little part to gather the history.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

I was the one to tell Zappa and WFMU fan The Grape about Frank's demise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:42pm
Rich in Washington:

I heard the news on my local community radio station. A fanatical Zappa fan DJ was allowed to take over the daytime airwaves briefly. I was stunned. I didn't watch any TV back then, so didn't even know he was ill.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:44pm
WR:

Bob Irwin plays a Zappa cut pretty regularly on Big Planet Noise, usually in the last set of the night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:54pm
david w:

Here's the link for the Drummer stream newsletter, always entertaining, never annoying. tinyletter.com... 
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:55pm
Rich in Washington:

This is wonderful, David!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:02pm
Rich in Washington:

the little interjections. Mothers albums always reminded me of EC era Mad Magazine. Just bristling with weird details in the margins.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:03pm
chresti:

Hi David and ruth and ridgewoodians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:03pm
david w:

Rich! I think Zappa was my transition from Mad Magazine to some kind of adult thinking.
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spodiodi:

hi david and ruth!
hi everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Rich/Washington Zappa should have used Frank Jacobs as a lyricist, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
david w:

hi, spodi. We welcome you along.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have Sensurround thunder going on right now.
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Rich in Washington:

Hi spodi!
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spodiodi:

Zappa led me to Varèse <3 love what i've heard

hi Rich in Washington!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

Zappa explains, “It was because of that Varèse album that I read about in a magazine and hearing ‘Ionization’ that I started writing orchestra music. I had no interest in Beethoven and Mozart … I wanted to listen to the man who could make music that was strange … [I]n Varèse’s music the percussion was playing an integrated melodic part and it was in the foreground and, since I liked drums, it was a pleasure to listen to it.”
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm
chresti:

I love Cruising with Rueben and the Jets.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
david w:

Hi, chresti. Yeah that one is a wacky pleasure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Rich in Washington:

This record made me learn who Eric Dolphy was as a teen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
Rich in Washington:

although, honestly, it was years later that I got Zappa's deep influences. I was into it for the weird humor and noised until much later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
david w:

Sorry, I think I screwed up the playlist. But you get it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm
Gary:

An episode for the ages!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm
david w:

Here is what is next today on the Drummer stream:
Gary Sullivan hosts Bodega Pop 7-10pm EDT: Cassettes: Scorchers from around the globe on everybody's least favorite analog format! wfmu.org...
Sam Segal hosts If You Lose Your Horse 10-midnite
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm
david w:

Thanks, Gary. Along with everything from your studio!
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spodiodi:

Synclavier FTW
Avatar ♥ 6:31pm
spodiodi:

featured prominently on the Meets The Mothers of Prevention album
Avatar ♥ 6:45pm
spodiodi:

this is great, david! not heard this nor the prior track before. going to listen to this whole show later. thank you
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
david w:

Thank yoooo, spodiodi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:50pm
Rich in Washington:

Wow! I've never heard this before!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:52pm
david w:

Zappa did a bunch of gigs like this in 1972 but with little fanfare.
  6:53pm
Dave in St Albans UK:

Hi. This Zappa fest is dream radio come true. The show has the vibe of Radio Geronimo in the 70's which was run by a bunch of hippies in Harley Street London. Zappa's "Hot Rats" changed my musical tastes forever!PS. Beefheart night sometime?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm
david w:

Dave, yes. But's daunting.... and thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm
coelacanth∅:

hi david and all
... i really only missed 1 hour and 44 minutes
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
david w:

coel! well, you know how to work the thing with the thing on the thing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
coelacanth∅:

i do! and i shall!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
david w:

Wrapping up here, thanks everybody!
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spodiodi:

aloha, ghostacanthØ. maybe we'll run into each other in the past
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spodiodi:

thanks, david!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
coelacanth∅:

...i want and therefore feel i need some lessons in Zappa too. these 1 hour and 2 hour, cut through the lumpy gravy and get right to the uncle meat of Zappa celebrations are just what i need.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
coelacanth∅:

hey spodi it looks tight in there!
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks, David! This was wonderful!
  6:59pm
ruth:

See ya next week Thanks all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks David & Ruth!
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WR:

thank you David and Ruth. made me reflect on my mispent youth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
david w:

A pleasure to have you all along!
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chresti:

Thanks David! Thanks ruth!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

My favorite Zappa Cover: www.youtube.com...
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