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BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
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I blame Frank. Frank hired his largest touring band since the Grand Wazoo, and delegated the job of running rehearsals in his absence to a 27-year-old bassist who'd never had that duty before, …
Trouble Every Day in the European performances always includes a Thirteen vamp; Who Needs The Peace Corps always includes I Left My Heart In San Francisco at the end; Why Don't You …
Look to the 82 tour where an italian doctor basically misdiagnosed him. 19 votes, 15 comments. The general consensus is that Frank’s cancer was diagnosed in 1990 and was made public the …
Ed Mann was the one who really had the problem with Scott at first, and during the course of the tour the other guys in the band started to see things his way. Somewhere in the …
Unfortunately, the tour proved to be a turbulent experience for FZ due to conflicts among the band members, and this ultimately cut short the existence of this lineup. However, the memory …
It turned out that Frank Zappa’s 1988 tour would be his last. He’d assembled a crack band – perhaps the most adept of his many ensembles – to trawl across the United States before heading to Europe, where there was a …
Called Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show, the album offers two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music, including 28 tracks from the Long Island event and two from earlier concerts that same month in Rhode Island and Maryland.
[Dave Dondorf] ended up with Frank Zappa by chance when a friend passed a rumor along that Frank needed a new technician for the '88 tour. "I got the call from the …
Frank's solos are obviously Frank's fault (the rhythm section is surprisingly good throughout the tour; tight yet exploratory), but sadly, the failing of the Monster Songs seems to …