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Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671705725
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Real Frank Zappa Book written by Frank Zappa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the career of the rock music performer.
Author : Pauline Butcher
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0859657159
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Freak Out written by Pauline Butcher and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.
Author : Neil Slaven
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857120433
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa written by Neil Slaven and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. Revised and updated, Electric Don Quixote is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career. Author, Neil Slaven, brings together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music. Fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive discography.
Author : Ben Watson
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312141240
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Frank Zappa written by Ben Watson and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the music of Frank Zappa, discusses his creative process, and examines his cultural influence
Author : Andrew Greenaway
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781908724007
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Zappa the Hard Way written by Andrew Greenaway and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Zappa The Hard Way' is the story of Frank Zappa's last ever world tour that ended in mutiny. In 1988 Frank Zappa toured with a twelve-piece band that had rehearsed for months, learned a repertoire of over 100 songs and played an entirely different set each night. It is why, in Zappa's own words, it was "the best band you never heard in your life" - a reference to East Coast American audiences who never got the chance to see this particular touring ensemble. Zappa appointed bass player Scott Thunes to rehearse the group in his absence. In carrying out this role, Thunes was apparently abrasive, blunt and rude to the other members and two factions quickly developed: Thunes and stunt guitarist Mike Keneally on the one side; the remaining nine band members on the other. The atmosphere deteriorated as the tour progressed through America and on to Europe. Before leaving Europe, Zappa told the band that there were ten more weeks of concerts booked in the USA and asked them: "If Scott's in the band, will you do the tour?" With the exception of Keneally, they all said "no." Rather than replace Thunes, Zappa cancelled almost three months of concerts and never toured again - claiming to have lost $400,000 in the process. 'Zappa The Hard Way' documents that tour. If you think touring can be fun, think again! Yes there were groupies and the usual paraphernalia associated with rock 'n' roll, but there was also bitterness and skulduggery on a scale that no one could imagine. Author Andrew Greenaway has interviewed the surviving band members and others associated with the tour to unravel the goings on behind the scenes that drove Zappa to call a halt to proceedings, despite the huge personal financial losses. This paperback edition includes a foreword by Zappa's sister Candy, and an afterword by Pauline Butcher, Zappa's former secretary and author of 'Freak Out! My Life With Frank Zappa', 'Zappa The Hard Way' might just be the best book you've never read in your life!
Author : Bill Gubbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493047758
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (477 download)
Download or read book The Hot Rats Book written by Bill Gubbins and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Rats, the second solo album by Frank Zappa, is considered by his fans and critics alike to be a groundbreaking, important record, as well as one of his most innovative efforts of all time. The first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention, Zappa composed, arranged, and produced all of the music on Hot Rats while playing electric guitar on all tracks. The album contains the song "Peaches en Regalia," widely recognized as a modern jazz-fusion standard. This entire groundbreaking and historical record--including using new sixteen-multitrack recording and overdub technics for the first time ever--was captured in photos by Bill Gubbins, who shot the recording sessions and live performances of the record immediately following its release. Most of these images have never before been published in book form, appearing here for the first time. The "Hot Rats" Book: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats" also contains essays by author Bill Gubbins; Ian Underwood, who was involved in working with Zappa on the recording sessions; Steve Vai; David Fricke; and Matt Groening.
Author : Ben Watson
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780946719792
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Academy Zappa written by Ben Watson and published by SAF Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic decorum is trashed as the glories, absurdities and obscenities of rock's greatest Dadaist are unveiled.
Author : Charles Ulrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554201464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Big Note written by Charles Ulrich and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music. THE BIG NOTE is the complete guide to the music of Frank Zappa--100 albums recorded over 35 years, the 80+ players on them, each one of 1,772 tracks described in detail, backed up by 1,424 citations. Based on hundreds of interviews, letters, and e-mail correspondences with scores of musicians, singers, engineers, artists, copyists, and others who worked with Zappa, THE BIG NOTE provides the liner notes that every album in the protean and prolific composer's oeuvre cries out for. It is the indispensible resource for any Zappa fan or scholar.
Author : Co de Kloet
Publisher : Jawbone
ISBN 13 : 9781911036814
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Frank and Co written by Co de Kloet and published by Jawbone. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this book, the Zappa fan will get a glimpse into Frank that I don't believe any other book written by him or about him expresses. And us Zappa fans love that. Thank you, Co." - Steve Vai "I think the best way to start when somebody says something can't be done, just look at them and say: why not?" - Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, 1990 Co de Kloet and Frank Zappa were friends for many years, and during that time Co recorded nearly every conversation the two men had. They also corresponded frequently--about life, music, politics, and much more besides--and this book offers a unique chronicle of their friendship, from their first meeting in 1977 to Zappa's death in 1993. Co is renowned as an expert on Zappa's music, but this book is about far more than that, and is unlike any other collection of interviews. As his son Dweezil writes in his foreword, Frank was a reluctant and sometimes combative interviewee, yet his conversations with Co were open and wide-ranging. Through more than two decades of these discussions, Frank & Co reveals a thoughtful, sensitive, and expansive Zappa, offering readers new insights into the life and career of one of the great masters of twentieth-century American music. It also includes Co's favourite memories of Frank, as well as interviews with Zappa alumni Flo & Eddie, Jimmy Carl Black, Pamela Zarubica, and Don van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart.
Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905177561
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Them Or Us written by Frank Zappa and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 Frank Zappa self-published Them or Us, created with a dot matrix printer. This facsimile edition brings this seminal work on conceptual continuity to a new generation of fans who have outgrown the ordinary.
Author : Barry Miles
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782396780
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Frank Zappa written by Barry Miles and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controversialist and Zappa the family man (despite his love of groupies, he was married for more than 30 years) together for the first time. Barry Miles' biography follows Zappa from his sickly Italian-American childhood in the 1940s (when his father, Frank senior, worked for the US military and was used to test the efficacy of new biological warfare agents) to his death from cancer in the 1990s. Miles shows how Zappa's goal had been to become a classical composer, until he realised that he would starve to death pursuing this ambition in post-war America. In an effort to make music people would actually listen to, in the mid-1960s he joined a noisy new band called 'The Mothers of Invention'. Before long, Zappa had taken over as singer, song writer and lead guitarist and together they exploded on to the San Francisco freak scene. Following the release of recordings such as Freak Out, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For the Money and Hot Rats, Zappa's reputation in the United States and in Europe, especially the UK, Germany and Holland, took off. When the Berlin wall fell, Frank was surprised to learn that his extravagant music embodied sixties liberty for a generation of dissidents (including Vaclav Havel, who invited Zappa to be his minister for culture). Frank Zappa is an authoritative and hugely enjoyable portrait of a singular man and a vivid evocation of the West Coast scene.
Author : Ben Watson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127381
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Frank Zappa: The Complete Guide to his Music written by Ben Watson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Frank Zappa - the genius of the absurd, and one of the most prolific and unpredictable characters of 20th century music.A thorough analysis of Zappa's complete recorded output, from the early days of the Mothers Of Invention, through his more avant-garde compositions and classical projects to the most recent posthumous releases. The guide features:An album by album analysisA full Zappa bibliographyDetails of when and where the music was recorded, including all collaborating artistsA special section concerning compilation, archive and bootleg releasesSixteen pages of full-colour images
Author : Ahmet Zappa
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1484745752
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Because I'm Your Dad written by Ahmet Zappa and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I'm your dad, you can have spaghetti for breakfast, French toast for dinner, and rocky road ice cream in the bathtub. In a text that's both playful and loving, a father expresses his hopes and dreams for a one-of-a-kind relationship with his child. Whimsical monster characters bring the silly and sweet scenes to life and keep the book universal. The book's ending, a moving tribute to the author's father, guarantees intergenerational appeal. Because I'm your dad, I will do all of these things for you and more . . . because that's what my dad did for me.
Author : Frank Zappa
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458430596
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook) written by Frank Zappa and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Recorded Version (Guitar)). Note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all nine tracks from Zappa's classic 1975 release: Andy * Can't Afford No Shoes * Evelyn, A Modified Dog * Florentine Pogen * Inca Roads * Po-Jama People * San Ber'dino * Sofa No. 1 * Sofa No. 2. Includes an introduction by Steve Vai.
Author : Billy James
Publisher : SAF Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Necessity is - written by Billy James and published by SAF Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best Frank Zappa memoir yet, as told by the early members of the Mothers of Invention.
Author : Greg Russo
Publisher : CrossFire Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780998355047
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Cosmik Debris written by Greg Russo and published by CrossFire Pub.. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Frank Zappa.
Author : David Walley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book No Commercial Potential written by David Walley and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
