The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
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Artist: Frank Zappa
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-30
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Heavy Duty Judy
  2. Ring of Fire
  3. Cosmik Debris
  4. Find Her Finer
  5. Who Needs the Peace Corps?
  6. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  7. Zomby Woof
  8. Bolero
  9. Zoot Allures
  10. Mr. Green Genes
  11. Florentine Pogen
  12. Andy
  13. Inca Roads
  14. Sofa No. 1
Music CD 2
  1. Purple Haze
  2. Sunshine of Your Love
  3. Let's Move to Cleveland
  4. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  5. A Few Moments With Brother A. West
  6. The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 1
  7. Lonesome Cowboy Burt [Swaggart Version]
  8. The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 2
  9. More Trouble Every Day [Swaggart Version]
  10. Penguin in Bondage [Swaggart Version]
  11. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
  12. Stairway to Heaven

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Free Music Review: The Best, Absolutely Incredible Live Band
Hit: 5 Stars

I have to take issue with kireviewer's review. This is a recording of the band, not just one element of it, but the entirety. The song list is excellent and it is not just a pile of novelty tunes. Unfortunately, one really needs to understand the historical perspective to be able to fully appreciate these recordings. I recommend "Electric don Quixote" by Neil Slavin for those unfamiliar with the intricies of Frank's professional life.

As just one example of what I'm getting at, this disc was a change of style with respect to how Frank had been assembling his recorded music. First off, many of his albums had a foundation from tracks recorded live, with some tracks pulled off of the multitrack live master, then overdubs (sometimes MANY overdubs) were later added in the studio. At other times, solos were pulled off of one live tape and dubbed onto backing tracks from another performance - at times from a totally different song and maybe with the tape speed or even direction changed. Frank was a tireless pioneer of studio technology and recording and mastering technique and what you heard on a disc often never happened anywhere but in his imagination, which was then crafted in the studio into the product.

This album was a huge switch, back to earlier days in a way. These are live recordings with ZERO overdubs. If you want to know what his music sounded like live back in the 80's, just listen to these discs. His bands never quite met his expectations, but they were leaps and bounds, even light years ahead of any other band I've ever heard live - and I've heard quite a few that claimed to be the best. Now, like I said, there are no overdubs, but what was done in some circumstances was to take part of a song from one performance and edit into a different performance, to capture the best parts of each. It's easy to tell when this was done by reading the liner notes. For example, "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" was assembled from performances in Syracuse, NY and Detroit, MI, but don't expect to hear the edits. I was at the Detroit show and that's my voice you hear in the background, saying: "You guys are the greatest!" And they were.

About the song list: again, excellent. 19 tracks were from one location, 8 were assembled as mentioned above from two different locations. Tunes from all periods of Frank's career, with numerous cover tunes thrown in for color, including Ring of Fire, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Bolero, Purple Haze, Sunshine Of Your Love, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Godfather Theme Part II, Theme From Bonanza and Stairway To Heaven. How's that for variety? Of the Zappa tunes, we are treated to new arrangements of numerous tracks, including Heavy Duty Judy. We have some excellent instrumentals, including Zoot Allures, Sofa #1 and an incredible performance of The Torture Never Stops. Lots of American folks didn't get to see this tour, but I did and it was incredible, just like this set!!!

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