Watch a Rare Footage Of Frank Zappa Performing ‘Mudd Club’ Live In 1980

By editorial board on April 3, 2023

The track features on the latest archival release from The Vault, ‘Zappa 80: Mudd Club/Munich.’

Rare footage of Frank Zappa performing “Mudd Club” from the New York venue of the same name has been released. The film of the typically satirical, reggae-tinged track was shot by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher (DoRo Productions) on May 8, 1980 and edited by J. Warner.

Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe Travers – and out now – this historically significant release is now available, digitally, on 3CD, and now on vinyl via Zappa Records/UMe

During the episode, host Scott Parker and producer Phil Surkis are on hand to ask David about auditioning for Frank Zappa’s band, the stamina it takes to play drums during a marathon Zappa performance, and his playing on the seminal album from Zappa, You Are What You Is.

Fast forward to the end of the grueling audition process, and Zappa offered Logeman the gig in signature fashion. “We were there for hours and hours. At the end, he [Zappa] says, ‘You know, I think this is going to work, and I’d like to hire you to come out. We don’t have much time. I pay a thousand dollars a week. That’s it. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the band 10 years or 10 days.’”

Frank Zappa’s The Real Frank Zappa Book is now available exclusively on Audible. The book enables fans to tap into the rare audio opportunity of a peek into the life of the legendary Frank Zappa – one of the most influential, innovative, and controversial musical artists in rock.

 

Ahmet Zappa, one of Frank Zappa’s sons, will be providing the audio narration, so gather around your favorite listening device to hear Ahmet narrate his father’s take on everything from politics to beer.

First published by Simon & Schuster in 1989, The Real Frank Zappa Book – written by Zappa with assistance from Peter Occhiogrosso – is the second-best way to expose yourself to the particular genius of Frank Zappa (“Music is The Best,” after all) – through his own words.The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso - with - Audiobook - Audible.com

Listen to The Real Frank Zappa.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of the song Valley Girl, "Zappa Records / Ume released the first ever music video for the song.

Valley Girl is a single by Frank Zappa and Moon Unit Zappa (his daughter) released in 1982 by Barking Pumpkin Records in 7 "and 12" formats, taken from the album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

Directed by David Calcano and Marifernanda Fuentes, the video is a journey through the SoCal (Southern California) culture of the 1980s in 2D animation. Frank looks in great shape, lying in the back of a convertible driven by a poodle cruising the streets of Los Angeles.

Last June it was the celebration of  Freak Out!, the first album by The Mothers of Invention, a group led by Frank Zappa, released in June 27th1966 by Verve Records.

It was the second double-album in rock history (preceded by Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde), and showed, among other things, Zappa's ability to demolish American society with irony and humor.

A year before Frank Zappa was introduced to the world along with his strange brethren in the Mothers of Invention, Bob Dylan released a masterpiece that almost made Zappa quit before he had even started. “I wanted to quit the music business,” he said when reflecting on ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, “because I felt: ‘If this wins and it does what it’s supposed to do, I don’t need to do anything else.” (Faroutmagazine)

Imagine being back in 1966: You lay the needle on the record and the opening Kinks-like riff of ‘Hungry Freaks, Daddy’ and you instantly nod your head like the music is that hammer the doctor taps your knee with, ‘Alright then’, you say. Then the vocals / strange, chanted incantation begins, and you think, ‘Okay, a little bit unusual but I like it, I guess’. By the time the peculiar dissonant middle-eight kicked in you’d be saying, ‘What the f—k is this?’.

Frank Zappa, had the audacity to convince Verve Records to release his first recording, Freak Out!, as a double album by The Mothers of Invention. The first album of the set featured nine songs which fit into the pop sounds of the time (but so much better), wrapped around the astounding voice of Ray Collins. And it wouldn’t have garnered as much attention except for two other tracks: “Who Are the Brain Police?” and the opening “Hungry Freaks, Daddy.” Sides 3 and 4 are a whole other matter. (Musicfestnews)

In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Frank Zappa seemed to split the difference between art, revolution and retreat when he recorded “Hot Rats,” his second yet most important solo album, during the summer of ’69. Excerpt from Los Angeles Times, to read the full article click here.

 

 

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times, to read the full article click here.

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