Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth teams up with pianist Alan Pasqua for this concert recording. The two jazz greats were captured on camera as they performed alongside fellow musicians Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip at Yoshi's in San Francisco. Tracks: 1. The Fifth 2. Looking Glass 3. Fred 4. I Must Be Jazz 5. Blues For Tony 6. San Michele 7. Pud Wud 8. Protocosmos 9. Red Alert
Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa review This tribute to the music of Frank Zappa was recorded live at Jazzopen, Stuttgart, July, 1994. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa DVD The band is comprised of Ike Willis, Bruce Fowler, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Tom Fowler, Arthur Barrow, Ed Mann, Jay Dittamo, and Chad Wackerman. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa movie This appropriately offbeat tribute to Frank Zappa, filmed live in Stuttgart, includes performances from Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, and Jay Dittamo playing enduringly popular hits like "Bamboozled by Love," "Be-Bop Tango," and "Sofa." This is the only Arthur Barrow video. Band from Utopia A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa video Stars also making their debut in this video: Tom Fowler, Jay Dittamo, Ike Willis.
In a little over an hour, 'VIDEO FROM HELL' provides a preview of current and projected Honker releases, including 'BABY SNAKES', 'THE TRUE STORY OF 200 MOTELS' and 'UNCLE MEAT' (all 1987 releases) along with segments of 1988 shows still in preparation ('YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE'- which will be released after the multi-CD package, 'I NEED YOUR LOVE' - the homespun philosophy of Al Malkin, and 'AN AMERICAN DISSIDENT' - the homespun philosophy of Frank Zappa).
Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. Previously only available through mail-order, it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005.