Relix Magazine's April/May '06 special on Frank Zappa

Relix, April/May 2006

This April/May special contained several articles and interviews:

• The Many Minds of Frank Zappa
  

Pioneer, prankster, musical genius and more – we celebrate the life and times of the one and only Frank Zappa.

Maverick guitar god, stand-up comedy singer, avant-guarde composer and one-size-fits-all provocateur Frank Zappa seemed to emerge a fully formed Grand Wazoo on the Mothers of Invention's 1966 debut, Freak Out! Some 60 albums later, Zappa was just hitting his stride as a "serious" composer when he died of cancer in 1993, a few weeks shy of his 53rd birthday. I believe it's safe to say that his intricately composed jazz-rock, group inmprovisations, audience aprticipations, frisky electronics, rhythmic conundrums and all manner of spontaeous tomfoolery have influenced the contemporary "jamband" scene no less than than the big guy in the black T-shirt. Zappa's music reveals mor of its magic with every listen, while his wickedly pertinent satire still sounds as timely, for better or worse, as last night's Daily Show. We hope you enjoy our modest tribute to American music's great cosmic maximalist as much as we enloyed assembling it. and don't forget to register to vote!

–Richard Gehr, Guest Editor, 2/5/06

Information is not knowledge /

Knowledge is not wisdom /
Wisdom is not truth /
Truth is not beauty /
Beauty is not love /
Love is not music /
Music is THE BEST ...
–Joe's Garage, Act III

Vault Allures

Gail Zappa and "Vaultmeister" Joe Travers unlock the door to Frank buried treasures.
By Richard Gehr

With the Zappa Plays Zappa band about to ...

See Also

High-resolution scans of all articles can be found here.