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• Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser
  ...as director of the Deutsche Ensemble Academy. He was also manager of the [[Ensemble Modern]] in Frankfurt at the time of the production of [[The Yellow Shark]] ...992 he was one of many celebrities who contributed a homage to Zappa in ''"Guitar Players Presents".''
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• While You Were Out
  * [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]--lead guitar * [[Warren Cuccurullo]]--rhythm guitar
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• Big Swifty (1988 - Munich)
  * '''FZ''': lead guitar, synth, vocal * [[Ike Willis]]: rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
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• Art Jarvinen
  ...produced quite a scandal in 'modern music circles.' Several members of the ensemble, mortified by all the hoo-ha, swore they would never "do it again." (Do wha
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• Spencer Chrislu Interview
  published in '92 by [[Keyboard]] and [[Guitar Player Magazine]]:<br> ...[[Ensemble Modern|Ensemble]] stuff to see if I had an ear for avant-garde classical music. Then we did some rock and roll for [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anym
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• Frank Zappa Makes A Jazz Noise
  ...aul Carman]], [[Albert Wing]] and [[Kurt McGettrick]], along with Frank on guitar, [[Synclavier]], and vocals – only played in Europe and in the northeast ...soundcheck. Reedman Paul Carman knew [[wikipedia:Jimmy Page|Jimmy Page]]'s guitar solo from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s immortal ''"[[Stairway To Heaven]]"'' by heart
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• Frank Zappa: The Mother Of All Reinventions
  ...son warns direly, "they are likely to alienate jazz fans the way they have classical fans." ...in a bewildering variety of musical idioms from hard rock to contemporary classical; to function as a social satirist; and to earn a place in the front rank of
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• Zappa The Hard Way (Andrew Greenaway)
  <p>Frank Zappa - Genius? Musical dictator? Guitar hero? American dissident? Whatever one's view of the man, there is no denyi ...American audiences who never got the chance to see this particular touring ensemble.</p>
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• Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  ...articular projects, including Ian Underwood (keyboards, saxophones, brass, guitar etc.), Ruth Underwood (percussion), George Duke (keyboards and trombone), A ...ublic appearance was in Frankfurt in 1992 at a concert of his works by the Ensemble Modern, recorded as The Yellow Shark(Barking Pumpkin, 1993), a few months b
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• Classical Zappa
  ...d to do it. That should answer the obvious question, in case you thought a classical music critic was not the most likely person in Columbus to interview [[Biog For another, his most recent album is made up of his own classical compositions recorded by the [[London Symphony Orchestra (The Orchestra)|Lo
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• Zappa Plays On
  ...l Your Mama]], founder member of the [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]], guitar hero and satirist isn't hard at work. The self-styled businessman composer' ...bloid expectations, Zappa turned up on stage in Frankfurt conducting the [[Ensemble Modern]], the chamber orchestra he'd worked with on Yellow Shark, for an ev
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• Frank's Wild Years, '93
  ...d of most of his peers in rock, placing him nearer avant-garde in jazz and classical music. This approach has also made him one of the most misunderstood, and c ...taneity of folk music with rigidly rooted constructs based in the world of classical music, Zappa works from the same base yet aims more for the wild-of-spirit
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• What Can You Do That's Fantastic?
  ...revolutionized rock & roll, and created a convergence between it and jazz, classical, funk, soul, r&b and anything else he decided to throw into the mix. Here, ...' from Hungary. Zappa festivals are actually flourishing overseas, and his classical compositions are now performed the world over.
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• That Ol' "Fish Thing"
  ...ke, I thought the rock music industry was corrupt – until I dealt with the classical music people. They will suck you dry. They don't want new music, they want ...is as complex as his music, which takes in rhythm and blues, salsa, atonal classical, heavy metal and reggae – a lot of it denounced by critics as so much noi
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• The Ed Palermo Big Band
  ...Weeny Sandwich]] the most. And [[Lumpy Gravy]]! But years of listening to classical music opened up my ears so now the music of 200 Motels hits me really hard Ed Palermo (arranger, alto saxophone, guitar);
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• The Art Of Being Frank
  ...a]], his chamber compositions performed by conductor [[Pierre Boulez]]'s [[Ensemble Intercontemporain]], and has received several invitations to conduct an orc ...ut to Los Angeles the next day. I went up to his house, and he was playing guitar, all these odd-time and atonal types of things. He'd just throw lines at me
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• The Ryko Variations
  ...hy split up '[[Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (The Series)|Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar]]' back into three CDs?<br> ...ifty-three titles? Okay, this CD focuses on the rock/pop stuff, there's no classical, no jazz, so it's certainly not an overview of Frank Zappa, because everyth
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• The Sin In Synclavier
  Mutant Timbres, Stupid Guitar Controller Tricks, & Typing Through The Tuplets. As Told To Dan Forte.<br> ...ive Tribute to [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] (Best of [[Guitar Player Magazine|Guitar Player]], 1994)<br>
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• An Indefatigable Inventor
  ...erms of technique, but in terms of the concept they have of what the final ensemble product is supposed to sound like. That is something you are only going to ...he likes of [[Guitar Slim]]. Having composed what he described as his own 'classical works' at the age of 14, he joined his first r & b band, [[The Ramblers]],
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• Pulse Interview
  ...egendary and controversial rock/doo-wop/jazz/pop/ avant garde/contemporary classical artist's dark, but comfortable video-viewing room with a television screen ...ppa: The Perfect Stranger]] album; the European contemporary music group [[Ensemble Modern]] commissioned him to put together a concert's worth of his orchestr
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• BBC Television Tribute
  ...riginal and complex figures to have emerged from rock culture. Bandleader, guitar hero, composer, satirist, and political commentator, Zappa managed to avoid ...y day. I had a little goatee and a little moustache, and I used to take my guitar with me to school - it was not electric - and spent my time between classes
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• Absolutely Frank. EQ Magazine Interview
  ...fter all, how many mere earthlings could conquer the world of avant garde, classical, and pop music as a singer, producer, composer, conductor, record mogul, ac ''As an integral member of the '60s ensemble [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]], as well as during his solo work over
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• The Trombone's Connected To The Lip Bone.
  ...he harmonic things we could do without them. If you play with a piano or a guitar, then I think you're stuck within their jail-bars as Beefheart might say. Y ...d saxophone and bassoon, flutes, clarinets. The tour we did with his Large Ensemble had about 25 musicians, a sort of improvising big band you might say. But i
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• Little Band We Used To Play In
  ...nd roll to various improvisational contexts to totally scored contemporary classical music, gaining himself a substantial following and a lot of respect in the ...instrument. I'm very fond of percussion, but my favorite instrument is the guitar.
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• Shut Up And Play Your Guitar
  [[Guitar Player Magazine]], May-June 1979<br> ...lso reveal Zappa as an excellent producer and tape editor. His distinctive guitar style is partly attributable to the cohesive strength and rhythmic subtlety
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• Zappa, 82/4
  ...ower chord as their mustachioed bandleader/MC weaves a gut-wrenching blues guitar cadenza. But it's a far cry from "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" or anything e ...Play Yer Guitar]], and feature Zappa's much underrated, always surprising guitar work at its best. (For information on availability, write to: Barking Pumpk
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• You Call That Music? (The Article)
  ...Orchestra (The Orchestra)|London Symphony Orchestra]] performing various "classical" pieces that Zappa had composed since 1968. Unable to secure a good concert ...|The Perfect Stranger - Boulez Conducts Zappa]], a 1984 recording by the [[Ensemble Intercontemporain]], and Synclavier tracks and samples also began to appear
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• An Interview With Frank Zappa
  ...one composer [[Pierre Boulez]] commissioned Frank to compose music for his ensemble, slated to be performed in Paris early in 1984. In January, the [[London Sy ...ling regarding the success of having your name connected with a program of classical music by other people?<br>
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• The Zappa Legacy
  ...e age, keep busy casting furtive glances toward Pennsylvania Avenue, while classical composers savor one last season of critical characterization as "young." Fi ...ments astonish. He started playing drums at the age of 12, and switched to guitar at 18. Two years later, in 1960, he scored a B flick, [[The World’s Great
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• A Real Mother
  ...in' Wolf|Howling Wolf]]'s guitarist [[Hubert Sumlin]]. Before picking up a guitar, though, he had played drums in the Antelope Valley High School band - from ...ling keyboard. When absolutely necessary, a top-notch outfit such as the [[Ensemble Modern]] would be called in to transpose the compositions to "real" instrum
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• Biography
  ...]], whilst earlier exposure to [[Ionisation]] - a recording by avant garde classical composer [[Edgard Varèse]] - instilled an interest in advanced rhythmic ex ...ess it was around four or five years later that I actually got an electric guitar. There was a music store not far from my house, and I rented this Telecaste
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• KPFM-FM Radio Interview, 84/5
  ...they gonna be doing [[Dupree's Paradise]] along with the program of other classical music at the [[wikipedia:Herbst Theatre|Herbst Theatre]], then on Sunday, t ...x set of records from the old days, and then there'll be excerpts from his classical pieces, works for [[Synclavier]] and orchestrations of music by his name-sa
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• Frank Zappa, Unholy Mother
  ''In this rare Interview, Zappa looks back on 28 years of guitar-playing Motherhood and provides more clues to [[Conceptual Continuity]]. Th ...premiered last year as part of the Frankfurt Music Fair. It features the [[Ensemble Modern]] playing Zappa's music, some of it already familiar to us from albu
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• Orchestral Maneuvers
  ...performed by conductor [[Pierre Boulez]]'s prized chamber orchestra, the [[Ensemble Intercontemporain]], with Boulez himself conducting the proceedings at the ...nt Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast]]," "[[My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama|My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mamma]]" and the notorious "[[Stink-Foot|Stink Foot]],"
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• Sample This!
  <blockquote>"They laughed when he put down his guitar ..." But when he sat behind his Synclavier, the laughing stopped and some s No, it's not a souped-up guitar. Though he is known as a guitarist of formidable originality, Zappa hasn't
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• 200 Motels (The Film)
  ...//www.discogs.com/artist/763396-Classical-Guitar-Ensemble Classical Guitar Ensemble], [[John Williams]]
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• The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)
  '''DM: He described you as being what he would call a classical constructionist, meaning that you use 12 tones and 11 Intervals – as is t ...it's going to go. But for the past year, I've been so involved with this [[Ensemble Modern]] [[The Yellow Shark|project]] that most of the composition work has
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• Frank Zappa, Musician, February 1994
  ...an exceptional figure because he was of two worlds: the pop world and the classical world. That's not a very easy position because you are regarded by both cam ...s|William Burroughs]] and [[wikipedia:Allen Ginsberg|Allen Ginsberg]] as a guitar player. Ten days after that he asked me to be in his band. This was in Dece
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• Modern Music Is a Sick Puppy
  ...eum. They specifically requested an arrangement of one of the tunes on the guitar album – a piece called "[[While You Were Out]]." So I did it. And I did i It's baloney – but that's what happens for real in the classical music world. For these reasons, I have said, "OK, that's it. I've been doin
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• Zappa, 79/8
  ...d your music, and I don't really like this. But, if you'd had me on rhythm guitar, it would've been a hit." ...vinsky|Stravinsky]]'s career in which he decided he was going to write neo-classical music. He started doing stuff like [[Wikipedia:Pulcinella (ballet)|Pulcinel
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• Don Paulsen interviews FZ
  ...a band together with ahh, couple other people, a guy named [[Ray Hunt]] on guitar, [[Dave Coronado]] on sax and [[Ray Collins]] as lead vocalist and they cal ...tly mutilated and decided to quit the band. Leaving four and they needed a guitar player so they called me up. So I joined the band and started working with
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• The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)
  From ''A Definitive Tribute to [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'' (Best of Guitar Player, 1994) Before you even took up guitar?<br>
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• Relix Magazine's April/May '06 special on Frank Zappa
  Maverick guitar god, stand-up comedy singer, avant-guarde composer and one-size-fits-all pr ...as the Edgard Varѐse project that happened in the summer of '93 with the [[Ensemble Modern]].<br>
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• I'm Different or Not Exactly Duane Allman
  [[Guitar Player Magazine]]: February, 1983<br> ...tream of pop music. Elements of all types of music, including contemporary classical, jazz, heavy metal, and practically every other recognizable form are emplo
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• Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy
  ...also the name of a film, now a cult classic) and "[[Jazz From Hell]]." His classical music has been lauded in stuffy circles, and he has released albums of his ...he Soul Giants, which became the Mothers of Invention. With Zappa as their guitar-wielding leader, the Mothers were known for their excellent and innovative
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