Zappa's Universe (The Film)

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Players

Tracks

  1. Elvis Has Just Left The Building
  2. Planet Of The Baritone Women
  3. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
  4. Jazz Discharge Party Hats
  5. The Idiot Bastard Son
  6. The Black Page
  7. Echidna's Arf (Of You)
  8. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  9. Uncle Meat
  10. Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
  11. Heavenly Bank Account
  12. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  13. Waka Jawaka (Edit)
  14. Dirty Love
  15. Chunga's Revenge
  16. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel

Release Notes

Liner Notes

A celebration of 25 years of Frank Zappa's Music
Joel Thome conducts the music of Frank Zappa, featuring performances by Steve Vai, Dweezil Zappa, The Persuasions, Rockapella and Dale Bozzio.

Composer/bandleader/guitarist/sociologist Frank Zappa wrote the music, of course, but he doesn't perform it. He selected the program – from among an estimated 1200 compositions and some seventy albums, depending on how you're counting – with Joel Thome, who also conducted and arranged the pieces for orchestra and rock group.

Family, friends and fellow musicians were all on hand for this memorable performance, which was billed as a musical love test celebrating the iconoclast's fiftieth birthday year and his first quarter century of sophisticated semipopular entertainment.

Background Information

Conceptual Continuity

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