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  • ...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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  • * [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]--lead guitar * [[Warren Cuccurullo]]--rhythm guitar
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  • * '''FZ''': lead guitar, synth, vocal * [[Ike Willis]]: rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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