Zappadan: Florentine Pogen, and then some

I'm gonna be traveling a bit, so I'll have to catch up again once I get back. Hopefully these will tide you over.

I originally heard this on the One Size Fits All album (one of my all time faves). Love how weird and random the lyrics are, yet the song is still catchy/tuneful enough to get thoroughly stuck in my head.

First version is live from Harrisburg, PA, in '74.

This second version is "the fast version" -- recorded in Kansas City, earlier in '74:

And you know you just want to hear a recording of that entire KC concert, dontcha? Of course you do (Warning: the recording quality on this is a bit suspect -- lots of crowd noise, the band sounds OK but the vocals are a bit soft. Oh well.):

I'm gonna be traveling a bit, so I'll probably be absent for a while here and have to catch up again once I get back. Hopefully these will tide you over if I can't get.

Zappadan: The Alternate Freak Out

A bootleg vinyl released a few years back. Supposedly sourced from different masters of the original recordings of the '66 version. Also different (better?) track order:

See also, M. Bouffant with a similar, yet different Zappadan post, as is becoming usual.

Zappadan: The story behind "the John and Yoko incident"

I found this interesting. Stumbled on it after seeing M. Bouffant's post yesterday:

Zappadan: Sofa

This is Steve Vai's take on the Sofas, I think the original two were from the One Size Fits All album. Nice cover version/interpretation though.

Unfortunate typo

It's really too bad the typo made it to the cover. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to typeset an umlaut?

Zappadan catch up

Missed a couple days, so I'll play catch up with a few longish ones.

First up: Black Napkins. I first heard this song as track 10 of the Make A Jazz Noise Here album. This version was recorded live in Philly in '76, and is quite a bit different (nearly thrice as long, for one thing) from that other one. It also has a brief spoken intro where Frank talks about playing the song on TV the night before. I think this is a far superior version, actually. It's got some amazing solo work, especially violin by Eddie Jobson at ~6:30 or so. If you only listen to one of today's, make it this one.

B: the entire Trance Fusion album. It's mostly all guitar stuff.

III -- the whole The Grand Wazoo album, from '72. In this, track 6 (at ~22:00 in) kinda ties back in with that first one, since the first time I heard this song was as track 9 of the Make A Jazz Noise Here album. This time it's the original studio version.

MOAR Zappadan!

I just found this bunch of unreleased stuff (via the Zappadan facehell page). Had to share:

Unreleased Zappa by Nigel_Rampant on Mixcloud