Frank Zappa & his musical bicycles

Started by Zummooz, August 10, 2013, 05:00:12 AM

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Zummooz

The  Fact  Is......"We  are  all  tactile  creatures  &  physical  interaction  has  always  been  a  big  part  of  making  music"

musicman65

Lol....1963...waaaay ahead of his time.

bd

Kevin M

A precursor to some of his later orchestral compositions!

gumbo

Read slower!!!   ....I'm typing as fast as I can...

Elantric

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Quote from: musicman65 on August 10, 2013, 07:52:21 AM
Lol....1963...waaaay ahead of his time.

bd

I had a recent conversation with original Mothers of Invention member  - Del Casher
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=20073.msg144725#msg144725


Del was one of FZ's early guitar mentors
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/FZ_Guitars.html

FZ  taught himself to play guitar,  around 1966 FZ asked Del Casher to recommend the best electric guitar  - which Del Casher responded  -
QuoteTo me, Frank was one of the most exciting musicians I've known, because he went beyond being a musician. When I first met him, he said he was interested in playing guitar, and asked me what was the most expensive guitar, and I told him that the most expensive one was a Gibson ES-5, like the one I had, so he went out and bought one.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

QuoteFZ, interviewed by Steve Rosen, Record Review, June, 1982

Was there a particular guitar you used for the first years of the Mothers?
Yeah, it was an ES-5 Switchmaster. I used that on the Freak Out! album, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For The Money, and up through Reuben & The Jets. I liked it. I had a gold-top Les Paul but my first guitar was a Telecaster and then I switched to a Jazzmaster and after the Jazzmaster got repossessed I bought this hollow body (ES-5). I got the Les Paul because the hollow body was feeding back too much—we started working bigger and bigger places. The more the volume goes up the more feedback you get and I didn't want to stuff it full of styrofoam in order to keep it from feeding back and so I switched to a Les Paul and somebody stole that. Then I got a real nice second-hand SG and played that from Apostrophe (') through Bongo Fury. About the time of Bongo Fury I switched over to an SG that this guy in Phoenix made. It was an SG copy and it had an extra fret on it and it went up to an E-flat. I started playing that for a few years and then I got another Les Paul and I've played Stratocasters on and off. Over the years I've switched between a Strat and those other instruments. On this last tour I started playing the Strat and ended up playing the Les Paul.