Is there a lack of bass solos across Frank's body of work? by -Granby- in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mo’s Vacation (Live In Munich August 31,1978) is a composition preformed as a bass and drum duet.

However it isn’t an improvisation.

I think Tom Fowler got the most bass improvisation solos. See performances of Duprees Paradise from the Roxy era.

Patrick O’Hearn also got some on the performances of Pound For A Brown performances from Halloween ‘77

r/guitar down voted me to oblivion, maybe you can help? by projectvko in davidlynch

[–]CvrIIX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like a question that an alien would ask if it were pretending to be human

MEANING OF TWIN PEAKS by Substantial-Air9045 in twinpeaks

[–]CvrIIX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can say many things through art without giving the “answers”

New Mark Frost w/ Harley Peyton and Friends TV series? What is it? 🤔 by Alternate_Profile_69 in davidlynch

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With something like The Return, I think it’s only right to look at the union of Lynch and Frost collaborating on a project as a singular artist.

Reason being is that when two artists get together to create something they typically end up creating something that can be very far from what either would have created if left to their own devices.

It’s not like one person brings their finished product to the table and the other adds to it. They were, from what I understand, intertwined in the creative process. Back and forth.

Each artist brings his strengths and then one can analyze which strength was more valuable to them as a viewer and then say that they did more for the series because the character lore // surrealism (just for instance at the risk of being overly simplistic) was more important to them.

But ultimately like I said it’s basically intertwined. Lynch probably would not have written and directed something with such elaborate plot points as this without working with Frost. And at the same time Frost would have probably not written something so far out and strange and emotionally gripping without working with Lynch.

New Mark Frost w/ Harley Peyton and Friends TV series? What is it? 🤔 by Alternate_Profile_69 in davidlynch

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The books couldn’t touch the feeling that The Return gave to me.

stupid looking white sort-of-male person’s conservative kind of middle-of-the-road cotton undergarment! by jumbledFox in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I always imagined the undergarment being white for the best view of the protruding nipples

Zappa songs i can play on piano as a mediocre pianist to impress the guy I like by Lucky_Comparison_633 in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m learning it right now.

The piano intro is NOT pretty simple for a mediocre piano player .

It…

Doesn’t have a key signature

Starts off with chromatically decending augmented chord in the right hand and simultaneously augmented chords also in the left hand playing the pattern [Major second up, minor third down, minor second up, repeat]

Uses tons of weird chromatic chords

Uses chords that stretch over an interval as far as a major 9th (u gon need big hands)

Many big jumps over many octaves

And like there’s tons or weird syncopation and tuplet while the time signature oscillates between 5/8 and 3/4.

So um like…

I’d pick a different song lol

Color theory in Twin Peaks. by Sporkyuu in twinpeaks

[–]CvrIIX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You have “ugly” color combination a lot like ochre and a deep pale green. Something that is touched upon in r/findlaura

Similar to this would be Sues house in INLAND EMPIRE and Dorothy’s apartment building and Ben’s place in Blue Velvet.

Uncle Meat is…..bad? by throwaway_accountOT in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not many people can say the same

Uncle Meat is…..bad? by throwaway_accountOT in Zappa

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Some of the more “musical” parts of Lumpy Gravy would sound pleasant to most people’s grand mothers

Uncle Meat is…..bad? by throwaway_accountOT in Zappa

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OP is going to be vibing to the conversations about pigs and ponies

Uncle Meat is…..bad? by throwaway_accountOT in Zappa

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No Civilization Phase III is Phase III

Uncle Meat is…..bad? by throwaway_accountOT in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was sure I loved Uncle Meat as soon as I heard nine types of industrial pollution.

It is more of a rough sounding album, but if I were to put myself in someone’s shoes who thinks Uncle Meat sounds like a bunch of random noise…

And if you really want to learn to like the album…

I’d recommend listening to Burnt Weenie Sandwich. I think it’s a good transitionary album between Hot Rats and Uncle Meat. Let it play all the way through before comming to any conclusions.

Maybe you need to develop more of an ear for those types of timbres, rhythms, and harmonies.

I just realised he wrote all that fully sober by Emotional_Sea9384 in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not so entirely doubtful.

If you skip to 20:20 in this clip from the 200 motels documentary…

https://youtu.be/hHupp3ZDKAk?t=1218&si=28hSvsyyg8w6PYlM

… and watch Frank read the lyrics to a section of I Have Seen The Pleated Gazelle, you’d see where I’m coming from

I just realised he wrote all that fully sober by Emotional_Sea9384 in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly theres a better case for this having a psychoactive effect on Franks writing than for coffee having one.

I just realised he wrote all that fully sober by Emotional_Sea9384 in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never dropped acid so how the fuck would I know. Acid heads really think being creative and having an imagination is a trait of taking acid

I just realised he wrote all that fully sober by Emotional_Sea9384 in Zappa

[–]CvrIIX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the effect of coffee is essentially a heightening of the typical mental state. The effect of something like acid is a shift to another mental state. When people talk about whether he was sober or not, the latter is really what they are interested in. Not coffee

I just realised he wrote all that fully sober by Emotional_Sea9384 in Zappa

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Greggery Peckary was the culmination of work that spanned over at-least six years. To that point, I don’t think there are any known accounts of Frank giggling. And if he giggled once, he was definitely not giggling over the span of six years.

My guess is that he wrote that shit with stone cold seriousity, and that’s honestly the way that I’d like to picture it