Zappa's bass lines - scary stuff!

[Grand Wazoo]

It's only when I see some very good youtube bass covers that I realize how complicate were some of Zappa's songs, these are a few examples

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1V2TOCaXB0[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31fbdBmHzqA[/media]

[Grand Wazoo]

and one more for good measure

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNR3QXPvYKo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNR3QXPvYKo[/url]

[xilddx]

Awwww, you haven't put mine up

[xilddx]

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1384387167' post='2276222']
and one more for good measure

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNR3QXPvYKo[/media]
[/quote]

I've always wanted to learn that one.

[Grand Wazoo]

I dunno which one is your fav one?

Edited November 14, 2013 by Grand Wazoo

[paul_5]

I've known Zappa's stuff was scary for a while now. The RNCM have/had some Zappa scores in their library for a few years and I managed to borrow some for a week.

Yowza, yowza, yowza!

[xilddx]

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1384387516' post='2276229']
I dunno which one is your fav one?
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I was just joking that you didn't post one I did It's not very good really.

[Grand Wazoo]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1384388227' post='2276242']
I was just joking that you didn't post one I did It's not very good really.
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well if it is on youtube, I'd like to see it, but to get those 3 good version above, I have had to skip through at least 10 badly done ones which eventually I didn't pick, but never seen yours. I think Marlowe DK does a good job on Dirty Love, but the first one i.e. Peaches is my fav.

[xilddx]

Just listened to the Echidna's Arf one, very good indeed, if a little soulless, but you can't deny the skill on show, flawless!

This is mine, I cringe at the timing in some of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=focGv64Wj0A

Edited November 14, 2013 by xilddx

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1384387149' post='2276221']
It's only when I see some very good youtube bass covers that I realize how complicate were some of Zappa's songs

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1V2TOCaXB0[/media]
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I love Peaches en Regalia and it's still remarkable to me that Shuggie Otis was about 16 when it was was recorded.

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384389397' post='2276257']
I love Peaches en Regalia and it's still remarkable to me that Shuggie Otis was about 16 when it was was recorded.
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Obviously no one was as impressed as i was at Shuggie's bass playing.

Edited November 15, 2013 by BetaFunk

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1384554342' post='2278246']
I think they're all great. Peaches has some really weird stuff going on in there. Ahead Of Their Time?
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Excellent!!!

Zappa was not only a great composer but very a clever bloke who knew how to put a great group of musicians together.

[White Cloud]

Zappa was a modern day genius; innovative, experimental, fearless and ground breaking. That is what music is actually all about.

Been a fan for 35 years and have ALWAYS been hugely impressed by the complexity of the music.

[Grand Wazoo]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1384388915' post='2276251']
Just listened to the Echidna's Arf one, very good indeed, if a little soulless, but you can't deny the skill on show, flawless!

This is mine, I cringe at the timing in some of it

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=focGv64Wj0A[/media]
[/quote]

Nigel yes, I did enjoy not bad! 'bit messy', but fun none the less. good job.

[Billy Apple]

I listened to an interview with this wifey who used to be his secretary/PA. The interviewer was alluding to what a crazy, drugged up time it must have been working around Zappa. But, she said No, he was completly organised, lucid and serious about everything he did.

I don't know much about his work outside of Dancing Fool and Jewish Princess, but this is my favorite track.. (so far)..

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diCm4x3iRg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diCm4x3iRg[/url]

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1384715114' post='2279882']
I listened to an interview with this wifey who used to be his secretary/PA. The interviewer was alluding to what a crazy, drugged up time it must have been working around Zappa. But, she said No, he was completly organised, lucid and serious about everything he did.
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It's very well known that Zappa was a well organised and serious musician as are his views on drugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Vi1zusI3s

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384716342' post='2279912']
It's very well known that Zappa was a well organised and serious musician as are his views on drugs.
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'It's taken away a lot of their ambition'

'We have yet to reap the so called benefits of the acid generation'

Very bright Chap.