Frank Zappa Plays RDNZL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- Stadio Communale La Favorita - Palermo, Italy
July, 14, 1982.
The last concert of the 1982 tour ended in a riot. This song is early in the set, so you don't catch any of the extra-curriculars (and there were plenty!)
This clip shows FZ as conductor and guitarist (playing a wicked lead), and some shots of the band towards the end.
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Bashes out an insane solo, makes a drink, sparks a ciggie and sits down to watch a great band play the madness he created. Wow.
You couldn't write a better commentary. I love ya!
Perfect...simply perfect...FZ would've liked your critique!!!
I Like him so much, FZ was a very Special man- great !
He created so Special Music and acted soo cool !
When I saw him live, I saw it in reverse, kinda.
He sat down on a stool, nonchalantly opened a thermos to sip on (presumably) some coffee, had a cig, and tapped his foot, while three players wailed on some fusion. Then when he was ready, he got up and ripped a solo.
No one, I mean NO ONE, else can go from conducting a band of this magnitude, pick up a guitar and shred a face melting solo, go back to conducting, and then nonchalantly pull up a stool and smoke a stogie center stage while enjoying his band jam, then back to conducting still smoking, all while not breaking a sweat. And his bass player wearing his face on a shirt. We're not fucking worthy, man...
Amen
:')
As the fifth smartest man in the world Frank could, and did, the impossible. Plus the I Q test was right on.
@@MichaelSwagulski-wk6poWhat it was, his IQ?
Scott Thune's bass lines during the latin parts after the solo... wtf! He's a monster!
Frank Zappa still manages to shock me at times with how outrageously good he was.
Great ! I Saw Zappa the first Time at this period of 1982 in Paris. The same lineup with a young Steve Vai. The show started with Zoot Allures.....wow !!! The émotion was so gigantic that i loosed the name of this tune that I knew very well !!! When Frank started the guitar solo, I Always unable to remind the name of the tune. The solo was stratospheric....My skin looked like chicken.....It's only at the end that my brain reconnect... I wasn't on drugs or drunk...It was the first Time. I'll never forget.
I had the same feeling the very first time I listened to zappa. The nerves in my skin were so electrified that I thought it was raining.
I was outside, the weather was fine, it was summer.
Zoot Allures from that era with Scott Thunes on bass was always awesome!
Have had Rat Tomago on repeat for oh
Around two months now
That and Watermelon
Zappa has never hit a single wrong note with me, it’s all adventure.
I’ve listened to a lot of music from all genres over the years, and there’s really no one like Zappa, a guy who can write jazz charts, classical compositions, doowop, rock, you name it. And one of the most prolific composers of the modern era. Oh, and an amazing ax man too.
I cant think of anyone more prolific? Hmm I must away to google and great googley moogley!!
It will probably take until the next turn of the century for humanity to fully appreciate FZ's music. Well, if we make it that long without plunging back into the Stone Age...
@@a2ndopynyn I don't quite agree with you. FZ gets already the recognition he fully deserves. Watch all the different covers by first class orchestras and people who just love FZ but are not professionals.
Wasn't it Alan Zavod who caused the rift between Scott Thunes & the band on the 1988 tour? I cannot confirm myself. I even have the 'Hardcover' FZ auto-bio from Frank himself. What a magnificent read. Frank stated the band had issues with Scott.
Who knows....... cheers, brother.
OMG the level of musicianship on that stage is absolutely scary. Boy you had to know your stuff if you played for Frank.
Totally agree. What a brilliant piece of music. The energy of this band just so incredible... Vinnie on drums is the icing on the cake ....
@@frankbreuer8849 That's Wackerman but yes Vinnie is great too
I would've given anything to have auditioned for him, but probably would have been rejected.
horst baur all of his musicians are/were classically trained... including Frank... he even influenced his little buddy there...Steve Vai!!
mmhhm yeah ... indeed, but: are´nt there 1000s of performers, matching the same criteria? What Zappa (quite sure) would have dizzed & zerofied is: the unexpected break in playback, paused for useless and annoying tube-commercial. THESE are SCARY. Really SCARY, cause rendering the outstanding result of hard working people to a chopped to a mess!
(I didn´t watch the full file - disappointed, not willing to be disturbed a second time.)
Amd, imho, if I had my 32h-Franky-overdoze, it´s a refreshing experience alternatively watching a disoriented band, falling drunken on stage with no timing, no plan, no quality.
Sometimes, the repetitive character of phrases and licks in composition are behaving like any repetition else: tending to be boring. So it is possible, NOT to resume playback, when universe sends you ignorant content-management-idiots, who don´t care about the flow of expression or a (even highly respected) artist´s aim.
Another masterpiece by Zappa. We are all so lucky to be living at this time. We all got to experience the Best.
Yes, this was before corporate crap music completely took over the music industry
I saw him twice, even during a recorded concert nearby Milano
@@identifiantidentifie397 I saw him three times, twice in 1984 and once in his final tour. Greater I have never seen!
The idiotic local "critics" went on a fault-finding fest, a few concluding, "the encore was OK". But they were idiots! Absolutely!
I have a second cousin that was (is?) a sound technician. He worked for Zappa and Fleetwood Mac back in those days. He said that Zappa would not allow any drugs on his watch. Fleetwood Mac, the opposite. Back then, I would have thought the opposite. Today, I see it...
No one has a tone like Franks
Music is the best, the band is having such fun.
Nice audio right off the board here no doubt.... The band's performance is pure excellence and a commitment to their genius composer/ conductor Frank Zappa!
The guitar solo in this never wears out.
I can listen to it forever
majestic Scott Thunes work in here
And I probably will listen to it forever
With the interlude to the solo, you just know something truly special is coming.
Agreed, this is an absolutely killer solo
@@griffinb6365 Yes! Massive!
Been a fan of Franks for many years and I still marvel at his ability to compose such complicated tunes, yet be so cool about it on stage. No equal.
Zappa improvised every his solos so everyone is a little different and unique. That's why I like them.
Enjoyed seeing Frank LIVE. The way he would take a break and let the band have their own improv time.
Freakin Steve Vai is on guitar... taught by Joe Satriani... and Zappa conducting like he was walking in the park then picked up his rig and killed it! Damn ... he’s amazing!
killer musicians and whats even more amazing is that Frank thought all this stuff up and wrote it out for them to play its just unreal and so hard to excecute
gratest rock composer all time
One of the greatest composers of the 20th century
Lars Christiansen ... I would agree but add ANY century... his understanding and ability to get these guys to play his music still amazes me... thanks Lars for making me write about it... again.
great composer of dodecafonic music of the XX century
free music
greatest composer of all time
Nothing quite like a cigarette break after conducting a complex piece of music and playing a badass guitar solo
Thunes & wackermen, An exercise in self indulgence And musical mastery.
such a great rhythm section!
Greatest guitarist of all time.
Carl 123- There is no such thing as the "greatest guitarist of all time" but FZ is mighty good and plays some very interesting and distinctive solos.
I wouldn't say the greatest guitarist but possibly the greatest guitar composer of all time. Frank was absolutely musically brilliant and not only did he get out of the box but he had no box.
I've seen interviews in which Zappa threw shade on his own guitar abilities. I didn't take it as false modesty but I didn't agree with him. That said, as fine a guitarist as he was,he will be remembered as a composer.
@@weekendsgigs1223 That is a fair statement.
Yep.
"Another Great Italian"
Alvin Lee, ladies and gentlemen, -
Al Di Meola
Joe Satriani
Warren Cuccurullo
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Wow. This footage is gem.
This is simply a Mammoth Guitar Solo and the best RDNZL version ever played by Frank and his amazing musicians
I have to agree and only wish I'd been there.
I love his solo on Montana when he wore that funny squared pants
I think the best RDNZL solo is on Road Tapes #2
sometimes Zappa goes off into another time signature for a moment, and then brings it back into sync again effortlessly. Billie Holiday did this with her singing, and she was queen of her musical profession.
Playing over the bar line.
Nice to see so much of Mars including call & response with Mann (in addition to the others). Super performance of a Zappa classic!!
200, 000 views and only 1% are on board … ??? What is wrong with my life? I will tell you NOTHING!!! this is and ALWAYS has been FUCKING GREAT… if there is anyone out there who does’t believe that this is fucking great than they should go now because this show will bring them down so much …
Best Guitar solo I ever heard. Frank! You crazed genius. 50 years I still can't get enough. A little Zappa every day keeps me going in these days of post freedom, post liberty and post justice. Not to mention post music.
Thank you FZ for recording, filming, producing and editing your own concerts. So generations hence, will be able to be enriched by your timeless music as discussed we have. The world was a better place with you in it.
Great Googly- Moogly! To all you Mothas' out there, peace.
That,s from Screaming Jay Hawkings btw
Frank so cool taking a cigarette break in the middle of a killer performance.
Edward Maxwell . And a big swig of milk.
The look he shoots Vai with at 2:30 for a slight clam.
lmaoo nice call
FZ plays at a level of intensity that even the very best covers fail to reach
Frank really did put together some of the most talented and interesting bands..
First heard Zappa in 1979... always keep coming back to him, since.
The Shakespeare of Classic Satire Fusion Rock 500 years from now.
They will write Space Operas to this stuff. Zappa's catalog is massive.
Movie scores will feature Zappa charts.
Any other guitar players here who've tried to use Frank's picking technique ? He picks upwards in a very strange form of economy picking , I spent a year back in the 90s trying to get comfortable with Frank's picking style and couldn't ,I thought it was just my inability to learn until I saw an interview with Dweezil Zappa where Dweezil spent 2 years learning Frank's techniques and flat out gave up attempting to learn Frank's chicken picking .
That's what have his clean tone playing that attack, and what facilitated his unique rhythmic phrasing. Most guitarists who just try to play his solos just don't get it.... It was rare to hear even groupings coming from him.
He held a guitar pick like it was a paint brush, is how it always looked to me. I think it's one of those things that you can teach yourself when you're a little kid; by the time you're through puberty, neural pathways just don't form as easily any more. Check out some video of Steve Morse live and watch his right hand technique. Different than FZ's of course, but no less amazing.
@@a2ndopynyn One hand is a chicken, one hand is a spider, and they fight each other.
Sick. Just plain sick! That tone is fantastic.
The '82 selections and performances are some of the best of his touring career. There were no US dates in '82, and that sucked. This is the same band as '81, but Zappa gave the European audiences better performances than the American audiences. He knew they appreciated musicianship more.
Then again, this particular performance came from the famed Palermo concert where the riot and the tear gas caused the show to end a lot sooner than it should've. Still, the European audiences dug into Zappa's music more than the American "pop consumer" audiences did.
yes and but also the band was on its second major run of touring thus more fluid from playing over the material. some of the best guitar solos are from 1982 no doubt.
@@DeadPerspective - You're both correct. The US audiences were more interested in the comedy stuff; Yellow Snow, Dancin' Fool, etc. I was a teenager during this era of his music, and although I liked the longer guitar solos, I was really into the funny aspect of the lyrics. Plus, I was late enough to the party that very little of his work was still in print. (I knew nothing of used record stores.) For me, Frank was sort of like a cross between Weird Al and Led Zep. As I got older and CDs came out, his older stuff started getting re-released, and I was (a little) more mature, more able to appreciate what he was doing.
@Zolar Czakl - Hahaha, I'm finding you all over Zappa posts. I saw Frank 2 shows in one night in 1981. The late show is still the best Zappa concert I ever attended. I disagree that he ever gave better to the Europeans. The '82 tour was a continuation of the '81tour and tours always evolved. Frank tended to play more instrumental music in Europe because of the language barrier. I'd put the U.S. dates up against the spring dates in Europe any time. They are very similar, with the obvious variations coming from the solos.
Music is the best
Music is my religion, Zappa is my God.
The day I started smoking Winston.
This is the famous RIOT concert.
I wish there was more footage from this band in this time. Amazing.
The 1982 band was my favorite, and this video is a perfect example of why. Nordegg probably filmed hours of video from this tour, the ZFT needs to release a full DVD worth of performances from that footage.
Yea they really gotta get on the ball with some more video releases. Enough of these USB stick Halloween shows trying to replicate Frank's humor somehow by including the silly masks & stuff. I say they should let the material speak for itself & not focus so much on the package design. I also wish they hadn't turned the mustache & soul patch into the official logo...too cheesy. But I digress. More video releases!!
@@JimSVoit Soul patches are for hipsters who can't grow in a full beard ,FZ wore an Imperal on his chin not a soul patch .
Frank’s entrance on his solo is epic. He doesn’t just tentatively ease in here- from the first note he’s definitive about his musical thoughts.
I'm.... GLAD!
I was 20 years old and not in my city, Palermo, I lost the concert and the riots, every footage is welcome!
Un film MAGISTRAL.
Le plus beau film sur Zappa ?
La démonstration de chef d'orchestre est parfaite et la maitrise du solo est à se prosterner devant l'Empereur incontestable de la musique.
Rolf. I appreciate your well written comments. Yes. There is no way to understand the brilliance that was Frank Zappa. I was lucky enough to have been able to see him a tremendous amount of times starting in 1968 at the Fillmore East. We both agree. It was the very best music and I’m so happy I was part of the fan base !
Superb. Amazing. Absolutely ahead of it's time.
Chad Wackerman is such an on-brand name for a drummer
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I always thought that too.
@@Craig-dv3ji yup
I can beat that one: There's a jazz vibraphone player in NYC named Chris Dingman.
...He ain't no Vinnie....
That 4/4 bar before the solo...
Hopefully, more videos will pop up from this amazing tour in the future. The band and FZ's guitar work was firing on all cylinders on this tour.
I always loved the '81-'82 band...maybe because this was the first time I saw FZ. Seems to me this lineup was underappreciated compared to other tours.
The band was great and this video really presents them in a great way. Frank's guitar playing was off the hook on this tour. Unfortunately, a lot of the recordings available from the tour are not the greatest quality, Still, for me, I will listen to those recordings because the music is so amazing!
This run of shows from Italy 1982 was insanely great.
Agree wholeheartedly!
I was in Italy in '82. The whole country was buzzing after the world cup win. It was a brilliant time. Would have loved to see the Bolzano gig.
FN amazing. So glad to see this version. To be able to see him perform that solo, that I’ve listened to so many times is fantastico. Tommy Mars showed a sinuous creativity in his meanderings. The whole band is so talented and tight as a drowning witch’s teat.
Zappa Rocks!!! ( And so do you, Fred, for this wonderful post!)
I lay awake nights saying "Thank you Fred"
Nice!!
thanks to freddy im a sexual spastic @@frytz14
😂😂😂
I say: "Thank you Frank." 😎😎😎
I lay awake nights sayin' "Thank you Frank"
It takes a very high degree of tastefulness to utilize pitch bending and shifting as well as Frank did.
That guitar solo is absolutely monstruous, made moreso by the excellent key change that precedes it. You know it's coming, but it's still a fantastic ride.
This is the Big One!
Robin Reverb I thought The Big One was Halloween 1978?
One of the best live performances of RENZL. Thanks for sharing!
agreed. and in a weird cool place too.
Wow..Truly amazing..Best Zappa footage I ever seen..:)
This is just mind-breaking, like all the solos i could enjoy on his concerts.
The greatest composer of the last 100, Frank Zappa is the only modern day musical genius
There was and never will be anything like Frank
3:15 4:57 5:29 . he can actually paint with his playing- so versatile, so colorful so different from the recorded version
"Yes, it's such a ballad at this tempo."
my first concert fillmore east 1968 then onward great shows
Superbe vidéo qui nous montre deux aspects du travail du maître le premier étant son travail rigoureux à la direction d’orchestre puis le second étant sa liberté créative en improvisant à la guitare. Pour conclure la classe mondiale pour Monsieur Frank Zappa
Song of the Year 2019
You learn from it. Every day. Guitar solo is divine. #TheGuidoKGroup
Whoa. This is the solo from RDNZL on YCDTOSA Vol 2 but the first part of the song is a totally different show. The first part of this song is the slowest I've ever heard it. Duped again by Frank's masterful editing.
Thank You! I've been trying to place where this solo was from xenocronistically!!
(Hoping Frank's reading this in heaven)
We miss you so much!!!
Itai Matos ...ah, Don’t think he believed in that place...
Chad Wackerman was sublime.
This band was phenomenal.
The version of Stevie's Spanking from four days earlier is killer!
Zappa and Vai trading off and jamming together.
Zappa didn't tour in the USA in '82, and the stuff he played in Europe generally blows away his '81 concerts. That's because he knew that the European audiences were really into the MUSIC more than the American audiences.
Zappa Family Trust has to unearth a really great '82 concert and release it, warts and all, as they have done with other concerts.
AMEN!
Correctamundo!!!! Man that second disc of YCDTOSA 5 is the BEST. A full show from 82 would be freakin amazing!!!!!!
The line up, the line up!
Frank playing the guitar is heaven! But, I could never decide if I liked watching Terry play, or Frank conduct.....
That was Chad Wackerman
@@DaProlifik1 Terry Bozio*
@@roosdad1 in this video it was Wackerman
there can't be many composers whose genre can only be defined by their last names. nobody else has ever written Zappa Music and, sadly, very few ever will again.
the modern master at work
RDNZL is one of those hidden gems, along with Ancient Armaments and Sinister Footwear 2.😊
Ed Mann - Tommy Mars duel is great!
Too bad the cameraperson didn't capture all of it.
Pure delight and great fun! For both of them and us listeners.
Stunning! I love this track. It's the version on YCDTOSA Vol 5 . What a solo. He really let's fly. And so focused on conducting at the same time. Amazing.
If I had a time machine I would go to every gig on the '82 European tour. What a band that was. But alas I don't got one. So thanks for the post instead. Is it from a TV broadcast?
Hi. Yeah i noticed it is on the YCDTOSA vol.5 but if the solo is the same, the intro and outro are quite different... so i wonder, is the version on YCDTOSA a collage? Or did zappa played two times exactly the same solo????!!!
@@handah-81 mmm I think you are right it is a collage on YCDTOSA 5. Frank loved to edit all the time when he was putting records together
@@1968arthur thats what i thought, thank you. Well to me its one of zappa's best solos. Can't believe this is improvised!! Anyway the collage is really perfect on the cd version, and i think i prefer that tempo
Great, Unique Uncle Frank! Stellar Solo✨Saw and Heard the same tour in Naples 1982 San Paolo Stadium, The Stones came a few days later!
Ciao,sono 38 anni che colleziono vinili,di M.Davis,J Coltrane,C.Parker,C.Backer,J.McLaughlin,H.Hancock,G.Evans;B.Evans,potrei rimanere 1 ora ad elencare tutti i grandi musicisti che ho la fortuna di possedere ed ascoltare.
Ma mi passa in mente,una frase che mi diceva un mio caro amico,che purtroppo non c'è più.
Mi diceva;"Quando ai tutto di Zappa,non ti serve andare ad ascoltare altri musicisti,anche se ne vale sempre la pena".
Ad oggi ho 83 vinili,conosco Zappa come pochi appassionati,devo dire che non aveva torto.
Grazie Frank,manca poco per avere tutta la tua discografia,ufficiale,ho anche Autographe,ed un'altro 33 giri,probabilmente illegale,di un concerto fatto a Roma.
Never heard this slow version before. Awesome!
Frank Vicent Zappa un Dios en la Tierra.
This is truly amazing. I'm actually seeing the Zappa hologram show featuring FOUR members of this band.
Craig Wall where is the hologram show ?
@@Zongroned I'll be at the Boston show on April 26.
Love Zappa!
Perfect tempo to learn to play the intro.
Shame he lost the rich harmonies in the closing and opening themes. He seemed to favour unison stuff during this period, and I'm not sure why, it loses a lot of its density and gains nothing in return (like when he dropped the bass-line from the middle-section of Montana as early as late '73, and when he had Barrow join the melody of Rollo Interior - great display of chops, but the music lost some important context). In my opinion, at least.
re-arranging songs is fun.
I went to one of Dweezilla's Master Classes in Dallas and he described Frank's guitar work as the Crab and the Spider; the Crab being his picking fingers, and the Spider was his long fingers on the fret board.
Tempo on the head is a bit on the sluggish side, but works nicely for FZ's narly solo! Sounds like Frank chopped this up to produce the track released on YCDTOSA Vol 5.
I agree, in YCDTOSA Vol 5 around min 6:54 I hear someone in the backgound speaking italian (I think with Tuscan accent) but I have not idea where has been recorded
Only the guitar solo from the YCDTOSA Is from this video. The intro and the keyboard solos was from another source.
Interesting. Makes sense now.
YCDTOSA Vol 5. is many edits .
Intro?:
La Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva, Switzerland
July 1, 1982
Guitar solo:
Stadio Communale La Favorita, Palermo, Italy
July 14, 1982
Keyboard solo:
Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome, Italy
July 9, 1982
Some parts from unidentified venue and date
Frank was known for altering the tempos of certain sections of songs randomly through tours. It's a testament to his creativity & inventiveness. I thought I'd heard all I needed to hear with his official releases but soon learned of all the buried treasure hidden in so many bootlegs. Frank is truly one of the greats. Up there with *anybody*!
FZ, the Best!!!
So good
I'm guessing they rehearsed this a few times...amazing
Stefano Vai rocking the EVH overalls!
Todd Morrissey lol I was laughing at that
Thank you Thomas Nordegg for the wonderful videos!
With his limited technique, he is mighty expansive, always looking to keep it interesting for himself, there is always an edge there. It’s just a chance to release some shit, and At times (of what I’ve heard) the solos are amazing. Dude’s enjoying himself. Love how when he steps off it’s right back into the form. That’s the stuff I love about his music.
From somewhere completely else.......amazing !
Zappa is why I became a musician
I wish I had seen more of the musicians
no matter how much i listen im still amazed what a loss for humanity!