The latest — and fourth — installment in the series of Halloween-themed super-deluxe Zappa sets features the full, nearly four-hour October 31, 1978 concert, which Zappa himself called ‘The Big One!’ ...
Spooky! Scary! I am, of course, referring to the compositional skill and dazzling technical chops on display by Frank Zappa ...
Frank Zappa's public image - foul-mouthed agitator, purveyor of freakish "comedy music" - never matched the true essence of the artist. Zappa created a close-to-flawless body of work that ran the ...
The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is ...
Frank Zappa’s famed and fiery Halloween 1978 residency at New York’s Palladium will be the focus of an upcoming box set, the latest in a long series of live albums revolving around the guitarist’s ...
Following the success of 1974’s Apostrophe (’) album, tours, and his first Billboard Hot 100 single, Frank Zappa was disappointed to see ’75’s One Size Fits All not receive the attention that he felt ...
Steve Vai is one of rock’s greatest and most influential guitar players, but even he had to start somewhere. And, as he told ...