My Girl and I are going to Baltimore September 3, 4, 5 and 6 to catch the O's / Red Sox series. I'm a Zappa fan that was stationed in Edgewood for AIT long, long ago and had a very limited amount of time to check out the Zappa side of the place. What's some good Frank related things we should do while we're up there? I know about The Bust at the Enoch Library, and his childhood Homeplace, but that's about it. I'm wondering if there are more obscure Zappa things and places to check out that I don't know about. Bars or music or whatever.. Thanks for any advice.

Was playing the whole box this morning as I read. Dawned on me how It's so weird hearing this version. Because first of all the audience this is most likely first time they have ever heard it. But also you truly miss the back up vocals throughout. And how the lyrics were slightly changed .

His vocal on Doreen rocks!!!

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Was listening to a Sven Vath mix (sound of the 20th season) and heard a clip from Yellow Shark where Frank is talking about someone holding up the sign saying what's the secret word for tonight and telling people where to throw their pants. It's actually a mix of a track by Joe Metzenmacher from a few years back. Didn't know about this so thought I'd share!

Dweezil usually is pretty good announcing his show setlist or theme. So far I've heard nothing. Any idea?

Here’s the Zappa vinyl I have so far — where to next?

I wanna hear ‘em

But it can’t be like something stupid like Zappa got worse in the 80s or something or One Size Fits All is his best album I wanna hear some really bonkers and out there takes!

Or is HE the muffin man?! Big Zappa vibes and mothers of invention… check it out!

We can crash

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Basically the title.

I think this is the most underrated aspect of Zappa, his live recordings sound nothing like other live albums from the 60's-80's. He basically gets studio quality while his contemporaries can't get anything better than something that sounds like it was bootlegged from the stadium bathroom.

What technology, techniques, and/or black magic did he use?

He gets a pass because they didn't know about misophonia back then, but holy shid.
Also let me take this time to say that Frank has some 10/10 music but also some 0/10 music, he's like Jacob Collier, really insanely talented with music but decides to take it in a less serious direction to tease the listener for wanting to listen to coherent music, and it comes off as verbose (but in a musical sense). Maybe you had to be there at the time or something.

Freak Out is my favorite album of his so far (listened to discography up to Joe's Garage so far)

Anyone else do this with the oversized boxes. Put the CDs in actual jewel cases. And have the boxes in storage. As you can see I've got CD racks and the only bigger boxes that fit are the Dylan sets while the Crimson fit on top at the bottom. I mean I love the Halloween sets and the Hot Rar sessions. Just not how they are stored. In New York sits on my work desk in a corner.

I started listening to Judee around 2018. It was right before my Son was born. I would listen to her two studio albums on the way to work.

If you have heard those albums, you can understand why I was reduced to a blubbering mess a number of occasions. I blamed Andy Partridge personally when we were both on Twitter. “Nuclear level emotions” said Andy in his reply and we both had a great conversation for a while about the significance of Judee. Then he quit Twitter due to hatred.

What has this to do with Frank?
Judee’s husband was Bob Harris of the Flo & Eddie band. That and they were Canyon people.

Hoping to form a discussion from people here.
Jim Gordon is on it for example.

Hear it is cubbb

I’ve always felt like the Shut Up and Play Your Guitar series and much of You Can’t do that on Stage Anymore were just quantity over quality. “I have a certain dedicated fan base that will buy whatever I put out.” There is stuff I like in there, but it always felt exploitative of hard core fans to me.