AJFOne’s Customs 6/3 – Broken links????
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Thanks for all the work and great songs you and others have shared with us. Any chance you are going to chart Joe’s Garage from Zappa? My brother introduced me to Zappa with that song.
Well “SPOILER ALERT” Dash Riprock is charting the entirety of Act I of Joe’s Garage and I will be helping him where I can when the time comes
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Well “SPOILER ALERT” Dash Riprock is charting the entirety of Act I of Joe’s Garage and I will be helping him where I can when the time comes
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Sorry to ruin the surprise! Can’t wait though
Awesome. Thank you. Classic Sabbath is a lot of fun to play in RB3.
Agreed. I have a few more in mind for the future
LATEST UPDATE 12/16 – Jimi Hendrix Experience – Burning of the Midnight Lamp
BASS/VOX: Jimi369
GUITAR: dadudemandude
Written and recorded as a single, “Burning of the Midnight Lamp” is, in hindsight, one of Jimi Hendrix’s more interesting records of his early career. A wildly imaginative, psychedelic lyric is the basis here, but musically it’s even more striking. The main instrument is harpsichord, and, performed by Hendrix, it is turned from a chamber instrument into a rock rhythm instrument; and his performance on the keyboard — his only official recording credit — is quite interesting. The song features R&B group Sweet Inspirations on backing vocals.
LATEST UPDATE 12/17 – Frank Zappa – He Used to Cut the Grass
GUITAR: nsw1-6
The guitar solo was extracted from a live recording and pasted over the loose 3/4 spacy vamp performed by bass, drums, and keyboards. The drumming is my favorite performance from Vinnie Colaiuta.In the story, “He Used to Cut the Grass” is a transitional between “Outside Now” and “Packard Goose.” Joe is now out of jail and finds the world pretty boring now that music has been made illegal. He drifts more and more into a semi-catatonic state, dreaming the guitar notes he cannot play anymore.Oh my god. He Used To Cut The Grass?!? This. Is. Tremendous. Thank you.
You’re welcome. We are going to take a break from Joe’s Garage after this for NWS1-6’s sanity. Those guitar solos are killer. I love the drumming on this tune. It’s the definition of controlled chaos.
LATEST UPDATE 12/23 – Frank Zappa – Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow Suite
GUITAR/BASS: nsw1-6
5 LANE KEYS: MrBurpler
“Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” is both the title of a suite and of its first part. The suite of four songs (which also include “Nanook Rubs It,” “St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast,” and “Father O’Blivion”) appeared on the 1974 LP Apostrophe.The suite is a loose collection of musically independent songs, a technique Frank Zappa had already used in 1970-1971 for “The Groupie Routine” and the undocumented “Divan.” One must understand the implications of the first line in “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”: “Dreamed I was an Eskimo.” This is all a dream. It doesn’t need to make sense — and it doesn’t. That’s a clever way to tie together unrelated tunes. So we are in the North. An Eskimo boy named Nanook (Nanook of the North was the title of the 1922 Robert J. Flaherty documentary that introduced Inuits to the general public) wants to go to a show. His mother urges him to “Watch out where the huskies go/And don’t you eat that yellow snow.”Nanook leaves his igloo only to find a fur trapper clubbing his favorite baby seal with a snow shoe. He picks up some of the yellow snow (snow soiled by dog urine) and rubs it into the eyes of the evil man, rendering him blind. “Trying to figure out what he’s going to do/About his deflicted [sic] eyes,” the trapper remembers an old legend which says that in such circumstances one must go to “the parish of Saint Alfonzo.”This song is a Zappa-fied blues in 6/4, a simple motif over which Zappa half-sings and narrates the story. Many musical quirks surface here and there to illustrate the story. Reaching the last line (the Saint Alfonzo reference), the piece segues into the demented xylophone introduction to “St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast.”Remember this is all a dream: you suddenly leave Nanook and his injured fur trapper to leap to the parish of St. Alfonzo where a fund-raising pancake breakfast is taking place. Attendants include a suppressed masochistic woman (“Why don’t you treat me mean?/Hurt me”).This part opens with a frantic xylophone solo (go to the end of the track “Father O’Blivion” to hear one of Ruth Underwood’s aborted attempts at getting it right). The song itself is in 4/4 but features complex time changes and quirky phrasing. There is a lot happening during these two minutes — it gives the impression of a crowded and animated party. As you are invited to “Get on your feet an’ do the funky Alfonzo!” the piece segues into “Father O’Blivion” and the music shifts into double time.As you “do the funky Alfonzo,” you are told the story of Father O’Blivion (and once again, remember this is all a dream!). He was given a hand job by a leprechaun the night before the pancake breakfast fundraiser. It turns him into a sex fanatic or something like that, as the song shifts from a fast-paced rock to a sunny Latin fiesta. The last verse, “Good morning, your Highness/Ooo-ooo-ooo/I brought you your snow shoe,” is an intentionally lame attempt at turning the suite on itself and locking it in place by referring to the first part of the suite.On the studio version, the piece fades out at this point.
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