Zappa

DavidRees

for those of you interested in such things the documentary is on BBC4 tonight from 9:00 - 11:00 ...

CFH

He is also on the Great British Bake Off, Tuesdays at 8pm. He's great at that too! A very talented chap. 

Funkfingers

Tom Wrigglesworth should tour with Dweezil.

Redlester

CFH said:

He is also on the Great British Bake Off, Tuesdays at 8pm. He's great at that too! A very talented chap. 

The Muffin Man strikes again. 

IsambardKentucky

Brilliant, thanks for the heads up!

digitalkettle

Redlester said:

CFH said:

He is also on the Great British Bake Off, Tuesdays at 8pm. He's great at that too! A very talented chap. 

The Muffin Man strikes again. 

Sequel to The Muffin Man Poots Forth!

tanihhiavlt

he knows how to make a muffin better ... 

Loobs

Which documentary? Eat That Question?

Funkfingers

Loobs said:

Which documentary?

The slime oozin' out from your TV set.

jonnyburgo

I've seen it, it's a good doc, would have like a bit more about Beefheart but that's another subject for another doc. 

Funkfingers

jonnyburgo said:

would have like a bit more about Beefheart but that's another subject for another doc. 

The Zappa/Beefheart story receives some coverage in The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso.

Pabcrane

Funkfingers said:

jonnyburgo said:

would have like a bit more about Beefheart but that's another subject for another doc. 

The Zappa/Beefheart story receives some coverage in The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso.

There's a documentary about Zappa's labels Bizarre and Straight which goes into quite a bit of detail regarding Beefheart (and the way he treated his band) as well as the other artists on the labels. 

It very well may be on YouTube.

I myself am strong up to watch the one on BBC4 in 49 mins. Thank you OP!

maharg101

CFH said:

He is also on the Great British Bake Off, Tuesdays at 8pm. He's great at that too! A very talented chap. 

The dangerous kitchen

If it aint't one thing it's another

In the middle of the night when you get home

The bread things are all dry 'n' scratchy

The meat thing

Where the cats ate through the paper

The can things with the sharp little edges

That can cut your fingers when you're not looking

The soft little things on the floor that you step on

They can all be dangerous...

jonnyburgo

Funkfingers said:

jonnyburgo said:

would have like a bit more about Beefheart but that's another subject for another doc. 

The Zappa/Beefheart story receives some coverage in The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso.

yeah, thats a great read.

jonnyburgo

Pabcrane said:

Funkfingers said:

jonnyburgo said:

would have like a bit more about Beefheart but that's another subject for another doc. 

The Zappa/Beefheart story receives some coverage in The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso.

There's a documentary about Zappa's labels Bizarre and Straight which goes into quite a bit of detail regarding Beefheart (and the way he treated his band) as well as the other artists on the labels. 

It very well may be on YouTube.

I myself am strong up to watch the one on BBC4 in 49 mins. Thank you OP!

I watched that the other week, pretty good.

RocknRollDave

Watched it today.
I’m no aficionado of Zappa, so a good chunk of this was either new to me or filled out what I only vaguely knew, so a dedicated fan might have found it less enlightening, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
that said, it skimmed over huge chunks of his career, with very little of depth about his mid-period.

A story like this really deserves the Long Strange Trip/ Beatles Anthology treatment. 2 hours barely scratches the surface.

fastonebaz

I watched it too and really enjoyed it.   Just goes to show how magical live gigs were back in the 60s and 70s pre Internet.  

Funkfingers

RocknRollDave said:

it skimmed over huge chunks of his career, with very little of depth about his mid-period.

The documentary was hamstrung by who was available and willing to be interviewed on camera. (Some are dead. A few are in jail.) Some of what the interviewees might have discussed was technical. This would be of limited interest to the general audience.

Conspicuous by their absence:
Bozzio, Belew, Cuccurullo, Thompson, anyone from Ensemble Modern and, most of all, Dweezil.

EricTheWeary

I haven't watched it ( in two minds)but it always seems that any footage of Frank seems to be low quality or made with art house sensibilities. If I wanted to watch a performance of Zappa  music I'd put on Zappa Play Zappa ( or whatever that is called now). Which just makes it all the worse that Dweezil isn't involved with the family and isn't involved in this documentary   

sweepy

It was slightly disappointing tbh, it was more interesting to see who they didn’t interview, pretty much the same as the Ritchie Blackmore travesty 

welshboyo

I watched it, it was OK, very much like everyone else has said, a bit light on a few things and for me some of it was a little cliched in parts.

Very light on his fairly prolific mid 70's period (even though Ruth Underwood starred quite a lot) and concentrated too much on the Mothers period (almost as if they started out with the best intentions and then realised there was too much to cover and just skirted straight across to the end of his career)

What it did make me realise though is how much I love that '78 live version of Watermelon in Easter Hay which is the track playing on the closing credits.