r/Zappa
u/Historical-Device529 — 1 day ago
▲ 14 r/Zappa
Best Live Album
Been a long time fan, not super duper but 'own quite a few albums on vinyl' level fan.
I realize today that I have never listened to any of his live albums. I'm sure this has been covered ad nauseam on here before, but what are, say, five of his best / essential live albums to listen to?
Btw, I am impartial to any year / era.
EDIT: Dang, y'all showed the fuck up to answer this. Got lots to listen to now. Thanks.
u/Novel_Tone8944 — 1 day ago
On May 13th, 1968, Frank Zappa released 'Lumpy Gravy'. Performed by the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra, Zappa saw Lumpy Gravy as the second part of a conceptual continuity that later included his final album, Civilization Phaze III.
u/BirdBurnett — 7 hours ago
▲ 17 r/Zappa
An Evening with Wild Man Fischer on Streaming?
I see that the complete album was on Spotify in the past but was removed and is no longer available, do you think it will ever be put back on streaming? Who owns the rights to it now? Is it a case of refusing to upload it or does whoever own the rights just not care to? I need to listen to Taster!!!
u/itwasgangstagangsta — 11 hours ago
▲ 139 r/Zappa
Depressing news for Mother's Day!
Did you know that the "Freak Out" line up of Frank Zappa/the Mothers of Invention are now totally dead? All 5, and most of the session musicians on it are dead as well.
u/No-Introduction-1434 — 4 days ago
I have been noticing that the price for steak is increasing more and more.
I recall a few month it was about $12/lb on average.
Now I see them around $21/lb obvious some cuts are cheaper and some are more expensive.
Yesterday I saw this good cut to be $36/lb
I know it’s good cut. But prices are going wild!!
This is NOT OKAY and shouldn’t be normal. The orange said he will make prices decrease. Not to get into politics but I blame all this **** who voted for him.
u/BillyShears17 — 12 days ago
▲ 79 r/Zappa
These shows were absolutely smoking & the King Kong is sublime.
u/SimilarNameAsYours — 2 days ago
▲ 140 r/Zappa
I live by a simple rule, if I'm out and see a Zappa record that means I'm coming home with a new Zappa record
u/gargamels_right_boot — 3 days ago
▲ 48 r/Zappa
Obtaining a copy of this in 2026 has been challenging
My own fault for not buying it back in the day when it came out of course.
u/fender_fan_boy — 1 day ago
▲ 43 r/Zappa
One Size Fits All wallpaper
The aspect ratio isn’t completely right, and the cuts are a bit crunchy (i made it in picsart) but for a first try at making album wallpapers i’m fairly satisifed, but will fix the ratio soon.
u/aioli2783 — 6 hours ago
▲ 252 r/Zappa
Frank Zappa at Circus Krone, Munich, Germany, on December 13, 1970
u/Impala71 — 5 days ago
On May 11th, 1981, Frank Zappa released 'Tinseltown Rebellion', his 30th release. The album art was originally going to be used on the "Crush All Boxes". You can see the remints of the old title in the Tinseltown title.
u/BirdBurnett — 2 days ago
▲ 33 r/Zappa
Is there a lack of bass solos across Frank's body of work?
Lack of may not be the right term but that's what I'm going with. I am a huge fan of bass solo's. Across Frank's body of work there are obviously tons of guitar solos full of improv as well as sax and keys and drums. Are there any songs you can think of even live versions that has any improvised bass solo's that go on for minutes like the drum and guitar solo's we all love?
I would love to go back and refresh my memory.
Thanks.
u/-Granby- — 6 days ago
▲ 141 r/Zappa
In my humble opinion the best solo of all time (potential epilepsy trigger in video)
u/BristolSalmon — 6 days ago