WFMU: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from May 26, 2021

Listener comments!
	🥁 4:47pm david w: A legend: Mother’s Day of 1964, the R&B group Soul Giants put their new lead guitarist Frank Zappa in charge, who then changed the band’s name to The Mothers. When record label executives balked, Zappa repurposed an old proverb, and The Mothers of Invention were born.
	5:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hello, Mothers!
	🥁 5:03pm david w: Henry! Number one son!
	5:03pm Webhamster Henry: On Ruth!
	5:03pm ruth: Hello W.hamster et al
	5:06pm Webhamster Henry: from Flo & Eddie to Ensemble Moderne
	5:07pm sufferwords: Agreed- after yellow snow I checked out/aged out
	5:08pm Webhamster Henry: The Zappa doc takes you into FZ's tape archive. It's like the FMU library of Zappa tapes.
	🥁 5:08pm david w: Yes, Henry! And welcome sufferwords!
	🥁 5:15pm WR: Who do I lodge my complaint with? I'm not Satisfied!
	🥁 5:16pm david w: Never settle, WR. Ruth handles arbitration here.
	🥁 5:20pm david w: @Henry: I like that avatar.
	5:22pm doctorjazz: Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnicks!
	🥁 5:23pm david w: Hi, doctorjazz, welcome to the dance.
	5:24pm gailvachon: Hi.
	5:24pm ruth: Hi Dr. J & WR
	🥁 5:25pm WR: Immediate delegation of potential problem. True management material. I stopped keeping up with Zappa after Billy the Mountain. Then I learned of The Yellow Shark and haven't fully caught up yet. Hi Ruth.
	🥁 5:25pm david w: Hi, Gail. Beefheart or Zappa?
	5:25pm ruth: Gail!
	🥁 5:27pm david w: Gotcha, WR. Yellow Shark makes an appearance later.
	5:28pm gailvachon: Beefheart. Zappa is kind of annoying.
	5:30pm doctorjazz: Missed Zappa in real time (found the shtick too offputting). The more I hear him these days, the sorrier I am that I wrote him off.
	5:34pm Webhamster Henry: Zappa used to do Halloween shows at the Palladium, an excellent venue for him. That is now the site of a huge NYU Dorm.
	5:35pm Rich in Washington: I was just recently saying that there's a not a ton of Mothers and solo Zappa representation on the Mothership and the Otherships, so this is wonderful!.
	5:35pm Webhamster Henry: My brother is a much bigger Zappaholic. His wedding recessional was Peaches en Regalia.
	5:36pm ruth: This is good DW never heard it
	🥁 5:36pm david w: I met Zappa once, at the Palladium, somehow got myself into the VIP section. He was not enjoying himself, and I had nothing to offer.
	5:37pm Webhamster Henry: @David my 'avatar' is something I made for WFMU-TV many years ago, slightly edited and re rendered at icon size.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: [I not only designed and animated it, I wrote the animation program #fullofmyself]
	5:39pm Rich in Washington: Frank Zappa was my first ever rock concert. I also remember what I was doing when I heard he died.
	🥁 5:39pm david w: Thanks, Rich. Doing our little part to gather the history.
	5:40pm Webhamster Henry: I was the one to tell Zappa and WFMU fan The Grape about Frank's demise.
	5:42pm Rich in Washington: I heard the news on my local community radio station. A fanatical Zappa fan DJ was allowed to take over the daytime airwaves briefly. I was stunned. I didn't watch any TV back then, so didn't even know he was ill.
	🥁 5:44pm WR: Bob Irwin plays a Zappa cut pretty regularly on Big Planet Noise, usually in the last set of the night.
	🥁 5:54pm david w: Here's the link for the Drummer stream newsletter, always entertaining, never annoying. tinyletter.com...
	5:55pm Rich in Washington: This is wonderful, David!
	6:02pm Rich in Washington: the little interjections. Mothers albums always reminded me of EC era Mad Magazine. Just bristling with weird details in the margins.
	🥁 6:03pm chresti: Hi David and ruth and ridgewoodians!
	🥁 6:03pm david w: Rich! I think Zappa was my transition from Mad Magazine to some kind of adult thinking.
	6:04pm spodiodi: hi david and ruth! hi everyone!
	6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @Rich/Washington Zappa should have used Frank Jacobs as a lyricist, though.
	🥁 6:06pm david w: hi, spodi. We welcome you along.
	6:07pm Webhamster Henry: I have Sensurround thunder going on right now.
	6:11pm Rich in Washington: Hi spodi!
	6:11pm spodiodi: Zappa led me to Varèse <3 love what i've heard hi Rich in Washington!
	6:12pm Webhamster Henry: Zappa explains, “It was because of that Varèse album that I read about in a magazine and hearing ‘Ionization’ that I started writing orchestra music. I had no interest in Beethoven and Mozart … I wanted to listen to the man who could make music that was strange … [I]n Varèse’s music the percussion was playing an integrated melodic part and it was in the foreground and, since I liked drums, it was a pleasure to listen to it.”
	🥁 6:13pm chresti: I love Cruising with Rueben and the Jets.
	🥁 6:14pm david w: Hi, chresti. Yeah that one is a wacky pleasure.
	6:16pm Rich in Washington: This record made me learn who Eric Dolphy was as a teen.
	6:17pm Rich in Washington: although, honestly, it was years later that I got Zappa's deep influences. I was into it for the weird humor and noised until much later.
	🥁 6:17pm david w: Sorry, I think I screwed up the playlist. But you get it.
	6:28pm Gary: An episode for the ages!
	🥁 6:29pm david w: Here is what is next today on the Drummer stream: Gary Sullivan hosts Bodega Pop 7-10pm EDT: Cassettes: Scorchers from around the globe on everybody's least favorite analog format! wfmu.org... Sam Segal hosts If You Lose Your Horse 10-midnite
	🥁 6:29pm david w: Thanks, Gary. Along with everything from your studio!
	6:30pm spodiodi: Synclavier FTW
	6:31pm spodiodi: featured prominently on the Meets The Mothers of Prevention album
	6:45pm spodiodi: this is great, david! not heard this nor the prior track before. going to listen to this whole show later. thank you
	🥁 6:46pm david w: Thank yoooo, spodiodi!
	6:50pm Rich in Washington: Wow! I've never heard this before!
	🥁 6:52pm david w: Zappa did a bunch of gigs like this in 1972 but with little fanfare.
	6:53pm Dave in St Albans UK: Hi. This Zappa fest is dream radio come true. The show has the vibe of Radio Geronimo in the 70's which was run by a bunch of hippies in Harley Street London. Zappa's "Hot Rats" changed my musical tastes forever!PS. Beefheart night sometime?
	🥁 6:54pm david w: Dave, yes. But's daunting.... and thanks!
	6:54pm coelacanth∅: hi david and all ... i really only missed 1 hour and 44 minutes
	🥁 6:55pm david w: coel! well, you know how to work the thing with the thing on the thing.
	6:55pm coelacanth∅: i do! and i shall!
	🥁 6:56pm david w: Wrapping up here, thanks everybody!
	6:56pm spodiodi: aloha, ghostacanthØ. maybe we'll run into each other in the past
	6:57pm spodiodi: thanks, david!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: ...i want and therefore feel i need some lessons in Zappa too. these 1 hour and 2 hour, cut through the lumpy gravy and get right to the uncle meat of Zappa celebrations are just what i need.
	6:59pm coelacanth∅: hey spodi it looks tight in there!
	6:59pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, David! This was wonderful!
	6:59pm ruth: See ya next week Thanks all!
	7:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks David & Ruth!
	🥁 7:00pm WR: thank you David and Ruth. made me reflect on my mispent youth.
	🥁 7:00pm david w: A pleasure to have you all along!
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Thanks David! Thanks ruth!
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: My favorite Zappa Cover: www.youtube.com...

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from May 26, 2021

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May 26, 2021: The Frank Zappa Pavilion

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An assemblage of the composer/guitarist’s career with The Mothers of Invention
and beyond, from classic encounters with Suzy Creamcheese to cultural and political satire
to band jams to sharing the stage with Stockhausen.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
The Mothers of Invention	Are You Hung Up?	We’re Only In It For The Money	Verve	1968	Eric Clapton on the phone, and a threat.
The Mothers of Invention	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme	Uncle Meat	Bizarre	1969	One of Zappa’s signature themes makes its debut, with Suzy Creamcheese confession.

The Mothers of Invention	It Can’t Happen Here	Freak Out	Verve	1966	From the band’s debut, considered one of rock music's first concept albums, stamped with Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the emerging “freak” scene of Los Angeles.
The Mothers of Invention	I’m Not Satisfied	Cruising with Ruben and the Jets	Verve	1968	The album's concept centers around a fictitious Chicano doo wop band.
Frank Zappa	The Nancy & Mary Music	Chunga's Revenge	Reprise	1970	From the the third solo album by guitarist Zappa, with a band now including former Turtles members Flo & Eddie, and marking a shift away from both political satire and jazz fusion. Live in concert at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Ian Underwood, sax; George Duke, electric piano and scat; and Aynsley Dunbar, drums.
The Mothers of Invention	The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny	We’re Only In It For The Money	Verve	1968	A tape montage from an album that satirizes left and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Frank Zappa	The Black Page #2 (The Easy Teenage New York Version)	Zappa in New York	Discreet	1977	Zappa introduces and plays the piece considered notoriously difficult.
Zappa Plays Zappa	The Black Page #1 & #2	Zappa Plays Zappa	YouTube	2006	Zappa’s son Dweezil and band, with special guests guitarist Steve Vai and drummer Terry Bozzio. We hear both the drum version and then with the melody played by Vai.
Frank Zappa	Son of Mr.Green Genes	Hot Rats	Bizarre	1969	Zappa's first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers, features holdover Ian Underwood as well as Captain Beefheart and Don "Sugarcane" Harris.
The Mothers of Invention	Nasal Retentive Calliope Music	We’re Only In It For The Money	Verve	1968	Zappa, beyond his passion for 20th Century experimental music, was an early adopter of many new technologies including multi-track recorders, pitch-shifters, harmonizers, and synthesizers.

The Mothers of Invention	Mom & Dad	Uncle Meat	Bizarre	1969	At the time, police misconduct got attention for harassing counter-cultural types or, as Zappa often reminds us, “creeps”.
The Mothers of Invention	Absolutely Free	We’re Only In It For The Money	Verve	1968	I think this may refer disapprovingly to mind-altering substances.
The Mothers of Invention	Trouble Every Day	Freak Out	Verve	1966	What do they call that thing when you are obsessed with the news? This could be a BLM anthem.
The Mothers of Invention	We Can Shoot You	Uncle Meat	Bizarre	1969	Zappa exercises his Edgard Varèse muscle.
Frank Zappa	I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again	Lumpy Gravy	Verve	1967	From the debut solo album by Zappa, performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. By contract, he could not play, but conducted.
The Mothers of Invention	The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue	Weasels Ripped My Flesh	Bizarre	1970	The album consists of mixes combining live and studio recordings with more focus on improvisation.

Frank Zappa	While You Were Art II	Jazz From Hell	Barking Pumpkin Records	1986	A Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's improvised guitar solo on the track "While You Were Out" from the album Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981). Also on a Rykodisc CD.
Frank Zappa	Get Whitey "Get Whitey" by "Frank Zappa"	The Yellow Shark	Barking Pumpkin Records	1993	This is from the last Zappa album to appear in his lifetime, and features live recordings from the Ensemble Modern's 1992 performances of Zappa's orchestral compositions. In 1991, Zappa was chosen to be one of four featured composers at the 1992 Frankfurt Festival (along with John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Alexander Knaifel).
Frank Zappa	Columbia, S.C. (Part 2)	Little Dots	Zappa Records	2016	From a live album consisting of recordings from the 1972 Petit Wazoo tour. Recorded at the Township Auditorium, rescued, restored, and released by the Zappa Family Trust. A sort of John Barry tribute.


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Listener comments!
	🥁 4:47pm david w: A legend: Mother’s Day of 1964, the R&B group Soul Giants put their new lead guitarist Frank Zappa in charge, who then changed the band’s name to The Mothers. When record label executives balked, Zappa repurposed an old proverb, and The Mothers of Invention were born.
	5:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hello, Mothers!
	🥁 5:03pm david w: Henry! Number one son!
	5:03pm Webhamster Henry: On Ruth!
	5:03pm ruth: Hello W.hamster et al
	5:06pm Webhamster Henry: from Flo & Eddie to Ensemble Moderne
	5:07pm sufferwords: Agreed- after yellow snow I checked out/aged out
	5:08pm Webhamster Henry: The Zappa doc takes you into FZ's tape archive. It's like the FMU library of Zappa tapes.
	🥁 5:08pm david w: Yes, Henry! And welcome sufferwords!
	🥁 5:15pm WR: Who do I lodge my complaint with? I'm not Satisfied!
	🥁 5:16pm david w: Never settle, WR. Ruth handles arbitration here.
	🥁 5:20pm david w: @Henry: I like that avatar.
	5:22pm doctorjazz: Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnicks!
	🥁 5:23pm david w: Hi, doctorjazz, welcome to the dance.
	5:24pm gailvachon: Hi.
	5:24pm ruth: Hi Dr. J & WR
	🥁 5:25pm WR: Immediate delegation of potential problem. True management material. I stopped keeping up with Zappa after Billy the Mountain. Then I learned of The Yellow Shark and haven't fully caught up yet. Hi Ruth.
	🥁 5:25pm david w: Hi, Gail. Beefheart or Zappa?
	5:25pm ruth: Gail!
	🥁 5:27pm david w: Gotcha, WR. Yellow Shark makes an appearance later.
	5:28pm gailvachon: Beefheart. Zappa is kind of annoying.
	5:30pm doctorjazz: Missed Zappa in real time (found the shtick too offputting). The more I hear him these days, the sorrier I am that I wrote him off.
	5:34pm Webhamster Henry: Zappa used to do Halloween shows at the Palladium, an excellent venue for him. That is now the site of a huge NYU Dorm.
	5:35pm Rich in Washington: I was just recently saying that there's a not a ton of Mothers and solo Zappa representation on the Mothership and the Otherships, so this is wonderful!.
	5:35pm Webhamster Henry: My brother is a much bigger Zappaholic. His wedding recessional was Peaches en Regalia.
	5:36pm ruth: This is good DW never heard it
	🥁 5:36pm david w: I met Zappa once, at the Palladium, somehow got myself into the VIP section. He was not enjoying himself, and I had nothing to offer.
	5:37pm Webhamster Henry: @David my 'avatar' is something I made for WFMU-TV many years ago, slightly edited and re rendered at icon size.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: [I not only designed and animated it, I wrote the animation program #fullofmyself]
	5:39pm Rich in Washington: Frank Zappa was my first ever rock concert. I also remember what I was doing when I heard he died.
	🥁 5:39pm david w: Thanks, Rich. Doing our little part to gather the history.
	5:40pm Webhamster Henry: I was the one to tell Zappa and WFMU fan The Grape about Frank's demise.
	5:42pm Rich in Washington: I heard the news on my local community radio station. A fanatical Zappa fan DJ was allowed to take over the daytime airwaves briefly. I was stunned. I didn't watch any TV back then, so didn't even know he was ill.
	🥁 5:44pm WR: Bob Irwin plays a Zappa cut pretty regularly on Big Planet Noise, usually in the last set of the night.
	🥁 5:54pm david w: Here's the link for the Drummer stream newsletter, always entertaining, never annoying. tinyletter.com...
	5:55pm Rich in Washington: This is wonderful, David!
	6:02pm Rich in Washington: the little interjections. Mothers albums always reminded me of EC era Mad Magazine. Just bristling with weird details in the margins.
	🥁 6:03pm chresti: Hi David and ruth and ridgewoodians!
	🥁 6:03pm david w: Rich! I think Zappa was my transition from Mad Magazine to some kind of adult thinking.
	6:04pm spodiodi: hi david and ruth! hi everyone!
	6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @Rich/Washington Zappa should have used Frank Jacobs as a lyricist, though.
	🥁 6:06pm david w: hi, spodi. We welcome you along.
	6:07pm Webhamster Henry: I have Sensurround thunder going on right now.
	6:11pm Rich in Washington: Hi spodi!
	6:11pm spodiodi: Zappa led me to Varèse <3 love what i've heard hi Rich in Washington!
	6:12pm Webhamster Henry: Zappa explains, “It was because of that Varèse album that I read about in a magazine and hearing ‘Ionization’ that I started writing orchestra music. I had no interest in Beethoven and Mozart … I wanted to listen to the man who could make music that was strange … [I]n Varèse’s music the percussion was playing an integrated melodic part and it was in the foreground and, since I liked drums, it was a pleasure to listen to it.”
	🥁 6:13pm chresti: I love Cruising with Rueben and the Jets.
	🥁 6:14pm david w: Hi, chresti. Yeah that one is a wacky pleasure.
	6:16pm Rich in Washington: This record made me learn who Eric Dolphy was as a teen.
	6:17pm Rich in Washington: although, honestly, it was years later that I got Zappa's deep influences. I was into it for the weird humor and noised until much later.
	🥁 6:17pm david w: Sorry, I think I screwed up the playlist. But you get it.
	6:28pm Gary: An episode for the ages!
	🥁 6:29pm david w: Here is what is next today on the Drummer stream: Gary Sullivan hosts Bodega Pop 7-10pm EDT: Cassettes: Scorchers from around the globe on everybody's least favorite analog format! wfmu.org... Sam Segal hosts If You Lose Your Horse 10-midnite
	🥁 6:29pm david w: Thanks, Gary. Along with everything from your studio!
	6:30pm spodiodi: Synclavier FTW
	6:31pm spodiodi: featured prominently on the Meets The Mothers of Prevention album
	6:45pm spodiodi: this is great, david! not heard this nor the prior track before. going to listen to this whole show later. thank you
	🥁 6:46pm david w: Thank yoooo, spodiodi!
	6:50pm Rich in Washington: Wow! I've never heard this before!
	🥁 6:52pm david w: Zappa did a bunch of gigs like this in 1972 but with little fanfare.
	6:53pm Dave in St Albans UK: Hi. This Zappa fest is dream radio come true. The show has the vibe of Radio Geronimo in the 70's which was run by a bunch of hippies in Harley Street London. Zappa's "Hot Rats" changed my musical tastes forever!PS. Beefheart night sometime?
	🥁 6:54pm david w: Dave, yes. But's daunting.... and thanks!
	6:54pm coelacanth∅: hi david and all ... i really only missed 1 hour and 44 minutes
	🥁 6:55pm david w: coel! well, you know how to work the thing with the thing on the thing.
	6:55pm coelacanth∅: i do! and i shall!
	🥁 6:56pm david w: Wrapping up here, thanks everybody!
	6:56pm spodiodi: aloha, ghostacanthØ. maybe we'll run into each other in the past
	6:57pm spodiodi: thanks, david!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: ...i want and therefore feel i need some lessons in Zappa too. these 1 hour and 2 hour, cut through the lumpy gravy and get right to the uncle meat of Zappa celebrations are just what i need.
	6:59pm coelacanth∅: hey spodi it looks tight in there!
	6:59pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, David! This was wonderful!
	6:59pm ruth: See ya next week Thanks all!
	7:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks David & Ruth!
	🥁 7:00pm WR: thank you David and Ruth. made me reflect on my mispent youth.
	🥁 7:00pm david w: A pleasure to have you all along!
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Thanks David! Thanks ruth!
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: My favorite Zappa Cover: www.youtube.com...

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from May 26, 2021

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