Look, I did Zappa, you know what I mean? I did Zappa's band for a short time, and he gave me a chart once, and told me to learn it, and Steve Vai came over and helped me out because I didn't know how to read the stuff. He gave me a few hints and then I understood. A week later I went back to the rehearsal, I broke out the music, and we started playing. Frank stopped it immediately and said "What are you playing?" and I said "I'm playing this part you gave to me." It was "Pedro's Dowry." And he looked at it and "Oh man," he says "I gave you the guitar part by accident." So I learned the guitar part, in treble clef, and learned it in a couple days well enough to function in his band. So what are they going to show me now, to complicate my musical life, or give me any kind of tsoris. It's a Yiddish word, means give me a headache. I'm happy with that. It's nice at my age that I don't have to sweat it anymore. And I'm happy with giving a job. They want a job, they got it. As a leader, it's my ball game. It's my ball, and I call the rules, as any leader will.
"The band I was bringing over from the States would be doing a total of seventeen weeks' work, all of it rehearsal except for four weeks of rock shows, one week of orchestral concerts and five days of recording. It was to be a nine-piece group and each musician would have earned $15,000 for the seventeen weeks of work plus having all of their travel expenses paid, all of their food paid for, all of their hotels paid for, etc.
Shortly before the start of rehearsals in the U.S., Vinnie Colaiuta and Jeff Berlin called our office and tried to make secret deals to get their individual salaries raised, saying, 'Don't tell the other guys.'
When I heard of this, I canceled using the electric group with the orchestra, saving myself a lot of time and trouble rehearsing them, and a lot of money moving them around."
FZ--guitar Steve Vai--guitar Richard Emmet--guitar Tommy Mars--keyboards David Ocker--clarinet Ed Mann--percussion Jeff Berlin--bass Vinnie Colaiuta--drums
>>308 >>So what are they going to show me now, to complicate my musical life, だから今俺の音楽人生を困らせるような仕事というと何になるだろう? >>or give me any kind of tsoris. 俺に何らかのtsorisを与えるような仕事というと何だろう? >>It's a Yiddish word, means give me a headache. tsorisというのはイディッシュ語で「頭痛」の意味だ。(バーリンはユダヤ系?) >>I'm happy with that. 今は何が来ても平気だ。
1978年〜1983年まで写譜係(Copyist)としてザッパに雇われる。 ↓は「My Time With Frank Zappa」に紹介されているDaddyとしてのZappaのエピソード。
One day Diva refused to go to school. In fact, she refused to leave her room. Gail spent quite some time trying to persuade the obstinate child to get up and go, but to no avail. Then it was Frank’s turn. He ordered Diva to take a piece of paper and list her two most prized possessions. He told her that if she didn’t leave for school immediately, those two things would be taken away from her. From under the door slid the piece of paper. On it, Diva had written: Mom and Dad. Frank then told her, “Okay, you’re smart enough. You can stay home.”
・FZ at the studio rehearsing with Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Scott Thunes and an unknown drummer, probably during the 1981 tour auditions, before Chad Wackerman was hired. ・FZ & Roy Estrada recording the vocal track for "The Radio Is Broken." ・FZ auditioning a symphonic orchestra in Buffalo, NY, playing "Bob In Dacron" and "Sad Jane." ・FZ discussing the script of the "You Are What You Is" video. ・The shooting of the "You Are What You Is" video. ・The "You Are What You Is" video.
「Chalk Pie」 [Side A] 01 Drowning Witch 02 Envelopes 03 Teenage Prostitute (SATLTSADW versions, with some differences) [Side B] 04 Dangerous Kitchen (Armadillo, Austin, Tx, 16-Oct 1980, diff mix than MFU) 05 Chalk Pie (Salt Lake City, Ut, 7-Dec 1981, same as on Guitar) 06 We're Turning Again (SLC, 7-Dec 1981 and/or SMCA 12/11/81 #1) 07 Alien Orifice (q: Inca Roads) (SLC, 7-Dec 1981 and/or SMCA 12/11/81 #1) [Side C] 08 The Jazz Discharge Party Hats (possibly Carbondale, Il, 11/15/80. Diff mix than MFU) 09 Torture Never Stops Guitar Solo (fall 1980) 10 What's New In Baltimore? (Same as on FZMMOP but full guitar solo) 11 Moggio (Basic tracks from Chicago, 27-Nov 1981, show #2) [Side D] 12 Black Page Guitar Solo (San Diego Civic Center, 12-Dec 1981, show #1) 13 Clownz On Velvet (w/Al di Meola, Ritz 17-Nov 1981) 14 Frogs With Dirty Little Lips (w/Ahmet, Santa Monica, 11-Dec 1981)
Nationwide BBC UK (1983.01.07) http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=5SjX5SPgR-s FZ talks about the toilet poster, the LSO recording and how he didn't give a fuck about how'd he remembered.
Newsnight BBC UK(1983.01.10) http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=HHA8ZhFif4U Report on the upcoming London Symphony Orchestra concert at the Barbican Center. FZ talks about the building, where the musicians are going to be placed on stage, the difficulty of the music to be played, how he sees no difference between "Valley Girl" and "Mo 'N Herb's Vacation," how the concert is financed. Kent Nagano compares Zappa to Ives, Boulez, Messiaen and Elliott Carter. It also includes images of FZ at home in Los Angeles and the "You Are What You Is" video.
ザッパファンのみなさんザッパの大好きなアルバム2枚あげるとしたらどれですか。 俺の場合は歌ものとして[you are what you is」 このアルバムって一曲目から最後まで思いっきり気持ちいい歌ものがぎっしりで 曲順も最高です、歌詞見ながら歌うと最後はぐったりします。 もう一枚は「Roxy and elsewhare」newyorkと迷うけど インストも歌ものもメロディアスで好きなのが多くて。 歌もの好きの自分から見てザッパってホントにメロディメーカーだなと思う。 前はmake a jazz noize here とかダントツだったけど聞く時期によってどんどん変わるね。
[News] Joe’s Corsaga #4 out next week…I figure all you clued-up peeps be checking zappa.com and elsewhere so you don’t need me to tell you about ZPZ’s New Year’s eve gig with Les Claypool, the already-mentioned-yonks-back Joe’s Garage premiere, the St Louis Symphony Orchestra's Guitar Festival 2008, Scott Parker’s new book, all the JCB benefit activity, blah, blah… let me know if you needs me to spell it out for ya… oh, happy birthday, Mr Preston ? 76 today. And if anyone knows the point of those mobile downloads in this era of Nero Wave Editor and Bluetooth, please do let me know.