Does Humor Belong in Music? Frank Zappa Live
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Actor: Bobby Martin, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Ray White, Scott ThunesBrand: EMI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 57 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Virgin Records Us
DVD Reviews of Does Humor Belong in Music? Frank Zappa Live
DVD Review: AWESOME ZAPPA
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Zappa He is the best this DVD is awesome and I wish he was still alive!! DVD Review: What an amazing misuse of talent
Summary: 2 Stars
The band is flawlessly rehearsed, tight, and hugely talented. And they stand on stage for maybe 90 minutes doing all of the most foolish songs that Zappa wrote in his "dumbed down" period, where pandering to teenage potty humor and getting a hit record seemed to be his primary concerns.
The set opens with Zoot Allures, allowing one long Zappa guitar solo. After that, none of the fine musicians really has a chance to play much more than filler licks, with the possible exception of bass player Scott Thunes (who is well represented) and Chad Wackerman (who sits above the band with an air of calm detachment, so relaxed he makes his playing look effortless). Bobby Martin does a great vocal on the closing number, Whipping Post, but otherwise, it's silly songs all the way, and although the band delivers the goods with impeccable precision, no one looks as if he's having a whole lot of fun. The clowning is unspontaneous at best.
As for the video footage itself, it's well shot, impeccably edited, but with far too many closeups of Frank Zappa's face, and a strange absence of longshots of the stage (the audience-eye view is missing).
How unfortunate the no video seems to exist of the final Zappa tour, when they were tackling the most ambitious, complex, and beautiful compositions, with truly amazing jazz soloists and less of a focus on Zappa and his tendency toward self indulgence.
This DVD will satisfy anyone who wanted to know what a Zappa concert looked like, but the material is among the most trivial he wrote. Certainly humor belongs in music--but only if it's funny.
DVD Review: Decent Zappa DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a little disappointed that there weren't more full songs, but as with most Zappa products I am happy with what I bought. DVD Review: If you like ZAPPA...
Summary: 5 Stars
If your a Frank Zappa fan this is a great DVD to add to your collection! Great price and great audio quality make this a winner! Very funny as well. Awesome performances from Frank and his band! Highly recommended.DVD Review: Humor Does Belong in Music
Summary: 4 Stars
My friend bought this DVD several years ago after I introduced him to FZ, now I have my own copy. I loved this DVD.
The Good: The band is great- Bobby Martin is awesome. Chad Wackerman--one of the best drummers Frank ever used. Everybody is having a great time-----let's mine the harbor!
The Great: Frank's solos and their version of "The Whipping Post"
The Bad: Close-ups of Franks face during some of the solos. Who cares? Show me the guitar!!!!!
Description of Does Humor Belong in Music? Frank Zappa Live
Track Listing: Zoot Allures, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Trouble Every Day, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, The Dangerous Kitchen, He's So Gay, Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasy, Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Dinah-Moe Humm, Cosmik Debris, Be In My Video, Dancin' Fool, Whippin' PostFor longtime fans and un-Zapped neophytes alike, Does Humor Belong in Music? presents the late, great Frank Zappa at his mischievous best. Unlike the infamously rambling Baby Snakes, this hour-long, digitally remastered 14-song set (culled from FZ's performance at the Pier in New York City on August 26, 1984) is 95% music, punctuated with brief interview clips (including the inane titular question, and Frank's expectedly affirmative response), and featuring one of the tightest bands that Zappa ever assembled. Everybody participates in Zappa's unique parade of musical fusion, street theater, and defiant anti-establishment sarcasm, with Zappa playing masterful conductor when he's not riffing with nimble-fingered fretwork (notably during "Zoot Allures," "Cosmik Debris," and Greg Allman's "Whipping Post," the set's only cover song). His trademark humor extends to all of his bandmates, especially Ray White and Ike Willis (guitars, vocals) and Bobby Martin (keyboards, vocals), and any topic is fair game for Zappa's skewering, frequently explicit lyrics, from pop-culture sellouts and corrupt recording executives ("Tinsel Town Rebellion") to greedy politicians ("Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel"). Each song is performed to perfection while espousing FZ's impassioned philosophy of taking nothing seriously except the music. In that regard, this Zappa Live DVD represents pure genius at work, having fun and taking no prisoners. --Jeff Shannon
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