Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
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Actor: Adrian Belew, Bruce Bickford, Dale Bozzio, Terry Bozzio, Warren CuccurulloDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Enhanced, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 166 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
DVD Reviews of Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
DVD Review: Baby Snakes is a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
After renting "Baby Snakes", I bought my own personal copy. I think this is a classic and I fell in love with Frank Zappa, all over again. He was charming, attractive, and oh so talented! This movie gives a great view into the music and magic that is Zappa.
I recommend it to anyone who knows who Frank is. He shaped a generation in ways that may not be fully understood yet or ever.
DVD Review: Historic concert - really adds to what you hear on CD's
Summary: 5 Stars
I went to this concert, and looking back on it I just went because I thought it would be a happening event. I did think that it was silly and fun, and of course Zappa's solos were amazing. I felt cool because I was into jazz then and more often would go hear something like McCoy Tyner, and not many rock concerts any more. Now I have introduced my kids to this music and am rediscovering what a genius Zappa was, and I feel bad that I missed the point while he was still alive. It is a bit like Alfred Hitchcock, how it was only after he died that I realized he was an artistic genius. I am saying this because of some comments about his not being a good guitar player. Aside from being a superficially foolish comment, it is also deeply idiotic. Zappa was not only a great technician and improvisor, he wrote, arranged and conducted brilliantly, and had a completely original concept of music. You don't have to like it, but you should understand what went into this music -- especially today when the young generation is growing up on some really bland uninspired stuff.
Zappa's concerts were like Dadaist events. The only thing missing was a shocked audience that thought they were going to see something like the Jonas Brothers -- like Jimi Hendrix when he was an unknown warmup band for the Monkees.
DVD Review: I can't believe I used to be such a fan!
Summary: 1 Stars
I used to be a big Frank Zappa fan going back to the '60s. I had all his albums and listened to them a lot: especially with headphones while in a chemically enhanced mode. And while they were excellent from that perspective, that is really more a tribute to the engineers who mixed the stuff than the 'musicians' who made it.
I saw FZ in KC in the early '70s and if it hadn't been for the fact that Steely Dan opened for them it would have been one of the worst concerts I have ever attended. When I finally outgrew my youthful enthusiasm for DOPE, subsequent listenings to FZ resulted in quickly turning on someone with some actual talent for example Steely Dan Aja, Porcupine Tree In Absentia or Grey Eye Glances Eventide to name a few. FZ definitely has not aged well for me.
The final capper for me was watching Baby Snakes. Wow! What a pretentious, no talent, control freak, jerk Frank Zappa truly was. This 'movie' truly reveals the base cretinism at the core of his 'musical genius'.
I would suggest watching this movie straight before declaring this 'genius'.
DVD Review: Mind Blowing Entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is stuck in my memory. Probably forever. I can't think of any more complex and wonderful a DVD that I own. From the begining to fabulous ending, the show never stops,and the the music is absolutely first class. Many folks don't know of Zappa's masterful, way-out there mind. This DVD is the gateway to that place. The claymation sequences alone, are worth the price of the DVD. One can only imagine the amount of patience that went into making of these scenes. One very memorable line from Frank in conversation with claymation guru Bruce Bickford, goes something like this.... "Why did the monsters end up in the disco?" Bickford: "I don't know, I guess it was for entertainment...." Frank: "You and me Bruce, 100% entertainment all the way". That is what you get from this movie. Entertained for two and a half hours of mesmerizing sequences of music and claymation that will blow your mind. Never mind the fact that the movie is like 26 years old now. It still rocks!!!! See this film on a rainy day with the friend of your choice...wink wink... and you won't regret it! DVD Review: Goodness snakes! What a trip!
Summary: 5 Stars
Not just a glimpse of genius, but a virtal smorgasbord! In this video, many twisted minds come together like baby snakes in the night, producing a sensory overload unequalled by any group of artists. You have the totally bizarre claymation freak-outage, the uninhibited backstage showing off, and the not-frequent-enough footage of Zappa squeezing every drop of musical talent from his band members in rehearsal. Then you have the irreplaceable concert footage- it's such a blast to watch Terry Bozzio clad in a devil's mask and underwear, banging away at the drums like a maniac. Zappa commands the stage but then drags in an assortment of audience members, a blow up doll, a talking toy cop car and even his road crew manager for comic measure, as if he needs to get more random. Oh yeah, there's some amazing guitar playing, too.
If this sounds like fun to you, you are not normal and you will enjoy watching this. I totally recommend it!
Description of Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal," Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City (a zany enough proceeding in its own right) with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford, with whose work Zappa was obviously smitten. Onstage, Zappa is a live wire, the audience is appropriately rambunctious, and the band--an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention--is tight as could be. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants lack any trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Zappa, who died in 1993, always worked with consummate musicians, and Baby Snakes showcases the cream of the crop: Terry Bozzio (one of the greatest drummers ever to command a kit), bassist Patrick O'Hearn, keyboard wizard Tommy Mars, and even pop chameleon Adrian Belew.The DVD packaging, with its deluxe miniature dossier on Zappa and the film, is fabulous, and the sound and picture seem about as good as they could be, under the influence--that is, the circumstances. Undeniable are Zappa's intelligence and charisma, which flicker and blaze every second he's on screen. The progressive-leaning rock and jazz music is frequently interrupted for meandering spoken interludes and is certainly not for all tastes. But Frank Zappa was a force to behold, and Baby Snakes offers a unique cultural education for anyone bold enough to give it a spin. "Without deviation," Zappa wrote, "progress is not possible." Baby Snakes is one of Frank's most fervent contributions to progress. --Michael Mikesell
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