Official Release #83. At the time of Frank Zappa's passing in late 1993, he left a number of projects in varying stages of completeness. Some of these had gotten no further than the so-called "build-reel" stage. It was at this preliminary phase that the artist had done little more than set aside various and sundry audio on the back-burner in his Utility Muffin Research Kitchen home studio. One Shot Deal (2008) is a single-CD compilation taken from a number of disparate sources – including a pair of tunes from Zappa's "build reels." As the set's co-producer Gail Zappa explains in her inimitable style in the brief liner notes essay "…the guitar was the main element for me…." With that as an unofficial mandate, the 5-plus minutes – which cover the meaty nine-year span of 1972 to 1981 – is undeniably fret-centric.
Hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, Joe Bonamassa has almost single-handedly redefined the blues-rock genre and brought it into the mainstream. He continues this role with his first-ever entirely acoustic concert, recorded at the venerable Vienna Opera House with a global ensemble put together by longtime creative partner Kevin Shirley . The 2CD/2DVD/Blu-ray, An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House , comes out March 26, 2013 on Bonamassa's label J&R Adventures.
Guitar hero and vocalist Pat Travers and drummer extraordinaire Carmine Appice, present you their studio album "Bazooka". This is the third album from the duo and features blistering studio versions of concert favorites, Boom Boom and Snortin' Whiskey, Pat also revisits one of his classic tunes Crash & Burn while Carmine introduces Evil a track from the cactus era. There is a Stevie Wonder cover of Superstition and Living Alone tracks whic carmine performed with Beck, Bogart and Appice. New tracks include Babylon Baby, Misfortunate One and Dissapear. "Bazooka" is definately the best album from Travers and Appice to date..