Frank Zappa Tyou Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore

Frank Zappa's tour in the fall of 1975 took him to two cities in Yugoslavia and was the first and only time he performed in that country. This 2CD set brings together performances from both shows, recorded live in Zagreb on November 21 and in Ljubljana on November 22, 1975. This release features a rare band lineup of The Mothers, with Norma Bell on saxophone and vocals. After the European and Australian tour in early 1976, FZ finally stopped using The Mothers name. Remixed from the original 1/2" 8-track tape masters by Craig Parker Adams and mastered by John Polito, this historic set is the only multi-track document of this group in the Vault.

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce. Nominally, he was a popular musician, but his recordings rarely earned significant airplay or sales, yet he was able to gain control of his recorded work and issue it successfully through his own labels while also touring internationally, in part because of the respect he earned from a dedicated cult of fans and many serious musicians, and also because he was an articulate spokesman who promoted himself into a media star through extensive interviews he considered to be a part of his creative effort just like his music.

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along.

As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

Frank Zappa: Over-nite Sensation is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Universal Music Group with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. The disc boots to the main menu seen in screenshot 10, but as soon as either a track or the Play button is clicked, there's an amusing "tour" through the memorable original album cover, including various elements that have animated properties.The Blu-ray disc advertises Dolby Atmos 48/24, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 48/24, Quadrophonic 96/24 and PCM Stereo (both 96/24 and 192/24) options, but rather interestingly while all my equipment is showing the "proper" kilohertz for each track, the Quadrophonic track shows as Dolby TrueHD 5.1 on both my player and BDInfo. While my player properly showed a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core for the Atmos track, for some weird reason BDInfo showed a 5.1 core for that track. I'll leave it to those interested in these discrepancies to hash it out amongst themselves and will simply report what I hear, and in that regard both the Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 48/24 options are amazingly immersive and impressively powerful in the midrange and low end.

Orchestral Favorites is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. The album is entirely instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. It reached #168 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States.