Frank Zappa - A Pioneer of the Future of Music (2007) [DVD]

Frank Zappa
"A Pioneer of the Future of Music"
2007 documentary
broadcast on Dutch TV - VPRO - April, 2007

This version has user-friendly chaptering and selection menus with a lot of the interview bits directly selectable. Also the second half of the earlier seed was slightly out of synch. A two frame delay of the audio made a definite improvement. No re-encoding was done to the video or audio of the earlier seed.

Other details of this entertaining documentary:

There are a lot of bits of Frank speaking that are primarily taken from the 1971 VPRO documentary by Rudolf Kiers (footage recorded at Frank's home in 1970 and first broadcast February 11, 1971). It's all a very tight collage of old and new images and interviews.

New chapter list - more descriptive here than the selection menu allowed for it to fit onto a single screen:

1. Intro
2. Growing up
3. Denny Walley (new interview material and also live performance footage of Denny Walley with FZ edited together with Denny Walley playing solo guitar during a recent interview)
4. Composition
5. early Mothers (with new Elliot Ingber and Gail Zappa interview material)
6. "I think that progress is not possible without deviation" (FZ talks - from 1971 VPRO ducumentary)
7. Humor (with new Hal Wexler interview material)
8. Revolution (FZ talk from 1971 VPRO documentary and new Gail interview material)
9. Gail talks about The NYC Garrick Theater era
10. Footage from unknown ('70's?) date about directing the audience with hand signal improvisation (black and white)
11. The Uncle Meat file (with new Hal Wexler interview material)
12. The G.T.O.s (with new interview material)
13. Ian Underwood (with new interview material)
14. Call Any Vegetable video segment Fillmore West November 6, 1970 (from 1971 VPRO ducumentary)
15. George Duke (with new interview material)
16. The 200 Motels film
17. Frank The workoholic (new George Duke interview material)
18. part 1 closing credits
19. part 2 opening
20. George Duke (with new interview material)
21. Napoleon Murphy Brock (with new interview material)
22. Tom and Bruce Fowler (with new interview material - also Malcolm McNabb)
23. Rhythm
24. The Black Page (with new Dweezil Zappa and Terry Bozzio interview material and also live Zappa Plays Zappa footage)
25. Steve Vai (with new interview material, live with Zappa Plays Zappa and solo guitar during recent interview)
26. Pierre Boulez & Ensemble Modern (new interview material and live performance footage)
27. 1992 sessions (with new Gail Zappa interview material)
28. 1963 "Steve Allen" TV show (black and white)
29. Dweezil Zappa (new interview material and Zappa Plays Zappa footage)
30. final credits
total running time: 106 minutes

VIDEO_TS fileset from previous Dime seed > Cinematize (export as elementary streams) > DVD Studio Pro (audio/video synch adjustment plus new chaptering and title/selection menus) > new VIDEO_TS fileset (3.58 gig). md5 file created with xACT.

Thanks to Drummerdaan for the first post of this on Dime! It was originally transferred to DVD by him and is not one of the torrents of this show that was originally uploaded on the Zappateers site. I doubt than another copy of this will be able to improve on the excellent sound and video quality, especially after fine tuning the synch.

Other info from Drummerdaan's post:

This documentary has new interviews edited together with earlier documentary material and live performance videos. There is footage of Frank writing, thinking and talking about his ideas and work and various footage of Frank performing with the band.

VPRO Dutch Boadcast. English with Dutch Subtitles
First part broadcast April 22, 2007
Second part broadcast April 29, 2007

Broadcast > Philips DVDR610 in M2 mode > PC Harddrive > TMPG DVD author > Dime

Menu and Chapters included

Video/Audio Format:
MPEG-2 Video
720x576 Pixels
25 fps
PAL (Europe)
Max. Bitrate 7220kbps

Audio: AC3 (Dolby Digital 2,0)

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The Mothers Of Invention - Titan Gymnasium [Fullerton CA] (08.11.1968)

01 FZ Announcements [4:14]
02 Bacon Fat [3:50]
03 banter, tuning [1:37]
04 A Pound For A Brown (The String Quartet Pt.1) [5:57]
05 Sleeping In A Jar (The String Quartet Pt.2) [2:36] °°° drop out flaw ('pause button' incident) at 1:51
06 Jam (The String Quartet Pt.3) [16:55]
07 The Wild Man Fischer Story [3:44] °°° feat. Wild Man Fischer
08 I'm The Meany [1:55] °°° feat. Wild Man Fischer
09 Valarie & Ruben preamble [1:44] °°° robsam-doctorzap patch {0:04,500-0:10} around master tape flip cut at 0:06
10 Valarie [0:42]
11 King Kong [29:23] °°° cut at 14:17
12 EmCee Outro [0:38] °°° entire track from Flying M tape copy

The Mothers Of Invention, November 1968 - May 1969:
FZ, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp,
Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner,
Ian Underwood (not present in this show for virus affliction).

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Frank Zappa - Mid-Hudson Civic Center [Poughkeepsie, NY] (1978-09-21)

Disc 1
01 - The Deathless Horsie
02 - Intros
03 - Dancin' Fool
04 - Easy Meat
05 - Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
06 - Keep It Greasey
07 - Village Of The Sun
08 - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
09 - City Of Tiny Lites
10 - Pound For A Brown
11 - Bobby Brown
12 - Conehead
13 - Moe's Vacation

Disc 2
14 - The Black Page #2
15 - Is That Guy Kidding Or What
16 - I Have Been In You
17 - Flakes
18 - Magic Fingers
19 - Yellow Snow Suite
20 - (Encore Break 1)
21 - Little House I Used To Live In
22 - Tell Me You Love Me
23 - Yo Mama
24 - (Encore Break 2)
25 - Black Napkins

Peepers Part 1 (LP)
Peepers Parts 2 & 3 (2 LP)
Project-Object (LP/CD)
Moe's Vacation (picture LP)
Guitar Player - Live 1978 (CD)
* Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, 21-Sep-1978
Material from this concert has been issued on Peepers Part 1 (700 copies on Laughing Clown Records), Peepers Parts 2 & 3 (2 LP) (350 copies on Laughing Clown Records), Project-Object (3200 vinyl copies as Mud Shark MZ3604, and on CD as Archivo ARC CD 003 and Three Cool Cats TCC 046), Guitar Player - Live 1978 (Fire Power FP-0055) and in Europe as a picture disc called Moe's Vacation (200-copy edition).

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Arthur Barrow, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann and Vinnie Colaiuta
Peepers Part 1 has the following tracks:
1. The Deathless Horsie
2. Dancin' Fool
3. Easy Meat
4. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
5. Keep It Greasey
6. Village of the Sun
7. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
8. City of Tiny Lights
Peepers Parts 2 & 3 has the following tracks, picking up where part one left off:
1. Instrumental [piano/keyboard solos, listed as "Prelude to Bobby Brown; may be composed in part by Peter Wolf]
2. Bobby Brown
3. Conehead
4. Moe's Vacation
5. The Black Page #2
6. Is This Guy Kidding or What? / I Have Been in You
7. Flakes
8. Magic Fingers
9. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow / Nanook Rubs It / Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast / Father O'Blivion / Rollo
10. Little House I Used to Live in
11. Tell Me You Love Me
12. Yo' Mama
13. Black Napkins
Project-Object has the following tracks:
1. Instrumental [piano/keyboard solos, listed as "Prelude to Bobby Brown; may be composed in part by Peter Wolf]
2. Bobby Brown
3. Conehead
4. Moe's Vacation
5. I Have Been in You
6. Little House I Used to Live In
7. Tell Me You Love Me
8. Yo' Mama
They have also been issued as the first 8 tracks on In New York & San Francisco.
The Project-Obejct bootleg claims to be "phase two of Conceptual Continuity". It has a cover very similar to the Conceptual Continuity bootleg, and may have been made by the same people, but phase two of that bootleg is actually issued as Marvellous Stunner. Project-Object was released in 1980 (pressed in 3200 copies) and re-released on CD in 1991. The cover is a black & white insert. The disc has "Project Object" on it; the cover has "Project-Object". When Zappa wrote the phrase himself, he would write it "Project/Object".
The Moe's Vacation picture LP has the same track list as Project-Object. It's a colour picture LP, with a picture of a smiling Zappa from the You Are What You Is photo session. It says "Printed in Mexico" and "Promotional copy not for sale". It was pressed on poor-quality vinyl, which gets scratchy.
Guitar Player - Live 1978 has tracks 1-8 of Peepers Part 1 and 1-3 of Parts 2 & 3; 12 tracks in all ("Deathless Horsie" to "Conehead"). Tracks 1 and 11 listed as "instrumental" only. Front cover has a picture of Zappa standing with the Hendrix Strat.
* The "instrumental" track from these bootlegs is some kind of piano/keyboard solo from "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus", some of which is probably compsed by Peter Wolf.
* "Moe's Vacation" track is the early stages of "Mo & Herb's Vacation", a shorter version for drums, bass and marimba (exquisite!).
* "I Have Been in You" http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhas a long intro like the one on Stage #6, "Is This Guy Kidding or What".
* "Little House I Used to Live In" is the orchestrated intro from "Little House I Used to Live in" followed by a vocal improvisation by Tommy Mars, a bit of a drum solo and a fade-out.
* See also: A Collector's 10 Favourite Zappa Boots (Project-Object / Moe's Vacation reached #6)

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Frank Zappa - Black Napkins [Kyoto, Japón] (1976-02-04)

01 Naval Aviation In Art Intro [1:45]
02 Incan Art Intro Vamp [4:18]
03 Stinkfoot (incl. Blues Intro, Poodle Lecture) [8:40]
04 Dirty Love [3:01]
05 Filthy Habits [10:40]
06 How Could I Be Such A Fool? [3:37]
07 I Ain't Got No Heart [2:31]
08 I'm Not Satisfied [1:53]
09 Black Napkins [11:16]
10 Advance Romance [11:44]
11 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [3:28]
12 The Illinois Enema Bandit [8:47]
13 Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station [3:02]
14 Tryin' To Grow A Chin [4:21]
15 The Torture Never Stops [8:45]
16 Chunga's Revenge [17:37]
17 Zoot Allures [6:30]
18 Ship Ahoy [6:54]
19 Ms Pinky [2:50]
20 Incan Art Outro [1:29]
21 encore break, tuning [1:05]
22 Dinah-Moe Humm [6:58]
23 Incan Art Outro#2 [2:05]
24 Camarillo Brillo [4:04]
25 Muffin Man [3:17]
26 Incan Art Outro#3 [1:39]
27 I'm The Slime [3:26]
28 San Ber'dino [4:49]
29 Incan Art Outro#4 [1:24]

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Frank Zappa - Portsmouth [Guild Hall ] (1969-06-05)

01 The Story Of A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
02 A Pound For A Brown (The String Quartet Pt.1)
03 Sleeping In A Jar (The String Quartet Pt.2)
04 Jam (The String Quartet Pt.3)
05 Transylvania Boogie

Músicos.
Frank Zappa
Roy Estrada
Jimmy Carl Black
Art Tripp
Ian Underwood
Don Preston
Bunk Gardner
Motorhead Sherwood
Buzz Gardner

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Frank Zappa - Unknown Venue (1973-05-00)

01 Tune Up Introduction Preamble
02 Dog Meat Medley
03 Fifty-Fifty
04 Cosmik Debris
05 Preamble to Zomby Woof
06 Zomby Woof
07 Montana
08 Dupree's Paradise
09 Building Curfew Encore Preamble
10 Farther Oblivion

Músicos.
Frank Zappa
Jean Luc Ponty
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Ruth Underwood
Ian Underwood
George Duke
Bruce Fowler
Sal Marquez

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