Watch this video with Pierre Boulez conducting the Ensembe InterContemporain for a performance of Edgar Varese’s (1883 – 1965) composition Ionisation. The music involves many percussion instruments and some rare music instruments like the siren and the lion’s roar which you can listen to as a solo instrument at 1:15 of [...]
Frank Zappa performing Stairway to Heaven in a Cover Version of this Original Led Zeppelin Song
This video shows one of the rare ocasions with Frank Zappa performing a cover version of a song composed by other artists, in this case by the famous rock band Led Zeppelin. The cover is pretty close to the original music, which means the song is fully recognizable by anyone, however [...]
Frank Zappa Performing Inca Roads with some Original Claymation and Overdubs
This video clip shows Frank Zappa performing Inca Roads live on stage and has some fantastic claymation (= animation with clay) work included. The noises from the claymation part seem to bother some people on youtube, however, this is great work and worth listening to. If you don’t get it the [...]
National Treasure Frank Zappa performing live on stage
Frank Zappa and his band are performing the song City of Tiny Lights on this video. All the members of the band show their instrumental skills and offer an exceptional performance of musicianship. As always, Frank Zappa plays the guitar in his very personal style, soloing and throwing in some short [...]
Frank Zappa Ronald Reagan Hairdress and Documentary Video
This video shows Frank Zappa at work in different situations ranging from the making of a music video to working with a 25 performers symphony orchestra that is putting on stage his compositions. It has some interesting parts about the appearance of Ronald Reagan’s hairdress in the mentioned clip. For people [...]
Frank Zappa – ‘Stinkfoot’
Watch this video of Frank Zappa playing his song ‘Stinkfoot’ with Ruth Underwood on vibraphone and some interesting animations around the end of the videoclip. As always with Frank Zappa you get really amused, starting with the song’s title and lyrics, passing for his extremly structured music and amazing images of [...]
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Watch Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention perform live on stage in the early sixties. This kind of music was not very popular at the time nor is it in our days. However, this type of music is much more interesting than most of the modern ’songs’. The musician sure have [...]
