Zappa is so fun, oddly beautiful and spiritual, especially to hearing such a high quality ensemble to play his stuff

Frank Zappa, the 20th century version of all the great's before him and thanks to people like Dweezil Zappa and ensembles like this his music and life are well preserved... Thanks to all who keep his music alive, RIP Maestro.

TIGHT! Congrats! FZ would have loved this - a performance on The Ensemble Modern's level.

Frank always wrote music on another level and with such compassion. Sure do miss you Frank Zappa...R.I.P.

One day Frank walked into rehearsal and handed Terry some sheet music and said : "what do you think about this Bozzio?" the rest is history.

@lexo30

2 ай бұрын

Uh, the rest is a lot of hard work by a lot of musicians keeping this music alive.

A modern masterpiece (and testpiece) that will be played a hundred years from now.

F. Zappa opened the gate to let me into the world of contemporary classical music. (Which took me further into early classical music too.) I will always be grateful for that. Like no one else he kombined this music with rock'n roll and pop music.

@delpage1

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. The list on the liner notes of Freak Out was a treasure and source of exploration for me when I was a kid.

@exentr

2 жыл бұрын

Same me. Frank opened the door to a new universe of music for me. I listen to some classical music, contemporary classical and so on. I am no expert tho. Frank played part of Petrushka by Stravinsky. It is a ballet which is to be seen on KZread. It is a fantastic ballet about 35 minutes long. Stravinsky was a master in epic music in which you can sense the influence on Frank.

@christopherkucia1071

10 ай бұрын

I would enjoy classic but never appreciated it until I became hooked like crack on Zappa.

saw you at ZAPPANALE and it almost made me cry seeing educated musicians like you having so much fun playing FZ's compositions!!

@nikolausgerszewski2086

3 жыл бұрын

the musicians from the zappa band - ruth underwood, george duke, napoleon murphy brock etc. - were also educated

@zeuhltube

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikolausgerszewski2086 well, but I think there is a difference between being an educated musciian in the US in the early 70s and being an educated musician in the new millenium in GERMANY! their approach towards "rock" musicians and composers is rather deprecating., and they'd perform stuff like that quite professionally, but without the heart and guts required. but there are exceptions of course.

@nikolausgerszewski2086

3 жыл бұрын

@@zeuhltube if they perform beethoven without heart and guts, it is just as boring, as most classical performances are. only the exceptional musicians are interesting anyway...

@machinebeard1639

11 ай бұрын

​@@zeuhltubeI think this performance is a perfect example of the hole in classical musician's abilities. This is a drummers song. Any Zappa fan knows, this is a song where the drummer gets center stage. Notice when he plays the strict parts of pt.1, he does fine. However, in pt. 2, where he is supposed to cut loose, he is lost. He can read what's on the page well enogh but, don't ask him to actually play his instrument.

I think this qualifies Frank who started playing on the drums, the title of the most underrated drummer there is.

@teedub127

2 ай бұрын

@tixximmi, I wholeheartedly agree!

What an incredible performance!

Two commercial breaks to interrupt one song... Zappa would be so proud.

Playing this is one thing,thinking it up and composing it is quite another

fantastic rendition

Impeccable !!!

...i so love you people. Brilliant music played by the best of musicians. If you ever tour my way, you can all stay at my house -- with your instruments. Stay ever Frank.

@EnsembleMusikfabrik

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We might take you up on that! ;-)

there where diamonds , gold , intens colours , intens light...zappa atmosphere !!!

Great! Really Great !

Amazing!

Fantastic performance! Zappa lives!!

IMMENSE.

excellente démonstration! Et nous aurons la passion d'entre nous, au prix à payer. On avance, Hans.

Bravo...Bravo, Nice to hear this, outside of a teenage rock combo!

GREAT WORK

A la note près, c'est impeccable, c'est superbe, c'est grandissime.

Loved it. Glad you broke it down into all 3 parts. The evolution of this melody is as important as the song itself. Hope to see you at ACL.

No ad libbing for the drummer -- he has to memorize his chart. Props.

LONG LIVE FRANK ZAPPA FOREVER !

Incredible composition, beautifully played.

Uncle Frank Genius Lives✨♥️

The most awesome stuff ever!

Brillant. You are the best! You swing and you enjoy playing. Zappa would have adored!

Just (censored) awesome! I could not imagine FZ disapproving of this.

Brilliant work!!

Merveilleux. Un grand hommage.

Amazing and “this little ditty” is a hard one to play!

Good work .

Brilliant version always a joyful track for me!

Work of Art

0:00 black page #1 4:13 black page #2

Excellent. Thank you.

Thanks for this. Beautiful

Amazing and this “little ditty” is a hard one to play!

Zappa o musico mais completo que ouvi abs.....

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

FANTASTIC

Geez, very ambitious 😎🥰♥️🙏

Brilliant!

Great performance! ! Really really nice! Perfect Top 👊💪👍

respect! you owned this

Great....!!!!!!Thank You..

fantastic

Wow... Top notch..

See you at the NCH, Dublin next weekend. Can't wait!

Bijna goed gespeeld....

Superb!!

awesome!

Bravo!

Great!!!!

GREAT!!

Parasta Frankkiä -Kulttuuritalolla sain nauttia tästä uskomattomasta taiteest 1970-luvulla roudarina - en mennyt lämpiöön - oli pakko kuunnella kaikki alusta loppuun - loppu tuli toki vasta aamuyöllä, kun olimme saaneet roudattua kaikki soittowärmeet ja PA-kamat rekkoihin - unohtumattomia keikkoja olivat ja sitten tuli vielä eräs Herra Captain Beefheart Helsinkiin (mutta se on toinen tarina) - ja aina Eki-setäkin paikalla kaikilla keikoilla...

Best performance of black page (after frank itself)

Sound is slightly behind the video, wonder if this was recorder with a single mic at camera location ?

Sorry I didn't attend. Hope to see you soon.

"Did anybody Dance"???

@sennoide.sounds

5 жыл бұрын

"did anybody get hurt?"

I think Frank would like this.

4:05 🎉

Ok guys you got the gig but the drummer was way to loud in the mix so your gonna have to do it again.

the MC sounds like Bruce Fowler talking

Impeccable performance!! It's enough to make me check out a paid sub to YT if it means no commercials. I wish the mix was better. Some instruments were completely lost. The percussionists were wonderful

@EnsembleMusikfabrik

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback! This is just a camera recording from the back of the hall. So no mix at all unfortunately :-)

@sp404ex

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnsembleMusikfabrik I have no idea about the logistical and financial details required to pull this performance together, but the Ensemble is tight and a second, better recording either taking a post eq pre-fade submix from the house audio console or doing a multi Track recording to a DAW would be so worth it. The musicianship and orchestration is first rate. I'm not surprised that the drum kit isn't as radical as the Terry Bozio kit, but spreading the percussion among several musicians, to my ears was very accurate.

It takes 3 to do what Bozzio did solo

😳😳😳👍👍

Why mono sound?

Heh. He said, "Statistical density". Heh heh.

Arf arf arf.

@morenogiannelli8279

3 жыл бұрын

Il Migliore.

like if the dumb shit music from the movie whiplash was interesting and challenging

Oh, bad musician! You misquoted Saint Frank.