Frank Zappa [Album Covers]

1967 Lumpy Gravy SR	1969 Hot Rats SR	1970 Chunga’s Revenge SR	1972 Waka/Jawaka SR
1974 Apostrophe (’) SR	1975 One Size Fits All SR	1976 Zoot Allures SR	1978 Studio Tan SR
1979 Sleep Dirt SR	1979 Sheik Yerbouti SR	1979 Joe’s Garage: Act I R	1979 Joe’s Garage: Acts II & III SR
1981 Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar Some More R	1981 Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar R	1981 Return of the Son of Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar R	1981 You Are What You Is SR
1982 Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch SR	1983 The Man From Utopia SR	1983 London Symphony Orchestra, Volume 1 R	1984 Thing‐Fish SR
1984 Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger SR	1984 Them or Us SR	1984 Francesco Zappa SR	1985 We’re Only in It for the Money / Lumpy Gravy R
1985 Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention SR	1986 Apostrophe (’) / Over‐Nite Sensation R	1986 The London Symphony Orchestra R	1986 Jazz From Hell SR
1988 The Man From Utopia / Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch	1994 Civilization Phaze III R	1995 Were Only in It for the Money SR	1995 London Symphony Orchestra, Volume I & II R
1996 Läther SR	1996 Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute SR	1998 Mystery Disc SR	1999 Everything Is Healing Nicely SR
2003 Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions SR	$[ 38 / 44 ] 2004 Joes Domage After being thrown 15 feet off of the Rainbow Theater stage in London on December 10, 1971 by unstable concert attendee Trevor Howell, Frank Zappa spent the better part of the following winter and spring in rehearsals for what would become the Waka/Jawaka (1972) and Grand Wazoo (1972) platters and related live shows. Joes Domage (2004) -- the second in a series of never-before-available material from the luminous Frank Zappa tape vaults -- gathers 50 minutes from these closed-door sessions, during which Zappa was confined to a wheelchair as he recuperated. The incident left the guitarist with some permanent damage, with a lower voice from a partially crushed larynx, and a fractured right leg which ended up shorter than the left, as referenced in the lyrics of "Zomby Woof" and "Dancin Fool." Being off the road resulted in some of the Zappas most involved fusions of jazz and rock. These rehearsals were most likely not meant for public consumption, having been sonically remastered from a decidedly lo-fi cassette. For all intents and purposes, this is an examination of the modular process that Zappa used when creating his extended works and intricately detailed compositions, including contributions from an impressive lineup of Zappa (guitar/spoken instructions), Tony Duran (guitar), Ian Underwood (organ), Sal Marquez (trumpet), Malcolm McNabb (trumpet), Kenny Shroyer (trombone), Tony Ortega (baritone sax), Aynsley Dunbar (drums) and Alex Dmochowski (bass) -- the latter often credited under the pseudonym Erroneous. Granted, the fidelity is distorted and typical of what a cassette from 1972 might sound like. However, tucked into the otherwise grungy audio and the incessant start/stop methodology of these preliminary run-throughs, Zappas hands-on involvement becomes exceedingly evident to the lay person. He methodically teaches his highly advanced rhythms and time signatures with a definite and well-thought-out sense of the bigger picture. Fragments and in-progress snippets of "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary," "Big Swifty," "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal," "Blessed Relief," "Grand Wazoo" [aka "Think It Over"] and an "Interlude" that Zappaphiles refer to as "Twinkle Tits" are among the songs that would eventually surface from the music heard here in their primordial forms.$ 2004 Joes Domage SR	2005 Joe’s XMasage SR	2006 The MOFO Project/Object S
2006 The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle	2008 One Shot Deal SR	2009 The Lumpy Money Project/Object	2009 Beat the Boots! III Disc Two