(Zappa, CD, Vaulternative VR 20042, October 1, 2004)
Vaultmeisterment & Production by Joe
Travers for UMRK & the Vault
Masterment by Stephen Marcussen,
Marcussen Mastering
Series Concept & Art Direction by GZ
Photoshoppage, Renderment & Layoutage by Keith
Lawler
Liner Notes by GZ
FZ--guitar, voice
Tony Duran--guitar, vocals
Ian Underwood--organ
Sal Marquez--trumpet
Malcolm McNab--trumpet
Ken Shroyer--trombone
Tony Ortega--baritone sax
Alex Dmochowski--bass, vocals
Aynsley Dunbar--drums
FZ: . . . just so I can hear the song again
One two one two three
I'll give you two bars
One two one two three
One two one two three
Again
One two one two three
One two one two three
That's-- We're missing [...]
??: The accent
FZ: Okay
??: [...]
??: Will we play this, Frank? . . . . and me try that part?
FZ: No, actually, I think the part you've got is probably [...]. The other one was pretty much engineered for the tuba.
Now, let's go over this "New Brown Clouds" the way we were starting off with it. You missed this part. The, uh, there's, there's seven, you count seven quarter notes before you come in, Kenny. And then you read that as if it was double-time.
??: Yeah.
FZ: Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
??: Oh
[...]
FZ: All right, let me hear it.
FZ: Let me hear the brass at that double-time clip.
One-- I will count the seven beats before you come in.
One two three four one two three
[...]
FZ: That 5/16 thing is like a little fanfare.
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh duh-duh DUH
??: Yeah, right.
FZ: You know those little fanfares. [...]
Aynsley: Am I supposed to come on the first-- on the fourth beat exactly? . . . One e and a, two e and a, three e and a.
??: [...]
Aynsley: [...] just before it. One, two, three, duh duh duh-duh-duh duh--
FZ: When it's perfect, it'll come into the right place.
Aynsley: Yeah, but it's [...] exactly four . . .
FZ: It should be one two three four one two three duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Aynsley: a sixteenth note before [...]
FZ: Yeah. It comes in right on the downbeat of the four beat of bar two.
Aynsley: [...]
FZ: One two three four one two three
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
Okay, here it is in full regalia
??: Where?
FZ: From the beginning. Brown Clouds.
includes a section from Big Swifty
FZ: One, two, three four
Now, at that point, put another [...] duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh... Okay, from here.
[...]
[...]
[...]
includes The New Brown Clouds and a section from Big Swifty
[...]
[...]
If something gets in your way,
Just THINK IT Over . . .
If something gets in your way,
JUST THINK IT OVER!
If something gets in your way,
Just think it OVER . . .
If something gets in your way,
JUST THINK IT OVER!
And, it will fall down
It will fall down
It will fall
Just wait 'n see!
And, It'll fall down
It'll fall down
It'll fall
TAKE IT FROM ME!
Everything that gets in your way ain't real
Everything that gets in your way ain't real
Everything that gets in your way ain't real
It ain't real!
It ain't real, so
What's the deal?
It ain't real, so
What's the deal?
FZ: Let me try something out. Instead of, uh, the guitar, organ, and bass, uh, comping, why don't you drop out there and [...] guitar, bass, and drums.
??: Where?
FZ: On the solo. One, two, three...
. . . If something gets in your way,
JUST THINK IT OVER!
If something gets in your way,
Just think it OVER . . .
If something gets in your way,
JUST THINK IT OVER!
FZ: Okay. There's-- There's actually another whole melodic section that goes in there that I'm not gonna bother to [...] this evening. Play it for you, show you how it goes, and the next time we get together we'll sketch it out. It goes:
includes quotes from Interlude and Think It Over
FZ: Anyway, that's quite a bit of, uh, drawing. And if I get a chance to write those parts out before the next time we get together, which should be Sunday, Sunday evening. What time is your [...] on Sunday?
??: Two to six.
FZ: Two to six? Can you make it, uh, seven o'clock on Sunday?
??: Sure.
FZ: Will you be back by that time?
Ainsley: I don't know exactly what time I get in.
FZ: Unnh.
??: I can't make it till nine-thirty at-- nine-thirty.
FZ: Nine-thirty?
Ainsley: Why don't you make it about nine then, nine-thirty?
FZ: Okay.
Ainsley: That way then, I'll definitely be back and [...] I'll be restored.
FZ: All right. Nine-thirty, then, on Sunday.
[...]
FZ: Okay.
[...]
FZ: Come back [...]
FZ: [...] I'll tell you what the story is on the recording of this material. I don't want to take it into the studio until you can play all that stuff from memory and it feels natural to do the stuff. That's the reason I'm going about it this way rather than just lay charts in front of everybody . . .
All compositions by Frank Zappa except as noted