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Ya Hozna

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Them Or Us (1984) as Ya Hozna, recorded at the UMRK, c. 1982-84 (including reversed fragments from 1967 and 1974-75)
  • same version on Son Of Cheep Thrills (1999)
  • same version on Steve Vai's The Secret Jewel Box: Archives Vol. 2. FZ Original Recordings (2001)
• The riff can be heard during the guitar solo of The Black Page #2 from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992), performed in Munich, June 26, 1982

Comments:

From: TAN Mitsugu
Date: April 18, 2002
 
Vai referred to his solo on "Ya Hozna" in the linernotes for "Steve
Vai Archives Vol. 2: FZ Original Recordings":
 
"Frank was recording just about every show on the 82 European tour. 
He wrote this song during a soundcheck and pointed to me in the middle
of the song, which meant "do a solo, now, boy!"  I went for it, and
there ya have it.  Later he replaced the whole rhythm track."

Conceptual Continuity:

The Chrome Continuity:

• Who Are The Brain Police? ("the plastic is all melted and so is the chrome")
• The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny
• Uncle Meat ("Chromium plated")
• Magic Fingers ("chrome-with-heavy-duty-leather-thong Peace Medallion")
• Sofa ("Ich bin der Chrome Dinette")
• Muffin Man ("oversized chrome spoon")
• A Token Of My Extreme ("chrome piggy bank")
• Stick It Out ("feel the chrome")
• Sy Borg ("chromium leg", "chrome-plated machine")
• Ya Hozna ("etteniD emorhC red nib hcI")

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