ANOTHER DWEEZIL ZAPPA VIDEO

 

JOHN COMPTON - TO LUNA

John Compton released "To Luna" in 1971.

Featuring Billy Mundi on the drums.

-- info: Jan van Kemenade 

DOCTOR DELTA

Kicking off the day with some Doctor Delta !

• Doctor Delta: Slow Dog Blues
      (2020, 2cd, Italy, slow dog records)
      – incl. ‘The Spotlight Kid’ (D. Van Vliet)

• Doctor Delta: Stereo
      (2022, cd, Italy, slow dog records)

• Doctor Delta: Doctor Delta Play Zappa – Hydrogen And Stupidity
      (2026, cd, Italy, slow dog records)
      – Incl. ‘Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague’ ,’Mother People’, ‘Let's Make the Water Turn Black’, ‘Holiday in Berlin’, ‘Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance / What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body’, ‘Little Umbrellas’, ‘Anyway the Wind Blows’, ‘My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama’, ’Lemme Take You To the Beach’, ‘(Son of) Mr. Green Genes’, ‘(Son of) Orange County Lumber Truck / How Could I Be Such a Fool’ (F. Zappa)

Check out:

https://doctordelta.bandcamp.com/

COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - GREATEST HITS LIVE

• Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen: Greatest Hits Live!
      (2003, cd, USA, king biscuit flower hour records)

A little while ago, I received a digital copy of "Greatest Hits Live!", a foot-stompin' rockabilly and boogie woogie party music album by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen.

Fun.

-- info & more: Danny Mathys

NEW BOOKS ON THE SHELF

Recent additions on the shelf.
Does anyone know who released or compiled the book in the middle of the picture?

• Kohjitsu Ohyama's 1998 book on Frank Zappa
• "Zappa - Ein Lesebuch" (compiled by ??)
• The UK 1986 softcover re-issue of Ben Watson's "Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play" book

ONLY A MOTHER - LIVE IN EUROPE 1996

Frank Pahl released Only A Mother's "Live In Europe 1996" a couple of years ago through Bandcamp.
A digital download / streaming album.

Beautiful.
The music has a certain narrative and theatrical aspect that I like a lot, mixing blues and jazz, spicing it up with different musical flavours along the way.

Frank Pahl added:
The quartet consists of Bobbi Benson on bass and vocals, Doug Gourlay on drums and percussion, Marko Novachcoff on horns, strings and vocals and I play various strings including electric guitar which is new to this band's sound.

Make sure to check out track no.8: 'Mahogany Wood', orginally released by The Residents with Renaldo & The Loaf on "Title In Limbo".

-- info & more: Danny Mathys

PHISH - NEW YEAR'S EVE 1993 - LIVE AT WORCESTER CENTRUM

• PHISH: new year’s eve 1993 - live at worcester centrum
      (2026, 3cd box set, USA, jemp records)
      (2026, 5lp box set, USA, jemp records)

A fabulous concert presented as a 5 LP but also as a 3 CD box set.
Including Phish performing FZ's 'Peaches En Regalia', shortly after FZ's passing.

Additional info on this release:
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/phish-releasing-1993-worcester-nye/

and

https://relix.com/reviews/detail/phish-new-years-eve-1993-live-at-worcester-centrum/

Phish’s defining humor, in which you weren’t quite sure if they were making fun of arena rock tropes or living inside them, was happily pervasive as well, obviously with the gag itself but also interspersed throughout the musical program. Drummer Jon Fishman showboated his way through Neil Diamond’s “Cracklin’ Rosie,” the band transformed into a barbershop quartet for “I Didn’t Know,” and they paid tribute to the recently deceased Frank Zappa by weaving the melody to Zappa’s “Peaches En Regalia” into multiple songs throughout the night. (That’s in addition to a proper full rendition—their third in the four-night run.)

CHAD WACKERMAN AND THE L.A. ALL STARS - QUUBE

Chad Wackerman and the L.A. All Stars performed at the Paradox jazz club in Tilburg, NL, yesterday.
Reason enough to cross the border.

Chad Wackerman on drums. Alex Machcek on guitar, Jimmy Haslip on bass, and Steve Hunt on keyboards.

Here's a recap from Jan:

It was a phenomenal concert. Amazing musicians. And Chad's drums sound so good. No electronics can compete with that. 
They played a number of songs from the new album ("Quube") and some older work by Chad (including ‘All Sevens’ and ‘Between the Dog and the Wolf’). The encore was ‘Fred’ by Allan Holdsworth (originally found on "Believe It" by the New Tony Williams Lifetime and, of course, on "Blues for Tony", with Chad and Jimmy Haslip).

I can only agree with Jan.
Jeff Aug opened solo with some energetic pieces the acoustic guitar.
Chad and his buddies performed an incredible first set. Technically astounding. Fusion jazz, without any sharp edges. It ended with Chad's 'New York City", which sounded almost as a suite with a drum solo opening and various movements. Nice.

Their second set was a bit more powerful. Louder as well. I thought about mentioning it to the person that took care of the sound but I imagined he'd probably be nearly deaf, so that would be a useless effort...
Second set: short and sweet, plus an Allan Holdsworth piece as a bonus.
No Zappa piece, which in my humble opinion was a missed opportunity, but an excellent second set.

Bought "Quube" and will be enjoying that a lot the next couple of days.

• Wackerman, Machacek, Hunt, Haslip: Quube
      (2026, cd, USA, private release)

FROM LAST YEAR'S FRANK ZAPPA TRIBUTE CONCERT BY THE NDR BIGBAND

The NDR Bigband with special guest Mike Keneally.

"Hot Licks (And Funny Smells)"

Peaches En Regalia - Eat That Question - Let's Make The Water Turn Black

BLACK FLOWER - MOTIONS

• Black Flower: Motions
      (2026, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
      (2026, 10”, Belgium, sdban records)

"Motions", the latest release by Black Flower, arrived a couple of days ago.
The 10" record got released by the Sdban record label. It's pleasant to look at, but it's even more enjoyable to listen to it.
Also out on Bandcamp.

The hype sticker says: "For fans of Sons Of Kemet, Mulatu Astatke, and The Heliocentrics."
I couldn't agree more.

Black Flower

• Nathan Daems - sax
• Jon Birdsong - cornet
• Karel Cuelenaere - keyboards
• Filip Vandebril - bass
• Simon Segers - drums

Highly recommended.