PATRICK O'HEARN - SLOW TIME

• patrick o'hearn: slow time
      (2006, cd, USA, private release)

Thirty years. It has been thirty years since Frank Zappa passed away.
Since then, quite a few artists have recorded a tribute to FZ.
So did Patrick O'Hearn, on his "Slow Time" album.
The first track on the disc was entitled ‘Music For Three Vibraphones’.
The liner notes mentioned:
“Track 1, Music For Three Vibraphones, is dedicated to the memory of my early mentor Frank Zappa, American Composer, 1940 – 1993. I miss you.”

I like the music that Patrick O'Hearn makes as a solo artist and 'Music For Three Vibraphones' is a fascinating piece.
In my list, "Slow Time" was his 15th release.

MISSING PERSONS - A NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO

Recently released on purple vinyl with a CD release scheduled for September, "A Night In San Francisco" will take us back in time.
With Missing Persons Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn and Dale Bozzio.

Also on Bandcamp :

MISSING PERSONS BOX SET

The  Rubellan Remasters record label is re-releasing the three Missing Persons albums.
With bonus tracks.

Also available in a limited edition (500 copies) box set.
https://www.rubellanremasters.com/online-store/Missing-Persons-The-Album-Collection-3-CDs-Box-p275577807

PATRICK O'HEARN ON BANDCAMP

 

Patrick O'Hearn played bass on Frank Zappa's "Zappa In New York", "Sheik Yerbouti", "Joe's Garage", "You Are What You Is", "Ship Arriving Too Late",...
He was also part of Missing Persons (with Terry and Dale Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo), did soundtracks and released an impressive number of solo albums.

More recently, Patrick has released two tracks through Bandcamp.

Check them out here:

https://patrickohearn.bandcamp.com

PATRICK O'HEARN UPDATE

Former Zappa bass player Patrick O'Hearn can be heard playing the bass on John Hiatt's "The Eclipse Session" album from 2018.

• john hiatt: the eclipse sessions
      (2018, cd, usa, new west records)

-- info: Danny Mathys

ZAPPANALE #29 FLASHBACKS - - - THE EXPO

Thurssay afternoon had kicked off with a short visit to the expo, housed next to the Arf Office, in the center of Bad Doberan.
This year's expo focussed on The Zappa Power Trio (Warren Cuccurullo, Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn), a painting exhibit (by artist Olaf Rösler), and a picture exhibit (by photographer Bill Gubbins).

The above picture shows the cover of the exhibition guide, taken from a painting by Olaf Rösler.

The Zappa Power Trio part of the expo showed lots of records. Not just the albums that they made with Frank Zappa, but also lots (LOTS !!) of other albums that Warren, Terry and/or Patrick appeared on. And not just some Missing Persons stuff. Very impressive. Plus some pictures, lists of their discographies, The DW Black Page Zappa Snare Drum, an 18+ section that showed Warren on video, and more.

The second part of the exhibit showed various paintings by Olaf Rösler. I liked the Superman/Freak Out one (pictured on the cover of the exhibition guide), but his other works didn't impress me that much.

Part three of the expo, however, was something I hadn't expected.
Photographer Bill Gubbins had been present during Frank Zappa's Hot Rats sessions. The expo gave a sneak preview of Bill's exclusive photos that will be part of a planned book celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Hot Rats".
Reprints of some of the pictures were made available in different formats but in a very limited run.
My favorite one was taken at the August 10, 1969 concert at Warrensville Heights, showing Don, Jimmy, Art, Roy, Motorhead, Bunk, Ian, Buzz and FZ. Do I need to tell you that I bought a copy?

WARREN CUCCURULLO

The Warren Cuccurullo - Patrick O'Hearn - Terry Bozzio gig at Zappanale was one to remember.
Musical highlights combined with missed cues, gear problems and musicians that got mad at each other...

Read the interview that Andrew did with WC (before the show) :
http://idiotbastard.com/Interviews/WarrenCuccurullo2.htm

ZAPPANALE NEWSFLASH

The Power Trio Terry Bozzio, Patrick O' Hearn and Warren Cuccurullo will travel already one week earlier to Bad Doberan and will start with additional rehearsals for their very special program.

On top, Denny Walley will jump in will upgrade the trio to a quartet.

And we are already keen to announce L. Shankar as a new delight at Zappanale! We’ve got a verbal agreement from the management yesterday and want to share this news with you first. Shankar will support the power trio.

ZAPPANALE LINE-UP

Wednesday, Zappa spielt für Bach in Hamburg, DE

• Inventionis Mater, feat. Valentina Ciardelli

Thursday, Warming Up in the town of Bad Doberan, DE

• Gabby Zappa Hey!
• Lutopia Orchestra
• Zappnoise

Friday, festival ground, Bad Doberan, DE

• Amon Düül II
• Tante Tofu
• Flat Earth Society
• Tatvamasi
• Fried Dähn & Skin of Clazz

Saturday, festival ground, Bad Doberan, DE

• Jazzproject Hundehagen
• Sex without Nails Bros
• Alex's Hand
• Bozzio - O'Hearn - Cuccurullo power trio
• Coogans Bluff

Sunday, festival ground, Bad Doberan, DE

• Gabba Zappa Hey!
• Monika Roscher Big Band
• Bonnen, Aigui & Burghaus
• The Grandmothers Of Invention  feat. Don Preston and Bunk Gardner
• good-bye session

ZAPPANALE NEWSFLASH

July 21, 2018, at Zappanale,
Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn and Warren Cuccurullo will be performing the music of Frank Zappa !!

That's Saturday at the next Zappanale in Bad Doberan, Germany.

http://zappanale.de/en/

FRANK ZAPPA - HALOWEEN 77 - SHOW #1

I've been listening to the first show of FZ's "Haloween 77" set and I've enjoyed it a lot !!

Released as part of the Halloween 77 box, but also available on iTunes !!

What a show.
What a band.
With 24 minutes of 'Wild Love'  !!


frank zappa: guitar, vocals
adrian belew: guitar, vocals
patrick o'hearn: bass, vocals
terry bozzio: drums, vocals
ed mann: percussion, harmonica, vocals
tommy mars: keyboards, vocals
peter wolf: keyboards

live at palladium, new york city, ny, 10/28/1977 - show 1 (02:17:24)

1. introductions (03:28)
2. peaches en regalia (02:42)
3. the torture never stops (13:05)
4. tryin' to grow a chin (03:37)
5. city of tiny lites (06:04)
6. pound for a brown (08:05)
7. bobby brown goes down (04:33)
8. conehead (09:19)
9. flakes (04:03)
10. big leg emma (01:47)
11. envelopes (02:29)
12. terry's solo (04:42)
13. disco boy (03:53)
14. lather (03:36)
15. wild love (24:05)
16. titties n beer (07:16)
17. audience participation (00:48)
18. the black page #2 (03:02)
19. jones crusher (02:48)
20. broken hearts are for assholes (03:52)
21. punky's whips (09:43)
22. encore audience (01:21)
23. dinah-moe humm (04:55)
24. camarillo brillo (03:35)
25. muffin man (04:36)

ANDRE HELLER

André Heller released a number of albums in the early eighties that featured a number of Zappa alumni.

• andré heller: basta
      (1978, lp, ger, mandragora intercord int 460 110)
  feat. peter wolf, terry bozzio, patrick o'hearn, ed mann, vinnie colaiuta

• andré heller: verwunschen
      (1980, lp, ger, mandragora intercord int 160 152)
  - feat. vinnie colaiuta, peter wolf

• andré heller: stimmenhören
      (1983, lp, ger, his master's voice 1c 066-46748)
  - feat. peter wolf