Re: I am in the mood for some Frank Zappa music!

I just pulled out Overnite Sensation and Apostrophe the other day,
pretty much all the Frank I can handle at times.

Funny thing I read about Jack Bruce on Apostrophe:

The title track is an instrumental featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce
and drummer Jim Gordon.

Bruce is credited with bass guitar on the album cover and in most
sources. However, in his

interview for Polish rock magazine "Tylko Rock" he told journalist
Weiss Wiesław that he

had not played any bass guitar parts on Apostrophe ( ' ) (despite them
sounding at times

very much like the bass lines he played in Cream), only the cello
parts: (Tylko Rock, Oct.

1992, pp. 17)

* "WW: Can you tell me something about your cooperation with Frank
Zappa?
* JB: Sure, what do you happen to know? (laughs)
* WW: You appeared on his Apostrophe album...
* JB: Yes, as you know, at the time I was recording an album with
Carla Bley, far more

interesting one... you heard that?
* WW: Yes, Escalator over the Hill...
* JB: Right. So Frank, whom I met earlier, appeared one day in the
studio and asked

me: "Can you take your cello and go to my session?" So I turned up in
a NY studio with my

cello, I'm listening to his music, pretty awful, and just don't know
what to do with

myself, and Frank says to me: "Listen, I would like you to play a
sound, like this...

whaaaaaang!!!" So I did what he asked me to do. Whaaaaaang!!! That was
all. That was my

input to Frank Zappa's most popular record! (laughs) "

However, in an interview in Guitar Player Magazine from January 1977,
Zappa talks about

his experience with Jack Bruce's bass playing on the song:

"Q: What about playing with (bass guitarist) Jack Bruce on Apostrophe?

FZ: Well, that was just a jam thing that happened because he was a
friend of (drummer) Jim

Gordon. I found it very difficult to play with him; he's too busy. He
doesn't really want

to play the bass in terms of root functions; I think he has other
things on his mind. But

that's the way jam sessions go."
.

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