Frank Zappa's 1988 tour was spectacular. The music released from the tour are found on three main albums: The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Broadway The Hard Way, and Make A Jazz Noise Here. He includes covers of Cream and Jimi Hendrix - and he does a version of Stairway To Heaven where the horns play a transcribed version of Jimmy Page's guitar solo note for note. On one of these albums, he did indeed bring a guest singer up on stage, and it is a legendary singer, who happened to just release a new solo album this fall. He used to be the front man of a huge trio, and according to the intro to the song he performed with Zappa, someone claimed that the song was written by Satan and performed by the sons of Satan: Lucifer, Beelzebub, and the Horned One - but the singer confesses that he wrote the song. The questions for today shouldn't be too difficult given all this information: Who is this someone who made the claim about who wrote and performed the song, what is the name of the song, what was the name of the band, what album was it originally on, and what year was it released? It is a great song that was the b-side of this band's greatest hit (which all of you know, by the way - it was that huge), and it was only available on the CD and cassette version of the album in question, which, by the way, is a great album as well!
Thursday, December 08, 2016
December 8 - Ring Of Fire
The artist was Frank Zappa, who in the lead-in to Ring Of Fire over a vamp at the end of Heavy Duty Judy talks about meeting Johnny Cash and his wife in the hotel, and mentions that Cash was supposed to sing lead, but that June Carter Cash had taken ill and he was unable to come. They played it anyway, and it was released on the album The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life in 1991.
Frank Zappa's 1988 tour was spectacular. The music released from the tour are found on three main albums: The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Broadway The Hard Way, and Make A Jazz Noise Here. He includes covers of Cream and Jimi Hendrix - and he does a version of Stairway To Heaven where the horns play a transcribed version of Jimmy Page's guitar solo note for note. On one of these albums, he did indeed bring a guest singer up on stage, and it is a legendary singer, who happened to just release a new solo album this fall. He used to be the front man of a huge trio, and according to the intro to the song he performed with Zappa, someone claimed that the song was written by Satan and performed by the sons of Satan: Lucifer, Beelzebub, and the Horned One - but the singer confesses that he wrote the song. The questions for today shouldn't be too difficult given all this information: Who is this someone who made the claim about who wrote and performed the song, what is the name of the song, what was the name of the band, what album was it originally on, and what year was it released? It is a great song that was the b-side of this band's greatest hit (which all of you know, by the way - it was that huge), and it was only available on the CD and cassette version of the album in question, which, by the way, is a great album as well!
Frank Zappa's 1988 tour was spectacular. The music released from the tour are found on three main albums: The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Broadway The Hard Way, and Make A Jazz Noise Here. He includes covers of Cream and Jimi Hendrix - and he does a version of Stairway To Heaven where the horns play a transcribed version of Jimmy Page's guitar solo note for note. On one of these albums, he did indeed bring a guest singer up on stage, and it is a legendary singer, who happened to just release a new solo album this fall. He used to be the front man of a huge trio, and according to the intro to the song he performed with Zappa, someone claimed that the song was written by Satan and performed by the sons of Satan: Lucifer, Beelzebub, and the Horned One - but the singer confesses that he wrote the song. The questions for today shouldn't be too difficult given all this information: Who is this someone who made the claim about who wrote and performed the song, what is the name of the song, what was the name of the band, what album was it originally on, and what year was it released? It is a great song that was the b-side of this band's greatest hit (which all of you know, by the way - it was that huge), and it was only available on the CD and cassette version of the album in question, which, by the way, is a great album as well!
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