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The Zappa Family Trust are celebrating what would’ve been Frank’s 70th birthday by releasing a new Anything Anytime Anywhere For No Reason At All, Again Also (or AAAFNRAAAA) compilation on iTunes.
This mix tape of sorts, which is the third in a series of Birthday Bundles, starts out with a cover of Willie The Pimp performed by Ahmet Zappa with DMC (Run DMC), Talib Kweli and Mix Master Mike. Ahmet also takes the lead on his dad’s Bobby Brown, which is the second track on the mix. Frank himself also is featured on a number of the tracks including live takes on Treacherous Cretins, City of Tiny Lites, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Jumbo Go Away and Stairway to Heaven.
Filling out AAAFNRAAAA 2010 is a cover of The Torture Never Stops by Robert Trujillo of Metallica and his wife Chloe, Macy Gray’s version of Your Mouth, multi-instrumentalist Holland Greco’s take on Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance and live cuts from Zappa Plays Zappa. The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle is available at iTunes for $11.99.
READ ON for a full track list including personnel on each song…
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Today we continue our look back at the year that was with a list of 10 Great Musicians We Lost in 2010. We’ll feel the loss of these innovative artists for years to come and we wanted to pay our respects once more.
1. Captain Beefheart (1941 – 2010)
Playlist: Six-Part BBC Documentary
Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vilet, rock legend and artist, died from complications from multiple sclerosis last Friday. Captain Beefheart was an experimental musician who never conformed to anyone’s standards except his own right up until the time he left the industry in 1982 to focus on creating visual art. High school classmate Frank Zappa saw Van Vilet’s brilliance early on and signed the Captain to his Straight Records. Zappa produced the seminal double-album Trout Mask Replica in 1969, which landed the number 58 slot on Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the 500 Best Albums of All-Time.
READ ON for ten more talented musicians who we miss already…
