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Onstage, Zappa is a live wire, the audience is appropriately rambunctious and the band--an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention--is tight as could be. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants show no trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Zappa, who died in 1993, always worked with consummate musicians and Baby Snakes showcases the cream of the crop: Terry Bozzio (one of the greatest drummers ever to command a kit), bassist Patrick O'Hearn, keyboard wizard Tommy Mars and even pop chameleon Adrian Belew.
Zappa's intelligence and charisma are undeniable, flickering and blazing every second he's on screen. The progressive-leaning rock and jazz music is frequently interrupted for meandering spoken interludes and it's certainly not for all tastes. But Frank Zappa was a force to behold and Baby Snakes offers a unique cultural education for anyone bold enough to give it a spin. "Without deviation," Zappa wrote, "progress is not possible". Baby Snakes is one of Frank's most fervent contributions to progress. --Michael Mikesell
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- Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround/Dolby Digital Stereo
- Soundtrack language: English
- Running Time: 164 mins
- Region Code: 2
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
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Here we are in 2003, just in time for Christmas 20 years later and you can own the full 3 hour version on a pristine new DVD for peanuts! I have just finished comparing my old VHS tape with the DVD and am delighted by the care an effort that has gone into this issue, my only criticism and perhaps I am being a too harsh is that the sound seemed a touch over processed to my ear, maybe it’s because the VHS Tape audio quality was never particularly good and I am hearing extra detail for the first time outside of the superior audio only offerings of similar material? Guess I got used to the old washed out grainy colour and muddy compressed sound. Let’s hope the Dub Room Special and Roxy shows (see the trailer) will follow quickly. “GO BUY IT NOW before it goes out of print” You will kick yourself if you don’t.
For the uninitiated, Zappa is a master composer, guitarist and sattirist. In short a genius.
The DVD offers to some degree only glimpses at Zappas mastery of the guitar, as he is often without it, directing proceedings or simply singing with microphone in hand. That said the glimpses are fantastic and worth the cost of the DVD alone.
Listen to the guitar on "Black Napkins" and "Punkys Whips", and take in the mastery of the drummer Terry Bozzio in the solo at track 11. Zappa attracted only the finest musicians, take a close look at all of them in this brilliant insight, into the man himself.
Also check out the albums Joes Garage Acts I,II&III, Sheik Yerbouti, and You Are What You Is. Not forgetting to mention the most fantastic and mesmerizing Zappa track of all time, "Watermelon in Easter Hay", which is on Joes Garage Act III. The track needs some getting used to, but is really the essence of the man, in musical form. BLESS YOU FRANK !
First The extras are fantastic, you get 3 BBSNX trailers and one for the Roxy shows. Read more
My first piece of advice is BUY THIS NOW and well thats the second and third pieces too! Read more
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