Risultati di ricerca
21 dic 1979 · Baby Snakes: Directed by Frank Zappa. With Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Tommy Mars, Terry Bozzio. Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.
- (923)
- Documentary, Comedy, Music
- Frank Zappa
- 1979-12-21
- Release
- Soundtrack
- Reception
- External Links
Initially, the film had particular difficulty finding a distributor. Zappa tried to interest United Artists, the company that released 200 Motels, but they declined. Other studios followed United Artists' lead, fearing that Zappa's "cinematic style" had lost considerable appeal in 1970s pop culture, and also declined to distribute the film. Several...
The soundtrack album was first released on vinyl in 1983 as a picture disc, and subsequently on compact disc with different artwork. An expanded iTunes edition entitled Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrackwas released on December 21, 2012.
The New York Times called it "a shapeless and inexcusably-long concert film made by, and about, Frank Zappa".Movie historian Leonard Maltinconsidered the picture "Excruciating...In every fifth shot, Frankie is in closeup; either that or a fan runs up, kisses him, and screeches for joy. Zappa the producer should have fired Zappa the director, althou...
Baby Snakes at IMDbBaby Snakes at Rotten TomatoesBelew toured with Zappa in 1977 and 1978, and appeared on Zappa's 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti and concert film Baby Snakes. While with Zappa, Belew was mostly credited as a rhythm guitarist, although he also played lead, melody, or noise lines, and sang lead vocals on the songs "Jones Crusher" and "City of Tiny Lites".
Ha partecipato alla registrazione dell'album Sheik Yerbouti e al film Baby Snakes (ripresa integrale del concerto del 31 ottobre 1977 al Palladium, New York). Lasciò il gruppo di Zappa per entrare a far parte della band che accompagnava David Bowie , con il quale realizzò l'album Lodger e il doppio live Stage .
Total Running Time: 2 hours, 44 minutes. A movie about people who do stuff that is not normal. Written, produced, directed & music composed by: Frank Zappa. Animation by: Bruce Bickford. Music performed by: Terry Bozzio , Roy Estrada , Adrian Belew, Ed Mann , Patrick O'Hearn , Tommy Mars , Peter Wolf & Frank Zappa.
Baby Snakes is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa 's film of the same name. It features seven songs from the film. Overview. The track "Baby Snakes" is the studio recording which appears on Sheik Yerbouti, but omits the opening riff (instead starting at the first verse). All other tracks are live recordings, unique to this album and the film.
21 dic 2023 · Terry Bozzio and Adrian Belew look back on the year Frank Zappa created Baby Snakes, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage and more. (Image credit: Getty) To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sheik Yerbouti and Joe's Garage, in 2019 Prog 's Malcolm Dome spoke to drummer Terry Bozzio and guitarist Adrian Belew about one of Frank Zappa's buseit years ever!
