Drummer reacts to "Black Napkins" (Live) by Frank Zappa

[@jamesw.5855]

Still waiting for 'City of Tiny Lights' from this tour.

[@L33Reacts]

One day, my friend. One day.

[@dananniekontos85]

One of his all time classic compositions

[@L33Reacts]

I agree 👍 this was exceptional. Even for frank. Who has exceptional in his dictionary definition

[@jackkilman8726]

It's worth pointing out that this was the 2nd of 2 extra encores that night that were added on the spur of the moment in response to fan requests during the normal encore. I recently watched this whole movie, and I don't think I've ever seen a performer show as much love for their audience as Frank did that night. It was quite moving to witness and totally contrary to the cold image most people seem to have of him. Btw his hair was down during that song because earlier he had allowed a female audience member to undo his ponytail and play with his hair while he sang. For someone who had once been attacked by a deranged fan, he was incredibly brave about letting fans get close to him while performing.

[@CosmicRideMusic]

I love this era of Zappa too, with all the music noises and such, lol. Me and my friend that turned me on to Zappa call it the Bozio era, but we're both drummers, HA!

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

He's such a great guitar player! One of the best, in my opinion.

[@abiliomoreiradasilva7329]

I'm really happy to see so many people continuing to keep Frank Zappa's music alive and kicking💪 The GOAT❤

[@GoodCorporateRobot]

Thrilled you’ve become a Zappa fan as a result of being a YT reactor. Zappa went into monster mode in these shows. I’d love for you to react to St. Etienne live. Franks guitar work is nothing like you’ve ever seen before. It’s one of two completely different guitar solos in the same song, which is Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. You should react to that one too, but with the live version of St. Etienne you get to watch Zappa sit on a stool on stage and play the most beautiful guitar ever.

[@steveowens2505]

He performed this on Mike Douglas show thru a battery powered Pignose amp. It looks like 1977 line up I saw at Washington University. He was so loyal to audience. He wasn’t happy with promoter and brisk outdoor venue. He showed appreciation by kicking ass.

[@CliffordLake]

That was Mike's house band I thought.

[@steveowens2505]

It was.

[@Royale_with_Cheeese]

Remember, always, that the main body of the song (the head and the ending - a revisiting of the head) is the same but when Frank takes a solo, that's all improvisation. He just went out there and played what he was feeling and what the audience was feeding him, vibe-wise. For that reason, seeing multiple Zappa shows on any given tour would always delight you with his solos.

[@papacarl2002]

Hell yeah L33!!! 11:05 Frank has been grabbing me with this song for fk’n decades. And you my man, are doing a fan-fkn-tastic job enjoying the music and sharing your honest, unfiltered gut reactions. Truly takes me back to first time heard this in the 70’s and as I’m sure others feel, it’s like having a new friend that you immediately connect with and can say, “hey man, listen to this sh*t, it fk’n ROCKS.” Keep up the good work. 🤘🏻🎧🤟🏼

[@jonathanduran1773]

I was there at the New York city palladium in 77Halloween show It was numbered seating But hardly anybody was seated up front And frank Zappa before he started the show said hey why don't you guys come up front And everybody did it was a killer show

[@vegdagol2843]

a young Adrian Belew in the beginning

[@timfeeley714-25]

A couple of great short videos I recommend for Frank Friday is Frank as Mike Nesmith from the Monkees interviewing Mike Nesmith as Frank and ends with Frank smashing up an old car with a sledgehammer, it's a clip out of an old Monkees TV show episode. Number two is a young Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa doing Black Sabbath's The Wizard with John Tesh on an early Conan O'Brien show

[@chitownlee]

Check him out playing this on The Mike Douglas Show, just Frank with the studio band. Very cool.

[@wolftracks9010]

"Halloween has 2 of my favorite colors in it, black and orange. I've always liked those colors and when everything turns black and orange, I feel very comfortable. I like the pumpkin as a vegetable. I think that its a wonderful invention and I'm into it. " - FZ

[@jamespuleo3269]

*Zoot Allures* from the dvd Does Humor Belong In Music? NYC 1984 outdoors daytime. Most folks kick off a show with a barnburner. He starts the show with a bunch of mellow maj9 and maj7 (jazzy) chords, *then* kicks it up a notch with a reggae beat.

[@mrgoneshouse3663]

Dude I was at this Show.....NYC Loved Zappa~!!~!~!!!!

[@more5600]

I was there that night. Zappa at The Palladium on Halloween was an annual event that could not be missed.

[@jonathanduran1773]

I was there as well I lived in Selden long island We used to go to Halloween show every year77 was a killer year I think that year frank Told everybody hey there's no nobody sitting up front here how about you all come up front So we did ITwas pretty kick ass

[@rareearth97]

you def need to check muffin man from this concert, it slays so hard

[@L33Reacts]

Apparently there is a shit Ton of songs from this show that are the best versions lol. I'll have to listen to them all Eventually 🙂🙂

[@gilbertgiuliani.4452]

Watch you Frank Friday every week keep it up . Grew up on it

[@mikedemike5393]

watch Zappa as he understands broadcast and broad reception ...he also understood narrow cast and reception and he sometimes looks for an audience member who is responding to his construction and he feeds off that reception to cast to all members of the audience.

[@richardwirt3193]

I attended all the Holoween shows in the 70s

[@L33Reacts]

Lucky bastard! That's amazing lol I bet they were a sight to behold and a feast for the ears.

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Zoot Allures

[@Gravyballs2011]

"Sleep Dirt' & "Pink Napkins" are also worth your time.

[@smithpm81]

this connection live is amazing mate, please never stop

[@L33Reacts]

I ain't stopping till yall stop watching. Then I will Bow out with grace and dignity and a ton of burned bridges ,just kidding lol

[@johnnyfrederick01]

Frank said “You get the kids to come in with “Titties and Beer” then you hit them with ‘Black Napkins’” Awesome version! Great line up, one of the best he ever assembled! You know why it’s “Black Napkins” ?? Because Frank wrote music notes so thick, his charts were the “Black Pages” and when he wrote on dinner napkins….. well…. you can imagine! Have you listened to “Baby Snakes” yet? Off Sheik Yerbouti? One of my favs…. Hoping that you will still finish the Live and the Fillmore Side 1 songs. You did the first 2 two weeks ago (Little House I Used to Live In and Mudshark). Frank Friday twofers??

[@Royale_with_Cheeese]

For The Black Page, you're absolutely correct. For the title of this song, here is Frank in his own words: *Black Napkins is a song I've had for a year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee. Sliced turkey roll with the f---ing preservatives just gleaming off of it, and this beat-up cranberry material. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins sitting next to the dish.*

[@Popi_of_local_iron]

Decades ago Zappa reflected on his fascination of the black napkins he experienced while dining in Japan

[@MrBlond777]

Omg 😳 that’s Adrian Belew from King Crimson! So cool 😎

[@ShiverHinge]

Frank was having a Jesus hair day that day. Musically speaking, of course. Black Napkins is so epic and ominous and noir, like an immense jazz rock bolder teetering before a landslide over the cute and cozy little town.

[@waltercrain2910]

the whole show is fantastic. i had a little synergy or kismet or whatever last weekend. went to a talking heads cover band. very good show. they played "city of tiny lights"! such a bonus little nugget for me. why'd they play it? adrian. frank found him in that bar. played with frank a while. went solo, played king crimson... and talking heads. talking heads: 2 degrees of separation from frank. frank has a huge tree....so to speak. so many things trace back.

[@L33Reacts]

That version I did of that song was so good. I love when stuff like that happens. It's all connected, man. All the cliches are truth lol

[@ManuMasson]

Don’t forget, David Bowie stole him from Zappa after he saw them performing in Berlin. 😉

[@HareDeLune]

@@ManuMasson Otis Gibbs has a great video about that. I saw it about a month ago. He says that Bowie met up with him at the hotel after the show and told Adrian to just go up to his room and change, and a car would be waiting outside when he came down. The car was a limo, and Bowie said they were going to his favorite restaurant to talk. Well, as soon as they walk through the door, there's Frank and the rest of the band, sitting at one of the front tables, just waiting for 'em. Bowie tried to strike up a conversation with Frank, but no matter what he said, Frank would just look him in the eye and say "Fu&c you, Captain Tom." So he demoted him from Major to Captain at the same time as saying FU. 😆

[@ManuMasson]

​@@HareDeLune And the story has to be true because Adrian told it himself on a FB post some years ago. 😊 PS : Bowie was backstage with Brian Eno during that show in Berlin and you can hear Zappa refering to Captain Tom at the end of a song 😅

[@paulpennell2115]

Automatic Sun by the Warning!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@MisterWondrous]

That there was mime-boggling. You my want to tell your mimes to lay low lest they find themselves boggled. I can tell by Bozzio's loincloth that this is the video where he has the drum solo from hell. Got to see that. The video is also a work of art. Baby Snakes is probably the name of it. Video from Hell is similar. All fantastic. I saw Bruce Bickford in the credits. He is their amazing claymator. Check the song "G-Spot Tornado". Sorry I missed this.

[@genegarrett3372]

glad you are still having good days. In the 70's four frat bros in a two-story rental had an almost endless supply of records and weed. I never was a big Zappa listener, however. But it was on ever so often. The four of us and our friends exposed each other to so much varied music. Kind of like you reaction videos you do. Keep listening to all kinds of music. And keep have good days.

[@Squarewave39]

There is a part two to this song sort of by the name of Pink Napkins. You most certainly will come across it hopefully sooner than later The 77 tour with this band was amazing. I saw them in Miami Patrick O’Hearn incredible bass player. ( More Pat Metheny … Last Train Home

[@IvanLeirvik]

I love frank friday!

[@L33Reacts]

Me too Ivan! They can have the money I just want to listen to some frank lol and that's me doing work for free... I don't do that for any band or artist except frank. And floyd. But that's it lol 😆

[@worldoffaeriehelpers9154]

There’s a baby snake!

[@Royale_with_Cheeese]

Early in the video, you can see a guy behind a keyboard rig with an orange shirt. That guy's *name* is Peter Wolf. Many people see the name and confuse it with *the* Peter Wolf. To dispel that misconception, at the very time this gig was being played, J. Geils Band was clear across the country in Washington state playing on their tour.

[@PaulPadoan]

All out FZ.

[@dougca7086]

Checkout Valley Girls by Moon Unit Zappa and Frank Zappa, Moon Unit is Frank Zappa's daughter

[@erolbulut2584]

You can spend a lifetime diving into his catalog

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah no kidding... I'm gonna be a grandpa by the time I finish his catalog lol

[@mstewart109]

Lee, sounds more jazz. I know the couple songs I've heard, he is unique for sure.

[@jamessomers8808]

If I could download a picture, I would submit a photo of my poster of Phi Zappa Crappa. My mom had it on our bathroom door in the late 70s. I still have it. It’s just rolled up like a poster. I should post it on eBay. Lol hell no.

[@CliffordLake]

There's several different versions of this instrumental.

[@L33Reacts]

I bet there is a ton of them. He always has 17 different versions lol and they all rock 🪨

[@CliffordLake]

@@L33Reacts Yeah, he gets new players and some standards get played by every band iteration. Not to mention the setlists change up during a tour frequently, or he dreams up a tempo change or musical variety in the middle of a song. One of these days you'll play a live piece and see him switch the song up on the fly, if you haven't already.

[@dougca7086]

Check out Toad by Cream

[@phillipjensen5201]

Yellow Shark

[@DWHarper62]

There are 28 minute versions of this song...

[@L33Reacts]

Oh shit really? That's a long ass version lol. I need to hear that now. Because I didn't want this to end with every fiber of my being

[@DWHarper62]

@@L33Reacts The Philly 76 album and the Live in New York are classic VERY LONG Black Napkins versions with other great solos besides Zappa...

[@papacarl2002]

Oh hell yeah, reminds me that my buddy from high school made a playlist on SpLotify of a dozen versions of Black Napkins that runs 2hrs 20min. It’s amazing to put on headphones and just marinate in that FZ Zone…

[@gavindavis1340]

Please listen to the live recording of Yo Mama (last track on Sheik yobouti) ❤

[@MobiusBandwidth]

just 2 chords, and only a half step apart, as close as possible, not complex, but a great platform for his soloing. I don't love the end, I would have definitely wanted to do something different than just land on the root chord after all that, but I find the end jarring, I know I know, it's Zappa, there's gonna be a lot of jarring involved.

[@SnoopySnoops1]

Baby snake...

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah so random lol I love it

[@DukeofPrunes11]

footage from baby snakes, i believe 卄乇乚乚 丫乇卂卄 乃尺口丅卄乇尺

[@nonrepublicrat]

absolute garbage. Zappa is crappa.

[@HareDeLune]

You know that your comments always get downvoted to the bottom of the list, don't you? I always find you lurking down here, like some muck-dwelling bottom feeder. That's a good indication that your comments are garbage, and no one wants to hear 'em.