Tuesday Rotoscope (another late edition)

[BradH]

Jason Falkner - Author Unknown

Scary how time flies. This is holding up very well proving power pop is somewhat timeless. If you had told me he would only have 3 solo albums out by now...

Frank Zappa - Guitar

On Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar, Frank took live solos and put them on top of backup tracks to unrelated songs and called it xenocracy or something. I didn't care for the result. Guitar was marketed as the sequel but it's not. These are all straight up real recordings of live guitar solos. Clapton, Hendrix and Beck were as good as Zappa.

Dr. Demento Show - Tribute To Frank Zappa

A great sounding boot ripped from the 1994 broadcast cd's. The Doc knows his subject too. Some of his interviews with Zappa go back to 1972. Two discs clocking in at 2 hrs. Great for nightime drives. Hello Troy.

Vinnie Colaiuta

Hard rocking fusion, acid jazz w/ killer hip-hop beats, tons of jazz lines sounding for all the world like Zawinul/Shorter against a world flavored background with new agey elements...even a little harmonica fo yo ass. It could've been an over-ambitious mixed bag but Vinnie hits the target dead center on every track making this a helluva good disc. Well recorded, mixed and mastered too. Look ma, no compression!

Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano

A magic recording. The sheer nerve of Mingus. He technically wasn't a piano player at all and here he mixed primitivism and sophistication to reveal visions of stunning depth and beauty.

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya

Part of the Fourth Worlds series but I prefer this over Possible Musics for some reason. Great sounds for hot weather which it isn't yet but will be here this summer. Trust me on that. I'll be pulling it out again (the disc) in August or so.

Anyone else got anything?