Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
From Beyond the Grave
“The ghost of Frank Zappa keeps appearing in my dreams and bugging me to do mass overdubs on stuff from his catalog,” says Tony Villodas. As “Tony Mind controle,” he posts music at MySpace.com/IsItFrankZappa that he claims is cocreated with the deceased musician…from beyond the grave.
“When we talk in my dreams,” says Villodas, “we don’t disagree about tobacco and medical marijuana issues like I thought we would because it doesn’t come up. Frank’s all business.” That business includes a reworked version of Villodas’s own musical elegy “Threnody for Frank Zappa,” overdubbed with snippets of dozens of early Zappa songs.
“He kept telling me to work in excerpts of his music, from as many of his albums as I could fit in, with me doing the overdubs myself, probably because he wants to promote his early Mothers [of Invention] catalog.”
Why would a dead man want promotion?
“Zappa’s very obsessed with providing for his family,” says Villodas, “even after death.”
Villodas says he’s not a Zappa fanatic.
“I’m not even a collector of Zappa’s music. I’m a great admirer of his band and his serious music, but I like Ornette Coleman and Captain Beefheart the most.”
As for the legality of using bits of Zappa’s music...
“It doesn’t serve me financially to promote Frank’s catalog. I use discorporated bits of his music dubbed on top of my song, but there are no literal samples, and I don’t use more than four measures at a time. I feel like this about it – so sue me for working on an homage to one of this century’s finest, most prolific composers. So far, so good; no cease-and-desist letters from Gail and Dweezil Zappa or Munchkin Music.”
Villodas appears with Sheri Lopez on Friday, November 14, on the TV show Yourself Presents, which airs on Cox public access Channel 23.
Here's something you might be interested in.
From Beyond the Grave
From Beyond the Grave
“The ghost of Frank Zappa keeps appearing in my dreams and bugging me to do mass overdubs on stuff from his catalog,” says Tony Villodas. As “Tony Mind controle,” he posts music at MySpace.com/IsItFrankZappa that he claims is cocreated with the deceased musician…from beyond the grave.
“When we talk in my dreams,” says Villodas, “we don’t disagree about tobacco and medical marijuana issues like I thought we would because it doesn’t come up. Frank’s all business.” That business includes a reworked version of Villodas’s own musical elegy “Threnody for Frank Zappa,” overdubbed with snippets of dozens of early Zappa songs.
“He kept telling me to work in excerpts of his music, from as many of his albums as I could fit in, with me doing the overdubs myself, probably because he wants to promote his early Mothers [of Invention] catalog.”
Why would a dead man want promotion?
“Zappa’s very obsessed with providing for his family,” says Villodas, “even after death.”
Villodas says he’s not a Zappa fanatic.
“I’m not even a collector of Zappa’s music. I’m a great admirer of his band and his serious music, but I like Ornette Coleman and Captain Beefheart the most.”
As for the legality of using bits of Zappa’s music...
“It doesn’t serve me financially to promote Frank’s catalog. I use discorporated bits of his music dubbed on top of my song, but there are no literal samples, and I don’t use more than four measures at a time. I feel like this about it – so sue me for working on an homage to one of this century’s finest, most prolific composers. So far, so good; no cease-and-desist letters from Gail and Dweezil Zappa or Munchkin Music.”
Villodas appears with Sheri Lopez on Friday, November 14, on the TV show Yourself Presents, which airs on Cox public access Channel 23.
Comments