THE GUITAR ALBUM (POLYDOR- BLUES ROCK)

A great compilation from POLYDOR...

The Guitar Album (1973 - Polydor)

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Top 100 Guitar Solos

Rolling Stone Magazine 100 Greatest Guitar Songs

Slide Guitar Classics

Doug Aldrich - Hard Rock (Guitar - USA)

Doug Aldrich (born February 19, 1964), is a Los Angeles-based hard rock guitarist. He founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St. John in 1998 and has played previously with the bands Whitesnake, Dio, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, and Bad Moon Rising. Aldrich was first introduced to the guitar at age 11 when his sister Jennifer introduced him to the playing of Jeff Beck. Aldrich's first guitar was a Les Paul model and came from Sears. Aldrich auditioned for Kiss. He did not get the gig but as a result of the audition he met Gene Simmons and he and Gene are friends to this day. Aldrich was also once a highly sought after guitar teacher, at one point he was teaching over 70 students a week. In early 2014 Aldrich joined the critically acclaimed production show "Raiding the Rock Vault" at the Las Vegas Hotel where he performs five shows a week with other Rock'n Roll greats like Robin McAuley (formerly Survivor, MSG), John Payne (Asia), Howard Leese (Bad Company, Heart), Paul Shortino (Quiet Riot), Andrew Freeman (Offspring) and more.

Highcentered (1994)

Electrovision (1997)

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Akira Takasaki - Guitar Metal (Japan)

Loudness - Heavy Metal (Japan)

Tatiana Para - Blues (Brazil)

With over 20 years of experience on the stage, Tatiana Pará stands out as one of the greatest expressions of Blues in Brazil. He released his first solo album "My Moods" in 2016, featuring guitarist Scott Henderson on "My Dear Friend". Currently Tati performs shows with his solo project and with the bands Red Hot Chili Peppers Cover (Suck My Magik) and Nina Pará Project, as well as special appearances on various projects. 

From 2007 to 2018 she was a contributor to Guitar Player Magazine with a monthly column about Blues. In the didactic part, Tati teaches and conducts Workshops and Masterclasses throughout Brazil. In 2015, by popular vote, Tatiana took 1st place in the JTC (Jam Track Central) contest in the Blues category. In 2018, he was among the finalists in the Lee Riten's Six String Theory Competition Rock Competition and was among the 25 finalists in the Guitar Idol 2018 Competition.

My Moods

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Blues Brazil on Guitar Player

André Christovam

Frank Zappa History - Orchestral Favorites - Chapter XXXV

Frank Zappa‘s 1979 album Orchestral Favorites is re-examined for its 40th anniversary and will be reissued as a double vinyl or expanded 3CD deluxe in August.

The instrumental album was actually recorded at UCLA’s Royce Hall in September 1975 and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. It was originally issued by Warners without Zappa’s permission and without liner notes, credits and artwork approval.

40 years on, the Zappa Family Trust have found the original tapes (along with the ‘tone reel’ that allows proper set-up of the master tapes) and created new hi-res transfers that have been remastered by Bob Ludwig. This new remaster features on a new single-disc vinyl version and and expanded 3CD deluxe.

As well as the original album, the triple CD package includes the entire evening performance from 18 September 1975 (the original album was derived from recording sessions in the afternoon) spread across the two additional discs, complete with Zappa’s song introductions and stories. These are brand new 2019 mixes by Craig Parker Adams from the original two-inch 24-track masters.

This reissue is produced by Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers and features a newly created cover and extensive sleeve notes from Joe Travers and former Zappa bandmate Terry Bozzio. The vinyl LP will be pressed at Furnace MFG on 180g ‘audiophile grade’ black vinyl.

While this album has been reissued a few times (Zappa himself reworked it for CD in ’91), we are assured that the archive research in terms of digging out tapes and finding the tone reel has resulted in the best-sounding version to date.

Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers, the new edition of Orchestral Favorites will feature not only the original album but the entire evening performance from 18 September 1975, spread across two additional discs. Extensive searches in the Vault uncovered the elusive master tone reel, which crucially contains the alignment tones that help set up the playback of the master tapes. Zappa reportedly did not provide this reel when he delivered the album.

Listeners will be transported back to September 1975, when Zappa scheduled the Royce Hall event in between trying out new band members and preparing for a tour. “Frank supervised everything,” recalls Travers in the liner notes, “hired sound and lights, mixed the front of house sound at times, conducted the orchestra on occasion, and played guitar with them.

“The programme repertoire consisted of complex and challenging music that originates from all time frames of FZ’s career. Older themes that predate the original Mothers Of Invention, to brand new pieces hot off the pen, mixed in with some good ol’ FZ directed improvisation.”

Zappa reworked Orchestral Favorites for the CD format in 1991, and it has been reissued several times since his death. But the matching of the new master to the project tone reel means that the album can now be presented as he intended.

 Orchestral Favorites (40th Anniversary)

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 O' Fair New Mexico! (Live 1980)

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Frank Zappa History - It`s ALL one album - Chapter XXXIV

As little as he may look like the straight world’s concept of “best musician of the world,” and as freaky an image as he and the Mothers of Invention may have, Frank Zappa has done much to influence and guide pop music throughout the world.

Besides introducing a sense of musical anarchy long before it was popular (and now being copied by other bands), Zappa was also among the first to produce a rock album as if it were a single piece of music. (“Freak Out” was no “Sgt. Pepper,” but it definitely was an inspiration to the Beatles, among others.) Utilizing what he calls “visual aids” and creating a vast complex of musical style and technique (based on everyone from the Penguins to Edgar Varese), Zappa has a firm idea about where pop music is at — however pretentious that appraisal may sound. He also has notions about where our ailing society is at; his satiric lyrics are unparalleled.

Zappa quickly discounts anyone who calls him genius, but it must go unchallenged that he and his ideas are important not only for pop music but for all music, not only for the rock world but for all the world. It is as Spencer Dryden, drummer for the Jefferson Airplane, says: “If we have to have a spokesman for what is going on today, musically and every other way, Frank Zappa gets my vote.”

When musician Frank Vincent Zappa (1940-1993) was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990, he said, "What can you do? People get sick. Sometimes they can fix it, and sometimes they can’t." He shelved his plans to enter the 1992 presidential race, but with his satirical irreverence, what a campaign it would have been!

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry," Zappa once observed.

An outspoken advocate of creative freedom and First Amendment Rights, he once explained his political views: "There is nothing creative about a right-wing administration." Left-wingers, he believed, "are no better, using artists and creative people as propaganda to further their goals." His solution? "I think common sense is the way to go."

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something," said Zappa who experimented, wrote surrealist lyrics, and offered loud music and dizzy light shows.

"My work is art," he said, pressing the limits of creativity and greatly admired for his vigilante outrageousness. His music won commercial and critical success.

"Never stop until your good becomes better, and your better becomes the best," he advised.

Zappa, the deviant, never drank and abstained from drugs, but chain-smoked cigarettes and drank coffee incessantly. He recorded about 60 albums and in July 1994 the International Astronomical Union eulogized him by naming a Czech-discovered asteroid “Zappafrank.”

And here is the Music!!!

The Synclavier System was an early synthesizer and sampler, manufactured by New England Digital. First released in 1975, it proved to be highly influential among both music producers and electronic musicians, due to its versatility, its cutting-edge technology and distinctive sound.

Frank Zappa - composed his 1986 Grammy-winning album Jazz From Hell and recorded the works of Francesco Zappa in 1984 entirely on Synclavier. Also, the posthumous two-hour Civilization, Phaze III was allegedly around 70% Synclavier-made.

Here is a compilation fo many works with Synclavier:

(1991) Synclavier Works - S&C

Talking about the Synclavier

(1995) Kill Ugly Radio

This was a radio station promo for the FZ approved re-issue catalog. All tracks are the original versions (the versions that were first released); Tracks 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 14 & 18 (all tracks with titles that end with "...") are short interview excerpts from a WBAI Zappa tribute which aired January 22, 1994. The cover has the "my pumpkin" picture from Absolutely Free, and the CD and under-the-tray insert have the smoking-and-playing picture from the back of the Guitar CD booklet.

(1995) Kill Ugly Radio Some More

This was a radio station promo to promote the new Strictly Commercial compilation. All tracks are the original (first released) versions, except 3 & 19, from Strictly Commercial, 20 from Stage #3, and 23 from Stage #6; Tracks 1, 5, 9, 12, 15, 18 & 21 (all tracks with titles that end with "...") are short excerpts from an interview conducted by Ben Manilla for WLIR-FM. The exact interview is presently unknown. The cover has the "my pumpkin" picture from Absolutely Free, and the CD and under-the-tray insert have the smoking-and-playing picture from the back of the Guitar CD booklet.

(2001) The Sheik's Rehearsals

Tracks 1-10 & 13 are rehearsals from Culver City 16-Aug-1978. Tracks 11-13 live in Neunkirchen am Brand 25-feb-1978. And note that nothing on this bootleg is actually recording sessions nor rehearsals for Sheik Yerbouti. The rehearsals are for the tour after the "SY tour".

(2019) Live From The Schaefer Music Festival, Wollman Rink, Central Park, NYC. FM Broadcast (1968 08 03)

Recorded at the 1968 Schaefer Music Festival held at the Wollman Skating Rink in New York City's Central Park. Frank Zappa's original lineup of the mothers of invention boasts a relatively sparse catalogue of decent to great sounding live bootlegs, but unfortunately vinyl releases of these shows (besides common releases like "Tis the season", "the ark" and the somewhat-recent B13 reissue of the artisan acetate) is limited to either rare or collectors-only type releases that go for ridiculously high prices that would limit them to only the most devoted of Zappa fans and record collectors. This double LP of the Wollman rink performance is the first original mothers release i've seen that appears to be targeted at casual bootleg collectors, as well as devoted fans, and it's pretty great, despite a few flaws. 

(2019) Lumpy Gravy Primordial

Frank Zappa’s first orchestral-only edit of the music sessions recorded at Capitol Studios during 1967. This self-described “ballet” was never officially issued until 2008 on the posthumous collection Lumpy Money. Here it makes its debut on limited edition 45rpm burgundy vinyl with FZ’s original album design. Mastered directly from the reel-to-reel analog tape master by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in 2017.

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