We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Various samples are heard played over each other. 'The Professor' plays guitar and speaks via the phone. Sofa #1 is played over this as well as bits of 'We Are the Mother People' and the 'people inside the piano' from Civilization Phaze III are heard. More with Frank and Mike Nesmith from the Monkees' show appearance. Clips from a Zappa interview talking about the early days is heard in the background. A conversational composition develops with Professor's guitar in the background. We hear a bit of 'Anyway the Wind Blows'. Frank talks about listening to the jukebox at Opal and Chester's chili place, as a kid. 'We are the Mother People' is heard between samples of this and interview clips of the Zappa expert amidst effects. Steve Allen again and more calls. Part of 'Stuff Up the Cracks' is heard and segues into '3 Hours Past Midnight' by Johnny Guitar Watson who was a major influence on Zappa's later guitar style. Part of Tengo Na Minchia Tanta from 'Uncle Meat' is heard. Zappa talks about 'noodling'.

credits

from They Saved Zappa's Moustache, released August 22, 2012
Frank Zappa; Don Joyce (of Negativland); Phineas Narco

license

tags

about

The National Cynical Network image

The National Cynical Network San Jose, California

The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

contact / help

Contact The National Cynical Network

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

The National Cynical Network recommends:

If you like The National Cynical Network, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now