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Serious Music Part 2

from They Saved Zappa's Moustache by NCN & Negativland

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'Serious Music' tracks are a collage about Frank's attitudes toward, and the part of his career devoted to, classical music.

We hear part of 'Willie the Pimp' with Captain Beefheart from the album 'Hot Rats' this is mixed with Zappa interview clips and portions of other live performances of Zappa's work dropped in.

An interviewer asks Zappa about the guitarist 'The Edge'. This portion is repeated by Don because it sounds like the interviewer is saying 'presumably you've done Over the Edge'. Both The Edge and Over the Edge are relevant to Negativland as the latter is the name of their radio show, and The Edge guitarist was part of U2 who's label Island Records sued Negativland in the early 90's over Negativland's album 'U2'.

The 'more more more' double-reference is a total coincidence between Don and my own material.

Don seems to be playing part of a porn movie in the left channel after that point.

A groupie talks about the early days of The Mothers and what the scene was like back then. An interview where Zappa banters with the interviewer is played to a portion of 'The Yellow Shark', a classical album made after Zappa was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Don uses the cd scanner in the studio to digitally stutter, slow down and sample from the piece. He mixes this with music from earlier in Zappa's career.

Zappa references Hendrix in an interview (eats his guitar) and talks more with the 'bantering' interviewer in a somewhat chaotic musical mix environment. More clips from the Zappa expert.

Calls are taken while a version of Willie the Pimp is played. We hear the first few bars of 'Electric Aunt Jemima' as the track ends.

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

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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

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