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title: "Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes"
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# Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes

**Brand:** belew, adrianbickford, bruce
**Price:** 4604 som
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- **What is this?** Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes by belew, adrianbickford, bruce
- **How much does it cost?** 4604 som with free shipping
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## Description

Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal," Frank Zappa's "Baby Snakes" chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City (a zany enough proceeding in its own right) with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford, with whose work Zappa was obviously smitten. Onstage, Zappa is a live wire, the audience is appropriately rambunctious, and the band--an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention--is tight as could be. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants lack any trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Zappa, who died in 1993, always worked with consummate musicians, and "Baby Snakes" showcases the cream of the crop: Terry Bozzio (one of the greatest drummers ever to command a kit), bassist Patrick O'Hearn, keyboard wizard Tommy Mars, and even pop chameleon Adrian Belew. The DVD packaging, with its deluxe miniature dossier on Zappa and the film, is fabulous, and the sound and picture seem about as good as they could be, under the influence--that is, the circumstances. Undeniable are Zappa's intelligence and charisma, which flicker and blaze every second he's on screen. The progressive-leaning rock and jazz music is frequently interrupted for meandering spoken interludes and is certainly not for all tastes. But Frank Zappa was a force to behold, and "Baby Snakes" offers a unique cultural education for anyone bold enough to give it a spin. "Without deviation," Zappa wrote, "progress is not possible." "Baby Snakes" is one of Frank's most fervent contributions to progress. "--Michael Mikesell"

## Product Details

- **Genre:** rock-music
- **Format:** Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
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- **Initial release date:** 2003-12-09
- **Language:** English

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Frank is great!
*by T***R on April 8, 2025*

All of Frank's albums are great!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zappa as Artist
*by J***N on July 23, 2004*

Having read all the other reviews, I'd like to focus on the aspect of FZ as an Artist. Because that's what's on display, and is one reason for the extended bit with Bruce Bickford, who I think Frank saw as the claymation-artist version of himself. Someone gives Frank a card, and it has a quote, "The modern-day composer refuses to die," which Frank says must have its proper attribution to Edgar Varese- Edgar Varese was a composer/artist. Watch Frank as he manages to interact with the audience, shake everyone's hand, and sing his lyrics flawlessly. Despite a couple of "Go ---- yourself"s, Frank shows a lot of sensitivity to his young audience. The girl Angel, who basically wants Frank's baby, tries to interject something when he lets her onstage- his response is hilarious: he looks at her as if to say "Are you crazy?" then says, "Sounds like fun," and shuts her up with a munchkin-voiced "Stop it!" The key word to describe FZ here is "masterful," he is in charge every moment. The bit onstage with the toy police car, with the fake trombone-playing, and with Roy E. and his faulty improv with the gas-mask, are all about Frank incorporating something new into his music, improvising, having the band follow his descriptive hand-gestures, only to roll it all up in a ball and throw it in Roy's face, to see what reaction it will get. Was he self-indulgent, egocentric? Sure. Confident and cocky? Absolutely. You can be taken in by it or put off by it. Is the "Poodle Lecture" really a philosophical statement of life on earth? Nah. But it's funny, and draws the audience into his surrealistic world. The blow up doll and the raunchy lyrics, are all part of FZ's assault on mainstream attitudes. In the '60's, he trashed the middle-class, but he trashed the hippies, too. So he was an iconoclast, too. We need more of them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ They're wet and they're pink...!
*by @***K on September 14, 2005*

Zappa released with BABY SNAKES a concert film by which others should be measured. Contained on this DVD rings out truly amazing music played by an amazing band in front of a ravenous audience of stirred up fans. Afficionados of FZ's will eat this one up. Music fans in general should check this one out to witness how a live band should perform UNMITIGATED ENTERTAINMENT. This 2-1/2 hour concert video is interspliced with hilarious backstage antics and mind-boggling claymation by a chap that probably can ONLY do claymation (you'll understand after his cameos). The recording quality of the concert sound resounds clear and strong. Zappa conducts this band at points as if it were a rock orchestra but the TIGHTNESS by which he rehearsed his bands more accurately translates his conduction into a neat little artifact that LIVE, FZ PLAYS HIS BAND JUST LIKE ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT. Some truly inspired live improvisation is documented whereby Uncle Frankie conjures music out of his finely tuned musos (his swirling stage ministrations call to mind a magician!) that only he can create. Buy the DVD and witness singular sonic events that FZ opportunistically captured for us on this wonderful film. The claymation is WAY-TRIPPED OUT: I can only describe the animation as phantasmagorical visual spewings that involve sex, peccaries in car chases, and Billy the Mountain. The animation more than aptly flows alongside Zappa's sonic brain candy. Performed are many classic FZ tunes like "Dinah-Moe Hum" and "Camarillo Brillo" as well as more esoteric rock-orchestrations like "The Black Page" or "Zoot Allures". Prime FZ at the height of his creativity. And this film reveals the maestro to be revelling in every second of the zany stage insanity. You will, too. "The present day composer refuses to die" - indeed, long live Frank Zappa!

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