1987 March
Vol. 7 No. 4 (1) Frank Zappa: Samplin' Fool
By Jeff Spurrier, 4 pp
(2) Rob Stone and Bob Rice on
the Recording of Jazz From Hell
By Steven Schwartz, 3 pp
(3) Zappa On Jazz From Hell
By Frank Zappa, 2 pp
(3) Night School started off as four or five chords, played
into the Synclavier. I had some guys here hanging out in the studio one night
and I was giving them a demonstration of the machine. I played these chords and
saved them on a floppy, and that's how that one got started. Everything else
was built up from that dahdahdat dadah thing. The melody that was
super-imposed on top of it – it sounds kind of like a piano and kind of like a
trumpet – was something I just improvised. All the rest of the rhythm-section
data was added partially from the keyboard and partially from the Roland
Octapads. (read
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