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Trance-Fusion | 
 enlarge | Artist: Frank Zappa
Label: Zappa Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 2518
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 20002
UPC: 824302000229
EAN: 0824302000229
ASIN: B000IMUYFG
Release Date: November 7, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Chunga's Revenge | | • | Bowling on Charen | | • | Good Lobna | | • | Cold Dark Matter | | • | Butter or Cannons | | • | Ask Dr. Stupid | | • | Scratch & Sniff | | • | Trance-Fusion | | • | Gorgo | | • | Diplodocus | | • | Soul Polka | | • | For Giuseppe Franco | | • | After Dinner Smoker | | • | Light Is All That Matters | | • | Finding Higgs' Boson | | • | Bavarian Sunset |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Where's Frank? July 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I discovered that the guitar on the first and last cuts was not Frank, I was really turned off by this rehashed stuff. Dweezil, maybe you should heed one of your daddy's quotes.............Only in it for the money.
 Easy on The Hot Sauce.. June 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A cleanly produced good sounding live album, but too much hot sauce can spoil the enchilada. This album is straight ahead Heavy guitar solos ONLY,
even a few lighter solos like "Watermelon in easter Hay" could have given it some balance which it needs badly to be listenable for my preferences.
No vocals, boring after a while and only for the guitar afficionados.
 Guitar Heaven. April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For fans of "Shut up 'n' play your guitar" and the Zappa "guitar" album.
Amazing & unique solos taken from various Zappa tours, mainly the '88 big band. A pure indulgence. Warning: - if you don't like the old Zapp-attack instumental - do not start here.
Includes great artwork and info about the recordings etc
Best of the "Guitar" albums February 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the third "Guitar" album set that Frank Zappa has put out. These are albums of guitar solos that were taken out of the middle of songs from different concerts.
The first set was the 3 LP set "Shut Up and Play Your Guitar". It was originally released through mail order, only,as 3 separate LP's over a period of time. It then could be bought as a complete set as a very expensive Japanese import (unless you were in Japan). Finally, it was released as a 3 CD set, although it could have almost been squeezed on to one CD. It was very good.
The second set was a 2 CD set called "Guitar". It was poorly executed. It was short snippets just yanked out of songs. The editing and splicing was poorly done. It was just annoying, short pieces and the album did not have any flow.
Trance-fusion was a project started and almost finished by Zappa before he died. It was resurrected, remastered and released 10 years later. It is 61 minutes long and the sound quality is excellent. You wouldn't know it was live, except for some light background audience cheering in a few spots.
One thing I like is that it was taken from a number of different time periods. The selections are long guitar solos that sound like complete pieces. The editing is pretty good so that everything flows.
Some of Zappa's guitar solos have a strange aura to them. With the solos pulled out of songs, and the song parts edited out, there sections of the CD that have an eerie atmosphere.
This is a great album. Imaginary Diseases, another recent Zappa release, is even better.
The third guitar album January 1, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an album of guitar solos. It's all live and taken from actual songs. The songs segue, but they're not separated with bits of musique concrete or dialogue like the "Shut up 'n play yer guitar" album. This is like the "Guitar" album. It's over an hour long, and the solos are mostly different. It emphasizes on the 1988 tour. Many say that tour wasn't very good for his solos, because he hadn't played live for 3 years since the last tour, which ended in December 1984. This one started in February 1988. This is exactly where the solos were taken from.
1. Chunga's Revenge - 4/18/1988 featuring Dweezil.
2. Bowling on Charen - 10/28/1977 (early show), solo from "Wild Love".
3. Good Lobna - 12/4/1984, solo from "Let's move to Cleveland".
4. A cold dark matter - 3/18/1988, solo from "Inca roads".
5. Butter or cannons - 8/25/1984, solo from "Let's move to cleveland".
6. Ask Dr. Stupid - 3/21/1979, solo from "Easy meat".
7. Scratch & Sniff - 4/16/1988, solo from "City of tiny lights".
8. Trance-Fusion - 5/24/1988, solo from "Marque-son's chicken".
9. Gorgo - 5/1/1988, solo from "The torture never stops".
10. Diplodocus - 10/26/1984, solo from "King Kong".
11. Soul Polka - 3/19/1988, solo from "Oh No".
12. For Guiseppe Franco - 12/17/1984, solo from "Hot plate heaven at the green hotel."
13. After Dinner smoker - 6/9/1988, solo from "The torture never stops".
14. Light is all that matters - 12/17/1984, solo from "Let's move to cleveland".
15. Finding Higgs' Boson - 5/8/1988, solo from "Hot plate heaven at the green hotel."
16. Bavarian Sunset - 5/9/1988, featuring Dweezil, solo from a post "I'm the walrus" jam.
This is the third guitar solo album Zappa planned to release. What you hear here is what he himself compiled, sequenced, segued, and produced. He had this record done while he was still alive and the track titles are his. It's just that it took over ten years for it to finally come out. So you should know that this isn't some post-humous release put together by someone who isn't Frank Zappa himself. The solos themselves are all good, some more memorable than others, but overall the playing is complex full of non-eastern scales, and not your usual pentatonic runs up and down the fret. Shows Zappa's virtuosity, which he denied. Recommended along with the other two guitar albums.
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