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This is an excerpt from a radio interview that took place in April of 1975 at Connecticut radio station, WPLR.  Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were in attendance promoting a show they were going to do that night. This took place in the afternoon and WPLR (a commercial station) allowed Zappa to play some new music he had not yet released.  As a 13 year old hearing the variety of music Zappa unleashed was like heaven to my ears.  In the two hours they were on FZ played the following pieces from an acetate (a test pressing)... "Inca Roads", "Can't Afford No Shoes", "San' Berdino", "The Regyptian Strut", the unedited version of "200 Years Old" and the original mix of "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary".  I recorded this onto my cheap mono Norelco cassette machine, hence the shabby sound quality.

Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart On WPLR In April Of 1975

Script 2020

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John Tabacco is an American composer, singer songwriter, producer, recording engineer, multi instrumentalist and graphic artist. He has engineered /mixed and mastered music for hundreds of New York recording artists as well as projects released on BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Rykodisc : Bob Marley, Columbia: Chris Jasper, Electra: Sonia Dada and Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid Of The Dark? He is the CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing which currently holds over 600 songs in its catalog. He has been an associate producer for IndiMusic TV and hosts a bi-weekly radio program (CLAM RADIO) on college radio WUSB.fm since 1999.

His musical background consists of extensive study of orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, and composition with Stony Brook University professor Peter Winkler. He received his BA in Music from Stony Brook University in 1983. 

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. His style is a melding of pop - jazz -rock - avant garde / aleatory, classical and comedy.  He has been recording his music non stop since 1979.

Of note: In 1989 the satirical, absurd house song "Go House Yourself" co-written by Tabacco, Pati and DiMauro reached position 39 on Billboard's dance chart. 

In 2014 Tabacco signed a record deal with Texas, indie label, Muffin Records. They released his CD “Unfulfilled Shopping Carts Syndrome” internationally.

Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart On WPLR In April Of 1975

John Tabacco

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