Great choice for this approach. All is in it. Can't coop with the master but picked out the right and just enough characteristics of the song. Brave work Paul!!

Excellent version, Paul. I could imagine this on a film soundtrack.

I wasn't expecting that! I thought your guitar was going to burst in any time. I can imagine George Duke playing this before transitioning into something wild. A really cool interpretation of a classic.

Keyboards - Omnisphere and Keyscape
Bass guitar - Encore Blaster
Drums - EZ Drummer

I've covered some parts of Frank Zappa tunes in the past, usually bass lines or chord sequences but this is the first time I've tried to cover a Zappa tune.
Black Napkins is basically two chords (C Sharp Minor 7 and D Major 7) repeated through the whole tune.
There's a melody and then solo's in between.
This is the format that i tried to replicate, 2 chords one melody and solo's.
There's no way i could replicate the solo's. Watch Stefano Bertolino on YouTube for a great replication of the Zoot Allures version.
I went for a much slower version, even slower than the 1988 live version on "Make a jazz noise here". I even deliberately played fewer notes in my solo's.
These days, beer and old age tend to lean me to the slower way of doing things.

Black Napkins (Frank Zappa cover)

Chase Them Out

Video of this song: https://youtu.be/Oc3TWMVoQyQ
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STOHSPANS 23-24

Drowned in Heaven

Jeff is my favorite guitarist of all time and this was just a jam I did based on his whammy and some recordings of my neighbors dogs in the park. Who knows if he has dogs?  Lots of fun. borrowed the drum track from garage band. Played on my new axe, Vola Oz.

Zhanre Free

Feeding Beck's Dogs

Hey…. So I put down the slide guitar the other day, and picked up the mandolin after a slide solo wasn’t working. Then did this little song. A rather surreal look at the metaphysics of stars as they relate to us. Occasionally, we are at a loss to make sense of this life. I find perspective in observing the night sky, among other things, even if for only a brief moment. Hanging out with others helps too. So does playing music. I usually laugh at myself in those moments and realize just how fascinating life can be. I mentioned this story before, but in a different context. I have been ‘caretaking’ a fire ant colony for over twenty years. The common sense of today’s world would seek to destroy the colony, as labeling them as ‘nuisance pests’ comes with a dire consequence for the ants. Fire ants bite only to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called solenopsin. Anyway, the colony had been in my neighbor’s yard decades ago, and I did my best to encourage him not to destroy the colony. But after seeing a friend of his riding over the colony with a riding lawn mower, I knew the colony was doomed if it stayed there. Then one day, while emptying the kitchen compost bucket into the compost pile, I saw a long trail of fire ants coming from my neighbor’s yard into mine. They had begun to build a mound near a brush pile in the back. So the ants have been here for 5 years or so. Sure, they may strip an aspen sapling bare, or try and sneak into my vegetable garden, but for the most part, they have been good neighbors. They have come out of their mound now that it is a little warmer. I was cleaning up the gardens in the back, and noticed hundreds of them working on their mound. I looked yesterday and I saw this one ant carrying a large twig, way bigger than him, on top of the mound. As he walked, the twig was waving back and forth like a sword raised in the air. I laughed (to myself) and realized it had been a while since I had done so. This song is about all those little things in life, like that, that bring us back…. Hope you like it. Thanks for dropping by, Mark

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Walk In The Park

Kelp In The Waves

We love Soundpaint's Soprano
Off course Feddo is playing all the fine mind blowing parts

Artwork: Louis Servedio-Morales

Over

3 Cups Of Coffee

I have a lot of plugins that I don't often use, such as Addictive Drums and Addictive Keys and thought I should give them a try out. I recorded the drum track first and considered stopping with that, but decided to record the piano. I then selected 5 Soundpaint virtual instruments (Adastra Chamber Strings; Baritone Sax; Clarinet; Tenor Sax; Soprano Sax) and recorded all five in a single take. Next I added the double bass to anchor the track as the drums don't give you much of a clue. Finally, I added the NI Kontakt Muted Trumpet to finish the track. A quick mix, master and Bob's your uncle.
The image reminds me of being a very young child in Greenock in the 1950s.The evidence of WWII was all around: bombed buildings still had not been demolished. Me and some of the other kids in the street used to climb into abandoned tenement buildings or play in the bomb craters in the hills. Fortunately, I had shoes.

No Shoes Blues

Dedicated to Jello Biafra :)

Hexfarm is

Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Flutes
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Mat Ward - Bass Guitar/Vox

Track 3 from Hexfarm - who meet once a year to jam for a couple of days then head back to their various corners of the world : )

Drink Wank Cry - Hexfarm

No speed, no commercial riffs, no shit, symphonic experimentation, influenced by classical, all guitar work except the drum sounds.
Part of a multi part project.  Maybe you hear some Fripp influence or some Bartok.

Anti-Guitar Part 2

Sound Cloud veteran, Still enjoying it,
New tracks uploaded since December 2022 
I may not have many FOLLOWERS
but most of the ones i do have are probably not robots.
I may not FOLLOW many but most of the ones i do follow are probably not robots.

Black Napkins (Frank Zappa cover)

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