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The Man from Utopia is an album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in March 1983 by Barking Pumpkin Records. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".
Mar 28, 2024 · The version of “The Dangerous Kitchen” on The Man From Utopia has an overdubbed electric guitar from Steve Vai that follows the improvised lead vocal. Zappa was fulsome in his praise of Vai in...
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On "The man from Utopia" (1983) Zappa experimented with improvised recitatives with a melody directly derived from a spoken text, unrelated to scales. Two such live improvisations were included. Steve Vai was asked to score them out to make a guitar overdub along Zappa's melody possible.
After the Zappa band toured Europe in 1982, we all assumed Frank would release tapes of those shows as The Man From Utopia. As it turned out, Frank took studio tracks he already had, spiffed them up and that was the content of this record.
The Man From Utopia is a music studio album recording by FRANK ZAPPA (RIO/Avant-Prog/Progressive Rock) released in 1983 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. This page includes The Man From Utopia's : cover picture, songs / tracks list, members/musicians and line-up, different releases details, free MP3 download (stream), buy online links: amazon ...
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Guitarist Steve Vai has gone through these vocal lines, and transcribed them, note-for-note, talking or singing, and plays them on acoustic guitar. Vai says the effect is “like George Benson from Venus,” and indeed there is no other way to describe it.
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I concluded the guitar part is from Steve Vai, who worked with Zappa during most of the 80s, from his signature Van Halen-esque sound, but I could be wrong so don't quote me. This vocal-to-guitar pattern continues throughout the song.
