Ep068: Ralph Humphrey, Drummer for Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Vinyl enthusiasts, music fans and Zappaphiles rejoice! Today we talk with drumming legend and all-around good guy Ralph Humphrey, a man who kept the beat and set the pace for Frank Zappa's brilliant "Apostrophe (')", "Over-Nite Sensation" and "Roxy & Elsewhere" albums.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Six, five, four, three. |
| 0:05.0 | Frank Zappa's newest LP apostrophe! |
| 0:13.0 | Great googly-mugger! That's right, you heard right! |
| 0:16.0 | With men who corrupts it! |
| 0:19.0 | Watch out where the... |
| 0:20.0 | Don't eat the yellow snow. |
| 0:23.2 | Cosmic debris |
| 0:24.4 | any more. |
| 0:27.2 | Frank Z. |
| 0:29.3 | Apostrophy. |
| 0:30.6 | Available at Swellins at their everyday low prices, |
| 0:34.5 | get a 10% off with $10 purchase or more. |
| 0:36.6 | My first recommendation to anybody who hasn't heard Frank's music is listen to |
| 0:40.9 | apostrophe and overnight sensation because it has everything you could ever want. |
| 0:45.5 | It's got the rock, jazz, funk, the attitude and the humor all at once. |
| 1:07.0 | We'd worked stuff on the road and we worked stuff in rehearsal. I mean, rehearsals were intense and, you know, five days a week, you know, six hours a day. |
| 1:11.6 | And so when the band went on the road, we were ready to go. |
| 1:14.6 | It works like this. |
| 1:30.1 | If you take any kind of a melody, I don't care if it's Hawaiian music or whatever it is, |
| 1:34.4 | and you play it with a fuzz-tone guitar and a certain kind of a drumbeat, |
| 1:37.5 | people will call it rock and roll. |
| 1:39.0 | But what you got is a Hawaiian song, so how are you going to categorize? |
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