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Behold: U will find: WE ARE "Mother People" WE ARE "The Other People"
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Song Request: "The Other People" as performed by Bogus Pomp
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Mother People Lyrics (from Lyricstime.com)
We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you . . .
Do you think that I'm crazy?
Out of my mind?
Do you think that I creep in the night
And sleep in a phone booth?
Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show,
Think you better know
I'm another person
Do you think that my pants are too tight?
Do you think that I'm creepy?
Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show
Think you better know
I'm another person
Better look around before you say you don't care
Shut your fuckin' mouth about the length of my hair
How would you survive
If you were alive
Shitty little person?
We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you
We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you
Do you think that I love you . . .
Stupid & blind?
Do you think that I dream through the night
Of holding you near me?
Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show
Think you better know
I'm another person
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| Over the years, Bogus Pomp has recorded most of their shows. The band also encourages recording devices at their concerts and the payoff has been a growing archive from board tapes, video, and other audience recordings sent to the band. Below are a few selections from this archive. The format is MP3. These will play on most stock media players as well as Real Player and the Napster software. Right click a song title to download. We hope you enjoy them. |  |
Andy - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) Big Swifty & Stolen Moments - Zappaween 5, Jannus Landing, St Pete, FL, 10/31/99 Black Page #2 - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Black Page #2 (quartet) - Platinum Post Studio, Orlando, FL City Of Tiny Lights - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 1/16/99 Dupree's Paradise - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 1/22/00 Dupree's Paradise - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Evil Prince & Montana - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) Florentine Pogen - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) Gumbo Variations - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Idiot Bastard Son & Cheepnis - Kleinhan's Hall, Buffalo, NY, 3/24/00 (NMB) Inca Roads - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) King Kong - Gasoline Alley, Clearwater, FL, 07/05/96 Lucille - Zappaween 4, State Theater, St Pete, FL, 10/31/98 (IW) Mammy Nun Theme - Zappaween 4, State Theater, St Pete, FL, 10/31/98 (IW) Muffin Man - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Peaches En Regalia - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Pygmy Twylyte - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) Radio Interview with Napoleon - WFLA, Tampa, FL, 10/31/99 (NMB) Sofa #1 - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Sofa #2 - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 1/16/99 (IW) Son Of Orange County & Penguin In Bondage - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) The Torture Never Stops - Platinum Post Studio, Orlando, FL, 12/21/95 Thirteen - Skippers Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 7/14/00 Titties n'Beer - Zappaween 5, Jannus Landing, St Pete, FL, 10/31/99 T'mershi Duween & Dupree's Paradise - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 1/16/99 Uncle Meat - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 1/16/99 Uncle Remus - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB,P) Village/Echidna/Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (NMB) What's The Ugliest Love Of My Life - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 08/05/00 (P) Zomby Woof - Gasoline Alley, Clearwater, FL, 07/05/96 Don Martin Tribute & Black Napkins & Ugliest - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 01/22/00 (NMB) Watermelon In Easter Hay - Mahaffey Theater, St Pete, FL, 01/22/00 (NMB) Features Napoleon Murphy Brock. (IW) Features Ike Willis. (P) Bogus Pomp is joined by The Persuasions .  | |
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| Bogus Pomp is a 10 piece ensemble based in Tampa Bay, Florida. Since 1994, the group has performed the music of Frank Zappa exclusively. Bogus Pomp's members are an unlikely combination of educators, symphony players, jazzers, and rockers, all with a common interest in Zappa's repertoire. This diversity is a key factor in the groups ability to recreate Zappa's compositions in the style of his 70's and early 80's rock bands. | |
| Bogus Pomp performs several times a year and has presented several memorable concerts with the Florida Orchestra, The Buffalo Philharmonic, a cappella legends The Persuasions, and six annual halloween shows dubbed ZAPPAWEEN. The group performed several concerts with Ike Willis in 98 and 99 and since October, 99, Napoleon Murphy Brock has been a permanent member. This has led the band to focus primarily on material from the period of time Brock spent with Frank Zappa and The Mothers. |  |
 | Napoleon's unmistakable voice and stage presence takes the audience back to the period of Zappa's career where many of the great compositions were being written, refined, and recorded. Napoleon, however, has not been silent in the 20 years since his last work with Zappa. Living in San Jose (not Reseda), California, he has recorded with George Duke, gigs regularly with his Bay Area group, the Nighthawks, and has performed with the San Francisco Opera. The vocal prowess of Napi, teamed up Bogus Pomp's powerful instrumentalism, has been a tremendous success with BP's growing audiences. |
A Brief History - Bogus Pomp began in August, 1994, when guitarist Jerry Outlaw and keyboardist Rick Olson got together for some informal jamming. Both were ardent Zappaphiles and, inevitably, they jammed on various progressions from Zappa's catalog. This went on for a few weeks until Jerry mentioned the sessions to Bill Templeton, then managing editor of Jam Magazine, a popular music industry trade rag. The next issue of Jam had a square inch of text simply stating that Jerry and Rick were jamming on Zappa's material and within days, bassist Alex Pasut had contacted the two and, after hearing "Keep It Greasy", played for him over the phone, joined them. Soon, drummer Tom McCowan was recruited and a Halloween set, opening for local trio Deloris Telescope, was scheduled. | |
In the weeks leading up to that first set, the quartet was aware of the risk they were taking. Zappa fans are among the most demanding afficionados and Bogus Pomp wondered how their presentation would be received. Being Zappa hard-cores themselves, the group knew what the expectations would be. Simply knowing that led to a sense of trepidation until the evening of the show. |  |
In a full page review of the set printed in Jam Magazine, music critic Eric Snider wrote "That four Bay Area musicians would attempt to do justice to Zappa, whose compositions are among the most complex and sacred in the annals of popular music,had raised a few eyebrows among the local Frank fanatics." Snider went on to call the set "a triumph". With the enthusiastic response of the ample crowd, and good words from a known unforgiving critic, Bogus Pomp decided to take it on and continue. | |
 | Within days, in response to a tiny ad placed on the bulletin board in the music department of St Petersburg Junior College, Trombonist and Brass Studies instructor David Manson signed on as organizer of, and arranger for what would become, and remains, Bogus Pomp's 3 piece brass section. The group began to develop its repertoire and its audience. Working locally, BP began to earn a reputation as a substantial draw and received steady offers from local clubs and venues. |
The next addition to the band's line-up was mallet percussion, the sound that makes Zappa's music almost instantly recognizable and dominated his compositions throughout his career. The band has worked with several talented percussionists including George Bernardo and Florida Orchestra percussionist David Coash, who currently occupies the chair. Then came the first ZAPPAWEEN concert. |  |
 | Exactly one year after its debut performance, Bogus Pomp presented the first ZAPPAWEEN concert at Jannus Landing, a large courtyard venue in St Petersburg. The concert was nearly four hours long before a capacity crowd who stayed to very last note. This began a tradition of ZAPPAWEEN concerts, held each Halloween weekend. At the first ZAPPAWEEN, Steve Evans, a Boston businessman who had flown down for the show, introduced himself to the band, beginning a relationship that would result in a trip to Boston to perform at Ryles jazz club in Cambridge, in celebration of Evans' 40th birthday. (Lots of fun) |
In early 1998, former Zappa frontman, Ike Willis joined Bogus Pomp for several shows including ZAPPAWEEN 4 and the first of two concerts with the Florida Orchestra. Ike's engaging personality was a real crowd pleaser and his guitar playing was a good fit with Outlaw's but enough of a contrast to make back-to-back solos interesting. Pat Buffo (missing link in a tophat) added primal screams and other feral noises during those performances. Ike Willis currently tours with his own band and appears with Band From Utopia whenever they play. |  |
The Orchestra Shows - In early 98, Bogus Pomp, through percussionist David Coash, along with bank executive Fred Hemmer, presented a proposal to the Florida Orchestra. The idea was to present an unprecedented concert format. The Florida Orchestra, a full symphony, would peform a program of Zappa's orchestral works. After an intermission, Bogus Pomp would juxtapose 90 minutes of Zappa's rock repertoire. The orchestra was immediately receptive to the idea and after a few months of meetings and discovery, added the concert to their 1999 season and began what would become a 9 month process to obtain the scores and negotiate with the Zappa Family Trust, particularly Gail Zappa. Republic Bank, through the efforts of Fred Hemmer, sponsored a portion of the event and the support they provided was instrumental in making the concert a success. | |
 | Bogus Pomp enlisted the talents of Ike Wills, New York Big Band leader Ed Palermo, and vocalists Dave Martin and Pat Buffo, to augment the 9 piece band. The weekend of the concert also included a Composer's Symposium, held at the Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburg which featured lectures by Andy Holinden, who teaches courses in Zappa's music at the University of Indiana, and Dr. James Borders, a musicologist who provided fascinating insight into Zappa's creative process. |
Held at the beautiful Mahaffey Theater is St Petersburg, the concert sold out at nearly 2000 seats on January 16, 1999. Resident Conductor, Thomas Wilkins, lead the orchestra through a powerful and moving program and were joined by Bogus Pomp on the two closing orchestral numbers, Strictly Genteel and Uncle Meat. Bogus Pomp selected pieces from a wide slice of Zappa's repertoire. The concert was a success. It received a wonderful review in the St Petersburg Times and earned the distinction of "Best music event of 1999" by the Weekly Planet magazine and it's annual "Best of the Bay" awards. Bogus Pomp and the Florida Orchestra repeated the event again in January of 2000. On May 23rd, 2000, Bogus Pomp, along with Thomas Wilkins, performed the program again with the Buffalo Philharmonic in Buffalo, New York. The 2000 concerts featured Napoleon Murphy Brock as a regular member of Bogus Pomp by then. Bogus Pomp continues to perform the music of Frank Zappa and is constantly striving for a larger repertoire from Zappa's vast catalog. The band plans more orchestral collaborations and the ongoing ZAPPAWEEN concerts. Frank Zappa's music is timeless and will have a lasting place in 20th Century music history. Bogus Pomp is grateful for the opportunity to perform this music for anyone willing to listen. | |
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A Zappa-picture
October 29th, 2007 • Balint
A nice picture. I've found it on David Ocker's blog, but it's originally from Richard Emmet' homepage (go there to see some more), and the pictures were taken possibly in '81, one of these used for the cover of You Are What You Is (the same hat!)
Posing for the sake of the photographer (we weren't really playing any notes).
Pictures made by John Livzey.
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October 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm »
Bassoon & clarinet. Two musical instruments that are badly missing in FZ music.
Why shouldn't present day creative musicians give it a try? The starting point is +/- simple:
- Take a few FZ scores,
- Replace the " lead", i e electric guitar by a clarinet or hobo ( anyway much more challinging than a violin),
- Replace the bass ( = basso continuo) by a bassoon, a tuba or a harpchicord.
Looks like something for Finns or Hungarians. Add for instance (1)a few children's ( = toy) instruments and an accordion. At the end: the Triangle Solo.
For original "rock" music with clarinet & bassoon ( as bass) go to Henry Cow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cow
October 29th, 2007 at 7:27 pm »
Is it allowed to add one comment on Henry Cow?
- Did you notice that - in the commercial adds to your blog - Henry C. appears half of the time?
- As for the Belgian aspect. Henry Cow produced the fabulous ( french speaking ) BE band, when they recorded in Switserland , Aksaq Maboul. Link in German : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksak_Maboul. For instance : Un Peu de l' Âme Des Bandits". It's http://www.crammed.be/crammed/002/cra00201.htm
- Last Sunday Belgian classical pianist Daan Vande Walle, http://www.daanvandewalle.com/, performed with HC drummer Chris Cutler in Veere / Holland.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:52 pm »
Speaking of Henry Cow…. (sorry), all Zappa fans should go to iTunes and get "Come Across" by Fred Frith, off his album "Gravity". Sounds like an "Uncle Meat" out-take!
October 29th, 2007 at 9:23 pm »
I love stories about people's interactions with Frank wherein he displays a level of compassion and humanity which I assumed he was uncomfortable with. I also love anecdotes where Frank kicks people to the curb, especially big name media types.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:34 pm »
"My Life with Frank" Read it, its wonderful. Thank's KUR and Balint.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:36 am »
Richard Emmet writes about his time with Frank really well, although it sounds like he's in some hard times at the moment which is a shame. Am I the only person who thinks that Frank looks a little strange in this picture…kind of like he's a little munchkin?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:22 pm »
1. Summary about scientific mistakes, i e overlooking interesting things & developments:
- FZ : Till now just cosy books & texts about FZs music. Nothing really beyond anecdotes.
- Blogs & New Technologies : The same goes for music blogs & other technologies ( for instance : autonomous radio stations ) linked to new music.
2. Conclusion: Art, i e at its most prominent expression, Music, is nothing more than a footnote for scientists.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:39 pm »
That's not a real picture. Zappa is a different color from the group, he is also about 3/4s the size of the other people. I think that picture needs a UFO somewhere in it as well…
October 31st, 2007 at 8:03 pm »
Have to concur with bill: that is most certainly a photoshopped image. The perspective and proportions are all totally out of whack.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:05 pm »
matt Says:
"Am I the only person who thinks that Frank looks a little strange in this picture…kind of like he's a little munchkin?"
Duh… why do you think he named his publishing company Munchkin Music?
"…and you might not believe this little fella, but it'll cure your asthma too…"
November 1st, 2007 at 3:36 pm »
I wanna know what happened after Yoko socked John!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:30 am »
What is this supposed to be?