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Jerry Tucker (Little Rock concerts Examiner) -One of the most important albums, personally to me in my lifetime has been “Sheik Yerbouti,” so I have to ask you what it was like to be a part of that and those tours. Terry Bozzio - Frank Zappa, number one, I love and I’m eternally grateful for because he took me from nowhere. I was a well known jazz drummer in San Francisco with a classical training background. I think I was ready for the gig but no one would know who I am if it wasn’t for Frank. He took me from San Francisco and gave me world fame, the kind of credibility you can only get from having played with Frank. So I’m really grateful for that. And then, in terms of meeting him, he was a serious genius on about seven levels…guitarist, writer, humorist, bandleader, classical composer, and rock star…none of those things are easy to do. And he did them all, just fluently. From what I can remember, it was like marine boot camp for a musician. I was faced with the most challenging, through composed and written out, music I’d ever played. Things like “The Black Page,” “Approximate,” the “200 Motels” material we did with orchestra. Then he said to me, “Can you sing backup on this?” The part was in 5/4. He made me sing on top of me playing the drums in 5/4 time. He pushed me into developing characters, acting, and singing…doing all kinds of things I didn’t know that I could do. So I’ll be eternally grateful to him. In those days we recorded a lot live in New York, and I think “Sheik Yerbouti” was mainly a live record and possibly some things we did in the Record Plant. It was just a wonderful time for me. I can remember when I got with UK a year after I left Frank, being in Kansas City and “Sheik Yerbouti,” some tune came on the radio and just leapt out of the radio, gave me and Eddie Jobson a very nostalgic feeling for the days we spent with Frank.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:03:31 +0000

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