“The Real Frank Zappa Book” out now as Audible audiobook
Peter Occhiogrosso’s Summer 2023 BlogThe Audible audiobook version of The Real Frank Zappa Book, read by his son Ahmet, contains excerpts of Frank speaking brief segments that did not appear in the print version. They come from my original audiotapes of the interviews I conducted with Frank in 1987. |
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| Some 33 years after The Real Frank Zappa Book, which I coauthored, was published by Poseidon/Simon & Schuster, the audiobook version has at long last been released on Audible. Most of the original text is read by Frank’s son Ahmet, who does a creditable job of evoking Frank’s sarcasm (although I never heard Frank pronounce “etc.” as “ek setera” the way Ahmet does throughout). But for me the highlight of the audiobook is that every so often they insert a brief snippet from the audiotapes I recorded while I was working one-on-one with Zappa in the basement of his home. The first thing Zappa fans should know is that some of these snippets contain material that is NOT in the print version of the book …. |
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