{"id":794727,"date":"2019-04-11T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820997"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:14:54","slug":"holographic-frank-zappa-plays-guitar-solo-in-new-tour-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/holographic-frank-zappa-plays-guitar-solo-in-new-tour-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"Holographic Frank Zappa Plays Guitar Solo in New Tour Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/zappa-hologram.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/frank-zappa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frank-zappa\" data-tag=\"frank-zappa\">Frank Zappa<\/a>\u2019s digital stand-in cranks out a guitar solo in rehearsal footage for the upcoming tour featuring a hologram of the late guitarist-composer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In the clip, \u201cZappa\u201d is decked out in blue jeans and a black T-shirt, wielding his signature red Gibson SG \u2014 a visual that calls to mind his iconic performances documented on 1973\u2019s <em>Roxy &amp; Elsewhere<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The promo is soundtracked by the studio version of bluesy fan favorite \u201cCosmik Debris\u201d from 1974\u2019s <em>Apostrophe (\u2019)<\/em>. The footage, however, doesn\u2019t sync-up, instead previewing visual cues from several songs on the \u201cBizarre World of Frank Zappa\u201d tour. In other scenes, an animated Zappa plays guitar in front of glowing flames and newspaper clips tease the lyrics to his 1966 song \u201cTrouble Every Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The spring\/summer trek features several of Zappa\u2019s former bandmates, including guitarists Ray White and Mike Keneally, bassist Scott Thunes, multi-instrumentalist Robert Martin, percussionist Ed Mann and drummer\/Zappa archivist Joe \u201cVaultmeister\u201d Travers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The jaunt launches with a nine-date U.S. leg on April 19th in Port Chester, New York. The American dates run through May 3rd in Baltimore, Maryland, followed by a series of European shows. Additional concerts will be announced in the coming months.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-zappa-hologram-tour-video-820997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Zappa\u2019s digital stand-in cranks out a guitar solo in rehearsal footage for the upcoming tour featuring a hologram of the late guitarist-composer. In the clip, \u201cZappa\u201d is decked out in blue jeans and a black T-shirt, wielding his signature red Gibson SG \u2014 a visual that calls to mind his iconic performances documented on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 03:41:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}