14 Mar 2001
The Radio is Broken Episode 3 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Overlooked by many, Frank Zappa's idiosyncratic guitar playing was important not only in its own right but also for the many compositions it spawned via transcriptions. James Gardner discusses what Zappa referred to as his "air sculptures" as well as pieces produced by 'xenochrony', the combination of two or more initially unrelated recordings