clxv. BARROW, Arthur (1952- )
Hello Tomorrow (1998)
AB, all instruments
(2:30)
from AB3.
After graduating from North Texas State in 1975 with a degree in Composition, it only took Arthur a few more years to pass the audition for Frank Zappa.
He worked for FZ for about five years, and became the "clonemeister" -- rehearsing the band eight to ten hours a day, five days a week, with Zappa coming in later, after the band had the music down tight.
He plays bass on such iconic albums as Joe's Garage, Tinsel Town Rebellion, the "Shut Up" guitar box set, You Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late and Man From Utopia -- in addition to dubbing new bass parts for the '68 albums, Money and Cruising [ugh] ...
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In addition to his solo projects, he has also composed the music for at least four silent films -- notably Greta Garbo's first American film, Torrent (1926), and Keaton's The Cameraman (1928) ...
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A bouncy, slightly polytonal melody is played by a bright piano, accompanied by bass and drums. Halfway through he adds a glockenspiel into the mix. It's a bit Zappa-like (and why not?) and ends on a major chord!
He thanks:
Richard Feynman
Albert Einstein
Igor Stravinsky
Béla Bartók
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Jimi Hendrix
and all of the fine folks at JPL, NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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