Album of the Day

The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, by Frank Zappa (1991): The story of Zappa's last (1988) touring band is legendary. After putting together a big band full of top quality talent (including a young Mike Keneally, taking over the Steve Vai "stunt guitar" role), the group only made it through some gigs in Europe and the American east coast before it imploded.* The rest of the tour was cancelled, thus is was, literally, the best band most people never heard in their lives. The group was, however, well documented on CD, with three albums (covering 5 discs) representing the doomed tour. This 2-disc set is devoted to older Zappa material and a few oddball covers.

* More details can be found in Keneally's tour diary.