Project/Object
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Project/Object is a band that plays the music of Frank Zappa. The band is named after Zappa's own "Project/Object," wherein he repeated a series of spoken and musical themes over the course of his entire 30-year career, an idea he termed "conceptual continuity."
The band was formed by guitarist André Cholmondeley in the early 1990s and its focus is exclusively reinterpreting the music of Zappa, usually by arranging the songs in new ways, creating spontaneous interludes with references to current events slipped in, and featuring long passages of guitar-based improvisation.
Project/Object have released two albums so far and are often on tour; the lineup changes, but they often feature members of Zappa's orchestra, including Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Denny Walley, Mike Keneally and Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
The band kicked off their 2006 Mission Accomplished tour in Philadelphia, PA on April 12, 2006, and played all over the United States. The bass player for this tour, Dave Johnson, did an incredible job on the Jack Bruce/Zappa number "Apostrophe" at the Atlanta show on April 29, 2006.
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In 2003, ex-Project/Object members Rick Bartow (P/O bassist), James "Spackle" Boland (P/O driver), Jeffrey "Boxy" Breedlove (P/O keyboardist), John "Mumbo" Cochran (P/O drummer), Wes Paich (P/O drummer), Jordan Shapiro (P/O keyboardist) formed the band Project Reject. They continue to record and sometimes feature Robert "Seahag" Mangano (P/O stunt guitarist).
