denny walley

Early 2003, Denny Walley started playing with The Magic Band. They played some concerts in April, 2003, and continued in November.

June 2003, he lead the Zappa Corner concerts at the Umeå Internationella Kammarmusik Festival that took place from 2003/06/09 to 2003/06/15. The Zappa Corner band did two concerts.

Denny Walley also performed as a special guest with Big Eyed Beans From Venus, a Beefheart tribute band.

	geronimo black: geronimo black (1) (1972, lp, universal city recs) - feat. various ex-mothers of invention
	zappa / beefheart / mothers: bongo fury (21) (1975, lp, usa, discreet)
	frank zappa: joe's garage act I (28) (1979, lp, usa, zappa records)
	frank zappa: joe's garage acts II & III (29) (1979, 2lp, usa, zappa records)
	denny walley: who do / tiny tattoo (198?, 7", usa, tee-fur tones 101) - feat.vinnie colaiuta, ed mann, tommy mars
	geronimo black: welcome back (2) (1980, lp, usa, helios recs) - feat. various ex-mothers of invention
	the grandmothers: grandmothers (1) (1981, lp, ger, line records 6.24636 ap) - feat. various ex-moi
	robert williams: buy my record (1981, 12", usa, a & m records sp-12401) - feat. various zappa & beefheart alumni
	frank zappa: tinseltown rebellion (30) (1981, 2lp, usa, barking pumpkin)
	frank zappa: shut up'n play yer guitar (31) (1981, lp, usa, barking pumpkin)
	frank zappa: shut up 'n play yer guitar some more (32) (1981, lp, usa, barking pumpkin)
	frank zappa: return of the son of shut up 'n play yer guitar (33) (1981, lp, usa, barking pumpkin)
	frank zappa: you are what you is (34) (1981, 2lp, usa, barking pumpkin)
	frank zappa: shut up 'n play yer guitar - box set (1981, 3lp, eur, cbs)
	robert williams: late one night (1982, lp, usa, a & m records amlh 64889) - feat.bruce fowler, arthur barrow, denny walley
	the grandmothers: lookin' up granny's dress (2) (1982, lp, us, rhino records rnlp 804) - feat. various ex-moi; incl.zappa compositions
	michael ward: emergency to order (1984, 12", usa, secret records 6521) - feat. ed mann, ray white, denny walley
	frank zappa: thing-fish (41) (1984, 3lp, usa, barking pumpkin) (uncredited, "the meek shall inherit nothing")
	frank zappa: guitar (50) (1988, 2cd, usa, ryko)
	frank zappa: you can't do that on stage anymore vol.1 (51) (1988, 2cd, usa, ryko)
	frank zappa: you can't do that on stage anymore vol.3 (54) (1989, 2cd, usa, ryko)
	1991 frank zappa- saarbrucken 1979
	frank zappa: you can't do that on stage anymore vol.4 (57) (1991, 2cd, usa, ryko)
	1991 frank zappa- any way the wind blows
	1992 frank zappa- at the circus (guitar, vocals, slide guitar)
	frank zappa: you can't do that on stage anymore vol.6 (59) (1992, 2cd, usa, ryko)
	the grandmothers: a mother of an anthology (1993, cd, us, one way records ow 28880) = compilation + extra tracks
	snarfel: thirty years of andy cahan (1995, cd, usa, hamana records) - feat. various ex-moi
	various artists: the music of captain beefheart (1996, cd ,swe, uae) - feat. morgan ågren, denny walley, jimmy ågren, mats öberg; all compositions by don van vliet
	denny walley: spare parts (1) (1997, cd, swe, ultimate audio entertainment uae disc 5) - feat.mats & morgan; incl.frank zappa compositions
	captain beefheart & his magic band: grow fins (1999, 5cd-box, usa, revenant records revenant 210)
	captain beefheart: the dust blows forward (1999, 2cd, usa, ??) - anthology including one unissued track
	southern fried- little taste of southern fried (guitar)
	frank zappa: halloween (71) (2003, dvda, usa, dts entertainment 69286-01101-9-9)
	the magic band: back to the front (2003, cd, uk, atprcd 7) - all compositions by don van vliet
	the magic band: live in concert & crow's milk (2004, dvd, uk, subdiva) - all compositions by don van vliet
	the magic band: 21st century mirror men (2005, cd + dvd, uk, proper records) - all compositions by don van vliet
	frank zappa: trance-fusion (2006, cd, usa, zappa records)
	various artists: the frank zappa aaafnraa birthday bundle (2006, itunes, -) - feat. frank, moon, dweezil, ahmet & diva zappa
	jimmy carl black: where’s the $%&§#@’ beer? (2007, cd, usa, crossfire publications 9508-2) - feat.various mothers of invention

denny has covered a couple of zappa tunes on a title called spare parts. (uae,uae disc 5)

denny walley performed on the last night of zappa's universe performing the blues version of "bamboozled by love" (nov. 10,1991). he and his wife "janet the planet" (yes from baby snakes movie) were seen at the night of zappa music at lincoln center in feb. 1993 (i saw them, they were 3 seats over from me). (source: my eyes & ears)
apparently denny runs a recording studio in the atlanta, ga area - chamblee i think. a neighbor of mine is moses mo of mothers finest and is in contact with denny once in a while.
currently (april '95) denny is over in sweden on some captain beefheart reunion tour or something.

i saw him live on stage at the fasching in stockholm, sweden on the 4th of april 1995. he was playing slide guitar in a beefheart cover band (with the swedish singer freddie wadling as beefheart). the two swedish zappa's universe players, morgan agren and mats oberg, were also in the band. i know the band rehearsed for one week and played two shows. it was an unbelievably good band, and very, very popular.

denny is running mgm scenery works shop. not a recording studio. the performance in sweden was a "tribute" that started up on the 1st of april 1995 in umea combined with art-exhibition with a dozen of his paintings. second concert was on april 2nd and third in stockholm april 4th. also in the band were jimmy aagren on guitar and rolf hedqvist on bass. morgan will probably release some of the stuff on a cd later this year.

peter öberg (peterobe@vbtn.sr.se) sez:
guitarist denny walley played a show at the ume_ jazz festival in sweden on the 26th of october (1996). ex. zappa sideman walley had put together a band that included drummer morgan +gren and keyboardist mats +berg (both ex. zappa's universe) plus three other young musicians.
they performed rhythm&blues classics as mannish boy, i can't be satisfied, diddy wah diddy...the last songs in the regular set were suicide chumpand bamboozled by love, two zappa songs that denny used to sing when he was touring with frank in the fall of '78.
the only encore was china pig performed by denny alone. (the original version of this captain beefheart song appears on the trout mask replica album).

arthur said:
denny and janet the planet were also present at the ensemble moderne show in new york in april 1996. ensemble moderne performed 'the girl in the magnesium dress', 'get whitey', g spot tornado, and 'dog/meat'.

from: per wikstrom (uae@com.itv.se)
ultimate audio entertainment - http://www.morganagren.com/
mats/morgan "live": this album was recorded during the bands latest tour and is jam-packed with knock-yer-socks-off performances. this year mats/morgan celebrate 20 years of being a musical entity, and to celebrate this they enbarke on yet another tour. if you have your way through stockholm on february 27-28 (2001), we are having a release party at fasching, and you're invited!!. guests include denny walley, ali askin, todd yvega, and the ever so amazing artis the spoonman!