When Frank Zappa Produced an Album....he did it the only way possible, the Frank way...
Musicians

* Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards, vocals, arranger, producer, main performer, assistant
* Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals, soloist
* Patrick O'Hearn – wind, bass guitar
* Scott Thunes – vocals, Minimoog, synthesizer, bass guitar
* Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals, guitar
* Ray White – guitar, vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
* Moon Unit Zappa – vocals
* Ed Mann – percussion
* Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals
* Ike Willis – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
* Arthur Barrow – bass guitar
* Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals, harmony vocals, harmony
* Brad Cole – piano
* Roy Estrada – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony, bass guitar
* Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals, harmony vocals
* Thana Harris – vocals, harmony
* Steve Vai – guitar, soloist, fills
* Dweezil Zappa – soloist, guitar
* George Duke – keyboards, vocals, piano
* Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals, falssetist, harmony vocals, harmonica

Farhad...breathe...relax (the comment reads like your about to hyperventilate!) Now...calmly & clearly - read the following:

- Portishead's first album, Dummy - was ten years in development previous to it's release (in the mind of its major musical contributor: Adrian Utley)

- To say he's not part of Portishead, is to say you're not part of this online community:

"Portishead are Beth Gibbons, Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow. This is the Official Home to Portishead" - from their Myspace (he even has his own section of the official Portishead Forum!)

You fail maths or something?

How is a 3 year interval between Dummy and Portishead indicative of any possible release almost 14 years later? I think it's over and done with especially after I saw the 1998 performance at Roseland NYC.

And am sorry but Portishead is Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons. As far as I know Adrian contributed on Dummy, but he isn't even recognized as a full member by the label.

For anyone not in the know, Portishead's last album came out in 1998, the took a long hiatus, and only came back to perform as a group in Feb 2005, stating that they are indeed working on a new album, they since have added a few new songs on their MySpace, but they have been dismissed as doodles and not actual album work by Geoff Barrow. So the wait goes on.

Some of my friends watched this from Barrow, Alaska. Barrow was far enough North towards the "Midnight Sun" that you could peek over the top of the North Pole and see the event.