As a youth My friends and I memorized "Billy the Mountain" and performed it on demand

I love these performances so much. With that being said, during Franks solo on King Kong, you can faintly hear some long crazy sustained playing from Ian, Bunk and Motorhead. I just wish their saxes weren’t so buried in the mix and hard to hear. I guess it’s more about the quality of the recording in the 60s, but I’d love to hear their playing more upfront with Franks solo. Those sax players made this era so special

Thé Frank solo with the many bass notes is him playing through an Octivider, which allowed him to add another layer, down one octave.

@theopinionatedhippie470

26 күн бұрын

Thank you.

The claim that Frank broke up Mothers because they couldn’t play the music he wanted to write , I never bought in to that It had to have been purely financial This band ; which I always suspected , could play as good as any line up that followed And now we have the proof This is an awesome release

@paulayers1111

29 күн бұрын

It was totally financial. I think there were also quotes where Frank admits it being financial. Something about seeing Duke Ellington’s big band touring and realizing that maybe he couldn’t afford so many members

What bugs me about “Hungry Freaks” is that they don’t sing the lyrics as proper, the second chorus usually remained as instrumental, but here it’s repeated and then they don’t sing the final verse. As far as the Duke, FZ apparently still just had theme C written, other parts coming next year. But he already had the idea of soloing over Tripp’s drums. As on the BWS. And the ending of take 1, take note of the stacked parallel fourths. FZ was quite into quartal harmony or quartal voicings, but I guess he must’ve realised that it didn’t necessarily work as he expected. It’s nice to have the 60s live version of “Khaki Sack”, as I’m not convicted the horn-less rearrangement on Funky Nothingness constituted an addition by subtraction. But then FZ was a perfectionist and he’s on record saying that he wasn’t satisfied with the original MOI horns in terms of how it sounded together. Still, the amplified saxes gave FZ’ music an extra edge, certainly Bunk and Ian could both tap very well into the avant-jazz madness and play bloody loud too via the transducers and Maestro Woodwind units.

What's with the box set they mention in the liner notes 🙏🇬🇧

Just sampled "Khaki Sack" on KZread: the best 10:14 of my day!

The day I planned to pre-order the 5 vinyl package it ended up selling out, so unless they release a standard variant later, in order to get the whole show on vinyl you've gotta look to scalpers on discogs. I was trying to listen to at least the first set when it released to streaming the 21st as I wanted just a little impetus to push me over the edge to pre-order, but I couldn't even finish the set before it sold out haha. I was born after Zappa died, so I wouldn't know, but did Zappa ever have problems with scarcity when it came to selling his records in your experience? I think it was only just this year that they started to finally sell out some of the vintage stock that they had left over in the Zappa warehouse, and they are still selling the same leftover stock of Civilization Phaze III from Barking Pumpkin Records. I'm just hoping there's a non-limited edition release of the full show on vinyl like the 1998 US Show which had a standard release alongside the limited set.