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@kosta305

Жыл бұрын

Check those fake reactors

@ottohesslein3230

Жыл бұрын

One of the background singers was Tina Turner.

@kosta305

Жыл бұрын

Tina Turner and shit ugly Zappa were boring assholes and their music sucked 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jesseodell4031

5 ай бұрын

You should review purple lagoon live from the Palladium NYC...one of my favorite performances by Zappa

I'm 64 and have been listening to Zappa and the mothers since 72. Bla bla bla, I love watching reactors as they comprehend this genre. Never fails to bring a smile at the beginning and then the digging in and concentrating on the music. Love it. I love your reactions and I hope you keep going. LOTS OF MATERIAL!

@kennethmardis2132

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 68 been listening since the same time as you. Never gets old.

@moseskelly19

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethmardis2132 69 no pun Listen since ever And somehow i Agree the reactions are magic peace bro Keep listening

@prestonburton8504

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely!

@albertfoutraque7514

Жыл бұрын

love you Brian!!!!! Let's move to Montana soon!

@mauicesmith1762

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more sir, I'm only 66!

"That solo is everything I want to be in life." Truer words have never been spoken.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

:)

@Thewanderer_378

11 ай бұрын

Toss up that and Inca Roads 😅

Nice to find reactors NOT pausing and losing the flow of the song. Great job

Two months ago my life was changed when I finally got into Frank Zappa period in two months I bought every single one of his albums and I’m completely losing my mind. It’s the most complex intricate powerful weird bizarre wild freedom that I’ve ever experienced

@kentclark6420

3 жыл бұрын

Must've cost thousands!

@robertnshine

3 жыл бұрын

Must’ve won the lottery! Good first purchase though! 🤣🤣👍🏼

@philt4346

2 жыл бұрын

Just adding my appreciation of the awesomeness of your achievement.

@rockmason9765

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the world of Zappa! He still blows my mind all these years later! So much enjoyment from his music, my fav era.. early to mid 70,s.

@christianugolini8493

2 жыл бұрын

welcome to this crazy world! Been here since I was 16, I'm 65 now ... it's the music of my life The more you listen, the more you will find it extraordinary!

Frank Zappa on guitar and lead vocals. Background vocals by Tina Turner and the Ikettes, "Yippy-Aye-O-Ty-Ay" by Kin Vassy.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Shoutout to Kin!

@jamesoconnor9027

3 жыл бұрын

Cool, Thanks Mundraubritter

@martyjansing2675

3 жыл бұрын

By the time this was recorded one of the original Ikeetes had moved on with Delaney Bramlett and became Bonnie Bramlett. The two along with Bobby Whitlock formed Delaney&Bonnie and Friends. Friends over the years they were a group included Dave Mason, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, King Curtis, Duane and Greg Allman, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix. This is one Super Group you need to explore along with all the offspring they produced...Derek and the Dominos, Madmen and Englishmen....

@martyjansing2675

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, yea, Zappa is 'groovy', you need to check out his brother by a different mother...Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band...Click-Clack...Beat Club live 1972.

@keepinitreal121

3 жыл бұрын

To answer your question by the time of this recording the mother's had been disbanded and Zappa was using musicians that were found in the jazz and classical realms. People that could read & understood theory. Over the years hundreds of musicians had worked with Zappa.

Frank Zappa's guitar solo on Montana is the definition of that 80's word gnarly.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Gnarly indeed!

Zappa hired the musicians he required for whatever sound he was going for at the moment. He broke up the original Mothers of invention because they couldn't play his music, which was becoming more and more bizarre and complex. He reformed the Mothers several times. And Each incarnation was great in it's own way. He hired Flo and Eddie from the Turtles at one point and his music became a little more Raunchy and hilarious. If you want some great perspective, read a book called Freak Out, My life with Frank Zappa by Pauline Butcher. Watch his recent documentary as well

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joey! Appreciate your input!

@Telephonebill51

Жыл бұрын

I saw him live at The Vogue in Indy in the early 80's; he played nothing anyone knew, just jammed weird shit for two hours.

Zappa found great musicians and made them virtuosos. The band was like a crucible for musicians. Could they survive the Central Scrutinizer’s audition? Zappa auditions were legendary.

You're right about working out the songs. I've seen many videos of Zappa working with the musicians, and he was pretty demanding. When you were in his band, and he was preparing to go on a tour, he used to work with the band nine hours a day, six days a week. He was fanatical. But to be in his band was like going to musical graduate school.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

I bet! By the time he’s done with you you’re gonna be your best self!

that album rocked my world for over 40yrs and still love it. and yes Frank is lead guitar as well.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

Talk about complexity, here's what Zappa said about the Ikettes trying to get one little part right: ”It was so difficult, that one part in the middle of the song "Montana", that the three girls rehearsed it for a couple of days. Just that one section. You know the part that goes "I'm pluckin' the ol' dennil floss..."? Right in the middle there. And one of the harmony singers got it first. She came out and sang her part and the other girls had to follow her track. Tina (Turner) was so pleased that she was able to sing this that she went into the next studio where Ike was working and dragged him into the studio to hear the result of her labor. He listened to the tape and he goes, ‘What is this shit?’ and walked out".

@davehagi9883

3 жыл бұрын

Was that before or after he punched her.

@devolve42

3 жыл бұрын

@@davehagi9883 Yes.

@davehagi9883

3 жыл бұрын

@@devolve42 Spot on devolve.

@tfritzon

3 жыл бұрын

From the same session:

@ronwilliams6565

2 жыл бұрын

Ike was a drug addict..what the he'll did he know.

Frank was an incredible composer and orchestrator. So many chords and textures goin on. RIP Frank

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

You can say that again Don!

Zappa is so perfect for my short attention span. It's always changing and going to unexpected places. And then there is a police officer, but in pink, playing the kazoo. What?

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Lol never thought about that. Zappa = ADD music!

It's true he wrote all the music out for the players BUT only the guitars solos are improvised. It was a point Frank made that his solos were different from performance to performance.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! That’s awesome!

@lukeizabelle2131

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frunobulax74 AAAFNRAA😂🤣

@cravinbob

6 ай бұрын

Frank over dubbed live performance with a studio rendition often for LP release

Frank wrote every part out on paper and arranged the piece as well. He would play Guitar live and choreograph the stage show. He employed and paid the members of the recording sessions and the touring band. He auditioned every band member and picked out some of the greatest musicians from oblivion as nobodies and gave them the basis for a career in music once they left his band. The list is enormous and surprising google it.........

This album "Overnite Sensation" is a good starting point as the songs on it are more approachable to the listener who is unfamiliar with Frank's work. Other albums fom around this time such as "Apostrophe", "One Size Fiits All", "Bongo Fury" , "Roxy and Elsewhere" and "Zoot Allures" are likewise recommended. I have been a Zappa fan since 1970 and love most of his stuff but I realise he is an acquired taste. If you are willing to approach his music with an open mind and a spirit of adventure there are great rewards in store.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! We’ve been hearing a lot about overnite sensation lately. Appreciate you watching!

@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus

2 жыл бұрын

Zoot allures is definitely a "veteran" zappa album lol

@donnazasgoat2274

2 жыл бұрын

That's how I discovered FZ- through someone giving me a copy of Overnite Sensation cuz they hated it. I loved it. And who doesn't love hearing the Ikettes sing back-up??

@kerbygator

Жыл бұрын

I recommend the Sheik Yerbuti album too....a very good starter album.

He did have bands that he played with, but if he needed a certain sound or found someone vocally or instrumentally he liked, he'd bring them in for recording and maybe even take them on the road. He LOVED odd people and collected them. Some were seasoned musicians but others were just weird people he enjoyed. If during composition he needed a certain sound, he'd call up whomever and bring them in. He was a master among masters.

haha glad you guys liked it The solos are always improvised but most everything else is written out, he was also a master at exploiting the natural talents of his bandmates; some of the greatest musicians in the world played in Zappa's bands

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! They’re all sick

Mom: "Zappa? That can't be his real name!" "Yeah Mom that's his real name" "You keep listening to him you may need therapy!' Needless to say she was not charmed by my Zappa Crappa poster.

@justaguy2365

3 жыл бұрын

I have the exact same poster on the wall behind my toilet. I have morning conversations with Frank

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@jamesoconnor9027

3 жыл бұрын

That's the poster with him sitting on the toilet? I put that poster up in my room, it was gone the next day. I have never looked but I think the guy singing "Yippey eye yo ty yay" sounds like the drummer Terry Bozzio ( did he play drums on this album?

@bzbzob

3 жыл бұрын

That is like when my Mom walked in and I was listening to Dynamo Humm. What the hell IS this Bobby?? Uh.... ZAPPA?

@dana_brooke_27

3 жыл бұрын

@@bzbzob That was a song you would lower the volume if you wanted to keep the album in my house. She had already broken George Carlin. Lol

Now THAT'S a bop AND a whole vibe

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

You said it!

I'm so happy you young people are discovering Zappa !

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

We're loving us some Zappa! :)

Never got to see him live, but friends tell me it was a great experience... many players, all totally into Frank’s shenanigans and role-playing tunes.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Must’ve been amazing seeing him live!

@allengator1914

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark I saw Zappa and the Mothers live at the Fort Wayne Coliseum in the 70s. I'll never forget that show.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

@@allengator1914 We believe it!

@allengator1914

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark The other band that played at the concert that night was ZZ Top.

@mikeklesic7535

2 жыл бұрын

It was

And yes just about every guitar solo that you ever hear is Frank Zappa himself playing!!

Frank was a genius with music and a comedian with lyrics, he often said: " lyrical content is there for those who need it, I do that for the fans because they want something to memorize so they can sing along while they tap their foot, and that's great."

@Einnor084

3 жыл бұрын

He shoulda taken lyric writing, a lil mo seriously! ( wink, wink ) LOL!!!

@lukeizabelle2131

2 жыл бұрын

Love his humor😂

@kosta305

Жыл бұрын

Shit ugly zappa was a genius of boring assholes

FYI: Tina Turner is one of the backing vocalists on this track, doing those crazy post solo parts.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@timcardona9962

3 жыл бұрын

@@HakanTunaMuzik It took em a long time to get that middle part right and they were quite pleased when they finally nailed it!

@sns2112

3 жыл бұрын

And the story goes that Tina was so proud of her work that she showed Ike....who said "What is this shit?"

@stevedotwood

3 жыл бұрын

@@sns2112 and Tina decided to cook soup for the whole band

@jamdfig7878

3 жыл бұрын

I heard elsewhere that Ike and Tina didn't want to be credited on the album with their real names because their opinion of the music being very bizarre.

I get a Wizard of Oz feeling when the ladies sing.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

We could see that!

I remember a lot of the acid heads listened to Zappa..lol...He was an accomplished guitarist.though.....his lyrics were hilarious...lol 😆

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Dude is crazy!

The next music trip must be funkadelic. Trip "Let s take it to the stage"

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

We love the funk!

Frank Zappa is an acquired taste. But once you get the full picture, you can’t help but be impressed. He put out a massive amount of music, in radically different styles. And was a very unusual and excellent guitar player.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

We’re already impressed!

@frankbreuer8849

Жыл бұрын

Lovely words. Spot on. Acquired taste? Yes. Impressed? Very much so. Very unusual and excellent guitar player?100% Couldn't be more accurate. Thanks bud.

you should check out Inca Roads by him, especially the live version from "A Token of His Extreme". It's on youtube.

@jamdfig7878

3 жыл бұрын

I have to disagree, use the studio version of Inca Roads off "One Size Fits All." My personal preference, not saying the other one isn't great.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@goldenboy140

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamdfig7878 nah. The live version is better.

@btfink

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldenboy140 actually the guitar solo from the album is a live recording, and voted one of the top guitar solos ever recorded...so I’d say a\one size fits all version is the best. Though token of his extreme was a greate live performance

@kfleetwood

3 жыл бұрын

Both versions are good, but to me One Size Fits All doesn’t have as much energy. There are other versions too that I like, but it all depends on which one you’re use to hearing.

I love this song. I have an old friend that lives pretty far from me now. Whenever we get on the phone we'll talk in Zappa lyrics. Anyone listening to us thinks we're crazy, and we kinda are, but we have fun with it. As for the band members. Zappa has had lots of different guys go through the ranks over the years. Usually he'll have an audition call. One day it may be for guitar players, another day maybe drummers, or he might do several instruments on the same day. When Vinnie Colaiuta, awesome incredible drummer, went to audition for Zappa, I think he said during an interview there was like 50 dudes waiting in line to audition. Vinnie has played with everybody, Zappa, Jeff Beck, Sting, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Mark Isham, Tom Scott, Gino Vannelli, Juice Newton, Peabo Bryson, Al Stewart, Smokey Robinson, Tori Amos, Julian Lennon, Lee Ritenour, Barry Manilow ...and whole lot more. During audition he had to sight read a bunch of Franks music. At one point Frank stopped the audition and told him, 'I seriously doubt anyone will be able to turn in a better performance, but out of respect, I'll have to listen to some more of them'. He told him to go to a particular room and wait, where several others were already waiting. Vinnie said it was pretty intimidating.

@buddystewart2020

3 жыл бұрын

Here's a story from Steve Vai about Vinnies sight reading, from a rehearsal with Fanks band. "I'll tell you a really great Vinnie story. He's one of the most amazing sight-readers that ever existed on the instrument. One day we were in a Frank rehearsal, this was early '80s, and Frank brought in this piece of music called "Mo 'N Herb's Vacation." Just unbelievably complex. All the drums were written out, just like "The Black Page" except even more complex. There were these runs of like 17 over 3 and every drumhead is notated differently. And there were a whole bunch of people there, I think Bozzio was there." "Vinnie had this piece of music on the stand to his right. To his left he had another music stand with a plate of sushi on it, okay? Now the tempo of the piece was very slow, like "The Black Page." And then the first riff came in, [mimics bizarre Zappa-esque drum rhythm patterns] with all these choking of cymbals, and hi-hat, ruffs, spinning of rototoms and all this crazy stuff. And I saw Vinnie reading this thing. Now, Vinnie has this habit of pushing his glasses up with the middle finger of his right hand. Well I saw him look at this one bar of music, it was the last bar of music on the page. He started to play it as he was turning the page with one hand, and then once the page was turned he continued playing the riff with his right hand, as he reached over with his left hand, grabbed a piece of sushi and put it in his mouth, continued the riff with his left hand and feet, pushed his glasses up, and then played the remaining part of the bar." "It was the sickest thing I have ever seen. Frank threw his music up in the air. Bozzio turned around and walked away. I just started laughing."

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds intense!

@donnazasgoat2274

2 жыл бұрын

Hey dude, can I interest you in a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers? Or blot the bovine perspiration from your upper lip area? I use those lines on occasion and by now my fam recognizes it although my son and I are the only FZ fans.

In 1968 I first got hooked on "We're only in it for the money" with the Beatles parody cover of their Sgt. Peppers lp. Jimi Hendrix poised for a picture on the front cover.

One of my favourite ever guitar solos

.....New to your channel, and really enjoying it. Lots of reactions to songs/albums I don't see the rest of KZread paying much attention to, and while I appreciate your musical aesthetics, it's just fun to watch you getting into the music (reminds me of how me and my friends would retreat into a basement, put on new record and sit there nodding our heads to our "discovery.")...........BTW: very MUCH applaud you NOT talking your way through a song. Let music play, and then react (with an occasional exception to the "rule"). Kudos.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wayne! We appreciate your kind words!

''Fifty fifty'' off the same album has an incredible collaboration with French electric violinist Jean Luc Ponty. It's got a relentless drive as the song leaves the chorus into instrumentals with Frank winding it out near the end. Also, one of Jean Luc Ponty's jazz fusion albums from 1975 is ''Aurora'' I highly recommend it for all sorts of reasons.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome!

Loved your comment on his Guitar Solo! It truly is a Mind Melting Solo!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

Zappa reminds me of Donald Fagen in the studio, both perfectionist’s! Steve Lukather (guitarist for Toto) auditioned for Zappa when he was 17 and couldn’t read sheet music on-the-spot, so Frank had to let him go!

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Intense!

Charles Kindred Vassy was the vocal on Montana's Yippee Ty Oh Ay Aye. Napoleon Murphey Brock became that voice later on for live performances. Brock was vocal sax and flute as well in the band and one heck of a nice guy.

Zappa was way ahead of his time!!! And I love it!!👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

So do we! Thanks Fred!

That weird-fast singing is what I would call “Munchkin Music” - it’s sounds like a chorus of munchkins, basically making an already weird song even weirder. This was Master Class Zappa !

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Well said! Thanks Thomas!

@Matthew-ut6ed

3 жыл бұрын

You know it's Tina Turner and the Ikettes, right? The effect is achieved by recording the vocals at a lower pitch alongside slowed down musical tracks and then bringing everything back up to speed.

@thomascanfield9165

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matthew-ut6edThanks for filling me in, I never would have thought it was Tina.

FZ was so incredible...Composer of course, and guitarist as anyone...

Hell yeah, hope to see more Zappa reactions from you guys. Maybe I’ll finally get on the patreon

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks David! More just put out a reaction to Zomby Woof yesterday!

"Yippe yi yo, tiyay!" starts off sounding so confident, so exultant. But as the call repeats, tension and desperation creep in. In the end, it's more like whistling in the dark.

I've been trying since the 70s to figure out why I like this song so much, and I think I just now figured it out! Why do I like this song so much? I like this song so much because of how much I like to listen to it.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We like it because we’re all about dental hygiene

The backup singers on this song were Tina Turner and the Ikettes. After listening to the song Ike Turner demanded that Tina and the other singers receive no credits on the album cover or liner notes. He thought the music was awful and didn't want any association with it.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck that guy

@Pjaypt

3 жыл бұрын

It was not his call to do that! SOAB! 🤬

The man called his riffs air sculpture!!

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Love that!

so - what a treat for me. I was twelve when i heard my first zappa (no fm yet - just am paid placement). WHAT A TREAT - thank you guys! so special to me!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed Preston!

It's Kin Vassy at the end. Charles Kindred Vassy (August 16, 1943 - June 23, 1994) was a singer-songwriter, who in addition to his solo recordings also recorded with other artists, most notably Kenny Rogers, Frank Zappa and Elvis Presley.

This is my favorite album I saw Frank do this song live in Chicago

Frank generally toured material and worked it out live in front of an audience before he committed it to an album. So the officially released songs are typically whoever was in his touring band at the time. He also used a lot of live material as the basic tracks for his officially released material, sometimes with overdubs or edits. Also, a lot of his material is a result of the particular skill set of his band members, I.e. when Steve Vai was in the band, impossible guitar parts became more common in FZ’s songs. Zappa is a wonderfully deep rabbit hole. Enjoy.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Woahhh Steve Vai was in his band at one point? Idk if we could handle that

@oslafoirausuebutuoy5457

3 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark Yeah, look it up, Vai was a big fan of Zappa and he used to transcribe Zappa's songs by ear, that is how he ended up in his band.

This makes me so happy

I’m glad you are fans. FZ died in 1993 just before his 53rd birthday from progressive prostate cancer diagnosed too late. He has never used drugs, a music genius, composer extraordinaire. ANY album that you dare listen to will change your view about music and quite possibly eliminate from your music library all the crap you once “thought” was good. Composing since the late 50s, he has never settled with one band, one sound, one way of recording. You can hear the changes throughout his catalogue which Zappa Music continues releasing posthumously. One of my favorite tear-jerkers is “Watermelon In Easter Hay” (instrumental). Even his son, Dweezil, has a hard time playing through without some tears. Dweezil Zappa- a must see loving honor performance of the continuation of FZ’s mind bending catalogue.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Frank is the best

I just noticed, Dan looks like General Zod (Terence Stamp) in Superman I I. It's uncanny -- he gets that look when he listens to Frank's guitar solos. "Kneel before Zod!" Funny thing, Terence Stamp was referenced in " Waterloo Sunset" -- "Terry meets Julie." Zappa did this song at every show I saw him play, but I couldn't see him until December 1972 because I wasn't old enough to drive and the bus didn't go out to my suburb until then. Sob. I can still sing the falsetto chorus in my sleep. I'm pretty sure that high hollering on the fade-out is Ricky Lancelotti, the "Zombie Woof" lead vocalist, but there's some George Duke sounds in there too. Who knows? Zappa was full of misdirections and indiscretions.

Love seeing people react to Zappa. He was a true musical genius. As others have mentioned, his band (The Mother's of Invention), ended in 1975. After that Frank Zappa would hire musicians to be his band but they were employees, not band members as you normally see in Rock music. The people he hired got paid regular salaries even when they weren't performing on stage. Practicing or traveling, he paid them because he was their boss at the time.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Genius for sure!

One of the teachers when I was at Cornish played mallets with Zappa

Very cool, love from Czechia!

Gotta love a bit a Zappa. Check out Zombie Woof from the same album ... and everything else :)

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Zomby Woof coming soon :)

The band change frequently, but I could imagine the auditions

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

The must’ve been intense!

1973, one of the first Zappa LPs I bought!

"Overnight Sensation" '73. Dig. Peace on earth.

trop bien!!! impression d'écouter ce morceau avec des potes!!! moving to Montana soon

Loving your reactions this is how I got zappaized and so will you too

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stuart!

Like Fagen & Becker, Zappa recruited the best of the best to execute his music but he also toured a lot and had some guys stay with him for years on the road

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Best of both worlds!

live concerts- he was just perfection

Kin Vassy,s fadeout vocals are absolutely staggering...

Wrap ur brains around the fact this was recorded 1973 and listen to what was out then 😎 Genius doesn’t do him justice

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

That is super amazing

I'm having loads of fun watching you guys react to this Frank Zappa who I've been listening to since about 1974 I would say!! So I hear you talkin about the fact that Frank does write the sheet music for every single note that is played by the band!! There's a pretty funny story and I think there's interviews perhaps with either Steve Vai or Terry Bozzio who both played in Zappos band at one point about a song by the name of "Black Page"! The reason it was called black page is because the sheet music was so complex that it literally looked like a black page rather than separate notes!! Again if you really are interested in learning about Frank Zappa I would suggest the documentary called Zappa by director Alex Winters!!

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

We’ll definitely have to check out that documentary!

this has to be one of his very best

The groove behind this song is SICK!. Like many of his arrangements the bass line is key

@cravinbob

6 ай бұрын

This song is on video from the Roxy. Check it out and you see every member is the "key". Tom Fowler is on bass I believe.

Frank had his band and toured with them. It’s impossible to pick up players along the way. Can you imagine sight reading it!

all part of the band....the best of the best

Ah the memories..this was the first FZ album that was played to me by my old college friend (RIP Linda)..love this..haven't heard Montana for ages...ooh, i see Zomby Woof has popped up on the side bar..that'll be next then...thx guys

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken!

It bears repeating this better when you listen to the whole album over night sensation

So glad you get his music. I saw the clay animation of city of tiny lites ( 1979 ) when I was 18 back in 1984 and thought it was so brilliant both visually and musically, after this I just kept buying more albums. They'll never be anyone like Zappa ....

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Never!

Magnificent Guitar solo!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

And he could hear when somebody played a wrong note! Mothers were the group, members were changing. Occasionally he also hired orchestras like once the London Symphony Orchestra. "Strictly Genteel" (6:58) would be an experience... I think you would like a kind of "pop song" (and I don't think I have ever heard a reaction to it): "Call any vegetable". There are several versions. I suggest the live version from 1971 at the album "Just another band from L.A." (7:23)

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting! Thanks Erik!

@Einnor084

3 жыл бұрын

I woulda had 2 test him. Just 1 lil sharp note, just 2 c if he'd pick up on it. Azz long azz I wuz not fired, I'd go down 2 da carpet, n a fit of lafter, @ da wacky ability! Dayum!!!

😂. I love the lady’s reaction!! (Totally like “Uh, OK?”) I saw Zappa live in 1981 (yep, I’m old) and he played this. His guitar work is legendary and his lyrics are what? Otherworldly!? 😂. My father, who was born in 1935 and passed away 2 years ago, had Zappa’s first albums-Freak Out (the first “double album”) Absolutely Free, and We’re only In it For the Money (a “tribute” to Sgt. Pepper’s?) along with Hot Rats and more-so I grew up trying to make sense of songs like ‘Anal Retentive Calliope Music” and ‘Let’s Make the Water Turn Black.’ Frank’s brilliant mind had many strange, dark recesses. I’m glad I got to see him perform live. Good on you guys for taking on the ZAP! ❤️👍🏼🫡

I'm so happy watching this again. Oh you know what I mean

Everybody wanted to play with and sing with Zappa.

Frank produced and played some lead guitar on the Grand Funk Railroad album "Good singing good playing".

Because of your fantastic natural reaction I ordered book of Frank wrote by himself and DVD documentary "Zappa" you mentioned in one of your video. Just simply want to say to you that you are the best people who reacts on Zappa music. Thank you so much for every second spend with you. Funny, amazing, fantastic people you are.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow Greg, thanks so much; happy reading ♥️!

He had a core band with guest

I went to a Zappa concert (my only live viewing of Zappa) around 1984 (give or take). Zappa spent the entire concert literally directing his mini-orchestra with baton in hand. He would occasionally sit on a chair and play lead guitar, then back to directing orchestra. He spoke very little

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you got to see him!

I remember a zappa documentary, that featured Steve Vai, who recounted the story of a meeting with Frank, who asked him to come play for him, and his words were something along the lines of "are you gonna play what I tell you, and not be an ass hole about it?" Apparently the musicians that zappa hand picked didn't get much room to improvise because he was so intensely focused on what he wanted

@jasonritchie8475

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite zappa trax, btw 😉

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

That’s hilarious! Thanks Jason!

@jasonritchie8475

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 😘

My cousins turned me on to Zappa and this song. Took some time for me to appreciate and understand it....well this song I'm the Slime, and ZombiWoof became my favorites. I'm the Slime is very meaningful and deep and applicable even to current times. Plus it blew my mind that Tina Turner was on vocals and George Duke on the keyboards ...never knew they played rock of this type! I think that was Kin Vassey singing yippy iyo ki yay at the end of the song. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_(Frank_Zappa_song) Kin Vassey kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIyLlM-Lqpmoeso.html

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Zomby Woof coming soon!

Zomby Woof has one of my favorite guitar solos along with a thunder bass underneath it.

Zappa wrote all his music down as any composer would do but also enjoyed improvised solos. Not only did he solo on guitar but often had various members of his band take a solo. He actually coined the term freak out which was the title of his first album and if you read the liner notes on the original foldout album cover you will realize that “freaking out” was his terminology at the time for improvisation or what was known as jamming or soloing by jazz musicians. As a conductor Zappa also had many different hand signals that he used to vary performances. A hand signal could mean add a bar of some random chord or it could tell the drummer and rhythm section to play the next song as reggae or ska. Also notice Montana ends with an out chorus but many Zappa songs segue into the next song. Zappa has some songs with an amazing out chorus but many songs seem to end abruptly when played alone because they were actually connected musically to the following song. For this reason it is often better to listen to the album as a whole.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Zappa is impressive in all aspects!

I seem to recall this was recorded in Ike Turner's studio and the female backing vocalists were the Ikettes, including Tina Turner. They were paid $25 per hour.

Never mind the music which are all banger...the album cover art is worth the cost of the CD...absolutely outstanding.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

This album would be in my 3-albums-I-would-take-to-live-forever-on-a-desert-island.

Yes, this album came out in 1973. Tina Turner is on the background vocals.

The Mothers of Invention is Frank’s band which has many changing parts. The band changed completely in the 70s as opposed to the 60s

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

Frank Zappa always hired the best musicians around. Even though he was by all accounts a very demanding boss to work for, and he strictly banned drug use in his bands (a big deal in the '60s, '70s, and '80s), he always had a line at his door of the best in the world on whatever instrument they played begging for an audition.

By the time of this album Frank was more or less bringing in people to play pieces of his while also taking several different touring bands around who could play all his music, which was a HELLUVA ASK. There's a core group or two that were with him for years at a time, including Aynsley Dubar, George Duke, Ian and Ruth Underwood, but many of the players came and went in the period beginning in around 1973.

@SightAfterDark

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that's impressive!

This whole album is full of great hits......

Few people know this was recorded in Ike Turner's studio with Tina supplying backing vocals.

In the 1960s he maintained a full time band that had a constant core but some members switched in and out. In the 70s he had some phases where he maintained a band, and some where he hired studio musicians. In the 80s he hired as needed for albums or tours, but at the same time he started writing for orchestra and getting into computerized music. The different phases have differences in style as well.

Most don't know, that, the middle part that the Ikettes sing in ( I'm pluckin the o'l dental flosss....) was recorded at a slower speed, then, played back at regular speed to give it a higher pitch and tempo. It was also a challenging part for instruments at normal speed, as he had Tom Fowler on bass try to play it at one of the Roxy concerts, and, it sounded like he had a bit of difficulty towards the end, but it didn't kill him.

Ever since hearing this song as a teen, I sometimes witch my swerds around. I just think it's funny