Fun fact: Tina Turner and the Ikettes do the backing vocals on the studio version. Apparently Tina got very excited when she nailed the really quick part. She played a bit of the song for Ike and he said "What is this shit?"

@Grithron2

11 ай бұрын

And demanded she not be credited in the album jacket!

@FelizJesusbirth

11 ай бұрын

Wow, didn't know that part! @@Grithron2

This is pretty funny. I'm 70 years old and have been listening to Zappa since 1966. I've seen and appreciated a lot of your reactions esp. with Lex. You tend to analyze lyrics and take things literally. Zappa was a very serious composer: his music was often extremely difficult and he demanded precision. At the same time, he liked to entertain through absurd ideas, social commentary, sexual humor, etc. His general philosophy was "Anything can happen, at any time, anywhere, and for no particular reason". You might not understand what he's about with a few songs, but that's OK. Better to have heard Zappa and be confused than never to have heard him at all. I hope you can keep going on your path.

I read that someone asked Zappa if this song was about wanting to get away from the hectic stressful life of touring. Zappa replied “It’s a song about dental floss.”

Brad, your reaction was priceless and very funny. There's a ridiculously deep Zappa rabbit hole that will astound you. You've done a great job with your channel...continued success you you, Lex, and amazing Jack!

Great googley moogley. Nice to see your reaction Brad to one of my favorite FZ tunes. Can still here my friends from 45 years ago echoing “Get a cup a coffee” when we’d listen to FZ tapes on road trips. Serious composer/ usually non-serious lyricist [though his 1966 song Trouble Every Day ain’t silly and sadly seems to forever be pertinent and on point]. Rock on Brad, rock on 🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼

Cosmik debris is a must must must😮

Yeah, Frank was a real freak out just like us!

He's having fun at our expense! We're the jomoks that he's making fun of with our illogical and Irrational lives! Unfortunately he's right! And this also includes himself! We do stupid thins all of the time!

Zappa🤘❤️ thats frank bending the guitar

Zappa! 😂

Zappa was genius funny brilliant guitarplayer❤

Finally a Zappa song for Lex with guitar work

Well, they didn't cut it short, that was the next song starting :)

You've come a long way Brad... a few years ago your brain would have just shut off, but you hung in there lol. I saw Frank in concert two times.

Ha ha! They didn't cut it short, they were going into the next song. Usually they would string almost all of the songs together when they played live. And, yes, you had to be a bad MFer to be in Zappa's band. Band members would come and go over the years. They were all so good and they were always funny people who played great and had a sense of humor on stage.

omg, your facial expressions are gold!

You have come into your own as a reactor! I have been enjoying your efforts for some time and can see how much you have upped your game. Keep it up and continue to grow. If you stay on this trajectory you will soon rule the internet. Can’t wait!

Frank was . . . . . different . . .

The album version of Montana features Tina Turner and the kittens doing the backup vocals.

Makes me want to go to Montana and check out the dental floss bushes. I always suspected they existed.

He is growing dental floss. He is a dental floss rancher. Frank believed humor does belong in music.

This is one of my favorite zappa cuts. I play it any time i am leaving for montana.

@carojayess1723

11 ай бұрын

Do you go to Montana to check on your dental floss? 🧐

@sammyholloway334

11 ай бұрын

@@carojayess1723 i wish

That's Ruth!

Silly yes, but the music was top notch. He was a serious musician. He wrote all his music on paper, except the improvisations. He wasn't particularly fond of lyrics, so that was the humor aspect of his music. He wrote pop songs, rock, jazz, doo-wop, modern classical pieces for orchestras, and he was an acomplished guitar player. He was a planet on his own, and didn't let anyone tell him what to do.

@stevedotwood

11 ай бұрын

@@Frunobulax74 Thanks for the info

LSD was a factor in 60's and seventies music.This was music to trip by.

@teletoonfan

3 ай бұрын

Frank never did drugs or alcohol...

Really glad you got a live version most of zappas stuff specifically sounds way better on stage in my opinion. And yea for as silly as it they’re all insane musicians it’s the great duality of all his weird stuff lol and they went into completely other song seamlessly at the end. Probably duprees paradise

Master of disaster ❤ you never hear a normal lyric or music thats what i love with zappa

When I first heard this, I was left scratching my head and laughing. But having a closer look, the guy, while eccentric out of his mind is a great musician. Very entertaining, for sure!!

I was laughing so hard when I saw your reaction but it was perfectly fine for someone hearing them for the first time. Great musicians and they have made so many different kinds of music.. You have to do more reactions!

Try Frank Zappa's "Dirty Love", "Dinah-Moe Hum", and "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Nanook Rubs It"

i'd have loved seeing Lex react to this.

Zappa is not interested in whether his audience is comfortable, he was a genius musician

Put down of hippies wanting to get back to the land.

Alot of Frank's songs are an acquired taste, but there is never denying his brilliant guitar playing.

Frank Zappa was the most skilled musicianr and the biggest troll at the same time

Early use of Hemp fibers were relegated to mundane uses such as waxed dental floss. So he's growing weed that doesn't get you high, but providing an essential product for dental health...

Ah, crap -we need LEX AFTER DARK!❤ No amount of cut-off denim nonsense will make you cool, bro - you're as straight as it gets.

BTW: Zappa's lyrics about sex and other naughty things were publicly criticized as inspiring youth to take part in awful things like that. So he asked an interviewer if kids would get cleaner teeth if he made a song about dental floss. Voila.

Sorry to be late to the party. A drummer once told Frank that the composition was too easy... Frank wrote "the black page". Time signatures were all over the place to screw with the drummer.

@johnwick5674

4 ай бұрын

That was the drummer Terry Bozzio

Also cheepnis

Personally I like Dynamo hum

To me Frank was always making fun of lyrics kinda proving they didn't have to make sense when backed up by incredible sound. Lyrics are secondary. Nice if they work but they don't have to. Always enjoyed seeing him.

Try Zappa : Dinah Moe Hum . Very heavily implies xxx but never actually says it.

@Grithron2

11 ай бұрын

He's already done it.

Frank can the USA....ironi❤

Do Bobby brown next

Frun Fact: Frank Zappa considered running for president in the 80s but he decided not to.

lol I think you are 20-30% there now.. I bet you get it before long.

Welcome to the Zappa universe 🙂

Brad, can I interest you in a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers?

Why is your voice so high

Frank was talking about growing weed think of as mental foss.

**** Bud you need to lighten up trying to understand the stories. They are just for fun. The music is what is important to Frank. He was a serious composer and had some of the best musicians in his band.

The album version is much better...features Tina Turner on backing vocals.

It's just a very silly song...

*@Frunobulax74* Hope you find this post. YT deleting everything.

How long did it take you to memorize your fake Analysis? 😂😂😂

Horrible