Frank Zappa is one of a kind. Not everyone can take him. Great guitarist. Rip Frank.

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

ppl cant take him cuz his songs r terrible.

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

@Eric Furman hes a damn good player technically, but his songwriting is pretty awful. like cosmik debris, discharge party hats. songs like those r quite bad.lol

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

@Eric Furman its not like hendrix tho, i feel like jimi tried to make music tht really touches your soul. frank's doesnt even feel like REAL music, it feels farce and hard to take seriously.

@guilhermetonon7267

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffbuckley4453 steve vai played with frank zappa, man.. you know nothing. It´s just about your taste...

@guilhermetonon7267

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffbuckley4453 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIh5qK1_mbu5qJc.html

LOL, the looks on your faces listening to Frank for the first time was priceless... you had no clue what you were in for. ;)

@thepatriotfarmer3580

5 жыл бұрын

The music world lost Frank to cancer quite a few years ago now. He was a huge opponent of censorship in any form, but especially in music. The man released hundreds of albums...

@artflow7805

5 жыл бұрын

You are right

@Truthseeker1961

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, funny too even growing up in the 70's in Chicago you NEVER heard any heard any Zappa songs played on the radio...never...yet somehow we still all knew back in the day who Frank Zappa was, and had songs that had 'yellow snow' in it, etc.

@DukeRaul

5 жыл бұрын

their brains have been damaged now.

@wiz601

5 жыл бұрын

I know! Really, clueless but precious!!!!!

Frank Zappa was a very serious musician; he composed this, conducted the band, and played the ripping guitar solo. But he refused to conform to other people's idea of 'serious' music. I'm no Zappa expert, but I believe that's the point of these sorts of absurdist lyrics you'll find all over his catalogue.

@dornomac

5 жыл бұрын

I heard him mention something like the human ear really likes the sound of human voices in music, which is the only reason he wrote any lyrics for his songs. The music was the important part.

@JamesGreen-bf4jy

5 жыл бұрын

Thing Fish and Joe's Garage are very absurd. I love em

@bassman4632

5 жыл бұрын

@@JamesGreen-bf4jy thing fish gives me the heebbie jeebies

@markgarber3465

4 жыл бұрын

he was the true definition of an iconoclast.

@shiroumxm2052

4 жыл бұрын

he made very serious music tho..take a look at his ensamble moderno music

Interesting side note: All the backing vocals on "Over-nite sensation" are Tina Turner and the Ikettes.

@ZappaSheik

5 жыл бұрын

To quote Ike Turner " WHAT THE F*** IS THIS SH*T" Tina was really proud of her work.

@SpudDavenport

5 жыл бұрын

and the reason the girls were not credited on the album was because of Ike. Not a control-freak, no.

@bropous4265

5 жыл бұрын

@@ZappaSheik You are correct. Ike Turner: "What the F**K is this shit?????" Then, he went into the old stupid beating up your wife bullcrap. Sidenote: Frank Zappa was not a drinker, nor did he do drugs, and he had a loving wife and wonderful kids. This world went south when he passed from prostate cancer.

@MrMbws

5 жыл бұрын

On my birthday. Big fan here.

@pigdogindy

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrMbws On my birthday as well.

You’re right. The solo is badass. Frank was one of the best guitarists of all time and only his fans and guitar players know.

Watching these cats discover Zappa for the first time was priceless!

What's great here is that even though this material is now 45 years old, we can all see that you're both amused & befuddled at the same time. Same reaction as people had upon it's original release. Zappa showed everyone there was no limit to what musicality could mean. In rock, jazz, orchestral, electronic, whatever..... FZ was it.

@timkaufhold6163

5 жыл бұрын

Try the adventures of Gregory Peckery if you want to be bamboozled

@Blueiii

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree with this more.

Lol you just opened Pandora's box. Frank Zappa was his own genre. He firmly believed comedy belonged in music, but he was a very serious musician. True genius! I'd love to see more from you reviewing FZ. BTW, Frank wasn't the singer, he was the one talking. Frank wrote and conducted everything his bands played, and he was always the lead guitar player. Try Peaches En Regalia - a brilliant piece from 1969!

@jazoon7249

5 жыл бұрын

Also find a live performance to react to.

@GoodCorporateRobot

5 жыл бұрын

This one's epic:kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaWkmZN9f62Zkbw.html

@peterblood50

5 жыл бұрын

Haha that was a good way to put that, a "Pandora's box". Once you like Frank, there's no going back.

@gornoman

5 жыл бұрын

" Frank Zappa was his own genre." Perfectly stated. Says it all.

@stevedotwood

5 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, that one

"Inca Roads" is a good one for the next Frank Zappa song.

@goldenboy140

5 жыл бұрын

the "(A Token Of His Extreme)" version with the video. Best version of the song

@lightofday.dayofdarkness

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes, Inca Roads is a masterpiece

@allwinds3786

5 жыл бұрын

Dinamo hum

@robertraymond396

5 жыл бұрын

Inca Roads. Always my favorite to introduce people to Frank. The first song George Duke ever sang.

@ericwincentsen587

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertraymond396 That's the one I would suggest they should have done first.

"Watermelon in Easter Hay" , a Frank Zappa song if you just want to completely zone out.

@leperlord7078

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes Those guitar lps are epic

Frank Zappa is the man.. I own 63 of his albums. Love that you gave him a fair shot.

@wiganfan3373

5 жыл бұрын

I own 90+, The last great musical genius to live

@flyingardilla143

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, being a completist, I had to draw a line with Zappa - simply too many

Finally! A Frank Zappa reaction video. He is my favorite artist, composer, and guitarist of all time. Definitely look into more of his music. He has 100 official albums which include countless musicians who are considered the best of the best. You guys had a cool reaction and a fair evaluation. Zappa is more of an acquired taste. Check out Inca Roads. It's about the Nazca Lines in South America. George Duke is lead singer in that song.

Tina Turner was singing in the background. More Zappa please, Camarillo Brillo is excellent.

@SpaceAgeHamburger

5 жыл бұрын

I read in a couple of books that he hired the Ikettes including Tina and because Ike Turner was a dick could only pay them something like $20 per song, also both books said you can hear her bracelets in the background. But authors have been known to embellish a few details here and there

@wowwhywow

5 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceAgeHamburger Tina is singing at least on three occasions...Cosmik Debris...Uncle Remus from Apostrophe..and MAYBE...A BIG MAYBE on Dina-Moe Humm

@zwood1838

5 жыл бұрын

I read that it was Tina and the ikettes, it took 3 days to record it because it was difficult, one of the ikettes finally nailed her part. Tina and the other were able to finish after that. She was very proud of herself and her girls. Showed it to Ike who's response was "what is this shit"

One of my favorite FZ guitar solos. It's like a train going off the rails, while still being in the perfect spot at any given moment.

Inca Roads would be a great eye opener. It's on the One Size Fits All album. If you choose to go down this rabbit hole, there is no return! Great reaction by the way. You didn't think it was 'just silly' and that's important to be able to appreciate Zappa.

"The guy is clearly...obviously talented." lol! FZ was a genius...the greatest musical artist that I ever had the pleasure of seeing perform.

1. "AAAFNRAA" was one of Zappa's mottoes. It stood for "Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All" - 2a) In "Frank Zappa - In His Own Words" (Omnibus Press, 1993) it says on page 68: "It used to be that I would write specific things about obvious social phenomena that a large number of people could identify with because they had seen it in action. But that's less specific in terms of my own personal experience. You know, I could observe something happen that may or may not have happened to me personally and I could still write about it. These days such weird things have happened to me as a person that I'd rather put some of those down and do it that way. That's why I have songs like 'Penguin In Bondage'. I write about the things thast are part of my personal experience. 'Montana', which is, in part, about a man who dreams of raising dental floss on a ranch in Montana, started out this way: I got up one day, looked at a box of dental floss and said, hmmm. I assumed that nobody had done the same thing and I felt it was my duty as an observer of floss to express my relationship to the package. So I went downstairs and I sat at the typewriter and I wrote a song about it. I've never been to Montana, but I understand there's only 450,000 people in the whole State. It has a lot of things going for it, plenty of space for the production of dental floss...and the idea of travelling along the empty wasteland with a very short horse and a very large tweezer, grabbing the dental floss sprout as it poochhes up from the bush...grabbing it with your tweezers and towing it all the way back to the bunkhouse...would be something good to imagine. Sometimes I show the lyrics to my wife, or after a while I'll get her to read them to me so I can see what the sounds are like, because part of the texts are put together phonetically as well as what the information is supposed to be. I change lyrics all the time. A lot of them get changed by accident. Somebody will read them wrong and it'll sound so funny I'll leave it wrong. [1974]" 2b) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmyO0LCMcbeWf7w.html

Did you actually hear Ralph Humphries' drum lines? Some of the best ever recorded. The pounding bass line. That boozy trombone. Ruth Underwood's vibes. And you may not know that that is Tina Turner and the Ikettes on background vocals. All in all, one of my favorite Zappa joints. I can see that Vin was 'disturbed' (in a good way) and the song grabbed you by the brain stem right from the start. Sori seemed more amused, but I think Vin got hit by the lightning bolt that most Zappa fans understand. The lyrics are fun, but the music is no joke.

@timbolei5482

5 жыл бұрын

That particular song its as if Humphrie is riding that kit like he would be riding a horse

Brilliant at 5.14 .... he just got it!! Once you've been Franked, theres no going back.. Enjoy the massive back catalog dude.

Frank Zappa,always did different stuff than what everyone else was doing.check out his stuff with the mothers,his band before he was Just Frank Zappa.

@russellboynton9153

5 жыл бұрын

@Highest on Earth ,yes I do!

@altohippiegabber

5 жыл бұрын

@Highest on Earth im sure he meant Zappa's group from 1965 until 1969 before Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan joined the band; it is also my favorite Zappa period

@DethronerX

5 жыл бұрын

and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

For a serious song, Watermelon In Easter Hay is my all time favorite. There’s not many words, but Frank always spoke to me in notes.

@suzycreamcheese8773

5 жыл бұрын

Same for me, mate! I dunno what it is but theres something so beautiful about that song, it's always made me weep

@dohoeijmans2432

5 жыл бұрын

Great time signature!

a few really trippy eclectic bands are Gong, Pere Ubu, Magma, Can, you'd be opening up a very tripped out can of worms. Zappa is endless and the musicianship is top notch.

FZ was perhaps the greatest composer of the modern era. His arrangements are complex, his lyricism (largely) silly, but you cannot dismiss the musicianship of his band. He surrounded himself with incredible players. Look for “The Black Page,” so named because there are so many notes on the page, it’s more black than white. The Yellow Shark is an orchestral work that he did near the end of his life. “G-Spot Tornado” is a fun piece too!

You just scratched the surface of a vast ocean. Zappa runs deep.

Now you're talking my youth. Whoever requested this, Thank You! Frank was provocative and controversial in his perspective of society. They only played a couple of his songs from a mountain of work. Radio didn't play much of his music.

@grandwazoo1696

5 жыл бұрын

Kill Ugly Radio.

@marauder600

Жыл бұрын

I used to request Frank even late at night on my local rock stations. Always followed by a resounding no. And most dj’s knew how good he was. It was the music “industry” that kept him locked out. I’m glad all his stuff is preserved in the family trust. Because now after all this time he’s getting recognition for his wonderful and mad genius.

Frank Zappa was prolific and is as deep as you could ever want. I think 62 albums released in his lifetime and 10 or 20 more posthumously. He was a regular guess on CNN and other news outlets as well as testifying before congress in the PMRC hearings. Very anti-political correctness as well even back then.

Actually, he didn't freestyle except in live performance. All of the complicated musical parts were written out and extensively rehearsed for many hours a day. "Montana" was a composition and played the same way, except for the guitar solo, each time it was played. His band members were accomplished musicians and had to be in order to play this complex material. Try "Inca Roads" next.

You had the right reaction. Nobody gets Frank Zappa right out of the gate.

Gotta love Frank! You might be interested in a song he wrote titled: "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk" where he goes after televangelists. (Specifically Pat Robertson, Jim and Tammy Bakker.) It's a satirical song, but deals with a serious topic. Some other songs of a more serious nature include: "Trouble Every Day", "Blessed Relief", "Watermelon in Easter Hay", "Peaches en Regalia", "Son of Mr. Green Genes", "Gumbo Variations", "Black Napkins" and "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".

@revylokesh1783

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget _Jewish Princess_ , _Dirty Love_ and _Dancing Fool_

@mocthezuma

5 жыл бұрын

Very serious songs indeed. Especially Jewish Princess!

@davebonner6946

5 жыл бұрын

In the line of Instrumentals don't forget RDNZL, Grand Wazoo, and a personal favorite, "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?". For Humerous music I like the combo "Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up" and "Room Service" from the Roxy album.

@mocthezuma

5 жыл бұрын

@@davebonner6946 I love Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up and Room Service, but the latter isn't on Roxy, it's on Dub Room Special and YCDTOSA Vol 2. (And the A Token of his Extreme soundtrack). RDNZL is also fantastic, and I prefer the Lost Episodes version.

Frank was both serious and not serious about pretty much all of it, but Inca Roads is a masterpiece regardless

@SpaceCattttt

5 жыл бұрын

Well, the thing is, Frank would've been perfectly happy writing nothing but complex instrumental music. But music without singing, words and dance-friendly beats won't sell many records. So in order to be played on the radio at all, he had to compromise and write actual songs as well. What's amusing about it is that, because he wasn't interested in the lyrics, he decided to make them ridiculous instead. Not all the time, but very often. And the sad part is that most people have only been exposed to his often silly jokes and sex puns, while his true genius as a composer is mainly only known to his hardcore fans. I think it's only his final Synclavier albums from the late 80s and 90s that show what he would've liked to do all along. And those albums will NEVER be played anywhere.

A great way to understand Frank Zappa is to start with this quote from the man himself, I Ain't gonna sing you no love song How my heart is all sore Will not beg your indulgence 'Cause you heard it before But that's awright people I'm just crazy enough to sing to you Any old way I figure the odds be fifty-fifty I just might have some thing to say

Zappa was an odd bird, who signed other odd birds to his record label, such as Alice Cooper. Birds of a feather, you know? But yes, he was also a legit guitarist. One of the best ever, in fact.

Frank Zappa helped Alice Cooper get his career started in the late 60's.

Thats about right for a first reaction, once you dig deeper into his music theres no turning back! FZ for life!

I remember first hearing Zappa. It was hard for me to comprehend that music could be made that way as well. A legend

Yup!! That's the look I get on my face every time I listen to Zappa.

Try Inca Roads, WakaJawaka,REDNZL, for the greatest musicianship you'll ever hear. George Duke on keyboards. Drummers like Ansley Dunbar and Terry Bozio, Napoleon Murphy Brock playing flute and singing. Just amazing. All scores, written. A genius.

FZ !!! Was a Genius IQ Musician, Literally a Genius IQ

Love Frank Zappa reactions! Lol his songs are always out of the blue!

Welcome to the wonderful and bazaar world of Frank Zappa. I've been a Mother's of Invention/ Frank Zappa fan since the late 60's. Fantastic musicians performing Frank's genius and satirical music...enjoy !

Your faces on reviewing this were absolutely a kodak moment, priceless! If you want more Frank Zappa then please check out any songs from his Apostrophe album

To me it sounds like Frank Zappa was making fun of "city-people" moving to the country with impossible dreams. That has been a trend from time to time.

on one side I'm thinking "how can anybody into music live to your age without knowing Frank Zappa ?" And on the other "how great it must be to discover Frank Zappa for the first time ?" I was 14, Overnight sensation and the Apostrophe' albums got me hooked to FZ immediately. Am now 58 and I still listen to all of his 70+ LPs and hundreds of bootlegswhile trying to forget about the sad current Zappa family fights between his kids Dweezil, Moon, Ahmet and Diva.

Of the Ikettes' harmonies, Zappa said: ”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 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".

Loved that, especially as I'm a long time Zappa fan. You should try 'Cosmik Debris"

That, dear friends, was the greatest musical genius of the 20th century. Respect for being some of the few people who've reacted to him on the tube. A slight shame that you chose one of his "joke" songs, because the man had the talent to write anything. And he did. But just the fact that you listened to him at all, is sensational. Just remember that he released over 60 albums in his lifetime, plus another 40 or so posthumously, so this song is hardly representative of what he was about.

@davebonner6946

5 жыл бұрын

The albums are still coming out. They've barely scratched the surface of "The Vault" where both Audio and Video recordings of live shows were stored. They had a Kickstarter to fund recovery and digitalization of as much old tape and film as they can before it disappears. Alex Winter (Bill and Ted) is working on a Documentary of Frank Zappa to be released in 2020.

@SpaceCattttt

5 жыл бұрын

@@davebonner6946 I know all this. But even if they managed to rescue and restore everything in the vault, there's a lot in there that's not up to Frank's standard. I mean, the man was an editing genius and would frequently put together albums by splicing together bits and pieces from outtakes, live performances recorded decades apart and meticulously constructed sound effects. Not to mention that his perfection often made him select the very best performances from a tour, and then select the very best SECONDS of each best performance, and then put those best seconds into the NEARLY perfect version fit for album release. Now, as much I as appreciate Joe Travers' work, he is not in a creative position where he can start fiddling with Frank's tapes in a similar way that Frank did. Not unless Frank left behind clear instructions. So the posthumous releases we've seen, have been albums that Frank put together but were never released before, and mostly complete live shows that Joe and Gail deemed good enough, but that Frank would've never released in their entirety. So it's really up to Joe to to decide what's worthy of release, and he can only choose whatever he thinks Frank would've approved of. Which is not a lot. And it's noticeable how much the release schedule has slowed down now, compared with a few years ago. We recently had the Zappa In New York 40th anniversary edition, but whereas before, we could expect a couple of new albums per year, now there's only one per year at best. Or one every few years. If the entire vault was to be released, the number of albums would be in the thousands. But that's never going to happen.

You have to love Frank. Whatever he's playing: jazz, avant-garde, doo-wop, rock, blues, various fusions. He is a genius. He loves surreal lyrics.

The yippy yo yo tie ya part was a professional singer that played for Kenny Rogers I think. He had a number of guest vocalists on the album

Check out Zappa's "Inca Roads" - which has an incredible vibes solo by Ruth Underwood - and "Trouble Every Day."

@SRMscott

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Bunche trouble every day was the world’s first rap song performed by this white dude

@jimmayors2315

5 жыл бұрын

@@SRMscott ... and "More Trouble Every Day"

Frank Zappa is to music what Louis Pasteur was to milk. He just made it better. An absolute genius, his albums are the greatest iv ever heard.

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

have u heard hendrix's albums??

@jaicoxki

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffbuckley4453 - Yes - what's your point?

@vitusdoom

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Buckley Yes Hendrix great guitarist but his songs not the best to be fair.

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaicoxki my point is...those albums r MUCH better than zappa's. did i really have to explain that u? or is ur IQ the same number as ur age??

@jeffbuckley4453

5 жыл бұрын

@@vitusdoomim assuming ur not a guitar player for one, hendrix's songs r amazing, all of them r AT LEAST good, from covers like "hey joe and all along the watchtower"(which he added HIS OWN solos to both) and originals like"Little Wing, The Wind Cries Mary AND Bold as Love" and your trying to tell me that HIS songs aren't good?? " but TO BE FAIR, you probably dont know wtf u r talking about anyway.

I love the juxtaposition between Sori's look of childlike delight and wonderment and Vin's complete bewildered confusion. Both are entirely appropriate when experiencing Frank Zappa.

Oh man it's great seeing you two enjoy this. There's a lot of humour in his music, a lot of it is in the musical elements themselves. Joe's Garage & You Are What You Is are two of my favourite albums.

One of the most underrated guitar players try Muffin Man 🤘🤘

@MrIh8hondas

5 жыл бұрын

"Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil..."

@slaydesaid8741

5 жыл бұрын

That's a hilarious, yet wonderful, song.

Florentine Pogen is another great song you may want to check out. The musicianship of Zappa and the people he worked with is nothing short of incredible.

@mcbazzfazz

5 жыл бұрын

LOVE that song...

Zappa and the Mothers Live at the Fillmore East 1971. Musical theater of the mind at it's VERY BEST!!!

Thank you guys, Zappa is one of the greatest and most innovative musicians ever, have a nice day.

More Zappa is welcome

@vitusdoom

5 жыл бұрын

Al Lefrancois I would pay good money to watch them sit through his whole back catalogue!!

@slothkng

5 жыл бұрын

@@vitusdoom oh yeah some great stuff in there instrumental wise Frank ranks near the top for me the guy is a monster as for this "serious" song Vin wants he's never gonna find it

@vitusdoom

5 жыл бұрын

Al Lefrancois Totally agree. Vin should listen to Fifty Fifty to really blow his mind. Zappa is my idol in life. Respect his outlook on everything. His book is amazing.

@GoodCorporateRobot

5 жыл бұрын

@@slothkng There are plenty. Peaches En Regalia for example. A true masterpiece.

@slothkng

5 жыл бұрын

@@GoodCorporateRobot so many good songs could go on for a long time

Tina Turner and the Ike-ettes on backing vocals. This album was recorded at Ike Turner's studio.

Frank Zappa is probably my favorite musician of the 20th century. Criminally underrated and unknown, but one of the most influential and complex composers to ever grace modern music.

Love this song and Franks music. The heads start bobbin when the guitar solo starts cool. Also Frank did not do drugs!

Tina Turner is one of the female background vocals

@mocthezuma

5 жыл бұрын

And the Ikettes.

@wowwhywow

5 жыл бұрын

@@mocthezuma mostly THE IKETTES..but yeah...there are at least 3 points where you can distinctly hear Tina...but all the three part harmony stuff is the Ikettes

Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs It Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris Frank Zappa - The Torture Never Stops Frank Zappa - Stink Foot

@huggybear2000hug

5 жыл бұрын

Frank V Zappa Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

They'll never be another Frank Zappa pure genius! I got the privilege of seeing him twice💖

Congratulations Vin and Sori. You have discovered Frank Zappa and you appear to have appreciated his work. The musical complexity and virtuosity are unmatched today for everything FZ did. I hope you enjoy the ride as you uncover more of the weird & wonderful Frank Zappa.

Peaches en Regelia is what your looking for

Frank Zappa Recommendations: My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Willie the Pimp The Torture Never Stops Suicide Chump Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy

@okantichrist

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Basler excellent recommendations 👍🏻

I am 61 years old, own over 3700 records and cd's. Listened to all manner of music for decades. Never purchased a Frank Zappa record...but I have always recognized his genius. Frank Zappa never took himself very seriously, but his brilliance is very serious.

Yeah !! I love frank zappa ! Best artist of the last 50 years. Well done for doing this !

No FZ song is serious but then again, every FZ song is serious. Musically, it's off the charts, incredibly hard to play, let alone to perform live. And there's always a deeper meaning to his songs, it's just rarely obvious. His music is not easy to get into but once you get it, you get it and there is nothing like it.

@Chadner

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Couldn't have said it better myself! All his songs are just as serious or as goofy as Montana hahaha

Best Zappa song for a reaction---The Adventures of Greggery Peccary. Lol!

Zappa's Watermelon in Easter Hay will leave you weeping. Incredible composition.

Frank is the epitome of outside the box. you have begun the journey down the rabbit hole.

Zappa- I am the Slime is a fairly serious song.

Frank Zappa is entirely different world your entering too.

that was the genius of frank. his compositions, his guitar playing, his comedic lyrics. either you got him or you didn't. im 63 and I got him. I saw him in 1974. live.

Greatest Musical Genius of the 20 th century

Funkedelic - Maggot Brain

@luthierjustin1

5 жыл бұрын

Horrorfilm fan3000 this!

For pure comedy from Zappa either Fillmore East - June 1971 or Joe's Garage.

“Obliviously Talented” 😂 understatement of the century.

Zappa was a genius! Good to see a reaction to him! Check out those other ones you mentioned! "Don't eat the yellow snow" is also great.

Satire!!! Try listening to Zappa's "Brown Shoes Don't Make It". Frank Zappa was a musical genius.

@TAMPABAY53

5 жыл бұрын

That is one of my favorites along with "Billy the Mountain"

If you want to see something really impressive (and still culturally relevant), you should look up Zappa testifying before the PMRC Senate Hearing on Rock Lyrics back in the 80s...the aged senators were attempting to belittle Zappa based on the "offensive" titles to his song lyrics, and they were clearly unaware of who he was and assumed he was some sort of 'satanic heavy metal' dude - even so, Zappa adopted a Libertarian stance, and said that as an artist, he should be able to articulate any positions he wants and not submitted to govt. censorship by clueless bureaucrats....we need more artists who are willing to be free speech activists in this day and age....

Frank Zappa and his friend Captain Beefheart = the best trip watching them live or listening to their whole albums

Cant wait to see the documentary

Welcome to the world of Zappa :-) Now try out Frank Zappa - The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

@stevedotwood

5 жыл бұрын

Great, that one embodies who Frank was musically and lyrically. It has all the genres mixed into one mind blowing suite

Lesson #1, don't just act like a fool, talking about shit and only using 5% of your brain and expect you will understand and like Frank Zappa. But also it 's a matter of open-mindedness and not being too limited in your way of thinking. But respect that you used Zappa. It's defenitely not the most easy music.

I was cheesing the whole time! Great request, & reaction. I fucking love Frank Zappa!!! Lyrics came as a secondary thought much of the time to Zappa. He was all about the music, but he knew people liked lyrics so, at times, he would write the most ridiculous lyrics he could think of. Cheers guys! \,,/

man you guys have got the best reaction haha that was brilliant.

Those who aren't prepared for Frank Zappa will soon be confused. :D Of course, the solo is badass. The instrumentation in general is badass. Frank was a musical genius who worked with musical badasses. Steve Vai started out with Zappa. Serious lyrics aren't really the point with Zappa. Serious instrumentation and composition are.

Dynamo Hum is an awesome song. You should react to it. You'll love it!

I see Zappa, I click! Your reaction was well worth it! Frank was a Genius, and still today the music is way ahead of its time,I look forward to more!

Frank was a composer first, rhythm and blues guitarist, business man (out of necessity), then finally a rock musician last. Good job reacting to it. When he passed away at 52 years old he had over 1200 song titles in his catalog. They are still releasing unheard or unreleased music nearly 30 years after his death. Fun fact, he did dental hygiene public service announcements.

*Frank Zappa- Black Napkins! Live at Palladium NY 1977* DO ITTTTTT! *It’s not silly like this one lol*

@taschenrechner

5 жыл бұрын

Probably my favorite performance of my favorite FZ song.

@JayBurrd

5 жыл бұрын

Same here 🤘🏽

@GoodCorporateRobot

5 жыл бұрын

For that matter, his performance on Mike Douglas. He walks on the stage, plugs his guitar in, cues the band, then slays it on guitar. A pro's pro for sure.

When Everything Means Nothing - Fit For A King!

My daughter was born in 1980 and she loved/loves the Zappa song Stinkfoot. I played it when she was 4-5 months old and she would always dance in her little rocker

Priceless reaction!

Dyna-mo-hum lol she will blush !! Someone with more ends then me request that shit! Or "keep it greasy" 4/4 to 19/16 and 21/16 .

Welcome to the wonderful world of Frank Zappa. Everyone has heard him, even if they don’t think so. He is the one who actually composed the theme music for the Simpsons. When his buddy from Oingo Boingo (Danny Elfman) came by and saw what Frank was working on, he suggested Frank submit it to this new network called Fox, for a new cartoon. Frank said he could have it, but not to put his name on it, since Frank hates mainstream media, since they all hated him. You guys should check out Frank Zappa’s versions of Stairway to Heaven and also Whipping Post.

@wowwhywow

5 жыл бұрын

Kenny Johnson...are you sure about that story...I am a huge fan of BOTH and this is the first time I have heard this...plus...there is an interveiw with Danny,where he talks about the origins of the Simpsons Theme, and he said nothing of Frank.

@wowwhywow

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZpiqscGCYs-tgNY.html at 2.35...he tells how he came up with it

@kennyjfresh1

5 жыл бұрын

chris boulet I bought Frank Zappa’s 24 track recording rig about 6 months before he died. I also did a lot of work for musicians, as a luthier who worked for Wayne Charvel. This came straight from Frank Zappa’s mouth. He told Danny he could have it, but not to put his name on it, since no major media outlets would ever play his music.

@mike_minnick

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Groening is a massive Zappa fan, im sure this wouldve come out before now

uncle frank is/was the man! demented my youth and fortunately for me my daughter now 25 has taken up the cause...... incredible musician with a twisted sense of humor! The Mothers overnight sensation one of my very favourite albums of all time.......classically epic RIP Frank.

That's right, BadAss Guitar. He could reach down and touch your soul with that solo.