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From keyboardist Tommy Mars: "Frank wrote that song at the very beginning of the '77 european tour, and it has a personal relevance to me. We were doing this rehearsal in london and frank was getting very tense. He expected certain things to be there when we got to rehearsal, and certain things were not there. We were gonna do the song "Zoot Allures," and he started playing this 11th chord and got very angry at everybody because nothing was happening right. I got fined because I hadn't memorized this little piece called "Little House I Used To Live In." I hadn't realized he wanted it totally memorized. So this rehearsal ended in a total fiasco. The next day, he came in with these lyrics: "maybe you should stay with yo' mama. . . " it was really autobiographic; that's how things evolve with Frank."

@leoscone4036

2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious. "Little House I Used To Live In" from "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" is an over 18 minute piece! Frank was a taskmaster. Of COURSE he wanted Tommy to memorize an 18 minute piece!. Great backstory on the song though. Hadn't heard this bit of Zappa lore!

@buddygripple7512

2 жыл бұрын

@@leoscone4036 The version of Little House they were playing was only a rearranged version of the piano intro. Still though, it's a complex composition and difficult to pull off.

@andrewmantle7674

2 жыл бұрын

Great story. Hadn’t heard that one. I’d heard Tommy talking about Frank giving him complete creative control over the Keys which he was very proud of, but hadn’t heard where it evolved from. Nice 👍

@parshakamarsh

2 жыл бұрын

However long you've been listening to his music, there's always new little gems you find out, thanks for posting 👍🏼

@plopcoen6222

2 жыл бұрын

The way Ed Mann the percussionist tells it, this proggy motif and solo-vehicle was intended to be an instrumental but, when he taught it to the band, some of them descibed it as "beautiful". This was a red rag to the FZ bull. The next day he came back with sublimely crass lyrics... "You should never smoke in pojamas, you might start a fire and burn your face..." just to render the beauty of the piece ambiguous.

This is his greatest guitar tour de force. It brings tears to your eyes, it soars, it has the longest uninterrupted lyrical passage in electric guitar history; not a repetition in it, sandwich between two slices of white bread. And yes, live.

@WelshVegan

3 күн бұрын

I love this solo too! The reverb is perfect LOL!

I have to say, this for me after hearing thousands of others famous or otherwise, the best guitar solo I have ever heard. It's part of a song but the song disappears suddenly, as catchy and memorable as it is, this solo is the 'Laudate Dominum' of the electrical guitar world, it hasn't been bettered. Pure ascension.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@alexanderkalinchenko4038

2 жыл бұрын

Amen, Bro!

@theboraxbandit9563

2 жыл бұрын

By whom? :D

@DennisMayoRocknRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Footnote; solo recorded back of VW van, on 4 Track, middle of blizzard, in Germany,...WOW!!!

@1946levin

2 жыл бұрын

I’d be hard pushed to disagree with this. It really is an absolute favourite of mine. All in the tension and release I guess.

Frank never repeats a phrase, one of tastiest guitarists of all time

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely tasty!

@albertobottoni7014

2 жыл бұрын

At 2:17 of Montana, it plays a line from zombie woof

Francis Vincent Zappa jr., the master of epic and triumphant lead guitar solos! Zappa!!!!

Even though at any moment I will just randomly start singing that song, I never would have recommended it as a stand alone piece, if you would have listened to that side of the record (vinyl) you would have appreciated "Yo Mama" even more for being an extended outro to that whole crazy side especially "Wild Love"! Some albums just weren't meant to be listened to one song at a time!

@TommiBrem

2 жыл бұрын

Literally everytime I hear a kid say "mama", this song pops up in my head.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Lol fair

@seanbrennan5192

2 жыл бұрын

When you listen to Jazz from Hell all the way through until you get to St. Etienne…

@harrylawson6235

2 жыл бұрын

I’m please just use your utopian oils to keep

@archiemarshall1670

2 жыл бұрын

Dude I’m a line cook n sing this shit all the time 😂😂😂

This is the crystal beacon of all guitar solos, no matter what you say

@kerbygator

Жыл бұрын

I have to agree. I'm an old cranky bastard,(62), and this brings tears to my eyes every time. I've seen him perform 5 different times when i was growing up in the Chicago area, back in the seventies......

Tommy Mars! A great hero to me. That incredible “Hail Caesar” fanfare,just prior to the guitar solo,is one of my favourite things!

@todd8155

Жыл бұрын

@FreddieSausage - Agreed! I hear a lot of really cool synth and also free jazz keyboards in some of Zappa'a music. I wonder how much of it is scored and how much of it is keyboardist improvisation. Anyway, the ""Hail Caesar" fanfare" you mention is awesome!

The basic track was indeed live (albeit edited together from three different show), though some of the vocals and a lot of the keyboards were overdubbed afterwards - keyboard player Tommy Mars later said that he spent many challenging hours orchestrating the keyboard parts so that they didn't clash with the notes Frank had played in his solo.

@christianutkeschiler6636

2 жыл бұрын

Also, there's some xenochrony in there where guitar part is from Germany and drum + bass from London (4:02-6:47)

The descending scale on the guitar at 7:24 just as the songs moves in to the 'epic' second half brings a tear to my eye every time. It's so simple and beautiful.

@vrankholland8113

7 ай бұрын

And the space created by the horns!!!

This album definitely deserves a full listen!

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425

2 жыл бұрын

Every Zappa album deserves a full listen.

@ray66antonio

2 жыл бұрын

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Raimundo Antonio há 0 segundos um dos melhores albuns da historia da musica

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425

2 жыл бұрын

@@ray66antonio 100% correto

@johnsrensen3366

2 жыл бұрын

LOOOVE THIS ALBUM

For all the years I’ve heard this song. Which BTW great reaction, and a Killer Album. But I’m hearing it for the rock symphony I’m hearing through my head phones. Total Genius. You either get Frank or you Don’t Simple !!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Frank loved all percussion, the louder the better. One of his early influences was Edgard Varese, who classical compositions were heavilyinclusive of lots of percussion

Terry Bozio is working overtime on this track. Give some love toa drummer who can lay down the beat for THAT

@WelshVegan

3 күн бұрын

Bozzio was an insane drummer!!!! Very few drummers could have played for Zappa at this time.

@Ninang363

2 күн бұрын

@@WelshVegan He still is a great drummer

I've heard this piece 100s of times and it never gets old. It is musical genius, there's simply no other word for it. And to top it all off, that TONE Zappa gets.....unique

I love how Frank can go off into stuff that is difficult to follow and then brings it back to harmonies that are really appealing to the ear and nails it. So reminds me of Tools ability to do the same.

I like that you listen to Zappa! Greetings from Amsterdam.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from NYC!

One of the top ten Zappa songs for me, the solo is awsome. I was 15 when this record came out, remeber when i bought it on vinyl.

@ray66antonio

2 жыл бұрын

me to 13 anos

@ray66antonio

2 жыл бұрын

1966 i was born

@frankfingskes7984

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, I bought it 2-3 years after release with the age of 16...wonderful reaction guys ✌️I really love and celebrate your channel, so I heard it here today after a longer fz free period and my memories of parties, fz concerts and hanging around with friends listening to fz music together flashed me totaly...I raised with fz music since I was about 14 and it influenced me in music and my sight to things completely till today... once the music catched me it never let me go...

this has accompanied me throughout all these years and I still get goosebumps.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Truth!

I PRAY this guy will listen and Study this song alone that's it just hear it and FEEL IT. It took me 4 or 5 times to just emotionally digest Frank Playing this. It's also 4 different recordings rolled into One orchestration! Mindblowing!

It's all about the melody, Frank always has somewhere to go in his solos, never boring. For catching him totally on it, what's new in baltimore. A live guitar piece where you can feel his total love of music. Great review, great channel Keep well

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@kerbygator

Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite solo, and I did mange to see him perform it and most of the Sheik Yerbuti album in Chicago, back when he was promoting it in 78-79.....very awesome.

@christerliliegren5847

6 ай бұрын

Whats new in Baltimore, is one of my all time favourites in "you can´t do that on stage anymore" series i´ve listened to it atleast a thousand times, love it.

Frank Zappa ‘The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.’

Recorded live with maybe a few overdubs. On good headphones the production sounds great. And this is 70's tech.

@Peter-K

2 жыл бұрын

That is my only concern with our friends, listening to any of his music with earbuds leaves so much depth out of it, the speakers in them are way too small. I tried earbuds back when they became a 'thing,' but found them lacking in so many ways. To get the full effect you have to play it loud on real speakers, or with a pair of really good headphones.

Zappa was one of the very few guitar players to master the feedback playing like he did in Yo'Mama. Filthy Habits is another great example of this unique technique. Great review !

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Frunobulax74

2 жыл бұрын

@frozenbeefpie - Duke of Prunes on Orchestral Favorites. Guitar notes with endless, beautiful sustain.

@seanbrennan5192

2 жыл бұрын

And Zoot Allures especially

I almost wore this album out - Yes, vinyl. "Dancin' Fool" made some airplay.

Frank Vincent Zappa - December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993 Rest in Peace, Frank. You are sorely missed.

The time signatures in this are redicoulis. Tool is frickin redicoulis with math but every time I listen to this the math never stops during the whole guitar solo. Brilliant.

My voice: The 'Solo' wasn't one but the guitar was (nearly) the only instrument for to tell the (instrumental) story; and to Sifa: The Xylo-/Vibraphon was the most beloved instrument by Frank Zappa - remember the genius (ABSOLUTELY GENIUS) RUTH UNDERWOOD!!! So you are right!

The version on “Chicago ‘78” is killing. Vinnie Colaiuta on drums!

If you want to experience the tapestry of music there is a one-stop shop that is called Frank Zappa.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

TRUTH

As an old fart that I am i can boldly say that nobody ever came close to Frank Zappa. I have been listening to this song from the very first day it came out in 1978. I must be listening to it 2863 times. I am one of the privileged people had the chance to watch Frank live many times. We are fortunate that his son picked up the torch, that's all i can say.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Maurice!

@todd8155

Жыл бұрын

@mauricehazan8464 - No one plays guitar like Zappa. He was literally one of a kind. Also, I hardly ever hear people talk about this tone. Frank has an awesome tone with many different facets and nuances.

The ultimate "Air Sculpture" 🙂 If I remember correctly, for the most part this is live but the mid section of the solo was recorded in a motel room while on tour.

Sheik is actually pronounced 'shake', this is one of my favorite 'go to' Zappa songs because of the different guitar sounds he has in here.

@asdfqwer1234zxcv

2 жыл бұрын

@Zolar Czakl Now that I think about all the connections you made, I'm glad you did. Everything you mentioned was so well known to me and nearly everyone our age, it didn't hit me that I would have to explain it now, thanks for completing my post, hehe :)

@Frunobulax74

2 жыл бұрын

@Zolar Czakl - The dog is named Patricia and the covers were by Donald Roller Wilson.

This is about the tamest song on the album. Hits also included are Bobby Brown goes down and Broken hearts are for assholes.

And again, Frank and his band deliver the goods.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

oh yeah

You know how there's studio albums that are fake live? This album is fake studio. I didn't know this is a live album until I got to the end of it and looked it up. He pretty much did his best to make it sound like it was produced in the studio. Some guitar solos came from completely unrelated songs. Rubber Shirt was made up of multiple songs and even had different time signatures. The album is wild!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

Frank used 7 different tracks, both live from the German tour, and his basement musings (the primary guitar solo) to put this song together. When Sheik Yerbouti was released as an album, everything about every song was included in the liner notes. Today there's no liner notes. No one has time for info.

A nice way to start the weekend, setting in to one of your Zappa reactions. This is one of Frank’s classic muffins, with a bit more than the quarter ounce green rozette added to the top. Some classic Frank wisdom “You should never smoke in Pojamas” and a generous handful of guitar notes that would irritate an executive kind of guy. Love the genuine enjoyment that is oozing out of you guys when you here his material. Keep up the good work Great reactions.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I always loved this track. I think that's Patrick O'Hearn on bass. He went on to put out several New Age albums. I have a few of them and like a lot of his stuff.

@fredzeppelin3969

2 жыл бұрын

Along with the (all FZ alumni) new wave band Missing Persons.

@poormanselectronicsbench2021

2 жыл бұрын

O'Hearn's work on "The Ocean is the ultimate solution" on a double bass and electric, is mind blowing, to me anyways, along with one of Franks best solo's ever, IMO. This one is always fun to listen to though, as is with about everything that Frank did.

@buddystewart2020

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredzeppelin3969 ... Yes, he did that as well., And I love Missing Persons.

@buddystewart2020

2 жыл бұрын

@@poormanselectronicsbench2021 ... I'm not familiar with that work, but now, I'll have to check it out. Thank you.

@todd8155

Жыл бұрын

@buddystewart2020 - Yes, the Patrick O'Hearn albums are killer!

Marimba or Vibraphone Sifa, but you are both right...percussion was actually more important than the guitar! If you haven't noticed it yet, his percussion sections were always big parts of his music usually with a drummer and a separate percussionist. Loved how you did not realize it was live until the end, I can tell you it is a song that really packs a punch when heard live. As Dan said, the extended jam starts with just the guitar mainly, but as the band comes back in, it really takes off! Glad you enjoyed it! I even saw Sifa laugh at the beginning, always a good sign!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

:)

Zappa's guitar solo on Yo' Mama is - to employ this overused, but here totally fitting term - epic. The build-up, his creation of motives that he repeats throughout the song, his generating of various tone colors by attacking the strings at different angles, probably switching pedals - all of it feels like a long, fascinating journey that helps you get to the next level, whatever that level is. Sounds like he got out all his frustrations playing that solo, but in a good way (see Jim's comment below from Tommy Mars).

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter!

Zappa for President

Hey Brooklyn couple! Listen to this song again, the first part of the solo is a deliberate dissonant part to prepare you for the second part of the solo. When the keyboard enters. And you listen again and you will discover that this is a SUBLIME tune!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Sublime indeed!

FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Who’s the best!?!?

One of my favorite Zappa solos (or should I say soli) on guitar. You don't make much fuss about it. I see it as a four part performance. There is an introduction, you know where he has all that bass sounding percussive sounds, then two part divided by the moment where I break out into tears, and at the end we have a coda the sums up the theme. Oh, and never forget, when you listen to this solo again, he never leaves the basic theme at all. I think that hardly anyone notices this!

Love FZ’s guitar playing,

What a good time that was - Sheik Yerbouti by Zappa, and Aja, by Steely Dan. Listen to both - and think how damned good 1970's Recording Studio's were...

BTW the guitar solo is from a different performance on another night. Zappa spliced the rhythm section behind the guitar solo to create this piece. So it was sort of live but not really…

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so awesome

One of Frank's best solos IMO.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

When the keyboards come in, I'd like to imagine what Frank could have done with a ten-piece horn section . . . think of a Maynard Fergusen / Chase kind of crescendoing higher-and-higher squealing trumpets making a glorious fanfare . . . THAT is what Zappa MIGHT have had, if not for the prohibitive costs involved -- ten horn players as opposed to one keyboardist with ten fingers.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Good point

@wietzejohanneskrikke1910

2 жыл бұрын

I actually prefer the synths. In fact; the piece of fanfare just before the solo might be my favorite piece of synthesizer music ever recorded

Knowing this song so well, just waiting for the WOW faces...

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

:)

@lordofthehornets3238

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark Rat Tomago is a better solo IMO. It is chopped from The Torture Never Stops (Berlin 1978). The original is on YewChewb and worth a listen. If you want to see FZ's producer skills check We're Only In It For The Money (original mix). First side will do :)

FOR SOME REASON I THINK THAT PARTY OF FRANK'S BRILLIANCE IS HE'S SO COMICALLY CRAFTED IN PLAYING A ROLE AS NARRATOR --- HIS MUSIC IS SO SUBLIME, BUT HIS HUMOUR IS SO SHARP AND EXPLODES INTO OUR MENTAL UNIVERSE. so to speak...

what to say after that .. I still have a very strong emotion listening to this live. a summit

This whole album gets better and better the more you listen to it. I seen him and his band perform most of this album live around the time it came out. While tripping of course,......we were always tripping at concerts in the 70's...lol

@SightAfterDark

Жыл бұрын

☺️nice

been loving your Zappa content...love the reactions... new sub :)

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gary!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gary!

I feel like I just fell in to the WayBack Machine... This is tickling all the little memory nodes in my brain...Smells, and emotions from listening to this in the early eighties

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

:)

Unknown Pleasures would be a good description for what happens after the little song this starts out as.....

Love the Frank reactions, keep em coming. Love the Joy Div shirt Sheik Yerbouti was recorded in the middle of the disco era and I believe Sheik Yerbouti was a play on the disco phrase "shake your booty". Also the Saudi Arabians were flush with oil money at the time and were buying up properties in the US and were in the news a lot, I think frank just sorta put the to together. The song dancin fool from the album is a dig at disco.Another great song and dig at disco is disco boy from the Zoot Allures album, (zoot suits were popular when Frank was in high school).

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim!

Ist das nicht einfach nur schön! Isn't this beautiful?

I was 15 and at my first concert, 38 Special and Rush, and before the first show they were playing this album over the PA system, I found out who it was and bought it that week

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! Frank is the best!

"Yo Moma" for breakfast...! Your chanel is great...✌️ I hope on lots of followers on this channel... You bring treasures back to the people... thx

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

♥️thank you so much Frank!

I was gonna say that the solo reminds me of Zoot Allures...then I read the reply by Jim Hardiman - unbelievable!!!

When the record since was presented, we ran our feet to blood!

When you're listening to "Yellow Snow", "St.Alphonso's" a.s.o. they are Comics/Theater/Grand Poems to your brain... - his solos, like this, make you staring in a CAMPFIRE and you're mind and thoughts got free... - to your own fantasy... Another guy I told: if you got headache, take a Frank...

This song is a masterpiece, as is the whole album 💿 Wristwatch ⌚️ Crisco 🧴

Great choise =) I hope it sounded good in your end, it had the phasing/floating tape problem. ^^

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We think we figured it out for the next round of reactions!

The best version of this title is this one.

Got another for you at After Dark. The Torture Never Stops. Found on several albums. Flies all green and buzzing in his dungeon of dispair, who are all these people he's got locked up down there. And the smells so bad the bones is choking and weeping greenish drops. Cause in the land of the iron sausage, the torture never stops. But since we are on Sheik Yerbouti pull up Flakes. California has the most of them, don't ya know they have the toast of them.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We see you Owen!

@OneEye.

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark well I was introduced to Zappa musically when he was coming up in the 70s. Friend of mine had a library of Zappa. Including rare test pressings of approved bootleg records. After I listen then listen again, I think about how what he was saying then is happening Now. Fun Zappa Fact: Only American Artist to be asked by the London Philharmonic to conduct his own music. Which includes several classical pieces by FZ. All orchestra type music. Or check out Yellow Shark Ensemble.

@OneEye.

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark was thinking about something else that you can give a spin on. Try Thingfish. Want Missing Persons before they were? Dale goes at it on Briefcase Boogie.

This is an all fantastic album..flakes are where weve been and are right now. city of tiny lights...on and on skaka rumpan!!

great album

One more comment. Bozios drumming and counting on this is as good as anything I've heard. Bozio, Carey and Peart and Joe Morello.

Stunning g'tar work, as per usual - No - Very Unusual! It's Frank!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Per usual!

My favorite guitar piece on the Shiek Yerbouti album is RAT TOMAGO

Yup. Mostly live material, some studio overdubs. Transitional period for Frank when he seized the reins with his own label. Apparently his best selling album (a double album) of all time worldwide. Saw him live round about this time too. What a great band. All Frank's band configurations.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

It's a great one!

um dos melhores albuns da historia da musica

"Overdubs, Lots" =)

Phantastic brilliant divinefull ❤🙏

At that time, there was no internet! You got to go to any record-store AND BUY A RECORD - with real MONEY!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

“Real money” is anything people agree on a value to 😉

@michaelthomas8592

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark Yeah! A long time ago a friend told me (in the Record-Company) that the people from now on and for ever and ever would prefer to buy A REAL RECORD to got something IN THEIR HANDS. And THEN (later) came MP3 and so on... So YOU ARE RIGHT!

Live recordings as clothes hangers for overdubbing and contextually contiguous forms. But part of the amazingness of this album is that he put this out, a double album, the same year he put out a three LP set for Joe's Garage, and then released Lather (Leather), a 4 LP set. In like a year. Yeah. Helllllloooo nicotine/caffine-feuled work ethic. Not a lot of artists were close to his level of prolific output.

Frank Zappa = GOD

this is the only guitar solo in rock history to have three distinct movements... Drowning Witch has Two. But, think about it... what other guitar solo in existence on a rock record has three movements like a classical peice?

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Good point!

Zappa is KING, whos elvis...you like franks guitar or you don't... he's a genius remember

City Of Tiny Lights from the same album. It's been mentioned already but the whole album is live performances with lots of overdubs

@Peter-K

2 жыл бұрын

Really good video of that one from 77 out there on KZread, worth check out if you haven't seen it

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Americans are really suspicious of anything cerebral, and Zappa didn't disguise his intelligence well enough. In addition to being a wide ranging talent, one amazing thing that always stuck with me about Frank was his melodic dimension..... Frank Zappa was my Elvis. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Well said

I’ve been Zapped again ..by another great strat solo from Uncle Frank !! Cheers guys.

@jeanclaudesagot7030

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there ! You ' re absolutely right ! The solo is a killer. But ..... At this time , Frank played a Gibson SG Have a nice day

@harryzlotzlottos5715

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeanclaudesagot7030 Frank played a lot of electric guitars…most notable was the famous’Gibson SG’.. My all time favourite was his 1950s Gibson Les Paul Goldtop…from the 68/69 tour…thanks for commenting.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Frank had those asses in the back of his mind when he wrote this song, it fits perfectly

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Shoutout to all the asses out there 😂

Belew pre- King Crimson!🗿🌴

loved the vid. :) please, may i suggest, Winos do not march, by Frank :)

As an unrepentant ZAPPAphile may I suggest something LESS FAMOUS and WILDLY instrumental, like SINISTER FOOTWEAR, 2nd Movement or REGYPTIAN STRUT or THE GRAND WAZOO or RDNZL or THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN ARCHES or G-SPOT TORNADO ? Those are among his composed pieces, Doug. Let's not forget, though, his amazing guitar instrumentals like ZOOT ALLURES, BLACK NAPKINS, FILTHY HABITS or WATERMELON IN EASTER HAY(think you did this one!). Rightly, Zappa is recognized as a musical genius and will be continually re-discovered throughout history, indeed: THE PRESENT DAY COMPOSER REFUSES TO DIE - Edgard Varese. **(oh yeah, FZ's classical and orchestral pieces stand apart from the herd and can be amazing, sublime and complex beyond the pale! Try STRICTLY GENTEEL, THE PLEATED GAZELLE or BOB IN DACRON)** And if anyone is interested, Frank once said G-Spot Tornado was impossible to perform live is why he only had synclavier version until the Yellow Shark; yet see also THE FUSE ENSEMBLE's version: WOW. **Review also some MAGMA, too, S.A.D.: anything off the Ẁurdah Ïtah album, please.**

He once said his 2nd favorite instrument was bassoon (due to its medieval aroma) - About the cover, coincidentally Frank was partly Arab - via his dad

@paulfenwick8767

2 жыл бұрын

thought his dad was of Sicilian ancestry?

@stevedotwood

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulfenwick8767 No Arab/Greek- His mom was Italian (Sicilian/Neapolitan)/French

@paulfenwick8767

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevedotwood his dad was Sicilian but had greek/arab ancestry

@stevedotwood

2 жыл бұрын

@@HakanTunaMuzik They both LIVED in Sicily. Ancestry is another thing. About the headpiece, I was only pointing out the coincidence, and I already knew it was satire.

@stevedotwood

2 жыл бұрын

@Zolar Czakl I know that, why don't you inform someone who doesn't know. I know a pun when I see one 🤣

at 3:08 Dan looses the pedestrian beat.

I remain comfounded by this song. Same with Purple Lagoon.

Frank was always studying you. That's the look.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Love it

Maybe we should all take more care of people who might prefer to stay with their mothers.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

Check out 'Wild Love,' the song immediately before 'Yo Mama.' More of that musical wildness (i.e., the radical changes), some funny lyrics, and yes...some xylophone.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

one of my fave albums you should check out the track Flakes but there is so much on this album

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Aliens T-Shirt! Far out!

8 tins of lager, one good blunt and this track is then ready to be appreciated....

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@raytrusty8618

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark I can suggest some amazing bands and songs for you to listen to.....try Aladdin Sane by Bowie (Album version) its a journey to madness.....but then here is the most stunning live gig by a band called the Cardiacs...its Zappa on steroids....the gig was called Mares nest.....kzread.info/dash/bejne/pn6Tq4-cZrS7f7Q.html

Sight after dark listen to Frank's interviews, he gives you an insight into who he is!!?