Thank you so so much again for this one Tyler ! To reply to your question. "Inca Roads" "Village of the Sun" then you would have to have a go at "Echidna's Arf" and "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" ofc 🙂 If ever you need other ideas there's many more 🙂
These videos are amazing, Tyler! I have listened to Zappa for decades, always loved that "something" in it. I have learned to play some of his stuff, but in fragments that never gave me any real insight into what really "makes it tick". Your videos can tech me more in one minute than what Life can do in a year. And thank you Arthur, you're a star!
Very nice, and thank you. I like the history and the transcriptions. I've listened to this album nearly aleph-null times, but there were bits I missed that I saw in the transcriptions. I think "Wet T-Shirt Nite" was a better title. I also prefer "Toad-O Line" for the pun with _toe the line._ I once saw someone online (the USENET days) who was deeply offended at "Sounds like you just got an ice pick in the forehead." That's second-wave (inaccurately named) feminism for you. But that line was destined to become part of my mythology. I sometimes say "that's about as stupid as someone could get without the handle of an ice pick protruding from the forehead." I'm afraid that's not my favorite, though. Mine is "Watermelon in Easter Hay" for the phrasing. Also, since I was wrongfully imprisoned for political reasons, I know exactly how Joe felt. Zappa's skill at phrasing and coloring his guitar notes isn't talked about nearly enough. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" has so much in the guitar sound, I have a hard time coming up with another guitarist in the same galaxy. I decided I needed a minor blues on my prison MP3 player and picked that one as the first. Gil Evans' "Las Vegas Tango" was the second. Note also the single-note repetition in "Andy."
"Toad-O Line" is more likely this: "Toad-O", mentioned elsewhere as _some big rock-group_ , means of course _Toto_ , and the melody at the start of the guitar solo sounds quite like _Hold the Line_ by that band.
Thank you so much for doing these videos! To me Zappa's music always made sense intuitively but to see it laid out in all it's glory really helps me understand why. P.S. I made a comment a while ago about how I heard "Number 2" in a concert the Zappa Band did. Now I understand they played the complete insert at the show I was at. Was such a sick show.
Don't have time to watch the video this weekend but just want to say you help Zappas musical scholarship so much. And what I have learned here has impacted my own compositions.
I would not be the same composer if it wasn't for these videos. I e created my own kind of Project/Object and conceptual continuity inside of my own works, as well as aesthetic inspiration such as repeated notes, dense lines juxtaposed with relatively sustained or repeated notes!
frank totally stole that ‘steady 4/4 beat with the band doing odd metered shit’ from stravinsky. it’s all over l’histoire du soldat, one of frank’s favorite pieces. the double bass plays in 4/4 while the rest of the ensemble deals with all sorts of meter changes. amazing video as always! thank you so much for making these
Please, you need to active the subtitle for the rest of American continent that need and wants to read in spanish, thanks a lot...! good job..! Por favor, debe activar el subtítulo para el resto del continente Americano que necesita y quiere leer en español, muchas gracias...! buen trabajo..!
What a fantastic time to drop this, right after the 43rd anniversary of Joe’s Act One and just before the anniversary of 2 & 3. I’ve been waiting for this ever since your Jumbo vid talked about Insertions.
I don’t have big musical ears, but Arthur’s work on SUNPYG is otherworldly! Playing in real time with Frank and Vinny and sound like the are sharing a mutual brain has to rank as some of the most amazing bass work ever
As always, a great video! Thank you for doing this. Since you asked, I'd love to see some videos breaking down some of Frank's impossible guitar solo phrases. I spend so much time trying my best to figure them out and play them.
I was lucky enough to see Frank Zappa Live 8 times, Jaw Dropping Brilliance, what you hear live was also on the Albums just Fantastic, this video is brilliant and with ARTHUR BARROW I LOVE THIS VIDEO a BIG THANK YOU, Words by FRANK.....MUSIC IS BEST👍
The bass riff during the break down on Catholic girls is one of the coolest things I've heard on the instrument. it sounds like Minutemen! I would prob not care all too much about the song, (especially with all its friggin frank Sinatra sections) without that popin bass. Frank should of gave credit where credits due.
will you release a disco version of the interlude? The one you teased at the end of the video ? I liked it and the others you did for Montana and Alien Orifice
So glad you didn't forget that snappy-deleted drum break in the instrumental part. It's on the Knebworth bootleg and sounds great. Can't understand why Frank cut it.
@5:33 I've been looking for a recording of Saddlebags for a while. I remember catching a rehearsal of the full piece (not that it's very long, just two sections) off of Zappateers, and it sounded like the essence of mathrock to come. Does anyone know where I could hear the full Saddlebags again?
At 35:20 are bars 82 to 97 of the first movement of Sinister Footwear. I know this because I have a pdf of the entire piece. You can hear the whole thing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qh1ENwjdpzY.html
I loved the video even though most of it was way over my head. Frank’s music helped me get through my teens & I love it today as much as then. I would like to ask a mundane question. I love the t-shirt shown on the cover for this clip. Do you know where I can get one?
Holy crap, this video is amazing. I think I should be taking notes. Thanks for all the hard work that went into making this video. Much appreciated. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful and well-presented analysis of an artist I’ve only just been brave enough to explore in my late 20s! 27:08 Probably just a misspeak, but A to Bb is a major seventh descending (as I’m sure you know). (Its inversion is the minor ninth you mention)
That's the first time I had to cut a video about Zappa's retro-engineering. I'm not a musician, so it's hard for me to follow, given the huge density of what is presented here. But I like it. One thing we learned with Zappa is to push back our limits, so I'll come back to it later. It's pure happiness for me to see that there's so much material about his music since the movie about him in the theaters. It seems that 2024 is the year of UFOs disclosure and ZAPPA rediscovery ; I can't be more fulfilled. 🙏 👽🛸🎸
In reference to what you mention at 10:55 seconds, The reason it's over 4/4 is because early in the Mothers of Invention's career (And I came across this information in one of Zappa's books), the band wasn't skilled enough to wrap their heads around anything outside of 4/4 time. Zappa wrote whatever he wanted to write in whatever time signatures he wanted, but he laid it over 4/4 time so that the band wasn't confused by all those weird time signatures as they had to learn them. It was probably a good mental exercise for Zappa, too, possibly enabling him to think of several time signatures at the same time in preparation for his "Xenochrony phase" for a lot of Joe's Garage and the Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar albums.
Why did the name change from the original album to the CD releases?? Wet T-Shirt Nite was on my Joe's Garage Album (part 1) then when the cd came out, it changed to Fembot in a Wet T-shirt??
