lead guitar - Frank Zappa (obviously lol) drummer 1 (the one in the back with the long black hair) - Jimmy Carl Black drummer 2 (the foreground one) - Art Tripp bass guitar - Roy Estrada keys - Don Preston baritone sax (first solo) and tambourine - Motorhead Sherwood tenor sax (the one on the right with white/gray hair) - Bunk Gardner alto sax (the one on the left) - Ian Underwood This set was recorded (October 23, 1968) two days before the show that can be heard on the second half of the CD Ahead Of Their Time (October 25, 1968)! Check it out if you want to hear this lineup play a full 40-minute instrumental set.
FZ and the MOTHERS of INVENTION was the first concert I ever attended. 1968 my girlfriend and I we were 15. It was at the Shrine Auditorium L.A. Of course. Also the Sir Douglas Quintet. Wow we were so 😎 cool telling our friends at school about it. Her older Brother drove us.
Jeezus Christ how is it so flowing and improvised while being so tight and on point? One of the best live performances I've ever seen. Up there with Can's Paperhouse and Miles Davis' So What.
In an interview in around 2010 or so Don Preston said that before they ever played out they practiced 8 hours a day 7 days a week including thanksgiving and christmas.
In the first Minute I would say shit Rock music, nothing like Ornette Coleman free jazz, but as i listen throught the whole piece, i do hear a million "shapes of riffs to come"... Oh oh... they play some music, and I stay still... For much more time after it...
Frank had so many amazing bands. But this band is one of my favorites, not only because they were amazing musicians, but also because they were Hungry Freaks Daddy.
Late reply but funnily enough the version from Ahead Of Their Time (Live In London '68, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) is probably the official release which sounds closest to this masterpiece. Which kind of makes sense--I read ages ago that Zappa recorded THIS version very soon after the concert that became A.O.T.T. And the BBC shelved it, unseen, for 25 years. Because we weren't ready for it then. First aired as part of the BBC Zappa documentary shown soon after his death--it was a total exclusive at the time and caused quite a stir amongst Zappa freaks, I recall!
This sounds like a good old Zappa song. The man is like the best jazzy infusion player he's always been. I couldn't mix that up for the life of me. Wow, still a mind blower and I'm 65 years old. His music will never get old to me though. I really don't think anyone else would be able to do this with music today. A master of this work for sure.
This was shown on the BBC in 1968, just a couple of years previously the viewers would have been watching Freddie and the Dreamers.....this must have been a complete mind fuck for the audience.
+David Simpson Hey man, at least he didn't fuck around and put out a stupid amount of music. Frank Zappa was a musician not wasted, squeezed every last drop.
Would you rather have China do it? Or Islam? Seriously, just what are you complaining about? Is there a better, freer, inclusive society than America? Is there a higher standard of living someplace in the world? Without us, commies and fascists would rule the world. Remember that the next time you want to criticize our country's heritage. The only thing with us now is the secular humanists who are taking us down a road to financial ruin.
Amazing...as if King Crimson and Soft Machine somehow had a baby, then Gong and Quicksilver Messenger Service had a baby, and those two babies grew up and had a baby ...that's this. Zappa's musical mind is amazing.
I love seeing Motorhead here, playing sax & tambourine like a wildman, and doing some very fancy dancing as well. Sending him lots of light and love at this heartbreaking time.....
Frank had said in various interviews he never ever wanted to go back to this lineup but didn’t regret it because he’d liked and played with them for so long.
Was lucky to wander into the Carrick Theater in NY as a college freshman and Motown fan. Exited a stone cold hippie. Thank you Frank and the original Mothers.
It was actually performed by the Mothers on a night in which they invited Lennon and Ono onstage. Lennon then released the track with that stupid name and never gave any credit to Frank.
@@SaltpeterTaffy well he had albums with 'jazz' in the title that i don't consider jazz. actually the jazziest he ever got was when he played a couple guitar leads on one of george duke's solo albums. in my opinion his playing was quite bad on those tracks and he was out of his element.
"We are involved in a sort of low key war against apathy, I don't know how you are doing in apathy over there but we have a lot of it boys and girls. A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might, just for a second, question enough of their environment to do something about it". Its odd to see a young and rather nervous Zappa utter such prophetic words
Walking around auckland city in New Zealand .... night time ...... headphones playing Willie the pimp ......... 2019....... tripping ........... AWESOME
I just realized something, King Kong first appeared (briefly) on lumpy gravy in 1968, so I'll bet like at least one person who went to a mothers of invention concert before the release of uncle meat recognized it.
I have listened to King Kong many times over the past 50 years and continue to enjoy it every time. How many other compositions meet that standard ? For myself personally I can think of everything few. This is my favorite MOI standard that crashes into my consciousness consistently along with Let's Make the Water Turn Black.
Frank Zappa is my dad's third cousin, I am Logan Anthony Zappa and I intend to make emotional rocks songs that sound a bit like Nirvana, my dad is Anthony Steven Zappa and he would hang out with Frank all the time. (Yes I live in Minnesota and I am Italian like my father.) I am kinda proud to say that I have the same ancestors as Frank.
BurningOranges Dude, Frank is a God. My great great uncle is the composer Aaron Copland. It's great to be related to someone so special. Also, neither of our relatives did anything really bad. They just put amazing art out into the world which is all I've ever wanted to do anyway. Cheers, Mr. Zappa.
He aquí la más clara muestra de por que Zappa para nosotros (los mas adictos al rock) es una figura clave en la historia. Rompiendo los esquemas musicales y aún así siendo exitoso y convirtiendose en una leyenda. ;-{D
FRANK ZAPPA.. Genius Supreme..If it weren't for this Unique Person just think you how much a disadvantage from what we received vrs what we would have never heard from anyone else !!...😇
I was just watching the video and scrolled down to make this exact comment. " I want to hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations I’ve traveled to, but first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won’t fall down."
I have literally blown about 30 pairs of headphones listening to this, no lie. I crank it all the way up on my soundboard when it kicks in!! I love it. I listen to it so loud that my headphones get hot to the touch and my ears are hot as hell
oh my god. Amazing! I was at my granddaughter 3 years old preschool, and they made the exact same music. almost note for note. I think old frank stole this from a preschool music class
The Percussion starting at 0:50 is so Fucking amazing. It's a staple of nearly every single early mothers show I've heard and I will never get tired of it, its just so unbelievably epic in the ugliest of ways :)
Are there still any Americans like Frank? None of the stars of today, and for that matter the still hanging around stars of the past, seem to have much to say about anything.
