Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - King Kong (1968 at BBC) 2/3 

The best era of Mothers of invension.

The Mothers of Invention Sincerely Regret To Inform You: Nothing better than taking a hit of Orange Sunshine and losing yourself with the Mothers; Best acid rock on the planet - then and now all that from a guy (FZ) who never took LSD in his life. I miss him so very much....not necessarily his newer music, but certainly his music from the 60's and early 70's.

This is a woderful treat. All my life, I've thought the sax solo at about 6:00 was Frank soloing. That sound is in a great deal of tunes. Teh thunk, it's manipulated sax.

Pure Brilliance by Uncle Frank & company....

Damn hard groove, something Zappa seemed to stray from in his later work. Good stuff.

That second guy with the saxophone killed it

So good!

I'm just thinking of all the old stodgy Brits shitting their pants and making obscene comments about "those bloody Yanks" while the kids and musicians are thinking "Holy Shit! This is fucking amazing!" Frank and the Mothers liked to fuck with peoples minds as part of the "low keyed war against apathy." Remember boys and girls, music is the best!

o what joy. some very inventive expression here

Monstrous skill.

haha, love the hospital bed

Ian Underwood... Electrifying horn solo!!!!

awesome!!!

Art Tripp

Come on baby light my fire 🔥

Why two drummers? Are they playing in different rhythms? Or just for a bigger percussion sound?

the comment i left in your other video applies.... i have been in that bed many times, without this music............................ THANK YOU !!....bob

Is that a young Danny Trejo playing drums back there?

Roy Estrada really plays a great bass here, his best effort????/

Why dont we have electric wah wah saxophones any more?

The transition at 5:00 ....

Thanks to BBC at that time they let bands have free hand playing what they wanted ? Including brown shoes Dont make it ? By the Mothers he thanked them for allowing his freedom of artistic music as they gave him very little airplay?in usa ? All the best as he became known with fans? 😉😉

Most of those musicians saw it the other way around.

Who's the second drummer playing with Jimmy Carl ?

Audio is way overmodulated.

Gag me with spoon!

Makin' the water turn black. I don't mean Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian of the group.

Yeah, unfortunately I don't think he ever played w/ musicians who could play this kind of improvised music for the rest of his career. I even felt that when Jean Luc was playing w/ him he didn't enjoy it and wasn't playing his best.

suveränt

Don't think Estrada was into that in those days. Probably too busy enjoying groupies.

You're raging hard at at a satirical comment for a MOI video. I find that hilarious. Even if Zappa knew stuff about Estrada, which we unfortunately now know, and still wanted to have him in his band. I'd respect Zappa even more. Because Frank would've picked him for his skills and creative drive and not exclude him from the band because of personal life issues.

thats some real shit playing

not really