FRANK ZAPPA - BILLY THE MOUNTAIN (reaction)

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Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "Billy the Mountain" by Frank Zappa
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@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

If you liked this, be sure to check out our Frank Zappa podcast! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qyOpmQ7p-DA.html

@leoscone4036 2 года назад

Zappa's work with Flo and Eddie was some of his most hilarious. Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman ("Flo and Eddie") were in the band "The Turtles", formed in 1965. Their song "Happy Together" was #1 for three weeks back in 1967. They were, after The Turtles, comedy rock artists in their own right. Hooking up with Zappa was like a match made in heaven. Y'all need to watch the movie "200 Motels". And you absolutely want to listen to Zappa's "Live at the Fillmore East". You'll learn to do the "Mudshark", learn about creamed corn, and get a snippet of them doing "Happy Together" but in the context of a groupie who will only do it with rock stars who had a number one hit, with a bullet...with a bullet. Heh-heh. Blessings.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

awesome!

@CliffordLake 2 года назад

We aren't groupies, that is going too far.

@markbyers1651 2 года назад

Battle of the Bands from the Turtles is great l.p.

@williambevins 2 года назад

The bullet is what gets me the hottest.

@jayburdification 2 года назад

I second the Mud Shark follies.

@stevegyles3190 2 года назад

Holy Crap! I NEVER though I would see any youtubers react to Billy The Mountain! Subbed!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks Steve!

@amedeeabreo7334 2 года назад

Funny touch is how Zappa always played "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" theme.... every time they mention New York in the lyrics! Thanks for another great review!

@barrywilson1294 2 года назад

The Tonight Show originated in New York and Carson hosted it there until 1972 when he moved himself and the show to Hollywood. There was some negative reaction at the time (change bad) and playing the Tonight Show theme before each mention of “New York” was for laughs. Frank played the Garrick theater in NY at a time when the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” was still in NY too.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@charcolew 2 года назад

The sheer absurdity of the storyline, and the crazy response to a crazy (imaginary?) threat, all that is very Cold War and 70s USA, but it's also Zappa's way of thinking about living in America. Reasoning with a mountain is in a way akin to the government trying to deal with the various social "threats" of the time, civil and human rights, abortion, poverty, feminism, inequality and social unrest. The forces of change were too strong, the legislation and the speechmaking were puny by comparison, "nature" came out on top and we had progress. Remember Zappa's famous phrase "Without deviation from the norm, progress is impossible". So keep doing your own thing your own way, guys!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Lol who says you can’t reason with a mountain???

@Claytone-Records 2 года назад

@@SightAfterDark Possibly more practical than dealing with the guvmint or Billy’s small wooden wife.

@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 2 года назад

An astute summary

@supasoulproductions 2 года назад

The epic tale of Billy the Mountain and his stunning wife Ethel a tree! Featuring the irrepressible Flo and Eddie! Many think that the combination of Zappa with Flo & Eddie was just too much weirdness. Others find them just weird enough. I, for one, take a completely neutral position on this. Twirly, twirly, twirly... The more serious debate is whether this version of Billy the Mountain is better than the one on 'Just Another Band From L.A' For me, it pretty much just depends on how much Billy the Mountain time you have...Which, now that I think about it, is pretty much a microcosm for the dilemma of human existance. Or not.

@johndrx165 2 года назад

This was my first introduction to Zappa. It left and indelible impression.

@dantean 2 года назад

Wow, nice to see you tackle this long, long piece. It's one of the ones that first got me deeply into the playing of drummer Aynsley Dunbar. The original version is a little tighter, but this one's great, too. Thanks.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Th ma for watching!

@IanMcGrath70 2 года назад

This one is nice because it has the solo sections, which were edited out of the Pauley Pavilion show (on Just another Band from LA)

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

At about 23:00 I love how the music goes quiet with Dunbars drumming getting louder and more complex as it builds to another Zappa climax.

@Alyks1 2 года назад

This is a mountain of a song! I personally prefer the version off the Just Another Band From LA album.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

lol definitely a mountain

@michaelmalm1502 2 года назад

Zappa has so much material my favorites are always changing. There’s Frank then everything else. I also got to see Frank live 6 times . 😁

@davidbarrus6542 2 года назад

May Frank's music play on forever. You guys rock.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Oh yeah! Thanks David!

@DiscountDeity 2 года назад

This song(?) was never performed the same way twice: not only did Zappa continue to refine it on the road, adding and deleting passages (one version includes a parody of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"; another features Flo & Eddie reciting an elaborate tongue-twister together), but many of the references to locations and public figures were changed from show to show, often "personalized" with local references for wherever they happened to be performing.

@jayburdification 2 года назад

I particularly love the “One Hen, Two Ducks” version.

@adamnealis 2 года назад

Putting the eyebrows on it.

@lucianobielinis3280 2 года назад

None song of Zappa was performed the same way, Never never

@DrSardonicuss 2 года назад

Ah yes, over by the Frozen Beef Pies at Gristede's... This album actually came out tomorrow in 1992! & features the second incarnation of the Mothers. This was recorded in June 1971 at the Fillmore East, NYC... Another album released around this time, Ahead Of Their Time (April '93) features the original Mothers.

@krisdavis1050 2 года назад

I remember listening to this for the first time when I was 14 and was quite blown away. I had already gotten into the earlier Mothers albums also Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage, Apostrophe, but this was my favorite FZ composition for many years and I still think it's the best thing he's ever performed live.

@itssimple7285 2 года назад

omg, to a LA home audience no less! material for which coming direct from local LA TV commercials no less - and there's more! hilarity! Can you imagine taking this in the road as a regular item? All over the known rock-n-roll world that might be happier with the Vanilla Fudge or Three Dog Night? Oh My!!!!! Oh yah! Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman had done background vocals on Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior album which was just then (August 1971) being pressed for release next month and destined to become a new Cosmic Dancer shibboleth for your mythology !!!! and Aynsley Dunbar, oh wow! Hard to believe this is fifty years old. Already.

@IanMcGrath70 2 года назад

I think they would add local references when they played in various parts of the country. But the litany of LA suburbs and neighborhoods certainly has special appeal in that locale.

@brianwhitney5441 2 года назад

I remember when I first heard this and even now it reminds me of the Smothers Brothers. Old TV comedy act. Nice you are jumping into this. Zappa's comedy is off the charts.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

For real!

@Mime59100 2 года назад

THE GREATEST SUPER HERO OF ALL TIME!

@petermaxwell2965 2 года назад

The first zappa record i heard in 1972, what an EPIC HUH ? so many references to new York.. the carson theme etc,

@Oslerian 2 года назад

Man, what can I say about this elixir? I listened to Billy the Mountain every day for about two months back in the 90s and to this day I break it down into four parts: The first part I can follow the story of Billy getting royalties for being photographed,; the second part I get lost and somehow Billy gets drafted and Ethel is deemed a communist; the third part is the wicked build-up with Studebaker Hawk that leads to an amazing crescendo in the telephone booth followed by the fourth part, amazing extended jam. It's a song enjoyed by the inner, inner Zappa circle: those who love the Filmore East 1971 album and look forward to a solid 30 minutes of a very specific kind of Flo and Eddie entertainment. I miss Frank so much!

@chazblitz 2 года назад

Don't know if you guys are readers but Howard Kaylan's biography called Shell Shocked is a great funny AF read. Covers Turtles and Zappa plus all the Flo and Eddie stuff they did. Hope you guys dug this!!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks!

@scottgjerdingen 2 года назад

Thanks for referral, Howard cracks me up!

@thomasvieth6063 2 года назад

The version I know is from "Just Another Band From LA", and I heard the craziest stuff about it, as in: it was actually 2 or 3 hours long and Zappa cut it down to 20 some minutes; also: they performed it all over the country and had to change names that fit for the present location, and so on. It is still highly entertaining for me, and I enjoyed the differences to this version, because I know the other almost by heart. P.S.: There was no musical solos in the one I know

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

That’s intense!

@Gravyballs2011 2 года назад

My favorite version.

@danamaguire4285 2 года назад

There are passages of preposterous beauty amongst the hilarity, raw juicy jams and wild changes. We grew up with a shorter version from the album Was Mothers Just Another Band from LA. There is a basic storyBilly gets a royalty check. They go on vacation and Studebaker Hawk (named after a car) goes in the phone booth with flies and attempts to get him drafted and falls to his demise. All the details and jams are improvised in between. They did this differently every night. As teenagers we memorized the album version and would sing it word for word. You should really check that version and the songs on the other side. FZ’s guitar work is phenomenal.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Phenomenal indeed

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

It's Studebaker Hoch not Hawk.

@erikahlander3489 2 года назад

Thanks! Never heard this version before! When you have finished all Zappa albums, you still have all spinn off music by former Mothers members: Grand mothers, Flo & Eddie, Ponty, Beefheart etc etc

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

We’ve done a bit of beefheart already! Quite a character

@Robscot1963 2 года назад

Yea I honestly don’t remember if this is the version off “Just another band from LA”. It’s been so long since Ive heard it. And actually that entire album is off the charts amazing. Was one of my first that I owned.

@stony2494 2 года назад

Always loved this. Totally off the wall Flo and Eddie 😎🙏♥️

@williamiagrossi7382 2 года назад

Yea, Mark Volman , Howard Kaylan, very funny guys. You should check out Frank Zappa Live. At the Fillmore east 1971. It's a little long. It takes up both sides of the album. But a lot of fun.

@tanderson8213 2 года назад

“His cliff which was a jaw, well it dropped thirty feet”. Lol..love it..

@lordofthehornets3238 2 года назад

A friend used to play the Another Band From LA version after a night at the pub & he wanted people to go home. :)

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

And does everyone understand the, O Mein Papa, in the Earths Crust comment? The song O Mein Papa was sung by Eddie Fisher (Princess Leia's real dad) Fisher > Fissure. Fissure in the Earths Crust.

@gj8683 2 года назад

This is what Zappa's voice sounded like before he was attacked on stage at a later gig and had to be hospitalized.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 2 года назад

You can see Gregory and Billy in the claymation in "Baby Snakes". A good winter movie.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Nice! Winter is right around the corner

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 года назад

Frank was asked "what is your favorite album/piece." Frank replies with " the next one"

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Great attitude

@altohippiegabber 2 года назад

love this song and especially this version⛰🏝 (one of those little songs everybody can sing all the lyrics too😏)

@AmberPearcy 2 года назад

Been awhile since I’ve listened to this. Forgot how fun and amazing the Turtles were in this.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

They’re great!

@damonmurray3905 2 года назад

I can't believe you two sat through that!!🤣🤣 I personally prefer the Just another band from LA version!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

It was fun!

@toda304 2 года назад

Great review ...a long piece of Old time Zappa Live..always Fun

@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 2 года назад

Great point about the drumming, and tempo & meter changes, in particular. That is Mr. Aynsley Dunbar, who played with John Mayal, Jefferson Starship, and Journey. Though he was more drummer than they needed, Zappa's music was perfect for his skills. I also like your reference to the story/lyrics, and how this relates to Greggery Peccary. Indeed, they both seem to me to be cartoons for the ears!

@songsmithy07 2 года назад

That "not quite Gospel" vibe is Doo Wop, which is a huge influence that you can hear throughout his body of work. Now, when you listen to Gregory Peccary next time, you'll be able to catch the Billy the Mountain reference

@Frankincensedjb123 2 года назад

Ah, yes, the top 40, ever radio friendly Billy the Mountain, companion piece to Greggery Peccary, performance pieces for stage and screen. Thirty minutes of story telling, chanting, singing, and musical interludes. Again, what didn't Frank do? Next you've got to do a Zappa Affair, a piece played by the Berkley Symphonic Orchestra. It combined theater, dance and larger-than-life puppets with Zappa's music, but it's some two hours of music, so maybe if you ever do album length material. 200 Motels and Thing Fish are two more lengthy performance pieces Zappa did, just FYI.

@tonescape1 Год назад

@SightAfterDark: It's a surreal story. Yes, Billy is supposed to be a real mountain -- at the beginning of the story, Zappa even locates where he and Ethel "live": between Rosamund and Gorman, which places them on the north side of the San Bernardino mountains, between I-5 and Lancaster. Of course a mountain can't really talk, or walk across the USA -- but that's just Zappa using his wild imagination. This has been one of my favorite long "theater" pieces ever since I first learned it, back in the late 1970s. My crazy school friends introduced me to it, and we used to sing it every day on the schoolbus -- the ride was just the right length of time to perform the whole thing ... every weekday.

@jay_vero 2 года назад

i cant believe somebody reacted to this.. great stuff.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@Peter-K 2 года назад

Super composer! I love it...and don't worry there aren't many 30 minute long songs, it's only 24 minutes on the Just Another Band From LA version. Now that you heard this, think back to GP, Billy made an appearance in that song too! Thanks again, you two certainly have some fortitude listening to these extremely long songs, it really takes some effort to digest all that he puts into such long songs.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Love it

@Ducatirati 8 месяцев назад

There is the super lo g version of Black Napkins 5 hrs 14 min, my mate wanted a piss and I said hang on listen to this , and for 2 minutes I said listen , and I said, oh fk it , GO, but don't take 5 hrs you'll miss it ,

@chrisnealis4270 2 года назад

Definitely a unique era of The Mothers. Glad that Flo and Eddie got to be immortalized in some really well composed and recorded content, because those guys got royally fucked over at just about every other point in their careers. Hard to believe they were the voices behind The Turtles - So Happy Together. This work was so important because it was seeing this lineup that changed educational and professional direction for Ruth Underwood. So even though a lot of people are not a fan of this era, we wouldn't have had the core of what most consider to be "the best" without it. Billy is just one of those songs. I never think I'm in the mood for it... and then 10 seconds in I'm hooked. It could be an hour long... 2 hours long, and I would never tire of it. Also a great example of Franks voice before the stage attack incident/injury that lowered it for the rest of his life. Side note: I come here almost specifically for your Zappa content, but I joined the Patreon last night and will start checking out a little bit of everything. Keep up the great work!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Shoutout to them!

@simonagree4070 11 месяцев назад

The "Sofa" saga in its entirety is pretty amazing too -- it was the long set piece the band was touring with when Zappa was assaulted on stage. I've only heard it on a poorly recorded live bootleg.

@MrUndersolo 9 месяцев назад

Look for the recent box set that covers the 1971 tour, including the attack on Zappa (they actually recorded the moment he was injured)!

@wmlemerise2331 6 месяцев назад

In my life there was Appstore a CA A commute exactly as long as this tune in its original form. Love the story it was about the draft a little, which I was sweating.

@Robscot1963 2 года назад

Just regarding one of the last things you mention about him writing all that stuff. He wrote non stop. “Literally”. He’d be up almost all night writing. Traveling? Writing. Bathroom? Writing. He rarely ever took a break because that’s what he just loved doing.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks Rob!

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

Yes Frank says that he took a vacation once and ended up writing music on the beach.

@sootikins 2 года назад

Glad you did this one! Having grown up listening to the JABFLA version and having every word and note of it etched into my brain, this version sounds a bit weird to me. Many times it zigs where I was expecting it to zag. Still good, but I missed all the references to local people and places that are in the JABFLA version. Also this version is missing my favorite line of all: when Studebaker Hawk falls off Billy's mouth, just as you hear him hit the bottom, someone kinda in the background yells "oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss", which still kills me every time I hear it.

@mauicesmith1762 Год назад

Yeah, that line breaks me up too!

@brunopoizat3987 2 года назад

yes the one and only!

@richardwissing954 2 года назад

Great! The take away is "Don't Fuck with a Mountain"

@davehagi9883 2 года назад

Good question? what do you say! on many an occasion, an all knowing but stupid grin would be shared, whoever felt they had the energy would make their way to the kitchen ( Tea Time of course ) Rizla´s would be brandished, and the most sensible would venture to turn the Record over, a faint and distant voice could be heard from the direction of the kitchen area,´´don´t start without me´´.

@pedrozappa 2 года назад

When i heard this for the first time, i thought: cool, so, we can do this with the music? Super composer is a good name. Tx

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@joshuabruner9676 Год назад

The version I first heard was on Just Another Band From LA, there's another I heard in Zappa Goes to Stonybrook, a NY performance. Worth checking those and other versions I may not know of. This song hooked me on his work

@Mime59100 2 года назад

Now you know why little Greg Peccery was so frightened by him…also this song is a fun time to remember he didn’t do drugs

@jpetersgoyanks 2 года назад

If you are digging the “Flo & Eddie” years (which are the 2 lead singers here) then might I suggest listening to “This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich” from “200 Motels”.

@supasoulproductions 2 года назад

Just don't be fooled when looking at the cover of the album, because the guy coming out of the sky is not FZ. It's Ringo Starr!

@jpetersgoyanks 2 года назад

@@supasoulproductions I thought it was Larry the Dwarf … well, it’s certainly not Theodore Bikel.

@erikahlander3489 2 года назад

I am proud that my daughter has my 200 motels poster following with the album on her teenage room wall!

@jpetersgoyanks 2 года назад

@@erikahlander3489 just don’t tell her the purpose of the vacuum cleaner… lol. I still remember the first time I saw the film while drunk with my best friend.

@justaguy2365 2 года назад

Yay!!!! Flo and Eddie on vocals... well, main vocals. I think most of the band had vocal parts in this. He wrote this stuff while touring. I think it's why he had his own hotel room when they toured. He would just sit and write when everyone else was partying after shows. Next you gotta hear Penis Dimension and the Flo and Eddie version of Call any Vegetable.

@bartstarr100 2 года назад

Haven't heard this since like 1981

@markofrontz1343 2 года назад

Of the 3 versions, not my go to, always fun none the less😆

@cranburiedsaul7239 2 года назад

Royalties!!!!!

@thesoundship 2 года назад

Finally, Billy the Mountain!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

🙂

@akahina Год назад

The Mothers w/ Flo & Eddie was one of my first concerts and one I will never forget. Yes, I'm that old. In High school we used to sing "Billie the Mountain", "Shoe Fly Pie" and "One Meatball" (Ry Cooder) in the halls to irritate the administration. They hated it but couldn't do a damn thing.

@SightAfterDark Год назад

Sounds awesome! We both can only hope to get “old” one day!

@akahina Год назад

@@SightAfterDark Just for giggles, check out Ry Cooter. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-igqo0-HnWSk.html

@Claytone-Records 2 года назад

This is The BTM version fer my coinage. I just Luv that clarinet in the introduction. Everything else just follows so…. Glad you’re digging Zappa. Good to see young ones who get it. ‘My Baby, my baby, my baby!’ Each time you revisit BTM you will hear more as is true of much of Zappa. He is his own rabbit hole. One of my and my son’s favorite Z tunes. Thanks.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks for watching Clayton!

@johnnyfrederick01 7 месяцев назад

The very first Zappa I ever heard at 15 years old (circa. 1973). On the “Just Another Band from LA” album. Mind. Blown. But… I never heard this cut before. Where did you find it?

@SightAfterDark 7 месяцев назад

A patron sent us this link

@markdearlove8634 2 года назад

Incredible! Great reaction to an amazing piece of entertainment. I know you did G Spot live but I'd like to see your reaction to that track and other synclavier stuff on Jazz From Hell as a contrast. Always looking forward to more!🤙

@shyshift 2 года назад

Civilization Phase III is Jazz From Hell and Lumpy Gravy in a blender.

@robbyrob0723 8 месяцев назад

I'm remember this back in college lol!

@Mime59100 2 года назад

This is so fun to watch lmao

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

😊

@garlooroztox 2 года назад

It is one of the greatest. There is lots more great stuff. This is advanced. So is his last release Civilization phase 3.

@GoodCorporateRobot 2 года назад

I wouldn’t say the greatest. It is certainly fantastic. It is also certainly essential Zappa. I think that is the point of having you react to this. And let’s not discount that I’m pretty sure this is a ground breaking reaction as nobody that I know of has done this. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. So congratulations for that! I loved all of it!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks Thomas!

@gornoman Год назад

This should have made it to Broadway!

@davidw.hulbertiv5211 Год назад

Hilarious... the water on the shoulder...

@dirkdiggler2637 2 года назад

she appears to fall asleep at times. well, jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

But then she tells you about the entire song! Aha!

@Peter-K 2 года назад

@@SightAfterDark she is a sly one, Sifa is probably a good poker player, even if she never played, she has the no tell look. ;-)

@filthwhistle 2 года назад

I've never seen anyone sit so stone-faced and unmoving during a performance by FZ, certainly not of BTM. I was shocked to find out you were actually paying attention. Because of that, I'm subscribing. Good job.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Oh wow, thanks Filthwhistle!

@brucecronin6396 2 года назад

Great stuff !!

@sterbus79 Год назад

Love it as I'm loving them all..... don't know if it's already in the channel, but you would have tons of fun with THE ADVENTURES OF GREGGARY PECCARY !

@SightAfterDark Год назад

😉 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pfd_Cjv__LY.html

@robertcutting4007 2 года назад

Zappa and Flo and Eddie made for the best weirdest stuff! Happy Halloween, Franks favorite holiday!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Happy early Halloween!

@keinKlarname 2 года назад

I really appreciate your reactions. Good to see that you not just listen to some of the most popular songs (Yesterday...). And as a Zappa fan for 35 years, for me it's great that you are especially listening to his music.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

We love it Tick, Trick und Track! Thanks for being here!

@wowwhywow 2 года назад

Many true Zappa fans love Billy... Zappa fans that like only the Overnight Sensation and Apostrophe period up until Joe's Garage... those folk tend not to like it as much.

@chrisnealis4270 2 года назад

They usually come around and expand their library. But yeah... it sucks that the majority of reactions out there are from those two albums, which IMHO, are a bit of a bruise on the catalog. Not that they aren't great, because they are, but they are a total misrepresentation of the overall Zappa experience. And that's coming from a guy who was 11 when Frank passed away and who's parents didn't listen to Zappa at all. Hell, my mom worked for gospel singer Sandi Patty. My entire life as a child was my mom hanging out with Sandi and people like Amy Grant. Thank God the Universe at some point helped me get my musical shit together. lol.

@bryanhale5254 2 года назад

Yeah this is a different version there's a really good version of this from the album just another band from LA that's my favorite like a definitive version but that's just me I love that first lyrics though a regular picturesque postcardy Mountain resting between Rosamond and Gorman those are two places up in the high desert above Los Angeles I used to go there with my crazy friends when they go up on their offer road bikes and go on their Adventures it's not far from where Vasquez mountains are which kind of really aren't Mountains they're just these big rocks that come out of the ground at a forty-five degree angle it's like the crust of the earth just got heaved up and this is where they would film a lot of Star Trek episodes in that area

@kevinmcguire3715 2 года назад

Saw Dweezil do a great job on this New Years eve 2009 at the opera house across the street from city hall in the city. San Francisco😂

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Hahaha shoutout to Dweezil!

@michaelthomas8592 2 года назад

Sifa asked for more at the beginning ("The Yellow Snow Suite") You now have it - in a million way... sorry... you are great! And Dan is too!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks Michael!

@michaelthomas8592 2 года назад

@@SightAfterDark No way! You are my favourite "listen to"-members! No! The ONLY ONE!

@pilesovinyl 2 года назад

Howard Kaylan, lead singer of the Turtles, was your narrator for the story of Billy The Mountain. They were at their weirdest arguably at this point.

@williambevins 2 года назад

I was living in Massachusetts when I was younger and listened to this album constantly. In 81 I moved to L A California. It was cool seeing all the places referenced in this song.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

We bet!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

We bet!

@cd6914 2 года назад

Love your react on this one. It's giving me the hope to listening & understanding... (I'm french...) this album.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks CD!

@linuslauterbach2975 2 года назад

Billy the Mountain appears as a character in "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary"! He's making "those new brown clouds" when he laughs. These cross-references inside Zappas own works are always enjoyable.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Love it

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

Another is the phrase, O Mein Papa in the Earths crust. The song was sung by Eddie Fisher (Princess Leia's real father) Fisher > Fissure Fissure in the Earths crust. (Earthquake)

@tommccafferty5591 2 года назад

YES!!!!! By the way Felix Pappalardi, who was mentioned in the song, wrote, arranged and produced Cream's second album, Disraeli Gears, was the bassist for Mountain, and was shot and killed by his wife, with a derringer he had given her. She was convicted of criminally negligent homicide.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

😢

@adamnealis 2 года назад

Wow. You went there! Respect!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks!

@outernothingness1177 2 года назад

Ahhh, finally!

@rickmerlotti7720 2 года назад

The modern-day super composer refuses to die. Thanks, enjoyed this.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@stevedotwood 2 года назад

And, as you all know, whenever billy laughs, rocks and boulders hack up, and the air for miles around is filled with tons of dust, forming a series of huge brown clouds!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Brown clouds!!

@jayburdification 2 года назад

I was 12 when I first heard the original of this from the Just Another Band From LA album. Then I outgrew the puerile bits and started listening to the music. And then I heard the Uncle Meat album and my mind was completely blown.

@mikeellis3240 Год назад

Just found you guys. My brother got Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention live album called Just Another Band From LA when he got home from the Army. I was 11 at the time. The reason he bought it was because it had a song called Dog Breath on it and that was his nickname in the Army for some reason. Turned out it was the worst song on the album. But the rest of the album was awesome and I heard it a lot when Mom wasn’t home. Lol The album Baby Snakes is really good. I love the title track and then a cool little ditty called Titties And Beer is very comical. Thanks guys. You are awesome

@SightAfterDark Год назад

Thanks for sharing Mike!

@FolkSongsEtAl 2 года назад

I haven't heard that version. Used to love this from the record "Just another band from LA" when I was a teenager. I was always fascinated at Studer Baker Hawke's method of travel.

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

Haha who wouldn’t be?

@tixximmi1 2 года назад

Hoch not Hawke or Hawk. As in Ham Hoch. Remember that, Nocternal Gregarious, wild swine in Greggory Peccary

@alldayadventures5418 2 года назад

This "Band from LA" is not afraid to Play or Say anything...!

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

For real

@markcirioni4571 2 года назад

You guys are the best

@SightAfterDark 2 года назад

So are you, thanks Mark!

@sulista-consulting Год назад

One of my absolute favorites, but I am used to the studio version

@stevegyles3190 2 года назад

It's certainly one of his longest pieces. The other version from Just Another Band From LA is equally great, especially if you're well acquainted with the geography of Southern California. Right behind the Jack In The Box on Glenn Oaks where they keep the pools of old poison gas and obsolete germ bombs.