You know a lot of people don't rate Zappa as a guitarist, but here is one of the best examples of why he's one of my favourite guitarists of all time. That guitar solo is transcendentally beautiful, and filled with the kind of emotion that frank only really let us hear through his musical notes.
The question of great guitar solos came up and I replied with this one. It conveys emotion, is incredibly creative and takes us on a brief ride in the middle of the rest of the chaos.
I love your love of his playing-I’m only disturbed by you saying most don’t rate him highly. Maybe he’s UNDER appreciated, but any guitarist (like myself) who knows Zappa knows he achieved something almost unattainable. He is what I would call a near perfect guitar player.
Saw him three times in the early to late 70's. Changed my life. Never have I been so entertained about a subject I know so little about, music. I had know Idea a concert could do that to me. I am a fan for life. His book of music and commentary continue to thrill me. Thank you Frank.
Holy crap Frank Zappa's one of the greatest guitarists That Ever Walked the planet was privileged enough to see him once in 84 and twice in 88 on his last tour saw him do the song truly amazing
@@xtra_krispy693 some of Frank's stuff can be hard to get through but Hot Rats is great and from 1969! Other favorites are Apostrophe, Joe's Garage and Sheik Yerbouti
I could never understand how he could make so many records, I couldn't keep up. Then I learned a lot of them were recorded live and then finished off, that's why sometimes he'll be talking and presenting the band, like in Sheik. He was in his own universe...
George's voice is so smooth and sweet juxtaposed to the other harsher one 🙊✌️ then Mr. FZ comes in and we glide across the outer fringes of the celestial waves while Chester groves write along ♥️✌️🙊☪️🕋🎤👳📿❤️
Zappa master genius musician no one ive ever met in my life can understand him except for 1975 meeting my friend frank orzechowski who changed my life with music forever with Zappa
Almost 3 years ago I listened to this song for the first time I fell in love with it 3 years later The album 'One Size Fits All' is one of my favourite albums of all time
Frank Zappa captured me 100% with his first (the FIRST DOUBLE ROCK ALBUM IN MUSIC HISTORY) release, Freak Out & together we were Only 13 and we know how to Nasty! I was so into this FZ that I listened to nothing else until Absolutely Free came out & this is how I lived my lifetime being entertained so hansomely that I MUST TELL ALL MY FRIENDS ( da boys & the ladies,too).I was living in Washington D.C. at the time & WHFS (Bethesda, Md) radio was the first 24 hour "underground music alternative". I'd crank my stereo up loud & got my dad to hear my favorite songs & after THAT.......he brought home Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, The Moody Blues, Santana etc from the record store next to the Americana Building where he worked partime & WHFS broadcasted from there! We got to be much closer and he was being Hip to me buying and wear Hip clothes to school. I really miss my Dad & Frank Zappa. It's a shame I did not have more moments with each of them. Both of them made me very HAPPY without even trying to. I was just as simple as that. R.I.P. with Love~! 🤩🥰😍
Alors......c'est curieux à dire, mais c'est pas mon solo preféré de FZ. C'est comme si son écriture polyphonique du diable avait tellement donné à mangé à ses musiciens dans cette pièce extraordinairement complexe, mais parfaitement unifiée, que l'arrivée de son solo fait comme une ruptute dans la dynamique générale du moceau , et qu'il y entre d'abord presque timidement. Pour imager autrement, c'est comme si la machine était déjà à fond en 4eme, et que FZ redemarait en première pour les rejoindre.Mais ce que j'en dit, c'est vraiment pour le plaisir de chercher la petite bête et c'est une opinion très personnelle et que Gloire soit à FZ.
The lyrics to this 8:45 largely instrumental piece are not as nonsensical as they may appear at first listen. It is very likely that Frank Zappa wrote “Inca Roads” some five years after the publication of Erich von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” (1968). Although the extraterrestrial hypothesis was discredited for the most part, it had and still has a deep influence on popular culture, including music. It notably inspired what might be the most original Christmas song ever : Chris de Burgh’s “A Spaceman Came Travelling” (1975). “Inca” might not be in the same league, but it displays some fine jazz fusion. Interestingly, the tune includes some off-beat time signature. Also noteworthy : “Inca” has a skip in it. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED⁉️ 💙🎼💚 May you rest in peace, Frank Vincent Zappa (1940 - 1993)… 🌹
I remember when this album was freshly released, and the excitement of removing the disk from the sleeve. It was new, hell everything was new from Frank......and I loved it, and we loved it, and it frightened women and the horses, with the cows refusing to give milk, but I didn't care, and we didn't care, because it was new from Frank, wow. I would have to say my favourite track, is both sides of the album. That made it so easy to find.
Frank did create some paintings, had an appreciation for visual art and a strong visual sense. He transposed imagery into music and expressed darkness and light, space and matter. This song takes you on a wild ride through time and space with Incan Man pondering our extraterrestrial past.
I don't know how you can pick one , like 126 ish Albums , that's some serious output , FZ in OZ , #70 I think , has awesome solos thru out, Vale Frank. Zappa, a genre in his own right , and ticks every other box one could imagine , ZZZAAPPAA
RIP Tom Fowler, who died last month. Every musician stood out on this song, everyone had their showcase moment, but as far as I care Tom played the bass in all it's best ways through each section of this piece, and in a way I find superior to almost any other bass performance that I can remember, without ceremony and praise: it's concrete-solid in the tight parts, while being fluid and reactive during the solos. Fucking brilliant, honestly. Awestruck every time I listen to the tune, and to Tom.
I don't know how many times I've listened to this piece (and many others for that matter) and somehow you'd think one would sort of get used to it after several listenings, but I'm still almost dumb struck time and time again. It's not for everyone for sure, but i think Zappas music can never ever simply become background noise, no matter how many times you hear it. And the vocal "guacamole sequence" towards the end, how the hell did he get more or less the entire ensemble to function as a singing unit in THAT part?
I doubt there’s even one major chord played in this whole masterpiece. The musicianship is beyond another level. My ears are so happy hearing this again.
There are around 100+ moments when the various instruments land momentarily on a major chord/triad I get your point- Zappa is talented and uses complex chords, phrases everything I've heard lots of zappa but somehow never heard this song
Zappa was a fine guitarist. He simply played an interplanetary scale, not blues or classical or polycultural. This has always been my fav zappa album. Andy-Inca ROads segue in concert is the Reese's Peanut butter CUps!
