Frank gets under your skin..little by little...till you crave his humor and guitar solos like crispy bacon. THE BEST.. it's a way of life you'll love it
Dude's my hero. Inca roads. His catalog is huge, you'll find a hundred tunes that you love, a hundred that will confuse and irritate you, and a hundred that will make you look at music in a whole new way. Tied to the whipping post!
Ruth Underwood looked like she was having a blast and satisfied getting her musical fix. That's how playing should be. No matter what you do, be the best at it.
Frank Zappa considered himself, first and foremost, a composer. And a very straight-laced, non-druggie composer. People looked at him and ass-u-med he did drugs, but they were all wrong. RIP Frank, he passed from cancer, but did much great work before he did.
Intellectual insanity. Zappa would sit on a plane and write out a whole original song on paper. He's a modern day Bach in music. He just likes the warped humor.
Really, Zappas recordings were sophisticated. His stuff and Captain Beefhearts' stuff was off- world. He could make fun of just about anything, including but not limited to love peace and hippies, govt censorship, groupies.. etc
The lyrics are fun, but when Frank puts down the cigarette and starts his guitar work, the song gets pretty damn serious. Seriously great I mean. I bought the "Overnight Sensation" album when it came out, and I've still got it. Yup. "By myself I wouldn't have no boss."
If you want to get a good introduction to Zappa, his philosophy of music, his mad genius and bizarre mind, and a roster of insanely talented musicians I would suggest an experimental film he made called Baby Snakes, there is concert footage, BTS antics, claymation, interviews, an all around fascinating time capsule from 1977.
Frank's works remind me of OPERA, many of which are in Italian, yet we enjoy them, though we don't know what they are singing about. If we did not speak English, MONTANA would still be dope. Frank's words may seem silly, but they scan. His words are sounds first, words second.
hell yeah,more zappa! a lot of times his lyrics are just nonsensical and silly,but lead to some amazing guitar solos as you just saw. his songwriting was always done with tongue planted firmly in cheek. percussionist ruth underwood is also fantastic to watch live. she's here,she's there and never misses a beat.
I'm curious as to which documentary BizMatik watched - there are a lot of them and they're decidedly variable in quality and accuracy, Biz probably knows by now that, starting in mid-1973, in Frank's concerts the tracks tended to all segue together - to find out what happened next, after Montana cut off, watch this -youtube + watch?v=5dk_GFrxiVY - and an interesting place to go after that might be this specific version of the song with the eye-popping title: youtube + watch?v=3dliSS0Af2I
Captain beef heart (Don Vanvliet) and Frank Zappa did tracks together. Zappa producing in the recording studio for Don. You can hear Frank in the background telling Captain beef heart to "do it again
I’m pretty sure he’s mocking the back-to-the-land movement that was happening at that time. Lots of them had no clue how to live in the country or the outback.
I used to think that about this song and most of the others on the album but forget the lyrics and let the music in and you realise how brilliant it is. The album version with the Ikettes is seriously complex music