Frank Zappa - guitar Roy Estrada - bass Don Preston - keyboards, electronics Ian Underwood - keyboards, woodwinds Bunk Gardner - woodwinds Motorhead Sherwood - baritone sax Jimmy Carl Black - drums Arthur Dyer Tripp III - drums
I don't care what anyone says, this incarnation of the Mothers is the best. They were a movement, freak revolution incarnate! None of Zappa's later bands were this organic.
Zappa, understandably, had the least musical dominance over the original Mothers. But Zappa was the original visionary force from the time he joined the Soul Giants.
A few years ago my gf and I were walking down Sierra Madre Blvd when I hear King Kong emanating from a bar up the street. And there on a sidewalk blackboard was written "Don Preston Quartet." What a great night that was.
Easily the most stylish mothers video. The dim lighting and the black and white camera make them look like a bunch of ghosts. Great performance of Kong too.
It,s5:14in the morning 🌄 and this is the 1st time for me and I,m digg,n just às much as I do any of Zappa,s work done,t even have to think about it this is very good mother's music 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵 Thanks 👍😊👍😊😊👍 🦈 SHARK 🦈
I love how the final edit of this vid really shows the musicians face and groove they’re feeling and then sometimes the fingering work on the instrument. Love Franks face … just listening to the piece he wrote … ALL LIVE STUFF … so good…
I totally agree!!!! This song and the Frank Zappa’s songs won’t never be old !!! Awesome musicians and amazing music!!! I’ve felt in ecstasy when I’ve listened them!!! Thank God for listening Frank Zappa for more than 44 years!!!
Thank you God for listening this song and Frank Zappa songs for more than 43 years!!! This version of King Kong is definitely one of the best !!! Sounds awesome!!!
@@weeooh1 In music we call "variation" the fact of modifying pieces. So it is obvious that zappa was not going to play the same way for 30 years. And I say it to you for having read a lot of books about him that he left no place for the improvisation. Everything was meticulously repeated in advance. It's very well known to him and his fans.
@@NaguaLvsTonaL You aren't correct. There was plenty of improv throughout his whole career with Frank himself and every soloist he invited into the band.
@@NaguaLvsTonaL Zappa himself said there was improvisation in his bands. skip to around a minute into the interview linked below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ex9k_fwwswM.html
_however_ there is a caveat, and an open question in history - miles was waiting for jimi to react, and he ultimately didn't. might miles have beaten frank to it if jimi had responded sooner? it's hard to say. and, if jimi _had_ responded sooner, might he have taken the concept in a different direction, altogether?
@@jessicasfakeaccount excellent point Jessica. Timing is everything and had Miles collaborated with Jimi you would have to wonder how cosmic that might have been. I like the way you think Jessica.
@@jessicasfakeaccount also Jessica.... Miles had an eye for talent and Wayfinders. You can bet he dropped bits for Hendrix but as you eluded to he didn't bite. It's a shame....I don't deny that Cosey's work during Miles SuperFunk Electronic period wasn't groundbreaking.. especially after the work McLaughlin laid down....but you can't help but wonder what would Miles or Mahavishnu have sounded like with the sonic capabilities of Mr. Hendrix.
this is the best version of King Kong I think I've ever heard. maybe one of the best versions of any song I've ever heard. definitely in the annals of great fucking music.
There's that perfect sliver of life that only a few get to travel. I would give most of anything to go back in time and witness this creation were the four sat and changed so many filling voids thought impossible to comprehend. LZ forever.
While this was going on, I was living at Frank's log cabin in Laurel Canyon with Gail, his wife, their daughter, Moon Unit and seven others. Read about the extraordinary experience told by a young English girl suddenly thrust in their midst - the only book to describe Zappa's home life day to day. 1968 - 1971. 'Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa.'
That band could only exist in that time and space continuum, and we hev all been here to experience it, on way or another. Amazing. I don't think music ever will find its way back to orignality in composing.
My Friends, putting in perspective that 52 years ago, there were a bunch o guys capable of doing this music! Zappa "aesthetic, mostly hilarious sense of art" is increasingly growing to the infinite, relentlessly...........I was exposed to this music very late and fragmentarily, for reasons not important to mention. King Kong, as cubism, reflects and deflects in a way that its Reading is everchanging!
THANK YOU !!! all this vote-in thing makes me worry, but this makes me smile again... i am going to listen and watch again before going about my day...bob
Thank you for posting this. I am familiar with the BBC performance which I think was done the same year, but this is better. Plus the filming it first rate. Any one know who responsible for it? The BBC version is ruined by the awful Tony Palmer style filming which plagued the BBC at the time.
A documentation by Michael and Joachim Rüsenberg from 1968, production: WDR Television. More information about the show -> www.mahnert-online.de/songtage-programm.html
+Nigel Mills But the filming here's nothing to be proud of. Ian plays a long solo and is never even glimpsed on camera. In fact, save for a brief moment with Bunk (who's not actually doing much) we never see the horn section at all.
Crazy trivia… the original Mothers lineup played they’re last show ever as an ensemble right down the road here from me in Aug ‘69 just as they were packing up at Woodstock coincidentally. (Ottawa Canada) .The band thought maybe they should have looked into appearing in upstate New York but elected to do a Montreal festival and then a trip here to film a late night TV special instead….after which the flew back to L.A. Where they were promptly disbanded for good. Neat bit a trivia there for ya.
he was def a mentally ill person n abused himself,guy sure could thump the hell outta bass n added a certain thing to the mothers zappa laughed at alot, sad way things end for some,when the musics over.......bend...
I'm looking for that second guitar while Zappa is playing rhythm and I think it's Ian Underwood or Bunk Gardner on a clarinet...or a saxophone that certainly sounds like a guitar...
They obviously thought it was Zappa soloing,when it's Bunk and/or Ian on treated reeds. Same on the well-known OGWT show, when the camera pans around, totally clueless as to where particular sounds came from. Some bands like AMM sought this effect, but here its sheer incomprehension from the German crew?
I will always prefer the raw dada-esque original Mothers band to the later side-men who...while better technically...sounded too slick in a unpalatable vaudeville-ish kind of way. Just my two cents.
+Michael Lucas Agreed. As for technical superiority, I think the original Mothers could take the music places the later guys couldn't imagine. And while Bozzio & Wackerman, etc. might be better drummers, could either of them pull off a 'Lonesome Cowboy Bertram?'
I tend to say like Frank when he was asked who's the better guitar player. Vai or him. We are different, he replied. We are different. I just want to add, GayleMI, also 200 Motels and Uncle meat. On the other hand Jimmy Carl Black could never do Black Page for drums. Another epoque is Chester Thompson on drums. Last but not least imagine how much fun if The Mothers didn't dissolve.
Ma!! dire Jazz,non ci sta,dire rock,non ci sta.improvvisazione si in parte,visto che è sempre Zappa,con i saltelli a dirigere il tutto,magnificamente. E' la musica Zappa.
