The director of "Y Tu Mama Tambien", mixed in NYC, requested to use a piece of this tune for the credit crawl of his film. Frank left us all by that point, so he had to ask Mrs. Zappa for permission. She said only if you play the whole song complete. Thus the 9 minute credit crawl. He put everyone and anyone he could to fill the credit crawl. Thank you, Mrs.Zappa! Beautiful & soulful gift.
The album that this is from is actually a opera that Frank wrote in reaction to the Iranian revolution in 79 that outlawed music. It tells a story about a society that outlaws music with the Central Scrutinizer (The voice you heard in the beginning) narrating. You should give the whole album a listen from start to finish.
which is five minutes away from happening to our society...cancel culture allows law makers to say certain music is pushing conspiracy theories and must be banned.
Joe's Garage is indeed a concept album. Rather than pick individual songs to react to you should just go through the album beginning to end. You will not be disappointed
This is what Zappa is all about. Excellent place to start. His crowning achievement. He will always be known more for the silly, goofy songs, some of which are great, but these types of songs are his best. And for the drums, that is the incomparable Vinnie Colaiuta. Continue on this journey and you will not be disappointed.
One of the most Important composer’s of the 20th century… The Beatles made Sgt. Pepper because of the Influence Franks 1st. release “Freak Out!” In 1966. Literally, a musical genius… Oh, and he taught himself how to read & write music by going to the Public Library.
Many artists have been described as unique, one of a kind, no one else like them,but there's no one like Zappa. 68 albums released during his lifetime and over 100 total. Have a nice trip.
a few hundred, if you include the many many FZ bootleg albums. I have about 150 FZ albums in my collection but I always preferred the original Mothers of Invention as my favorite period in his career (M.O.I. in Amsterdam 1968 is my fave!)
For this song he kept his guitar just clean, crisp, straightforward. There are no extra notes and no notes missing. The time signature is ridiculously good. It is a masterpiece!
I knew you would like Zappa! You can literally spend years trying to listen to all of his released music... and there's so much more in his family vault that's yet to be released. Frank composed and conducted his music so sight reading and classical training were mandatory in his band... and you'll realize it when you listen. It's incredible and frankly too much for some folks to comprehend. Welcome!
@@diverdown631cool, I didn't know that. I've watched a lot of Adrian with King Crimson and he's just otherworldly. I'm not surprised that Frank saw something in him. But I am surprised that he had the patience to teach him because Frank was notorious for making a decision in seconds flat. Thanks for sharing.
I came her looking for Watermelon in Easter Hay reactions, and it's great to see someone hearing this for the first time.. it is a beautiful piece of music, very understated, but slighlty chaotic, with a sublime guitar solo. It gives me shivers. If I only had one album to listen to for the rest of my life it would be Joe's Garage .. the range of diversity of musical styles, outstanding musicianship, original composition, story telling and tragicomedy in the 3 part rock opera really showcases Zappa well, especially for someone new to his music.
Towards the end, as the reverb intensifies and everything seems to be crashing both inward and outward... it's the music of a genius, of the very cosmos itself.
There are two types of people. Those who’ve heard this and those who haven’t. Once you hear it you will always remember the first time. It’s with you for the rest of your life.
Thanks John!! Whoever is directing your selections…keep listening to him/her/them….they know what they are doing!!! 👍❤️😎 Zappa’s catalog is so vast….if you want to experience the most progressive rock/whatever…don’t miss the “Yellow Snow Suite” ….his video of “Inca Roads” is also a nice and popular excursion…. ….on YES….don’t miss “Going for the One” album…especially “Turn of the Century” & “Awaken”.. …ask your benefactors what “Tommy Bolin” piece they’d recommend too… Later Fun watching you rediscovering all the greatness!!!!
Wow!!!! I'm a wicked big Zappa head and haven't heard these songs as they are titled. Thank for your comment. I'm going to check this out immediately! Thank you so much!
Great reaction for a first time Zappa song. I hope you do more Zappa. My one and only favorite musician/composer/artist. FYI, Zappa was a self taught composer and guitarist and wrote all the parts for all of the instruments in all of his music. He also recorded and produced almost all of his own work. That was his voice in this song. Get to know his work. It's like nothing you've ever heard.
@@shuheihisagi6689 all those hundreds of recordings Frank made were done on copious amounts of coffee and cigarettes! I always thought a great album cover would be a cup of java and a camel cigarette, sums up Frank!
Frank Zappa is one of the greatest American composers of the twentieth century. Joe’s Garage is a concept album about censorship. The Central Scrutinizer is the narrator of the story.
"what is up with Frank Zappa." Quote of the clip! My friend, if you endeavour to answer this question you are in for a life time of musical inspiration and hundreds of hours of wonder. I'm very excited for you.
Love that you pick up on the recording technique. Frank is such a compositional master and equally adept at guitar, band leading and production both live and in the studio. Second to last song on Joe’s but it holds the emotion of the whole concept. At that point Frank may have seen that in our American future. Almost 50 years later and we are banning books and limiting personal liberty. This solo (and the instrumentation behind it) is expressing all of that. It’s real emotion for the eventual loss of creativity.
Hey John, your favorite Uncle Tom here. So, I got your Zappa cherry! How cool is that!? I’d seriously think about following Chuck W’s advice, cuz the crew in your Patreon has been sending you to cool places. I remember when I got the Gary Moore cherry for another young dude a decade ago. Glad you’re so open to suggestions flyin your way. So refreshing to find a reaction channel not stuck on playing the same ol mega hits thru the ages, and rarely the deeper cuts. Thanks John!
Nice genuine reaction John. The middle part with the more overdriven tone is actually a live solo inserted into the studio recording. Frank did a bit of that on this album. You really need to put the headphones on and listen to all three acts when you’ve got a couple of hours. Enjoy the Zappa ride. I can see you’re up for it.
This track is part of a 3 lp box set that tells a story from beginning to end. It contains something to offend most people either with the words and/or music but as said in the opening of this track, "Who gives a fcuk anyway?"
Joe's Garage Acts I II II is a story. You have to start with the first album and listen to all songs in order to understand the story Frank is telling. The "Central Scrutinizer" is just Frank talking through a small plastic megaphone.
Some trivia on this one. Aside from it being an "imaginary guitar solo" being thought up by a character in the story "Joe's Garage," the name of the song is also interesting. The rumor is that Zappa used to say "Getting a solo in this band is like growing a watermelon in Easter hay." Well, he did it. He grew a watermelon in Easter hay and my what a watermelon it is!
I love Frank Zappa and there are so many songs and solos to choose you could get lost trying to pick. I've always loved Black Napkins and might be a good one to listen to.
Welcome to the world of Frank Zappa! Excellent reaction, but don't let the lyrics distract you from the music ! You should try another guitar solo : 'Black Napkins' from the Zoot Allures album !
Having your introduction to Zappa being Another Green Rosetta would have been interesting. This was excellent 👍🏻🤣👍🏻 followed up with Joe's Garage from the start, didn't ya! Dweezil, his son, tours and plays Watermelon in Easter Hay . . . RU-vid has it on a few channels!
I 1st saw Frank in Philadelphia in 1976 (There's an album of that show). The band was FZ, Bianca Odin - vocals, keyboards, Ray White - rhythm guitar, vocals, Eddie Jobson - keyboards, violin, Patrick O'Hearn - bass, vocals, and Terry Bozzio - drums, vocals. They started off with Purple Lagoon. An absolutely mind boggling show! The musicianship was beyond words. Its one thing to hear the studio productions and another to see it performed live. I still recall the poodle dialog to this day ~lol~
Kid, for you to listen to Zappa is one thing, to pick out the sitar? Very impressive. I saw Zappa in 78'. Been a life long obsession listening and playing his music. "The musician's Musician". The amount of music this man put out is unreal. 🤠
You will get many suggestions. They are likely very different from each other. Some are very complicated and demanding, others just silly (but may contain hidden treasures). Try to read something about him, his music and the people around him. Or just let the show start. But most songs need several listenings!
Well over 100 albums to explore, each unique from the others. I suggest starting with the song Montana from the album Overnight Sensation and/or Inca Roads from One Size Fits All. Both songs give a nice overview to Frank’s work.
Who else would start the melody of a rock song with a major 7th. There is a huge variety of music, and you're glad they didn't start you out with one of his scatalogically humorous ones. He also wrote contemporary orchestral music which the sales of his rock music financed.
Frank used one of Jimi Hendrix's Stratocasters to record the solo. I believe it's the Strat that Jimi lit on fire at the The 1967 Monterey Music Festival.
Truly on of the most beautiful guitar solos ever recorded. The title of the song came from when Frank was in the delivery room with his wife Gail watching his son Dweezle being born.
if you want to really have your heart torn to pieces watch frank's son dweezil playing this song live (video on you tube). he is literally in tears while he's playing his father's masterpiece.
Those are Marimbas in the background. Zappa started as a drummer in school at 14 and taught himself guitar at 18. He's written the soundtracks for two movies (one is called "The World's Greatest Sinner" and I think the other is "Run Slowly Home"). He got a set of xylophones when he bought Studio Z in the early 60s and has included mallets in almost every tour group since. He was influenced by several modern composers like Edgard Varese and Igor Stravinsky, and also played around with concret music and creating by editing sounds recorded on tape, physically cutting the tape and splicing to create new sounds before joining a band. There's also a clip available on RU-vid of Frank on The Steve Allen show playing a bicycle as an instrument.
It was a 1965 western called Run Home Slow starring Mercedes McCambridge and is actually a good B western movie, as for the World's Greatest Sinner Frank himself called it the world's worst movie on his Steve Allen show appearance when he played the bicycle.
Run Home Slow is on YT. I've seen it...not a good film, but Frank's soundtrack is early proto Zappa. Might even predate his firs Mother'srelaease (Freak Out). You can hear early form of Duke of Prunes theme being worked out.
The very special of this song is, it is in a 9/4 time, or in a 4/4 followed by a 5/4 if you want. That makes it "wild and so creative" ;) Wondering, if someone noticed here? Wondering, that John Slop didnt notice. Wondering, that I never watched a reaction video, where it was noticed.
You picked a good place to start if this is your intro to Zappa. To understand how this fits into the context of the "Joe's Garage" story, it is basically a Rock Opera about the music industry and a dystopian future where music is made illegal. If you enjoyed this arrangement, you should really try to find a couple of hours and listen to the whole thing, start to finish, as it was meant to be heard. Then you will understand. Oh, and there's much more of that groovy percussion as well as other sensual delights brought to you by the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, Frank's name for his home studio.
Zappa was a social and political revolutionary who bucked the system every chance he got. Including, with his musical ideas, lyrics, commentary, etc. Most of his stuff is not traditional "music." I have to force myself to get through any one of his albums, start to finish. But when I do, it's usually worth it.
That must suck, I was raised on Zappa and jam band music, so to me this is traditional music. Going through his discovery is only tough for me because there is so much to listen to lol.
3:20 All instruments are well recorded. This songs is great to listen to when You're stoned. But even when You're sober. It's so relaxing. The sound of a few bended notes on a strat. An unusual time signature. Only two chords needed. The great master gave us a masterpiece as a gift.
Wow. This is your very first exposure to FZ? Not sure I would have started here first, but it's widely considered his most beautiful piece. His son Dweezil thinks it's his best guitar solo. Before his death, Frank told his wife to sell his catalog, except for this one piece. The rights to Watermelon in Easter Hay were not to be sold. This was something special to Frank.
Very creative guy. Technical perfectionist. What is up with Zappa? Sadly, the first thing you need to know is: he died (21.12.1940 - 4.12.1993). Prolific composer: 62 albums while he lived, 57 posthumous. Start down this rabbit hole and you had better be packing provisions for a while because you have got a way to go. But it WILL be WORTH IT.
@andreasrosenberg9317 - that is, IMO what it puts it over the top. It's the haunting "thing" that people have a hard time (no pun) putting their finger on, when listening to this.
In my opinion this was one of my he greatest fuck yours he ever did for music. The man understood how to speak to the soul, but hr allows others time frame bias to get in the way to make it more powerful.
The way to do the weird reverb effect is basically to change the decay manually whilst recording. Mysterious backing instrument towards the end sounds like marimbas to me.
Your too young to know of this unequalled genius Frank Zappa was the greatest innovator creative genius composer of classical music as well as rock reggae jazz blues you name it fusion Frank Zappa was originally a drummer then became a monster guitar player probably in the top three I rate him as number two behind Roy Buchanan who was the greatest unknown guitarist that ever lived that's what he was billed as Roy Buchanan will just there's no one alive that has ever lived that could match him as a Blues artist a country artist he just was phenomenal rock and roll tragically he's gone tragically Frank is gone but I rate Roy Buchanan is number one Frank zapper is number two Jimmy Page and Jeff back tied for number three Jimi Hendrix number four Eric Clapton and Duane Allman at number 5 and Dickey Betts I would probably say is tide for number five as well you got to get into Frank this is from his album Joe's garage he put out over 60 albums and he has over 250 songs still in his vault that at his at his house where his son diesel who plays has control of the Zappa estate they have unreleased 200 sappa songs you're going to dig this guy he had every musician that played for him had to be a master level you had to be either a prodigy on the drums percussion what your hearing is the greatest band because you had to be a master you had to be able to read and write music just to be in his band Stevie vie was one of his protegees
at 8:45 8;46 is there a musical trem for that sound he makes ? Is that a Hammer on ? what ever it is it is DISTINCTLY Zappa. I love it and I hear almost no one else make that sound. I have heard Zappa use that sound on several of his solos.
It’s a concept album, without listening to the whole album then this song is somewhat lost in translation. Although it’s a masterpiece in its own right. And Frank expressing his soul through the guitar. Dweezil zappa’s favourite I shall also add. The genius that is Frank once you understand his genius your hooked
jajajajajajaj esto no es mas que la antesala a una hermosa y sombria historia que ya te han contado mas abajo. Zappa es musica unica que requiere compromiso en su escucha, puede ser para ;pasar el rato pero imposible no prestarle atencion y difrutarla.Bienvenido te recomiendo Outrage Valdez del disco the yellow shark. Su ultimo "registro" en escena con una ultima ovacion de mas de 30 minutos.