Jana Reacts to Frank Zappa ‘Inca Roads’ 

I don't know what planet or galaxy Frank Zappa came from, but I'm glad he visited Earth for a while. Wish he had stayed around.

Swear to God that this is not an exaggeration: the guitar solo makes me goosebumps each time I heard it. I can see a starred abyss when the guitar starts to sound. He actually gave us a glimpse of an alien civilization.

This entire album is a masterpiece musically, you can't go wrong with anything from One Size Fits All. Outsiders who know of Zappa tend to think he was some kind of offbeat novelty act, when in reality he was a perfectionist who employed fantastic musicians to realize his many diverse fabulous ideas. I mean, name one other rock musician of the time who could even remotely imagine and produce something so musically gorgeous and amusing and rich and complex as what you just heard here

Zappa plays Zappa did this entire album and more. Awesome concert!

Frank is that artist who truly earns the word "unique ". I would listen to Overnite Sensation and Apostrophe.

I love watching folks hearing Frank Zappa for thew first time! You two did well - Frank is not for everyone. But if you like what you heard, you could be rewarded with a library that will take you the rest of your life to get familiar with. As you said, Frank is very well respected - often referred to as the greatest composer of the 20th Century.

That's the thing with Frank, he can make you chuckle and meanwhile present you with the most amazing and original musical experiences

Inca Roads is great but there are many Zappa songs that are more accessible to newcomers. Kudos to Jana for giving it a chance!

Frank Zappa music is like a movie for your ears.

Nothing but the best....percussion, bass, ruth underwood....geezus

Frank Zappa is his own genre of music.

In Zappa there's both. Intense seriously written material, and also at times he lets the musicians themselves be themselves. He has the insight to see what musician has to offer, or has the ability to play what he demands. There's no way out. When you get hired by him, he's gonna make you better than you ever were, and bring out the best in you, and make it fricken fantastic.! He knows.....

Oh man. You guys are adorable! :) Lovely video.

I think Jana would appreciate "Blessed relief", a quite clean jazz piece - but the Zappa way - and I wouldn't be surprised if it is new to Nathan too. It is 8 min instrumental from "The grand wazoo" 1972. Its not to weird and "medium" complicated. But like most Zappa songs, you will not grasp it after one listening.

"That was so wird!" "It was? Nooo" Lol. Subbed for that and the Transatlantic album cover in the back.

My favorite Frank Zappa song by far. The live video version from Roxy The Movie is total must see.

Yes....the Yellow Snow suite. Zappas music grows......you need to hear the songs more than one time. Still grows after 50 years.

"Quacamole Queen" is a way for musicians to count "5" in intricate instrumental passages.

frank wrote all that music, is what she wanted to know. he had a band but the music was always frank zappa

If you liked the middle section, solo over a groove, there's many Zappa piece's that fall into that category. Peaches en regalia Watermelon in Easter hay Black Napkins

They had to create a music genre category for Frank - Experimental.

Guacamole Queen was a warning sign near the Women washroom at the Armadillo in Austin Tx. Look it up

The most advanced carnival music I've ever heard

Some fairly well known musicians played with Frank. Flo and Eddie (aka Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman of the Turtles, they got sued by their former record company and couldn't use their real names for several years), Steve Vai (virtuoso guitarist), George Duke (keyboardist) and Jean-Luc Ponty (violinist), to name but a few.

Awesomeness!!!

Frank would be proud!

Absolutely both UK albums are phenomenal. I saw the original band with Allan Holdsworth in Sacramento California in 1978.

On Ruth!

Now there is a lot of really pretty Zappa songs that your dear wife would love that are as crazy and complex but are really beautiful

Love love love Frank Kappa music !! Also check out an excellent prog - rock band from San Luis Obispo,California called; The Travis Larsen Band ! They won't disappoint. Thanks for the good tunes and commentary.

George Duke(deserves a few reactions on his jazz/blues too) is the keyboard player and does most of the vocals. It was the beginning of the synthesiser as a major influence as apposed to an organ. Frank is the phenomenal guitarist and wrote virtually every damn note you hear. The amazing Ruth Underwood on percussion, xylophone. That was so weird.... Most of Zappa is very far left field. You have to have a sense of humour (and a master's degree in music composition can help .... but not always) to get into Zappa. I have a suggestion.... Gravity by Max Webster may be the right balance for your lovely lady to enjoy and you to discover. The band and the leader (Kim Mitchell quite a guitarist in his own right) did a duet with Rush who "Max" opened for on a number of occasions. {The duet is a Max tune.... BattleScar}. On of their mellow tunes... On The Road Enjoy (Canadian in Portugal)

There were a lot of variations of the Mothers of Invention. Whoever was in any of his bands, had to be a great musician. And the Zappa that was on the TV show was Ahmet.

Legend: Ruth Underwood Originally a fan of Zappa, became an integral part of The Mothers.

I’ve loved some of Zappa’s stuff for a long time. There is a ton from him I still need to check out (I’m slowly making my way through his discography). Funny that Inca Roads came up because One Size Fits All is the latest album I got into. Very solid overall. It you haven’t heard Over-Nite Sensation I would definitely recommend it. One of his best and most accessible (that I’ve heard so far).

Salvador Dali once said that the only difference between him and a surrealist is that he was a surrealist. Similarly, Zappa isn't prog, but prog is like Zappa.

It was a live performance so best show the band to appreciate the direction.

Nathan, do you have anything by U.K. on your shuffle? If not, do you want some? 😀

Frank Zappa left a lot of mark on Steve Vai's music.

Ahmet Zappa!

The amazing thing about this song is that the song on the album is actually a live concert with some studio overdubs. The song is probably 95% live performance with a guitar solo from another concert inserted into the version from the concert used for the album. The original take of this is on RU-vid as the music video for Inca Roads. You'll notice there is a different guitar solo in the music video from the album.

As a Zappa fan for over 50 years now I will say that One Size Fits All is a good starting point for understanding Frank and his music. It is overall accessible but shows his range in styles. If you want a "jump into the deep end" understanding of Frank listen to the We're Only In It For The Money LP. All the songs roll into each other, and it covers pretty much everything he will ever do.

This was a LIVE recording! Amazing!!

There's Dweezil there's armor and then there's Diva and there is Moon Unit you got two girls and two boys Moon units the oldest and then there's two easel then Ahmet and then Divas the baby girl yeah Frank actually had a hit when his daughter sung that song Valley Girl he talks she does his commentary and she sounds just like the girls the teenage girls from San Fernando Valley it was so hilarious you know Chris Frank gets so much commentary in satire about our culture and how ridiculous everything is

Now it's not just the music you guys are a lot of fun really you know if he just had the Frank Zappa one-size-fits-all full album reprise scroll buy it then we see that you're going to react to it with your non Prague wife that's just great stuff man that's Entertainment

Oh yeah the the Dweezil he's carrying on the Legacy it's amazing that he can actually play on so many of Zappos compositions even get some of the old guys to play with somebody's got another band no you got to tell your dear wife here this is Scout named Ruth Underwood she was married to the sax player from the original mothers and anyway she's the one playing the fives or the Glockenspiel or the xylophone whatever you want to call it and all that stuff is written out and she's doing it perfect perfectly so and also you got George Duke who's a very notable keyboard player for Zapdos the guitar solo sorry that was a Google glitch yeah I mean it's funny they have this one guy who's up a music expert and he was he was calling off all the different time signatures in the song that was really an amazing video but you got to realize they know Sapa started back in like late 1965 or early 66 their first album was such a landmark freak out in fact The Beatles. Pretty much for inspired to do Sergeant Pepper's because of the Freak Out album Paul McCartney said yeah we're going to do our freak out I think he actually did 60 records during his lifetime I know your wife's going to like a lot of their his stuff of course this was a very complex piece but you know it's about UFOs and aliens so it's no wonder that it would be a strange number but yeah TNT you know you hear him say on roof on Ruth bob thought up up that's Ruth because they were just complimenting her on how hard she worked to do such an amazing feat of just to be able to play that kind of music at that level is just incredible

Love the video guys. You should have Jana react to Little Feat- fat man in a bathtub. I know it’s not prog but it’s not really any other genre either lol.

This should be interesting. I do come back for your sparkling personalities. And of course, the music. Frank is an acquired taste, a brilliant composer though. A very deep rabbit hole that everyone should experience.

My pick would be "Peaches En Regalia"

I would start with the groovin pop rock Sheik Yer bouti album first, for laymen listeners, first, THEN get to the unique ,or shall we say, "ëxotic" material! Go right in and play the entire Sheik Yer Bouti album, for your partner. Forget the rest, FOR NOW! Let's get a laymens response of good groovin teenage rock! She'll love some songs with the added aberrated and subversive "twist"" that zappa includes in his music. ""He always threw a wrench in it to try to ruin the beauty of what he wrote, cause he told me"", ""it sounds too beautiful", "it has to be ruined" , quote by keyboardist George Duke. You forgot to tell your partner he also did hard rock and some heavy metal! Greatest composers of all time: 1 - Beethoven.2 - Stravinsky. 3 - Zappa. Yes, Dweezil is not only his son but tours with his band called '"Zappa plays Zappa".

Why didn’t I sharpen that thing ?! 😀

Hey U 2 cuties, like to watch your discussion afterwards; maybe you try 'The Bebop Tango' on video ('Roxy, the movie'), it shows the entertaining side of Frank Zappa and might give Jana another approach to this music-cosmos. Best!

It's called humor

Inca Roads live on stage boys and girls ! :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqp71DOJ3aY.html Ruth, I'm in love with you !

Can you please react to Robert palmer song called Mama talk to your daughter Live at meli Melo please

The facts are like a mirror - if you show your ass, you should not expect to see the apostle.

You're kinda cute

One of my favorite Zappa tunes. Is music allowed to be funny?

Take Montana

Komposer? Help i need somebody,

His Interviews were probably more interesting ,than the musician zappa, hahahaha,

I'm not a fan of Zappa, although I did see his orchestral tour in 1980 which was worthy.

You've been exposed, now you have a lot of catching up to do

unfortunately his music is not unconventional nor are his lyrics silly. did you know he never wrote a love song. how many artists have released the ocean of work he released and never wrote a love song? it is the radio stations that have controlled your mind (generally speaking) to listen to the crap they want you to listen to. Remember the PMRC? if more people listened to what Frank Zappa was doing and paid attention. music today would be in a better place. F.Z. once said "somebody out there in that audience knows what we are doing, and that person is getting off on it, beyond his or her wildest belief" F.Z. is not for every one. IMHO that is because his music is far too intellectual for you. Frank Zappa feared no one! take that Warner Brothers!

I'm with Jana. Frank Zappa was always too bizarre for my tastes. Never could get into his music.

Honey I'm worrying about you drifting away from music that fits more to my tast! You know like Eddie Albert and merve griffin...get with the program mister...😫

Er hat die ganze Welt verarscht, mit seine halben nonsense songs

Nate, get rid of her...

This song is initially about Ancient Aliens™ but eventually they stop caring about that crap & it just ends up being a showcase for their musicianship.