I listened to Sheik Yerbouti last night. I wish that some teenager would post precious ukulele cover versions of those songs on YouTube.
i ended up selling my copy of hot rats... it just seemed like a zappa experiment. he never made an album like it again. people cite other albums as the continuation of what hot rats promised(normal classic rock) but i dont agree....hot rats sticks out in the catalog and doesnt belong there. he never should of made it.
i dont dislike it... im saying..i feel like zappa would laugh at me if i called it my fav album of his...or he might not think of me as a real fan if thats the only album of his i liked. i sold it to not feel like some poser.
im saying that because he suckered a lot of people into thinking he was going to make music in a certain musical direction but he never did....it was just a one off experiment.
What about all of the poor fans who thought he was going to go full-on doo-wop after Ruben & the Jets came out?
yea...he changed styles often and he has like 200 albums....thats why is still havnt got into zappa. ...im just saying i sold my hot rats because of a false premise imo.. i guess it's a bit of a threadcrap.. sorry i said it.
I've just received my copy of Zappa Wazoo. I have no words. What a terrific album. Thank you for pointing me to it!
Don't be.... it's just not a mainstream opinion.... I still own mine, but that's because I'm an obsessive completist! But, when it comes to Zappa, I'm in it for his wild experimentation, the shots he takes on modern society, and his funny/silly arbitrary edits.... guitar playing and jams are secondary.
My suggestion is that you should try Strictly Commercial, does it have some cool tunes from different albums, this way you can do a fast overview of his vast catalogue.
I have just finished playing for the first time in my life "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" (!). Highlights for me are the totally hilarious "Sunshine of Your Love" (is Kennealy impersonating Johnny or Edgar Winter?) and the totally crazy and fascinating "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"... A question for those of you familiar with the '88 tour material. That EDMB is a frankensteined version. But is that arrangement still representative of how they would perform it thoroughly in one go, on any particular night? I mean basically. Other than those two tracks I am glad to have waited all these years for the album to turn up at the library. How many FZ guitar solos can be had over a reggae beat, and with that immutable Strat tone? Frank should have soloed a lot less on that particular tour. On those albums anyway. Their "Stairway To Heaven" is a total waste of time for me.
