HO MY GODSSSSSS I’m so happy and grateful that you’re doing the Zappa study. ANyway, a certain type of study. I believe that, from your mind, a certain refinement can emanate from the Zappa mind. I feel it. I’m very happy to see you interested in him. I think he deserves you in the story of his life. I am very happy to meet people who are interested in him, in his gigantic work.
Zappa had such a wide variety of music. He only wrote because it scratched an itch. If you don't care much for something he wrote, go to the next song or album to find something entirely different.
Big Zappa fan since 1978. One of my favorites of what he put on record here. So cool to watch you react to this absolute monster of a fusion masterpiece. Bravo! I would pay to watch you react to the album “Uncle Meat”.
To Frank, music had no boundaries, he played whatever he wanted, if you liked it, fine, if you didn't he didn't care. All the Frank debate is easier to sort out if you you consider...just what exactly COULDN'T Frank do? The list would be tiny. Light years ahead of everyone else.
ok, I'm finally getting some of those acid flashbacks I was promised to get decades ago..... look at my hand. I thought I got way too stoned once... but then later I figured out... I was just way too Zappa-ed... Frank on acid definitely alters brain chemistry, psychology, my horoscope even changed. FZ makes the term "nothing like this" meaningless..... like a whole new language I learned the first time I heard it.... this song is like an album sampler with 20 songs in one. if Frank wasn't a musician.... and played with guys like Stephen Hawking instead..... we would've figured out this time travel and how to work a wormhole shit a long time ago.
Zappa took the talent of every musician he hired and extracted it to it's fullest extent... Here is an example of Frank jamming with the cute little drummer, Terry Bozzio, going off. Then he drags Patrick O'Hearn, a friend of Bozzio, into his studio at 3 in the morning and he rips off that upright bass solo after 2 sets with Joe Henderson that night... O'Hearn came over the next night and layed down an electric bass part, after which Zappa extended his hand and said "you got a job"...
And the best part is that not only did he not know he was effectively auditioning for a job, he wasn't looking for a job either! He was just meeting up with a friend and his life changed in a single moment.
Oh my! The legendary Terry Bozzio on drums. Just a great lineup overall. And this was one of 3 albums he had to release to get to his own label Barking Pumpkin Records. Once his obligations were met, he released the double album Sheik Yer Bouti less than a year later on the new label. (Correction: Sheik came out on Zappa not Barking Pumpkin. And Sleep Dirt came out Jan 79 on DiscReet, Sheik in Mar 79)
@Zolar Czakl My memory is failing. I always thought my copy of Sheik was on Barking Pumpkin but completely forgotten about Zappa records. Thanks for the correction. But note Zappa in NY, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Sheik all came out within a year of each other (Mar 78 to Mar 79).
7:34 This solo is where, I think, that Frank felt the need to "thumb his nose" at John McLaughlin, being compared to him time and time again.(The Mahavishnu Orchestra opened for him at least once while on tour) It's definitely one of his best, and I always enjoy listening to it.
I wrote tons of code in the 80’s enabled by FZ’s music. He could put you in a spot where complex problems meets complex music and it is simplified … like magic…. Don’t know how else to explain it. Glad to see younger folks taking it on, it’s good for the brain and the soul.
The bottom line with Frank is he loved to make his music ugly and yet you can’t help but want to understand what just happened. Your reaction to this song is spot on and props to Ron because this is as deep into it as it gets.
Quite possibly my favorite Zappa track EVER! In-bloody-credible!!!!! Zappa is a genius!!! I'm a huge jazz and fusion fan too, but the Sex Pistols were on a "different level" too. No one wrote lyrics like "Anarchy in the UK" or "God Save the Queen" before them. They had an impact in the UK close to what The Beatles did. They changed everything in the UK almost overnight (Sensation :) They are in the top 5 most important bands of all time. The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks said more in one LP than Zappa, Zeppelin, The Stones said in their entire catalog. Yeah I said it! 😁
this is kool, I like matt cardin in the comment section played with the great Joe Henderson, what a phenomenon he was on the saxophone and as a composer"!
I'm stoked you took the time on this one. Listen 5 times and you'll get it. Zappa is like tool. Tools songs take many listens. Like Frank. Do purple Lagoon please.
This is it. The Mt Rushmore of Zappa guitar works and in the running for best ever by anybody. No exaggeration: this was a life changer for me as a musician.
There is no singular 'it' with FZ. I gave up trying to pick 'favorites' decades ago, there are so many variations that picking any aspect as the 'best' seems impossible, to me anyway. Always remember, FZ considered his body of work as a single massive work, and any part is just that, a part of the whole.
@@Peter-K yes I know ‘project/object’ and all that but this is still the most singularly epic studio guitar recording that Zappa released in his lifetime. A true labor of love when you read about how it came to be
@@timcardona9962 I consider his entire career as a labor of love, the man was like a ceaseless fountain of creativity. I appreciate that this is one of his finer efforts on the old six string, but I just can't say it is the best ever. I do respect your opinion, and applaud you for that. Just glad the kids are catching on again, his music needs to be out there.
@@Peter-K I know exactly what you mean, and at the same time, if I had to choose one single desert island solo, it would always, always, always (well, who the fvck knows) be Inca Roads, OSFA version.
🌊🌅 So fun, so diverse and accomplished, so HIM. Washed out to sea, adrift and happy...was my take last night listening on Patreon. My Mac overheated and shut down before I could comment, but I'm pretty much in agreement with what you guys said!
Frank was having fun on this track, jamming with the bass player and the drummer after the other guys had gone home. But, he worked on it later, obviously. He would sometimes jam an idea, then score a whole piece from fragments of it. I wouldn’t say he was anti music, more that he got easily bored, and wanted to create things which excited both his and the listener’s mind. He was vehemently anti cliche, though. George Duke, the great jazz pianist who played with him for many years, said (paraphrasing) Frank would write something startlingly beautiful, then deliberately throw a wrench in it, because he said it needed to be fucked up. For sheer beauty (minus the wrench), check out ‘Peaches En Regalia’.
Duke also said that he always felt like FZ knew he didn't have enough time to accomplish what he wanted, which was what drove him to work like a demon, all the time. He complained that once the cancer got bad that he could only work 9 hours a day. A quote from Blade Runner is apt when looking at FZ, 'The brighter the light bulb, the sooner it burns out.'
To be honest, Sleep Dirt is among those that I listen to the least. But not because I don't like it, it's because it's way to demanding. I can't do anything else when I am listening to it. Btw, have you checked Zappa's life performances? There are many whole concerts on youtube and they are almost all great.
I think Sleep Dirt is one of the 3 albums Zappa "Dumped" in the same year to finish a contract and be free ...("Sleep Dirt", Orchestral Favories" and "Studio Tan")
Actually, he considered all four as 'unauthorized' releases, they were all meant to be a part of Lather. If anyone remembers his one guest host gig on SNL, during the Coneheads sketch, he clearly called Studio Tan an Unauthorized release. They released Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral favorites without his approval, and even the cover art had nothing to do with him. They seriously butchered Zappa in NY to boot. I think they knew he would win the rights to his catalog and wanted to complete his contract and make a few more bucks before it happened.
@@Peter-K I think Läther should be promoted way more as the album format Frank intended to release the music contained on those four albums. Läther is my go to, not the individual albums.
Frank Zappa voids the warranty on his metronome. Songs like this are proof of Einstein's theory that you could bend space and time. Frank can make your ears cry uncle!!
Not "anti-music": more like "anti-hypnosis", or "anti-marching". He disrupts the mindless "groove". It's an embrace of music as something much more, something that can take you on an adventure where you're mind wouldn't go on its own.
This is awesome bass playing - I think you know that part I mean! O'hearn was.....like everyone else Frank hired, a beast! lol, along with everything else, Frank had good hiring skills! Regyptian Strut is my song on Sleep Dirt - the original, not the one with the singing.
This album was part of fulfilling a contract with Warner; and it seems to me that Zappa’s “trash” is still superior to many colleague’s limelight music
I read that this tune was pieced together from 45 minutes of music to create the 13 minute track. That would explain the quick segues in to different directions. The exotic sounding guitar is a 12-string with a strange tuning.
There was a book I read back in the late 70's or early 80's called No Commercial Potential, it was about Zappa and his band. This book described a conflict Zappa had with Warner Brothers, he used to do concerts in front of a giant banner that said "WARNER BROTHERS SUCKS". There lawsuits back and forth and as part of the settlement Zappa had to provide 2 more studio albums. Zappa got previously unpublished studio recordings and put together 2 albums, Sleep Dirt and Studio Tan. I always take music from these albums with a grain of salt as they say, but there's some great recordings on these albums.
That’s true. It’s the rest of us that are confined and stuck within “constructed” musical genres created by marketing teams and the mainstream media at large and unwittingly further reinforcing those constraints like faithful little musical sheep. Frank existed beyond all that useless construction and as a result has never truly been recognized for his contribution to music while the likes of Kurt Cobain is endlessly hailed and celebrated in the mainstream media. What dumb world.
To eleborate on some other comments on this page: Yes, this was built up from a jam which doubled as part one of the audition process for Patrick O'Hearn, whom Frank had only just met. But the most interesting aspect is that Frank had to overdub that guitar solo onto his own acoustic rhythm-guitar improvisations. Improvisations with plenty of chord changes, even if you discount the "implied" harmonic options. This must have been quite a challenge for him - after all this is a guy who (not unlike John Coltrane) decided early on that he preferred to solo over the simplest of progressions, or over a one-chord drone, eventually reaching the stage where he even felt a twelve-bar-blues was too constricting.
Oh yeah, this is a heavy piece of work. Believe it or not, alot of this song is improvised by drummer Terry Bozzio and bass player Patrick O'hearn, who is also a renowned pianist. I think Frank was going with more like 'Fusion is the ultimate solution' on this track. If you want a real easy listen, Blessed Relief is a beautiful song.
This period of Zappa was more improvisational. He put together a killer band of jazz musicians to create some of the most far out music of his catalog. This album he utilizes personnel from the "One Size Fits All" and "Sheik Yerbooti" The material was recorded between '74 and '76 and would not be released until 1979.
FZ's titles are brilliant, pithy and hilarious in equal measure. This one describes our world's seas as the answer to everything ...OR perhaps an altruism of science whereby chemistry of the briny dissolves all. FZ = GENIUS, get him in your hungry earholes, children. * * * S.A.D. said FZ as ANTI-MUSIC? ***NOT*** Frank was anti-MUSIC BUSINESS as making product rather than music. ZAPPA vibed with the aether, in essence channeling THE MUSE, folks. He famously said the "universe is composed of THE ONE NOTE". The variety of his output resulted from his having to hear EVERYTHING that bubbled up in his mind then scoring it to have it performed by the best musicians possible. Frank Zappa was a driven musical genius. The best, once in a life-time, never will happen again, like Mozart or Duke Ellington. Also, FZ was entirely an auto-didact, unsullied by THE RULES . Let that be a lesson: go to the library, leave school., DIY and follow your muse.
"Deconstructing music"...interesting take.This kind of playing/jamming may be familiar territory for fans of jazz/fusion but even then it's still very unique. The bassist, Patrick O'Hearn, came from jazz and even he said it was unlike anything he had heard...it's kind of half written, half improvised with bass and lead guitar added later. The guitar is some kind of modified bazouki (!?)
@Zolar Czakl Thanks for the info, although I find it hard to believe that some of the lead lines in the first half of the track are not played on a bouzouki; I can also hear the acoustic 12 strings Red mentioned.
Love it personally but it took time. Yeh it is a stretch. Your mind wants to hold on to those melodic moments but Frank snatches them right away. At the same time though he's ruining you for all those simple catchy songs that used to do. Eventually the complexity of the Zappa way is what you crave (with some Beefheart for light relief).You guys are in deep now😀x
One of the first Zappa items I saw (beyond the cover of the first Zappa album I bought) was a poster with a 'fish-eye' camera angle image of Frank emerging from a toilet with his hands grasping over the edge of the pan that had the legend 'Fly Zappa Crappa!!" Clearly that poster made an impression on my young and impressionable Aussie youth mind! Sometimes, as a musician/artist you've got to lose control in order to gain control... Out of chaos comes order. Perhaps it's just an essential part of finding the answer to "what IS music?" (or insert the name of whatever artistic discipline it is that's being 'explored'!)... When does noise become notes and how do those notes react with each other to create 'music'? The answer to that; I am sure, is deeply personal and often quite 'fluid'!! It's also a search that has no doubt gone on since the very first instruments made by human hands produced noise/s, with different streams of 'musical solutions' meandering their way towards an infinite pool that could well be an Ocean full of Ultimate solutions. Don't got to love all the searches for "musical truth" or their discoveries, while giving respect where it's due won't destroy one's own journey of musical self-discovery! And don't worry Dan about whether you could have been a 'Mother of Invention'!! Just know that with S.A.D. it'd be more the decomposer Frank who'd need to fit the musical vision you and Sifa may (or may not 'yet'/"fully") have formulated for yourselves!!! Just 'cause he's a legend, doesn't mean you couldn't 'Zap' him or as implied in the poster I mentioned at the start of this novella of a post; send him on his way back to the ocean with a quick flush - while still fully respecting him of course!!!! 😮😁 Have a goodie guys!! 👍
i like the Lather version a bit better. it feels more succinct and gets to the compositional point better without the prelude into the main jam. just an opinion.
The record companies hated Frank so their puppets the main radio stations and music press tried to stop him. Just see what he left us. As Matt Groenig said, some of us don't want to march in regulation time. I say Long live fz and people of his ilk.
I’m not singling out frank Zappa so calm down. I meant in general there are a lot of obscure songs. If view counts aren’t what they’re looking for them that’s fine.
HO MY GODSSSSSS I’m so happy and grateful that you’re doing the Zappa study. ANyway, a certain type of study. I believe that, from your mind, a certain refinement can emanate from the Zappa mind. I feel it. I’m very happy to see you interested in him. I think he deserves you in the story of his life. I am very happy to meet people who are interested in him, in his gigantic work.
I echo your thoughts Claude-
Frank is the best! Hard not to like him the more we listen :)
The ''Back to the Future'' analogy killed me. Perfect!
" Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" - Frank Zappa
Zappa had such a wide variety of music. He only wrote because it scratched an itch. If you don't care much for something he wrote, go to the next song or album to find something entirely different.
Patrick O'hearn's double bass solo on this is insane.
Zappa's music is Timeless!
Big Zappa fan since 1978. One of my favorites of what he put on record here. So cool to watch you react to this absolute monster of a fusion masterpiece. Bravo! I would pay to watch you react to the album “Uncle Meat”.
Thanks!
To Frank, music had no boundaries, he played whatever he wanted, if you liked it, fine, if you didn't he didn't care. All the Frank debate is easier to sort out if you you consider...just what exactly COULDN'T Frank do? The list would be tiny. Light years ahead of everyone else.
Exactly!
Yes Terry, Patrick and Frank. Frank on guitar and synthesizer. Somewhat in the same league as Wonderful Wino.
A quick music leason. Bozzio was smoother. A Still very young raw Vinnie,matched grip, chopped the rhythms up too much .
ok, I'm finally getting some of those acid flashbacks I was promised to get decades ago..... look at my hand.
I thought I got way too stoned once... but then later I figured out... I was just way too Zappa-ed... Frank on acid definitely alters brain chemistry, psychology, my horoscope even changed.
FZ makes the term "nothing like this" meaningless..... like a whole new language I learned the first time I heard it.... this song is like an album sampler with 20 songs in one.
if Frank wasn't a musician.... and played with guys like Stephen Hawking instead..... we would've figured out this time travel and how to work a wormhole shit a long time ago.
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves
Zappa took the talent of every musician he hired and extracted it to it's fullest extent... Here is an example of Frank jamming with the cute little drummer, Terry Bozzio, going off. Then he drags Patrick O'Hearn, a friend of Bozzio, into his studio at 3 in the morning and he rips off that upright bass solo after 2 sets with Joe Henderson that night... O'Hearn came over the next night and layed down an electric bass part, after which Zappa extended his hand and said "you got a job"...
Love it
And the best part is that not only did he not know he was effectively auditioning for a job, he wasn't looking for a job either! He was just meeting up with a friend and his life changed in a single moment.
Another interesting example of Frank's unique guitar style
"The torture never stops"
Frank Zappa!!!!
"The present day composer who refuses to die"
Frank isn't dead he just smells funny
Oh my! The legendary Terry Bozzio on drums. Just a great lineup overall. And this was one of 3 albums he had to release to get to his own label Barking Pumpkin Records. Once his obligations were met, he released the double album Sheik Yer Bouti less than a year later on the new label.
(Correction: Sheik came out on Zappa not Barking Pumpkin. And Sleep Dirt came out Jan 79 on DiscReet, Sheik in Mar 79)
Thanks for the info!
@Zolar Czakl My memory is failing. I always thought my copy of Sheik was on Barking Pumpkin but completely forgotten about Zappa records. Thanks for the correction. But note Zappa in NY, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Sheik all came out within a year of each other (Mar 78 to Mar 79).
Thank you for choosing this crazy song!! I love it!!!
Thank you for watching!
7:34 This solo is where, I think, that Frank felt the need to "thumb his nose" at John McLaughlin, being compared to him time and time again.(The Mahavishnu Orchestra opened for him at least once while on tour) It's definitely one of his best, and I always enjoy listening to it.
☺️wow
I wrote tons of code in the 80’s enabled by FZ’s music. He could put you in a spot where complex problems meets complex music and it is simplified … like magic…. Don’t know how else to explain it. Glad to see younger folks taking it on, it’s good for the brain and the soul.
117 albums...over half after he died...Zappa is the Best
So much music! Almost hard to comprehend!
Sir Ron Swirson knows a lot about Zappa, i love the recommendation and the reaction.
Thanks so much!
Oceanic funk, as the ocean goes the whole planet goes.
Another great FZ instrumental.
I read his music described somewhere as 'maximalistic' as opposed to 'minimalistic' (such as Philip Glass).
Love that
The bottom line with Frank is he loved to make his music ugly and yet you can’t help but want to understand what just happened. Your reaction to this song is spot on and props to Ron because this is as deep into it as it gets.
Thanks for watching Thomas!
Another tune I live!!!
Patrick ohearne smashing it on the bass
SMASHING
Remember that Frank Zappa was a percussionist that played the guitar. - Ruth Underwood
Nice
This song makes me feel so much.
You said it!
Quite possibly my favorite Zappa track EVER! In-bloody-credible!!!!! Zappa is a genius!!! I'm a huge jazz and fusion fan too, but the Sex Pistols were on a "different level" too. No one wrote lyrics like "Anarchy in the UK" or "God Save the Queen" before them. They had an impact in the UK close to what The Beatles did. They changed everything in the UK almost overnight (Sensation :) They are in the top 5 most important bands of all time. The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks said more in one LP than Zappa, Zeppelin, The Stones said in their entire catalog. Yeah I said it! 😁
My favorite tracks off the Sleep Dirt album are ...
FILTHY HABITS
and the RARE acoustic title track ... SLEEP DIRT
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So. Go gentle next. BLESSED RELIEF . No wrenches or spanners or surprises Just lovely throughout. Going to have it at my funeral
Thanks for the suggestion Bruce!
Put Eat That Question first and the two can roll back to back (same album).
this is kool, I like matt cardin in the comment section played with the great Joe Henderson, what a phenomenon he was on the saxophone and as a composer"!
Pretty sure he was just telling a story from the perspective of Patrick O'Hearn.
I'm stoked you took the time on this one. Listen 5 times and you'll get it. Zappa is like tool. Tools songs take many listens. Like Frank. Do purple Lagoon please.
He's he best!
This is it. The Mt Rushmore of Zappa guitar works and in the running for best ever by anybody.
No exaggeration: this was a life changer for me as a musician.
Greatness is the word
There is no singular 'it' with FZ. I gave up trying to pick 'favorites' decades ago, there are so many variations that picking any aspect as the 'best' seems impossible, to me anyway. Always remember, FZ considered his body of work as a single massive work, and any part is just that, a part of the whole.
@@Peter-K yes I know ‘project/object’ and all that but this is still the most singularly epic studio guitar recording that Zappa released in his lifetime. A true labor of love when you read about how it came to be
@@timcardona9962 I consider his entire career as a labor of love, the man was like a ceaseless fountain of creativity. I appreciate that this is one of his finer efforts on the old six string, but I just can't say it is the best ever. I do respect your opinion, and applaud you for that. Just glad the kids are catching on again, his music needs to be out there.
@@Peter-K I know exactly what you mean, and at the same time, if I had to choose one single desert island solo, it would always, always, always (well, who the fvck knows) be Inca Roads, OSFA version.
I need to remind you he is self taught by reading a library book!!! Genius
🌊🌅 So fun, so diverse and accomplished, so HIM. Washed out to sea, adrift and happy...was my take last night listening on Patreon. My Mac overheated and shut down before I could comment, but I'm pretty much in agreement with what you guys said!
Gotcha! Thanks Damon!
Frank was having fun on this track, jamming with the bass player and the drummer after the other guys had gone home. But, he worked on it later, obviously. He would sometimes jam an idea, then score a whole piece from fragments of it. I wouldn’t say he was anti music, more that he got easily bored, and wanted to create things which excited both his and the listener’s mind. He was vehemently anti cliche, though. George Duke, the great jazz pianist who played with him for many years, said (paraphrasing) Frank would write something startlingly beautiful, then deliberately throw a wrench in it, because he said it needed to be fucked up. For sheer beauty (minus the wrench), check out ‘Peaches En Regalia’.
Duke also said that he always felt like FZ knew he didn't have enough time to accomplish what he wanted, which was what drove him to work like a demon, all the time. He complained that once the cancer got bad that he could only work 9 hours a day. A quote from Blade Runner is apt when looking at FZ, 'The brighter the light bulb, the sooner it burns out.'
And Blessed Relief
Thanks Philip!
Good analysis.
Thank you!
YEA... SLEEP DIRT IS ONE OF HIS BEST ALBUMS..>! You are going to love this song. Every song on this album is 110%...!
Amazing song
To be honest, Sleep Dirt is among those that I listen to the least. But not because I don't like it, it's because it's way to demanding. I can't do anything else when I am listening to it. Btw, have you checked Zappa's life performances? There are many whole concerts on youtube and they are almost all great.
I think Sleep Dirt is one of the 3 albums Zappa "Dumped" in the same year to finish a contract and be free ...("Sleep Dirt", Orchestral Favories" and "Studio Tan")
I believe you are correct. I remember hearing something to that effect years ago.
Actually, he considered all four as 'unauthorized' releases, they were all meant to be a part of Lather. If anyone remembers his one guest host gig on SNL, during the Coneheads sketch, he clearly called Studio Tan an Unauthorized release. They released Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral favorites without his approval, and even the cover art had nothing to do with him. They seriously butchered Zappa in NY to boot. I think they knew he would win the rights to his catalog and wanted to complete his contract and make a few more bucks before it happened.
All include some of his best work of all time, including Zappa in New York...
@@Peter-K I think Läther should be promoted way more as the album format Frank intended to release the music contained on those four albums. Läther is my go to, not the individual albums.
@@dago87able Hehe "Don´t buy it - Tape it" Zappa on WIOQ When they played the whole Läther =)
Frank Zappa voids the warranty on his metronome. Songs like this are proof of Einstein's theory that you could bend space and time. Frank can make your ears cry uncle!!
Not "anti-music": more like "anti-hypnosis", or "anti-marching". He disrupts the mindless "groove". It's an embrace of music as something much more, something that can take you on an adventure where you're mind wouldn't go on its own.
Truth! Good analysis!
love her mouth & her style
This is awesome bass playing - I think you know that part I mean! O'hearn was.....like everyone else Frank hired, a beast! lol, along with everything else, Frank had good hiring skills! Regyptian Strut is my song on Sleep Dirt - the original, not the one with the singing.
Regyptian Strut has no lyrics on either release. The ones with added lyrics are Spider of Destiny and Time Is Money.
My happy place 🙏
This album was part of fulfilling a contract with Warner; and it seems to me that Zappa’s “trash” is still superior to many colleague’s limelight music
This is THE one, off all time, by anybody!
Its up there for sure!
I read that this tune was pieced together from 45 minutes of music to create the 13 minute track. That would explain the quick segues in to different directions. The exotic sounding guitar is a 12-string with a strange tuning.
Makes sense. Thanks!
There was a book I read back in the late 70's or early 80's called No Commercial Potential, it was about Zappa and his band. This book described a conflict Zappa had with Warner Brothers, he used to do concerts in front of a giant banner that said "WARNER BROTHERS SUCKS". There lawsuits back and forth and as part of the settlement Zappa had to provide 2 more studio albums. Zappa got previously unpublished studio recordings and put together 2 albums, Sleep Dirt and Studio Tan. I always take music from these albums with a grain of salt as they say, but there's some great recordings on these albums.
Definitely some interesting stuff here!
One of the 3(?) Warner Brothers Albums?
If anything, what he's "deconstructing" is musical GENRE.
That’s true. It’s the rest of us that are confined and stuck within “constructed” musical genres created by marketing teams and the mainstream media at large and unwittingly further reinforcing those constraints like faithful little musical sheep. Frank existed beyond all that useless construction and as a result has never truly been recognized for his contribution to music while the likes of Kurt Cobain is endlessly hailed and celebrated in the mainstream media. What dumb world.
@@jimhardiman3836 Frank was asked why he never had a hit single, he replied...because I don´t have a plastic nose and one white glove.
Yeah that’s a better way to say it
I love!!!!
To eleborate on some other comments on this page:
Yes, this was built up from a jam which doubled as part one of the audition process for Patrick O'Hearn, whom Frank had only just met. But the most interesting aspect is that Frank had to overdub that guitar solo onto his own acoustic rhythm-guitar improvisations. Improvisations with plenty of chord changes, even if you discount the "implied" harmonic options. This must have been quite a challenge for him - after all this is a guy who (not unlike John Coltrane) decided early on that he preferred to solo over the simplest of progressions, or over a one-chord drone, eventually reaching the stage where he even felt a twelve-bar-blues was too constricting.
Amazing! What a true artist
Ohhhhh.....The drummer man!!!!!!!!
lol for real!
I love you guys. Can you do KIng Crimson 69 ? The whole dam album with Greg Lake, Robert Fripp holy f...k
Not sure what was more trippie this song or that shirt ; )
😍
Oh yeah, this is a heavy piece of work. Believe it or not, alot of this song is improvised by drummer Terry Bozzio and bass player Patrick O'hearn, who is also a renowned pianist. I think Frank was going with more like 'Fusion is the ultimate solution' on this track. If you want a real easy listen, Blessed Relief is a beautiful song.
Thanks Kris!
Great stuff! You are what you is!
:)
This period of Zappa was more improvisational. He put together a killer band of jazz musicians to create some of the most far out music of his catalog. This album he utilizes personnel from the "One Size Fits All" and "Sheik Yerbooti" The material was recorded between '74 and '76 and would not be released until 1979.
Love all the Zappa reactions -- you're choosing some really great songs, and your ears are wide open.
Thanks for watching!
Road trip, rte 87 north becomes rte 15 Montreal. 💖🍺🍾🍺💖🍾🍺💖
FZ's titles are brilliant, pithy and hilarious in equal measure.
This one describes our world's seas as the answer to everything ...OR
perhaps an altruism of science whereby chemistry of the briny dissolves all.
FZ = GENIUS, get him in your hungry earholes, children.
* * *
S.A.D. said FZ as ANTI-MUSIC? ***NOT***
Frank was anti-MUSIC BUSINESS as making product rather than music.
ZAPPA vibed with the aether, in essence channeling THE MUSE, folks.
He famously said the "universe is composed of THE ONE NOTE".
The variety of his output resulted from his having to hear EVERYTHING
that bubbled up in his mind then scoring it to have it performed
by the best musicians possible. Frank Zappa was a driven musical genius.
The best, once in a life-time, never will happen again, like Mozart or Duke Ellington.
Also, FZ was entirely an auto-didact, unsullied by THE RULES .
Let that be a lesson: go to the library, leave school., DIY and follow your muse.
"Deconstructing music"...interesting take.This kind of playing/jamming may be familiar territory for fans of jazz/fusion but even then it's still very unique. The bassist, Patrick O'Hearn, came from jazz and even he said it was unlike anything he had heard...it's kind of half written, half improvised with bass and lead guitar added later. The guitar is some kind of modified bazouki (!?)
I think it is in fact a plain old bouzouki, but don’t take it from me
@Zolar Czakl Terry Bozzio said Frank played a 12 string guitar with an exotic tuning.
@Zolar Czakl Thanks for the info, although I find it hard to believe that some of the lead lines in the first half of the track are not played on a bouzouki; I can also hear the acoustic 12 strings Red mentioned.
Lol looks like Dan needs to learn more about jazz
@@dago87able yeah its very possible that Frank overdubbed some other string instruments in certain sections
Food for the Brain.
Frank's musicianship is never in doubt His mind however ?
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does anyone even realize the title is a chemistry pun
Ohhhhhh
Какой же здесь сочный саунд. В десятку Заппы
Try holiday in Berlin suite.great reaction.
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Tooo mu muchch!
Makes me want to listen to some Ron Carter...In a dark room.
Try 'Let me take you to the beach'!!!
Gnarly track.
Oh yeah!
Jazz, fusion, Improvisation, add overdubbed lead guitar.
Patrick O'Hearn on bass. That is all.
Amazing
Anti nuthin pro everything
for sumthin a li'l different (as if any FZ ain't diff enuff) try Billy the Mountain ...
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Apropos of nothing... You should react to Fiona Apple 🍏 her 1st album is a good place to start. ijs
Thanks Douglas!
Love it personally but it took time. Yeh it is a stretch. Your mind wants to hold on to those melodic moments but Frank snatches them right away. At the same time though he's ruining you for all those simple catchy songs that used to do. Eventually the complexity of the Zappa way is what you crave (with some Beefheart for light relief).You guys are in deep now😀x
Lol we’re in very deep
Hmmm. Anti-music? I say Zappa is a genre.
That too!
If this won't make you crazy, …
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Crazy good or crazy bad? Just curious
@@Peter-K Crazy good of course - naturellement (FR)
One of the first Zappa items I saw (beyond the cover of the first Zappa album I bought) was a poster with a 'fish-eye' camera angle image of Frank emerging from a toilet with his hands grasping over the edge of the pan that had the legend 'Fly Zappa Crappa!!" Clearly that poster made an impression on my young and impressionable Aussie youth mind!
Sometimes, as a musician/artist you've got to lose control in order to gain control... Out of chaos comes order.
Perhaps it's just an essential part of finding the answer to "what IS music?" (or insert the name of whatever artistic discipline it is that's being 'explored'!)... When does noise become notes and how do those notes react with each other to create 'music'?
The answer to that; I am sure, is deeply personal and often quite 'fluid'!! It's also a search that has no doubt gone on since the very first instruments made by human hands produced noise/s, with different streams of 'musical solutions' meandering their way towards an infinite pool that could well be an Ocean full of Ultimate solutions.
Don't got to love all the searches for "musical truth" or their discoveries, while giving respect where it's due won't destroy one's own journey of musical self-discovery!
And don't worry Dan about whether you could have been a 'Mother of Invention'!! Just know that with S.A.D. it'd be more the decomposer Frank who'd need to fit the musical vision you and Sifa may (or may not 'yet'/"fully") have formulated for yourselves!!! Just 'cause he's a legend, doesn't mean you couldn't 'Zap' him or as implied in the poster I mentioned at the start of this novella of a post; send him on his way back to the ocean with a quick flush - while still fully respecting him of course!!!! 😮😁
Have a goodie guys!! 👍
Thanks Stephen! We appreciate you adding your perspective!
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i like the Lather version a bit better. it feels more succinct and gets to the compositional point better without the prelude into the main jam. just an opinion.
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The record companies hated Frank so their puppets the main radio stations and music press tried to stop him. Just see what he left us. As Matt Groenig said, some of us don't want to march in regulation time. I say Long live fz and people of his ilk.
Long Live Frank Zappa! Long Live Frank Zappa!
He also said: "Zappa is my Elvis"
I love your steely dan stuff but some advice to you guys. I'm not being a dick, but you guys do way to many obscure songs, which means less views.
I wonder what Frank would have said to the notion of doing loads of popular songs to maximize views. Yeah, exactly. You guys are doing it right.
@ lany 2017 - I invite you to examine the view counts for Zappa reactions.
I’m not singling out frank Zappa so calm down. I meant in general there are a lot of obscure songs. If view counts aren’t what they’re looking for them that’s fine.
Haha thanks for the advice. All of our songs are selected by our Patrons on Patreon, and that’s our main focus. Everything else is just a bonus :)