Zircon encrusted tweezers are part of Frank's "Conceptual Continuity", which is essentially lyrical topics that come up again and again in different songs. Poodles are another example.
Ruth Underwood is a Classically Trained Percussionist. Every note she plays is written as sheet music by Frank. He could write scores as fast as people write words. He started as a drummer and changes and combines different time signatures at will
The female vocalists in the "got a spot that gets me hot" section are Tina Turner & two of The Ikettes. Ike & Tina were recording an album in a neighbouring studio.
No music artist in the modern era, 1964 till now Is even in the same category or conversation when it comes to sheer Talent and originality. Savant of the highest order… RIP Frank.
I was in college when this album came out. A girl I knew came running into my room and said, " You gotta hear this song!" I've been listening to Frank ever since!
Your a daring soul . In its day this was a risky FM radio play . With the sliding standards of Y.T. censorship , I don't even want to think what scathing reviews are being manifested . Power to you my man . Great song , great album , and most of all great artist . R.I.P. Frank . . . We miss you . Can you imagine what he would have to say about the current state of affairs .
Oh yeah , I love ZAPPA ! This album , Overnight Sensation is probably my favorite , there's so many . Wait until you check out the album , Bongo Fury , another fantastic album , but , there's so many . Keep it up . Frank Zappa is also one of my guitar gods , excellent !!
Lee- you seem to appreciate George Duke, as you should !!😊 I like him so much, I dug into his solo work & his work with Cannonball Adderly (and his equally talented brother Nate) via listening to FZ & The Mothers. Might I suggest listening to both PHENIX & THE BLACK MESSIAH by Cannonball Adderly. These feature George Duke, and "The Chocolate Nuisance" is a standout track for me, personally.... A nice collection of that music is to be found in the form of a CD called The Definitive Cannonball Adderly, featuring both Joe Zawinul (Weather Report founder, later on...) & George "Peef" Duke.... A jazz rabbit hole worth goin' down !! 🚬😎👍
Naughty, Nasty, Viral, Filthy, + Fun...! Penthouse Magazine wished at the time they had a writer like Frank Zappa...! Was played on WBCN Boston a lot...until the FCC banned it in 1980 something. Then WBCN did not play it as often. This was the HOOK Song that introduced lots of teenage boy to Zappa...Everyone in HS was talking about this tune when it came out.
@@Royale_with_Cheeze If the Sun Don't Shine, and the Creek Don't Rise, and their ain't no Meltdown... see you in the AM. MARK PARENTEAU is where I learned about all the Jazz Fusion I own and purchased in the 70's. DREGS, COBHAM, RTF, BRAND X...all of them... WBCN (have you seen the documentery that came out last year) was the best source of NEW Music. They Invented YOU 2, and the Cars... along with many others. Including ZEPPLIN, the same folks that put them on for the 7 hours show and made then what they were in the day. The founders of WBCN (their prior collage station made zepplin famous)
@@alldayadventures5418 'BCN was the first radio station to give U2 airtime in America. They were truly groundbreaking. When the Police put out Every Move You Make, WBCN was chosen to be the first radio station in the world to premiere it. Not even a station in their own England. That speaks for itself. I watched Matt Siegel on 5 All Night Live when he made his announcement that he was leaving 'BCN to go to KISS 108. I felt like I was kicked in the gut. All radio sucks now. All formula, so individual programmers the likes of Oedipus, who brought us lots of new music. Maxanne Sartori, one of the very first female DJs, on 'BCN really broke Aerosmith by insisting on playing Dream On and other songs from their debut album on constant rotation. No more of that influence on making new artists flourish. I'm glad to have been around in the heyday of WBCN and Zappa in the 70s. Cheers!
@@alldayadventures5418 "If the creek don't rise, if thethe good lord's willing and there ain't no meltdown..." And then Captain Ken Shelton. Not to forget "Bing Bong, five minutes past the big hour of 5 o'clock" for the comedy segment every day on Partenteau's show. Ellis the Rim Man had live ads on Parenteau's show and Mark would always say, "Ellis, the Rim-Job Man"
"Dirty Love" "Stink Foot" Yellow Snow, "Zomby Woof" are a really good ones too. His really early stuff may be too far out for you unless you're a fan. His later music really took the form of what he was trying to do.
I was amazed at hearing this song on the local FM station at 6;30 while stocking the shelves at the A&P in 1972 and was shocked at the lyrics because of the explicit meaning, but also the fact that it got airplay and I really loved it. Can’t pull that shit on the radio nowadays
Agree with you 100% musically this is great stuff. Happy to hear that you are picking up the individual pieces. For me this song is fine, definitely helped define who he was as an artist, but ultimately it’s not one I go out of my way to revisit. That said you gotta hear it so good request, great reaction, thank god for Frank Friday!
You said he was weird. And into some weird shit probably. Weird like a genius yes. Crazy thing about him, especially coming from the time that he did and his musical style and subject matter, is NO DRUGS. Him, or his band. Famously anti drug.
Saw them live at Stanford university Maples Pavilion, what a show George Duke : keyboards , Ruth Underwood: Marimba , Steve Vai : Guitar , Ralph Humphrey : Drums . Unbelievable, show . So tight , right on the count .
He did I Am The Slime on Saturday Night Live with slime oozing out of the TV monitors. The back up singers are Tina Turner and the Ikettes who got paid union scale and no credit on the album. Not sure why they did it…. but it’s legendary! Oh! and Rapping before Rapping was a thing….
And, he threw the "middle 8" of "I Am the Slime" to Don Pardo, who was an NBC announcer on many other shows as well as SNL, while FZ used a blackboard with lyrics and a pointer, ~~ to make it even more meta .... Regarding the Ikettes, Z hired them because he wanted that sound; and the story goes, that Ike Turner was pissed off that Z paid them union scale wages, because he had been stiffing them for years !!!
Glad you react to this song ! Cuz not too many do ! Actually it s the first time i see someone do it ! hope you like it ! one of my fav. ! it s a funny song ! lol ! 😆😅🤣
Dirty Love and Bobby Brown Goes Down are a couple of good ones. And speaking of Jean Luc Ponty be sure to listen to his solo work.Imaginary Voyage and Enigmatic Ocean are two of his best.
Rewind to Montana............Moving to Montana Soon......Gonna be a' 'Mental Toss Flycoon' vs 'Dental Floss Tycoon'. Not sure if you cought that in your reaction.
My co-worker and I were delivering beer in a van. We hung out the van Allanis Morresette - Ironic style - while singing this song. We just both happen to have this done memorized. some bovine perspiration on our upper lip area
I strongly suggest you check out the album The Mothers - Live at the Fillmore East, June 1971. It's a series of interlinked songs narrated by Frank. He recounts a story supposedly told to him by members of Vanilla Fudge during an encounter in an airport about a wild night they had at the Edgewater Inn. It includes the songs The Mud Shark, What Kind of Girls Do You Think We Are?, Bwana Dik, Latex Solar Beef, and ends with the Turtles big hit Happy Together. Leaving off the last 3 tracks which are not related to the story, it runs about 20 minutes total and is an incredibly humerous performance. The band include regulars Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar (drums) and Don Preston (keys), with guests Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (aka Flo and Eddy).
I like your reactions…it’s great! I remember discovering Zappa! Anyway check out Ya Hozna on “Them or Us”….then listen to it backwards. You will then understand the depth of Frank but also the conceptually continuity concept. Yo.
I think Franks later albums were his best. He started forming a personality in his music. The songs had more of a distinctive beginning middle and end. Even though they had bad words they were more commercially acceptable.
Then there is also Frank's 20th Century orchestral writing he financed from the proceeds of his rock music - such as his albums with the London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, and later projects like The Yellow Shark.
@L33Reacts this is my favorite Zappa album. I'm the Slime is another great song and still holds true today. Are you familiar with the PMRC? It was a group of politicians wives trying to censor lyrics in music in the late 80s. Zappa testified in the hearings for the right to freedom of expression. Naturally because of that every album he released after that had a warning label for explicit lyrics. Frank got the last laugh because everything he did from then on was instrumental.
It's not true that every Zappa album post-1986 were instrumental only, and the only warning labels on his records were of his own doing. The label said "the music and ideas on this record won't send you to the place where the guy with the horns and pointy stick does his business" It was his thumbing his nose at the PMRC. The record that came out right after those hearings has lyrics, including the song "We're Turning Again" which drops the F-bomb a couple of times. Then there's Broadway The Hard Way and the other two '88 tour releases, all have lyrics. Some naughty. There was no way Frank was going to acquiesce to any Washington wives group of yentas.
The most risque' that Tina Turner ever got (on the record, anyways ...) 😀 About the tweezers - When I was three, I noticed that when mom plugged the toaster in it would toast the bread, and when she plugged the iron in it would iron the clothes, and when she plugged the blender in it would blend ... then I saw the tweezers! ( they didn't tweeze, but they did make a big black mark on the wall, and made my mom completely lose it!) One wonders if something similar happened in Frank's early years ???
Something did! In "The Real Freak Zappa Book" he recalls spending a childhood summer grinding ping ping balls into powder. He wondered if it was flammable; turns out, HIGHLY so & when he tried, it almost blew his nuts off.
Silly fun song. I think you'd like a few from the 1st Joe's Garage album, the title cut or "Catholic Girls" And like I mentioned before "Sofa 1" and Sofa 2" from "One Size Fits All" and the other version of "Sofa" from "Zappa in N.Y." A comment to your comment: To my knowledge Ruth Underwood did not improvise. Frank wrote everything out for her or verbally instructed her. The fact that they both put in all that effort to have those complicated parts performed with such precision is remarkable.
Joe's Garage is fantastic but it's better as a whole. But the same is true with all Zappa. I love Sofa. And records show that Ruth did not/would not improvise. Frank was influenced by his musicians and wrote music that would push them and make them shine.
The reason Tina Turner and The Ikettes, who did the backing vocals, are not listed on the album credits, is because Ike Turner, a real shithead, didn't like what he heard on the playback at the studio, so he said no credits and no money for the girls. They had worked on their parts very hard for a long time, and were denied by Ike. He was a real db, not just to Tina, but everyone around him. Frank rules.
Just as Nasty as this one, but a whole lot Dirtier is "PINKY" Zoot Allures Album which comes in at the end of The Torcher Never Stops, you just reviewed. Man From Utopia Album has a tune called "SEX" where Frank coined the phase: "The Bigger the Cusion, the Better the Pushin"
A school common room favourite back in the seventies. Frank sure had his finger on the - ahem - button for us. Ah, the shameful yet glorious memories of a more innocent but liberal time.
True story, Frank took a tour of an electrical power plant. During the tour, when they reached the turbines, someone said, 'listen to those dynamos hum!' and a song was born...
One of my least favourite Zappa tracks, although musically it's very inventive and polished. I've grown to like it a little more through the years, but still it's just puerile to my ears.
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Tina Turner and the Ikettes are singing backing vocals on this song.
Linda Sims and Debbie Wilson were the other two Ikettes. The witch's hat is still visible in front of the bow of the ship!
And a few other songs from this album
They sang back-up on Apostrophe too.
Really! And I thought I knew everything about zappa.
I'll be here every Frankie fridays.
You need to hit "Dirty Love", "Camarillo Brillo" and "I'm The Slime" from this album too
Or he could just do the whole album
Zircon encrusted tweezers are part of Frank's "Conceptual Continuity", which is essentially lyrical topics that come up again and again in different songs. Poodles are another example.
I've heard it in a couple of his tracks so far. It definitely does AND doesn't roll off the tongue lol I don't know how.
Poodle Bites it. Poodle Chews it...! Not a spec of cereal.
@@SoundLevel11481 arf arf arf!
Vegetables/food are another running theme w/Frank.
The Mudshark, Sears Poncho, Here Fido...
Ruth Underwood is a Classically Trained Percussionist. Every note she plays is written as sheet music by Frank. He could write scores as fast as people write words. He started as a drummer and changes and combines different time signatures at will
The truth is stranger than fiction !
Ruth is truly a gem
The female vocalists in the "got a spot that gets me hot" section are Tina Turner & two of The Ikettes. Ike & Tina were recording an album in a neighbouring studio.
Camarillo Brillo!
No music artist in the modern era, 1964 till now
Is even in the same category or conversation
when it comes to sheer
Talent and originality.
Savant of the highest order… RIP Frank.
Zappa unique and compelling but there were others too in their own genius Hendrix,beatles,steely dan ,stevie wonder etc
Mr Bungle is
Classic Frank! Such a genius. 1980 Carbondale!! Awesome show!!!👍😎
Hey, I was there too! We met Adrian Belew walking back to our car afterwards. He was on his way to the Holiday Inn.
@@jamesreeves7934 Cool!👍😎
214 saw Frank play this in 76, saw him again in 78, but that's a little foggy 😂
@@lesblatnyak5947 Lol! Mine too. Jeff Beck came the following weekend!🎸🎸👍😎
I think he played the U of IL the same tour and I saw him there. Probably a day after or before you.
Love this album, have done since it came out. Zappa is such a great composer surrounded by exellent musicians.
I was in college when this album came out. A girl I knew came running into my room and said, " You gotta hear this song!" I've been listening to Frank ever since!
The whole album is brilliant. Frank is like Salvador Dali. He leaves me totally gobsmacked at his genius, his chutzpah and his fearlessness.
I always enjoy a song with a happy ending
🤣
Your a daring soul . In its day this was a risky FM radio play . With the sliding standards of Y.T. censorship , I don't even want to think what scathing reviews are being manifested . Power to you my man . Great song , great album , and most of all great artist . R.I.P. Frank . . . We miss you . Can you imagine what he would have to say about the current state of affairs .
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird." - FZ
FZ was a guitar and lyrical genius.
Oh yeah , I love ZAPPA ! This album , Overnight Sensation is probably my favorite , there's so many . Wait until you check out the album , Bongo Fury , another fantastic album , but , there's so many . Keep it up . Frank Zappa is also one of my guitar gods , excellent !!
Listen to all of Joes Garage …… legendary
Lee- you seem to appreciate George Duke, as you should !!😊
I like him so much, I dug into his solo work & his work with Cannonball Adderly (and his equally talented brother Nate) via listening to FZ & The Mothers.
Might I suggest listening to both PHENIX & THE BLACK MESSIAH by Cannonball Adderly. These feature George Duke, and "The Chocolate Nuisance" is a standout track for me, personally....
A nice collection of that music is to be found in the form of a CD called The Definitive Cannonball Adderly, featuring both Joe Zawinul (Weather Report founder, later on...) & George "Peef" Duke....
A jazz rabbit hole worth goin' down !!
🚬😎👍
Naughty, Nasty, Viral, Filthy, + Fun...! Penthouse Magazine wished at the time they had a writer like Frank Zappa...!
Was played on WBCN Boston a lot...until the FCC banned it in 1980 something. Then WBCN did not play it as often.
This was the HOOK Song that introduced lots of teenage boy to Zappa...Everyone in HS was talking about this tune when it came out.
Chucka-Lucka-Ducka on The Big Mattress and Mark Parenteau kept Frank's music alive on The Rock of Boston in the 70s.
@@Royale_with_Cheeze If the Sun Don't Shine, and the Creek Don't Rise, and their ain't no Meltdown... see you in the AM.
MARK PARENTEAU is where I learned about all the Jazz Fusion I own and purchased in the 70's. DREGS, COBHAM, RTF, BRAND X...all of them...
WBCN (have you seen the documentery that came out last year) was the best source of NEW Music. They Invented YOU 2, and the Cars... along with many others.
Including ZEPPLIN, the same folks that put them on for the 7 hours show and made then what they were in the day. The founders of WBCN (their prior collage station made zepplin famous)
@@alldayadventures5418
'BCN was the first radio station to give U2 airtime in America.
They were truly groundbreaking.
When the Police put out Every Move You Make, WBCN was chosen to be the first radio station in the world to premiere it.
Not even a station in their own England. That speaks for itself.
I watched Matt Siegel on 5 All Night Live when he made his announcement that he was leaving 'BCN to go to KISS 108.
I felt like I was kicked in the gut.
All radio sucks now. All formula, so individual programmers the likes of Oedipus, who brought us lots of new music.
Maxanne Sartori, one of the very first female DJs, on 'BCN really broke Aerosmith by insisting on playing Dream On and other songs from their debut album on constant rotation. No more of that influence on making new artists flourish.
I'm glad to have been around in the heyday of WBCN and Zappa in the 70s.
Cheers!
@@alldayadventures5418
"If the creek don't rise, if thethe good lord's willing and there ain't no meltdown..."
And then Captain Ken Shelton. Not to forget "Bing Bong, five minutes past the big hour of 5 o'clock" for the comedy segment every day on Partenteau's show.
Ellis the Rim Man had live ads on Parenteau's show and Mark would always say, "Ellis, the Rim-Job Man"
@@Royale_with_Cheeze Thanx... it's been a LONG TIME...
I requested this from a college radio station in Bozeman Montana in probably '77...and they played it! I was surprised
Cheapness , from Zappa / Mothers / Roxy and Elsewhere ! You gotta check out Cheapness !
FZ a true genius
I love watching first time reactions to this song... 😅🤣
"Dirty Love" "Stink Foot" Yellow Snow, "Zomby Woof" are a really good ones too. His really early stuff may be too far out for you unless you're a fan. His later music really took the form of what he was trying to do.
Zappa's best album! Listen to Dirty Love. His guitar solo is awesome!
I was amazed at hearing this song on the local FM station at 6;30 while stocking the shelves at the A&P in 1972 and was shocked at the lyrics because of the explicit meaning, but also the fact that it got airplay and I really loved it. Can’t pull that shit on the radio nowadays
I'm here for this every Friday
I had forgotten just how good this album is and this track in particular is both a joy to listen to but also makes you grin insanely!
The best reaction to this song man. 👍👍👍
Agree with you 100% musically this is great stuff. Happy to hear that you are picking up the individual pieces. For me this song is fine, definitely helped define who he was as an artist, but ultimately it’s not one I go out of my way to revisit. That said you gotta hear it so good request, great reaction, thank god for Frank Friday!
You said he was weird. And into some weird shit probably. Weird like a genius yes. Crazy thing about him, especially coming from the time that he did and his musical style and subject matter, is NO DRUGS. Him, or his band. Famously anti drug.
Is ZPZ still going - I think I saw them do the whole album. Great to see these songs live, insane band(s)
Saw them live at Stanford university Maples Pavilion, what a show George Duke : keyboards , Ruth Underwood: Marimba , Steve Vai : Guitar , Ralph Humphrey : Drums . Unbelievable, show . So tight , right on the count .
That was a great line up!
He did I Am The Slime on Saturday Night Live with slime oozing out of the TV monitors. The back up singers are Tina Turner and the Ikettes who got paid union scale and no credit on the album. Not sure why they did it…. but it’s legendary!
Oh! and Rapping before Rapping was a thing….
And, he threw the "middle 8" of "I Am the Slime" to Don Pardo, who was an NBC announcer on many other shows as well as SNL, while FZ used a blackboard with lyrics and a pointer, ~~ to make it even more meta ....
Regarding the Ikettes, Z hired them because he wanted that sound; and the story goes, that Ike Turner was pissed off that Z paid them union scale wages, because he had been stiffing them for years !!!
Glad you react to this song ! Cuz not too many do ! Actually it s the first time i see someone do it ! hope you like it ! one of my fav. ! it s a funny song ! lol ! 😆😅🤣
This hole album is one my favorites. Definitely one to listen to from start to finish.
All the freaks ( including me) in my high school knew this song. We loved Zappa
It's great to hear Uncle Frank the genius check out stinkfoot , I'm the slime, don't eat the yellow snow
As a drummer dude check out Inca Road - the drummer is unreal
My first Zappa experience was this album at summer camp at age 13 (almost 14) Hooked from then on! 😊
Dirty Love next please! 😊❤
Nice to see, that young people can detect the zappa universe as I did several decades before 🙂
Dirty Love and Bobby Brown Goes Down are a couple of good ones. And speaking of Jean Luc Ponty be sure to listen to his solo work.Imaginary Voyage and Enigmatic Ocean are two of his best.
Jean absolutely shreds on 50/50.
Rewind to Montana............Moving to Montana Soon......Gonna be a' 'Mental Toss Flycoon' vs 'Dental Floss Tycoon'.
Not sure if you cought that in your reaction.
Another spot on reaction to a classic. As many have noted, this entire album is worth exploring. Thanks Lee!
My co-worker and I were delivering beer in a van. We hung out the van Allanis Morresette - Ironic style - while singing this song. We just both happen to have this done memorized. some bovine perspiration on our upper lip area
Brilliant Freaky Zappa. Cheers Dude.
That is Tina Turner and the Ikettes doing the vocals in the back. Ike prohibited them from getting credit on the album because he was embarrassed.
Listen to an earlier track Brown Shoes Don't Make It. What blast for the time. Jim
Great reaction as always thanks..... Frank being Frank ha ha.... 😉
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it! Frank is one freakyyyy dude. I'm here for it, though 🤣🤣
I strongly suggest you check out the album The Mothers - Live at the Fillmore East, June 1971. It's a series of interlinked songs narrated by Frank. He recounts a story supposedly told to him by members of Vanilla Fudge during an encounter in an airport about a wild night they had at the Edgewater Inn. It includes the songs The Mud Shark, What Kind of Girls Do You Think We Are?, Bwana Dik, Latex Solar Beef, and ends with the Turtles big hit Happy Together.
Leaving off the last 3 tracks which are not related to the story, it runs about 20 minutes total and is an incredibly humerous performance.
The band include regulars Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar (drums) and Don Preston (keys), with guests Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (aka Flo and Eddy).
Oh boy this oughta be good
He had a few like that. Ms Pinky, off of Zoot Allures is another one
$69.95 boy! Give her a try!
And this is the slow-dance version. 😂
This is my favorite Frank album.
I like your reactions…it’s great!
I remember discovering Zappa!
Anyway check out Ya Hozna on “Them or Us”….then listen to it backwards.
You will then understand the depth of Frank but also the conceptually continuity concept.
Yo.
I think Franks later albums were his best. He started forming a personality in his music. The songs had more of a distinctive beginning middle and end. Even though they had bad words they were more commercially acceptable.
1966 at the age of 12 FREAK OUT --- #127 👍
I wonder, have you done any Tinseltown stuff yet?
Thought it was the Pointer Sisters singing back up.
My fav FZ album. (single disc)
Cartoons for your ears. I really like that. I’m going to use it.😊
I,ve been a Frank fan since 76/ never saw him live. He,s always employed the best studio cat,s! Thx, Checkout Sheik your booty by him! 😂😂
OK, wait. So, we have The Who, Wednesdays, Frank Fridays, Pink Floyd Sundays. Am I missing any?😂❤
Then there is also Frank's 20th Century orchestral writing he financed from the proceeds of his rock music - such as his albums with the London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, and later projects like The Yellow Shark.
Not a lot of views because not a lot of people are smart enough to get it..keep going 👍
Exactly haha I don't care. I love this dude. His music is a ray of light in an abyss of boring, taken too seriously world of music lol
Before zircon encrusted tweezers, it was mud sharks.
one day you may get to ‘Briefcase Boogie’ 😂
Great choice for a Friday, you will enjoy!
You should check out the composer Edgard Varèse was one of franks idols .. you will see few similarities …
@L33Reacts this is my favorite Zappa album. I'm the Slime is another great song and still holds true today.
Are you familiar with the PMRC? It was a group of politicians wives trying to censor lyrics in music in the late 80s. Zappa testified in the hearings for the right to freedom of expression. Naturally because of that every album he released after that had a warning label for explicit lyrics. Frank got the last laugh because everything he did from then on was instrumental.
are you serious that he just said fuck it and went instrumental 😳 🤣🤣 I love this dude
You should check out Frank doing I’m the Slime on SNL from the seventies.
It's not true that every Zappa album post-1986 were instrumental only, and the only warning labels on his records were of his own doing. The label said "the music and ideas on this record won't send you to the place where the guy with the horns and pointy stick does his business"
It was his thumbing his nose at the PMRC.
The record that came out right after those hearings has lyrics, including the song "We're Turning Again" which drops the F-bomb a couple of times.
Then there's Broadway The Hard Way and the other two '88 tour releases, all have lyrics. Some naughty.
There was no way Frank was going to acquiesce to any Washington wives group of yentas.
The most risque' that Tina Turner ever got (on the record, anyways ...) 😀
About the tweezers - When I was three, I noticed that when mom plugged the toaster in it would toast the bread, and when she plugged the iron in it would iron the clothes, and when she plugged the blender in it would blend ... then I saw the tweezers!
( they didn't tweeze, but they did make a big black mark on the wall, and made my mom completely lose it!)
One wonders if something similar happened in Frank's early years ???
Something did! In "The Real Freak Zappa Book" he recalls spending a childhood summer grinding ping ping balls into powder. He wondered if it was flammable; turns out, HIGHLY so & when he tried, it almost blew his nuts off.
Hilarious! It's a wonder any of us survive our youth!
Silly fun song. I think you'd like a few from the 1st Joe's Garage album, the title cut or "Catholic Girls" And like I mentioned before "Sofa 1" and Sofa 2" from "One Size Fits All" and the other version of "Sofa" from "Zappa in N.Y." A comment to your comment: To my knowledge Ruth Underwood did not improvise. Frank wrote everything out for her or verbally instructed her. The fact that they both put in all that effort to have those complicated parts performed with such precision is remarkable.
Joe's Garage is fantastic but it's better as a whole. But the same is true with all Zappa. I love Sofa. And records show that Ruth did not/would not improvise. Frank was influenced by his musicians and wrote music that would push them and make them shine.
The reason Tina Turner and The Ikettes, who did the backing vocals, are not listed on the album credits, is because Ike Turner, a real shithead, didn't like what he heard on the playback at the studio, so he said no credits and no money for the girls. They had worked on their parts very hard for a long time, and were denied by Ike. He was a real db, not just to Tina, but everyone around him. Frank rules.
Yeah I've heard some Terrible shit about that dude. What an asshat
@@L33Reacts Yes not a nice guy, but Ike was a genius music arranger and music promoter
I still wouldn't apologize for him, he was not a good person.@@johnnyparis10
Just as Nasty as this one, but a whole lot Dirtier is "PINKY" Zoot Allures Album which comes in at the end of The Torcher Never Stops, you just reviewed.
Man From Utopia Album has a tune called "SEX" where Frank coined the phase: "The Bigger the Cusion, the Better the Pushin"
Oh boy humorous and nasty all in one..
Nobody Does it Better.
Dynamo Hum Dynamo Hum where is that Dynamo coming from.
great song just like bobby brown goes down
Tweezers were used to hold roaches after you smoked the joint down
I've seen those used a few times 😁
Uncredited: Tina Turner and two Ikettes. Ike Turner insisted Frank wouldn't credit them
Of course he did. I've heard the stories about Ike...
And insisted Frank pay them almost nothing. He also thought the songs(s) that they sang on were worthless garbage.
Linda Sims and Debbie Wilson were the other two Ikettes.
@@timfeeley714-25 i know, i have a picture of them at their time with Tina, and you can compare their facial features from the Cheepnis rehearsel.
I remember the album liner notes gave them credit
Joe's Garage
A school common room favourite back in the seventies. Frank sure had his finger on the - ahem - button for us. Ah, the shameful yet glorious memories of a more innocent but liberal time.
True story, Frank took a tour of an electrical power plant. During the tour, when they reached the turbines, someone said, 'listen to those dynamos hum!' and a song was born...
That is not the correct story, here's the real story in Frank's own words ua-cam.com/video/_1TowAJlXW4/v-deo.htmlsi=Fwyx4vY2Q63rN5sn
I thought it was about an experience he had in Brisbane Australia. But I am old and the brain doesn't remember like it used to.
HMMMM maybe Cowboy Burt next? But then again there is so much more Zappa.
Where's my waitress??
@@Hare_deLuneBurtram, Burtram redneck 😉
Mudshark!
NG BIZ!
Freaky, try Joe's garage one and two. Really freaky.
Tom Fowler is great
You should do a reaction video to ‘just waiting for a mate’. It would be awesome to see your head next to Clinton’s.
there may be sisters in this song but there is only one woman.
Kinda dated, but definitely shows his lack of commercial potential. Not for polite company, which is why we love him isn't it.
Certainly paints a picture don't it? Taints a pimpture? Great and proper reaction. Check out Watermelon In Easter Hay - great for a country drive.
George Duke
I try, but I don't understand the appeal of this guy. He's convinced of his genius, but it's completely by me
You have to check out Frank giving a speech on freedom of speech to Congress, and it's ten times worse now, depending on who or what you speech about.
It’s time to go outside
Bitch I live outside the fuck you mean 🤣
One of my least favorite Zappa songs. He did it in most of his shows.
It is believed Frank was not fond of it too.
One of my least favourite Zappa tracks, although musically it's very inventive and polished. I've grown to like it a little more through the years, but still it's just puerile to my ears.
This album is overrated