That double drum break from Ralph Humphreys and Chester Thompson impressed Phil Collins and was one of the factors that led to Chester joining Genesis.
Son of Orange County, is about Richard Nixon. Quotation from Nixon’s TV appearence just after the Watergate Scandal: ”The Words from your lips ’I am not a crook’”. Very relevant in the current Trump dominated political era.
TROUBLE WAS WRITTEN IN 1966, INFLUENCED BY THE WATTS RACE RIOTS IN CALIFORNIA. THE ONE LINE OMITTED FROM THIS LIVE VERSION THAT AT THE AGE OF 12 GAVE ME CHILLS, “I’m Not Black, but a Bunch of Times I Wish I could say, I’m Not White” !!!! WOW !!!! Excuse me if I didn’t get the line just right without playing FO for reference. I’m 69 going on 70 AND I OWN 98-99% OF THE 127 OFFICIAL RELEASES FRANK WAS THE ABSOLUTE MASTER OF GUITAR FEEDBACK LIVE TO CREATE A MOOD OR AN AIR SCULPTURE !!!
I grew up listening to Frank and have seen him about a dozen or so times... It's so great watching others experience Frank for the first time Great job!! Frank as I've been saying for a while, is one of the greatest American composers of our time.. And I believe we'll go down as such.. Keep on rockin'!!
There is a DVD from these shows, called “Roxy, The Movie”, you can see all this music and more. At the time, they were unable to successfully link the audio with the video, but modern digital tech has achieved that. It’s brilliant to see, and answers a question you asked on the Side 2 video…no music stands onstage. Not only was all this music memorized, but Zappa also “conducted” with a series of hand signals that could send the whole band down a musical rabbit hole in a gesture! Add the “dance contest” and a few famous groupies…very entertaining! 😁
The video recording done at the time was notoriously bad though and did not synch up with he audio. Frank wanted to release a concert movie but could not because of these problems. It took a few decades for technology to catch up so it could be painstakingly fixed. It is now available on video.
you’re alright Jim 😊 - your smile when something musical _tickles_ you is, I dare say, genuine, deep rooted, and infectious… betrays a soul-level love for music. glad you’ve found your personal place with some of Frank’s music - cool. I’ll be watching the channel for your reactions on other artists / bands. thx Jim. seanM
Chester Thompson's drum fill on TROUBLE EVERY DAY caused Phil Collins to hire him & use that sound on several of his own hit records in the late 70s & early 80s
Happy Birthday Jim! Great album, just love Zappa. You must listen to his 1974 album 'Apostrophe'...a masterclass of tight musicianship. 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow'...a hilarious suite.
Happy birthday. I have many favourite Zappa albums, and this is one of them. I have played the whole thing hundreds of times, and it is always brilliant.
I like your sentiment about ppl not not knowing his music. I beleive over time it will be regognized, and I am heartened to see you and others getting into his music more and more.
To think that all of this fantastic music came from one man's mind is incredible. Then add Frank's guitar playing and conducting and I think you have the greatest musician of the time. I also personally think he's the best guitar player but that's just my opinion. Anyway, I really enjoyed these Roxy reactions - thank you very much and happy belated birthday Jim!
This album is one of my Desert Island Discs. I did get to see Dweezil and his band play it note for note for it's 40th anniversary. They did it justice.
Note by note? Sounds kinda boring, considering solo improvisations and the development of tracks over time is what gives excitement to live performances of Frank's songs imo.
@@Ninang363 Well, from what I've listened to (so far only video recordings), ZpZ do some variations sometimes. Guess we're just divided as to what kind of show we prefer. (I'm kinda a jazz appreciating guy besides prog, so it makes sense that I seek variation from performance to performance 🙂)
Thanks, Jim, that was brilliant. My copy of this album might be a genuine collector's item. The inner panels of the sleeve have been glued in upside-down. Anyone else? Anyhow, I am chuffed to bits that you liked it so much, so Happy Birthday! (I knew you would ...)
Happy birthday, Jim! Been enjoying your channel for a few months. You owe it to yourself to attend the annual zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany.
Happy Birthday Jim. Listening to these two album sides yesterday and today was time well spent. I enjoyed it immensely. This was a great request and your comments were excellent. Until the pandemic, I could only name one song, now I know many. 😊
Best guitar performance I've ever experienced was Frank Zappa, Halloween, sometime in the early 70s, in NYC. It was in the Felt Forum, the venue below Madison Square Garden. I've seen all the great guitarists in rock and many in jazz. Frank's playing was magical, almost otherworldly. He wasn't just riffing, he was composing as he soloed. The audience was entranced.
Wish you a sweet Birthday, like the chokolate you just had, and very exiting, like the music you just heard! Thanks! Everithing you do here is respectable!
Happy birthday!!! Now down to business, there's a live video version of Cheepnis only on the Chalk Pie video release, with Chester, Ralph, Ruth and Frank ONLY, just drums and percussion. It's insane... The complexity of this music and the unbelievable level of execution.
I just stumbled on your review of Roxy. Just want to let you know that you can actually see that show as it happened. The entire show was filmed and was released by the Zappa family in 2015. Easily available too. Some of it might even be available right here on UA-cam, I didn't check, but worth taking a look. I don't do internet very frequently, but when I do, sometimes I fall on little snippets of interesting stuff. This was one of those moments. Oh, a little late but, happy birthday and new year.
I’ve been a BIG FZ Fan since 1966 Freak Out at the age of 12 Since then I have Purchased every & each Release the MAN created within weeks/days of Release !!! 127 Titles !!! TROUBLE COMING EVERY DAY on Freak Out BLEW ME AWAY, BOTH MUSICALLY & IT’S STORY !!! STILL RELEVANT TODAY. THE VERSION OF TROUBLE IS DIFFERENT ON THE ALBUM YOU ARE PLAYING, BUT FRANK HAS ALWAYS MADE CHANGES TO A SONG AT ANY TIME !! HE IS FZ !! PS: IF THE SHOW WAS IN NEW YORK ?? I’m in the Audience (EVERY HALLOWEEN SHOW & THEN SOME)
Before I dive into the music...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JIM! I take it you are not a triskaidekaphobe, because I am not, and was also born on the thirteenth, though in January, like King Crimson and Gurdjieff, strangely mentors. My audio genius nephew is also a thirteenth, as is brilliant Ethan up in New York. Good company. I like you better already. Anyways...woohoo, many wondrous more, and now off to listen and enjoy!
can't comment without saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY .... again 😄😉 listening to this great live recording you brought up the question, how many people could name a song of Frank Zappa. I can tell you that many people in Germany know Bobby Brown...and from what I can tell it's more women than man and the funny part is, that many of them think it's a love song, because they don't listen to or even more of them don't understand the lyrics. So whenever I heard this song in public and saw people sing along I had to laugh so hard ... on the inside .. 🤣🤣🤣🤘
@@JimNewstead so you don't know this Bobby Brown song ? It was so successful here .. and it's still so funny, seeing girls singing along the first line without knowing what the song is about 🤣🤣🤣
The warmth of the 70s. The sound of this album is superb. After Zappa, Chester Thompson went on to join Genesis, and they asked him, how did you do that fill?
FRANK HAD A STRONGER IMPACT OVERSEAS RATHER THAN IN THE US, HOWEVER TRY TO GET HALLOWEEN TICKETS WHEN THEY WENT ON SALE ??? I WOULD CAMP OUT OUTSIDE TICKET MASTERS OR TICKET-TRON THE DAY TICKETS WENT ON SALE !!!! I WOULD BE THE THIRD IN LINE AND STILL HAVE DIFFICULTY GETTING TICKETS ????? BUT I DID !!!
THE ONE THING ABOUT HIS CATALOG OF MUSIC IS HOW DIVERSIFIED HIS WRITING HAS BEEN ALL THESE YEARS !!! YOU JUST MIGHT FIND THAT ONE OF HIS RELEASES ACTUALLY PLEASES THOSE THAT DO NOT LIKE ANOTHER ?!?!? GREASY LOVE SONGS FOR INSTANCE OR HOT RATS, WAKA JAWAKA, THE GRAND WAZOO, WAKA WAZOO, ETC…….127 TITLES
I've floated this idea elsewhere but let's see if you agree. Zappa might be the artist with the widest range of quality in his albums - by that, I mean that most discerning rock fans (and by that, I mean the viewers of this channel!) will find at least one of his albums to be a 10/10 and at least another to be 0/10 (though the albums chosen will undoubtedly vary between each fan) This one is an 8 or 9 for most folk though. Edit: Oh yeah, happy birthday!
That double drum break from Ralph Humphreys and Chester Thompson impressed Phil Collins and was one of the factors that led to Chester joining Genesis.
Never get tired about him. The absolutely GOAT
Son of Orange County, is about Richard Nixon. Quotation from Nixon’s TV appearence just after the Watergate Scandal: ”The Words from your lips ’I am not a crook’”. Very relevant in the current Trump dominated political era.
TROUBLE WAS WRITTEN IN 1966, INFLUENCED BY THE WATTS RACE RIOTS IN CALIFORNIA.
THE ONE LINE OMITTED FROM THIS LIVE VERSION THAT AT THE AGE OF 12 GAVE ME CHILLS, “I’m Not Black, but a Bunch of Times I Wish I could say, I’m Not White” !!!! WOW !!!!
Excuse me if I didn’t get the line just right without playing FO for reference. I’m 69 going on 70
AND I OWN 98-99% OF THE 127 OFFICIAL RELEASES
FRANK WAS THE ABSOLUTE MASTER OF GUITAR FEEDBACK LIVE TO CREATE A MOOD OR AN AIR SCULPTURE !!!
I grew up listening to Frank and have seen him about a dozen or so times... It's so great watching others experience Frank for the first time Great job!! Frank as I've been saying for a while, is one of the greatest American composers of our time.. And I believe we'll go down as such..
Keep on rockin'!!
There is a DVD from these shows, called “Roxy, The Movie”, you can see all this music and more. At the time, they were unable to successfully link the audio with the video, but modern digital tech has achieved that. It’s brilliant to see, and answers a question you asked on the Side 2 video…no music stands onstage. Not only was all this music memorized, but Zappa also “conducted” with a series of hand signals that could send the whole band down a musical rabbit hole in a gesture! Add the “dance contest” and a few famous groupies…very entertaining! 😁
Roxy or One Size Fits All get my votes as the best FZ albums.
You get the birthday, but we all get the gift of some Zappa!
The video recording done at the time was notoriously bad though and did not synch up with he audio. Frank wanted to release a concert movie but could not because of these problems. It took a few decades for technology to catch up so it could be painstakingly fixed. It is now available on video.
Happy Name Day Jim...Yes you should listen to sides 1 and 4 also...You'll love it, it's a way of life.
you’re alright Jim 😊 - your smile when something musical _tickles_ you is, I dare say, genuine, deep rooted, and infectious… betrays a soul-level love for music.
glad you’ve found your personal place with some of Frank’s music - cool. I’ll be watching the channel for your reactions on other artists / bands.
thx Jim.
seanM
I remember your first Zappa reaction. No disrespect but my how you’ve progressed .
Happy birthday!
Thanks
Chester Thompson's drum fill on TROUBLE EVERY DAY caused Phil Collins to hire him & use that sound on several of his own hit records in the late 70s & early 80s
Happy Birthday Jim! Great album, just love Zappa. You must listen to his 1974 album 'Apostrophe'...a masterclass of tight musicianship. 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow'...a hilarious suite.
Over where the huskies go?
Happy birthday. I have many favourite Zappa albums, and this is one of them. I have played the whole thing hundreds of times, and it is always brilliant.
You prob. recongnize that drum fill in "more trouble everyday" appearing in "in the Air to night" by Phjil Collin looooong after .
Richard Nixon (Zappa): "I Am Not A Crook!"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim!!!! Many more! Isn't Zappa amazing?
I think so!
Discovering Roxy for the very first time. I don't think there's a better birthday present! Happy birthday Jim!
Thanks 🙏
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉🎂👊
SO GLAD YOU ARE SPINNING VINYL !!👍👊
I like your sentiment about ppl not not knowing his music. I beleive over time it will be regognized, and I am heartened to see you and others getting into his music more and more.
To think that all of this fantastic music came from one man's mind is incredible. Then add Frank's guitar playing and conducting and I think you have the greatest musician of the time. I also personally think he's the best guitar player but that's just my opinion. Anyway, I really enjoyed these Roxy reactions - thank you very much and happy belated birthday Jim!
Happy Birthday Jim, More ZAPPA Please mate..Cheers
This album is one of my Desert Island Discs. I did get to see Dweezil and his band play it note for note for it's 40th anniversary. They did it justice.
Note by note? Sounds kinda boring, considering solo improvisations and the development of tracks over time is what gives excitement to live performances of Frank's songs imo.
@@progperljungman8218 well extended solos but the major stuff that really counted, yeah. He was not reinterpreting Frank
@@Ninang363 Well, from what I've listened to (so far only video recordings), ZpZ do some variations sometimes. Guess we're just divided as to what kind of show we prefer. (I'm kinda a jazz appreciating guy besides prog, so it makes sense that I seek variation from performance to performance 🙂)
@@progperljungman8218 if you never seen Dweezil live play Franks music what can I say.
@@Ninang363 I have, not in real time though 😁
Happy Birthday, Jim! 🎉
Thanks
Thanks, Jim, that was brilliant. My copy of this album might be a genuine collector's item. The inner panels of the sleeve have been glued in upside-down. Anyone else?
Anyhow, I am chuffed to bits that you liked it so much, so Happy Birthday! (I knew you would ...)
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for requesting. Brilliant!
Joyeux anniversaire Jim ! comme on dit en France, à ta santé ! Merci pour le partage de ce sacré album de Zappa...
Thanks so much
Happy birthday, Jim! Been enjoying your channel for a few months. You owe it to yourself to attend the annual zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany.
Thanks for that!
Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag van uit Nederland 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you sir!
Happy Birthday Jim. Listening to these two album sides yesterday and today was time well spent. I enjoyed it immensely. This was a great request and your comments were excellent. Until the pandemic, I could only name one song, now I know many. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for listening 👍🏼
Congratulations on surviving another year! 😂❤
May you and those you love thrive ,and laugh along the way.
Thanks matey!
Best guitar performance I've ever experienced was Frank Zappa, Halloween, sometime in the early 70s, in NYC. It was in the Felt Forum, the venue below Madison Square Garden. I've seen all the great guitarists in rock and many in jazz. Frank's playing was magical, almost otherworldly. He wasn't just riffing, he was composing as he soloed. The audience was entranced.
Wish you a sweet Birthday, like the chokolate you just had, and very exiting, like the music you just heard! Thanks! Everithing you do here is respectable!
Thanks so much! 😊
Happy birthday!!! Now down to business, there's a live video version of Cheepnis only on the Chalk Pie video release, with Chester, Ralph, Ruth and Frank ONLY, just drums and percussion. It's insane... The complexity of this music and the unbelievable level of execution.
Its included in the film and the Roxy box. Amazing.
@@Gerhardium Those came out in the last few years. I'm happy to see that it's more easily available now.
Cool, thanks!
I just stumbled on your review of Roxy. Just want to let you know that you can actually see that show as it happened. The entire show was filmed and was released by the Zappa family in 2015. Easily available too. Some of it might even be available right here on UA-cam, I didn't check, but worth taking a look. I don't do internet very frequently, but when I do, sometimes I fall on little snippets of interesting stuff. This was one of those moments.
Oh, a little late but, happy birthday and new year.
Frank's guitar part from 13:40-14:00 is magnificent butt-crunching blues -- the best ever done live I think!
:) Happy Birthday Jim! Excellent side there... Phe-nobu-lax, indeed! Hm, that didn't come out quite right er-um... Wonderful!
Bon anniversaire Jim ! Merci pour tes partagés et tes appréciations, j'adore !
Thanks so much
Oh, and happy birthday🎉 …. My 58th was on Sunday 😊
Happy belated birthday!
I’ve been a BIG FZ Fan since 1966 Freak Out at the age of 12
Since then I have Purchased every & each Release the MAN created within weeks/days of Release !!! 127 Titles !!!
TROUBLE COMING EVERY DAY on Freak Out BLEW ME AWAY, BOTH MUSICALLY & IT’S STORY !!!
STILL RELEVANT TODAY.
THE VERSION OF TROUBLE IS DIFFERENT ON THE ALBUM YOU ARE PLAYING, BUT FRANK HAS ALWAYS MADE CHANGES TO A SONG AT ANY TIME !! HE IS FZ !!
PS: IF THE SHOW WAS IN NEW YORK ?? I’m in the Audience (EVERY HALLOWEEN SHOW & THEN SOME)
Likewise, except I'm born in -59 and discovered Frank in -70
Zappa Lives!
I saw him on Halloween at the Palladium twice in the mid 70s.
Happy Birthday Jim.
Before I dive into the music...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JIM! I take it you are not a triskaidekaphobe, because I am not, and was also born on the thirteenth, though in January, like King Crimson and Gurdjieff, strangely mentors. My audio genius nephew is also a thirteenth, as is brilliant Ethan up in New York. Good company. I like you better already. Anyways...woohoo, many wondrous more, and now off to listen and enjoy!
Thanks sir!!! 13, over and out!
The Floyd video is rare just like the Zappa Lennon videos
can't comment without saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY .... again 😄😉 listening to this great live recording you brought up the question, how many people could name a song of Frank Zappa. I can tell you that many people in Germany know Bobby Brown...and from what I can tell it's more women than man and the funny part is, that many of them think it's a love song, because they don't listen to or even more of them don't understand the lyrics. So whenever I heard this song in public and saw people sing along I had to laugh so hard ... on the inside .. 🤣🤣🤣🤘
Haha…. I couldn’t name a single song before listening on this channel. And most people I know in the real world couldn’t either. Strange isn’t it?
@@JimNewstead so you don't know this Bobby Brown song ? It was so successful here .. and it's still so funny, seeing girls singing along the first line without knowing what the song is about 🤣🤣🤣
The warmth of the 70s. The sound of this album is superb. After Zappa, Chester Thompson went on to join Genesis, and they asked him, how did you do that fill?
He was with Weather Report before Genesis which also impressed Phil
Great job Jim; Now all you have to do is react to side 4 and the AMAZING Be-Bop Tango -- the hardest song ever done live besides The Black Page
If you want to hear the definition of “Tight” …. You should give Zappa’s The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life….. a spin!
phill collins tomo prestado la parte de bateria en 17: 15 ....
Happy Burpday
Buuuurrrrp!
Happy Birthday Jim! What better way to celebrate if not with a dose of FZ?
FRANK HAD A STRONGER IMPACT OVERSEAS RATHER THAN IN THE US, HOWEVER TRY TO GET HALLOWEEN TICKETS WHEN THEY WENT ON SALE ???
I WOULD CAMP OUT OUTSIDE TICKET MASTERS OR TICKET-TRON THE DAY TICKETS WENT ON SALE !!!! I WOULD BE THE THIRD IN LINE AND STILL HAVE DIFFICULTY GETTING TICKETS ?????
BUT I DID !!!
THE ONE THING ABOUT HIS CATALOG OF MUSIC IS HOW DIVERSIFIED HIS WRITING HAS BEEN ALL THESE YEARS !!! YOU JUST MIGHT FIND THAT ONE OF HIS RELEASES ACTUALLY PLEASES THOSE THAT DO NOT LIKE ANOTHER ?!?!?
GREASY LOVE SONGS FOR INSTANCE OR HOT RATS, WAKA JAWAKA, THE GRAND WAZOO, WAKA WAZOO, ETC…….127 TITLES
I've floated this idea elsewhere but let's see if you agree. Zappa might be the artist with the widest range of quality in his albums - by that, I mean that most discerning rock fans (and by that, I mean the viewers of this channel!) will find at least one of his albums to be a 10/10 and at least another to be 0/10 (though the albums chosen will undoubtedly vary between each fan) This one is an 8 or 9 for most folk though. Edit: Oh yeah, happy birthday!
I haven’t found a dud yet, but to be fair I’ve only heard about 6 albums so far.
@@JimNewstead Start with 200 Motels, or rather don't start with 200 Motels. Thing Fish is awful too.
Happy Birthday "old man"! My favorite Zappa album was Overnight Sensation but this live stuff is cool.
lol!