FRANK ZAPPA SON OF MR. GREEN GENES (reaction)
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2021
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "Son of Mr. Green Genes" by Frank Zappa
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I bought this album with money for my 12th birthday because I liked the cover. My parents wore WTF faces the whole playthrough. 44 years & 300+ albums and bootlegs later...
Oh man I have to talk about how this song changed my life. Ok so I’m 33 to just give a feeling of the music I grew up with, and I’m from Arkansas. I was forced to play piano as a kid and hated it, was always naturally tuned towards wanting to play drums. Fast forward through a childhood where I was a music and sport obsessive and in early high school I was in orchestra playing the cello and also baseball, soccer, and track so my schedules were packed. I bought hot rats and gave it a first time listen coming home from baseball practice and this song hit me so hard as a combination of everything I loved about what music says and speaks in its own voice that I felt I had to discard everything I did extracurricular level and dedicate it all to music. I dropped all my athletic commitments and spent my fee time that wasn’t hanging with the homies (naturally) to just understanding and trying to play this type of music. It got me a scholarship and playing gigs with my buddies through our university years. This song literally stamped an impact on my life
This ol gezzer sure appreciats your love of Frank's music , makes me smile. !
Thank you whoever asked for this.
First heard Hot Rats in about 1973 and immediately thought it was a
This is still one of my favorite FZ pieces. As fresh and listenable now as it was 50 years ago.
To me, Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka, and The Grand Wazoo were one of my favorite Zappa phases: the jazz/big band phase.
Fun fact. Frank and the saxophone player on this album, Ian Underwood, Ruth's Husband at the time, produced Alice coopers fist album, "Pretties For You". Frank also produced Grand funk Railroads 1976 album "Good Singing Good Playing". Frank played lead guitar on the track out to get you. The album wasn't a commercial success, but was critically acclaimed as Grand Funks best album.
I hope someone asks for "It Must Be a Camel". The black sheep of a brilliant album
Still my favourite Zappa album. I bought this not long after it came out and it was my first Zappa album so I have know it longer than any other. It still never disapppoints
This is FZ's musical autobiography. The original song was Mr. Green Genes, same melody, but kind of dour and lyrically, it was specifically directed at his dad. So, if you do the math, Son of Mr. GG is Frank. Of the 6 great songs on this album, this one is my favorite. it is just a sweet piece of music delivered so beautifully...thanks to the patron who requested it!
What an incredible piece - the way he wrote all of those arrangements to interact with his guitar solo is simply brilliant. You guys really need to hear all of "Hot Rats" as it contains some of his best compositions.
Also classic Zappa of releasing a track with ultimate 70s bass while it’s still the 60s
I find this Zappa's most symphonic piece, more so even than his traditional orchestral pieces. Only whereas a symphony combines variations on a couple themes per movement, here thirteen movements combine countless texture and thematic variations on one complete song. Of course there is some improv in the guitar solo, but it is clear that all the textural interplay is written and yet comes across as spontaneous, like fused brains. Try listening to the bass
The sax player was Ian Underwood. He was the only survivor from the Mothers after the break up. In fact he played all saxes and also all keyboards on the album and Frank acknowledged Ian's major contribution to the album.
When I was 15 the bloke up the road used to lend me his records
Superb choice. What superlatives can I say about mr Zappa that hasn’t already been said before
No one suggested "Peaches En Regalia" yet - how strange. This was after the first Mothers band, and before the Billy The Mountain slapstick band. - It's his 2nd solo album
There was a character on TV once named Mr. Greenjeans. He was on the kids show "Captain Kangaroo", back in the 1960's. I know because I used to watch it. That's why I am the way I am now. I think. Thanks Frank.