Frank Zappa - The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution (Reaction)
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I think it was the first jam with Patrick O'Hearn, with the crazy electric guitar solo, then there's the weird tuning and the acoustic sounds that clash on the 12-string.
Bozzio on drums and O'Hearn on double bass are both amazing. Music is the best!
Great reaction again!!!
Also... the actual quote from Frank... when Patrick O'Hearn walked into the studio with the upright bass was ---
"Can you play that DogHouse?"
and here's a longer version from Terry...again---
So he called bassist Dave Parlatto (from Orchestral Favorites) and myself into the studio to jam. At this point I was playing my own black, double bass, 5 tom Gretch kit [...]. Anyway, we played an inspired jam that went all over the place musically and lasted 45 minutes!
Frank edited it down to 15 mins. or so (whatever it is on the record now) and used only the best sections. (But I remember some absoutely burning sections were not used-maybe someday they'll release the original in it's entirety ).
Sometime soon after that my best friend, Pat O'Hearn came down to L.A. to play a week at the "Light House" in Hermosa Beach with legendary jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon [...].
Pat played the first nights show while I was in the studio working with Frank, so I told him to come by the Record Plant after and meet Frank and listen to what we were doing.
Pat had his big accoustic bass in the car and he didn't want it stolen so we took it inside.
Frank, upon seeing Pat walk into the studio with an accoustic bass, excitedly asked "Do you play that thing?!". Pat nodded "yes", and Frank said "Whip it out!!"
He had been overdubbing some lead guitar on the edited version and wanted Pat to try some accoustic bass on it. Engineers leaped into action putting up several of the best mic's they had as Pat pulled up a stool, slid the 17th century Itallian bass from its soft case and adjusted his headphones. When all was ready they played the track and pressed the red record button and my friend and favorite bass player literally tore it up!! Frank totally loved it and immediately they were overdubbing a section at a time (with Zappa directing tonal centers) and laying down the most gorgeous bass tones and burning playing that really made the piece come alive!
Then Zappa stopped him and said he thought electric bass would be better in the up coming sections, and wanted to know if Pat played electric bass. In a minute he pulled the electric bass (which he really didn't specialize in at that time) from the trunk of the car and proceeded to tear through the rest of the piece! It was probably sunrise when we finished and Frank knew Pat had already played 3 sets with Dexter, so he asked him to come in again tomorrow night an
This was recorded in 76, an outtake of Zoot Allures.
The bass is indeed a double bass, played by Patrick O'Hearn as his audition.
I might be wrong but I think parts of this track are from edited drumperformances by Terry Bozzio, with bass overdubbed and later Zappa's 12-strjng guitar (and of course synths in the intro) and that epic solo.
12-string guitar uses a weird tuning with the courses tuned in thirds, fourths etc.
Great choice, Rory!!!
Must've played this track a 100 times and the solo never ever fails to send goosebumps to my very core....brilliant 😁
and here's what Terry says about the song...
Actually what happened was me and Dave Parlato and Frank jammed at the Record Plant for about 35 minutes-filled up two reels of tape. And Zappa, out of all that material, edited it down to about 13 minutes. And he played it on a real interesting Fender 12-string that had a Barcus Berry in the neck. He had the bottom strings turned to Major 7ths . . . I think he had every string tuned to a different interval, so it was like a Major 7th then a Minor 7th. The next ones were, you know, a tri-tone Major 3rd and a Minor 3rd. And he had the low strings panned left, and the high strings panned right, and the Barcus Berry panned centre; he had this glass-shattering 12-string sound, it was really unique. So we just jammed. And then he . . . Patrick was playing with Joe Henderson at the Lighthouse and I went to see him play one night. He was staying at my house. I brought him home. And he had this big bass in the car. He didn't want to leave it in the car, so he brought it inside. And that was how Patrick auditioned for Frank. You know, Frank said, "You play that thing?" Patrick said "Yeah!" He goes "Whip it out" And he put him in the studio. Patrick had already played a gig at 2 or 3 in the morning and he had to play 'The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution' as sort of an audition. So he got the gig, and played great bass through it. And Frank put an electric guitar solo on there. It was fun
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Merci Rory, magnifique moment musical de FZ, solo incroyable...Parmi un océan de compositions et de solos de Frank Zappa!
Great reaction! I was getting my book out to read about this track to answer some of your questions, but several people beat me to it. As complicated as you think it sounds, by now you know he didn’t have to teach anybody anything. It was a looong jam. He then took the bass of Dave Parlato out and had O’Hearn, whom he met for the first time, play string bass and electric bass over it. O’Hearn was then hired for his band.
The track your thinking about was "Inca Roads"... Patrick O'Hearn and Terry Bozzio going completely apeshit for Zappa is among the great human musical achievements of all time...
The thing with all of Franks music is that you think you heard it all until lol
Greatest guitar solo ever! Starts exactly half way through the song and just keeps getting more in-fucking-sane right up to the end.
This is one of Zappa's best songs... I love it, BUT, I have to admit... it's not complicated.
I know it sounds complicated, and if you were to try to play it note for note from this recording ...THAT would be complicated.
But these guys were just jamming.
The strange rythyms that you here kinda just happened.
When they laid down the Upright Bass, Frank guided Patrick O'Hearn through the various sections of improvised stuff that he already had down on tape.
And as a result he kind of created a structure with which Patrick could work. But improvised,,, means improvised. That's not complicated... it's just what you do. If you're a REALLY GOOD MUSICIAN... like these guys... then it SOUNDS complicated. But.. as good as the song is... it's not complicated.
Greggary Peccary... is fucking complicated.
zappa chords!
Now try Chungas Revenge the Title Track an’ then Packard Goose off Joe’s Garage Act 3.
Top 10 Best Album's from Zappa. Almost as good as Grand Wazoo...!
One reason is because 76 - early 78 was Frank prime, with Bozzio on drums.
Great
There's an even better version on Läther.
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@@Frunobulax74Zoiks! You're right!
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You must recall my story about Earl and Pearl Ketchup.
Without shit ugly zappa, the music World would be much better, everyone
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On the topic of Trumptards:
Earl and Pearl Ketchup, twin brother and sister as well as husband and wife, never miss a Trump rally. They pull up stakes on their trailer home and travel anywhere their mango-hued messiah is speaking.
Festooned in all of the MAGA gear, made in China because, after all, as the Christmas Tree Shops jingle goes, "Don't You Just... Love a Bargain"
Anyway, you can hear them grumbling at the fill-up station through their ill-fitting false teeth, "FJB for this $7. per gallon gas!" even though the price is actually closer to $3.29.
Earl is in the doghouse because he forgot Pearl's birthday... again.
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I was just about to write that I listened to Rage & Fury and found something interesting. Then I decided to write my Earl and Pearl Ketchup story for you.
On Rage, I was listening to Intégrales and at exactly 4'25", you can hear what sounds like another Frankie classical favorite, Ravel's Bolero.
I thought it might be a bit cheeky to sneak that in there, being that he's paying tribute to his first real music hero, and he shouldn't really take such liberty in an important work. So to find out what's the deal, I went to the actual recording of Intégrales and listened closely. That little bit of Bolero is in there too, so Frank didn't throw his "Louie Louie" in there aftrer all.
Bolero was premiered in 1928, Intégrales in 1933, so Varese pulled a "Louie Louie" on his own. Of course it's not uncommon to borrow a tasty lick from another composer. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture contains the opening of La Marseillaise.
Onto other impressions of Rage and Fury, I can really hear the influence of Varese in Zappa's work. Lots of it especially in the Mothers recordings. We're Only In It and Uncle Meat as obvious examples.
Once again, thank you for pointing it out to me. I wonder, too, where it leaked from, but it sounds every bit as official as what may eventually be released by UMG if they ever do.
Ave a Lye down!