Frank Zappa: Son of Orange County + More Trouble Every Day
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2013
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After spending years in bootleg circulation, an official release of Frank Zappa's A Token of his Extreme DVD is here! (Release date June 4, 2013)
You can purchase your very own copy of this DVD here: www.amazon.com/Token-His-Extre...
Line-up / Musicians
- Frank Zappa / guitar, percussion, vocals
- Napoleon Murphy Brock / tenor sax, flute, vocals
- George Duke/ keyboards, zil, tambourine, vocals
- Tom Fowler /bass
- Chester Thompson /drums
- Ruth Underwood /percussion 
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The GOLDEN LINEUP: George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thomson, Tom Fowler, Frank with his SG... I LOVE it!
Indeed. Possibly no better lineup of talented musicians all on one stage, at one time night after night. They certainly had a great run! Meanwhile, present day (the past 3 - 4 decades of music and the bands (entertainers) may or may not actually play an instrument, never mind read / write sheet music. I have no doubt that good musicians still exist and would surely love to create quality original music, but if they know what’s good for them will learn to suppress any potential inspirations to themselves or risk being blacklisted by the major record labels for not “falling in line”.
@@SubtomrPumpkinFrank with his SG" wether his gonads were saggy or not isn't the question here !
Wow, didn't know about chester. Cool
yes! that's a great line up that made FZ what he kept to be.....
My favorite Zappa band for sure , love the Vai, Belew stuff but this band is so bad ass
I once read a comment on a RUclips video that said "Frank Zappa was nothing more than a blues player." This entire segment proves that wrong.
Pound for pound, Frank Zappa had the best musicians and the best crafted tunes ever recorded. Not surprised plebs don't understand his mindset.
Zappa had so many great musicians over the years, but there's something just really special about this lineup.
Amen. The recent Chicago 73 release is brilliant (aside from the corny packaging).
yes, my favourite Zappa line-up :)
Yup. Every player in this group is mindblowingly talented. RIP Frank, and George Duke.
Dude there was not a single musician Zappa ever brought on tour that was a slouch... But this linueup was was airtight man. About as flawless as possible.
Fun & Tight!... all you need is glove
I don't care what band he puts together, Zappa is always quality.
That this has 1.9M views makes me so happy. That means there are almost 2 million sane people left in this world
FZ was a prophet. This song is today in America.
This performance will belong in the history of music probably until mankind ends
And beyond
@@moseskelly19 Put this on the Golden plate of the next Voyager Probe, with no explanation.
Ruth Underwood really love her energy and enthusiasm what a lady she really knows her music.
it is the time of 1972 up to 1974?? yeah! great line up!
you don't go to juliard by accident.
It's impossible to watch a Zappa live video and not smile the entire way through.
I tried not to, but you’re right. Zappa music equals joy.
Smiling with tears in my eyes.
A smile and a tear...
Trouble Every Day??
Ja, die Zappa-Truppe hat bestimmt vielen Leuten gut gefallen und erheitert... 🎈
that look of frank (from 0:49 into the video), watching NMB sing his tune is so pure, it is the joy of the composer hearing his work executed without flaw before an audience … that's eternal, that's for heaven!
He was referring to Richard Nixon
@@toiseywoisey Would you mind explaining what the Nixon point was? Thanks
@@joshuabruner9676 the song Son of Orange County is a song that frank used to criticize nixon during this era. this is around 1973-75 when nixon was being investigated for a whole bunch of illegal stuff. the original song Orange County Lumber Truck wasnt originally written about him but he appropriated it for this purpose because it was topical, and Richard Nixon is from orange county i believe. you can also hear frank on Roxy and Elsewhere saying Nixon’s famous “i am not a crook” quote on that track. pairing it with trouble every day also more effect cause of what that songs about. you can also argue that he put the two tracks on the album (which incidentally weren’t recorded at the Roxy) because the record company wouldnt let him release the much more overtly critical song Dickie’s Such an Asshole, which you can hear versions of on the roxy performances boxset from i think 2016
Yes tricky Dicky really where trapped by Report
Creativity, modern musicians need to watch this and reflect on the pulp being fed to the ears of this generation
Napoleon Murphy Brock! What a great talent and performer! Superb!
I love that unique voice from Napoleon Murphy Brock. All over and over the incredible sound of the live performance is magic to me.
I need more lead vocals from that dude … silky smooth
I want a girl to look at me the way Zappa looks at Napoleon Murphy Brock at 0:47.
Drummer Chester Thompson: great.
Phi Collins said his drumming on this song was one of the reasons he wanted Chester in Genesis after Bruford left.
IMHO this was one of Frank's best line-ups.
This song is so relevant more & more each day in "2024"
And that’s why we’re listening! Vote blue and Happy Memorial Day.😊💙
Yep
your compehension of "relevant" is most askew there fellow traveler !! otherwise a great song.
Ruth Underwood: Hardest working musician on stage. Totally amazing percussionist.
6 String Piano not to take anything away from Ruth, but shouldn’t Frank be considered the hardest working one on stage?
Amen
On Ruth , on Ruth, HAHA! Thats Ruth! More like percussioness ^^
@@naturaljoe7397
If you consider the athletics involved with Ruth's playing - she has to run all around that rig she has - I'd say she's the hardest working. Frank, writing that material for them all and conducting the band certainly makes him the most important musician on stage, but Ruth is working, man!
Zolar Czakl point taken
Any questions about what Zappa saw in Napoleon Murphy Brock is answered here on full display. Massive musical skills, off the charts entertaining, and great insane energy. He was THE front man for Zappa.
He has one helluva a smile
@@paisleyprincess7996 That made me laugh. It wasn't his smile I was checking out when there was so much more.
Many years back in OB ( San Diego ca) I saw Project Object,
Don Preston, Ike Willis and Nappy were on this Bill. Had a long chat with
Napoleon on set break, suck a real dude, he mentioned he was hungry and the venue food was
Inferior, I said hey man, that liquor store in the corner had great deli sandwiches, We split one, he wanted to pay , I said “no charge, you playing your ass off” we talked about his music in San Jose prior to FZ and he told me about seeing FZ up front and how FZ asked him to join the MOTHERS .. I’ll always remember that meet up.
BTW Project Object was good, I believe Gail wasn’t happy about them.
a beast...he's got everything !
@@danzbmw Gail who ???
What incredible genius!
Almost 45 years later this is absolutely breath-taking performance!
Legendary
Sure is!
I remember skipping high school in Montreal at the end of June '66 to go to my friend's house to listen to Freak Out. This Roxy performance is by far my favourite.
And so it will forever stand in the Olympus of modern music, teaching people what handmade, intelligent music should sound like
0:47 at first I thought this was slowed down footage, but no. That's a genuine Zappa, stunned, witnessing Napoleon Murphy Brock serenading a wolf man.
Man it's so nice seeing Frank smile at something for once
😊
George Duke deserves a special mention here. What a musician and accompanied by absolute sheer talent.
This band was just phenomenal, period.
Thank you Frank for not only giving me english lessons but for all these good memories of exemplary musicianship !
This stuff never gets old !
Now I'm gonna go down to St. Alphonso's pancake breakfast and steal the margarine.
George Duke and Chester Thompson really brought a great funky vibe to this band. Very different sound for Frank, and it kinda went away when those two went off to play with other people.
You have no idea saw them half dozen times and blew ☝
don't let
any woman
abuse the sausage patties, okra-y??!!!!
Can you believe it? This band and George Duke, Jesus and Zappa, God
George was awesome!!!! God rest his soul!
Frank's growing smile at :48 as he watches Napoleon Murphy Brock's antics is priceless.
A rare Zappa smile is always heart warming
@@chrishull3731 Never exspected to see Zappa smiles, he was a serious man, with a prickly irony. xD
My favorite part
Hes realized the achievement hes created
If you watch his interviews, notice that he smiles and fair lot! IMHO when he's describing the lunacy of some of the incidents ,when dealing with politicians he's recalling!
When the guys in the band got Frank to really laugh it was so genuine. Duke & Brock during this period had frank in stitches. The Helsinki tapes are a great example of that magic. Frank & Dukes solos were some of the best of all time! Timeless stuff!!!!!
Golden comment - it just happens I consider Duke & Zappa chief rockers and energetic rascals 🥳🤗uplifting guys
Zappas solos are very unique and is in a whole category that no one can ever take away from him he truly was a master of playing music
Very exacting musician not a hypocrite not just telling other people to play right but showing up demonstrating those exacting standards equally in his own performance
Their talents are unsurpassed. Every tiny nuance is played perfectly.
Franks' guitar playing was always creative and very unique.
As a
guitar teacher....if you think 'snare drum or drum fills' then add that to guitar...that is where his special style comes from. (Plus melody lines of course.)
@@my_tube9405 I believe that Frank started out as a drummer.
That’s true
Bicycle player
@@bathtub_jim7652 that*s famous and f special"
life ain't the same without you Mr Zappa
My son, now you have several mothers, the real one and the mothers of invention. I was 5 years old, that was 1980. And the story with Zappa going on...Thanks dad for the music school
Son of Orange Co. brings tears to my eyes - it is so beautiful….
Why? Did you have to endure richard MILHOUSE nixons term also?. That fuckin guy was a piece of #!$@=%// work huh? (Laffin)
His smile is so pure at the beginning it gives me life
My thoughts exactly. He rarely looked that unconditionally happy.
I miss FZ so much. I can feel a sense of his satisfaction with his craft and his magical troupe of players. He was as good at personnel selection as he was at playing that SG! There will never be a sound quite like this. I hope one day he receives the recognition he so richly deserves. As for his troupe may they all take a huge bow for their massive contributions. Amazing, unique, warm, unpredictable, magical and my favorite of all time.
I love how joyful Ruth always looks with this band: just so happy to be playing this music. I love her and admire her.
Ruth is one of the few musicians that would always conquer the challenges that Frank wrote for her. There was no match for her energy and talent when she performed for Frank as his percussionist for sure.
Thank God for Frank!
I remember when I was WAAAAY younger I would play my Frank Zappa album’s in my bedroom and CHILL for HOURS trying to Visualize the songs
Yep same here. Seeing the music
Yep same here... deseeding
Seen Frank and his band/orchestra in Long Beach about ' 75 . Great show ,the best. If I had to sum it up they were... sooo tight. It was, it was very good.
@@olcraigsen Was Captain Beefheart with them at the time? Bongo Fury came out that year.
The best trip is when your alone and listening to song you never heard off while laying in your bed.
Zappa never plays the same song in the same way twice ... and as usual, in this version, he's just jamming his head off!
“More trouble every day” official song of 2020
Dweezil ought to reissue it - The Son with Orange Tan + More Trouble Every Day. History repeating.
YES!!
Say it again for the people in the back..
Amen my brother. 2020 summed up in a 53+ year old song Frank wrote. History doomed to repeat itself. Will 2021 be worse?
@@marsailmar1 It will worse if the people who control the entertainment industry and news media don't get their desired candidate in office.
Great vocals Napoleon Murphy Brock is the man!
Nappy never even had to audition for Zappa. Zappa saw him singing in a bar in Hawaii, approached him after the show and told him to come see one of his shows. If he likes what he hears and wants to join the band, he's in.
When Nappy learned that Zappa had Ponty and Duke, he was hooked.
Yeh and what a name
Flood & Fidler , I met Napy at a “Project object @ show in OB Ca. ‘Winstons’ , he was very down home, I think he told me he was from San Jose. Note: Ike Willis and Don Preston were in. That ensemble.
Oh! I don’t think Gail Zappa approved.
Dennis the menace Napoleon Murphy Brock!
Incredible vocals here. Wow.
Napi
Oui
I cannot stop watching Ruth
. I love her
Love watching Ruthie and Shiela with Zappa plays Zappa. They are badass's.
The solo on "Mo` trouble everyday" is easily one of Zappa`s best (talkin` about the "Roxy & Elsewhere" version, of course)
Chester. He was SO perfect for this band.
That Lydian mode in son of orange county always bring me butterflies
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture". -- Frank Zappa, when asked by a music critic what he thought about music critics.
he also referred to most rock journalism as "people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
He means they're irrelevant. Ya tank
Too cold in Montana so they moved the dental floss bushes to frkin Texas.im on my pigmy pony checkin.on em now...
Great Live Performance Miss You Frank Wish You Were Here Still
He kinda is--thru the music. That's where he resides--even still.
*Hands down, this lineup was really the peak and just something special in terms of Musicianship, Talent, the chemistry between all of them are jus amazing*
Zappa ist einfach die 1
Tom standing there holding it all together with that bass R.I.P. Mr Fowler you shall be missed
Zappa's best ensemble
Saw this lineup with Ralph Humphries on 2 set of drums and Jeff Simmons on guitar. Even better!
Wow, I know a lot of Zappa, and this is one of his best guitar work, to me!
What expressive, illustrative, guitar phrasing Zappa begins to play from 1.49 to 2.21, it isn't regular rock, or blues, nor even jazz guitar phrasing, that's cos' it's Zappa's own style of guitar phrasing.
What a band! George, Ruth, Chester...the best FZ had.
Ralph Humphrey is sorely missing but time marches on, I suppose ...
@@thewordlove4316 who's he??
7 years since discovering Frank and I'm still here. I think I'm forever required to listen to this ensemble until I drop.
He certainly released enough material to enjoy for years. If you like this band lineup, I suggest you buy Roxy The Movie on DVD or Bluray.
blyguy I will have a look at that for sure! I was shown the Baby Snakes DVD years back which is what originally got me into Frank and the Mothers! Was a fantastic show.
Zappa.., the best musician of all XX th century..!
All times.
A real genius!
@@TheDockeys not a genius, just a lot of work
Agreed
@@holyhex6520 Absolutly right and nobody was better in writing nice melodies
Pure genius.
Have always enjoyed Zappa and the times that I was lucky enough to see him live, were some of the greatest shows that I have seen.
Listening to and watching Frank play his solos was mesmerizing.
If you have any memoirs and you're comfortable sharing some things that would be super awesome for the millennials and gen z. Your memories will otherwise go with you... alright I'm laying the pressure on too thick 🚬☕
I love Frank. It is fun seeing George Duke on Keyboards. He always had the best musicians.
@Blake T I saw Duke numerous times with Zappa. I saw Billy Cobham with those Miami Vice guys and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
imagine being there
absolute magic
Murphys performance is out of this world. He's really giving his soul in this.
IMO, besides, or equal to, Flo & Eddie, NMB is the best singer that Frank ever had in a band.
frank live and intimate is always almost perfection. his fades off his solos are sublime.
I drove from Buffalo to Fillmore West to see him and he was worth every mile. I flew to Prague to see that huge bronze statue of him in a park...
You have to be a true fan of music to really appreciate his genius. So thankful for college radio stations around the country that keep his music alive.
My folks never got me liking this. Bad for them. Great for me
Love this song and this band. The lyrics fit today too a T. Amazing really. Love Franks guitar playing totally. He and Jerry Garcia has such unique phrasing and non linear leads. Those guys understood the music so well they wove gold thread through the songs with guitar leads, supporting and building the songs to new heights. Such a gift we all can still listen to them and allow them to take us on these musical journeys.
There Absolutely Will Never Be Another Frank Zappa!!!💯👌🏽🖤🖤🖤
N M B... an incredible front person for this line up.
He’s so good!
The best songwriter and best performer and best arranger ever. For ever FZ
True
Whenever someone mentions the 70's I find it hard to imagine the zeitgeist of the era, I'm only 38 but when someone mentions the 50's 60's 80's or 90's I get an instant feel for it and it feels familiar.
I like to think that the 70's was exactly like this, in this video. It's so unique and original.
To start watching a live Zappa song is to always finish watching it and feel good after. Thank you, Frank. We miss you.
Frank Zappa forever
being an LD in the music industry for some 30 years now his prowess on the guitar brings tears to my eyes and chills up and down my spine, no other musician has ever done that, I regret I only was able to witness the genius that was him once at the Hollywood Palladium during the Chunga's Revenge tour, a memory locked inside my soul forever, however, I was sitting outside a terminal at LAX one sunny day having a smoke and I heard a voice behind me ask me for a light and I turn around and holy shit it was Frank, he had just come home from the PMRC hearings, we sat, smoked and chatted for about 20 minutes until his ride arrived and just like that he was gone, I learned a lot that day my friends, thanks for all the truly amazing music, and your son carries on the tradition having seen his gigs a few times, DOG BREATH...
for me the best guitar soloist, ever , period, that modal take to the leit motif is unique
We all return to this because it is sublime
FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!
These pair of live tunes are very hard to beat.
"Roxy And Elsewhere", the best live album ever (and after). :)
listen :helsinki concert !
@@loicruello9599BAD MUSIC😀😀😀
Dumont : great story man . . . I also know what you mean by feeling you know what's what in music , 40/50 years of listening & loving is ...
blah blah blah blah
😋stoned again🐂💨
Don't forget Zappa in NY 1977 album! That's freaking amazing stuff too. As well as other works from Zappa and the awesome musicians he had as time went. Gotta love the man, best guitarist ever if you ask me :)
One zise fits all.good
Think I watched this about 20 times in a row. Zappa was just on another level
I am so blessed to have see Frank Zappa four times. I was never the same.
GOD IS GOOD
GOD HAS ALL OF THE BEST GUITARIST!!!
This whole concert is brilliant
too bad they cut almost 2 minutes here
Not a very suave edit
@@christofrip1723 What do you mean?
@@paulinebutcherbird At 2:53 the song is edited and missing almost 2minutes. ruclips.net/video/3o8kM4qwl4U/видео.html
Here is the missing part if you start it at 4:28 I had to look it up again since I didn't fully remember
@@christofrip1723 wow! I thought that given Frank jumped at that point it was his choice to change tune there. All my admiration for noticing that.
i love frank so much he’s so talented
I just can't believe... How much I LOVE THIS!
What an awesome band! We miss you, Frank (and all).
Such a beautiful song.
Such a fool xd
I reckon Napoleon Murphy Brock has to be the best frontman ever!
+William Wilson I think this was his best band ever. :-)
What about beefhart and brock?
Check him out with "peach noise" he hasn't lost his touch!
here sure doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
+William Wilson And "what about" Ray White, the original Illinois Enema Bandit? That's though competition, man. Everyone around Zappa was awesome, to fit the genius of the Maestro.
What a pure version......
Mr. Zappa was a rock composer and performer that worked in symphonic structures. That gives his art an overall degree of cohesion that was lacking in most other rock artists of his time, and those of today. I find it very enjoyable over all these years (since the early 70s for me).
Best band ever, past present and future..
The way NMB sings this you'd think it could be Deano or Andy Williams.. such crooner style. Then the big band brass. Then that solo. FZ covered absolutely every genre and made it his own - sometimes in one track. Sublime.
Was at the Mother’s Day extravaganza at the Auditorium theater this tour!! 2 shows that evening!! Incredible 🙏
I've seen this video and concert so so many times over the years and it still has the power to leave me in a gelatiness state on the floor!!!
this is what i call art, pure, real, great, dignified art
My favorite incarnation of the MOI....I saw this particular line up 3 different times. I saw FZ total 11 times over years. I miss the hell out him still 12/04/93 RIP, Maestro w/Love & Zircon
I saw this tour at the Spectrum in Phila. I remember telling my friends that every musician knew exactly what the others were doing for the whole 2 and a half hour show. I saw FZ many times. He did 5 nights at the Palladium in Hollywood and did not play the same song twice!
@@jhendrixfanatic2 We are fortunate people, you & I, my friend. I never missed a chance to see them play live....never. And hell yes, they all knew exactly where everyone else was musically. It's probably similar to an astronaut hanging out with pilots - by that I mean the "regular" great player compared to someone who played in Frank's band...right?
Zircon entrusted tweezers in his hand?
This is really incredible. Thank you for the upload, this has finally turned a corner for me with Zappa and I have to pursue more
the chorus effect on the drums mic reminds me of the late 70s grateful dead sound ... i love that sound on the toms.... holding such a massive universe of memories all inside that one little thing ...so epic this world is
Such a pity Frank smoked like a steam engine. Imagine all the music that would have comeout had Frank lived another 25 years. R.I.P. Frank. You are missed\
he was taken out imo
Lay off the Kool-Aid@@brianjacob8728
...esecuzione superlativa ed estrosissima senza tempo,unicità assoluta❤🙏
I LOVE this line up!!! My favourite Zappa by far!
This blows me away every time I hear it!! These guys had so much fun on stage, shit man, we miss u Frank, ur legacy lives on in all us Zappa fanatics!!!