King Kong (I to VI - from Uncle Meat) - Frank Zappa
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King Kong Itself 0:00
King Kong II 0:51
King Kong III 2:10
King Kong IV 3:55
King Kong V 10:13
King Kong VI 10:46 
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I've said it before, and i'll say it again: Frank Zappa, when I was introduced to him in 1969-70 in high-school, changed my whole perception...my whole direction in musical appreciation...it opened up my mind to things I wouldn't have considered before...including classical, that my late brother tried to introduce me to....
And to all you young people just now discovering him I say: better late than never!
Franks favorite quote from one of his original inspirations, Edgar Varese: "the present day composer refuses to die!"
To all you "newbies" just now discovering him I say: keep on, there'es an incredible amount of materiel out there.
The man was one of the first to record ALL of his concerts both audio, and later video, and has four underground, climate-controlled vaults full of his recordings on the family property in Laurel Canyon..
While the Beatles and others were "put-zing around" with 4/8 recording, he had the engineers at ttg build 16 track at ttg studios. He was a master at editing tape.
Frank was one of those truly under appreciated genius's...
well if they're young you can't really say "better late than never" it doesn't make any kind of sense.
Yes, this album changed my life hearing it in 1970 when I was 14. Zappa did not have a lot of formal training but surrounded himself with great musicians like Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardiner and Art Tripp and I'm sure Zappa learned a lot from them because they were all very well schooled, especially Underwood. And the great editing he learned a lot from Dick Kunc at Apostolic Studios in NYC. So, during 1967 Zappa was so fortunate to have Tripp and Underwood, Ruth too, come to him wanting to play his great music, and the Masterpiece "Uncle Meat" was born. I was fortunate to meet Bunk Gardiner, Don Preston and Art Tripp through the years and ask them about this album, so this is where I got this information. I met Zappa in 1975 and he was into his Rock Star mode with his "Zoot Allures" super group which I didn't care for. He didn't seem to want to talk about chamber music which I kept asking him about. But it was great to meet him. I remember he had his bald bodyguard with him.
I'm 15 and I love it, from King Kong itself to King Kong VI. Such a great artist!
@@andragg Must have been John Smothers (he sings in the Baby Snakes movie, and the song Dong Work For Yuda is about him)
I didn't need to meet him for him to have a profound effect on my perception of music and freedom of expression.
I first bought this album 49 years ago. It still amazes me....
Nebris all the mothers albums from the 60’s are just amazing.
What a great piece! It's rarely mentioned the FZ was innovating jazz fusion the same time as Miles Davis
...and both Zappa and Davis were the musical drill sergeants who took kids and turned them into musical warriors.
Innovated?
How about blew the f*cker wide open? 😆🤘👍
I have often thought about that. I think FZ brought strong elements of classical music into his jazz fusion, whereas Miles Davis didn't pursue that thread. Though I might be wrong
Couldn't we just hear this just once at a high school football game instead of the national anthem?
Imagine. What a joy that would be ❤ …… if only 🙏🙏
Ian Underwood is amazing on this track.....this entire album is inspired!
I have been a Frank Zappa fan for 46 years and I met him several times. But it wasn't until some years after he passed away that I finally "got" the fact that all of his works are part of a "big concept." I wish I had asked him about that while he was alive.
By the way, Frank visits me in my dreams -- a fact that was touched upon by a psychic I know who knew Frank very well in real life. In my dreams I have asked Frank what he does in the afterlife. "Composing and playing, mostly," he replied.
I think what gets lost in this recording is the superlative work of the musicians throughout the album, but especially in King Kong. "Itself" establishes the main melody, pretty simple; II is an Electric Piano solo by Preston; III is a saxophone solo by Motorhead; IV is Bunk Gardner playing a soprano saxophone through various electronic effects sounding like a contrabassoon doubling his solo lines (my favorite; love the sound); VI is Ian going nuts with a sax solo. (Underwood was very instrumental in creating many of the keyboard arrangements on Uncle Meat) and general zaniness. I don't think Zappa's cavalcade of musicians over the years get enough credit. Excellence.
probrojeffro poor little guy! your son has no chance @ a NORMAL life! LOL
Zappa later worked with “better” musicians, but never made music as good as this.
Seems to me that Zappa, unlike many band leaders of his time gave plenty of credit to everyone who worked in his albums, even in a non-musical capacity. And yes, this is a superlative piece... :)
Rascalndear1 Certainly Frank did, even writing certain pieces for band members that had a special skill. But critics and general public, not so much.
Well, I still remember all their names from some 40 years ago, when I first bought the albums. I guess I was a fanatic already then :)
These instruments were discovered during the Moon landings. How they managed to make it out of the secure NASA facility is still unknown
Great Fender Rhodes electric piano playing by Don Preston. After Motorhead's cool sax solo, Preston solos some more and it sounds like Zappa took Preston's solo towards the end and added more parts to it. I talked to Don Preston once and he said Zappa borrowed parts from guys in the group a lot. Zappa was fortunate to have well schooled Ian Underwood in the band who helped Zappa a hell of a lot with music composition. Art Tripp too. Damn, what a great band this was.
I was born in 1956 in Clearwater, Florida and in 1970 I met a very cool guy in Jr. High school (what a great place to meet people and become lifelong friends). Musically, I was listening only to the commercial stuff, Beatles, Hendrix, The Animals. My new friend from school invited me over to his house because be wanted me to hear some albums his 3 older brothers were listening to. He pulled out a stack of all of Zappa the Mother's released up to that point. The first album he played was "Uncle Meat" and it put me in a far away sonic universe. That album changed my life forever. Even the cover Cal did seemed just as mind blowing as the music. Remember, back then it was hard to get these types of records. None of the stores would stock them and you would never hear their stuff on the radio. Clearwater was mostly an unsophisticated town with a lot of old retired people. Finding a guy who had access to this type of musical treasure was rare. The albums he did from 1967 through 1969 contained his best music and his best band line up. I did not like the Flo and Eddie version much. I did like Waka Jawaka. After that he just had these bands with super musicians and he wanted so bad to be a Rock Star, playing without his shirt and all. He lost me as a fan. I even met him before a concert in Tampa in 1975 and I asked him if he planned to do an orchestral or chamber group album in the future. He turned away from me and instead said to some young kid: "he was gonna really rock down the house tonight". The concert sucked and I left half way through, just a lot of showing off from him and his super group, all 32nd and 64th notes played as fast as possible and with quick meter changes. BORRR-ING! I stopped buying his records and would not bother to read and watch interviews. He was a Superstar now and his unique and original Muse was gone. He gained a lot of different types of fans who did not like the old albums. I liked some of "Yellow Shark", yet the best songs on that live chamber orchestra album were the old ones from Uncle Meat. Those early years, as is the case with a lot of creative people, their best and most original work was done somewhere around the beginning. Film Director William Friedkin is a good example. His finest movies where the French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973) and his master piece, Sorcerer (1977). Nothing he did after Sorcerer came even close to those 3 films which were early in his career. The Beatles are a rare exception.
there are many great composers, and there is Zappa!
You don't just listen to zappa, you absorb him.
To me, if I want to hear the best jazz, classical, funk, rock, punk whatever, I go to Frank. So many genre's are so cliche. Frank takes them and turns them on end, lending his own unique interpretations to each genre. No one better. Damn we miss you Frank. RIP!
Zappa in a nutshell!
The very very best ..Masterpiece....of Zappa...le meilleur par Zappa lui même, orchestration parfaite, instruments bidouillés et instrumentistes virtuoses et inspirés....Intemporel!!
If you haven't listened to it, the excellently structured live version on Ahead Of Their Time is worth checking out.
Zappa be like "I'm gonna change the face of music foreva an hardly anyone gon notice or giv a fuk"
hahaha
zappa truly frightened the powers that be...i kinda believe there's a conspiracy with his death, he had plenty of money to deal with his health issues and get straight up, yet "they" let him die...very sad, but this music is forever and there's lots of it out there. :)
Joe Dohn I did and I do.
Joe Dohn
@@jamesian-allen8725 FZ's prostate cancer went "undetected" until it was too late.
I have an original 1969 German pressing on Reprise Records, and the last track is identified on the label as "the Underwood/Zappa Ramifications."
King Kong lives as the ur-jam arising from the groin of free jazz and manifested in the swollen belly of Miles Davis fusion and born into being as "King Kong." Like Miles's best stuff, this one carries you through the late hours...one of the few to do so!
Deep narration right there.
@@jansirkia3809 I concur.
Gotta be my favorite intro ever.
fuck..so good. This is relentless!
That little "bep" sound almost gave me a heart attack, I was just chilling lmao
Masterpiece for a Saxophone (or two).....just enjoy..................With Love for all of the Band
This group made me understand what electronic music could be. Amazing individual.
My wife: "How can your brain stand this stuff first thing in the morning?" Me: "Because the Bunk Gardner saxaphone solo reminds me of your pleas for me to be productive."
hahaha! it was bunk gardner on the saxophone?
had to give you a dislike because you have a cat in your profile pic, also because you mentioned your wife.
unfortunatebeam wonderful reasoning
thx
Bahahahaha!!!!
FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!
Uno de los músicos más creativos que dio la historia !! Inmenso Frank y gracias por la música !!!!!!
I feel warm and safe here….love this and thanks!!
the best music ever.
ol frank loved a sea shanty..epic! the live bbc TV session is still my favourite version of this though..i wish there was a sparkly recording of it.
Although current mainstream music is shite, I pray that somewhere on this god forsaken planet there is a new generation of young 'uns tripping out on this music.
Frank ..su musica , maravillosa !! señor lo amo gracias!!
when people really know their instruments its amazing how they can just keep a groove and improv different parts around each other and somehow totally move in unison.
This album shaped my young life. It is silly on the surface and profound in it's depths. Now after so many years I am listening to the whole thing again. It is still right there in my DNA..
My mistake, Helsinki is Volume 2. Great concert, but what he did on "Uncle Meat" is truly unique. Love you Frank.
This is all I have ever needed ...Hotcha ..
Jesus Christ this is genius!!!!
I'll never forget the first time I played the Uncle Meat records!
I used to want to be Ian Underwood when I grew up. Sadly, that didn't pan out.
Me too pal
@@leetomboulian I looked at some of your stuff. It's good. 👍
A great piece of music. Frank noodling in the background. The Mothers. Fuck they were interesting and so so good!
KING KONG.For me, this is the best music! Really good!!
i really like these songs. I think everyone should listen to it all of the time.
i would like to thank who melded it all together out of the desperate parts. when i'm in the king kong mood. i don't need bs. did i say thank you
well, thank you once again Bradley. i even capitalized your name, something i rarely do
hahaha! capitalization is for capitalists!
zappa in the planet of music is like a fireball that belong to no solar system, free and unique, a great music to listen and yet i doubt that music will be play in elevator or supermarket , it doesn t really fit the concept of a quiet music to calm and neutralize thought so the consumer can spend . his music his great to listen but it s not a music for relaxation, zen, and meditation, it s a unique alternative to listen music, not seriously, no like some serious guy that listen jazz and tell you detail about the trumpet on the left or listeninng classic and telling you that this version is better than the other, or listenning rock and telling you to listen that intro etc, it s music to listen and it s not a music that make any concession, any easy compromise, it s not a music that gonna be simple for the simple listenners, for the masses repeating many time the same sentence so the listenner can get it. but zappa sound got something , un je ne sais quoi '( like english people say ( when they want to show they know a bit of french' lol) i could listen for hours and days zappa albums over and over again and i never feel satisfy , it seems there was a lost song i missed somewhere, was it the enemy bandit"? some title like that, one thing i love in zappa is that imagination in titles, in lyrics, in zappa world, it s all freak and strange, it s hippy style but with a lucid in the criticism of society and of human condition, and a lot of humour
He was one of the very few musicians that ever lived that was truly free. He didn't care what people thought of his music for most of his career. He figured out how to market himself despite knowing people might HATE his music. Because he was so determined to be successful.
I can only name a handful of groups I'd be willing to buy albums of even though I know there might not be a single song off there that I actually enjoy. Another album, for example, was Goo by Sonic Youth. First time I heard it, I hated it. I mean, I honestly remember listening to it and being like ''what the fuck was that shit?" It grew on me years later and now is in my top 10 albums I've ever heard list, it's just that original.
poolidoor, you french right? the mistakes you make when speaking english are so french! and so is your pseudo.
et alors? love of pure, multiverse music transcends our petty nationality
This is the perfect definition of Zappa's music, thank you.
Frank Zappa fucked me up. now the corporation won't hire me.
Thanks, Boris! You're the A-Bomb! for posting this great stuff!
Directly from my heart to my playlist
This is pure composition.
ZAPPA, Masters of the universe
Lo que hacían estos cuates, a finales de lo 60tas. Increíble!!!
Bloody amazing album.
Real frantic flyshit for real frantic times. Thanks for posting brother.
Definately, I would also throw in Dog Breath Variations and Holiday in Berlin!
Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown
WHIP IT OUT IAN!
My favorite song ever
I don't remember which RUclips video had the BBC version of King Kong, but it opened with displaying the "pop" music of 1968 - Herman's Hermits was mentioned - and then contrasted all that useless, insipid pop with REAL music and delved into King Kong. Made the piece all the more significant.
In my humble oppinion,this six parts to Kong Kong are the best there are...by far.
The BBC sessions have video.As far as I know,there's no video footage for these Uncle Meat recordings.
This fact alone puts them in different categories to be compared among them by themselves.
But what do I know?
my son hated me when he was young cause i saturated him with Zappa where ever we went now he is a dedicated Zappa fan. ARF she said!
Ha! I'm doing that to my son now. I'm pretty much Zappa 24/7. He's 9 and is digging on quite a few of the songs.
What does "ARF she said!" mean?
it would be the last line in Evelyn, A Modified Dog
Same with my wife.
@@unfortunatebeam Well that is the crux of the biscuit, no?
ZAPPA /MOTHERS EPIC!!
How can anyone not like this Musik?!
I think it may actually be healthy for ya, you know like vegetables and all that rythm..
Très bonne idée de regrouper les 6 King Kong d'Uncle Meat !
I must own this!
masterpiece
certainly
This is amazing music!
GREATNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This reminds me of the scene from Close Encounters where you understand what the space are saying but you can not describe it.
Pure Frank from this period. Listen to his "You Can't Do It on Stage Anymore, Vol 4." In Helsinki, he probably had the best musicians he ever played with, Several pieces were loosely based on "Uncle Meat" variations. Great, but the original kills it all. Frank Zappa meets Eric Dolphy? Very likely. I would die listening to this encounter that never happened.
I've always found vol.2 pieces to be too fast, like they are just burning through each piece. Better are the Roxy performances.
Awesome :D
...18:12...That's a monsthers of invention - size record...
Some ok vamps being performed here
De las mejores rolas de Zappa
WOW!
amazing
King kong on the original lp
Wowie!!! Zowie!!!😀😃😄
this is Genius! a true master of the written note.kids today think "jamming", they just don't get it.
I love it
10:16 - Does humor belong in music? Definitely yes.
słyszę mój ulubiony SOFT MACHINE
In the 1970s this was used as the intro music to "The old grey whistle test" a UK TV music programme.
No that's not correct. It was Stone Fox Chase - Area Code 615.
Stone Fox Chase was the theme tune used. They did play this on The OGWT live.
what a ing & ong with King Kong.
just kidding,
is so much when i listen this Zappa's musik. ooooshhh!
It's one thing to be an amazing musical talent. It's a different thing altogether to be able to play so seamlessly with other amazing musical talents all around you.
I love how you honestly barely even hear Frank throughout the entire thing, just because of how god-damned good everyone else is.
el jazz, los jazziztaz y usted.
Grandios
We missed posting this on Frank's birthday because of a death in the family of a band member (COVID strikes again - FU 2020!), but we had created this video of our version of King Kong. Hope you enjoy it! ruclips.net/video/KqBMRz0fHEs/видео.html
what is going on kingking, king gone, king kong gone to hong kong....to play ping pong
zappa tu eres un gran chingon....
Stand : King Kong Ascension
Stand User: MOTHER OF INVENTION
17:06: As Played by 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks
Frank Zappa, the Genius!
Upto about 4:00 it's pure genius. After that I'm losing focus.
FZ was the master ;)
I guess Bunk was playing a soprano sax through an octivider
It’s the Selmer Varitone. Plas Johnson used it on a super-charged version of Peter Gunn for the 1967 movie ‘Gunn’.
This is better than anything Beethoven or mozart ever did! TRUTH!
if beethoven or mozart had funky synths or electric geetars they probably would have sounded more like this.
The problem with their era is that the only way they could earn a living is by giving those in power--lords, kings, cardinals, bishops--what they wanted. They were really restricted by the times. No free markets, like Frank was able to work in. He found a way to maximize profit through using a variety of genres, especially pop that paid the bills. That enabled him to create his master pieces or more experimental, masterful music--that's my favorite Zappa when he goes nuts like with King Kong. LOVE Uncle Meat. If Motzy and Beethoven had a little more freedom and modern technology, who knows what they could have created. But to me Mozart was able to shake it up and create some amazing music even within all those restrictions. Rule on Zappsters
***** ganda incult kkkkkkkkkkk
+Jeff Smith This (King Kong) is faaaaaaar better than Mozart and Beethoven compositions. Truth!
Let's not get carried away here, Bro...............
soooo long since i heard this
They sure don't make music like this anymore...what a fuckin tragedy.
I like the BBC version slightly more. Does anyone know if there is a high quality recording of that available?
i prefer the channel 4 version but the sky sports mix is not bad
The al jazeera bootleg is mindblowing.
And to think King Kong was gentle with her.
Zappa for US President from the grave..
Next best thing to Electric Ladyland.
ahhh
Great bassoon from ?Bunk?
no, Ian was & still is a multi instrumentaoist
This is my Shit!
King Kong and A pound For A Brown On The Bus, in my oppinoin; have got to define the Mothers' music in the late 1960s'!