I hope you continue with this LP, easily one of his best and overall one of his most accessible. His favorite composer was Edgard Varese, which explains a lot once you hear his works.
Have you ever heard of "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary" by him? It's a 20 minute mini-operette from the same era: an absurd story in a cartoon-for-your-ears setting in which he makes fun of the invention of the Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory XIII) - (the title is also a pun on Gregory Peck).The music is really interesting. It has Jazz, free Jazz, Rock, Contemporary classic chamber music, avant-garde & doo-wop all mixed together. Zappa narrates the whole thing with added (and sped up) voices from George Duke and consorts. Many of us (myself included) see it as the ultimate Zappa tune. It has everything and is never boring.
I always loved Zappa back in the 70s, growing up, tried to tell friends he was an underated guitarist...most of them just laughed at his so called "silly" songs. They still LIKED Zappa, but I LOVED him. Not that I was a musician, but I could always tell there was a lot more going on than meets the ear when you sit & Listen (esp w/ headphones) as oppossed to sitting around getting stoned while someone slapped another Zappa album on the turntable. I'm a new subscriber & absolutely LOVE that you love Zappa. I learn a lot just hearing your comments, not info I'll ever use or need since I continue to be musically inept, but it's bits & pieces of stuff I'm glad to learn, that makes me feel less musically challenged, even if I'm not. Does that make sense? Probably not. But fwiw I dig what you do, man...
You got to remember all,these other musicians just loved his solos… they knew that they were in a special place in their lives… just palying along side of one of the greatest EVER !!!
Perhaps you'd enjoy delving into Zappa during the time there was a fiddle player named Ponty (you may have heard of him) in the lineup - along with George Duke doing those fantastic keyboards and Ruth Underwood on mallets, along with the great horns / bass and drums that we've come to expect.
When you get around to checking out Zappa's "Grand Wazoo"... Before you play the Title Track, take a close look at the album cover. The music sounds exactly as that cartoon is drawn. Two different styles of music both competing for center stage. You can hear (2) different rhythms battle it out at the same time. The entire album is off the hook. Have fun...!
Watch Zappa talk about a topic other than music, he called "Turgid Flux", he talks about American TV culture - it will show you how intelligent he is. He never took an IQ test, but most certainly, he's a genius.
It's something that Frank provokes, I don't like writing my opinions, but Frank has a way of making me do just that , like i honestly love introduction people, yep even Po- Jama people , to Frank Zappa , they are amazed at his arrangements , usually , RARARA
I showed my grandson your peaches en regalia reaction video he agrees with me that it was the best reaction to that song .when you get around to fifty fifty please bring out your violin
I'm aware that title suggestions abound in the comments, but I'd add the following title without hesitation: (Don't You Eat The Yellow Snow Suite) from the album Apostrophe ('). This suite is composed of 4 songs without any interruption. 1- Don't eat the yellow snow 2- Nanook Rubs It 3- St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast 4- Father O'Blivion
Zappa is known for inserting abrupt time signature changes here and there, and the weird sounds and vocals, which maybe comes from his Spike Jones influence
I saw Frank do this live back in the day always near the end of the concert when people looked sleepy or bored, How you get bored with Frank I do not know .
Haha, of course that's Zappa playing guitar, utterly and prodigiously unique, to me the best guitarist that doesn't sound like everyone else. Drop a name if you got one for us to check out.
A couple of Zappa's most virtuostic guitar work- according to modern guitarists- is "Black Napkins" and "Watermelon In Easter Hay". Also, his son Dweezil is darn near as good as his dad & put out an album, and a dvd where he plays the whole album live, I believe- called "Zappa Plays Zappa". Please, if you get the time, I'd love to see what you think of that stuff. I do agree w/ some comments here that this was his best rock album ever. The Mothers Of Invention came & went, lineups changed, but w/ this group of musicians was where he really hit it outta the park.
In an interview Zappa said: 'I have had bands where everyone has been a reader. The most boring band I had was like that and ultimately led to the song Po-Jama People which is written about that particular band which had people like Ruth (Underwood), George (Duke) and Ponty. You go on the road and you have these people living their life to play Yahtzee on the bus, and chess and engaging in intellectual juiceless pursuits. I like to have guys in the band who want to go out there and want to get laid.
@@hackupboulders You mean the source? "Zappa: Speak Out" by Paul Colbert in Musicians Only, January 26, 1980. But FZ expressed the same concept on other audio interviews.
You asked what this was about. Watch the live performances of Chameleon when it came out. Herbie and the band looked like they were wearing pajamas. Frank was commenting on how this great funk group was selling out.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best!
As a musically literate person, you should seek out some of the scores for Frank's music, and the transcribed guitar too (The Frank Zappa Guitar Book). You'll appreciate the unparalleled way he plays with precise time divisions, using polyrhythms and nested tuplets. Frank used those mechanisms like most composers use accidentals and rich harmonies. It's way more than you could possibly pick up on with one hearing. From the first time I heard this song in the 70's, I understood the lyrics to be a general metaphor for people with inhibitions. "Some wear pojamas, if only they knew it./They make me feel like I am wasting my time." No doubt some band members fell into that category at times, but I believe the song speaks to a larger societal annoyance. Cheers.
While there may be other layers to the lyrics, I always associated Po-jama People with this passage in his semiautobiography _The Real Frank Zappa_ (thanks to google books for retrieving the exact passage): One of the wonder remedies that had just come out the was sulfa. Winter was freezing cold in that house at 15 Dexter Street. The walls were so thin - it was like a cardboard house. We used to wear flannel trapdoor pajamas. In the mornings, to get warm, we stood by the coal stove in the kitchen. On one occasion, the trapdoor on my younger brother's pajamas caught fire. My Dada came running in and beat the fire out with his bare hands. Both his hands and my brother's back were totally burned. The doctor put sulfa on them and neither of them get scarred.
There’s so many good Zappa tunes to check out. Highly recommend anything off of overnite sensation if you’re liking his proggy stuff but really check out his whole discography.
George Duke could accompany very well when Frank solo's...he knows what weight /colour and metric to splash...like Chic Corea fills...but more bluesey and gospel like.
The point of the lyrics was he hired a bunch of unemployed motown session muso's for his big band and he found them to be boring individuals who had no desire for regular pursuits and thought a good night was playing chess or playing cards...they are the pojama people.
This one's kinda lame compared to the previous ones you did. But do check out "Cheepnis", by all means. And, if you're really brave, "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary". Goes on for 20 minutes, though.
@@marlon-jl4ge mr troll much respect..don't troll too much ..the bridge you live under will become neglect...Marlin ...got you by the hook ...here ,I've got some story to read you from Dave McGowan's book.
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Frank Zappa is the best guitarrist of all music.
Many of his songs have a guitar solo that after 50 years still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I will miss Zappa music when I'm dead.
How do you know that?
I won't have ears.
Zappa was garbage
Memories just might be the only thing you can take with you when you're gone. For me, it will be my 31st Zappa concert.
Shit ugly zappa changed the World of boring clowns
I hope you continue with this LP, easily one of his best and overall one of his most accessible. His favorite composer was Edgard Varese, which explains a lot once you hear his works.
Have you ever heard of "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary" by him? It's a 20 minute mini-operette from the same era: an absurd story in a cartoon-for-your-ears setting in which he makes fun of the invention of the Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory XIII) - (the title is also a pun on Gregory Peck).The music is really interesting. It has Jazz, free Jazz, Rock, Contemporary classic chamber music, avant-garde & doo-wop all mixed together. Zappa narrates the whole thing with added (and sped up) voices from George Duke and consorts. Many of us (myself included) see it as the ultimate Zappa tune. It has everything and is never boring.
I always loved Zappa back in the 70s, growing up, tried to tell friends he was an underated guitarist...most of them just laughed at his so called "silly" songs. They still LIKED Zappa, but I LOVED him. Not that I was a musician, but I could always tell there was a lot more going on than meets the ear when you sit & Listen (esp w/ headphones)
as oppossed to sitting around getting stoned while someone slapped another Zappa album on the turntable. I'm a new subscriber & absolutely LOVE that you love Zappa. I learn a lot just hearing your comments, not info I'll ever use or need since I continue to be musically inept, but it's bits & pieces of stuff I'm glad to learn, that makes me feel less musically challenged, even if I'm not. Does that make sense? Probably not. But fwiw I dig what you do, man...
“pretty good guitar player”… understatement in the extreme
You got to remember all,these other musicians just loved his solos… they knew that they were in a special place in their lives… just palying along side of one of the greatest EVER !!!
One of the best pieces of FZ, magic ipnotic ...
Perhaps you'd enjoy delving into Zappa during the time there was a fiddle player named Ponty (you may have heard of him) in the lineup - along with George Duke doing those fantastic keyboards and Ruth Underwood on mallets, along with the great horns / bass and drums that we've come to expect.
Not to put down Ponty, but Sugar Cain Harris had more Depth
You can find Jean Luc ponty albums somewhere
Live in Berlin great concert
Crazy Electronic sound for the time
Lucky me
Awesome reaction. Can't wait till you happen across some of the electric violin parts played by Ponty and others
When you get around to checking out Zappa's "Grand Wazoo"... Before you play the Title Track, take a close look at the album cover. The music sounds exactly as that cartoon is drawn. Two different styles of music both competing for center stage. You can hear (2) different rhythms battle it out at the same time. The entire album is off the hook. Have fun...!
Watch Zappa talk about a topic other than music, he called "Turgid Flux", he talks about American TV culture - it will show you how intelligent he is. He never took an IQ test, but most certainly, he's a genius.
It's something that Frank provokes, I don't like writing my opinions, but Frank has a way of making me do just that , like i honestly love introduction people, yep even Po- Jama people , to Frank Zappa , they are amazed at his arrangements , usually , RARARA
He mixed a few styles of music together and is called a genius? Hahahaha 🤣
Thanks for the laugh
He was trash
I showed my grandson your peaches en regalia reaction video he agrees with me that it was the best reaction to that song .when you get around to fifty fifty please bring out your violin
The world Misses Zappa
I'm aware that title suggestions abound in the comments, but I'd add the following title without hesitation:
(Don't You Eat The Yellow Snow Suite) from the album Apostrophe (').
This suite is composed of 4 songs without any interruption.
1- Don't eat the yellow snow
2- Nanook Rubs It
3- St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
4- Father O'Blivion
Hey Rob since you're a violin player how bout reacting to some jean luc ponty (he played with zappa).
Maybe some Michael urbaniak.
Zappa is known for inserting abrupt time signature changes here and there, and the weird sounds and vocals, which maybe comes from his Spike Jones influence
I saw Frank do this live back in the day always near the end of the concert when people looked sleepy or bored, How you get bored with Frank I do not know .
Haha, of course that's Zappa playing guitar, utterly and prodigiously unique, to me the best guitarist that doesn't sound like everyone else. Drop a name if you got one for us to check out.
Love " Willie The Pimp" Love some Zappa
A couple of Zappa's most virtuostic guitar work- according to modern guitarists- is "Black Napkins" and "Watermelon In Easter Hay". Also, his son Dweezil is darn near as good as his dad & put out an album, and a dvd where he plays the whole album live, I believe- called "Zappa Plays Zappa". Please, if you get the time, I'd love to see what you think of that stuff. I do agree w/ some comments here that this was his best rock album ever. The Mothers Of Invention came & went, lineups changed, but w/ this group of musicians was where he really hit it outta the park.
hoy Hoy HOY! the man had a way with words
In an interview Zappa said: 'I have had bands where everyone has been a reader. The most boring band I had was like that and ultimately led to the song Po-Jama People which is written about that particular band which had people like Ruth (Underwood), George (Duke) and Ponty. You go on the road and you have these people living their life to play Yahtzee on the bus, and chess and engaging in intellectual juiceless pursuits. I like to have guys in the band who want to go out there and want to get laid.
citation please.
@@hackupboulders You mean the source? "Zappa: Speak Out" by Paul Colbert in Musicians Only, January 26, 1980.
But FZ expressed the same concept on other audio interviews.
Zappa was filth
i think he was refering to the grand wazoo band musicians he hired from motown...they were boring
@@marlon-jl4ge he was a man of integrity...sorry lad.
WAKA JAWAKA, THE GRAND WAZOO, WAKA WAZOO !!!!
The fadeout at the end is because it's a live recording and the went on playing...
great video. Listen to Directly from my Heart to You, sick violin.
You should check zappa's song "fifty-fifty". Features the great electric violin of Jean luc Ponte.
You asked what this was about. Watch the live performances of Chameleon when it came out. Herbie and the band looked like they were wearing pajamas. Frank was commenting on how this great funk group was selling out.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best!
Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence
Zappa was garbage
You should react to some Zappa's themes with violins. In Hot Rats are a bunch and some others in Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Nice video
As a musically literate person, you should seek out some of the scores for Frank's music, and the transcribed guitar too (The Frank Zappa Guitar Book). You'll appreciate the unparalleled way he plays with precise time divisions, using polyrhythms and nested tuplets. Frank used those mechanisms like most composers use accidentals and rich harmonies. It's way more than you could possibly pick up on with one hearing.
From the first time I heard this song in the 70's, I understood the lyrics to be a general metaphor for people with inhibitions. "Some wear pojamas, if only they knew it./They make me feel like I am wasting my time." No doubt some band members fell into that category at times, but I believe the song speaks to a larger societal annoyance. Cheers.
While there may be other layers to the lyrics, I always associated Po-jama People with this passage in his semiautobiography _The Real Frank Zappa_ (thanks to google books for retrieving the exact passage):
One of the wonder remedies that had just come out the was sulfa. Winter was freezing cold in that house at 15 Dexter Street. The walls were so thin - it was like a cardboard house. We used to wear flannel trapdoor pajamas. In the mornings, to get warm, we stood by the coal stove in the kitchen.
On one occasion, the trapdoor on my younger brother's pajamas caught fire. My Dada came running in and beat the fire out with his bare hands. Both his hands and my brother's back were totally burned. The doctor put sulfa on them and neither of them get scarred.
There’s so many good Zappa tunes to check out. Highly recommend anything off of overnite sensation if you’re liking his proggy stuff but really check out his whole discography.
"he is always changing times...Whats up with that???" you asked... "That" is called Zappa music.
It was definitely Zappa who played the guitar solo.
FZ usually plays base too on studio stuff.
Supposedly Frank wrote this song about some of the guys in the band being boring lying around the hotels in jammies.
George Duke could accompany very well when Frank solo's...he knows what weight /colour and metric to splash...like Chic Corea fills...but more bluesey and gospel like.
Once upon a time Was an ugly boring clown named zappa
Try his song The Gumbo Variations It has a killer violin section not sure who it is playing but i think you will enjoy it
Sugar Cane Harris.
Could shit zappa play guitar with his ugly nose? 🤣
The point of the lyrics was he hired a bunch of unemployed motown session muso's for his big band and he found them to be boring individuals who had no desire for regular pursuits and thought a good night was playing chess or playing cards...they are the pojama people.
You think the guitar player might be playing the guitar ? Good guess !
This one's kinda lame compared to the previous ones you did. But do check out "Cheepnis", by all means. And, if you're really brave, "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary". Goes on for 20 minutes, though.
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit 🤣
I choose my own language and like to create expressions and coin words unheard of....that is so old used and barely funny.
Zappa troll, you can do whatever you want, hahahaha
@@marlon-jl4ge mr troll much respect..don't troll too much ..the bridge you live under will become neglect...Marlin ...got you by the hook ...here ,I've got some story to read you from Dave McGowan's book.
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@@mikedemike5393 do you want to familiarize me, with your zappa? Hahahaha