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I do agree, this guy is nuts. A part from what he says, I understand this was the first time he listened to Inca Roads, one of the most famous and significant compositions of one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Unbelievable. Not exactly a refined and very competent musicologist......
Zappa sounds like a progressive jazz acid trip. The colors flow freely, then Zappa zips through with a strangeness that nobody expects. The musician are awesome for sure.☮️💟
It's one of his best IMO. The keyboard player George Duke was classically trained and he told Frank that he didn't sing but Frank wanted him to try, and it's in a high range which is sorta unusual. The percussionist Ruth Underwood is also classically trained and plays marimba here and various drums. Drummer Chester Thompson would later become Phil Collins' tour drummer for genesis so that they could have a fuller sound and that Phil could come out from behind the kit to sing many of their songs. Napoleon Murphy-Brock was the sax/flute/second vocalist. This is one of Frank's pieces that intentionally throws "the kitchen sink" into the composition and Frank's solo is kinda the foundation of the madness, a break if you will from the beginning to the flourish at the end. I love it but his music was never made for mass appeal. He created to put unusual sound combinations together, to break compositional norms and to mix styles.
George didn’t want to play sinth either but Zappa bought him one and little by little he tinkered with it until he could create those Inca Roads Sounds. Zappa brought out the best in his musicians
This track is a grower, the more you hear of Franks stuff, the more it feeds into your brain, I promise you will come back to this, meanwhile enjoy what this guy left us.
@@barbastathisr Who writes music about the Incas and whether some alien came down and showed them how to build roads through the Andes. OH, Frank Zappa.
This was the very first Frank Zappa track that I ever heard, and I fell in love with it immediately. I loved the laid back, mellow guitar solo, but what sold me on this was that amazing keyboard solo. I bought it straight away on iTunes. This is a track that I listen to frequently and really enjoy.
And one more thing to consider when listening to his music in Frank scores every note of every instrument, every percussive beat and every vocal note you hear on paper.
Zappa is one of the true musical geniuses in this world or any world. I was lucky to see him perform the entire Absolutely Free live. It was mind boggling! Polo, I think that it's great that you react to a variety of musical genres. Keep up the great work!!
Personally this is far and away my favorite Zappa track- it has everything! And more you don't expect. There are many Zappa tracks I'm not fond of, though. This one just encompasses all of the positive factors in his music that I do like.
Thank you for your honesty. While Zappa was a great guitarist he was primarily a composer and some of his music is very complex. This tune is especially busy and chaotic and I dont expect most people to dig it unless they're into jazz/fusion
This may grow on you over time, it is one of my top Zappa tracks, the way it is woven out of all those sounds, & Ruth Underwood's percussion is as awesome as ever, & she gets a mention.
When you look at Inca roads as a classical music piece it fits in with the extremely hard genere. This type of arrangement is a masterclass of professional musicianship
Hey Polo ~ Frank is first and foremost a composer. Every note on this, he wrote. This is one of his signature blends of jazz, fusion and avant-garde music. On one of his very first appearances on tv, (if not his very first) he was on the Tonight Show with Steve Allen (Pre Johnny Carson) and he played, of all things---- A bicycle. He was very much influenced by other avant-garde/electronic/noise composers who came before him like John Gage and Edgard Varèse. It is definitely not for everyone. Personally, I love it. Not to worry, as there is plenty of Frank's music that doesn't go off in this direction.
Zappa was unlike ANY OTHER...in more than 100 ways!! BRILLIANT MUSICIANS!! This kind of chaos doesn't just happen!! :) POLO: You are allowed to like new music to you, or not like it!! :) It's ok! LOVE YOUR REACTIONS!! HUGS!
The song just before Watermelons in Easter Hay is The Packard Goose. Right around 3 1/2 minutes you’d better be buckled up. It’s the most intense, dynamic and complex guitar solo I have ever heard and I’m 65 loving music since the crib! Check it out.
I can't get over how perfect every single thing is about how he says "PARK IT!" is. The tone, the mood, the attitude, register, raspyness, phrasing, wording and so on.
Listen a few times and it all becomes more cohesive. The studio version's basic track is this live version but with overdubs. The solo in that version is amazing. It's a track he took from a live perforrmance in Helsinki. Undoubtedly one of his top best solos.
I was listening to Howard Stern hear Zappa on his show once and it COMPLETELY went over his head. He ABSOLUTELY hated it!! This is NOT an uncommon reaction when it comes to Frank. Fine line between trash and treasure.
as always a very honest reaction.... you'll probably never listen to this again, and that's an absolute shame, because once you get 'the grip' of it, you'll come to see it as a masterpiece. happy new year from Belgium;)
The ‘Inca Roads’ guitar solo from the studio release of ‘One Size Fits All’ - one of the greatest guitar solos of ALL TIME, in my book - was overdubbed using a sample from a live recording of an FZ concert in Helsinki.
Bruh really wanna know how insanely franky Zappa was as a musician very versatile and never days off . He has different types of styles in music even early hip hop & dj pop music or early techno 1960 I’m telling you bruh he was doing it all.
When listening to Zappa, I am often reminded of the late, great Brother Theodore, who once said “I don’t understand music, but I do like the noise that it makes.”
Frank Zappa has composed a whole galaxy of music in his sadly short lifetime, going way back to the Mothers Of Invention. I truly believe he is one of the greatest composers of all time. After listening to his music for years I think one of his best compositions is “The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution”. This instrumental will take you on a magical journey that may blow your mind! Give it a listen Polo and please share with your followers.
Such an incredible band. On percussion is Ruth Underwood, Juilliard music student. On drums is Chester Thompson, of Genesis and Phil Collins fame. Frank's musical IQ is off the charts, literally.
Frank always had nothing but the best in the business as far as his musicians making up the band over the years. I was fortunate to be a part of this world for a few years. A very cool guy to be around....RIP
With 68 albums during his life and another 60 something albums after his death from material he recorded and kept in his vault, there are many styles he covered, not everybody is going to like everything
The Mothers of Invention use more chord patterns and augmented chords than any other band. The album Billy was a Mountain was basically a live jam session with outstanding music. You might want to check out some of the solo stuff from the band. Jean Luc Ponty is a good place to start.
This is a song that you have to listen to more than one time, maybe then you see it in a different way. I know most of his material and would say it‘s one of his greatest songs
I remember back in the day when I didn't get Zappa so this is an understandable reaction. But when it clicked, maybe a bit of brain re-wiring I don't know, it all falls into place and it doesn't sound the slightest bit chaotic. Every note is exactly in place and it's beautiful and then you can barely remember how it sounded before. That is an honest first listen but if you persevere, I'm sure you'll appreciate the benefits eventually like I did.
It’s actually great to see an honest reaction for a change. I skip most reactions when I sense they’re being insincere, and it happens a lot. You got a follow.
Zappa was one of the greatest musical minds of our age. The best of what the 20 th century had to offer. He made fun of groups of people that thought they were above being made fun of. A truly self made man A individualist. Sadly I’m afraid he’d be cancelled today.
As a young teen I couldn't see how anyone would like Zappa but I later had this buddy that was a DJ and a Zappa addict he had 40 albums played them over and over and knew exactly when to crank the volume way up and I got hooked
They are all killing it, if you were not a killer, you would not be there. Frank would mix and match different genres or aspects of those genres matched with unrelated parts of other genres, it was avant-garde really and the musicianship involved was legendarily demanding. That’s why musicians have a deep respect for Frank’s music because he wrote all of it for each and every instrument. A lot of what he composed and arranged was insanely complex and it is definitely genius level.
Oh man, you're going a** over apple cart into one of the best, most bizarre rabbit holes around. Gonna be fun watching you on the Zappa ride. Go for some of the guitar solo stuff, you'll definitely diggify on it. Just subscribed too. :)
Ah I just found this. Glad you did Inca Roads. One of my all time favorites of his, and I know a LOT of his music. I have more of his than I do of Bowie. Or Pink Floyd (and I have a lot of those!).
Frank makes music for musicians. I can understand your reaction. I'm a musician who has been a Zappa fan for over 50 years. It's a acquired taste. This is one of his more " out there " track. To see him live is a whole new experience.
There’s a small handful of Zappa songs that I like and I could throw the rest of them away forever and not miss them at all. But this is far and away my favorite of his songs.
If you're just jumping into the Zappa pool Inca Roads is jumping into the deep end without floaties on LOL I'm not surprised you didn't care for it much. Most reactors start here with Inca Roads because they see alot of people did this one and think it's a good place so start and get scared away for good and miss out on some of the most amazing music they'll ever hear, I don't want that to happen to you.. A good jump off point for the creative and goofy Zappa would be... Don't Eat The Yellow Snow Suite: ruclips.net/video/mpNn1nht0_8/видео.html Hope you check it out.... ✌Peace✌
I've never met in person anyone who disliked this, this is the song I play to prove Zappa was really one of a kind, I was surprised to see your reaction, but happy, I was wondering how every time I played it to someone they're amazed I thought, yeah, but some one has to be like, "you know what, I didn't like it" for sure, and now I know that, yes, that also happens. I love Zappa's Hot rats/Grand Wazoo/Sleep Dirt and most of his instrumentals, classical, jazzy, live stuff, but of course some of his songs I dislike. Cheers, thanks for not over interrupting the song, I think this makes a nice video reaction, I normally don't like those or don't watch them but thanks! (I clicked the video because I thought you were going to talk about something political or something philosophical you found about the song. hehehe)
This one of my favorite Zappa songs. George Dukes work is amazing. I usually introduce people who are into fussion to this song. You must listen to the studio version!
The lyrics are based on the fact that some people believe the Inca roads are alien landing strips. It's not your everyday playlist kind of song, for sure. His creativity was on steroids.
Frank's most accessible (& most successful, commercially) album was "Apostrophe." These songs are on it (1, 2 & 3 comprise a suite): 1. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" 2:07 2. "Nanook Rubs It" 4:38 3. "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" 1:50 4. "Father O'Blivion" 2:18 5. "Cosmik Debris" 4:14 side 2/1. "Excentrifugal Forz" 1:33 2. "Apostrophe'" (Zappa, Jim Gordon, Jack Bruce) 5:50 3. "Uncle Remus" (Zappa, George Duke) 2:44 4."Stink-Foot" 6:33 The Yellow Snow suite is not unlike Inco Roads, but the title track is a ripping instrumental jam. Cheers,
Since the first time i heard this when i was probably a baby 😂.im 32 now .to fhis day Best this is the best musical performance ive encountered. So glad i was bought up with goos sounds
I like this opening shot. Everything from the achromatic, static composition to the kinetic art in the background. Sound is great. Thanks also for covering Frank Zappa's music
Would you say something about your take on the lyrics: Did a vehicle Come from somewhere out there Just to land in the Andes? Was it round And did it have A motor Or was it Something Different Did a vehicle Did a vehicle Did a vehicle Fly along the mountains And find a place to park itself Or did someone Build a place To leave a space For such a vehicle to land Did a vehicle Come from somewhere out there Did a vehicle Come from somewhere out there Did the indians, first on the bill Carve up the hill Did a booger-bear Come from somewhere out there Just to land in the Andes? Was she round And did she have a motor Or was she something different Guacamole Queen Guacamole Queen Guacamole Queen At the Armadillo in Austin Texas, her aura, Or did someone build a place Or leave a space for Chester's Thing to land (Chester's Thing... on Ruth) Did a booger-beer Come from somewhere out there Did a booger-bear Come from somewhere out there Did the Indians, first on the bill Carve up her hill On Ruth On Ruth That's Ruth Source: LyricFind
Revisiting my comment… as a 40 year long fan of Zappa, I learned that sometimes it takes time for the song you didn’t like so much at first to become one of your favorites. I never set out to be a Zappa fan, yet here I am. Give it time.
How deep did you dig? He released 68 albums in his lifetime, and half of those were double albums, Shut Up and Play Your Guitar was a three album set, plus he scored movies and wrote music for other people before he formed the Mothers, including two or three songs for Burt Ward ( Robin Boy Wonder from the original Batman)
It is Zero dark thirty in the morning and I'm armed with a with a pipe stuffed with Blueberry Muffin while listening to Inca Roads with Polo... It doesn't get any better than this.
Wow, I have never heard this before. While I can see how people are calling this chaotic, there is, to me, a great deal of organization in this composition. It is a very uplifting, cheerful piece. And a woman percussionist! Yes! Zappa was quite progressive.
Along with The Mother's of Invention. Zappa: "say nope to dope". He was like the Mayor of Laurel Canyon. That's a really cool documentary (on Prime) on some of the frontrunner who changed the sound of music (as us old folks knew) 😀
I also feel like time is something you have to look at differently when judging this song. I feel like the emotional spectrum this song aims at touching, or at least plays out touching, hops within the second-span. There are connotations(using that word correctly? not a native english tongue). One second I feel like, all within a regular 4x timeframe it jumps from touching the lyrical aspect musically, which makes me feel like you're in the future, to the next second which I interpret as a feeling within that certain imaginary scenario where you imagine what sort of life-like scenario that sound matches up with. But something happened within that scenario that makes it turn positive, negative or something else. That's my attempt to intepret what's happening in this fairly chaotic song after about a thousand listens.
After almost 40 years of listening to Zappa's unique music, what I would say is ..... He was such an unconventional person and had such an unconventional approach to creating music it can a little while to get to grips with its originality ( based on most of what you've heard previously ). I recommend giving it a second, third listen to. Once you become more familiar with Frank's unique creativity I found that I appreciated it so much more.
This should be the studio version. It's one of my favorites. Kills it. In fact he has three whole albums dedicated to Justice guitar solo alone. Shut up and play yer guitar.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich was completely inaccessible to me, even though I had the previous albums as they were released, but I got it in a trailer PX in Nam, and it, along with Idelwilde South, and the two bootleg Dylan albums (The Great White Hope and The Traveling Troubadour) I bought in San Francisco on my way to Nam, were all I had. So BWS inevitably came up in rotation on the little battery powered “picnic” record player, the outstanding feature of which was that it would turn itself off at the end of the side of the LP it was playing. Night after night in base camp I would go to sleep to BWS. I began to notice the threads Zappa had woven into Holiday In Berlin, Little House I Used To Live In, ABC, et al. All of which is to say that Zappa almost always deserves a second chance, and Inca Roads will someday amaze you. 2:08
Damn, one of his BEST among so many great tracks, one of his best bands too, George Duke features big time, as he should, love FZ and George to the end of my time
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I'm honestly shocked at your reaction!
This is simply one of the most amazing instrumentals I've ever heard! Transcendent, even!
I do agree, this guy is nuts. A part from what he says, I understand this was the first time he listened to Inca Roads, one of the most famous and significant compositions of one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Unbelievable. Not exactly a refined and very competent musicologist......
Zappa sounds like a progressive jazz acid trip. The colors flow freely, then Zappa zips through with a strangeness that nobody expects. The musician are awesome for sure.☮️💟
Great musicians aside, the stop motion video work is what Tool strives to be (and I adore Tool).
It's one of his best IMO. The keyboard player George Duke was classically trained and he told Frank that he didn't sing but Frank wanted him to try, and it's in a high range which is sorta unusual. The percussionist Ruth Underwood is also classically trained and plays marimba here and various drums. Drummer Chester Thompson would later become Phil Collins' tour drummer for genesis so that they could have a fuller sound and that Phil could come out from behind the kit to sing many of their songs. Napoleon Murphy-Brock was the sax/flute/second vocalist. This is one of Frank's pieces that intentionally throws "the kitchen sink" into the composition and Frank's solo is kinda the foundation of the madness, a break if you will from the beginning to the flourish at the end. I love it but his music was never made for mass appeal. He created to put unusual sound combinations together, to break compositional norms and to mix styles.
George didn’t want to play sinth either but Zappa bought him one and little by little he tinkered with it until he could create those Inca Roads Sounds. Zappa brought out the best in his musicians
Chester is an absolute monster on the drums. Such impeccable timing and power.
Thank you for this great comment, hope this helps people not familiar with FZ to better understand
This track is a grower, the more you hear of Franks stuff, the more it feeds into your brain, I promise you will come back to this, meanwhile enjoy what this guy left us.
when you listen to Inca Roads 1000 times, you are going to think, that this is one of the Franks best composition and performances
@@barbastathisr Who writes music about the Incas and whether some alien came down and showed them how to build roads through the Andes. OH, Frank Zappa.
This was the very first Frank Zappa track that I ever heard, and I fell in love with it immediately. I loved the laid back, mellow guitar solo, but what sold me on this was that amazing keyboard solo. I bought it straight away on iTunes.
This is a track that I listen to frequently and really enjoy.
He pretty much has no limits to what he has done over the years, way ahead of his time, and some of the greatest musicians you could have ever heard,
And one more thing to consider when listening to his music in Frank scores every note of every instrument, every percussive beat and every vocal note you hear on paper.
Except for the solo sections, that's where everyone got to jam
thats 100%
Zappa is one of the true musical geniuses in this world or any world. I was lucky to see him perform the entire Absolutely Free live. It was mind boggling!
Polo, I think that it's great that you react to a variety of musical genres. Keep up the great work!!
Frank is 100% LEGIT!! Fan for many, many years...
Personally this is far and away my favorite Zappa track- it has everything! And more you don't expect. There are many Zappa tracks I'm not fond of, though. This one just encompasses all of the positive factors in his music that I do like.
A true musical genius, one of my kind, my favorite musician.
Fratello
Thank you for your honesty. While Zappa was a great guitarist he was primarily a composer and some of his music is very complex. This tune is especially busy and chaotic and I dont expect most people to dig it unless they're into jazz/fusion
"Unless they're into jazz/fusion": yes - that would be me, TOO!
These 3 words describe it for me..."Far Out Man"
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agreed
I on the other hand expect everyone to love it and will continue to play it at them... 🙄
It worked with most of my kids
This may grow on you over time, it is one of my top Zappa tracks, the way it is woven out of all those sounds, & Ruth Underwood's percussion is as awesome as ever, & she gets a mention.
The world's greatest American composer.
When you look at Inca roads as a classical music piece it fits in with the extremely hard genere. This type of arrangement is a masterclass of professional musicianship
Also Inca roads is an idea of what aliens music would sound like. And he incredibly still fits it somehow in the realm of real musical timing
Hey Polo ~ Frank is first and foremost a composer. Every note on this, he wrote. This is one of his signature blends of jazz, fusion and avant-garde music. On one of his very first appearances on tv, (if not his very first) he was on the Tonight Show with Steve Allen (Pre Johnny Carson) and he played, of all things---- A bicycle. He was very much influenced by other avant-garde/electronic/noise composers who came before him like John Gage and Edgard Varèse. It is definitely not for everyone. Personally, I love it. Not to worry, as there is plenty of Frank's music that doesn't go off in this direction.
John Cage. You wouldn't want Frank's name misspelled as Sappa, would you?
Zappa was unlike ANY OTHER...in more than 100 ways!! BRILLIANT MUSICIANS!! This kind of chaos doesn't just happen!! :) POLO: You are allowed to like new music to you, or not like it!! :) It's ok! LOVE YOUR REACTIONS!! HUGS!
not all of them are winners😎
@@paulfarley0078 AGREE 💯
Black Napkins needs to be listened to. It’s simple, but groovy and original.
The one on the Mike Douglas show was exceptionally good
fosho
George Duke the keyboard player/singer had a really good solo career. And teaming up with Stanley Clark was awesome .
my favorite keyboard player ever
The song just before Watermelons in Easter Hay is The Packard Goose. Right around 3 1/2 minutes you’d better be buckled up. It’s the most intense, dynamic and complex guitar solo I have ever heard and I’m 65 loving music since the crib! Check it out.
I still remember him crushing Tipper Gore in the senate hearings about ratings on records.
I remember the `you can kiss my ass`incidence…. Unbeliveable funny😅
I can't get over how perfect every single thing is about how he says "PARK IT!" is. The tone, the mood, the attitude, register, raspyness, phrasing, wording and so on.
Listen a few times and it all becomes more cohesive. The studio version's basic track is this live version but with overdubs. The solo in that version is amazing. It's a track he took from a live perforrmance in Helsinki. Undoubtedly one of his top best solos.
1979 Manchester England is my favorite
I was listening to Howard Stern hear Zappa on his show once and it COMPLETELY went over his head. He ABSOLUTELY hated it!! This is NOT an uncommon reaction when it comes to Frank. Fine line between trash and treasure.
TBF, Howard's not that bright~
@@PeteHummers-my3kv when it comes to good music you are ABSOLUTELY right!!!
This was awful 😖
Stern is dumb
a composing genius
as always a very honest reaction.... you'll probably never listen to this again, and that's an absolute shame, because once you get 'the grip' of it, you'll come to see it as a masterpiece. happy new year from Belgium;)
Totally agree!
Yep, the more you get this the more it gets you.
Try “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee”. Seriously!🖖🏼
The ‘Inca Roads’ guitar solo from the studio release of ‘One Size Fits All’ - one of the greatest guitar solos of ALL TIME, in my book - was overdubbed using a sample from a live recording of an FZ concert in Helsinki.
This is top tier writing and musicianship.
'Muffin Man' Live 1977. Crowd was deep into the song.
Bruh really wanna know how insanely franky Zappa was as a musician very versatile and never days off . He has different types of styles in music even early hip hop & dj pop music or early techno 1960 I’m telling you bruh he was doing it all.
When listening to Zappa, I am often reminded of the late, great Brother Theodore, who once said “I don’t understand music, but I do like the noise that it makes.”
Frank Zappa has composed a whole galaxy of music in his sadly short lifetime, going way back to the Mothers Of Invention. I truly believe he is one of the greatest composers of all time. After listening to his music for years I think one of his best compositions is “The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution”. This instrumental will take you on a magical journey that may blow your mind! Give it a listen Polo and please share with your followers.
Such an incredible band. On percussion is Ruth Underwood, Juilliard music student. On drums is Chester Thompson, of Genesis and Phil Collins fame. Frank's musical IQ is off the charts, literally.
This is a masterpiece. Your not alone . It takes a lot to absorb it all . Some people can do it some can't.
Is the type of music that keeps you busy listening without listening. Walking around cleaning the house and doing laundry.... It's great for a rush.
Frank always had nothing but the best in the business as far as his musicians making up the band over the years. I was fortunate to be a part of this world for a few years. A very cool guy to be around....RIP
With 68 albums during his life and another 60 something albums after his death from material he recorded and kept in his vault, there are many styles he covered, not everybody is going to like everything
The Mothers of Invention use more chord patterns and augmented chords than any other band. The album Billy was a Mountain was basically a live jam session with outstanding music. You might want to check out some of the solo stuff from the band. Jean Luc Ponty is a good place to start.
Put it on on a Saturday morning and start doing your chores. You will realize you are having the best day ever. That's Zappa
This is a song that you have to listen to more than one time, maybe then you see it in a different way. I know most of his material and would say it‘s one of his greatest songs
This was shown on The Midnight Special back in the Day. Unbelievable.
Wishing you Polo and your beautiful family and all your followers a very Happy New Year from B.C, Canada 🎉❤😊 Can't wait to watch your 2024 reactions ❤
I remember back in the day when I didn't get Zappa so this is an understandable reaction. But when it clicked, maybe a bit of brain re-wiring I don't know, it all falls into place and it doesn't sound the slightest bit chaotic. Every note is exactly in place and it's beautiful and then you can barely remember how it sounded before. That is an honest first listen but if you persevere, I'm sure you'll appreciate the benefits eventually like I did.
Yeah, you can’t wade into it a little bit at a time…you gotta dig in, and stay in, then you’ll be hooked!!🔥✌🏼
Frank did his thing no matter what. Music geniuses do not aim to please everyone. Frank is the most talented musician in rock. Period.
Respect the honesty and sincere feedback. Still gave a thumbs up to the video. Keep at it!
As Frank said, "The ones that get it love it, the ones that don't weren't suposed to.
It’s actually great to see an honest reaction for a change. I skip most reactions when I sense they’re being insincere, and it happens a lot. You got a follow.
My favorite of all of the Frank Zappa songs I know of
Come back in a few years and you will realize that Frank was light years ahead of you!
Ruth (Xylophone/ Percussion) is terrifying; I have no other way to describe it.
Zappa was one of the greatest musical minds of our age. The best of what the 20 th century had to offer. He made fun of groups of people that thought they were above being made fun of. A truly self made man A individualist. Sadly I’m afraid he’d be cancelled today.
One of my favorite Zappa creations.
Frank Zappa album Sheik Yerbouti, any song, you will be shocked.
As a young teen I couldn't see how anyone would like Zappa but I later had this buddy that was a DJ and a Zappa addict he had 40 albums played them over and over and knew exactly when to crank the volume way up and I got hooked
They are all killing it, if you were not a killer, you would not be there. Frank would mix and match different genres or aspects of those genres matched with unrelated parts of other genres, it was avant-garde really and the musicianship involved was legendarily demanding. That’s why musicians have a deep respect for Frank’s music because he wrote all of it for each and every instrument. A lot of what he composed and arranged was insanely complex and it is definitely genius level.
Thanks for playing. Loved the intricacy. I saw Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in concert in the 60s. Incredible!!!
Oh man, you're going a** over apple cart into one of the best, most bizarre rabbit holes around. Gonna be fun watching you on the Zappa ride. Go for some of the guitar solo stuff, you'll definitely diggify on it. Just subscribed too. :)
Ruth Underwoods big roll from the xylophone down to the drums at the end is legendary!
Ah I just found this. Glad you did Inca Roads. One of my all time favorites of his, and I know a LOT of his music. I have more of his than I do of Bowie. Or Pink Floyd (and I have a lot of those!).
Chester Thompson is every bit the man as John Bonham.
Glad you are exploring these artists.
JT
One of my favourite Zappa tracks. This is his him at his creative and performing peak with the best band in his storied career in my opinion.
Like they said in the movie Amadeus,
"to many notes"
While we are in the way back machine a band called Steppenwolf doing magic carpet ride is one you will like
One of the best modern day composers!
The sound of a musical Genius is not for everyone.
Frank makes music for musicians. I can understand your reaction. I'm a musician who has been a Zappa fan for over 50 years. It's a acquired taste. This is one of his more " out there " track. To see him live is a whole new experience.
Such a complex piece, as usual. I now recommend the song Apostrophe from zappa’s album, Apostrophe. Much more funky and integrated track.
There’s a small handful of Zappa songs that I like and I could throw the rest of them away forever and not miss them at all. But this is far and away my favorite of his songs.
If you're just jumping into the Zappa pool Inca Roads is jumping into the deep end without floaties on LOL I'm not surprised you didn't care for it much. Most reactors start here with Inca Roads because they see alot of people did this one and think it's a good place so start and get scared away for good and miss out on some of the most amazing music they'll ever hear, I don't want that to happen to you..
A good jump off point for the creative and goofy Zappa would be...
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow Suite: ruclips.net/video/mpNn1nht0_8/видео.html
Hope you check it out....
✌Peace✌
I love this performance. It's one of my favourite Zappa live tracks. George Duke is immense.
I think you need to listen to it again.
I've never met in person anyone who disliked this, this is the song I play to prove Zappa was really one of a kind, I was surprised to see your reaction, but happy, I was wondering how every time I played it to someone they're amazed I thought, yeah, but some one has to be like, "you know what, I didn't like it" for sure, and now I know that, yes, that also happens. I love Zappa's Hot rats/Grand Wazoo/Sleep Dirt and most of his instrumentals, classical, jazzy, live stuff, but of course some of his songs I dislike. Cheers, thanks for not over interrupting the song, I think this makes a nice video reaction, I normally don't like those or don't watch them but thanks! (I clicked the video because I thought you were going to talk about something political or something philosophical you found about the song. hehehe)
This is one of my favorites. Especially dig the solo, and its backdrop, section.
This one of my favorite Zappa songs. George Dukes work is amazing. I usually introduce people who are into fussion to this song. You must listen to the studio version!
The lyrics are based on the fact that some people believe the Inca roads are alien landing strips. It's not your everyday playlist kind of song, for sure. His creativity was on steroids.
One of his best 😊
Every note was written down - you can see Zappa, during the first spoken word bit, still conducting the musicians
even your perpetuum mobile device adjusted its swing to one of the best guitar solos out there.
Listening To Zappa Is like going to school and realizing you forgot to get dressed and your naked.
Frank's most accessible (& most successful, commercially) album was "Apostrophe." These songs are on it (1, 2 & 3 comprise a suite):
1. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" 2:07
2. "Nanook Rubs It" 4:38
3. "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" 1:50
4. "Father O'Blivion" 2:18
5. "Cosmik Debris" 4:14
side 2/1. "Excentrifugal Forz" 1:33
2. "Apostrophe'" (Zappa, Jim Gordon, Jack Bruce) 5:50
3. "Uncle Remus" (Zappa, George Duke) 2:44
4."Stink-Foot" 6:33
The Yellow Snow suite is not unlike Inco Roads, but the title track is a ripping instrumental jam. Cheers,
Since the first time i heard this when i was probably a baby 😂.im 32 now .to fhis day Best this is the best musical performance ive encountered. So glad i was bought up with goos sounds
I like this opening shot. Everything from the achromatic, static composition to the kinetic art in the background. Sound is great. Thanks also for covering Frank Zappa's music
Would you say something about your take on the lyrics:
Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Just to land in the Andes?
Was it round
And did it have
A motor
Or was it
Something
Different
Did a vehicle
Did a vehicle
Did a vehicle
Fly along the mountains
And find a place to park itself
Or did someone
Build a place
To leave a space
For such a vehicle to land
Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Did the indians, first on the bill
Carve up the hill
Did a booger-bear
Come from somewhere out there
Just to land in the Andes?
Was she round
And did she have a motor
Or was she something different
Guacamole Queen
Guacamole Queen
Guacamole Queen
At the Armadillo in Austin Texas, her aura,
Or did someone build a place
Or leave a space for Chester's Thing to land
(Chester's Thing... on Ruth)
Did a booger-beer
Come from somewhere out there
Did a booger-bear
Come from somewhere out there
Did the Indians, first on the bill
Carve up her hill
On Ruth
On Ruth
That's Ruth
Source: LyricFind
Revisiting my comment… as a 40 year long fan of Zappa, I learned that sometimes it takes time for the song you didn’t like so much at first to become one of your favorites. I never set out to be a Zappa fan, yet here I am. Give it time.
David Gilmour what a snooze. On top of everything he created, Zappa wrote many symphonies, and is a lyrical and musical genius!
Oh my. Just awful 😖
Zappa is an acquired taste, one I never acquired!
How deep did you dig? He released 68 albums in his lifetime, and half of those were double albums, Shut Up and Play Your Guitar was a three album set, plus he scored movies and wrote music for other people before he formed the Mothers, including two or three songs for Burt Ward ( Robin Boy Wonder from the original Batman)
Somewhere there is a Zappa song you would love. For Zappa doing country, try a song called "Harder Than Your Husband".
@@wildmouse5888 or Lonesome Cowboy Burt or Poofters Froth Wyoming
It is Zero dark thirty in the morning and I'm armed with a with a pipe stuffed with Blueberry Muffin while listening to Inca Roads with Polo... It doesn't get any better than this.
My deceased husband ( I'm no remarried ) would have been a good buddy for you! He loved Zappa, and the other as well! 😆
Wow, I have never heard this before. While I can see how people are calling this chaotic, there is, to me, a great deal of organization in this composition. It is a very uplifting, cheerful piece.
And a woman percussionist! Yes! Zappa was quite progressive.
Along with The Mother's of Invention. Zappa: "say nope to dope". He was like the Mayor of Laurel Canyon. That's a really cool documentary (on Prime) on some of the frontrunner who changed the sound of music (as us old folks knew) 😀
I also feel like time is something you have to look at differently when judging this song. I feel like the emotional spectrum this song aims at touching, or at least plays out touching, hops within the second-span. There are connotations(using that word correctly? not a native english tongue). One second I feel like, all within a regular 4x timeframe it jumps from touching the lyrical aspect musically, which makes me feel like you're in the future, to the next second which I interpret as a feeling within that certain imaginary scenario where you imagine what sort of life-like scenario that sound matches up with. But something happened within that scenario that makes it turn positive, negative or something else. That's my attempt to intepret what's happening in this fairly chaotic song after about a thousand listens.
I've never been a Zappa fan myself but had many friends that were. I can relate to your thoughts.
After almost 40 years of listening to Zappa's unique music, what I would say is ..... He was such an unconventional person and had such an unconventional approach to creating music it can a little while to get to grips with its originality ( based on most of what you've heard previously ). I recommend giving it a second, third listen to. Once you become more familiar with Frank's unique creativity I found that I appreciated it so much more.
This should be the studio version. It's one of my favorites. Kills it. In fact he has three whole albums dedicated to Justice guitar solo alone. Shut up and play yer guitar.
Zappa was a musical genius, R.I.P Frank.
Every artist free styles their solos. No two solos we ever be the same!
You are not obligated to love everything you hear. And you seem to know why. Good video.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich was completely inaccessible to me, even though I had the previous albums as they were released, but I got it in a trailer PX in Nam, and it, along with Idelwilde South, and the two bootleg Dylan albums (The Great White Hope and The Traveling Troubadour) I bought in San Francisco on my way to Nam, were all I had. So BWS inevitably came up in rotation on the little battery powered “picnic” record player, the outstanding feature of which was that it would turn itself off at the end of the side of the LP it was playing. Night after night in base camp I would go to sleep to BWS. I began to notice the threads Zappa had woven into Holiday In Berlin, Little House I Used To Live In, ABC, et al. All of which is to say that Zappa almost always deserves a second chance, and Inca Roads will someday amaze you. 2:08
Small smooth brain channel
Ouch... are you insinuating that we just watched a Po jama people channel?
This is his most progressive band. Look up George Duke recordings from 70’s!
Love that you love Frank!
Damn, one of his BEST among so many great tracks, one of his best bands too, George Duke features big time, as he should, love FZ and George to the end of my time