Loved the reaction Nick. Al didn't take this hard at all as he made a guest appearance at one of Frank's shows in 1981. Just so funny as a big fanboy of Elegant Gypsy. Totally got the reference where as most didn't (of my friends anyway). I found this one a bit more melodic than some of Frank's more busy solos. Love the insights about a music industry that has gotten a 1000 times worse since Frank wrote about it. The girl-on-the-tour-bus monologue is as true today as then, perhaps even more so. If you listened to Watermelon In Easter Hay I'm pretty sure you and Alexia would have a good time with it. A classic for sure and not so risque as other parts of this album in particular and Frank in general. Really enjoyed relistening to this one. Glad you liked it and sorry about being a pain in the butt 👍🎶❤P.S. I liked that you just went in and did some noodling around those Al like chords. Nice little demo of that style. Enjoyed it. Marley slept right through the whole thing. Funny, must be good walks in the Denver air. P.S. Steve Vai playing K.Crimson 80's albums with Beat (Tony Levin on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar with Danny Carey of Tool on drums). In September for you and mid-October for me.
Appreciate the reaction. Frank can solo for minutes and it's one unique improvised bar after another, and it works most of the time. Sometimes it's just magic. No one else does that, let alone with his attack, tone, and swing. Don't follow the words or songs, camp out at br1tag mostly, all solos. Frank is the goat.
The great syncopated drumming of Vinnie Colaiuta. I read somewhere that in his audition, he was sightreading the music, drumming with one hand and eating sushi with the other hand.
It wasn't his audition. It was him trying out one of the most insane drum parts that Zappa had ever written (Moe n' Herbs Vacation). It was meant to be brutal and Vinnie played it perfectly the first time while smoking, eating sushi, and pushing his glasses up. lol
Yes, Steve Vai told that story about how Frank walked in to rehearsal and put the sheet music for Pedro's Dowry in front of Vinnie and he read it perfectly ( nested poly-rhythms, super intense ) while he was eating sushi and turning the page and expertly drumming at the same time. Frank threw all the sheet music he was holding up in the air at the sight of this. Vinnie is the best drummer EVER.
The guitar solo was a live performance from a different song and flew in over a studio performance by the band... Zappa called this xenochrony and every guitar solo on Joe's Garage was constructed this way, except for Watermelon in Easter Hay...
The Packard Gooss is two different solos. If gou listen carefully, somewhere halfway you can hear a slight change in tone, that's where the other solo starts. At 14:09..
Agreed. Just watching some Eagles Patriots camp stuff. Good vibes this year so far. LB"ers a worry but the rest is looking sweet. Dallas doesn't have good vibes right now. Dak will be good with or without contract but you need CeeDee or a long year awaits. Bad vibes ya gotta hate it 👍Just kidding (sort of). If you are not into it as much as me I get it.🎶If you are it will be a fun year for entertaiment as everything else is somewhat terrible. Cheers
Eaglesrule1415 , I haven’t really tuned into it yet. It gets so exhausting. Just gonna wait till the season starts and then see who’s on the damn team. There’s a lot of self-destruction going on so we’ll see what happens. You’re looking pretty solid up there in Philly.
Frank Zappa’s music is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Great song. One of my favorite albums of all time is “One Size Fits All”. That guitar solo on Inca Roads is awesome.
Nick - as a guitarist it might interest you to know that the solos on Joe’s Garage are happening at the same time as the rhythm section. Zappa called this technique “xenochrony” - superimposing live solos over studio tracks to create a certain kind of effect. That’s why it sounds “out there”
Actually, you guys should consider doing a reaction to the complete Act I of Joe's Garage, which has story continuity about life in a garage rock band (the rock riff that opens the coda in "Packard Goose" is Joe's main guitar riff). Acts II & III get progressively weirder and feature excesses galore, but Act I (that's up to, and including, the track "Lucille -has messed my mind up") is a little masterpiece in itself.
Will someone PLEASE have Nick listen to Zappa's "The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution" from Sleep Dirt!!!! It's the song that changed my view of Zappa in college. It's Frank showing he can do fusion as well as anyone, with about a 6 minute or so guitar solo that is among his best. Nick I'm telling you that song will bring fully into the Zappa fold. It's pure melodic fusion (yes you read that right melodic) with that Frank Zappa magic. PLEASE PLEASE someone ( 50 bucks is a bit rich for me to pay) donate who can afford it. The song exemplifies how Frank is just playing with us with his unique (often odd) music. This song is straight up jazz fusion with the magic Frank dust lightly sprinkled. The song is just as good as any jazz fusion song you've heard, it showed me that Frank can play that stuff all day, but it bored him so he picked his own unique path. It also doesn't hurt to have Terry Bozzio on drums just killing it.
@@Alix777. I like it but not for 50 bucks. I used to "go for it" when Nick & Lex first started out and the cost was 5-10 bucks. But they were getting too many reaction requests to keep up. So they raised the price to cut down on the number so the requests could be limited and more manageable. $50 for me for a reaction weeded me out, but if $50 or more for marathons fits into someone elses budget and it makes them happy thats great. Music should bring joy. I paid $500 to see Roger Waters The Wall tour so I'm not averse to spending money to enjoy it. I love Nick & Lex but raising the price of a reaction was smart on their part, however I'm one of the people they weeded out and thats ok. It's business, not personal.
Holy Crap. I forgot how awesome the solos were!😮❤. I used to lay on a waterbed listening to this in 1983. 😂. What a great memory to have🤓🤘🏼❤️ Thanks, Nick. I’m eventually going to get to my Record Room on my Channel, but thanks again to you and Lex for being one of the Creators who inspired me to join the “Creator” community.
I don't know why nobody is mentioning the Xenocracy - the guitar solo was taken from a live performance and Packard goose was built around it in the studio, as were ALL tracks on Joe's garage. Frank directing his band for a new backing track to a recorded solo, this is the best example of that on the album. The engineer called it "The Ampex Guitar" .
I don't know where the person who requested this gets his info from, but Zappa has never said he hated Al's attitude, this is made up science fiction, during the 79 tour he would name check him as another great Italian at the end of shows, he also invited him on stage during the 81 tour, don't believe half of what you read about FZ. most is made up.
Al Dimeola played live with Zappa three years AFTER this song... No problem. And about Yngwie Malmsteen... I made pizza for him. In Milwaukee in 1989 at his hotel... The delivery man told him the pizza cost 9.90.(dollars) Malmsteen gave the delivery guy 10.00 and said "Keep the change." The delivery guy (that happened to be an ex-drummer/recovering alchohlic from Mountain and Bob Dylan)... fished out a dime from his pocket and threw it in YingWay's face and said..."You need this more than me. That... whether you like it or not... is a true story.
did I read your comment right or, for me did it get lost on me in translation. you made pizza for? the pizza delivery guy was the the ex drummer, who threw $10 dollars at him and I am assuming the delivery guy was Ying, right? I hope my question did not offend.
I worked in a restaurant back in 1977 and a guy left a 10 cent tip for the waitress. The waitress followed the guy out the door and threw the dime at him.
If a guitarist is improvising, you can't imitate them because you can't feel what they feel in the moment. Thats really the point, the particular person in a particular moment. Plus, there is no such thing as a best, impossible to determine, and pointless to even attempt. Its all about listening and going on the journey, the art brought forth by the artist.
Zappa obeyed no rules. If he wanted to put some speed metal into jazz, fine, Siberian accidental music into opera, equally fine, a blazing, distorted guitar solo into an orchestrated piece, so be it. If you listen to him, you just have to learn to trust him and go with it. You won't like everything he produced, but he was so off--the-charts gifted, he'll hit the mark way more than he ever misses. Splendiferous.
I live in Newcastle upon tyne in England. A few years ago a friend of mine was at the Cluny venue in town.He was a Zappa fan and saw Chad Wackerman unloading his drums. For a Alan Holdsworth gig. Is this true? Cheers.
ok.. you know that part at 7:30 more or less... where you are talking about NOT preparing and just giving your fans your "heart and soul" in your preparation for this video? That is EXACTLY the same philosophy that Zappa used to make his solo in this song. Unlike Al Dimeola... who plans out EXACTLY every note that you are going to hear. Always.
Well said, though I enjoy both ways of doing it as long as it's done authentically by that artist. David Gilmour is also famous for one take great moments. David was famous for changing up some solos live although the classic hooks and riffs never changed. Songs like Hey You are pretty hard to beat the original.
I wish you had demonstrated Aldi niola at the end rather than before the song. Assuming the last minute was the criticism of Aldi meola linking game with doo-wop in some strange way. The title to me means an ugly automobile.. Enjoyed the drums.
I wasn't going to play any Di Niola at all. It takes at least 15 min to warm up to get his tone. Weird it made into the video. Guess I really don't care too much anymore👍
I used to quite enjoy Zappa when I was younger, and he had some great pieces, but these days he grates on me. I guess I've lost patience with the endless experimentalism.
It is a wrong avenue to react on the most view of an artist as Zappa is. Does not account for the potential on the number of youtube views. Do so on the basis of the exceptional qualities of this genius composer and performer. We could appreciate you cause "You Are What You Is. That's What It Is." "Do You Know What You Is?" - Frank Zappa I recommend Zappa's song in reaction "Do You Know What You Is?"
Loved the reaction Nick. Al didn't take this hard at all as he made a guest appearance at one of Frank's shows in 1981. Just so funny as a big fanboy of Elegant Gypsy. Totally got the reference where as most didn't (of my friends anyway). I found this one a bit more melodic than some of Frank's more busy solos. Love the insights about a music industry that has gotten a 1000 times worse since Frank wrote about it. The girl-on-the-tour-bus monologue is as true today as then, perhaps even more so. If you listened to Watermelon In Easter Hay I'm pretty sure you and Alexia would have a good time with it. A classic for sure and not so risque as other parts of this album in particular and Frank in general. Really enjoyed relistening to this one. Glad you liked it and sorry about being a pain in the butt 👍🎶❤P.S. I liked that you just went in and did some noodling around those Al like chords. Nice little demo of that style. Enjoyed it. Marley slept right through the whole thing. Funny, must be good walks in the Denver air. P.S. Steve Vai playing K.Crimson 80's albums with Beat (Tony Levin on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar with Danny Carey of Tool on drums). In September for you and mid-October for me.
Describing Zappa's music is like the parable of the blind men describing an elephant based on which part of the elephant they touch...
Well said
Appreciate the reaction. Frank can solo for minutes and it's one unique improvised bar after another, and it works most of the time. Sometimes it's just magic. No one else does that, let alone with his attack, tone, and swing. Don't follow the words or songs, camp out at br1tag mostly, all solos. Frank is the goat.
FZ and Vinnie , the absolute best !
The great syncopated drumming of Vinnie Colaiuta.
I read somewhere that in his audition, he was sightreading the music, drumming with one hand and eating sushi with the other hand.
It wasn't his audition. It was him trying out one of the most insane drum parts that Zappa had ever written (Moe n' Herbs Vacation). It was meant to be brutal and Vinnie played it perfectly the first time while smoking, eating sushi, and pushing his glasses up. lol
@@FiveInchTaint
That sounds familiar.
Yes, Steve Vai told that story about how Frank walked in to rehearsal and put the sheet music for Pedro's Dowry in front of Vinnie and he read it perfectly ( nested poly-rhythms, super intense ) while he was eating sushi and turning the page and expertly drumming at the same time. Frank threw all the sheet music he was holding up in the air at the sight of this. Vinnie is the best drummer EVER.
I feel like both Frank and Tom Waits are two examples of people that you can not categorize as any one genre of music, I love them both.
The guitar solo was a live performance from a different song and flew in over a studio performance by the band... Zappa called this xenochrony and every guitar solo on Joe's Garage was constructed this way, except for Watermelon in Easter Hay...
Nice knowledge nugget. Think it was from 76 or 77.
@@eaglesrule1415 nope, all the solos are from the early 1979 tour
The Packard Gooss is two different solos.
If gou listen carefully, somewhere halfway you can hear a slight change in tone, that's where the other solo starts.
At 14:09..
A good one Joe a righteous epic request dropped in from the Eagles Nest. A lot of good Zappa stuff to still hear.
Agreed. Just watching some Eagles Patriots camp stuff. Good vibes this year so far. LB"ers a worry but the rest is looking sweet. Dallas doesn't have good vibes right now. Dak will be good with or without contract but you need CeeDee or a long year awaits. Bad vibes ya gotta hate it 👍Just kidding (sort of). If you are not into it as much as me I get it.🎶If you are it will be a fun year for entertaiment as everything else is somewhat terrible. Cheers
Eaglesrule1415 , I haven’t really tuned into it yet. It gets so exhausting. Just gonna wait till the season starts and then see who’s on the damn team. There’s a lot of self-destruction going on so we’ll see what happens. You’re looking pretty solid up there in Philly.
Frank Zappa’s music is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Great song.
One of my favorite albums of all time is “One Size Fits All”. That guitar solo on Inca Roads is awesome.
Nick - as a guitarist it might interest you to know that the solos on Joe’s Garage are happening at the same time as the rhythm section. Zappa called this technique “xenochrony” - superimposing live solos over studio tracks to create a certain kind of effect. That’s why it sounds “out there”
Definitely an acquired taste but if you love music & DON"T want to be bored,Zappa is your guy. Thanks for the reaction.
Even Zappa can be boring sometimes:)
Actually, you guys should consider doing a reaction to the complete Act I of Joe's Garage, which has story continuity about life in a garage rock band (the rock riff that opens the coda in "Packard Goose" is Joe's main guitar riff). Acts II & III get progressively weirder and feature excesses galore, but Act I (that's up to, and including, the track "Lucille -has messed my mind up") is a little masterpiece in itself.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Oops! Thank you.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Done!
Will someone PLEASE have Nick listen to Zappa's "The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution" from Sleep Dirt!!!! It's the song that changed my view of Zappa in college. It's Frank showing he can do fusion as well as anyone, with about a 6 minute or so guitar solo that is among his best. Nick I'm telling you that song will bring fully into the Zappa fold. It's pure melodic fusion (yes you read that right melodic) with that Frank Zappa magic. PLEASE PLEASE someone ( 50 bucks is a bit rich for me to pay) donate who can afford it. The song exemplifies how Frank is just playing with us with his unique (often odd) music. This song is straight up jazz fusion with the magic Frank dust lightly sprinkled. The song is just as good as any jazz fusion song you've heard, it showed me that Frank can play that stuff all day, but it bored him so he picked his own unique path. It also doesn't hurt to have Terry Bozzio on drums just killing it.
Go for it if you like this one
@@Alix777. I like it but not for 50 bucks. I used to "go for it" when Nick & Lex first started out and the cost was 5-10 bucks. But they were getting too many reaction requests to keep up. So they raised the price to cut down on the number so the requests could be limited and more manageable. $50 for me for a reaction weeded me out, but if $50 or more for marathons fits into someone elses budget and it makes them happy thats great. Music should bring joy. I paid $500 to see Roger Waters The Wall tour so I'm not averse to spending money to enjoy it. I love Nick & Lex but raising the price of a reaction was smart on their part, however I'm one of the people they weeded out and thats ok. It's business, not personal.
Hola nick gracias por Frank un abrazo desde Argentina
Holy Crap. I forgot how awesome the solos were!😮❤. I used to lay on a waterbed listening to this in 1983. 😂. What a great memory to have🤓🤘🏼❤️
Thanks, Nick. I’m eventually going to get to my Record Room on my Channel, but thanks again to you and Lex for being one of the Creators who inspired me to join the “Creator” community.
I don't know why nobody is mentioning the Xenocracy - the guitar solo was taken from a live performance and Packard goose was built around it in the studio, as were ALL tracks on Joe's garage. Frank directing his band for a new backing track to a recorded solo, this is the best example of that on the album. The engineer called it "The Ampex Guitar" .
I don't know where the person who requested this gets his info from, but Zappa has never said he hated Al's attitude, this is made up science fiction, during the 79 tour he would name check him as another great Italian at the end of shows, he also invited him on stage during the 81 tour, don't believe half of what you read about FZ. most is made up.
Joe's Garage has Incredible production for 1979 !!
The Wall is another well produced record Funny enough 1979
Joe's Garage is my favorite rock opera, right next to Quadrophenia. I love letting all three albums run from start to finish... great stuff!
Al Dimeola played live with Zappa three years AFTER this song... No problem.
And about Yngwie Malmsteen...
I made pizza for him. In Milwaukee in 1989 at his hotel...
The delivery man told him the pizza cost 9.90.(dollars)
Malmsteen gave the delivery guy 10.00 and said "Keep the change."
The delivery guy (that happened to be an ex-drummer/recovering alchohlic from Mountain and Bob Dylan)...
fished out a dime from his pocket and threw it in YingWay's face and said..."You need this more than me.
That... whether you like it or not... is a true story.
Even if it wasn't true that's a funny story. I believe you though which makes it even better.
did I read your comment right or, for me did it get lost on me in translation.
you made pizza for?
the pizza delivery guy was the the ex drummer, who threw $10 dollars at him and I am assuming the delivery guy was Ying, right?
I hope my question did not offend.
I worked in a restaurant back in 1977 and a guy left a 10 cent tip for the waitress.
The waitress followed the guy out the door and threw the dime at him.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425
Hey Bwana!
Yngwei let the guy keep the change. Ten cents.
After listening for years and years and years,,,I'm convinced that this is Zappa using his new Les Paul for the first time.
Zap and Zep were two of my powerhouse musical entities in 70's
Have to hear once in your life, the bands cover if Stairway to Heaven. From Zappa's last US tour. It is a SCREAM.
You need to watch the video of Frank Zappa playing Whipping Post from 1984. Frank’s playing is insane!
If a guitarist is improvising, you can't imitate them because you can't feel what they feel in the moment. Thats really the point, the particular person in a particular moment.
Plus, there is no such thing as a best, impossible to determine, and pointless to even attempt.
Its all about listening and going on the journey, the art brought forth by the artist.
I miss trying to play that Friday Night.. stuff. I also played to Al and Yngvie.
Music is the best.
Zappa obeyed no rules. If he wanted to put some speed metal into jazz, fine, Siberian accidental music into opera, equally fine, a blazing, distorted guitar solo into an orchestrated piece, so be it. If you listen to him, you just have to learn to trust him and go with it. You won't like everything he produced, but he was so off--the-charts gifted, he'll hit the mark way more than he ever misses. Splendiferous.
You need to listen to Joe's Garage in its entirety, with Lex . Be prepared to blush! Lol.
7:15 Well done, Nick...!! ✌
I live in Newcastle upon tyne in England. A few years ago a friend of mine was at the Cluny venue in town.He was a Zappa fan and saw Chad Wackerman unloading his drums.
For a Alan Holdsworth gig.
Is this true?
Cheers.
I love a lot of Franks music and hate a lot. That’s why I like him because he doesn’t care.
NICK!!! IF I recall correctly, you promised to attempt a Fleetwood Mac rhythm guitar Play over the song "Hypnotized."
Some Mediterranean Sundance on the nylons Nick. 👍👍
ok..
you know that part at 7:30 more or less... where you are talking about NOT preparing and just giving your fans your "heart and soul" in your preparation for this video?
That is EXACTLY the same philosophy that Zappa used to make his solo in this song.
Unlike Al Dimeola... who plans out EXACTLY every note that you are going to hear.
Always.
Well said, though I enjoy both ways of doing it as long as it's done authentically by that artist. David Gilmour is also famous for one take great moments. David was famous for changing up some solos live although the classic hooks and riffs never changed. Songs like Hey You are pretty hard to beat the original.
I wish you had demonstrated Aldi niola at the end rather than before the song. Assuming the last minute was the criticism of Aldi meola linking game with doo-wop in some strange way.
The title to me means an ugly automobile..
Enjoyed the drums.
I wasn't going to play any Di Niola at all. It takes at least 15 min to warm up to get his tone. Weird it made into the video. Guess I really don't care too much anymore👍
Fz ....ureally have to
Be onsome good stuff....to appreciate
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Whoa! What are the chances that I was just thinking about you reviewing a Joe's Garage track, about 2 hours before this video premiered? . . .
😮
Keep the good vibes goin.👌👌
satire is the finest form of flattery
I used to quite enjoy Zappa when I was younger, and he had some great pieces, but these days he grates on me. I guess I've lost patience with the endless experimentalism.
As, so often with Zappa, is it a guitar solo, or, is it a drum solo?
Basically any thing goes kind of like when we made jungle juice back home
F&^% Yourself is a Vai tune, not sure which album. I love Al too, but he is a bit about Al.
Jane Berkin died Yesterday.
It is a wrong avenue to react on the most view of an artist as Zappa is. Does not account for the potential on the number of youtube views. Do so on the basis of the exceptional qualities of this genius composer and performer. We could appreciate you cause "You Are What You Is. That's What It Is." "Do You Know What You Is?" - Frank Zappa I recommend Zappa's song in reaction "Do You Know What You Is?"
What do think Manchin??? I think thats how u spell it
Where the hell is Lex?
I am right here! I am in every first video released in the mornings.
No place, need for arrogance. It's useless, and unbecoming.
Weird