Frank Zappa & the Mothers - 'Live at the Whisky 1968' Unboxed & Reviewed
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025
- This document of the Mothers live at the Whisky in 1968 is truly excellent, and sounds great, here it is unboxed and reviewed. Released on the 21st of June
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I'm getting older and older by the day and really enjoying it. All the noise and frustrations have minimalized nicely.
Some people say Frank's music is just too much for as they get older but I find it completely satisfying.
I found that you can't just shuffle his catalog ....that would be maddening.
Either put on a full piece of his work or make a playlist that has a similar flow.....that's the only to tame the monster that Zappa was.
The mothers is my favorite Frank.
Love love love the doo wop tunes on this😊
I never became a serious fan of Zappa and his array - only because I didn't have the time to approach and understand what he was doing. The videos of the performances already uploaded piece meal on YT grabbed my attention in the last week. I decided to approach FZ's work from the beginning in the hope that there are still artists from that era who I can add to the universe of music I can love. So far, I'm getting sucked into the great music on these discs (from the videos), and loving the onstage antics of the GTOs, who I knew of, but never had any notion of exactly what that's all about. Speaking of GTOs, it's going to be interesting to read those extensive liner notes from Pamela De Barres - the most notorious groupie of those times, and she's a good writer!
It’s amazing that we hungry freaks are continually treated to the vault. I am so grateful to Joe Travers, Ahmet Zappa and the Family Trust for keeping Frank out there. May the well never run dry.
the family trust was dissolved years ago and all the rights were sold to universal, Ahmet and Joe are still in charge of the releases though
My Mum ordered the cd, she loves the mothers and I love sza 😁😃
Great to get some fresh Zappa 50+ years later. Brilliant.
When I think of the Mothers period, I automatically think of that incredible opening riff of Hungry Freaks Daddy. One of the truly great opening guitar riffs in rock and roll history, and hardly ever mentioned. Simple but highly effective. In many ways that's always been my favorite Zappa song...and proof positive that you didn't have to be Bob Dylan to write the perfect protest song...
That’s an incredible guitar solo and. a great song .
Cool. I literally just ordered the 5 LP version. Thanks for the video, duder!
I’ve been desperately waiting on this since it came out, your review of the package was just great, my mouth is watering.
I pre order it! Looking forward to it. It was a planed live album. Like all shows Frank recorded them and used them for later releases
I approve of your choice of shirt.
Wish I could've been at the Whisky that night, just turned 15. I played We're Only In It For The Money so many times on the family stereo my mom knew all the lyrics.
Only in recent years have I learned the entire album is sped up, and that it's Eric Clapton saying "Are you hung up" in the first moments of side one.
Big fan of We're Only in it For the Money -- will check this out.
I have ordered the five album vinyl boxset from the official Zappa shop in the USA. Can't wait for it to get here. I couldn't find it on sale here in th UK?
I too, love the original group.
Hope you enjoy it!
As a side note: Today (18th) is McCartney's 82nd birthday, and Friday (21st) will be Ray Davies's 80th. Best wishes to both.
I've ordered the 5-LP set and look forward to hearing it. The only bitter part of these early recordings is knowing that Roy Estrada ultimately got jailed for multiple crimes against children. It's amazing music, but Estrada's involvement tarnishes things.
What a great bunch of losers. The entire band sound have been
banned ! Zappa included.
@@bobgordon236what?
@@bobgordon236 ....too many syllables?..........
I understand and sympathize with your concern. I had to long ago learn to separate the art from the artist.
Someone’s private life is of no concern to me, it’s all about the music.
Cool enough. The release date for this edition is what the membership in the 70s Prog group on Facebook would call "Frank Friday".
Ordered via your link. I think a few tracks have come out before but great to hear the whole thing.
Octandre is an Edgar Varese tune (I don't know what they did with it, I wonder if it's a real cover, knowing that FZ had lots of respect for his #1 idol
Somehow in the onslaught of all the Zappa releases over the years this particular period has been underrepresented, especially live. Looking forward to hearing it.
Nice preview. Will def pick this up...wish it had Any Way the Wind Blows, given this version of Mothers. Still, if it's half as good as Live at the Roxy from a fews years later, it'll be worth it.
Artie Tripp will be the guest on the Zappacast that's coming out any day.
Can you think of any artist or band who made at least 5 albums and never did a bad song? There must be more but I can only think of two and they are Steely Dan and Pat Metheny. As always it's a matter of taste. Thanks for this Zappa/Mothers review, it's a must.
I know a couple of tracks were previously released like on the You Can’t So That On Stage Anymore series. I know more than one song but the only one I can name right now is “meow”. I think “Godbless America” was also on Uncle Meat
You get the impression Zappa recorded every note he ever played?
He did
@@timowalker24 So it would seem. Not that I'm complaining.
I’m looking to get into some Zappa can anyone recommend a good place to start I’ve heard a bit of apostrophe and Joes Garage and I liked what I heard
This will be mine.
Like the presentation, however, white gloves would be magical !
I once bought a Zappa box-set. It wasn't very large.
Thankfully. Anymore than one song is torture.
@@bobgordon236 ....thumb rotation time?........
....just enough room to cram the drums in the corner over by the dodge?..
@@latexsolarbeef4990 Not in the rectory basement, alas.
Barry, have you ever been seen in the same room as the Hungary team manager?
Busted....
Excellent, Love The Mothers of Invention!
But I'm not a fan of those covers that you wreck the disc or cover trying to get the discs out.
Oh No. More live stuff. Surely there must be something in that huge vault that we haven't heard before, and I don't mean another version of the band or other live versions of some songs.
I'm sure the music is great. But the packaging is lackluster at best. Compare it to the 3some sets, Greasy Love Songs, Meat Light and the Lumpy Money CD releases and you'll see what I mean.
This before the release of We're Only In It For The Money I guess.
Another great release...better than He Is Out Of Town For a Few Days set recorded live at a local deli on the Strip - 1994
FZ came to despise the "rudimentary musicianship" of his bands in the 60's and into the early 70's - not that his late 60's stuff is bad - its mostly amazing - but by the late 70's to get past Frank at audition time you had to be able to play pieces that most players regarded as "impossible to play" ..
The vinyl version was cheaper seems odd
You may have been looking at the 2lp set and not the 5lp set.
zappar?
Love Frank, but there's so much great material from later line ups begging to be released - the focus on the original line up does no one any favours. And agreed, the ZFT is a money making scam. The price of that Eerie set and those stupid Halloween costume boxes was an utter disgrace
More early stuff please, they were my favourites, amazing to hear live.
Two years ago the ZFT sold off all the publishing rights, estate, catalog, name & unmistakable likeness of Zappa to Universal Music Group.
@@DoctorSmurfo Yeah you're right but I've always wondered about that. Do the Zappa children still have input into these releases? I think they must because greedy Ahmet Zappa seems to insert himself into everything. He's in the liner notes of this album interviewing Alice Cooper.
the last release focusing on the original mothers was twelve years ago…
and since gail’s death, ahmet has produced over twenty vault releases… three of them had halloween costumes and one had a board game… the last of these four came out four years ago (halloween ‘81), and there have now been ten releases since then…
in other words, over 80% of the releases that bear ahmet’s name as producer contain only music and liner notes/photos…
it’s a tired, spurious notion that’s been blown way out of proportion…
as for the cost, everything’s more expensive these days… that’s capitalism in action…
Wow. Yet another release from Joe travers Frank Zappa
Would be nice to have the albums FRank actually made on vinyl first…
You know phase 3, best band you never, jazz noise..
Albums that frank actually released himself before you keep adding titles from you
ZFT
An ego driven disgrace
Not buying any of this make believe new crap till some respect is shown for the actual artist
Vinyl please..phase 3, best band, jazz noise…BEFORE anything else
It’s been over 30 years, how can you not be humiliated?
..............burp.........ph 3 best band and jazz noise will never see vinyl....too expensive to do...
But so much of the material from 1968 was terrible nonsense.
There is no way that I would pay a ludicous amount of Zappa's at that time. So much childisness and reprersed sexuuality.All you need is 'Uncle Meat' and 'Burnt Weenie Sandwich'
And 'Hot Rats' and 'Reuben & the Jeta' of course. All 1968.