No way they we're embarrassed to sing about dental floss, some of the most complicated and and intricate compositions to play at the time.. I'm sure they we're just happy to share the stage with the great FZ
I love Zappa! Its brilliant and absurd at the same time. I'm happy that you kinda get it. Nobody really completely understands Frank. That's what makes him cool.
Zappa's lyrics are not throw-away. There's a whole concept of "Conceptual Continuity". There are repeated concepts, images and words throughout Zappa's work, but it's up to the listener to find them and figure them out. Some are just clever plays on words. A lot of them are inside jokes.
The interesting thing about Zappa, is that he always surrounded himself with absolute virtuosos, absolute masters of their particular instrument! Jean Luc Ponty played with the Mothers of Invention and then Zappa's early solo stuff after he ended the Mothers. I love Zappa!!! His legacy was passed on to his sons Dweezel and Ahmed too... both spectacular musicians!!!
My favorite quote from Zappa and there’s been many when he was interviewed they asked him how he like to be remembered ? Zappa said it doesn’t matter !
I doubt very much that the lyrics were created by following guitar lines. I think it was exactly the other way round, remembering Zappa talking about his fancy meters and that language and sentences don't follow straight meters. The lyrics are, by the way, not nonsensical but satyrical. I think if you look at the lyrics as a comment on some crazy ideas of people how they could make a living, which I think they are, they make perfect sense, especially when you consider the time then they were written.
Fun facts from Sweden 🇸🇪 1. Bobby Brown became a major hit here - frequently aired on national radio and played at discos.... 2. Two "wonder-kids" and hard core Zappa-fans: Mats Öberg (age 17 @the time ) a blind keyboard player and Morgan Ågren (age 20) drummer, were invited to join Zappa on stage to perform with them playing in Stockholm. Zappa had heard them play and was so impressed that he wanted them to join in at the end(?) of the concert. They later performed with the Zappa's Universe tributing the wizzard while he was still alive. Here's Zappa in a clip referring to the event ruclips.net/video/-0u2psaFU0k/видео.html Here's the guys playing their own tribute 2008 with guest guitarist IA Eklund (of Freak Kitchen) : ruclips.net/video/_5aHoJODAQM/видео.html
The interesting thing about this song is that it's actually mocking something that was going on in Southern California at the time. This contingency of hippies who had these grand ideas of moving out to the country somewhere and starting these kinds of businesses. This was basically mocking them. So, once you understand WHY they're singing about dental floss, it becomes a little less silly. Funny, but not really silly. Most of Franks lyrics were a stab at some aspect of society or another and this one was no different.
Yes, he would not have sold albums without lyrics according to the record company... so he chose to go the cuckoo route. A true legend. Thanks for watching... I've got to go floss now. 🤘
Let's not ignore that tone. Zappa was an innovator there too. He was the first, other than maybe Les Paul to utilize a lo impedence guitar. With his built in preamp, unique to his SG, he fed it to a rack of studio preamps & effects and power amps to the stage & house. A practice that is commonplace these days
I was Soooooo Fortunate to have Seen Frank Zappa in Boulder Colorado USA in 1982, when I was 17.... For the You are what you is Tour..... To this day, of more than 300 live shows Zappa is still The Best live🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
It the first time listening to Zappa song, which entails challenges, which is to say, shocking and often times uncomfortable and surprising sounds and abrupt changes in mood. After a few "listenings" these surprises become anticipations, and the shock goes away, and it's easier to appreciate the music. This is not one of those songs you look for meaning in. It's Zappa being cute, with maybe a spoof in there about C&W songs that long for the good life away from the big city. Humor in music, with the dental floss wrangler with his pigmie pony and the zircon encrusted tweezers.
Then he didn't do any other drugs than alcohol... and tobacco (lots!) Anyway, he stood out at the time (and in the rock-culture) rejecting all narcotics. Integrity was his middle name!
Exactly that; wine and whiskey are both considered, ‘drugs!’ As are nicotine and caffeine; both of which Frank was reportedly, ‘a partaker,’ and considered ‘drugs’, according to u.s. code and world reports. Wine and whiskey are also legal…did Frank mis-speak? Who knows. We do know that he held true to his principles; and that he held true to humanity; and that he held true, to all that is good! Aspersions aside; the legacy of Frank Zappa, is exuded in his musical artistry!
There's a great interview by George Duke, an incredibly accomplished pianist and keyboardist. He played with Zappa for some time and originally he wasn't really sold on the idea either, until he played with them. That was all it took. In fact, look up the song `Uncle Remus` George Duke. He does a tribute cover of it for Frank. It's one of those things that once you get what he was really doing, you can't help but be sold. Most of his lyrical content is pure social mockery and cynicism.
Well said. I go way back as well and a big George Duke fanatic, not to mention Zappa. Thanks for watching and please do subscribe if you haven't already lots more to come!🤘
Yes, he was relentless in that way. All of the studio musicians who wanted to play with him had to adhere strictly to his demands. But they all grew as musicians from the experience. Thanks for watching. 🤘
Really! You mention the infamous, bicycle spokes song, from the 1963 ‘Steve Allen Show,’ and don’t correct the misnomer that it was from some, ‘Dick Cavett’ show--but you have the correct, original, video play! Whose-a-right on, whicha hoochie-coo? Listening to the end; of course! It makes total sense, that Frank acquiesced, and ‘wrote’ the lyrics’-they wanted…’ Montana, Nanook of the North, St. Alphonso’s’ etc. Yeah!
Great comment. And yeah, thousand pardons for us not correcting which classic show he was on. The rest of it I think we kicked ass, if I do say so myself. Thank you for watching. 🤘
No. Zappa didn't take and hated drugs and sacked band members mid tour if they were too impaired to play. Zappa was very anti-drugs. Zappa was a musician who didn't follow the stereotype. He was one of the greatest orchestral composers of the 20th century.
A narcissist. But he came out with a library of some crazy intricate works. And also made the careers of some of the greatest musicians of our generation. Especially one of our favorites, Steve Vai. #Lydian🤘
Some Zappa songs started out as lyrics nevertheless. He probably already had the music written and discovered some wonderful idea to go with it. So, it's basically trans Congressional in it's sense. Refer to ' it just might be a one shot deal', where's the words beg for Xappage music idea to make it happen. Hence we must poot forth. ....music is the best.
This band's performance was stellar as usual. This version has a different ambiance than the studio version because it's live. To say the band was ragged compared to other versions is ridiculous.
You get what so many miss. The absurd lyrics are to lampoon all the dumb lyrics of popular music. You could toss the lyrics and the songs would be fine.
It's about the hippie movement in the 60's, and 70's, who moved in mass to San Fran, L.A., & Grenich, became disillusioned,and desided to get back to nature and til the soil. Even though most of them couldn't water a house plant.
I saw him twice. He easily got bored playing concerts and you could tell. It was rote to him. His studio stuff was usually far better. As in this case.
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
(Whoopee ti yo ti yi)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Mental Toss flycoon
(I wonder what that means)
theres absolutely no doubt that nobody has ever come to close to frank's ability to improvise
No way they we're embarrassed to sing about dental floss, some of the most complicated and and intricate compositions to play at the time.. I'm sure they we're just happy to share the stage with the great FZ
Ladik Ermis Add to that, on the studio album Tina Turner and the Ikettes sang about dental floss.
Seeing him 17 times during my youth from 72 to 85ish. Never the same show twice.
Boulder Colorado USA, You are what you is Tour🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Frank Zappa himself used to say something like " I am a composer that happen to play guitar"
No one was ever embarrassed to be a part of Franks bands.
totally never happened RIP FZ
In fact; I am pretty sure they were all proud, to have been, ‘a part’, of his ‘band.’
Zappa! Yeah, man! So, complex …..
I love Zappa! Its brilliant and absurd at the same time. I'm happy that you kinda get it. Nobody really completely understands Frank. That's what makes him cool.
This classic & fun song was on the "Overnight Sensation" album. Dinah mo Hum also. "Ruben & The Jets" was also a great Latin themed Zappa album!!
Dat SG doe. Not Angus, but Frank, is the reason I love SG's.
That's why I got an SG with a Bigsby.
The bicycle playing was on the Tonight show with Steve Allen
when Zappa died , the earth himself lost his brain..
Zappa's lyrics are not throw-away. There's a whole concept of "Conceptual Continuity". There are repeated concepts, images and words throughout Zappa's work, but it's up to the listener to find them and figure them out. Some are just clever plays on words. A lot of them are inside jokes.
Guacamole Queen. Guacamole Queen.
The interesting thing about Zappa, is that he always surrounded himself with absolute virtuosos, absolute masters of their particular instrument! Jean Luc Ponty played with the Mothers of Invention and then Zappa's early solo stuff after he ended the Mothers. I love Zappa!!! His legacy was passed on to his sons Dweezel and Ahmed too... both spectacular musicians!!!
My favorite quote from Zappa and there’s been many when he was interviewed they asked him how he like to be remembered ? Zappa said it doesn’t matter !
I doubt very much that the lyrics were created by following guitar lines. I think it was exactly the other way round, remembering Zappa talking about his fancy meters and that language and sentences don't follow straight meters. The lyrics are, by the way, not nonsensical but satyrical. I think if you look at the lyrics as a comment on some crazy ideas of people how they could make a living, which I think they are, they make perfect sense, especially when you consider the time then they were written.
Fun facts from Sweden 🇸🇪
1. Bobby Brown became a major hit here - frequently aired on national radio and played at discos....
2. Two "wonder-kids" and hard core Zappa-fans: Mats Öberg (age 17 @the time ) a blind keyboard player and Morgan Ågren (age 20) drummer, were invited to join Zappa on stage to perform with them playing in Stockholm. Zappa had heard them play and was so impressed that he wanted them to join in at the end(?) of the concert. They later performed with the Zappa's Universe tributing the wizzard while he was still alive.
Here's Zappa in a clip referring to the event ruclips.net/video/-0u2psaFU0k/видео.html
Here's the guys playing their own tribute 2008 with guest guitarist IA Eklund (of Freak Kitchen) :
ruclips.net/video/_5aHoJODAQM/видео.html
For some complex "rock-band" Zappa, I recommend "Alien Orifice."
The interesting thing about this song is that it's actually mocking something that was going on in Southern California at the time. This contingency of hippies who had these grand ideas of moving out to the country somewhere and starting these kinds of businesses. This was basically mocking them. So, once you understand WHY they're singing about dental floss, it becomes a little less silly. Funny, but not really silly. Most of Franks lyrics were a stab at some aspect of society or another and this one was no different.
Yes, he would not have sold albums without lyrics according to the record company... so he chose to go the cuckoo route. A true legend. Thanks for watching... I've got to go floss now. 🤘
Around 2017 I saw Ike Willis play Zappa at The World Cafe Live on 32nd street, West Philly. Amazing.
Shit, dudes! You said, Belew!
We did. Mic drop!
Let's not ignore that tone. Zappa was an innovator there too. He was the first, other than maybe Les Paul to utilize a lo impedence guitar. With his built in preamp, unique to his SG, he fed it to a rack of studio preamps & effects and power amps to the stage & house. A practice that is commonplace these days
I was Soooooo Fortunate to have Seen Frank Zappa in Boulder Colorado USA in 1982, when I was 17.... For the You are what you is Tour..... To this day, of more than 300 live shows Zappa is still The Best live🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
St. Alphonso Pancake Breakfast - brilliant. Overnite Sensation and Apostrophe were back-to-back amazing albums.
Zappa was pretty shocking by today's standards. He actually smoked onstage.
Chester thompson drumming?
Yes. Chester and Ruth.
Hard pressed to find a band that didn't have Zappa influenced or members from his playing for them
Try Inca Roads or Zombie Wolf
It the first time listening to Zappa song, which entails challenges, which is to say, shocking and often times uncomfortable and surprising
sounds and abrupt changes in mood. After a few "listenings" these surprises become anticipations, and the shock goes away, and it's easier
to appreciate the music. This is not one of those songs you look for meaning in. It's Zappa being cute, with maybe a spoof in there about
C&W songs that long for the good life away from the big city. Humor in music, with the dental floss wrangler with his pigmie pony and the
zircon encrusted tweezers.
Frank didn't do drugs but did enjoy occasional wine or whiskey.
Then he didn't do any other drugs than alcohol... and tobacco (lots!) Anyway, he stood out at the time (and in the rock-culture) rejecting all narcotics. Integrity was his middle name!
@@progperljungman8218 and caffeine
@@thepurpleplayer9168 for sure!
Exactly that; wine and whiskey are both considered, ‘drugs!’ As are nicotine and caffeine; both of which Frank was reportedly, ‘a partaker,’ and considered ‘drugs’, according to u.s. code and world reports.
Wine and whiskey are also legal…did Frank mis-speak?
Who knows. We do know that he held true to his principles; and that he held true to humanity; and that he held true, to all that is good! Aspersions aside; the legacy of Frank Zappa, is exuded in his musical artistry!
There's a great interview by George Duke, an incredibly accomplished pianist and keyboardist. He played with Zappa for some time and originally he wasn't really sold on the idea either, until he played with them. That was all it took. In fact, look up the song `Uncle Remus` George Duke. He does a tribute cover of it for Frank. It's one of those things that once you get what he was really doing, you can't help but be sold. Most of his lyrical content is pure social mockery and cynicism.
Well said. I go way back as well and a big George Duke fanatic, not to mention Zappa. Thanks for watching and please do subscribe if you haven't already lots more to come!🤘
From what I heard , he would write everything out note for note , then give it to the band to play !
Yes, he was relentless in that way. All of the studio musicians who wanted to play with him had to adhere strictly to his demands. But they all grew as musicians from the experience. Thanks for watching. 🤘
Exellent, classic and great vercion....🎸🎸🎸🎹🎹🎹🎶🎼👏👏👏👏👊🤘
Very enjoyable, now I can go to work.
Really! You mention the infamous, bicycle spokes song, from the 1963 ‘Steve Allen Show,’ and don’t correct the misnomer that it was from some, ‘Dick Cavett’ show--but you have the correct, original, video play! Whose-a-right on, whicha hoochie-coo?
Listening to the end; of course! It makes total sense, that Frank acquiesced, and ‘wrote’ the lyrics’-they wanted…’ Montana, Nanook of the North, St. Alphonso’s’ etc. Yeah!
Great comment. And yeah, thousand pardons for us not correcting which classic show he was on. The rest of it I think we kicked ass, if I do say so myself. Thank you for watching. 🤘
If you were a good enough musician to be in his band, that was all the references you needed
He growing weed .sometimes he calls it mental floss. The zircon encrusted twisters is a rouch clip
No. Zappa didn't take and hated drugs and sacked band members mid tour if they were too impaired to play. Zappa was very anti-drugs. Zappa was a musician who didn't follow the stereotype. He was one of the greatest orchestral composers of the 20th century.
@@mickdarabuka7778 yea I know the character in the song was not Frank
@@timkaufhold6163 Good to know. He was a genius. The drug stuff is just wrong.
Today ,i make every effort to see Dweezil Zappa Live 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸6x
FZ seemed to have contempt for everyone but himself. Which, of course, means he suffered from self contempt.
A narcissist. But he came out with a library of some crazy intricate works. And also made the careers of some of the greatest musicians of our generation. Especially one of our favorites, Steve Vai. #Lydian🤘
Some Zappa songs started out as lyrics nevertheless. He probably already had the music written and discovered some wonderful idea to go with it. So, it's basically trans Congressional in it's sense. Refer to ' it just might be a one shot deal', where's the words beg for Xappage music idea to make it happen. Hence we must poot forth.
....music is the best.
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Awesome content, keep it up!
The Steve Vai song is NOT on Joe's Garage
We know, thank you professor. Did you enjoy the video? Did you not? Nothing? That's it?
Hmmm, this is not a very clean version of Montana, from time to time a bit ragged, compared to some other tighter versions...imho.
Completely agree, surprisingly ragged...
This band's performance was stellar as usual. This version has a different ambiance than the studio version because it's live. To say the band was ragged compared to other versions is ridiculous.
You get what so many miss. The absurd lyrics are to lampoon all the dumb lyrics of popular music. You could toss the lyrics and the songs would be fine.
It's about the hippie movement in the 60's, and 70's, who moved in mass to San Fran, L.A., & Grenich, became disillusioned,and desided to get back to nature and til the soil. Even though most of them couldn't water a house plant.
Oh we are well aware, that is our era. And I was a toothpaste tycoon in San Francisco.. thanks for watching 🤘
@@UnhingedReactions LMAO
@@davehol8166 I hope you're subscribed Dave, you're too cool for school.🤘
@@UnhingedReactions Yeah sub.ed. btw saw the C#m vid. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful !!
Think of dental Foss as mental Foss or weed you will love Apostrophe.
Thanks for doing this. The musinchip is redicoulis.
FZ is Best For Ever.
no xylophone, not frank haha
I think people with a music background tend to be more into musical performance and originality.
Sounds logical to me. But really anyone who witnesses live music is going to experience a lift in spirit & endorphins. Thanks for watching🤘
Franks about 33/34 here.
Its an imperial.
I saw him twice. He easily got bored playing concerts and you could tell. It was rote to him. His studio stuff was usually far better. As in this case.
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