The first version of this song dates from 1967, on the album "Absolutely free" but without Flo and Eddie!! _"The best clue to this song might lie in the fact that who are inactive in a society . . . people who do not live up to their responsibilities are vegetables. I feel that these people, even if they are inactive, apathetic or unconcerend at this point, can be motivated toward a more useful sort of existence. I believe that if you call any vegtable that it will respond to you."_ Frank Zappa _ Great reaction!!! Thanks!
Real Zappa interview Interviewer: Do you have a relationship with vegetables? Zappa: What? Interviewer: In you're song Call any Vegetable...you talk about a relationship with veggetables... Zappa: Oh, yes.. I have a very good relationship with vegetables... I eat them.. and later.. they come out of my ass.
You have now been exposed to the Vaudeville Zappa period in 1970-71 with Flo and Eddie(Lead singers of the Turtles)... With one of the greatest rock drummers of all time in Aynsly Dunbar and the great vocals of Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, Zappa's band really cooks with a virtual non stop comedy routine every night... This period literally came crashing down when Zappa was attacked in London and fell into the orchestra pit, almost dead... And this was also the band that played the Casino in Geneva, Switzerland when it caught fire and was immortalized in the Deep Purple song, Smoke On The Water...
Two concerts in a row with very tragic endings. The Montreux gig was Dec. 4th, 1971 and they didn't play again until the Dec. 10 London gig, where Frank was pushed from the stage. In an interview many years later, Mark Volman opined that God was sending Frank a message for all the dirty songs he was playing. As a non-believer, I hate when people bring that shit up, but there it is.
Thanks Rory! I knew you would love it. Frank always had an affinity for vegetables, plenty of references to them in his lyrics. Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, aka Flo and Eddie, aka the Turtles were the main vocalists. Many consider this band the most juvenile/adolescent one, but the humor was through the roof. Those comments were basically riffing on TV commercials from around LA in the early seventies, and this song segues into Eddie Are You Kidding, all about a place that sold cheap suits back in the day. Pure absurdity at its best, if you ask me...
So hearing this song a couple hrs ago triggered "Let Me Take You To the Beach" again in my head and I still can't shake it. Will be taking it out on the first vegetable I see. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaa-laaaaaaaa 😂😂😂😂
The tune was on one of the early albums. I saw them I 1971. Coincidently my last ever acid trip. They did an extended version (featuring Flo and Eddie) fabulous performance. The Mudshark was the other highlight of the show that sticks. The venue stuck too. It was Vancouver’s Agrodome on the day after the horse show. With the dirt floor, the atmosphere lingered. I am sure Frank had some perverse glee about that.
This is interesting because it is a few months before he was thrown off stage in London a result of which was Franks voice got lower and he took on lot more vocals afterward It’s almost like he got a new instrument
When you interrupted to ask it this song is about weed, in the original (studio) version from 1967, it says "Holding your hand" while the neighbors decide. In this live 1971 version, he changed it to "Holding your joint." I don't know if it changes the entire direction of the song or if that was any intent.
This is just a wild personal theory but I feel like Zappa integrated more weed references to poke at the audience when he played live and saw them all smoking weed
@@Royale_with_Cheeze I submit as further unnecessary evidence the section in Australian Yellow Snow where he spells out Mar-juh-reen and he does some playing with the J as it might relate to the audience (Joint?) but of course jokingly ends up on "Jesus".
I think vegetables are kind of people. But there are a number of vegetable songs by Zappa in the 60s... There is an earlier version on absolutely free (1967) - quite different! And without Wolman and Kaylan!
Off the freakin wall!! Got some funk, rock and Motown and some silliest lalalaa!! Singing about a vegetable! Im sure Zappa smoked alot of weed and dropped acid and mushrooms! Open his creative genius mind. So silly!! Where can i go....? Crazy Mothers Invention!! Awesome reaction Rory!! Thank You i think you said Pete for your awesome request!! 🤪💓🤘✌️
Creative genius WITHOUT weed, mushrooms, acid. He was so genius, he didn't need these substances. Just black coffee and sigarettes (his favorite vegetable)
@@marcvanderiet5592 thank you, I was being silly with some sense of humor! I met Frank Zappa years ago in the 70's. My sister in law her brother was Jim Sherwood in Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention. So thank you for pointing that out, didn't mean anything by it just being silly. 😊💓🤘✌️
@@Frunobulax74 thank you, it was nice having a conversation with you also!! Thanks for being kind. 😊💓🤘✌️ I'm just trying to connect with people, music is a great thing!
Frank likely edited it out for this release of Call Any Vegetable, but some bootlegs of this song from this tour has Mark Volman saying Sieg Heil, Seig Heil! after God Bless America.
As mentioned , a completly different version of this is on Zappa's second album . This more guitar driven version features Flo and Eddie , the guys from 200 Motels , who music fans knew as THE TURTLES . They had many more hits than Zappa ever had , tho the songs were quite shallow . Zappa recruited them , and eroticism in music would never be the same .
follow this up with the next tune on the album: "Eddy Are You Kidding." You should also do "Billy The Mountain," and "Magdalena, both on the same album as this version of Call Any Vegetable--Just Another Band from LA. Also, don't apologize for "rambling." I love where your rambling goes. You're a smart motherfucker, and I learn a lot from your rambling!!
You're really supposed to know the Mothers of Invention cold to think yourself a Zappa fan or to speak with authority on the subject of Frank. Go catch up. SIDE NOTE: This is the first Zappa / Mothers I ever heard and it made a lifelong fan not only of him, but of my all-time hero drummer (along with Elvin Jones), Aynsley Dunbar. I raced to see him with Journey in the mid-70s and he was genius without compare.
I prefer the Absolutely Free version, and Dweezil does an amazing one as well. Flo and Eddie are a bit too vaudeville and IMO are terrible singers but oh well. Still a fun version! Great reaction Rory!
The first version of this song dates from 1967, on the album "Absolutely free" but without Flo and Eddie!!
_"The best clue to this song might lie in the fact that who are inactive in a society . . . people who do not live up to their responsibilities are vegetables. I feel that these people, even if they are inactive, apathetic or unconcerend at this point, can be motivated toward a more useful sort of existence. I believe that if you call any vegtable that it will respond to you."_ Frank Zappa _
Great reaction!!! Thanks!
Flo and Eddie / Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman ,was in "The Turtles" , you surely know "Happy Together"
@@lepetitoiseau #1 with a bullet !
Real Zappa interview
Interviewer: Do you have a relationship with vegetables?
Zappa: What?
Interviewer: In you're song Call any Vegetable...you talk about a relationship with veggetables...
Zappa: Oh, yes.. I have a very good relationship with vegetables... I eat them.. and later.. they come out of my ass.
It is fuckin’ great to be alive … so moved I feel like crying.
Yes!...it is fucking great to be alive..........and listen to Zappa.
There's a song called "Billy The Mountain" on this live album... Talk about a storyteller. It's 24 minutes and 46 seconds of brilliance and absurdity!
You have now been exposed to the Vaudeville Zappa period in 1970-71 with Flo and Eddie(Lead singers of the Turtles)... With one of the greatest rock drummers of all time in Aynsly Dunbar and the great vocals of Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, Zappa's band really cooks with a virtual non stop comedy routine every night... This period literally came crashing down when Zappa was attacked in London and fell into the orchestra pit, almost dead... And this was also the band that played the Casino in Geneva, Switzerland when it caught fire and was immortalized in the Deep Purple song, Smoke On The Water...
Two concerts in a row with very tragic endings.
The Montreux gig was Dec. 4th, 1971 and they didn't play again until the Dec. 10 London gig, where Frank was pushed from the stage.
In an interview many years later, Mark Volman opined that God was sending Frank a message for all the dirty songs he was playing. As a non-believer, I hate when people bring that shit up, but there it is.
Thanks Rory! I knew you would love it. Frank always had an affinity for vegetables, plenty of references to them in his lyrics. Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, aka Flo and Eddie, aka the Turtles were the main vocalists. Many consider this band the most juvenile/adolescent one, but the humor was through the roof. Those comments were basically riffing on TV commercials from around LA in the early seventies, and this song segues into Eddie Are You Kidding, all about a place that sold cheap suits back in the day. Pure absurdity at its best, if you ask me...
The singers are Flo and Eddy from The Turtles. Early '70s
You hit the nail on the head!
Its not rambling! Its intelectual conversation. Thank you sir.
So hearing this song a couple hrs ago triggered "Let Me Take You To the Beach" again in my head and I still can't shake it. Will be taking it out on the first vegetable I see. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaa-laaaaaaaa 😂😂😂😂
Definite 60s elements. Parts of this song could fit in nicely in "Hair."
That's what it kind of reminding of "Hair" way back in my hippie days!! 😊💓🤘✌️
Some of the vocals are like doo-wop, which is something Zappa was particular fond of.
Flo and Eddy were dynamite + the compositions of Zappa !!!
Yes! Finally call any vegetable! Loved your reaction as usual 😊
The tune was on one of the early albums. I saw them I 1971. Coincidently my last ever acid trip. They did an extended version (featuring Flo and Eddie) fabulous performance. The Mudshark was the other highlight of the show that sticks. The venue stuck too. It was Vancouver’s Agrodome on the day after the horse show. With the dirt floor, the atmosphere lingered. I am sure Frank had some perverse glee about that.
That song was on his 3 Rd album ,too , we're only in it for the money ,put out in 68
This is interesting because it is a few months before he was thrown off stage in London a result of which was Franks voice got lower and he took on lot more vocals afterward
It’s almost like he got a new instrument
Nice that you picked up on the Morrison bit, that always cracked me up. Cheers from Spain.
Did you know Billy was a mountain?
And Ethell was a tree growing off of his shoulder
And he hocked up a rock and it totaled my car!
No shit!
When you interrupted to ask it this song is about weed, in the original (studio) version from 1967, it says "Holding your hand" while the neighbors decide. In this live 1971 version, he changed it to "Holding your joint." I don't know if it changes the entire direction of the song or if that was any intent.
This is just a wild personal theory but I feel like Zappa integrated more weed references to poke at the audience when he played live and saw them all smoking weed
@@ImpressionismFTW
Could be. He knew his audience were stoners, and his music certainly played well to them, although he never advocated it.
@@Royale_with_Cheeze I submit as further unnecessary evidence the section in Australian Yellow Snow where he spells out Mar-juh-reen and he does some playing with the J as it might relate to the audience (Joint?) but of course jokingly ends up on "Jesus".
I think vegetables are kind of people. But there are a number of vegetable songs by Zappa in the 60s...
There is an earlier version on absolutely free (1967) - quite different! And without Wolman and Kaylan!
Yes Rory Reacts it is from the early mid 60S
Thanks Rory and Pete this was fun you can't go wrong with Zappa he always entertains😂😂😂😂
Dude!!!!
We gotta get the band back together!!!!
Off the freakin wall!! Got some funk, rock and Motown and some silliest lalalaa!! Singing about a vegetable! Im sure Zappa smoked alot of weed and dropped acid and mushrooms! Open his creative genius mind. So silly!! Where can i go....? Crazy Mothers Invention!! Awesome reaction Rory!! Thank You i think you said Pete for your awesome request!! 🤪💓🤘✌️
Creative genius WITHOUT weed, mushrooms, acid. He was so genius, he didn't need these substances. Just black coffee and sigarettes (his favorite vegetable)
@@marcvanderiet5592 thank you, I was being silly with some sense of humor! I met Frank Zappa years ago in the 70's. My sister in law her brother was Jim Sherwood in Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention. So thank you for pointing that out, didn't mean anything by it just being silly. 😊💓🤘✌️
@@laurawatters914 Being silly is great, keep it up;)
@@marcvanderiet5592 always sending good vibes!! Thank You! 😊💓🤘✌️
@@Frunobulax74 thank you, it was nice having a conversation with you also!! Thanks for being kind. 😊💓🤘✌️ I'm just trying to connect with people, music is a great thing!
Frank likely edited it out for this release of Call Any Vegetable, but some bootlegs of this song from this tour has Mark Volman saying Sieg Heil, Seig Heil! after God Bless America.
Dude!
Love the guitar here
Zappa is the only guitarist on this track or in this Mothers line up
I like this album because Billy the Mtns on it ,1 of my favs
As mentioned , a completly different version of this is on Zappa's second album . This more guitar driven version features Flo and Eddie , the guys from 200 Motels , who music fans knew as THE TURTLES . They had many more hits than Zappa ever had , tho the songs were quite shallow . Zappa recruited them , and eroticism in music would never be the same .
Is it me or at 5:50 there's a reference to I Want to Hold Your Hands by the Beatles?
America hasn't gotten softer, just soft-headed.
follow this up with the next tune on the album: "Eddy Are You Kidding." You should also do "Billy The Mountain," and "Magdalena, both on the same album as this version of Call Any Vegetable--Just Another Band from LA.
Also, don't apologize for "rambling." I love where your rambling goes. You're a smart motherfucker, and I learn a lot from your rambling!!
You're really supposed to know the Mothers of Invention cold to think yourself a Zappa fan or to speak with authority on the subject of Frank. Go catch up.
SIDE NOTE: This is the first Zappa / Mothers I ever heard and it made a lifelong fan not only of him, but of my all-time hero drummer (along with Elvin Jones), Aynsley Dunbar. I raced to see him with Journey in the mid-70s and he was genius without compare.
No it's not about weed. It's about vegetables as your friends. Don't you dig it. 1970
I prefer the Absolutely Free version, and Dweezil does an amazing one as well. Flo and Eddie are a bit too vaudeville and IMO are terrible singers but oh well. Still a fun version! Great reaction Rory!