Burnt Weeny Sandwich by FRANK ZAPPA 1970

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 106

  • @collinbergkamp7077
    @collinbergkamp7077 День назад +12

    One of my very favorite albums! The 6/8 section of 'The Little House I used to Live In' with Sugarcane is beautiful.

  • @MC-bh8ph
    @MC-bh8ph 3 часа назад +1

    I love that you lump together hot rats, waka jawaka, and the grand wazoo. My 3 favorite Zappa records!

  • @ambueh22
    @ambueh22 19 часов назад +3

    Burnt Weeny Sandwich certainly IS a masterpiece, and I was excited to see that you've made a video dedicated to it!

  • @Darrylizer1
    @Darrylizer1 9 часов назад +2

    This album is indeed a sandwich. Two goofy songs on either end with incredible madness in the middle. I love it!

  • @michaellongstaff4624
    @michaellongstaff4624 21 час назад +4

    Without doubt my favourite Mothers/Zappa album. Bought it when it came out on vinyl and later on cd. Still play it regularly and still love it. Favourite tracks, Theme from BWS and Little House I Used to Live In.

    • @davidcox3833
      @davidcox3833 2 часа назад

      Snap! Going to play it right now.

  • @johannhauffman323
    @johannhauffman323 День назад +4

    Great Video Andy. Thanks for all you do.

  • @arnaudb.7669
    @arnaudb.7669 10 часов назад

    100% agree.
    An underrated masterpiece.

  • @hansvandermeulen5515
    @hansvandermeulen5515 2 часа назад

    An absolute highlight on this great album has to be Little House I Used To Live In.
    Especially considering that it's all pieced together from multiple sources and put together through editing tapes, apparently one of Zappa's favorite activities.
    Some of the solos are from a 27 minute jam, recorded during the Hot Rats sessions where he moved the solos around and threw in live stuff.
    The main theme after the piano opening was another studio recording from a different session.
    Anyway, probably an object/project thing (for anyone who doesn't what that means look it up).

  • @donalddrewel7862
    @donalddrewel7862 День назад +1

    This was my introduction to Zappa. A friend of mine at college had this record, and I loved it.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 День назад +2

    I saw the Mothers at the Shrine in downtown L.A. in 1970. I saw Zappa and band with Flo and Eddie and the vocal harmonies were powerful and beautiful and the band was insane. They played a Turtles medley. I saw Frank conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic at U.C.L.A. - all his own compositions and the orchestra had a ball. I forgot that I had the Burnt Weeny album along with Hot Rats. Ah, turntables...still my fave format.

  • @boudiccamarchestorome9475
    @boudiccamarchestorome9475 18 часов назад

    Thanks for the memory refresher: I loved this album a long time ago but forgot why. Then I saw Zappa in concert a couple of times and was distracted by his deft, explosive guitar playing. Time for a re-listen.

  • @jessem470
    @jessem470 2 дня назад +4

    Cant wait
    This and Uncle Meat
    Best line up

  • @disasterpiece16
    @disasterpiece16 2 часа назад

    A great album, doesn't get talked about enough in my opinion. Great video Andy!

  • @ronfeenstra3659
    @ronfeenstra3659 21 час назад +1

    I got into Zappa when I was 15, really dug the differentness of his music from this period. (The "George Duke Band" was still in the future then). Having listened to these albums numerous times (on headphones), I know the tracks through and through. Uncle Meat is my favorite, maybe because there simply is more music and because it's a bit more out there, but BWS is right up there. Minor correction: Uncle Meat is from 1968 (not '69). BWS may have come out in 1970, but the music is really from 1968-69. Recordings for Little House I Used To Live In occurred simultaneously with those for Hot Rats.
    Thanks for the video and bringing BWS to viewers' attention. I like these shorter videos!

  • @markcorcoran482
    @markcorcoran482 День назад +1

    Cal Schenkel SO adds to the early Zappa magic.
    Zappa tells the kids, don’t kid yourself, you’re all wearing uniforms.
    Fascinating overhead shot of the band - circles!
    In the early seventies, my rather conservative aunt and uncle came for a visit, and in the course of things took delighted note of the cover of BWS, the title being the source of their delight. A few days later, we’re taking a tour of one of the not so little houses of the Vanderbilts, and as we were winding our way up a grand staircase, in an alcove in the wall was a cherub, and my aunt (so often uptightly concerned about propriety) leaned in, tickled its bits, and said “Burnt Weenie Sandwich.”

  • @dibdab101
    @dibdab101 23 часа назад +1

    Hi Andy, Rick Beato here...
    only kidding. just wanted to get heart racing a tad

  • @jublaim
    @jublaim 11 часов назад

    I'm sort of longing for listening to music the way I did in my teens in the '70s and a bit into the '80s. It was such a big part of my life; listening (often with these huge padded headphones on, Lenco I had) and trying to grasp what I heard, and learning; arrangements, sounds, lots of stuff. I will just finish modding my old Peavey Classic 30 and testing out drivers in combos and in a Barefaced cab and, and...

  • @frankthorne11
    @frankthorne11 День назад +1

    Thank You.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley День назад

    One of my favorites and it’s one of his best. Good commentary and insight on this amazing recording

  • @squareeyedgit
    @squareeyedgit 19 часов назад +1

    Most Zappa/Mothers albums I loved right from the first listen. For whatever reason, Burnt Weeny Sandwich took me a while, but it's totally worth it. It's eccentric but not 'wacky'. No spoken word snippets, no satirical lyrics... the quote on the Uncle Meat sleeve actually fits this record better: "basically this is an instrumental album"

  • @PhilBaird1
    @PhilBaird1 23 часа назад

    You make a great point about Zappa's fanfares. Never thought about that before but you're absolutely right. A lovely album of the early Mothers.

  • @Mister_Jahn
    @Mister_Jahn 21 час назад

    Great album and a huge influence on my music. The fanfares, the guitar and the percussion that was in a different galaxy from all the other rock projects at the time.

  • @jackneidinger9544
    @jackneidinger9544 23 часа назад +3

    One of Frank's modes was Elevator Music. How else to describe Holiday in Berlin. Nobody ever mentions it but Muzak is there on many albums like Hot Rats and Unkle Meat. I assume it's sarcastic.

  • @Michel-r6m
    @Michel-r6m День назад +3

    Got about 30 albums, so I conclude I kinda like his music 😅
    Flo & Eddy Fillmore live is epic 👍 The Mudshark.

    • @MC-bh8ph
      @MC-bh8ph 3 часа назад +1

      Fillmore East is what got me into Zappa. The comedy is great to capture the attention of a kid, but peaches and little house are there to let you know that Zappa will become a life long obsession

    • @Michel-r6m
      @Michel-r6m Час назад

      @MC-bh8ph 👍

  • @timothynewkirk2654
    @timothynewkirk2654 18 часов назад

    I agree with you for the most part; about the early and Mother's phase II. However the Flo & Eddie's: Filmore & 200 Motels is Absolutely Brilliant ! ! ! ...Newk from Kentucky

  • @BillyBanter100
    @BillyBanter100 День назад +1

    I still have uk original pressing bought in 1970. One of the Mothers best albums.

  • @kevinogracia1615
    @kevinogracia1615 11 часов назад

    Burnt Weeny Sandwich was my first dip into Zappa - 1973 on eight track.
    Yea... I'm geezin'.
    And, funny, I just got a remastered edition on CD last year.
    Yummy.

  • @jurgenkoslowski2097
    @jurgenkoslowski2097 14 часов назад

    "Little House I Used To Live In" together with "Willy The Pimp" and "The Gumbo Variations" got me hooked on electric violin. The first two songs I recorded on tape from the radio (in Germany). Got a lot of material by Don 'Sugar Cane' Harris later on, discovered more by Jean-Luc Ponty and was very happy about Jerry Goodman's violin in the original Mahavishnu Orchestra.

  • @wheelie63
    @wheelie63 17 часов назад

    this is an excellent review. thx.

  • @aminahmed2220
    @aminahmed2220 18 часов назад

    Awesome video have a great day also a fantastic weekend Andy ❤😊

  • @billphelps5611
    @billphelps5611 22 часа назад

    Loved your thoughts on this record. I'm a long time Zappa fan and this is my favorite Zappa album. I love the way it is sequenced, WPLJ is a great opener and Theme from....is delicious and Little House is wonderful. Never get tired of this one. Recently played it for my sister, she liked it and it was weird, while she was engaged in it I was hearing it differently than I had ever heard it before. Just cemented why I love it so much. Great video!

  • @chrismorgan7494
    @chrismorgan7494 22 часа назад

    My parent's friend left his vinyl collection behind when I was a wee lad. This album was in there. Absolutely loved the album cover. The music confused me back then, even though I'd already heard my dad's One Size Fits All album.

  • @MrLcowles
    @MrLcowles 17 часов назад

    You're the king of dandruff

  • @thormusique
    @thormusique 20 часов назад

    Great one, mate, and I heartily agree with everything you've said here. I was just a wee lad when Uncle Meat came out, which I thought to be a masterpiece at the time. I still think that's the case, but when Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Hot Rats came out, it was a kind of musical nirvana indeed. I hadn't really thought about Frank's influence on the jazz fusion movement, but of course that would have to be true. In the late 70s I met the friend of a friend in New York, who turned out to be none other than Miles Davis. I remember asking him who he liked to listen to. He named a bunch of the great players at the time. He paused a couple of seconds, and then said that in his opinion, Zappa was the one 'setting the scene' for everybody else. That surprised me at first, but then I thought, well, yes, of course. I would say he's still doing that, even since he's been gone. Cheers!

    • @Chromexus
      @Chromexus 16 часов назад +1

      I was 14 in 1966 when Zappa came to my ( college) town to do what turned out to be a 5 hour concert . The only LP of his that was released at that time was Freak Out. I got into the concert and it is difficult to express how innovative this was in the pre-internet era. I found out later that Absolutely Free had been recorded ( but not released) and we were treated to a 40 minute version of "Call Any Vegetable" featuring solos from the Gardner brothers and simultaneous guitar solos performed by Zappa and another guitarist , while 2 drummers pounded out the beats. I had heard nothing like it ( they also did an early version of King Kong, which IMO began the "jazz-rock" genre). I am now 72 but i remember the impact it had on me- I ran home and perused the now-famous "Freak Out List" and began assiduously listening to the musicians listed there. I can truly say it changed my life. By the time I was 17 I was playing Dolphy, Coltrane, and Stockhausen. I can truly say that this influence greatly enriched my life. Thanks Frank,wherever you are

  • @eveszokolai8939
    @eveszokolai8939 19 часов назад +1

    Thanks for this Andy! Weasel's Ripped My Flesh, Grand Wazoo, Hot Rats are peak Frank during this era, for me... I could mostly get away with these on the family phonograph without invoking protest. Burnt Weeny Sandwhich and Uncle Meat..would have had mum running the for shelter of her mother's little helper...

  • @markmyra-cn7rd
    @markmyra-cn7rd День назад +1

    Every spring
    We have a new batch of
    Baby Snakes.

  • @duncansmith69
    @duncansmith69 17 часов назад

    I haven't tried burnt weeny sandwich yet but I think tonight is the night.

  • @stevebradley704
    @stevebradley704 23 часа назад

    Great record. Especially Aybe Sea and Little House.

  • @criops
    @criops 19 часов назад

    ✊🏼! That’s a nice looking drum kit behind you, looks like a comfortable setup.

  • @DannyMcGrath1969
    @DannyMcGrath1969 12 часов назад

    I didn't get into Prog until I was 28. I'm 55 now. I guess that's why I'm not a nerd.

  • @maxwellmcdowell3744
    @maxwellmcdowell3744 Минуту назад

    Uncle meat is sooooo hot. I especially love the film college. That's an editing masterpiece.
    200 hundred motels and Sharlena are flow and Eddie high point .
    Thanks for the zappa rap.

  • @gregorycampagna8138
    @gregorycampagna8138 День назад +2

    Year of my birth, so, naturally, canonical

  • @fanboy324
    @fanboy324 21 час назад

    Zappa was a monster! I wish he was around today to give his opinion on modern indie rock/post punk.

  • @dmk7700
    @dmk7700 12 часов назад

    What? No mention of Chunga's Revenge from 1970. My personnel favorite. Weasels Ripped My Flesh is my second favorite. I had the pleasure of seeing/hearing the Mothers of Invention at The Kinetic Playground in Chicago
    in 1968. The encore consisted of the band tearing down their individual gear while continuing to play until only the drummer was left.

  • @erikheddergott5514
    @erikheddergott5514 День назад

    Burnt Weeny Sandwich is a great Montage. It was the second Record after Grand Wazoo that I really loved. Third was Hot Rats.
    Uncle Meat and One Size Fits all I got through reading Poodle Play by Ben Watson.

  • @bobreece5842
    @bobreece5842 17 часов назад

    My favorite Zappa/Mothers album with "Uncle Meat" a close second.

  • @garygomesvedicastrology
    @garygomesvedicastrology День назад

    I have a personal love for three Zappa albums- Uncle Meat, Burnt Weenie Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Those are my absolute favorites of all of Zappa's recordings.
    The only Flo and Eddie album I really consider close to these three is the soundtrack to 200 Motels.
    The analogy of Soft Machine to Zappa further links Soft Machine to the creation of jazz fusion, although only rarely acknowledged by anyone.

  • @handofike
    @handofike 23 часа назад +2

    I have love for Bongo Fury….

    • @MC-bh8ph
      @MC-bh8ph 3 часа назад

      Carolina hardcore ecstasy and muffin man are phenomenal

  • @Dmann24
    @Dmann24 День назад

    Great video Andy. That album was supposed to be an Eric Dolphy album cover, I read that somewhere.

  • @scottmorris7546
    @scottmorris7546 14 часов назад

    White port and lemon juice!

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 3 дня назад +2

    Yes Burnt Weeny Sandwich, I mean when you get right down to it, Burnt Weeny Sandwich.

  • @thekeywitness
    @thekeywitness 12 часов назад

    It looks like you’re about to go motoring in a Lotus Elan.

  • @KeithMcbride-fy3hy
    @KeithMcbride-fy3hy День назад

    Growing up in this era so many albums seemed to lay different musical paths from the Sgt Peppers SF Sorrow Freak Out Uncle Meat Trout Mask Replica etc etc each one seemed to be anew experience as was the buying of the vinyl and dashing home to play them

  • @splankhoon
    @splankhoon 8 часов назад

    Well, the Flo and Eddie era did produce '200 Motels'.

  • @danaandra9735
    @danaandra9735 22 часа назад

    Easily my favorite Zappa album: BURNT WEENY SANDWICH!

  • @FloatingAnarchy61
    @FloatingAnarchy61 3 часа назад

    I have about 14 Zappa albums so obviously have barely scratched the surface of his huge catalogue. My cd copy of We're Only In It For The Money also includes Lumpy Gravy but it does seem a rather short album, maybe someone in the comments can tell me whether it's the full album. My favourite period of his is the one that produced Zoot Allures ( love Black Napkins), Apostrophe, One Size, Overnite Sensation etc. One thing though that you've touched on in a previous video is the puerility of some of Frank's lyrics in later albums. Yes, I get that a lot of them were satirical swipes at society but even so. I recently got Sheikh Yerbouti, Joe's Garage and You Are What You Is on cd. I loved these albums when I was a teenager but now find them a really difficult listen. I was in Christiania Jazz Club in Denmark a few years back. They have open mic sessions on a sunday and a band got up and did the whole of Apostrophe and other tunes from that period. It was brilliant although admittedly I was a bit 'herbally challenged'. I met Jimmy Carl Black at Gloucester blues festival of all places a few years back. He was stood outside a pub, watching a band with a pint in his hand. He's extremely tall, I looked like a midget next to him. I asked him about Frank and Beefheart and he trotted out the same line he does in every interview, 'Frank was strange, but Don was seriously weird'. Lovely bloke though. You're absolutely right about Zappa and fanfares Andy. I love the closing section of Eat That Question. Sounds like the Roman army marching into a city.

  • @originalhgc
    @originalhgc День назад +1

    Word

  • @paulmichaud7565
    @paulmichaud7565 23 часа назад

    "EYE-Gor Stravinsky? They always told me it was pronounced EE-Gor." "Well, they were wrong, weren't they?" I miss Marty Feldman.

  • @dirksellhorn6193
    @dirksellhorn6193 3 дня назад +2

    🥰

  • @WizardOfArc
    @WizardOfArc 16 часов назад +1

    I’m a big “hot rats” fan

    • @MC-bh8ph
      @MC-bh8ph 3 часа назад

      Hot Rats, waka jawaka, and the grand wazoo are my 3 favoritea

  • @SpookyLuvCookie
    @SpookyLuvCookie 22 часа назад

    6:48 What you, Andy, describe here is the true meaning of the word *grotesque* ... People these days think it means very ugly, but it's not that. It's that.

  • @timwood8974
    @timwood8974 12 часов назад

    Pretty sure the cover was created originally by Cal Schenkel for an Albert Ayler album. Could be Dolphy.

  • @danaandra9735
    @danaandra9735 21 час назад

    I think the first two Henry Cow albums (Legend & Unrest) wouldn't be the same if not for BURNT WEENY SANDWICH.

  • @colinburroughs9871
    @colinburroughs9871 5 часов назад

    I just like that Frank really challenged his potential audience to not listen to this thing with the title and album art. It's another good record, but I'm waiting for Waka/Jawka, Wazoo in this phase, but I'll randomly sing WPLJ while I wait.

  • @MrMrh1958
    @MrMrh1958 8 часов назад

    You should do a vid on The Roxy Performances concerts! Incredible stuff. His best line up in my opinion. Mind you, opinions are like arseholes, everyone’s got one!🤔

  • @garygomesvedicastrology
    @garygomesvedicastrology День назад +2

    Don Preston also played acoustic bass for Nat King Cole!

  • @puntimatii11
    @puntimatii11 21 час назад

    Love this album and wrmflesh, prefer them to uncle meat( though kkong track brilliant and is/anticipates jazz rock),
    absolutely free preferable to first album- yes, oiiftm has a strange greatness to it
    too.
    all brilliant though
    There's warm' feel( maybe not as much on um) that permeates the 60 s stuff.

  • @JamesWilson-ek7ko
    @JamesWilson-ek7ko 23 часа назад

    Haven’t even watched this vid yet. Just saw the thumbnail. My desert island album. If it be true he went full out prog jazz fusion in this “second stage”…which is debatable…he never ever sounded like any of it. And for the sake of argument…hey, why not…he had no “weakest” period. Who’d want to be known as a jazz rock fusion pioneer and ushering in that banal musical landscape? Just a thought! The short cloth neck ornament is a nice touch.

  • @goatuscrow4135
    @goatuscrow4135 День назад +1

    Uncle Meat is the goat.

  • @zoktoberfest
    @zoktoberfest 21 час назад

    You could have been a bit more generous attributing Ruth Underwood. The presence of her eccentric percussive instrumentation heavily contributed to the Zappa soundscape.

  • @keiththompson713
    @keiththompson713 4 часа назад

    Greatest album? No. Underappreciated -- yes.

  • @bakeone4406
    @bakeone4406 2 дня назад +1

    No, several other FZ albums, (and compositions on less consistent albums of his) are on a level where there is no such thing as better.

  • @deeperama298
    @deeperama298 День назад

    What do you think of the narrative that Zappa was a pretty good guitarist before the Rainbow Theater incident, and became an all time great afterwards?

  • @broohr-karas8691
    @broohr-karas8691 Час назад

    50 years ago I used to read Downbeat. They gave Hot Rats four stars and Burnt Weenie five stars. Just sayin'.

  • @TheeRobertPhoenix
    @TheeRobertPhoenix 12 часов назад

    The blow my headie period is godawful.

  • @kentcoon1220
    @kentcoon1220 22 часа назад

    Have you ever seen frank play live,just wondering

  • @Steve-cn3nj
    @Steve-cn3nj День назад

    I like Burnt Weenie Sandwich alot but IMO Uncle Meat is the great record of that particular period
    What´s your take on Chunga´s Revenge ?

    • @ykmgeedee
      @ykmgeedee 17 часов назад +1

      He said "it's a good album" at 15:22. Later he says he's gonna wear that hat and scarf again, he doesn't care what we say.

    • @Steve-cn3nj
      @Steve-cn3nj 5 часов назад

      @@ykmgeedee ´´It´s a good album`` isn´t much of a critique.

    • @ykmgeedee
      @ykmgeedee 5 часов назад +1

      @@Steve-cn3nj It's concise, I'll give him that. scARF!

    • @Steve-cn3nj
      @Steve-cn3nj 4 часа назад

      @@ykmgeedee yup

  • @frankeec
    @frankeec 21 час назад

    Henry Cow were initially very influenced by this period of FZ ruclips.net/video/Rg4IPiNYJUg/видео.htmlsi=0nghpkF8kyiGWI9_

  • @stephenlegg262
    @stephenlegg262 22 часа назад

    Love Burnt Weenie but was not a fan of Weazles. Don’t know why.

    • @noyfb4769
      @noyfb4769 9 часов назад

      Oh No. I don't believe it.

  • @clarkgwent
    @clarkgwent 16 часов назад

    Unfortunately the smug talking bit between Little House and Valarie spoils this otherwise perfect LP. Try editing it out. See what I mean?

  • @trippknotic
    @trippknotic День назад +2

    I find Zappa’s album covers are absolutely horrid, as are the titles. For most listeners it’s a world they don’t want to enter, genius or not.

  • @kirkgray6949
    @kirkgray6949 День назад

    Nooooooooo Not that crappy hat…..aaaaaaahhhhhh….please burn this hat …..have to go wash out my eyes…..

    • @lvtutorials3039
      @lvtutorials3039 23 часа назад

      And use the scarf to feed the fire.

    • @lvtutorials3039
      @lvtutorials3039 23 часа назад

      And don't tell us what tips we can give, only what music we must listen to.

  • @jimhardiman3836
    @jimhardiman3836 19 часов назад

    Ripped not whipped