/r/Zappa - Dedicated to anything and everything related to composer and musician Frank Zappa (fl. 1940-1993)
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The Blue Light is a great favorite of mine. It's really OUT THERE!
“Th’ big old giant un-der wat-er PYR-A-MID! (‘scuse me, Todd).”
The Blue Light is definitely my most-quoted Zappa song. Especially since I moved to LA. I can't turn onto Santa Monica Boulevard or drive past Shakey's without quoting the song.
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Pick me I'm clean
“Live material with studio tweakings” describes most live albums. They want the sound to be perfect and it often isn’t for one reason or another.
On this album the first song was a studio cut, the first half of the second song was live with studio overdubs and everything else was live, no overdubs.
Record cover by the mighty and majestic Cal Schenkel.
Absolutely this is my favorite one. At the time I had no idea musicians could do such things.
Fine Girl is such a banger. And I get lost in Easy Meat every time I hear it. Crazy solo and breakdown that somehow finds its way back to the main groove
Yet another Berkeley Community Theatre specimen.
One of my favorite albums. Tommy Mars’s “massive keyboard overdubbage” on Easy Meat still blows me away.
That, and the Brown Shoes/Peaches III closers are my favorites from the record
“Buttzis…Buttzis’s girlfriend…uh, I forget your name even though you’ve been in the crew for a while…” 😅
It’s funny; this is the first version of Peaches En Regalia that I heard. Hearing the studio version years later was fun. That big, gnarly chord at the end of the original is one of my favorite gtr noises.
You might be my musical doppelganger,it was also the 1st version I heard. "Gnarly chord": do you mean the Peaches III band 'rev-up' and hit at song's end? If so, yep,like that a lot too.
That IS fantastic! But I was thinking of the original’s stinky, beautifully distorted gtr chord this time.
This is very basic of me, but the lyric "She'll do the dishes - if you wishes," is one of the funiest things ever.
I recall J Dilla sampled some of the chatter from the track Dance Contest on his Donuts record. It was slightly jarring to just be listening to it and then suddenly hear Frank's voice come in
Is there a studio version of the Tinseltown Rebellion?
There doesn't seem to be a studio version of "Tinseltown Rebellion" unless it is in the vault.
Like a lot of FZ's rock songs, he was satisfied with the live recording, no need for a studio version.
But we are collecting underpants, and we are collecting brassieres, we are collecting small articles of feminine underclothing We are making a quilt, really - trust me So here's the deal, if you're a girl and you're wearing a dress, whip 'em off, that's it, see? No problem
I love this album. Great sound, great material, lots of unique songs. One of the first by him I ever heard when I was a young lad.