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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Fillmore East: June 1971
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List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $14.99
Your Save: $ 1.99 ( 12% )
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Manufacturer: Zappa Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0014431051227
Format: Live
Label: Zappa Records
Manufacturer: Zappa Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Zappa Records
Release Date: 1995-05-30
Studio: Zappa Records
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IMPORTED FROM JAPAN BY RYKODISC This collector’s dream set completes our 20-disc series of limited edition Frank Zappa Japanese imports. Packaged in deluxe mini-album jacket sleeves, these 10 classic albums are packaged to re-create the original vinyl packaging in miniaturized form!
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Summary: Shut up and Play your guitar?
Comment: Funny, irreverent, and sadistic at times, Zappa's Mother's are onstage and perhaps a little too into theater for my tastes. While I'm not a huge Zappa fan, and perhaps enjoying irreverent theater as music is one of the requirements - I've long admired and enjoyed Zappa guitar playing. His effortless noodling is what I buy his records for. I have a hard time passing up a live session, and so, this one enters the foray - my take, NOT enough noodling.
Without reading the historical background of what this band (this newly constructed Mother's) was made up of, you'd wonder what the Turtle's song is doing there, as did I, and you'd no doubt be a bit struck with all the obsession with fan-based, star-obsessed hilarity.
No matter.
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Summary: DO THE MUD (SHA...SHA...) SHARK!
Comment: I have a select few Zappa albums that I really like, and The Mothers '71 Fillmore album is one of them. There are so many Zappa albums, its real easy to get lost. In my top five this is in the number two spot (Hot Rats is my favorite- I really dig the instrumental direction from this period). The Mothers take a different route on this live outing then they had on previous albums (most likely because its not really the Mothers... it's The Turtles). The story telling style of the set is common on live Zappa; but I don't usually get absorbed in other long winded Zappa rants. The story of the mudshark is kinda nasty but quality entertainment and is delivered with a good pace, and very tight musicianship from the Mothers (Turtles).
Flo and Eddie (The Turtles,) are harmonizing behind Zappas monolougue talk, with the catchy "sha-sha-shark" bit after the stellar instrumental introduction HOUSE I USED TO LIVE. Zappa plays strict guitar in this set, and it's some of his top chops. The band in the story is name dropped as Vanilla Fudge, but the story is actually based on the popular sexual perversions of the Zeppelin boys who are represented by playing their hit single... The Turtles song, Happy Together.
The band really molds though and the album needs to be taken as a whole. The seperate tracks are really just peices of the whole performance. Even though some songs are listed with familiar names, like Willie The Pimp, they have their own formation into the groove. Some of the tracks trump the originals like HOUSE I USED TO LIVE, or the super tight version of PEACHES. Essentially this album exists though only to butter you up to do the mudshark. (ewwwwww.)
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Summary: Not a great FZ album, but it has its moments....
Comment: This is an album of Frank's I don't play that much. It's essentially a comedy album, with most of the material being borderline sleazy, like a carnival barker back in the days when Times Square was a bordello of hedonism. Most of the singing/narration has to do with silly stuff about groupies and their variously demented sexual practices. It comes across as an adolescent who has discovered parts of his and the female's anatomy. It's occasionally amusing, but the instrumentals here are the highlights. There's an excellent solo in Willie the Pimp Part One (though it's not as majestic as the Hot Rats version), and there's a magnificent version of Peaches en Regalia. It's almost as good as the studio version, and it's a lot better than the abysmal Peaches III version on Tinsel Town Rebellion. The song Do You Like My Car? has its moments, but it's best part is when Flo and Eddie say it's time to sing their "hit record", then go into a rather fun rendition of Happy Together, which was their big hit when they were in a little band called The Turtles. Despite the fact that Flo and Eddie say "sing like it's a big rock show" in a very self conscious way, they still give it a great performance and people do sing along.
This is one aspect of Frank's oeveure that I don't really care for. It's still has some good material, but only buy if you're a Zappa completist.
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Summary: Great music and hilarious
Comment: I'm surprised the reviews for this album aren't better. In my opinion after The Allman Brothers live at the Filmore this is the best live album ever! Its hilarious and the musicianship is awesome. I bought it a few weeks ago after not hearing it for a couple of decades. I figured I would listen to it once or twice but I've been listening at least once a day. The songs mock rock stars, groupies, and life on the road. Unlike some reviewers I love Flo and Eddie. They have excellent voices and a self deprecating style that is a perfect fit with Zappa. Only caveat is that there are a couple of lines that are a bit misogynistic. My daughter likes Zappa too but I'm not playing this CD for her.
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Summary: Intense Instrumental Commentary
Comment: The most important aspect of all of Frank's music has been the contrast between parody music (comic?) and the serious parable. On this recording, the minimoog playing and solo guitar are very serious, very formidable. To me these instrumental pieces, although short, express the insanity and hypocrisy of a society in collapse. There are no words to say what can be said by music itself.
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