This album is amazing

Love Zappa.

Gunsnhalen said:

This album is amazing

Love every track.
But after hearing the album so many times over the years, these two have become favorites.



...It Must Be A Camel



Music for adventurous listeners


tA

Tribal Records

Gunsnhalen said:

This album is amazing...

yes. yes it is.

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This was my introduction to the world of FZ....

I know people hate the word, "Fusion" but IMO, Frank Zappa is one of the pioneers of merging Jazz and Rock...

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Zappa was always a genius anyways...

Never heard this album so thanks for posting.

I remember taking acid to a Zappa album back in ye olde days, I think it was called "Guitar" and was (what sounded like but probably was nothing like) an hour and a half of nothing but guitar solos, it was shitting brilliant.

TheDigitalGardener said:

...called "Guitar" and was (what sounded like but probably was nothing like) an hour and a half of nothing but guitar solos, it was shitting brilliant.

that's exactly what it is. and it's brilliant sober, i can only imagine how much more so while tripping.

peedub said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

...called "Guitar" and was (what sounded like but probably was nothing like) an hour and a half of nothing but guitar solos, it was shitting brilliant.

that's exactly what it is.

Thank you.

acid opened me up to this album, especially this track...love this solo.

and another favorite solo (at about 4:20)...

and when did so much freakin' zappa get on youtube?

"Hot Rats" was played in the room as my wife gave birth to my son Zappa who will be a year old on the same birthdate as Elvis and Bowie!

sunlite said:

"Hot Rats" was played in the room as my wife gave birth to my son Zappa who will be a year old on the same birthdate as Elvis and Bowie!

Wow! that is pretty badass man great story to tell the youngins as they grow older.

peedub said:

acid opened me up to this album, especially this track...love this solo.

and another favorite solo (at about 4:20)...

and when did so much freakin' zappa get on youtube?

Get a little i love that intro lol

i recognise zappa as a brilliant musician but i have yet to really ''get'' his recorded work....i havent heard that much i admit...i will sit down and listen to ''hot rats'' ...i find what i have heard as very lightweight...his ''joke'' songs are fun but it wears a bit thin when you want to hear some great songs.....any tips on what are his ''great'' tracks ..other than the comedy stuff...the most impressive track i have heard so far is ''watermelon in easter hay''...

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Hot Rats is fantastic, maybe too fantastic. I love the album but it is so good that his other similar albums (The Grand Wazoo, Waka/Jawaka and the King Kong album with Jean-Luc Ponty) pale slightly in comparison. Still, I would have loved it if he had done more music like Hot Rats.