Frank Zappa's 'Apostrophe' LP

[Bevo Incognito]

Listening to it right now.

This is one of those perfect LP's like Ziggy Stardust or Dark Side of the Moon. Every song is just perfect.

Anybody else a fan?

 

[FAST FRED]

I listened to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart back in the day and still have some of their vinyl albums.

And I was lucky enough to see Zappa play the Armadillo World Headquarters in the seventies.

"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" was performed.

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Flo and Eddie, former leaders of The Turtles, were singing many of the vocal parts.

Frank would direct the music looking a bit like Groucho Marx, he'd growl his narrative, sardonic vocals and play cool, scalar lead guitar.

Memorable show, the musicians were really good and it was entertaining and mind expanding for me.

The best song that evening, I thought, was "Moving To Montana,"

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Seeing and hearing those talented dudes and one dudette play their motley combination of brass, woodwinds, strings, bass, keyboards and percussion with Zappa's technical, but soulful, guitar solos and his Vincent Price sounding "singing" was really interesting.

Xylophone and marimba were used on many parts that today could be performed on synthesizer keyboards.

The were about fifteen musicians on stage.

Lots of odd time signatures, interesting musical arrangement and evocative instrumental orchestration.

The band was really tight and Frank directed everything and floated over it all whenever he played.

He never played the guitar while doing a vocal.

His simple, droning, monotone vocals were very effective in contrast to the colorful and varied musical accompaniment

The music was so very precisely done and a huge contrast to the run of the mill, masturbatory, extended guitar jams that you could hear elsewhere in those days

They also did "Peaches En Regalia" and "The Orange County Lumber Truck"

Yeah, I remain a fan.

 

[schnarkle]

Apostrophe is awesome.

"But I got zee crystal ball!"

 

[beaVo]

joes garage has always been my favorite Zappa album.

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

Look here brother
who you jiving with that cosmik debris?

 

[Joe Fan]

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[Third Coast]

The day the dillo closed, was kind of like the day the music died.