There are Zappa People, and their are the poor condemned souls who live without color in their lives....🤘

Undoubtedly......The Prized Gem Stone in the Frank Zappa Tiara. Forget Christina Aguilera.......Ray White shows how the Blues is Sung. This whole show is by far one of his Best Live Performances.

Keep it Greasy - from Joe's Garage - ultimate drumming - you'll love it.

Zappa really let loose in the guitar solo!

New York is my favorite Zappa album. Bozzio/O'Hearn rhythm section 🔥. Not to mention White, Jobson, Underwood the Brecker Bros and the Saturday Night Live horn section. Purple Lagoon is insane! 👍

Frank was really frank and he could put anything in a song, no such thing like obscene words, and who was prone to getting offended, got offended. And in his real life, he was notorious with his overwhelming and devastating honesty. Brilliant musicianship, with that monsterous vocals and that razor-edge guitar solo (one of the best that I ever heard). Thanks for all fridays you delivered and you will! ...I think you are ready for Keep It Greesy :)

The enema bandit is actually a true story

ray can peel the paint off the back of the theatre with his voice...so powerful

Pretty soon, you'll hear the Black Page

I remember when this album came out. It was instantly one of my favorites. Thanks for appreciating this song.

One thing I loved about those times is they’re was no violence mixed in to the evening

Little House I Used To Live In from Burnt Weeny Sandwich!

"His ability to shine but not outshine everything else is so good." Well said !! Yes. He was a composer first, an arranger second, and he hired musicians he *wanted* to jam with. Always willing to hang back and let everyone else co-create, (to his compositional template), til the time his part enters and takes its part.

First Zappa show was mid 70's. Felt Forem. NYC. Bongo Fury with Captain Beafheart. 3rd row. Center stage. Evryone was tripping. Lot of guest were in costumes. It was Halloween. 3 young ladies were in front ofus in the second row dressed as fairies. When the show ended and the lights came on they turned around and blew fairy dust in our faces. We all fell over our seats. After that things got really.wild.

I'm convinced that the "cosmic chill " vibe wafting from Franks creations was the only thing keeping me sane through the 70's and beyond! A great anchor to the absurdity of reality during my years of "mind expanding " substance research, allegedly....I was introduced to Zappas music because of my ❤ of the Grateful Dead.

I was lucky to have been in the crowd at one of this weeks NYC shows.

Zappa's a great pick for you cuz he definitely insisted on the drummer(s) were an intregal part of all his compositions and not just glorified metronomes.

That's two or three Zappa songs you've done, 133 albums left to pour through!

Love the old timey crime drama/Dragnet type vamp in the beginning....FZ knew the music to any given context. Ray White kills it here !! 🚬😎👍 Edit: Just copped The Mothers 1970 box set. Gonna get into it when work is finished- gonna be a GREAT Friday night, eh ?....

I love this song. One of my favourite FZs....

Love this particular FZ band members in the live…. Wonderful performance recording! Live in NY rules!

As far as i know the story in the song about the enema bandit is true, which is kinda hilarious but explains why frank would write a song about it

I was able to see Frank in concert. Fantastic show and Frank is so talented!

Regarding Weird Al Yankovic: Common misconception is that he only does straight parodies. Weird Al has 14 studio albums in which about half of the songs are original songs composed by Al himself. Many of these original songs are pastiches, or "style parodies," where he writes a song in the style of a particular artist or music genre. His pastiche of Frank Zappa is called Genius in France. It even features Dweezil playing a guitar solo. Please react to it and help to show people that Weird AL is not a one trick pony. Although he did play a pony named Cheese Sandwich on My Little Pony.

A fantastic group of musicians and a prolific, brutally honest skilled composer with a wicked sense of humour who refuses to sacrifice one once of artistic integrity! FZ is music royalty!! 🤘😏🎹🏆

You should check out one of his early pieces from Freak Out : "WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?" Concise and cutting.

Yes, he could make a song out of anything, be it piddle in the snow or a margarine commercial

Hitting alot of zappa is a dream come true for me. Now if you'd start digging into some Devo, I'll have it all. So glad I found you.

This never gets old!!

Featuring "DON PARDO" woop-woo,woop-woo

Roy Estrada ! Wonder where he is now ! Probably hell ! 😮

Don Pardo was a famous TV announcer at the time. His biggest gig was as the announcer for the game show "Concentration". As for the ZAPPA in New York album, all I can say is, try the first song on the album, it is called "Titties And Beer". Enough info for you?

Being a drummer, "The Black Page" might just be the treat for you.

You need to do the whole album, it's a classic. This song, "Titties and Beer," "Big Leg Emma," even a live version of "Sofa." Worth a listen.

Live liquid gold this one! Love the version of the torture never stops on this album... And basically every other song on it.. Ff-ING genius performance

i hadn't heard this one before. great!! thanks!!

Great reaction Lee. Terry bozzio on drums. I'm proud to say I was at this show 💪🏽🎶🎸

Love your take on our Frank man you totally get it

Great FZ Friday as always. Frank challenged his drummers with the 'Black Page', be interesting to hear your thoughts...

Great. track,love the album.

Saw him in 78 or 79, armadillo in austin tx. He stood there like a conductor. Leading the band with the wand. Whenever he did a solo ,someone would place the guitar on him. Also a bald guy in a robe, who looked like a wrestler. ( i think i saw him on tv ) sitting on a table on the floor in front of the stage, just scanning the audience contantly, perhaps menacingly. I thought is was part of the show but i learned that frank was kncked off the stage once and injured his leg. Thats where the line from " dancing fool" came from " one of my legs is shorter than the other and both of my feets too long"

Has anyone here watched 200 Motels? I love that movie/soundtrack!

"Did you cause this misery?"

Since your on this album you need to do The Purple Lagoon

Yeah!!! I'll subscribe to anyone that can dig Frank! So many memories!

And yes you're right Ruth as well

Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart - Advance Romance Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay

"It's my feeling that lyrics cannot harm anyone. Disturbed people can be set off on a disturbed course of action by any kind of stimulus." - FZ If you want something just a tiny bit hilarious, do a reaction to "Call Any Vegetable" from the album "Absolutely Free".

Frank's solos are always attuned to the songs' content and meanings and Bandit for me is one of his most expressive. Don't think too much about the (w)hole enema process folks and please "no poo poo jokes!" ;)

hahahhaaa... was waiting for you to get to this. don pardo was the voice of your tv back in the day. adds so much ambiance.

Outstanding pick!

That live album is a goldmine.

Ray effin White!

Hi Lee. FYI - A list of the musicians on this album is on wiki.

Don Pardo was famous announcer who ended his career on SNL. This had to be around time FZ was on SNL. Don did a verse of “I’m the Slime”. Many of the musicians you saw on the Joe Cocker/John Belushi duet on SNL are on this album.

Gold

Nice selection from a great album by a great band, of course

First recomendation-- don't go to Wikipedia for truthful information. WAKE UP BOY!

Similarly with Roxy & Elsewhere, Live In New York had mostly material that was only ever done Live and appeared here first. The original version had a track called "Punky's Whips" which was replaced with "Big Leg Emma" after only a few of the Original Pressings were distributed. The 2019 3 LP rerelease had a version of this as well as a few extra tracks included. The 5 CD set has a 28+ minute version of "Black Napkins" that is worth a listen if you have time.

Hot soapy water

If you want to see Frank Zappa Trip out with Pink Floyd in 1968,,,,,,Check out Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive with Frank Zappa (Music Power & European Music Revolution). Roger Waters is so Tripped Out on LSD that he looks Like an AXE Murderer. Trippy Song to say the Least

No poo poo jokes

He is playing with The Mothers' Of Invention.

Yo mama should be next or joes garage

Just be pumpin' every one of 'em Up with all the bag fulla The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag Fulla The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag Fulla The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag Fulla The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice...

Frank :)

Every all thing is there.

Opinion question here: How many folks prefer the original vinyl version of this with the echo added to Don Pardo's voice when announcing the song as well as the echo on Frank's guitar at the beginning of the solo? This version doesn't have that echo. Maybe because I've been used to hearing it since 1978, I prefer the echo. There is no wrong answer, just your preference.

Was that "movie like" enough

Broken hearts are for assholes! Baby don't ya wanna man like me!

Like the New Count Down Intro!!!!

It's a true story, look up google images Michael Kenyon, enema bandit

I heard he's on the loose

Tortured my sister-in-law with this (and all three discs) on a 20 hour turn-around road trip to move her from Joplin, MO to Roswell, NM!

Zappa is an acquired taste,...

Brown shoes don’t make it ….Uncle Meat then go for the next 100 albums

I remember this one. It’s a big dilemma.😂 I don’t know, I don’t think that’s right. I’m wrong again. On this album there are two of my favorite songs of all time. Honey, don’t you want a man like me and titties and beer.

You can't do that on stage any more!

Black page

Hey Peter K. Zappa prime peak era 75-early 78. One size fits all thru sheik yer bouti with Baby snakes movie concert in between. A discussion with Peter K years ago, believing the organic Zappa style of 72-74 was the prime Frank, however, he missed the point that Frank did the roxy and elsewhere styles, waka jawaka, hot rats jazzy rock styles even with Bozzio a\after mid 75,and it sounded better mixing it with a garden variety Pop rock style. Bongo Fury album had the one size fits all crew except they added Bozzio and Beefheart, Starting with this new mid 75 band and changing the lineup to. Ray white, then Adrian Belew after Ray White, to Tommy Mars after Eddie Jobson, Tommy Mars and peter wold, DOUBLE KEYS!, better sounding than one Duke. A more appropriate fitting combination for the next Pop rock jazz ,organic fusion combined into a more modern Frank style that made him the most money in concerts and sales of albums. musically and technically. This became 75-mid 78, Franks prime era not compared to any other of any time before or after. Just finished listening to the most mind boggling guitar solos and drumming ,better than SHut up series, in the baby snakes concert series, guitar solo package played in the Peter K way of very organic styles, not using dimarzio pickups as he did with Vinnie colaiuta in the shut up series or tinsel town.. He was organically playing his SG in thee solos october 1977 to Feb 78 and a few months with vinnie mid 78.Then changed to the pickups taking away getting further away of your organic idea.. Guitar solos, october 28 thru 31 1977 especially late show 10/28 second half of album..

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