Drummer reacts to "Trouble Every Day" by The Mothers of Invention

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Thank you to our patron Johnny F for this FUNKY pick. Frank really did invent rap. That's wild, bro. Is there nothing this man cannot do? And he was really getting it in too... What a man. RIP my friend.
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@jimmeltonbradley1497 4 ай бұрын

Freak Out set the stage for the rest of Zappa's brilliant musical journey. There's been nobody like him since.

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

Probably never will be either. The perfect mix of genius and crazy. Which usually goes hand in hand anyways but frank is a special case. He's both fully a freaky dude and the truest talent we had back then, it seems. He's a facisnating chap

@thescrewfly 4 ай бұрын

A classic of my youth. Now we all need to hear "Help I'm a Rock" from this album or "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" (the Absolutely Free version). Hard to believe it was recorded in 1966, even though I didn't hear it until 1968. The Mothers of Invention were the first band I ever saw in concert (as opposed to local bands outdoors) on the Uncle Meat tour in 1969. Ray Collins was "playing" a rubber chicken most of the time since he was fairly superfluous. As Frank said at the start "this will be mostly instrumental music from our new record". Uncle Meat is still one of my favourite albums of all time.

@arnesaknussemm7294 4 ай бұрын

Freak out was released on June of 66 (not 1967). At that time Zappa and Dylan just sing in a rap-kinda. Flow, as you said. Great reaction, great Channel, and i've been through the same shit as you during my life (but now i'm clean, 13 years....from the day my little Daughter born) so i easily relate with you. Sorry for my bad written english, Lee. A hug from Sicily (Italy).

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

Wow bro yeah you can definitely relate. The day I found out I was gonna be a dad was 10/15/20 and I haven't used since :) glad to have you aboard my friend. Thank you for watching 😁

@jeffmartin1026 4 ай бұрын

I was 15 when this came out and I have been a fan ever since. He was speaking truth from the beginning. Music from this LP was used in the movie Medium Cool.

@scottmorris7546 4 ай бұрын

listen to all of freak out- plenty of doo-wop. but then there is : help, I'm a rock!"

@lipby 4 ай бұрын

"Help I'm a Rock" is nuts.

@johnnyfrederick01 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for playing my pic. The whole album really sets the stage for Frank’s music. When you do “Return of the Son of Monster Magnet” you will be on the far end of the FZ Universe, the extreme end from doo-wop and blues.

@arizrich 4 ай бұрын

Just remember, Brown Shoes Don't Make It!

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 4 ай бұрын

@@arizrich quit school why fake it.

@arizrich 4 ай бұрын

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 TV dinner by the pool!

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 4 ай бұрын

@@arizrich and we can go on, good work.👍

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for support Johnny! This was awesome! You weren't kidding in your request.

@jamespuleo3269 4 ай бұрын

*"Who Are the Brain Police?"*

@kerbygator 4 ай бұрын

What will you do if we let you go home, And the plastic's all melted And so is the chrome? Who are the brain police?

@robertbasine8842 4 ай бұрын

A great follow up to this would be MORE TROUBLE EVERY DAY off the 1974 Roxy & Elsewhere album … a super cool reinvention of this song.

@tinicum54 4 ай бұрын

I bought this album in 1967, when I was 13. Song is about the Watts riots.

@jazzzman8050 4 ай бұрын

This 1st Mother’s album was from ‘65. This song was inspired by the Watts riots in LA in that summer. The musical style is from the long tradition of “talking blues”, in blues and folk music, the precursor to rap. Your main point is spot on…69 years ago, and not a f’ing thing has changed. Frank recognized this as a very young man. 👍

@outernothingness1177 4 ай бұрын

59, actually. But that doesn't take anything away from your point.

@Royale_with_Cheeze 4 ай бұрын

@@outernothingness1177 66 actually... How the hell do you come up with 59?

@outernothingness1177 4 ай бұрын

@@Royale_with_Cheeze The comment I answered said it was 69 years ago, and that was what I was commenting. But you're right: it was recorded in March 1966, and not in '65 as he(?) claimed. So it's a mere 58 years ago.

@Royale_with_Cheeze 4 ай бұрын

@@outernothingness1177 My bad. I took it as a correction to jazzman saying it's from '65, which was wrong, of course. Carry on. Cool username by the way.

@richardmiller1289 4 ай бұрын

Freak out came out in 66 not 65, I'm right.

@leddygee1896 Ай бұрын

Once again Frank is ahead of the curve when it comes to creativity, originality and flow. It was like that throughout his career... Pushing buttons and boundaries!!

@steveowens2505 4 ай бұрын

The live Roxy take is very good too. Has more groove and updated arrangement.

@lawrencesmith6536 4 ай бұрын

I bought this album when it came out and I was 14 yrs old. I am still weird (and I blame Zappa). That song still sounds fresh today. Thanks for the reaction

@arizrich 4 ай бұрын

I blame Frank too. But I don't mind.

@johnnyfrederick01 4 ай бұрын

Me too. I’d put a Mother’s record on at a party and (almost) everyone would “Freak Out” 😂😂😂

@arizrich 4 ай бұрын

@@johnnyfrederick01 My friends and I used to sing "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" on the school bus. I imagine a kid doing that these days would be expelled...

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed Lawrence. I know that I am becoming stranger after every entry into the frank world.

@richardmiller1289 4 ай бұрын

This is from 1966, the year I was born. Zapped..😋

@EdwardGregoryNYC 4 ай бұрын

Maybe not first. Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues came out in '65. Frank is probably riffing on that - thus the "play your harmonica" reference. Later, he goofs on Bob more directly on Flakes.

@SoundLevel11481 4 ай бұрын

Beatles had: Sargent Peppers. Zappa had: We're Only in it for the Money. Zappa (an anti-beetles guy) decided to make a parody of Srg Peppers. No secret... Frank was making a bold statement to the Beetles the most popular band in the world. Frank + Mothers album cover was an exact parody to the Srg P, except Frank in a short Dress and the rest.... Frank called out the Beetles for being money-grabbers, so he called his album "We're only in it for the Money" Frank's version is not all strawberry fields... it was actually a depiction of the Fake Hippy movement in San Fran 1960's and also strongly Anti-war. Probably the very first album to try and sell a story. Only in it for the money is made up of many 2 -- 3 minutes tunes, all narrated by different noises, words, or Frank Images. The album make (zero sense) unless you play the songs together. That is why you will never hear someone request a tune from it, because a 2 minute segment is meaningless.

@Alix777. 4 ай бұрын

Why does no one ever react to this masterpiece ? Top 3 Zappa album imo

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 4 ай бұрын

Sgt Peppers was the Beatles attempt to do what Frank did with Freak Out, they openly admitted it.

@bookhouseboy280 4 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. Agree. Undoubtedly one of his very best.

@arizrich 4 ай бұрын

I was 12 when I first heard this, it opened my eyes.

@rodneygriffin7666 4 ай бұрын

Uncle Frank. 1966. Civil rights movement!

@ChasBeauregarde 4 ай бұрын

Zappa was great for re-arranging his song for different versions. Check out his version of this song live from “The Roxy and Elsewhere” album.

@craigfazekas3923 4 ай бұрын

Agreed. Son of Orange County ? That guitar solo is my fave FZ guitar moment- and I have a ton of faves.... 🚬😎👍

@ChasBeauregarde 4 ай бұрын

Oh yeah! He used to plug parts of one song into another to make a whole new jam Chunga’s Revenge/King Kong etc..Part of his “conceptual continuity”@@craigfazekas3923

@RatzoBHarris 4 ай бұрын

Zappa was a self-recognized authority on Edgar Varese!

@Royale_with_Cheeze 4 ай бұрын

Frank's mother asked him what he wanted for his 15th birthday, and that it could be as much as $5.00 He said he'd like to make a long-distance phone call to New York to speak to Edgard Varese. Frank looked up the name in various phone books - I don't know how a kid in 1955 figured out how to do that - and when he came upon the name in Greenwich Village NY, he figured that HAD to be THE Edgard Varese. He made the call and spoke to Varese's wife who told him Edgard was away in Europe at the time. Varese wrote a letter to Frank telling him he wished they were able to speak and that he was composing a piece titled Deserts. Living in the Mojave Desert, Frank beamed about that.

@cojaysea 4 ай бұрын

Love this song . I have it memorized since I first heard it when I was 16 now I’m 74 and I can still recite this word for word . Love it ! Listen to Hungry freaks daddy ! First rap song ever by the way .

@SnoopySnoops1 4 ай бұрын

I love the flow on this. Great pick Johnny F.

@stevebinning977 4 ай бұрын

Elliott Ingber and Roy Estrada were also members of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band.

@shemanic1 4 ай бұрын

Another superb Zappa rap. Cheers dude.

@wolftracks9010 4 ай бұрын

"We're involved in sort of a low key war against apathy. A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might, just for a second, question enough of their environment, to do something about it." - FZ

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

Zappa was playing 4d chess while us mud people were still banging coconuts together

@Royale_with_Cheeze 4 ай бұрын

There's more to that statement, and very prescient. It continues with: "As long as they don't feel their environment, they don't worry about it... they're not going to do anything about it to change it. Add something's gotta be done before America scarfs up the world and shits on it." FZ, 1968

@zappafanseeker1099 4 ай бұрын

Another excellent song choice. For decades, I have felt that this song is not just the most impactful song on Freakout, but one of the earliest examples of what has become Rap music, especially the middle section from when Frank says " Heeyy, you know something people , I'm not black, but there's a whole lots of times I wish I could say I'm not white.' Personally I feel that is one of the greatest lines ever spoken.

@timfeeley714-25 4 ай бұрын

Frank's first rap song, his last rap song was called Promiscuous and came out on the 1988 album Broadway the Hardway. She Drew the Gun and the Specials do great covers of trouble coming every day.

@Alix777. 4 ай бұрын

Not very interesting musically. Lyrics are great tho

@EightStrings1 4 ай бұрын

The Mother's Auxiliary on Freak Out and on several other of the early albums are none other than members of the famed Wrecking Crew who recorded the backing tracks for many notable tunes from the 60s. FZ was apparently unique in that he was one of the few artists who insisted in having his own band members play on the recordings as well. There are some interesting stories on the KZfaqs about how the session musicians, during the recording sessions for Lumpy Gravy initially dismissed FZ as a hippie whack job, but then quickly learned that he very much knew what he was doing. Also interesting story about how bassist Carole Kaye politely refused to play his music after the first album because of her discomfort with the lyrical content. They apparently remained friends after that. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the great reactions!

@johnnyfrederick01 4 ай бұрын

And then there are all the Zappa-produced groups, like Alice Cooper, Capt. Beefheart, the GTO’s, Wildman Fischer, Jeff Buckley, Essra Mohawk all on Bizzare/Straight records. Lenny Bruce also was on that FZ-created label.

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

A hippie whack job who just happened to be the best musician of the generation. Both things can be true lol 😆 I think Frank's genius isn't even really understood to the fullest extent yet. He is totally unique

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

I appreciate your comment my friend thank you for watching 😁

@bobschenkel7921 4 ай бұрын

Since you mentioned how we as human's have "deevolved", you should do some DEVO, like either "Mongoloid" or their cover of The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", a version that Stones lead singer Mick Jagger preferred over The Stones version. Or anything else off their first album, your choice L33.

@Royale_with_Cheeze 4 ай бұрын

Put those lyrics to a modern beat and you have a legit rap song. Zappa, rap before the genre existed.

@lipby 4 ай бұрын

The second half off off this album really helped kick off the late 60s mutant freak scene

@poptart4260 3 ай бұрын

He knew it from the very beginning

@StefanoBartaletti 4 ай бұрын

Welcome to a harsh view of contemporary society. Never gets old, "ahead of their time" should be your next step

@matto9734 4 ай бұрын

I know this from "Roxy And Elsewhere" live. You gotta check out that version, so much more enriched and crazy in the best way but... i didn´t know of this earlier version.

@howieg7547 4 ай бұрын

FZ what a unique and creative talent and the prodigious output of work he achieved during his lifetime is phenomenal. On a par with my other fave guitarist and musical visionary Jimi Hendrix.

@kevinsmith4429 4 ай бұрын

The origin of Rap,no shit. Don't miss out on Weasels Rip My Flesh.

@kevinsmith4429 4 ай бұрын

Anybody out there still have their Pi Zappa Crappa poster?

@kevinlundgren1169 4 ай бұрын

I first heard this over 40 years ago , and boom , I was hooked on Zappa . My brother had the tape , Zappa , Mother's , Roxy and Elsewhere . Fantastic album ! Now , 40 some years later , I have hours and hours of Zappa . Sorry , I do not consider this hip-hop , this is Zappa !

@craigfazekas3923 4 ай бұрын

Back when FZ used a pachuco affectation while speaking.... 🚬😎👍

@ralphcroce9077 4 ай бұрын

Try "hungry freaks, daddy" from the same album

@SPKdesign1 4 ай бұрын

Mi fave track fi the early LPs

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

This is that good shit right here

@SPKdesign1 4 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts Check oot The Last Poets from the late 60s early 70s. "When The Revolution Comes" or "Mean Machine" are probably safe to play on KZfaq without getting pulled.

@rodneygriffin7666 4 ай бұрын

This was recorded before Martin Luther King was assassinated. 2 years later he was. I hope someday All People can be free. Truly free. In the dream of MLK. Love.

@rb9628 4 ай бұрын

Int the last verse where Zappa sings "if a million more agree there ain't no great society" is a dig at President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society government program of the mid 1960s.

@bobschenkel7921 4 ай бұрын

Besides the Watts Towers, this is what the Watts riots of the mid-60's has wrought. Thanks Frank, and friends.

@wowwhywow 4 ай бұрын

well...he didn't do it first... but he is definitely ONE of the first rappers... but Zappa was doing something he heard on a doo wop song by The Cadets named Stranded in the Jungle...so...oddly... there is a connection between Trouble Every Day and Doo Wop Zappa....Anyways... Stranded in the Jungle from 1956 is very close to being the first rap song, and Zappa does a cover of it.

@toddmitchell7542 4 ай бұрын

A later version might appeal to you as well, “ getting sick from watching MTV”…….. it’s more about the industry, instead of world stuff…….Thanks for starting my day right.😊

@johnnyfrederick01 4 ай бұрын

I think you’re referring to “I Am the Slime” maybe from Overnight Sensation? Another song where Zappa does some proto-rapping (1973)

@toddmitchell7542 4 ай бұрын

@@johnnyfrederick01 Thank You, although I love “The Slime”, what I am referring to is, “Does Humor Belong in Music? Live”, released in ‘86, track 3 Trouble Every Day .

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 4 ай бұрын

This album changed the beatles sound. They went from a boy band to an experimental sounding band, but still mainly wrote love songs, something Frank never did. The beatles openly admitted Sgt Peppers was their attempt to do what Frank did with Feak Out.

@ElCentralScrutinizer 4 ай бұрын

Great choice. From the Watts Riots, when it was written, to the riots after cops got off free for beating Rodney King, to the riots in Minnesota and elsewhere after the murdered after their cops murdered another (black) man. It fit's all three so well.

@mikefitznb1 4 ай бұрын

this was my very first zappa album in early 70's....saw him 7 times in concert and have about 30 cd's.....the guy knew his shit and did take any crap.....look for his hearings in congress...he named names of some of the jackass's there (and in some of his songs too...he started "Barking pumpkins studio" because the record companies wouldn't print his music so he said fuck you I'll do it myself...most know his music thru word of mouth

@kristinemckee9279 4 ай бұрын

My ears just won’t let it into my head…

@fredwallin815 4 ай бұрын

Your the only person that has reacted to this.

@joeyblowey123456 4 ай бұрын

1965? 2024? Same shit, different year.

@howieg7547 4 ай бұрын

Sad beyond belief that the same divisive, disruptive shit is still being handed down to us, day-in, day-out by the twisted psycopaths at the helm, after all this time, and the mind-numbing apathy which allows it to continue ad nauseum!

@robertburz8350 4 ай бұрын

I saw The Tubes do this version about 15 or 20 years ago. Caught me completely off guard.

@tinicum54 4 ай бұрын

The Tubes!! I saw them live in 77.

@erikahlander3489 4 ай бұрын

You should really do "Who are the brain police?" (Album audio version!) and discuss its possible impact on music onward. This was long before Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper. Even before Arthur Brown's iconic "Fire"! (But of course after Holst's the Planets, 1919) It is a very odd album in all, but that one piece sticks out as very holocaustic.

@alandoyle8880 4 ай бұрын

You need to check out Zappa playing with Pink Floyd it’s available on KZfaq.

@MisterWondrous 4 ай бұрын

Your best day yet, imo. Very fortunate indeed. A reactor would be blessed to premiere any one of these, and to have four sublime songs...alls I can say is that it must be your good karina. Or ours. I will assume (this making an ass of me and thee ((no wait, that would be to "assmethee")) (((Never mind!))) the fifth song is also epic, though I'm not sure if I know this one here, the first.

@craigfazekas3923 4 ай бұрын

Don't be scared- do Billy The Mountain !! 1. Carnegie Hall version 2. Playground Psychotics version 3. Just Another Band from L.A. version Be ready, once you do.... 🚬😎👍

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

I've already done it lol it's in my zappa playlist

@craigfazekas3923 4 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts oopsy !! Hey, the Carnegie Hall version has it's additions....maybe a re-visit at some point, who knows ? Later, Lee !! 🚬😎👍

@johncollier9280 4 ай бұрын

To me the ultimate Mothers album is We're Only In It For The Money. You could pick any track 'n be blown away but if you pick only one...may it be the last...The Chrome Plated Megaphone O' Destiny...be forewarned.

@timjefferson2137 4 ай бұрын

This song and Uncle Remus are bookends to the civil rights movement of the time. The latter bemoaning the transition from activism to little more than a fashion statement (and knocking the jockeys off the rich peoples' lawns). If you were ever curious about the trajectory of the current movement, sadly there's a road map, and it's this.

@williamflinchum-qo6ch 4 ай бұрын

You should checkout Little Feat/ Rocket in my Pocket/ off the live album/ Waiting for Colombus/ Killer😮😮😊/ Thx Lee

@eximusic 4 ай бұрын

The most ordinary song off that entire album. Try "Help I'm A Rock" next. Way more interesting and trippy.

@robertlear2712 4 ай бұрын

A great song. Suggest another song Peaches En Regalia.

@HakanTunaMuzik 4 ай бұрын

1966, not 67.

@ploppill34 4 ай бұрын

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@fostercathead 4 ай бұрын

Help! I'm a rock!

@KawaTony1964 4 ай бұрын

Wait - "Hip Hop and Rap"? No way. Are there really any hip hop or rap songs with drums and a guitar solo? How many Hip Hop and Rap songs have a harmonica in them (zero)? This is blues rock, man.

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

There are plenty. Google it lol

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

I'm not saying this is rap. I'm saying this is frank pioneering a genre without even knowing it. This is almost note for note what hip hop of the past few decades. The cadence or Flow. The political nature of the lyrics. The "sample" of the harmonica as a hook basically. You can call this "blues rock" if you want but I disagree lol I know there is a whole history to it but in retrospect this should be grandfathered into hip hop. Thanks for playing ▶️

@mikeconway9103 4 ай бұрын

Now do ‘I’m the Slime’!

@L33Reacts 4 ай бұрын

That might be coming down the drain pipe soon. 😉

@mikeconway9103 4 ай бұрын

Appreciate you!

@KawaTony1964 4 ай бұрын

I haven't looked up yet how many Zappa songs you've listened to, but, just in case you don't know: this song is way more normal bluesy rock-n-roll than most of his music. Most of his stuff is way weirder than this, much of awesome, some of it not really my cup of tea. But that's what you get when a real artist is experimenting and trying to create.

@tomratcliff3755 4 ай бұрын

This is actually the song that got Zappa a record deal. They thought he was r&b. Oops!

@thescrewfly 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, Tom Wilson went to see them (at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go I believe) and only stayed long enough to hear this one.

@DrStrangelove3891 4 ай бұрын

This is talkin' blues I would say, not rap. It sounds very much like Dylan when he first went electric.

@lassekristoffersen5906 4 ай бұрын

You can not make this happening in 65 unless you allready then knew you some years later would teach us all not to eat the yellow snow. Frank knew where the huskydogs was when he was five.

@richardmiller1289 4 ай бұрын

In my opinion Zappa and the Mother's best album is were only in it for the money From 68, it's one of those albums you have to listen to in its entirety because every track runs into each other. Check it out you'll dig it. 👅

@4tuneagent 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I love that album. Quite the experience! Started with Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe, and Only In It For the Money, back in the 70's. Then got into Zoot Allures, Live In New York, Bongo Fury, One Size Fits All, and Joe's Garage when it came out. Freak Out was a hard, almost rare, record to find in the late 70's, way before CD's were invented. Was able to pick it up on Vinyl in the 80's when Frank released the Old Masters Box Set. The first 4 LP's plus mystery disc.