Drummer reacts to "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" & "Dumb All Over" by Frank Zappa

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This video also features "Heavenly Bank Account" but I can't fit it in the title so here it is lol. Thank you are to resident zappa head Peter K for such a thought provoking and ONCE AGAIN new side of Frank I didn't know existed. This was... a chimera of music. So many different little pieces of genres thrown together with an ounce of RELIGIOUS CORRUPTION that only Frank can break down... and break it down he did. God, I love this man. What a mind.
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• The Meek Shall Inherit... - the meek
• Dumb All Over - dumb
• Heavenly Bank Account - heavenly
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@belalugrisi1614 3 ай бұрын

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." ~ Frank Zappa

@mattreynolds612 3 ай бұрын

Dunb all over was a pretty dope rap song for the time it came out. IMHO ✊🤘🎶🎶🎵🎶

@bernardsalvatore1929 3 ай бұрын

Frank Zappa doing rap long BEFORE rap even started!! That's how AHEAD of his time Zappa was!!!😮❤

@gmcsrbosavl6964 3 ай бұрын

Meek Shall Inherit Nothing has one of my favorite lines ever. These are words to live by. If everyone could do this, there would be no war and we would all live in prosperity until the Sun burns out. “Do what you wanna, do what will, just don’t mess up your neighbor’s thrill. And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip for the next poor sucker on his one way trip.”

@matthewoconnor5838 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant album,Zappa always nailed it.

@staplafara Ай бұрын

When i heard "Dumb all over" for the first time with a friend who liked Zappa too, i was totally hypnotized by the at first monotone structure. But with good headphones you hear that he played with all sorts of musical gimmicks in the studio. I could hear the bass and drum line for an hour, it´s mesmerizing. By the way, i spoke only german at the time and had no clue what it was all about. But i loved the album. Thanks from Germany

@mattreynolds612 3 ай бұрын

It helps you understand all the political commentary if you listen to the album as a whole. Best political satire album ever!!!

@jessem470 3 ай бұрын

Youre gonna love Dumb All Over

@Alix777. 3 ай бұрын

I hope this is the live version

@jessem470 3 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. i hope it doesn’t cut off in fade out , there is a short version but needs to be full album version

@Royale_with_Cheeese 3 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. The best version of Dumb All Over is the live version from Have I Offended Someone? I expect that because the reaction is to Meek and Dumb, they're both from YAWYI.

@jessem470 3 ай бұрын

I will check it out

@BobBenson-qz8lp 3 ай бұрын

Frank or Vai on that solo? Verdict is still out.

@TheUtke 3 ай бұрын

You’ve got to do the ‘Side 2’ suite. Society pages through Conehead!

@TombHermance 3 ай бұрын

nice job. I hope you review the entire album. It’s classic & lays everything out in an ultimate rock soap opera. Cheers!

@brianvernon249 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for these two. They apparently fell thru my cracks. The 2nd song made me think “some bovine perspiration on her upper lip area.”

@smithpm81 3 ай бұрын

you are what you is is one of his very best LPs

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

If this is evidence of the rest, I tend to agree. This was frank at his almost best? Lyrically. He was on literal fire here.

@HareDeLune 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts Frank went back to his roots here. That choral background singing, with the juxtaposed "galloping" parts where he snidely injects the corrupt behaviors. That exact same motif is used on his second album 'Absolutely Free' in the song 'Brown Shoes Don't Make It', about a corrupt government official who likes to have fun with little girls. (Sorry for possible spoilers)

@toda304 3 ай бұрын

Lee You and Frank both get it , Right on Bro

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

He was a smart dude. He saw through it.

@leddygee1896 3 ай бұрын

Frank Zappa... Master Of The Sonic Air Sculpture.

@patrickcadge-moore6916 3 ай бұрын

Probably not many evangelists were (or are) listening to Zappa

@timjefferson2137 3 ай бұрын

Evangelicals don't listen to anything that promotes reason very much.

@HareDeLune 3 ай бұрын

Oh, somebody was listening. Then they decided they'd had enough. First was the appearance before Congress, in which Frank pissed a lot of people off. Then there was this album, and a couple more, which really pissed a lot of people off. Then Frank suddenly gets sick (because the doc failed to catch it in early stages) and dies. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. You decide.

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

@@HareDeLune Many say and believe that it was more than coincidence. I am one of them.

@GoodCorporateRobot 3 ай бұрын

Seems like this was a great request because you went all in. Honestly not the reaction I expected but I get it. All good. I can recipe Dumb All Over front to back. Lol. Great reaction and I love Frank Fridays!

@HareDeLune 3 ай бұрын

Popular saying among old Zappa fans: "Zappa is Frank." Been waiting a while for a good opportunity to drop that little nugget. He-he-he!

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

At the age of 18 my son asked about Zappa. I gave him a copy this album to listen to it. It took him 12 months of continual play for him to get to the second record. Purely because every time he heard something different. He now has everything Frank Zappa released.

@xane4101 2 ай бұрын

The underlying solo on the outro is one of the better ones, just lsiten to it while the chorus goez "Dumb all over, a litte ugly on the side"!.......you'll love it! Zappa Lives!

@theeloquentbaby 3 ай бұрын

Wow. What a refrain. “Dumb all over a little ugly on the side”… I love how soberly they sing it.

@waltercrain2910 3 ай бұрын

good stuff there! i be thing yo be readyin' yosef up fo' some "thing fish" 'taters. "thing fish" is a triple album, opera sort of silly thing. (dale and terry bozzio appear, ike features heavily.) many, many conceptual continuity threads tangled up in there.... when i was listen to this reaction, i was also hearing the thing fish versions in my head.... hahahaha... so freakin' much fun.

@mattreynolds612 3 ай бұрын

3:48 pedal steel guitar is what gives that country feel. 🌈✨

@poptart4260 2 күн бұрын

The Holy Hand Grenade

@georgegonzalez1996 3 ай бұрын

Check out the song “You Are What You Is” on this same album. He’s got more truth bombs on that tune.

@jimholt1888 3 ай бұрын

Lee....I appreciate your ramblings, all inspired by and through rock music. Fucking awesome. 🤘✌️

@wolftracks9010 3 ай бұрын

"I don't think prayer in its truest sense is anything to scuff at, but the sad fact is that people are being manipulated and used, and their life energy, their life force used for the personal benefit of the Video Energy Vampire, who leads them in prayer. This is the essence of televangelism." - FZ

@wowwhywow 3 ай бұрын

Great reaction...sorry I wasn't here live. Frank did not hold back when talking about televengalists.

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed my friend.

@GoodCorporateRobot 3 ай бұрын

Only Frank Zappa calls god out.

@RalphSpoiledsport 3 ай бұрын

before I start listenin' ...Hell, yeah!

@jeffmartin1026 3 ай бұрын

Songs/lyrics like these are why I still miss Frank.

@DWHarper62 3 ай бұрын

1980... This "rap" song predates "The Message" by a couple years... Actually the socially concious rap was invented by Zappa with Trouble Every Day in 1966...

@Driecnk 3 ай бұрын

Subterranean homesick blues

@smithpm81 3 ай бұрын

you aint gwine up to hebben LOL

@abercrab 3 ай бұрын

Think you'd like Gogol Bordello's "Supertheory of Supereverything" Great song in general with similar philosophy regarding biblical scripture as you. Would be a good intro to Gogol Bordello in general.

@daveseidnergd 3 ай бұрын

This is a top 3 Zappa album for me, maybe even top 2. One Size Fits All is definitely my number 1. YAWYI and Hot Rats go back and forth as numbers 2 and 3 for me. I freaking love every song on this album and the way they're all strung together. Beware of PC police if playing the title track.

@Peter-K 3 ай бұрын

Well, I had a feeling Lee would like this, but boy it sure did trigger him, in a good way. Always question, those that think they have the answers are just lying to themselves. Frank knew that, sounds like you do too.

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

You rock bro thank you for this one. This was a savage takedown from frank lol

@joshuabruner9676 2 ай бұрын

Hey, that schtick of telling the viewer to go away was funny

@L33Reacts 2 ай бұрын

😆😆😆🤪

@poptart4260 2 күн бұрын

Try n to wake everyone up !!

@scottirwin3426 3 ай бұрын

The Truth the Whole Truth and nothing But the TRUTH so help me ZAPPA

@mikedemike5393 2 ай бұрын

Most dont realise that Frank was religious...Not denomination religious but religious,,,if anyone wants to challenge that assertion, I'll show you a little video where Frank says it from his own mouth

@leddygee1896 3 ай бұрын

"Dumb All Over" Is My Personal Assessment Of The Human Race In General...

@MarkStarCrashes71 3 ай бұрын

You should do a reaction to Gil Scott-Heron. I think you'd dig him hard.

@bobd7855 3 ай бұрын

I saw the You are what you is, tour in NY, and still have the T shirt

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

which t shirt, I might still have one

@bobd7855 2 ай бұрын

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 The one with a picture of Frank on the front, and says, You are what you is. Then, North America tour, Barking pumpkin on the back.

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

@@bobd7855 yellow?

@bobd7855 2 ай бұрын

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Light blue

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

@@bobd7855 Okay, I have a yellow one. I guess we both win 😉

@richgaluppo4417 3 ай бұрын

What the hell version is this?

@farmersteve661 3 ай бұрын

I know right ? I thought it was just me. I had a cassette tape with complete different mixes of these songs . Are these versions from the YAWYI album ??? I’m going down the rabbit hole now. 🐇🕳️🎸🔥

@chitownlee 3 ай бұрын

Frank did a great version of The Meek Shall Inherit on SNL. It's a hard to find video but if one of your younger viewers can find it and send it to you that would be great. Sorry I'm old and computer illiterate 😆

@Driecnk 3 ай бұрын

Any Slayer

@johnbyrnes7912 3 ай бұрын

Sorry Lee but the sound was unclear for my ears! 😹

@williamflinchum-qo6ch 3 ай бұрын

Bonnie Raitt Give it up 1972/ Killer

@SpaceCattttt 3 ай бұрын

Three Atheist anthems, back to back. NICE! 😊

@WilliamWiest1959 3 ай бұрын

Frank did believe in the Big Note

@SpaceCattttt 3 ай бұрын

@@WilliamWiest1959 Nothing religious or spiritual about that. Simply vibrations.

@WilliamWiest1959 3 ай бұрын

@@SpaceCattttt I would agree, I've been studying Particle Wave Duality and find it fascinating.

@frankbotterweck8938 2 ай бұрын

you are what you is, sheik yer bout, one size fits all, apostrophe, overnite sensation, hot rats, studio tan, chungas revenge, the grand wazoo

@thomasvieth578 3 ай бұрын

How is it though that Buddhism often is seen more as a philosophy than a religion? At least by me😊

@marcvanderiet5592 3 ай бұрын

TAX THE CHURCHES!

@SH-fp2wr 3 ай бұрын

TAX THE BUSINESS OWNED BY THE CHURCHES

@corawheeler9355 3 ай бұрын

@@SH-fp2wr Right. Houses of worship are one thing .. 1st Amendment would not want unpopular religions taxed out of business. But churches own businesses that have nothing to do with religion .. and when those are tax exempt, everybody else has to "support religion" by paying more. Separate church and state.

@rockerman4791 3 ай бұрын

It would be nice if you paid attention to the lyrics for once haha

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

Huh? That's literally all I talked about 🤣

@rockerman4791 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts You always seem to miss out on stuff when you're looking up personnel and stuff like that during the videos. Nothing personal just an observation.

@HareDeLune 3 ай бұрын

@@rockerman4791 Generation gap. Might as well accept it. Children (and young adults like brother Lee) are literally the future. Support them.

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 2 ай бұрын

He did.

@corawheeler9355 3 ай бұрын

Treat yourself to "Thank You God" by Tim Minchin

@AP-gb3eh 3 ай бұрын

My two favorite older Minchin STORM and Thank You God

@corawheeler9355 3 ай бұрын

@@AP-gb3eh I sent L33 Storm .. dont think he's seen it yet.

@timjefferson2137 3 ай бұрын

I wanna see him do "The Pope Song" lol Also, The Good Book.

@wowwhywow 3 ай бұрын

Frank is the only white person that I have heard rapping BEHIND the beat... going on an eternal beat that slags JUST SLIGHTLY on the backbeat. Black rappers do it all the time...Eminem does not. Maybe Zack de la Rocha does it a little bit... but Vanilla Ice?---um...no. Snow?-...lol..please.

@gazzofazzofarrell3713 3 ай бұрын

God's a celtic suporter🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Hail Hail...you'll never walk alone!

@thescrewfly 3 ай бұрын

Actual Christians - not pseudo-religious conmen - have a hard time explaining (or ignoring) how utterly vile Jehovah's behaviour is in the Old Testament.

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

He was bloodthirsty and petty. Vengeful. In his own words. Then he morphs into peace and love your enemy by the time the romans come around....hmm.... I wonder if that's a clue?

@thescrewfly 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts The OT is a proper Bronze Age collection of Hebrew texts which resemble other books and sagas of a similar age (eg Gilgamesh) whereas the NT is much more recent and mostly written by foreign (Greek, Roman) converts.

@bluetopguitar1104 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, the songs are still very relevant today. Zappa really was a musical genius. Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Jim Baker, all schills for money. Still happening with a certain persons cult. These religious nuts do not follow their own bible anyway. Hypocrisy

@bluetopguitar1104 3 ай бұрын

Zappas' two older kids are cool. Moon, his daughter and his son Dweezil are cool. The two younger ones are jerks in my opinion , they even made Dweezil change his tour name from "Zappa plays Zappa". He's a hell of a guitar player. Not the composer dad was but who is? His two younger ones and Frank's deceased wife are probably the reason his estate his such a pain in the ass. Oh well, check out Dweezil. In my opinion religion has done way more bad then good. Just another system that's easily abused by meglomaniacs.

@timjefferson2137 3 ай бұрын

Lee, there are no gods, but you've figured out that the "trinity" god of your upbringing is a lie, and that's the first step. BTW, this is one of my favorite bible trivia questions, and since you're an old testament whiz, I'll hit you with it: Where did the people in the Land of Nod come from? I mean, in the context of the book. Obviously there was never an actual Land of Nod and humans are genetically and taxonomically primates, not a separate or unique concoction, but where were they supposed to have come from?

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

There are higher and lower beings then our frequency. I've witnessed them. I just use god as a name because that's what my ancestors called them. As above, so below

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

Apparently there were humans before Adam and eve too. Who did Seth marry? Anyways I think you can get truth from the book you just have to throw away the religious zealots and discover it for yourself (not you persay just in general)

@timjefferson2137 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts There was no Adam & Eve. Humans evolved as a group. I maybe shouldn't say it so matter-of-fact but the science on this is definitively settled. There was no "first human", just genetic creep that continues unabated to this day. The story doesn't end with us either, as we're just another thing in a long line of things that are kind of the same thing, or at least from the same thing. A person can believe what they want, but this is what we can prove.

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

You can matter of factly explain anything . It's the basic of the logic itself that is flawed. You have no idea. I have no idea. We're all just guessing and pretending. I know what I believe. You know what you believe. Relativism and such. Adam and eve was a metaphor I'm guessing. Who knows. It's been altered so much.

@timjefferson2137 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts Personally I try to avoid beliefs because of their arbitrary nature. We can believe the moon is a man, or that it's made of cheese, or we can go and collect samples and know. Knowledge is the assassin of belief and science is the process of discovering what is knowable. Belief, existing exclusively in the realm of the unknowable, seems pretty pointless to me as it has no practical application/offers no benefit in decision making. In case you're wondering, no, I am not much fun at parties lol

@Ferretbomber 3 ай бұрын

Frank was a high level Mason, which honestly makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the reactions, Lee, as always.

@L33Reacts 3 ай бұрын

Well, I guess what I said about the masons having the right idea was on base. My grandpa was uh... pretty high up in the Scottish rite. I read morals and dogma as a kid. Very, very interesting and very enlightening

@Ferretbomber 3 ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts yah, my GP was 32 degree as well. I actually have his ring, my brother has his book. I saw recently that Frank's Masonic membership certificate was auctioned off. I'd never known he was a Mason before that, but it made a lot of sense to me.

@JariSchroderus 3 ай бұрын

That certificate seems very fishy. It doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.

@Ferretbomber 3 ай бұрын

@@JariSchroderus If you say so.