Frank described it as being “a cartoon for the ears”.
@ZSAZSS09
4 ай бұрын
He wasn't wroong there.
@chrisdraughn5941
4 ай бұрын
I was going to say it reminded me of a soundtrack for a Warner Bros cartoon.
@psaint60
2 ай бұрын
@@chrisdraughn5941I thought the same. A lot of his more orchestral instrumentals I could see. Warner Bros or the Walter Lantz stuff (Woody Woodpecker/Chilly Willy) That stuff was a lot more violent 🤣 It would be fun to swap out the music and see how it looks/sounds for personal consumption. Obviously would be a nightmare to post it anywhere.
@madmanasaurusRex
4 ай бұрын
Billy the Mountain has to be on Doug’s radar now! 😊
@alldayadventures5418
4 ай бұрын
Second that, then add in The Joe's Garage Rock Opera, in order, 20 minutes at a time, every Friday for 6 weeks.
@Ferretbomber
4 ай бұрын
I hope he hits many other songs first, I can't handle listening to Flo and Eddie wailing away. So many better songs.
@robertcussins2807
4 ай бұрын
All great, but "One Size Fits All" is an epic album. IMHO, his best.
@Ferretbomber
4 ай бұрын
@@robertcussins2807 definitely a great album.
@sledzeppelin
4 ай бұрын
I love Joe’s Garage, but it’s rather… controversial.
@rickylefebvre
4 ай бұрын
I'm just here to note that they play "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock at 19:29-19:38, right after the lyrics mention the nearby "very hip young people" lol
@TheTralfaz
4 ай бұрын
he was too busy yakking to notice it....theres TONS of his older instrumental stuff on this track...re purposed.....the Big Swifty tune in particular was played by his 1973 band ... I heard it live in Sydney....a great thrill to hear it turn up years later Cucamonga started out as an instrumental also
@mournblade1066
4 ай бұрын
Really? I don't hear it. But then he was, as @TheTralfaz astutely noted, "too busy yakking."
@markdavis7345
10 күн бұрын
they also hit about 4 measures of the "My Three Sons" tv show theme. He called it the "Ives Collision." The sound of two marching bands marching past each other.
@malinharstrom2947
13 күн бұрын
To me this is the crown jewel in Zappa’s production. I have listened to this piece so many times and I still hear new things.
@stefanandersson2402
4 ай бұрын
Perhaps not a cartoon but a clay-animation, maybe you remember seeing parts of it in the first live number of "Inca roads", that was the hunt of Greggery on the side of Billy the Mountain.
@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA
4 ай бұрын
This. Thank you.
@Eric-o6b
2 ай бұрын
I’ve been a Zappa fan since the 70s. Billy The Mountain is whole story on its own from Just Another Band From LA. Frank loved to reference back to previous works of his. Studio Tan is amazing. RDNZL, the last song on the album, is one of my all time faves.
@ChuckyChives
4 ай бұрын
The voice of Greggery is Frank Zappa. The steno pool voices are George Duke. The technique used is the same as Alvin and the Chipmunks. They would slow the speed of the tape, record the voices, then set the tape back to normal speed.
@flyingoverthehills
4 ай бұрын
I have a vinyl copy of Studio Tan. It blew my mind back in the day, and still sounds amazing today. Frank was a genius.
@TheAnalyst79
4 ай бұрын
Roxy & Elsewhere next. And Zomby Woof
@TimvanderLeeuw
4 ай бұрын
Zombie Woof is best in the Live version!
@antonysimpson4900
Ай бұрын
FZ introduced me to the [his] idea of Conceptual Continuity and, when you dig in deep, there are breadcrumbs aplenty throughout his work; recurring phrases and characters and lots of BROWN. it's not much of a stretch to recognise some of the inhabitants in Greggery Peccary popping up in Thing Fish, just in new disguises. genius.
@tomasbouda4419
4 ай бұрын
busy makin' 'em! busy makin' 'em!
@AllanEmerySSBP
2 ай бұрын
You can compare Gregory Peccary to The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky. Frank thought the classical community did not appreciate Stravinsky's genius. He once wrote a song about it called Status Back Baby.
@MartinJessop-bi4yt
4 ай бұрын
Yes looking forward. The live chat doesnt seem to come up now for me.
@mwinstanley7
17 күн бұрын
Frank made an enormous multi-record set called Lather, but Warners rejected it. Too big They ended up breaking it up and releasing it as individual albums against his wishes... I think that's what happened, but it has been a while
@AndyGrazianoNYC
4 ай бұрын
My favorite Zappa tune and album. Hope to see you on the Jon Anderson/Band geeks tour this year!
@madmaxfzz
2 ай бұрын
A little puff helps to sink into it... LOL!!
@URWHTUIZ
4 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Ruth!!!!!!
@dorothymanforte1576
4 ай бұрын
If you go and look at the Inca Roads video you can see a lot of this song in the clay work.
@jacquesmesrine1258
3 ай бұрын
Wow
@Ferretbomber
4 ай бұрын
One of my fave 'extended orchestral hallucination' songs by Frank. Thanks for the reaction, Doug, as always. Allegedly Frank went on a LA radio station during the legal strife and played all 8 sides of the 'Lather' albums and encouraged people to record them and not give WB any money. The 'conceptual continuity' aspect of this song is very strong and there are tons of references of past and future Zappa content, though I personally feel that this song is better than it's 'precursor' Billy the Mountain, if only because there's no sophomoric BS from Flo and Eddie, who's era of Zappa albums are an annoying bore. Gems here and there but overall a range of Frank albums I avoid, despite my having 60+ titles.
@stevedotwood
4 ай бұрын
The ultimate Zappa tune. It's got everything. "Zappa is a planet on his own"
@rodneygriffin7666
4 ай бұрын
You need to do a Frank Friday. Seriously.
@sledzeppelin
4 ай бұрын
Biiiiiilllly the moooouuuntain….
@espenstoro
4 ай бұрын
There's certainly enough material
@derekpavlic
4 ай бұрын
Yes!!
@morsedregs9239
4 ай бұрын
Need more Zappa
@cryptotharg7400
4 ай бұрын
The White Zone is for loading, and unloading, only!
@leechild4655
4 ай бұрын
@@cryptotharg7400 if you gotta load, go to the white zone.
@lw1zfog
4 ай бұрын
@@cryptotharg7400 ‘You’ll love it, it’s a way of life’
@rickandgen
4 ай бұрын
Now you must do the prequel, Billy The Mountain. Frank was a master of “conceptual continuity”
@seed_drill7135
4 ай бұрын
I'd forgotten that Quentin reappears in Thing Fish.
@scottmcley5111
4 ай бұрын
I bet Doug would LOVE Frank's "Shut up and play yer guitar", "Shut up and play yer guitar some more", and the infamous "Return of the son of shut up and play yer guitar."
@guitarchannel5676
4 ай бұрын
Well, I won't speak for Doug; however, I think Doug prefers composed arrangements (preferably with a score) to long jams and/or endless solos.
@scottmcley5111
4 ай бұрын
@guitarchannel5676 Just thought it would give him a look at a side of Frank he hadn't seen yet. Also it was later on in his life if I remember...
@NoNameForThisGuy
4 ай бұрын
I prefer "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama"
@gregwolking
4 ай бұрын
The real challenge of the entire "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar" trilogy is figuring out which "core tunes" the solos were extracted from. I'm pretty sure that would be way over Doug's head (no offense intended).
@scottmcley5111
4 ай бұрын
@gregwolking FZ was a great composer, probably the most famous as far as my limited knowledge of this current era, of course. But he's a stud on the guitar, and that gets overshadowed by all the other stuff going on, humor, etc. Just thought it would help paint a more complete picture of a guy who deserves it. I'd have to give it a listen again to see what selections I'd recommend, but yeah, I think it's still worth a listen. For science!
@todd8155
3 ай бұрын
Billy was a mountain! Ethyl was a tree growing off of his shoulder!
@ugowsky
4 ай бұрын
Billy the mountain, first track from album Just another band from L.A. That should be the next one, yess!
@todd8155
3 ай бұрын
Flo and Eddie! I really like the opening track of Life at Fillmore East "Little House I used to Live in". I think the album would appeal to Doug's funny bone, and musical sensibilities providing he isn't put off the the crassness of it. It's some of Frank's nastier stuff IMO.
@Ninang363
4 ай бұрын
I asked Dweezil who did the Grggory's voice and he said it was Frank who sped up the tape
@barrywilson1294
4 ай бұрын
Who is making those new brown clouds? Remember a mountain is something you don’t want to fuck with.
@Grithron2
4 ай бұрын
There are people who whistle that "who is making..." motif as a form of disgusted commentary whenever someone farts in an elevator.
@parrywolfe2260
Ай бұрын
“Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you” has always been a favorite quote of mine.
@buddinganarchist
4 ай бұрын
Doug, the Yellow Shark is his symphony album.
@keithmarkus6852
4 ай бұрын
I do not think that is correct. London Symphony Orchestra album came first. Yellow Shark came later with chamber ensemble.
@derekpavlic
4 ай бұрын
Great video!! I thoroughly enjoyed it. You should listen to Billy the Mountain next, it would help you understand Greggery better. ✌🏻
@ciromascolo1367
4 ай бұрын
It actually exists a “cartoon” of Greggery Peccary…. Is a crazy stop motion animation signed by Bruce Bickford!!
@CMMCM
4 ай бұрын
G-Spot Tornado-The Yellow Shark Version(With Ensemble Modern) is a fantastic piece!!! there is a live preformance version on KZitem with dancers and Frank conducting...
@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700
4 ай бұрын
This. He has to watch that, it would blow his mind.
@zappafanseeker1099
4 ай бұрын
Not just dancers, but La la la Human steps. Part of the world famous five by two (5 X 2) dance ensemble. A most worthy addition to Franks "Last Band". He was so sick, but so happy and energized to be "on the road" one last time with performers of that level of talent and dedication.
@jiggler2004
4 ай бұрын
I’ve wanted him to do G-Spot Tornado for a while now. Both Jazz From Hell version and Yellow Shark. And heck, why not the marching band from Ohio that does it too ;)
@todd8155
3 ай бұрын
@@zappafanseeker1099 - Those dancers are outer worldly in ability. Good match to Frank.
@songsmithy07
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact, Gregory Peckary was on a collection Frank called Läther, which Warner Bros. refused to release as Frank intended... so he released it over the air on the radio, telling his fans to record it on cassette from home. The Zappa family released a post-humous version of Läther on CD.
@michaelcaparula8312
4 ай бұрын
Knowing FZ, I would believe every note of this piece was pre-written and nothing left to improvisation. If that’s true, this work should go down as one of the great pieces of classical music of the last 60 years.
@semanj
4 ай бұрын
There are original charts out there, google them.
@jazzhead394
4 ай бұрын
This track gives me Charles Ives and Carl Stalling vibes. Felt like I could imagine a Looney Tunes cartoon going on with this
@surfdigby
4 ай бұрын
If you want to continue with Zappa having an extraordinary band being pushed to extraordinary limits, you need to visit the 1988 tour band. There's so much incredible material from this tour (it had a different set list every night!), it might benefit from a long play video, going through each side of the album "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life".
@PlutoniumBoss
4 ай бұрын
The complete works of Frank Zappa need to be animated by Ralph Bakshi. Because who else could possibly tune into Frank's wavelength?
@DavidsonMoslak
4 ай бұрын
Hell yeah. Great call.
@seed_drill7135
4 ай бұрын
Zappa worked a lot with Bruce Bickford, who did the claymation bits from Zappa's videos.
@zykify
4 ай бұрын
I talked to a friend some days ago about "grammar" in music, how we has come to learn a a certain kind of movements and expect them fit together in a certain way to sound "right". Frank's (musical) language was more comprehensive and had a much larger vocabulary than the stuff normally heard on the radio and he knew he could not throw that stuff on us without also teaching us, educating us about music beyond I IV V. To educate us, he made songs consisting of "easy" parts with lyrics, often funny and provocative, that got us interested and then he threw in some "heavy" contemporary stuff, sequences that would make both Stravinsky and Varese to sit up, and "force" us to listen through them if we want to hear the rest of the story. After a while we got used to the weird, we didn't mind it. After a little more while, we like it. Many of us now crave it. He was also a great lyricist; the language, the phrasing, the rhymes... There are many that does not like what he says (usually because they do not get that many, most, of his songs is done in character), but the quality is undeniable.
@gordonbowyer2365
Ай бұрын
Very well put
@brettlewismusic
4 ай бұрын
When I first heard The Adventures of Greggery Peccery, my reaction was exactly like Doug's. Disbelief in what I heard. Wondering how a musician could create something like this. Thought of Spike Jones and Scott Bradley and instantly thought the piece as a cartoon as I listened to it. Then had to listen to it again and then again for it all to sink in. It is one of my favourite compositions of Frank's and it's always a treat to listen to it.
@squareeyedgit
4 ай бұрын
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MASTERPIECE. George Duke as the stenographers!
@mariuszgowacki2900
3 ай бұрын
Yes it's so different from anything I've heard
@3744james
4 ай бұрын
Check out Bruce Bickford”s work with clay. The “claymation” features lots of Gregory bits.Frank worked with him on the Baby Snakes movie
@DavidNWalker
4 ай бұрын
You have to do "Billy the Mountain" now.
@carlharvey6461
4 ай бұрын
Cartoon composers, such as Carl Stalling, were a major influence on Zappa, especially on this piece.
@robertheckler1048
4 ай бұрын
One of these days you should do do "Holiday in Berlin, full-blown" on the Burnt Weenie Sandwich album. It's the album before Hot Rats (you did Peaches en Regalia from that). Hot Rats is considered the first Jazz Fusion album, ever, and with Burnt Weenie you can hear Frank's transition from collage music into jazz.
@Alix777.
4 ай бұрын
It's so much better than Hot Rats
@robertheckler1048
3 ай бұрын
@@Alix777. I find that Frank's albums seem to come in pairs. Absolutely Free (his 2nd album) was like Freak Out 2.0. It was a more polished, more sophisticated version. Ruben and the Jets was an anathema to me, it wasn't really Frank. Lumpy Gravy came next and then We're Only In It For The Money, which sounded like Lumpy Gravy 2.0. Hot Rats (considered by many to be the first jazz fusion album) was like Burnt Weenie Sandwich (which came after WOIIFTM) 2.0. A more polished production.
@whycantiremainanonymous8091
4 ай бұрын
Zappa wrote some incredible music in his lifetime. This piece is one notch above the rest. 21 minutes and not one dullsecond!
@rockettebob
4 ай бұрын
HOT RATS, HOTMEAT !!! was a call on the game. i was a casino dice/21 dealer in reno. rats are dice. girls are meat....willie the pimp.. i had this on vinyl but seldom listened to it... you have made me want to time travel back. i will listen to it now.... THANK YOU !!! ............... rockettebob in reno
@jacques-andresaint-laurent1300
4 ай бұрын
For Zappa experts : I think this is the version of Läther, not the Studio Tan version. There are some subtle differences, like towards the end of the "radios tuned to different stations". Just for fun, nobody really cares, although I feel Läther, if released in 1977, would be today considered one of the greatest work of art in the history of music. The 1995 version in CD is still incredible, just not widely known.
@trumbaron
3 ай бұрын
I sat down with a glass of wine to see what's good on youtube today, and this popped up. Very glad that Doug got to this finally! I have listened to it a hundred times, and I hear some new detail every time!
@josuevegalopez1159
4 ай бұрын
I really love how in Zappa's music Stravinsky can compose jazz ❤
@egapnala65
4 ай бұрын
He was actually pretty highly regarded by the Darmstadt school. Stockhausen called him by far the most intelligent rock musician out there while Boulez made an album of his orchestra based pieces with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. You should check out his "Perfect Stranger" if you wnt to explore his classical composition side. Or "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" from "200 Motels".
@egapnala65
4 ай бұрын
Actually you should check out the film "200 Motels" which is the audio visual equivalent of this track.
@dinodaniel2237
4 ай бұрын
PUT ON YOUR ZOOT SUIT. AND GRAB YOUR WAHZOO !
@larryhelmeczy4320
4 ай бұрын
thanks for doing this. You are very brave. I've been a Zappa fan for 50 something years. I heard part of this a long time ago, put it aside because at the time it was too much, and never heard it again until now. I had forgotten how much music there was in there. You mae my day.
@Broccoli_Highkicks
4 ай бұрын
The composition Billy The Mountain is just as entertaining, and highly recommended. It's more based in Frank's early psychedelic rock period, and some versions run over half an hour. The piece involved some improvisations that made it so every performance was unique. Lyrically, it's about Billy, a mountain who gets a royalty cheque for all the postcards he's posed for, and decides to take his wife Ethel, a tree growing off his shoulder, on a vacation. This, of course, causes "untold destruction". Billy and Ethel are accused of being linked to drug rings, Ethel is said to be an active communist and a witch. Billy then receives a notice to report for his induction physical for the Vietnam War, but evades the draft. Since Billy and Ethel are causing all this destruction on their journey, Studebaker Hoch, a fantastic new superhero who could write the Lord's prayer on the head of a pin, is dispatched to go and reason with Billy. But it turns out in the end, that "a mountain is something you don't wanna fuck with"...
@willicat44
4 ай бұрын
Succinct synopsis
@ChasBeauregarde
4 ай бұрын
The reference to Billy the Mountain is another character in Zappa's alternate universe. Besides the music, his whole body of work - the phrases, characters, stories and inside jokes are constantly cross referenced wherein Frank coined the term " Conceptual Continuity."
@lw1zfog
4 ай бұрын
Planet Zappa
@andreasrosenberg9317
4 ай бұрын
Awesome!! =) Zappas Masterpiece!
@yan00919
4 ай бұрын
I was waiting so long for this one. this music literally makes me cry each section. i cant conceive how can this sound textures come out of a man's mind.
@jacques-andresaint-laurent1300
4 ай бұрын
Zappa said his favorite song out of his own catalogue was Strictly Genteel, Doug... In Greggery Peccary, every single note has been first written down on a music sheet before it was recorded. I asked for this song, so thank you. I don't think there is anything remotely close of this song in the entire universe of music. Without a doubt, you analyzed your most complex "song" to this date. Thanks again !
@hansvandermeulen5515
4 ай бұрын
God chunks of it WERE writtten before recording. The story and a lot of the nusic were written in early 1972 while he was hospitalized after having been pushed offstage in December, 71. An instrumental version in four movements was performed on The Grand Wazoo tour (September '72), the steno pool section was part 1 of a 3 section suite called Farther Oblivion z(not to bs confused with Father O'Blivion from the Yellow Snow suite), performed on the Petit Wazoo tour October-December '72. The studio version here was recorded in early 1975 with portions recorded at the recording sessions for the Orchestral Favorites album. The main character is voiced by a sped up FZ, the steno pool ladies are voiced by George Duke.
@bebopjones7985
3 ай бұрын
Check out Zappa's Roxy and Elsewhere.. My favorite album by anyone-EVER! Perfect from first song to last. Get hip! I've been for 50 years!
@DWHarper62
4 ай бұрын
You've reached the pinnacle... Zappa was proud of this piece...
@stevengifford7457
4 ай бұрын
This musical style is known as Warner Bros. on Saturday morning.
@TsunamiBeefPies
4 ай бұрын
Now you KNOW you need to listen to Billy the Mountain. Even more fun than this, and more musically accessible. I loved watching you listen to this! Frank delivered "four tapes," which translated into an 8-sided album. Warner refused to release it and instead released Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral Favorites in editions not sanctioned by Frank. This started the process of FZ eventually taking ownership of all of his compositions (he won the lawsuit). The album was originally going to be released under the title "Leather", which had to do with some band inside jokes that were circulating during one of the tours in the 70s. It was finally released under Frank's auspices in '91 under the title "Läther" as a three-CD set, and has so much amazing music that you can spend months (or years) studying it. Thanks as always, Doug. This was a blast!
@Royale_with_Cheeese
4 ай бұрын
Nope. It went like this: Frank gave WB Zappa In New York and was aghast to learn that they removed Punky's Whips from it as well as editing out any reference to Punky Meadows from Titties 'n Beer. They had no right to edit or censor his music and that made him angry. Why it made him so angry... As well, it appeared that he wasn't paid for Zappa In New York. He owed them three more albums on his contract, and he decided to drop the tapes for all three at once on them and be finished with them. He brought the tapes for three albums, those being Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt (so named by WB, although Frank intended it to be titled Hot Rats III - Waka/Jawaka - Hot Rats being Hot Rats II) and Orchestral Favorites. WB was to pay him $60K per album ($240K) and Frank would be on his way having fulfilled his contractual obligation to them and free to look for a new record company. With those breaches of contract, Frank felt he had the right to shop the music around to another record company. He still had his copies of the tapes and resequecenced the songs, removed a few, added more, including that signature "grout" between tracks, and that became Läther. He brought it, packaged as Läther, to Mercury/Phonogram and they were on board to release it. They went as far as making test pressings of it. WB stepped in and threatened them because, breach of contract or not, Frank was still their artist. In his way to give a big finger, rigid and stiff, to WB, he took those test pressings to KROQ radio in L.A. and invited his listeners to tape it off the air and to NOT buy the releases that would come out on WB. As to the official release of Läther, that came after his passing, released on Sept. 24, 1996.
@PacoLipsNow
4 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Ruth Underwood!
@MrJMS814
4 ай бұрын
Great research! You're getting into Frank the right way. If you dig hard enough, there's a piece of Frank for everyone's taste. Frank put out a few lifetimes worth of material in just a couple decades. As George Duke once said: "Its almost as if he knew he didn't have a lot of time. And he had a LOT to say." And yes, some of those high pitched voices are Frank himself, done the old fashioned way; Recorded at half speed and played back at regular speed!
@Dave-er2pn
4 ай бұрын
This is Zappa's masterpiece.
@joshs4594
8 күн бұрын
This is Quentin Robert DeNameland's complete speech: "Well folks as you can see for yourself the way this clock over here is behaving: time is an affliction. Now this might be cause for alarm on a portion of you that's from a certain experience I tend to proclaim: the eons are closing. Now what does this mean precisely to the layman? Simply this: Momentarily the need for the construction of the new light will no longer exist. Of course some of you will think, "Who is he to fell me from this light?" But in all seriousness, ladies and gentlemen, a quick glance at the erratic behavior of the large precision built time delineating apparatus beside me will show that it is perhaps only a few moments now... Look how funny it's going around there! Personally, I find mechanical behavior of this nature to be highly suspicious. When such a device doesn't go normal, the implication of such a behavior bodes not well (if you know what I mean). And quite naturally ladies and gentlemen if the mechanism in question is entrusted with the task of the delineation of time itself and ahh if such a mechanism goes "On the bum".... or the fritz... Well, it spells trouble."
@eziozanelli3585
4 ай бұрын
Totally agree, FZ is another planet. Listening to his music since ever , everytime I hear something new.
@louisvonbeethoven
4 ай бұрын
Frank didn't chart it. He insisted that his musicians read standard notation. This piece is fully scored. I would love to get my hands on it.
@francoisathome5979
4 ай бұрын
Gail Zappa, Franks widow, used "the eons are closing" in at least one of her liner notes she wrote for one of the albums published after his death.
@jonasolsson2256
4 ай бұрын
It’s a really good idea to listen to the rest of this album, it’s so good. Really challenging compositions with spectacular musicians and as a little icing on the cake, the charming little ditty Lemme Take You To The Beach. Great reaction!
@coolmark4851
4 ай бұрын
Lumpy Gravy is brilliant Atonal music
@jez443
3 ай бұрын
You need to listen to Watermelon in Easter Hay. One of Frank’s most powerful songs
@danlaetsch8493
2 ай бұрын
One of Frank's guitar masterpieces
@Psychprogrock
4 ай бұрын
Weird Wednesday could be back with a vengeance: what's weirder than a Weird Al Yankovic's tribute to Frank Zappa? Doug, hear me out: you gotta do "Genius in France" by Weird Al!
@pascalsimon9780
4 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup Doug ! c'est sympa de te voir écouter cette musique avec Passion, comme un enfant ! du coup, grâce à toi j'ai re-découvert ce bijou de FZ...Thanks Doug !
@derekpavlic
4 ай бұрын
I second the motion on Frank Fridays ✍🏻🫡
@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa
4 ай бұрын
The musicianship is incredible. Ruth and Chester are on top of the game. I kept hearing George Carlin's voice doing the narration))
@MrOrontea
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, this is fantastic. Still blows my mind after more than 30 years of knowing this piece.
@stoppropaganda2573
4 ай бұрын
Give "Overnight Sensation" a try, you won't be disappointed by any track Doug!
@pitfisch1
4 ай бұрын
I remember dropping into my most beloved recordstore. Oh, new Zappa stuff. We knew about the legal circumstances Frank had around this time. Therefore i bought it and regard it rather less. But it grew on me over time.
3 ай бұрын
While I am waxing extravagantly, Zappa is single artist with the greatest pallet in all of human history -- music (high and low), culture (high and low), lyrical poetics, dadaism, etc., etc., etc.
@aquabot
4 ай бұрын
I'm astonished that nobody evertalks the fact that this song evokes pope Gregory XIII and his new calendar that rectified the previous one, etc, etc..
@egapnala65
3 ай бұрын
That's actually not something I'd even bought into the equation. It also explains why he's portrayed as a pig. "Dio Fa" et al.
@phillipmerriwether6899
4 ай бұрын
Now you have to listen to Billy The Mountain. That's what you're missing from this
@robertcussins2807
4 ай бұрын
Doug...Happy The Man. You need to check that band. With an album name like "Crafty Hands" you know...something?
@mrheem44
4 ай бұрын
Cheers great LP
@stevedotwood
4 ай бұрын
love them too, I have two albums by them
@artists4earth199
4 ай бұрын
I was friends with them in the VA days before they were signed. HTM was by far the most dynamic theatrical live performance I was blessed to see twice. Imagine the main character hangs himself in mid verse. Two martial art masters do battle dressed as living Yin Yang symbols. The band thunderous one second then quiet enough to hear shallow breathing from astounded audience members. Interesting trivia for ye. They came real close to have been part of soundtrack for Close Encounters of The 3rd Kind, and being Peter Gabriel's new band. Truly Happy The Man in our ears makes one healthier, wiser, and....and and well you choose. thanks fer reading.
@espenstoro
4 ай бұрын
Dang, didn't expect this one to show up here. It's a crazy experience, I couldn't believe it when I heard it 20 something years ago. I still have no idea what's going on. Very much in the tradition of doing all music and sound effects with orchestra in old cartoons, but so much more complex. Just to write 30 seconds of this must be an insane amount of work. How do you even read this? There's truly no one that can be compared to Zappa.
@edwardthorne9875
4 ай бұрын
I haven't heard this in years. As you said, you'd have to go to avant-garde orchestral to match this, except this has the added benefits of a narrative plus a sense of humor. Perhaps Stockhausen comes close. Zappa is also smart enough to inject actual musical phrases into the chaos. Thank you so much for letting us enjoy this experience with you. Gobsmacked indeed.
@matseriksson8177
4 ай бұрын
I haven't checked in here for a week. And by a coincidence I just happened to listen to this piece "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary", for the first time in years, just a couple of hours ago. I have listened to it a lot way back, and remembered it well enough to sing along and know just about every word of the lyrics by heart. (Even "Ti-hi-hi. WANDAAAH. Ha-ha-ha." :) ) Now I will listen to it for the second time today. It will be fun to hear what Doug has to say about it. :) 11:55 That's exactly my perception of the traffic situation when i'm looking for a place to park in The Big City.
@DavidsonMoslak
4 ай бұрын
Zappa and Doug. Must be some kind of stellar event occuring tonight. These are the best.
@steveford8999
4 ай бұрын
Frank loved him some marimba.
@jeffmartin1026
4 ай бұрын
If you want to see Frank's music animated, you need to watch Dental Hygiene Dilemma from his film 200 Motels.
@martina5434
4 ай бұрын
The difference to avantgarde classical writing is that this makes sence . Its composed with soul . Can you feel it ?
@glennlavertu3644
4 ай бұрын
YES!!!!!! One my favorites. My favorite FZ is orchestral FZ!
@davidtimmerman3121
4 ай бұрын
like watching looney tunes........on acid.
@wowwhywow
4 ай бұрын
you still have some truly mind melting peices by Frank to discover...but even Frank considered this his favorite. Other mind melters... Sinister Footwer What's new in Baltimore? Yo' Mama N-Lite Calculus yeah...there's still a bunch of mind melters...these one came off the top of my head.
@ralf_kulle2684
4 ай бұрын
This tune is so brilliant and your reaction to it as well, Doug. 🤜🤛 Treat yourself to Side 2 with the songs "Revised Music for Guitar & Low Budget Orchstra", "Lemme take you to the beach" & "RDNZL" (my Side 2 favorite). The "Studio Tan" Album - a Masterpiece of Frank's musical work. "Studio Tan", "Tinseltown Rebellion", "Sheik Yerbouti & "Joe's Garage" are my personal "Fab 4" among all the Zappa albums. At least one of the 4 albums has the honor of adorning my playlist. For me, Frank Zappa is and remains an absolute musical genius - as a composer, performer and guitarist. 🎸🎼🎵🎶
@giuliopedrana690
4 ай бұрын
Doug, you MUST hear Billy The Mountain, especially the beatuiful version of Playgroud Psychotics album!! You'll love it!
@ulfingvar1
4 ай бұрын
Do some of his orchestral music next. Man, Zappa could do anything!!!
@songsmithy07
3 ай бұрын
Doug, now that you have been introduced to Billy the Mountain, you must react to Zappa's "cartoon for your ears" prequel by that name. The version of "Billy the Mountain" from the live album, "Just Another Band from LA," features Flo and Eddy from the Turtles (of "Happy Together" fame). Also, have you reacted to "Montana" yet?
@harounel-poussah6936
4 ай бұрын
Would you dare to get more into Frank's classical-contemporary composing??? Frank recorded ALL his concert with a studio multitracker, likely a 16 track, maybe a 24 track later... Now... there were HUNDREDS of Frank Zappa bootlegs released, most often with absolutely great sound quality, and thes bootlegs were pretty expensive... Strangely... Frank is not known for having sued, at least to my knowledge... But... how to issue quality bootlegs without high quality recording gear... Some nasty people once suggested me that Frank may have been the one issuing all these bootlegs and thus, sold records without declaring revenues to the IRS, but, actually, AFAIK, there are no proofs that such shady business ever happened... So there were already jealous trolls back in those days
@mikegraves9682
4 ай бұрын
When I was enrolled in the Electronics Technician program at DeVry in Phoenix in 1982, my roommate had this record- "Studio Tan" I spent 8 years looking for it, eventually finding a decent copy of it at House of Records in Eugene
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