by ShanethePain lv Reviewed on February 26th, 2001
This might well be Frank's greatest live album, and he has more live albums than most groups have albums.(I just counted them-about 20). It is very similar to that great album you can't do that on stage anymore vol2. The band features his funkiest line up. we have the funkmeister George Duke, we have Ruthie, the fowler bros.,jeff simmons,we have TWO drummers Ralph Humphrey and Chester Thomson. Don Preston is on this album too. And of course Napolean Murphy Brock, i almost forgot him. With these guys, how could it NOT be a great album? It begins with a great twisted song penguin in bondage. zappa gives some funny intros to some of the songs, and he does so with this song, talking about 'deVICES!!' and the like. Great guitar solo here . Pygmy twilight is a nice short little song about drugs i think. It's good but you should really get your hands on ycdtosa vol2 version which will blow your socks off man! A nice version of 'village of the sun' leads into the funny 'dummy up' with Jeff Simmons showing that you can be a pothead and play in frank's band. Then the awesome echidnas arf/ don't you ever wash that thing instrumental. The first one is a beautiful tune, one of Frank's best (also very tricky!). The second is also lovely but there is more room for soloing. We get great music from bruce fowler on trombone, george on keyboards, and the drummers with an amazing drum duel. And Frank delivers a short funky helluvah solo. Cheepnis has a hilarious intro by Frank-'twisting her ankle, on behalf of the Ice Cream Cone'. A great song about the cheapie monster movies. Then we get some oldies, ie More trouble every day and son of orange county. And just in case we forgot, zappa reminds us why he's the greatest guitar player with his soloing. Then bebop tango, my personal highlight. It's a difficult enough tune to get into, but so are a lot of great pieces. I love it when Frank says ' And this is a hard one to play'. It's such an unpredictable piece of music to listen to. So i kept on listening and eventually it made sense. And Bruce Fowler Great Trombone Solo #2!! There is also an extended audience participation which is the complete opposite of the tenacious discipline of the instrumental. fz delivers his quote ' jazz isn't dead it just smells funny'. Frank gets some fans to dance to George Duke's singing and ridicules their pathetic efforts 'no, no, you're just too reserved!' and praises the good dancing 'now THAT'S more like it!'. I love it when he says to them ' go back to your seats, and we'll bring up the next batch'. Sort of like sheep shearing! George then gets funky and we say good night, sadly the gig is over but only until i press the play button again. If you liked this, get ycdtosa vol2. Thank you.
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