Frank Zappa & the Mothers - Fillmore East: June 1971
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Artist: Frank Zappa & the MothersEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-30
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
- Little House I used To Live In
- The Mud Shark
- What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
- Bwana Dik
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie The Pimp (Part One)
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches En Regalia
- Tears Began To Fall
Free Music Notes for Fillmore East: June 1971
Free Music Review: Not a great FZ album, but it has its moments....
Hit: 3 Stars
This is an album of Frank's I don't play that much. It's essentially a comedy album, with most of the material being borderline sleazy, like a carnival barker back in the days when Times Square was a bordello of hedonism. Most of the singing/narration has to do with silly stuff about groupies and their variously demented sexual practices. It comes across as an adolescent who has discovered parts of his and the female's anatomy. It's occasionally amusing, but the instrumentals here are the highlights. There's an excellent solo in Willie the Pimp Part One (though it's not as majestic as the Hot Rats version), and there's a magnificent version of Peaches en Regalia. It's almost as good as the studio version, and it's a lot better than the abysmal Peaches III version on Tinsel Town Rebellion. The song Do You Like My Car? has its moments, but it's best part is when Flo and Eddie say it's time to sing their "hit record", then go into a rather fun rendition of Happy Together, which was their big hit when they were in a little band called The Turtles. Despite the fact that Flo and Eddie say "sing like it's a big rock show" in a very self conscious way, they still give it a great performance and people do sing along.
This is one aspect of Frank's oeveure that I don't really care for. It's still has some good material, but only buy if you're a Zappa completist.
Fillmore East: June 1971 Poster
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention following a short tour of Canada during the summer of 1969, Zappa hired musicians for his studio work before forming a new Mothers in August 1970. The new band was augmented by bassist Jim Pons and vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, all of whom Zappa recruited from the Turtles, that hit-making teen-sensation unit that had reached the top of the pop charts with such hits as "Happy Together" and "Elenore." Legend has it that Zappa had tried to enlist former Monkee Micky Dolenz on drums at the same time, but Dolenz declined the offer. The new lineup made several albums with Zappa, beginning with Chunga's Revenge (owing to legal problems, Volman and Kaylan were originally billed as "Phlorescent Leech and Eddie," which led to the duo's being called Flo & Eddie henceforth), but the Fillmore East recording remains its vanguard. Zappa was still obsessed with the ridiculous phenomenon of pop stars, and now he had two genuine articles in his band. Thus, in between live renditions of some of his soon-to-be instrumental classics, Zappa, Volman, and Kaylan delighted the Manhattan audience with rude and crude skits about pop stars and groupies. The whole shebang is then climaxed with Flo & Eddie doing a letter-perfect rendition of the Turtles' "Happy Together" before ironically concluding with Zappa's own "Tears Begin to Fall," the kind of pop ditty Zappa was poking fun at throughout this performance. Although it now all sounds rather tame in the era of rap and porn rock, it was attacked as crass at the time of its release. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being frequently hilarious. Following the performance, the Mothers were joined onstage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a set that's captured on the live disc that eventually accompanied Lennon's Some Time in New York City. What a night! --Bill HoldshipIMPORTED FROM JAPAN BY RYKODISC
This collector's dream set completes our 20-disc series of limited edition Frank Zappa Japanese imports. Packaged in deluxe mini-album jacket sleeves, these 10 classic albums are packaged to re-create the original vinyl packaging in miniaturized form!
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1971 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.
Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase Cover. Strictly Limited to 2000 Copies!
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