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11-07-2009, 08:46 PM
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So the other day I was at my local library looking for some CDs to borrow. I came upon a Zappa CD called "The Grand Wazoo". I've had some of his instrumentals CDs in the past, including Hot Rats and Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar and others (all my cds got stolen about 5 years ago when my apartment got robbed). I borrowed "The Grand Wazoo" hoping it was an instrumental CD and it was, and a pretty good one too.
I find his songs with lyrics a little too hokey and much prefer his instrumental stuff.
This got me thinking... what other of Zappa's CDs are strictly (more or less) instrumental?
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11-07-2009, 08:47 PM
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11-07-2009, 11:48 PM
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Amazing precision there with the guitar work.
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11-08-2009, 10:40 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | "Waka/Jawaka" is in the same vein as "The Grand Wazoo". Actually, both albums are from the same time frame (when Zappa was wheelchair bound because of injuries suffered after an audience member pushed him off stage) and were released one after the other (being "Waka/Jawaka" the first).
BTW, "The Grand Wazoo" is one of my all-time favorite Zappa albums. |
11-08-2009, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | There's lots of 'em. Also check out "Strictly Genteel", a compilation of symphonic peices.
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11-08-2009, 03:54 PM
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Also: Jazz from Hell, Broadway the Hard Way, Make a Jazz Noise Here
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11-08-2009, 05:28 PM
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Of course if you just stick to the all instrumental records you will miss this wonderful little ditty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfY3BhYNIjg
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11-09-2009, 04:09 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Not all instrumental (since Willie the Pimp has words), but Hot Rats is an awesome jam album. |
11-09-2009, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. "Waka/Jawaka" is in the same vein as "The Grand Wazoo". Actually, both albums are from the same time frame (when Zappa was wheelchair bound because of injuries suffered after an audience member pushed him off stage) and were released one after the other (being "Waka/Jawaka" the first).
BTW, "The Grand Wazoo" is one of my all-time favorite Zappa albums. | Waka/Jawaka rules IMHO
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11-09-2009, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ventura, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. "Waka/Jawaka" is in the same vein as "The Grand Wazoo". Actually, both albums are from the same time frame (when Zappa was wheelchair bound because of injuries suffered after an audience member pushed him off stage) and were released one after the other (being "Waka/Jawaka" the first).
BTW, "The Grand Wazoo" is one of my all-time favorite Zappa albums. | I'll echo Alvaro and Ron Quito's remarks... Waka/Jawaka is killer. It is about 1/2 instrumental, and half tracks with vocals, but the tracks with vocals are still VERY instrumental heavy. They also don't have much of Frank singing/talking, and almost entirely have other people singing.
Great album, killer songs, killer instrumentations, especially the horn sections on Big Swifty and the pedal steel in "Your Mouth." Sweet as hell. |
11-10-2009, 04:16 AM
| | | | Wacka/Jawacka was excellent as well. I always liked Uncle Meat. |
11-11-2009, 12:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | isnt Black Page or something like that supposed to be very intense. |
11-12-2009, 12:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | I think Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar all or mostly instrumental. Some good stuff on there too...don't let the song titles scare you off. "Variations on the Carlos Santana secret chord progression" is awesome..
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11-12-2009, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Westminster, BC | | | Hey ::Bassist::, which library? It's funny - I just took out a bunch of Zappa CDs from the New West library. They've got a good selection.
+1 to "Jazz from Hell" and "Make a Jazz Noise"!
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11-12-2009, 01:30 PM
| | | | It would be hard to pick a purely instrumental album because there are such fantastic pieces scattered everywhere (and some tunes with lyrics, some not). Some of the tunes with words are hokey, some are insanely funny.
My fave zappa instrumental (which I've nearly finished learning, just need to practice speeding up the ol' fingers to play the end) is Echinda's Arf (Of You) - most notably from Roxy & Elsewhere (best version ,imho). Love that song. Love love love! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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