i know that the latter zappa stuff is better in terms of complexity, but i cant stop listening to the old mothers of invention, just sounds so good to me
It's obvious that the so-called experts at Rolling Stone who rated him as only the 46th best guitarist never listened to this stuff. if they had of he would be rated way up there at or near top
Music is typically graded by David Fricke. Nothing against the man but Frank zappa felt very strongly about single arbiters of what is good and what is not. One thing we can all agree upon was Uncle Frank was a superior technician and great talent for reading a room and tailoring a sound to it and perceiving how to get the audience to hear how he wanted it to come across. Oddly another who was dynamite at doing this was Buck Owens. He would record a song and play it back on the grotty speakers found in cars at the time of AM radios. He was that innovative because both he and Frank Zappa were attuned to their audience
You can't rate musicians too many variables or trying to mix apples with Oranges, especially when it comes to musicians because each have their own signature . Geniuses at what they do
Thanks for putting this collage together. The late '60's is my is my favorite period for Zappa's solos and also the music he wrote. I love the sound he got from his 1954 Les Paul gold top, he never quite captured that sound again. From what I read it was stolen in late 1969 and replaced with an SG. The solo at minute 22:21 "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" is one of my favorites, it's so beautiful I want to cry.
1974/5 FZ, NMB, Chester Thomson, Fowler on bass, George Duke, U.C.S.B. Basketball Gym, wooden bleachers pulled out from walls, TighT quarters every ones personal space was united as one, sitting at an angle to face the stage, proximity to those around you caused VerY little movement through out show (sat still for the longest period of time with out a break), of sound clean mind & perfectly still body. I was devoted to rock & blues guitar players listening, watching etc. Except this man, after the opening solo by G.D. (fantastic blues electric piano the stage was empty at start). Rest one at a time, standard entrance, FZ's first words "Hello, it is good to be back home" which got a BIG cheer. I new he was not from S.B. I looked around at the people whose personal space I was sharing for more of a conformation as to where that statement came from nothing. no one turning to a bud to discuss which incident could cause that sentiment from FZ. I realized I should of done my homework before I came to class in the first five minutes. He was so far ahead of my comprehension, my mind was blown away, my brain was witness to what I had always wanted to see, JAMMING. 5 individuals competing as a whole and as individuals parts of the whole. No real previous experience my brain was not processing what it was hearing. Afterwards I was in shock it did not seem like you could get what I had seen on vinyl, to me that's great business I guess. I did not see much future for me cause I only wanted that of which I heard & being the short sighted white male that I was I did not get it til I discovered TH-cam. Did I mention it was the best "rock n' roll show/music I have ever witnessed. Thanks to all for allowing his work to be heard, now if we could figure out a way to have it piped right into the heads of people the world would be a better place
zappal legte nie wert auf status! schon gar nicht wie "volk" ihn über?!! oder unterschätzt!! oft genug hat er die bühne verlassen z.b. palermo (80') oder (70'jahre)in minga bei *outside now* (genial) die trägen bayern checkten "null* dafür gab es *fuckfinger" oder wie er zu bootlegs stand!! fan's only stupid cyborg"s waren dem maestro so egal!! und gail treibt es mit den familytrust auf ekelhafte hoehen!! kotzen möchte mann! nur kotzen, nur kotzen! in's (umrk) every fucking day!! trust me
Wow! Thank you for this! I've never listened to your compilations like this one. But, I'm completely taken by it. I've been a Zappa freak since, like, 1971. Thank you, again for this.... lovely!
I can recall reading an interview many years ago, in which Frank stated that you can get high yourself without the help of any hallucinogenic drugs, and it's obvious to me that he used the guitar (especially during his live soloing) to take himself there. Anybody else ready, willing & able to ride along with him could get high too .....
br1tag - always viewed you as a penultimate Zappa archivist; I thank you for all you've contributed these many years. Then comes this project? Brilliant, tasty, beautifully done. Great project, thanks
Frank smoked 9 joints in ten years. Other than that. He composed so much music for ALL INSTRAMENTS. There's no comparison to that from any composer since the seventinth century. Had the privilege to see him 7 times in concert😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
His guitar solo on 50/50 - studio track - is my favorite solo of Frank's. It just blazes & rips....at hot levels.....that is so good. '72 to '75 was such a great time for him, my favorite for sure and I listen to everything I can from him.
From a Zappa fan since the mid/late '60s, thanks for sharing your love of his music; well done! When future historians write the REAL history of mid-to-late 20th century popular music, compilations such as this will probably illuminate some of the glue that held the foundation together.
the man with a thousand sounds. he really made so much sounds in his life, the range of guitarsounds was so large, that it is only beatable with creating sounds with a synthesizer. that always was truely amazing, if you see how less guitar heroes are capable of producing, mostly one or two main sounds and thats it. the gods really meant it good with him :D him and bukowski^^
Just awesome, awesomeness of awesomeness. Man, you did a great job compiling this, adds a lot depth to the way we view Zappa's guitar ouvre, and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger as the years go by, what a musician he was!
I think the best sound Frank Zappa got was from his 1954 Les Paul "Goldtop" Standard with 2 white P-90 pickups. This was his main guitar from 1967 through 1969. I read in an article that it was stolen right around the time he broke up the original Mothers of Invention. The magnificent sound he got on this Les Paul are some of the best I've heard from anyone. "Hot Rats" (1969) has some of those great sounds like during "Willie the Pimp" right after Beefheart sings "Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell....Hot meat" Zappa comes in with an incredible sound maybe from using 2 wah-wah pedals. When I read this story about his Les Paul was stolen, it all made sense to me. Why get rid of such a great sounding guitar? Another thing that baffles me is he played a lot of acoustic guitar during his greatest years 1967-1969, but very little after "Uncle Meat", "Weasels Ripped my Flesh", Burnt Weeny Sandwich" and "Hot Rats". I think those were Zappa and the Mother's best albums and Zappa doing his best guitar work during that period.
His guitar playing during this time was very melodic. In the 70s it was more wild and gnarly. There definitely is a alot of charm and quaintness to the 60s solos. There's many of my favorites. And there's nothing 'rock star' about them. They are like sweet little compositions. But Hot Rats was kind of a turning point to the 70s style of ripping your face off
It seems a lot of great musicians and artists do their greatest work early in their careers. I didn't like much of Zappa's music after 1970, it's obvious Zappa wanted to be a Rock guitar icon. In 1975 I met him before a concert and I chatted with him and it was clear where his head was at musically. He had the Zoot Allures group of young super musicians who wacked off with their instruments, showing off their chops. I was disappointed, and the show sucked so I left early. What he did in '67 through '69 is good enough for me..
How did you come by this amazing stuff? Casually listening while working at the computer then a passage will hit me like dropping a piano on my head. Thanks I so need this
Brutal, no sabría quedarme con uno sólo de estos solos. A Zappa no pude llegar a a verlo en directo aunque tuve una ocasión, en Bilbao 1988, siempre lamentaré no haber poder ido. Hace unos años vi a los Grandmothers of Invention de Don Preston, Tom Fowler y Napoleon Murphy Brown.... sólo faltaba Frank...
Love your collection. back in the late 70's I had over 20 Zappa albums. I left them all at my heroin addicted x/girlfriends house. In the mid 80's I went to a strip club and saw the X/girlfriend dancing there. She saw me too. She thanked me for the albums (pawned them for $200.00) and gave me a blow job at the bar while everyone watched. I really miss my early Zappa Albums but have a great story. Freak me out Frank, yes that was me too
You are the main man. You have turned me on to the greatest music & musician I have ever had the opportunity and privilege to listen to. Yes, I had Joe’s Garage II and III when it was released and I was impressed; but for some reason I didn’t realize the treasures i discovered until 1991 when I purchased Hot Rats and Freak Out and I have been addicted ever since. Priceless - listen to Frank every day.
More like a musical journey than a compilation of riffs. You have done a fantastic editing job on this. Thank you. I have always loved Frank's out of phase, cocked wah tone.
Zappa un astronauta que fué a buscar nuevos y extraños sonidos en galaxias lejanas, un destructor y a la vez constructor de parte de la música moderna, quizá Steven Wilson sea uno de los músicos que bebe de su experiencia. Zappa eterno, una cornucopia de sonidos amalgamados. GRANDEEEEEEEEEEE
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Whoever you are, your curation of Frank's amazing work is truly a gift. Now where the fuck is Fido? I need my slippers.
Really awesome work , thanks so much for sharing ! From a frank fan who at 10 years old could recite word for word Billy the Mountain when it 1st came out in "72"
Always great to hear and learn from Mothers's early stuff...Many Live versions are very good bookmarks of Zappa's performance art...and the Mothers...of course. Probably the most tasteful and audacious self taught guitarist of the time he was alive...And you have to hand it to the players he taught who accompanied him on his way...
I like the story behind his Gibson SG. So he had this student that had this guitar and Frank played it and told the kid `This is my guitar and you are selling it to me. Heres $300.` or some such amount was quoted. If Frank Zappa says he has to have your guitar, you have to say ok I guess, right?
During 1967, 1968 and 1969 Zappa played a 1954 Les Paul Gold Top which had a stop bar tail piece bridge and white P-90's. He used it on Hot Rats and the sound he gets on it is among the greatest I have heard by anyone. It could have been a 1955 or a 1953, the year the changes were made which Les Paul himself demanded, and I do not blame him...the 1952 had a horrible trapeze tail piece bridge with the strings going under the bridge, a horrible mistake made by Gibson's design team. For the 1953 version the angle of the neck relative to the body was increased to 17 degrees (previously 14 degrees) the contour of the maple cap was made higher in the center and also higher where the bridge is. These two changes allowed the strings to go over the stop bar tail piece making playing much better and to also allow you to mute the strings with your palm over the tail piece. This was what Les Paul wanted in the first place. Why Zappa switched to an SG I'll never know. It may have been because the SG is lighter in weight. Zappa is a rather short guy, which surprised me when I got to meet him, he always looked so tall on stage. Les Pauls are notoriously heavy, and the SG had humbuckers, that could be why.
Andrew Seniska funny you mention his height, as I was watching a video of his performance of Montana from A Token Of His Extreme and noticed him wearing tremendously high heeled boots! Go figure. Thank you for more guitar info too, I’d always wondered what he used in this period
There are internet sites that say he was 6'-0" and weight 160 which is hard to believe. I met Zappa before his 1975 Zoot Allures tour concert in Tampa. I 'm 5'-11", & 170 lbs and was standing 2 feet from Zappa as we chatted. He seemed smaller than me and my girlfriend was 5 feet away and mentioned it too. Zappa had his bald body guard with him, so everyone looked small next to that mean looking bald dude. Zappa was always very thin too. All those cigarettes, coffee, fried spaghetti, and infamous burnt weeny sandwiches kept him under-weight along with not enough sleep and being a workaholic (I confirmed this with Bunk Gardnier & Don Preston who is into health food). These bad habits probably added to Zappa's body not being healthy enough to fight off and recover from his prostate cancer. Zappa confirms his terrible diet in “The Real Frank Zappa Book”. But his appearance in the 1960's, being thin, his iconic mustache & goatee, long messy, stringy hair, and the unique music he created all added to his strange persona and eventual fame. He was the weirdest looking guy I have ever met but composed some of the greatest music I ever heard. I loved the music he did most from 1967-1969 and after that I lost interest. Waka-Jawaka and a lot of the orchestral/choir music from 200 Motels was great. After that he played his vaudeville/comedy music and not enough serious music and it bored me. A lot of my friends I grew up with felt the same. By 1975 Zappa became the genuine Rock Star and Guitar God he wanted to be for years and when I saw him on that tour, I hated it so much I left early after walking to the front stage and waved to get Zappa's attention and when he looked at me (remembering me from our talk earlier) I gave him a “thumbs down” and left. I bought “Zoot Allures” and smashed it after listening and got instant relief after I put on side 1 from “Uncle Meat”. Even on his chamber group album “Yellow Shark”, the only great pieces were his old ones the group performed. Somewhat famous conductor and arranger for Steve Via, Tom Trapp, told me he loves Zappa's 60's stuff the most. Dweezil Zappa has mentioned similar things, "It Must Be a Camel" from "Hot Rats" (1969) is one of his favorite Zappa pieces as well as mine. Here's a link to a Zappa influenced track from my second album released on CDBaby: th-cam.com/video/Zva1NTeJLuw/w-d-xo.html
The gold top is probably a 53 as there is no inked serial number on the headstock. The neck set angle has been increased from its debut. It has a thick neck and it feels real good in your hand. It got butchered real Les Paul style but probably not with a screw driver as Les was wont to do - a blunt one. FZ changed the machine heads for Schallers, the early M6 tombstones which look best. Mick Ekers has written extensively about it is his Zappa Gear book published late last year.
@@andragg thumbs down is funny...as if. What band, guitar player, artist for that matter...wants to stay the same? Unless someone is comfortable doing same hits for decades, that is fine also. FZ gave it all he had probably even on 75 tour, imagine the solos you missed my friend...the solos
No joke, when he first started doing it I was a little skeptical but when I heard it and as time goes on he completely captures the essence of his dad in every way. It’s amazing to hear and watch
Rolling Stone interviewer: Now that Jimi has passed, that makes you the greatest guitar player in the world. Clapton: No, Zappa is way better than me! Me: I think he's right!
Some obsessed lunatic sat there and spliced together all these solos, so that we can show up and enjoy it all in 1 shebang. Thanks OCD!!
This comment deserves 40 million likes because it's true 🤘
Long live ZAPPA!!!!
i too, am lunatic'd
Have listened to this at least 5 times through and just can't get enough of this sound.
Smooth to the last drop!
@@BigWesLawns Well, can you believe it..... I'm blessed by a lunatic🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Excellent work!
Thank you, thank you and thank you, again!
Finding your catalogue is like discovering Frank all over again but 30 years later..
Can't wait to jam this whole thing in my car tomorrow while I do my deliveries
This makes me wish I were back in the alley with all of my friends still running free...
I nominate br1tag for a barking pumpkin award or a special medallion from the utility muffin research kitchen. Pronto!
bwanna23 I second the nomination.
Shreds yeah!
3rd.
I do second that! (Or in whatever order I come in.)
Hear Hear!
i know that the latter zappa stuff is better in terms of complexity, but i cant stop listening to the old mothers of invention, just sounds so good to me
The tone FZ gets on a guitar is unreal.
It's obvious that the so-called experts at Rolling Stone who rated him as only the 46th best guitarist never listened to this stuff. if they had of he would be rated way up there at or near top
Rolling stones magazine sont nuls Guy platteau
Normie impressions.
Music is typically graded by David Fricke. Nothing against the man but Frank zappa felt very strongly about single arbiters of what is good and what is not. One thing we can all agree upon was Uncle Frank was a superior technician and great talent for reading a room and tailoring a sound to it and perceiving how to get the audience to hear how he wanted it to come across. Oddly another who was dynamite at doing this was Buck Owens. He would record a song and play it back on the grotty speakers found in cars at the time of AM radios. He was that innovative because both he and Frank Zappa were attuned to their audience
You can't rate musicians too many variables or trying to mix apples with Oranges, especially when it comes to musicians because each have their own signature . Geniuses at what they do
never get tired of hearing Frank Zappa's guitar
This is my tribe... the hardcore FZ fans.... great comp, brother; thank you for honoring his legacy. Wring that neck.
Thanks for putting this collage together. The late '60's is my is my favorite period for Zappa's solos and also the music he wrote. I love the sound he got from his 1954 Les Paul gold top, he never quite captured that sound again. From what I read it was stolen in late 1969 and replaced with an SG. The solo at minute 22:21 "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" is one of my favorites, it's so beautiful I want to cry.
1974/5 FZ, NMB, Chester Thomson, Fowler on bass, George Duke, U.C.S.B. Basketball Gym, wooden bleachers pulled out from walls, TighT quarters every ones personal space was united as one, sitting at an angle to face the stage, proximity to those around you caused VerY little movement through out show (sat still for the longest period of time with out a break), of sound clean mind & perfectly still body. I was devoted to rock & blues guitar players listening, watching etc. Except this man, after the opening solo by G.D. (fantastic blues electric piano the stage was empty at start). Rest one at a time, standard entrance, FZ's first words "Hello, it is good to be back home" which got a BIG cheer. I new he was not from S.B. I looked around at the people whose personal space I was sharing for more of a conformation as to where that statement came from nothing. no one turning to a bud to discuss which incident could cause that sentiment from FZ. I realized I should of done my homework before I came to class in the first five minutes. He was so far ahead of my comprehension, my mind was blown away, my brain was witness to what I had always wanted to see, JAMMING. 5 individuals competing as a whole and as individuals parts of the whole. No real previous experience my brain was not processing what it was hearing. Afterwards I was in shock it did not seem like you could get what I had seen on vinyl, to me that's great business I guess. I did not see much future for me cause I only wanted that of which I heard & being the short sighted white male that I was I did not get it til I discovered TH-cam. Did I mention it was the best "rock n' roll show/music I have ever witnessed. Thanks to all for allowing his work to be heard, now if we could figure out a way to have it piped right into the heads of people the world would be a better place
We owe a debt of gratitude to Br1. Thanks.
Zappa is the most underrated guitarist of all time
true
zappal legte nie wert auf status! schon gar nicht wie "volk" ihn über?!! oder unterschätzt!! oft genug hat er die bühne verlassen z.b. palermo (80') oder (70'jahre)in minga bei *outside now* (genial) die trägen bayern checkten "null* dafür gab es *fuckfinger" oder wie er zu bootlegs stand!! fan's only stupid cyborg"s waren dem maestro so egal!! und gail treibt es mit den familytrust auf ekelhafte hoehen!! kotzen möchte mann! nur kotzen, nur kotzen!
in's (umrk) every fucking day!! trust me
Lol
Nah I'd say Buckethead is more underrated
Wow! Thank you for this!
I've never listened to your compilations like this one.
But, I'm completely taken by it.
I've been a Zappa freak since, like, 1971.
Thank you, again for this.... lovely!
I can recall reading an interview many years ago, in which Frank stated that you can get high yourself without the help of any hallucinogenic drugs, and it's obvious to me that he used the guitar (especially during his live soloing) to take himself there. Anybody else ready, willing & able to ride along with him could get high too .....
this is a gift to humanity. thank you for your service br1tag.
br1tag - always viewed you as a penultimate Zappa archivist; I thank you for all you've contributed these many years. Then comes this project? Brilliant, tasty, beautifully done. Great project, thanks
This is a gold mine . The 1968 HOLIDAY IN BERLIN sounds totally different than the great original version .
I am a member of the Arf Society in Germany,who love the Music of FZ
Und ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz und verlorenes Metallgeld in die Niederlande, who also loves the Music of FZ!
See you at Zappanale 2022
Frank smoked 9 joints in ten years. Other than that. He composed so much music for ALL INSTRAMENTS. There's no comparison to that from any composer since the seventinth century. Had the privilege to see him 7 times in concert😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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40:30 The Holiday in Berlin solo - absolutely one of the most beautiful and for me, most moving, pieces of guitar music ever.
I wholeheartedly agree, every listen takes my breath away. seriously awesome guitarwork
Philip Leaning way too many guitar solos. Been trying for lot of years. Can't find best. Lots and lots and lots
Philip Leaning from so long ago. I miss music like this. Thanks
Yeah, it´s beautiful !!!
If ever there was a "pleasant surprise" this is it!
This is the kinda attention to detail the world needs.:)
His guitar solo on 50/50 - studio track - is my favorite solo of Frank's.
It just blazes & rips....at hot levels.....that is so good. '72 to '75 was such a great time for him, my favorite for sure and I listen to everything I can from him.
From a Zappa fan since the mid/late '60s, thanks for sharing your love of his music; well done! When future historians write the REAL history of mid-to-late 20th century popular music, compilations such as this will probably illuminate some of the glue that held the foundation together.
Hope you're still putting out some vids. You've got an ear for good tunes.
Thanks for posting! This is my favorite era of Zappa and the Mothers. In my opinion, he had his best guitar tone during this time.
the man with a thousand sounds. he really made so much sounds in his life, the range of guitarsounds was so large, that it is only beatable with creating sounds with a synthesizer. that always was truely amazing, if you see how less guitar heroes are capable of producing, mostly one or two main sounds and thats it. the gods really meant it good with him :D him and bukowski^^
totally agreed
Great contribution to the legacy of The Legend of Zappa, the one and only guitar man, alongside Jimi Hendrix! Thanks for posting this!
Just awesome, awesomeness of awesomeness. Man, you did a great job compiling this, adds a lot depth to the way we view Zappa's guitar ouvre, and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger as the years go by, what a musician he was!
I think the best sound Frank Zappa got was from his 1954 Les Paul "Goldtop" Standard with 2 white P-90 pickups. This was his main guitar from 1967 through 1969. I read in an article that it was stolen right around the time he broke up the original Mothers of Invention. The magnificent sound he got on this Les Paul are some of the best I've heard from anyone. "Hot Rats" (1969) has some of those great sounds like during "Willie the Pimp" right after Beefheart sings "Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell....Hot meat" Zappa comes in with an incredible sound maybe from using 2 wah-wah pedals. When I read this story about his Les Paul was stolen, it all made sense to me. Why get rid of such a great sounding guitar? Another thing that baffles me is he played a lot of acoustic guitar during his greatest years 1967-1969, but very little after "Uncle Meat", "Weasels Ripped my Flesh", Burnt Weeny Sandwich" and "Hot Rats". I think those were Zappa and the Mother's best albums and Zappa doing his best guitar work during that period.
His guitar playing during this time was very melodic. In the 70s it was more wild and gnarly. There definitely is a alot of charm and quaintness to the 60s solos. There's many of my favorites. And there's nothing 'rock star' about them. They are like sweet little compositions. But Hot Rats was kind of a turning point to the 70s style of ripping your face off
It seems a lot of great musicians and artists do their greatest work early in their careers. I didn't like much of Zappa's music after 1970, it's obvious Zappa wanted to be a Rock guitar icon. In 1975 I met him before a concert and I chatted with him and it was clear where his head was at musically. He had the Zoot Allures group of young super musicians who wacked off with their instruments, showing off their chops. I was disappointed, and the show sucked so I left early. What he did in '67 through '69 is good enough for me..
He ripped all the time Hendrix didn't know what a wahwah was until. he spoke to Frank do the math
How did you come by this amazing stuff? Casually listening while working at the computer then a passage will hit me like dropping a piano on my head. Thanks I so need this
although he hadn't reached his full mastery of guitar, he was an innovator of guitar style and exploration in this era...
Brilliant as usual from The King.... along with Hendrix! Maestro Frankenzappa can't be stopped! Gratitude for posting The Zaptesla Monster!
this is fantastic, it is like looking through a kaleidoscope of sounds
😎 *SIIIIIRRR!!!* 👍 *YOU* Are Truly *THE MASTER* of ALL Things *ZAPPA!!!* 💖 *YOUR* Efforts Have *NOT* Gone Unnoticed *NOR* Unappreciated,Friend!!! 👍 *THANK YOU,THANK YOU,THANK YOU!!!* 😜
Brutal, no sabría quedarme con uno sólo de estos solos.
A Zappa no pude llegar a a verlo en directo aunque tuve una ocasión, en Bilbao 1988, siempre lamentaré no haber poder ido. Hace unos años vi a los Grandmothers of Invention de Don Preston, Tom Fowler y Napoleon Murphy Brown.... sólo faltaba Frank...
Burnt weenie sandwich just fucking kills me
you made me discover how good he was
my favorite FZ period has always been the original Mothers of Invention so *thank you* for this beautiful compilation upload!
Love your collection. back in the late 70's I had over 20 Zappa albums. I left them all at my heroin addicted x/girlfriends house. In the mid 80's I went to a strip club and saw the X/girlfriend dancing there. She saw me too. She thanked me for the albums (pawned them for $200.00) and gave me a blow job at the bar while everyone watched. I really miss my early Zappa Albums but have a great story. Freak me out Frank, yes that was me too
You should of kept the albums ....she sounds like my old lady.
The price of meat has just gone up and someone's old lady has just gone down....
hey, it's me again - today this will be my background music while doing nonsense on the pc :-)
28:42 running on repeat - would fit perfectly into a tarantino movie
@@Papitschku + recliner
You are the main man. You have turned me on to the greatest music & musician I have ever had the opportunity and privilege to listen to. Yes, I had Joe’s Garage II and III when it was released and I was impressed; but for some reason I didn’t realize the treasures i discovered until 1991 when I purchased Hot Rats and Freak Out and I have been addicted ever since. Priceless - listen to Frank every day.
Reality is a guitar not tv!
Word 🎸🎶
you're audio contributions to Frank's unrealesed treasure trove is AWESOME !
Very complex guitar ,genius
The guitar never stops
My guitar 🎸 sits around listening to ur Zappa…..my favorite guitar’s favorite guitarist 🎸🔥💩🦶🫀🍉
Some beautiful music here I listen to over and over again. Simply superb! Thankyou thankyou thankyou.
The one and only Frank Zappa 💙 ❤️ ♥️ 💖 💕 💓 💙
OHHHH!!! I almost died, and I would have died very happy!!! LOVE that first track! Underground psychedelic acid rock freak out music!!!
I think that was an early version of what would shortly become King Kong.
No one before and no one since .
Burnt Weeny is just transcendent. For any of Frank’s solos- try to find anything else like them. You won’t (unless they copied Frank).
More like a musical journey than a compilation of riffs.
You have done a fantastic editing job on this. Thank you.
I have always loved Frank's out of phase, cocked wah tone.
This should be an official album. its the first if his solo i hears on here and its the one i keep coming back to the 60's sound.
Thank you so much for this! Frank Zappa is one of my all-time favorite musicians (and people) and its awesome to hear all these solos!!!
amén
Thanks a million for posting. Nothing makes me want to get the old gang together more than Frank's gnarly, swinging, rolling, wah-wah guitar sound
Thank you - the money demo's solos are fantastic ! If you don't know there is a very very big solo in Appleton 1969 sleeping in a jar
First I've heard The Sixties, but they have a great guitarist
Zappa un astronauta que fué a buscar nuevos y extraños sonidos en galaxias lejanas, un destructor y a la vez constructor de parte de la música moderna, quizá Steven Wilson sea uno de los músicos que bebe de su experiencia. Zappa eterno, una cornucopia de sonidos amalgamados. GRANDEEEEEEEEEEE
Bloody awesome , thank you so much ! Fantastic compilation .
Im barely 37mimutes into this and I'm heading to the park to crank this! It's dark and gloomy. Fkng awesome riffing and solos.
Гитарные соло Фрэнка бесподобны!!!
Никто не играет так как он!
Once again your fz genius has saved my parachute vortex. THX
Love the sounds he wrung outta that 50,s gold top les paul....very unique tone...it's all in the tone he once stated...
BR!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you've given us. Truely
Thanks for your continued brilliant work putting these wonderful collections together.
thank so much zappa eats
Wow, what a great Saturday morning find! Thank you🎧
I was playing this in background until Holiday in Berlin came on.
nicely edited, full marks. A lot of his sixties solos are very... happy!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Whoever you are, your curation of Frank's amazing work is truly a gift. Now where the fuck is Fido? I need my slippers.
Really awesome work , thanks so much for sharing ! From a frank fan who at 10 years old could recite word for word Billy the Mountain when it 1st came out in "72"
i read yesterday in a book about the album solos (yer guitar) and today youtube shows me this... amazing. Many thanks.
Keep coming back to this one, just fantastic,
thanks br1tag, excellent editing, also love the photos.
wish the ZFT would make an official 60's guitar album, now that would be amazing
the best.
I really like the raw psychedelic vibe of Zappa's 60s guitar solos
Always great to hear and learn from Mothers's early stuff...Many Live versions are very good bookmarks of Zappa's performance art...and the Mothers...of course. Probably the most tasteful and audacious self taught guitarist of the time he was alive...And you have to hand it to the players he taught who accompanied him on his way...
I like the story behind his Gibson SG. So he had this student that had this guitar and Frank played it and told the kid `This is my guitar and you are selling it to me. Heres $300.` or some such amount was quoted. If Frank Zappa says he has to have your guitar, you have to say ok I guess, right?
August Lyons No one lays a finger on my Guitar 🎸
I know that he had denied this in his book but this man was indeed a virtuoso . And Dweezil
just took it a few miles ahead
Killer collection, thanx for your works and uploads!
Thanks mate I love a bit of Frank. his intellect also.
This would make a great triple LP.
I love 1960s Zappa - astonishingly inventive (yeah, that word).
This would make an even better double CD!
(I don't have a record-player anymore😳)
Man, finding your Channel was a gift for me... I love Zappa and you made a great job with these áudios... thank you for sharing!!!
I love the improvised version of Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown
thank You so much for sharing Your collection with the public. Was quite lot of hard working for us !
This is my favorite of all of your mixes. Thank you.
Yes Yes Yes thank you br1tag
During 1967, 1968 and 1969 Zappa played a 1954 Les Paul Gold Top which had a stop bar tail piece bridge and white P-90's. He used it on Hot Rats and the sound he gets on it is among the greatest I have heard by anyone. It could have been a 1955 or a 1953, the year the changes were made which Les Paul himself demanded, and I do not blame him...the 1952 had a horrible trapeze tail piece bridge with the strings going under the bridge, a horrible mistake made by Gibson's design team. For the 1953 version the angle of the neck relative to the body was increased to 17 degrees (previously 14 degrees) the contour of the maple cap was made higher in the center and also higher where the bridge is. These two changes allowed the strings to go over the stop bar tail piece making playing much better and to also allow you to mute the strings with your palm over the tail piece. This was what Les Paul wanted in the first place. Why Zappa switched to an SG I'll never know. It may have been because the SG is lighter in weight. Zappa is a rather short guy, which surprised me when I got to meet him, he always looked so tall on stage. Les Pauls are notoriously heavy, and the SG had humbuckers, that could be why.
Andrew Seniska funny you mention his height, as I was watching a video of his performance of Montana from A Token Of His Extreme and noticed him wearing tremendously high heeled boots! Go figure. Thank you for more guitar info too, I’d always wondered what he used in this period
There are internet sites that say he was 6'-0" and weight 160 which is hard to believe. I met Zappa before his 1975 Zoot Allures tour concert in Tampa. I 'm 5'-11", & 170 lbs and was standing 2 feet from Zappa as we chatted. He seemed smaller than me and my girlfriend was 5 feet away and mentioned it too. Zappa had his bald body guard with him, so everyone looked small next to that mean looking bald dude. Zappa was always very thin too. All those cigarettes, coffee, fried spaghetti, and infamous burnt weeny
sandwiches kept him under-weight along with not enough sleep and being a workaholic (I confirmed this with Bunk Gardnier & Don Preston who is into health food). These bad habits probably added to
Zappa's body not being healthy enough to fight off and recover from his prostate cancer. Zappa confirms his terrible diet in “The Real Frank Zappa Book”. But his appearance in the 1960's, being thin, his iconic mustache & goatee, long messy, stringy hair, and the unique music he created all added to his strange persona and eventual fame. He was the weirdest looking guy I have ever met but composed some of the greatest music I ever heard. I loved the music he did most from 1967-1969 and after that I lost interest. Waka-Jawaka and a lot of the orchestral/choir music from 200 Motels was great. After that he played his vaudeville/comedy music and not enough serious music and it bored me. A lot of my friends I grew up with felt the same. By 1975 Zappa became the genuine Rock Star and Guitar God he wanted to be for years and when I saw him on that tour, I hated it so much I left early after walking to the front stage and waved to get
Zappa's attention and when he looked at me (remembering me from our talk earlier) I gave him a “thumbs down” and left. I bought “Zoot Allures” and smashed it after listening and got instant relief after I put on side 1 from “Uncle Meat”. Even on his chamber group album “Yellow Shark”, the only great pieces were his old ones the group performed. Somewhat famous conductor and arranger for Steve Via, Tom Trapp, told me he loves Zappa's 60's stuff the most. Dweezil Zappa has mentioned similar things, "It Must Be a Camel" from "Hot Rats" (1969) is one of his favorite Zappa pieces as well as mine. Here's a link to a Zappa influenced track from my second album released on CDBaby: th-cam.com/video/Zva1NTeJLuw/w-d-xo.html
The gold top is probably a 53 as there is no inked serial number on the headstock. The neck set angle has been increased from its debut. It has a thick neck and it feels real good in your hand. It got butchered real Les Paul style but probably not with a screw driver as Les was wont to do - a blunt one. FZ changed the machine heads for Schallers, the early M6 tombstones which look best. Mick Ekers has written extensively about it is his Zappa Gear book published late last year.
@@andragg thumbs down is funny...as if. What band, guitar player, artist for that matter...wants to stay the same? Unless someone is comfortable doing same hits for decades, that is fine also. FZ gave it all he had probably even on 75 tour, imagine the solos you missed my friend...the solos
E head would know all details ask him
FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!
¡Asombroso! Talento inagotable con sensibilidad de altura sublime. FZ es Rock con mayúscula. Inmenso.
Gracias br1tag.
Felicidades por tu colección.
Dear Br1tag, you are the only man on youtube that can satisfy my Zappa cravings
love this thanks ca nt get enough
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That one solo towards the very end was absolutely beautiful.His solos used to mesmerize me when I'd see them live a back in the day.
Still ahead of his time.
Your one of the Great Blessings in life! I thanked you so much!
If you like Frank, go see Dweezil. I’m tellin ya.
No joke, when he first started doing it I was a little skeptical but when I heard it and as time goes on he completely captures the essence of his dad in every way. It’s amazing to hear and watch
Thanks for posting.All the best from Denmark Copenhagen. Zappa was here several times
Just LOVE the way you melt each into another, very "Frankesque" if we may! 👍
Rolling Stone interviewer: Now that Jimi has passed, that makes you the greatest guitar player in the world.
Clapton: No, Zappa is way better than me!
Me: I think he's right!
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Did Clapton really say that? Hats off to him if he did!
Zappa an All Time Great no doubt. Clapton was right.
Thank you! Those zappa solos collections are awesome!!!!!!