Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - King Kong (1968 at BBC) 1/3

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  • Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention playing King Kong (first part) at the BBC studios in 1968.
    "Colour Me Pop" show.

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  • @swedishknightingales6349
    @swedishknightingales6349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    So yoko heard those horns and was like… “This is my song now. Help me steal this shit, John.”

    • @alexanderv7702
      @alexanderv7702 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Was Yoko a lady with values?

    • @raimoroine5331
      @raimoroine5331 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😀

    • @zdave6083
      @zdave6083 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      She's an artist.....y'all aint.

    • @johncaldwell643
      @johncaldwell643 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zdave6083if she's an artist thank the Lord I'm not!

    • @juliangallegos7627
      @juliangallegos7627 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Best comment

  • @pystalcrepsi
    @pystalcrepsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    lead guitar - Frank Zappa (obviously lol)
    drummer 1 (the one in the back with the long black hair) - Jimmy Carl Black
    drummer 2 (the foreground one) - Art Tripp
    bass guitar - Roy Estrada
    keys - Don Preston
    baritone sax (first solo) and tambourine - Motorhead Sherwood
    tenor sax (the one on the right with white/gray hair) - Bunk Gardner
    alto sax (the one on the left) - Ian Underwood
    This set was recorded (October 23, 1968) two days before the show that can be heard on the second half of the CD Ahead Of Their Time (October 25, 1968)! Check it out if you want to hear this lineup play a full 40-minute instrumental set.

    • @mnbluestube
      @mnbluestube 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      up

    • @suntfierbinte
      @suntfierbinte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!

    • @ThrillhoWiggum
      @ThrillhoWiggum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I thought tambourine was Mitch Hedberg. I should look into this.

    • @johnhorton4424
      @johnhorton4424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wonder what don Preston went on to do with his life after the mothers

    • @Orcastruck
      @Orcastruck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Man I have this on vinyl, uncle meat.

  • @bertspivey3214
    @bertspivey3214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    At 2:36 they went from complete chaos to the tightest band on the planet.

    • @solarwindlass
      @solarwindlass 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      true forever -- electrifying

    • @kevinbking1
      @kevinbking1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Frank reportedly ran a very tight ship!

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kevinbking1Right. No drugs on his ship.

  • @GreenManalishiUSA
    @GreenManalishiUSA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Frank had so many amazing bands. But this band is one of my favorites, not only because they were amazing musicians, but also because they were Hungry Freaks Daddy.

  • @jamesyclarke
    @jamesyclarke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is just about my favourite clip on the entire internet.

  • @timmitzlaff8960
    @timmitzlaff8960 7 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    FZ and the MOTHERS of INVENTION was the first concert I ever attended. 1968 my girlfriend and I we were 15. It was at the Shrine Auditorium L.A. Of course. Also the Sir Douglas Quintet. Wow we were so 😎 cool telling our friends at school about it. Her older Brother drove us.

    • @richardgross400
      @richardgross400 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SO COOL. I WISH I WOULD HAVE SEEN HIM. 1968 WAS A KILLER ZAPPA BAND .

    • @richardvernon9150
      @richardvernon9150 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lucky kids!! 😀🎶❤️

    • @jansandin845
      @jansandin845 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The camera man was on strong stuff

    • @JoaoSantos-ep1qr
      @JoaoSantos-ep1qr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

    • @Terp311
      @Terp311 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay

  • @matthewcoombs3282
    @matthewcoombs3282 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This was shown on the BBC in 1968, just a couple of years previously the viewers would have been watching Freddie and the Dreamers.....this must have been a complete mind fuck for the audience.

    • @surfrunnerd8457
      @surfrunnerd8457 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It took a lot of talent and effort for Zappa to compose, perform and arrange music this bad.

  • @marklines2599
    @marklines2599 9 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    "Something's gotta be done before America scarfs up the world, and shits on it".
    Damn I think that's happening now....

    • @jimbrewer7328
      @jimbrewer7328 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Too late

    • @flaccidego9468
      @flaccidego9468 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Jim Brewer
      yeah. We shit on it. Smeared it all over the globe, them we topped it off with a full intestinal diarrhea shit spray.

    • @klaa22
      @klaa22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Trump. . The giant American turd that America is shitting on the world. . .

    • @andytrimble5615
      @andytrimble5615 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Would you rather have China do it? Or Islam?
      Seriously, just what are you complaining about? Is there a better, freer, inclusive society than America? Is there a higher standard of living someplace in the world?
      Without us, commies and fascists would rule the world. Remember that the next time you want to criticize our country's heritage. The only thing with us now is the secular humanists who are taking us down a road to financial ruin.

    • @tixximmi1
      @tixximmi1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@klaa22 You couldn't be more wrong. Don't be plastic.

  • @Ert_tv
    @Ert_tv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    This is what a caterpillar hears when it transforms into a butterfly this is pure greatness

  • @pwkpilot
    @pwkpilot 11 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The mothers were WAY ahead of their time!
    I miss Frank...........

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Late reply but funnily enough the version from Ahead Of Their Time (Live In London '68, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) is probably the official release which sounds closest to this masterpiece. Which kind of makes sense--I read ages ago that Zappa recorded THIS version very soon after the concert that became A.O.T.T. And the BBC shelved it, unseen, for 25 years. Because we weren't ready for it then. First aired as part of the BBC Zappa documentary shown soon after his death--it was a total exclusive at the time and caused quite a stir amongst Zappa freaks, I recall!

  • @davidsimpson911
    @davidsimpson911 8 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    at 2:36 one of the greatest moments in music...such a wonderful and magical surprise...there will,sadly,never be another Frank Zappa.

    • @stephenharperisgay
      @stephenharperisgay 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +David Simpson Hey man, at least he didn't fuck around and put out a stupid amount of music. Frank Zappa was a musician not wasted, squeezed every last drop.

    • @Oslerian
      @Oslerian 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes! I totally agree. The transition at 2:36 is something holy. Good to know someone appreciates it as much as I do.

    • @wozzer2727
      @wozzer2727 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Total agreement, love the drum intro"

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No shit. This is one of the greatest live "rock" performances in the history of the music, bar none.

    • @ddrazga
      @ddrazga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yeah. They're just screwing around, and then they lock into that killer riff. They were so far ahead of their time.

  • @giuseppelobasso1318
    @giuseppelobasso1318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Jeezus Christ how is it so flowing and improvised while being so tight and on point? One of the best live performances I've ever seen. Up there with Can's Paperhouse and Miles Davis' So What.

    • @squeakeththewheel
      @squeakeththewheel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In an interview in around 2010 or so Don Preston said that before they ever played out they practiced 8 hours a day 7 days a week including thanksgiving and christmas.

    • @nopants4259
      @nopants4259 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is so beyond amazing ! luckily UK tv wasn't run by conservative idiots in those days

    • @jean-marchuygevelde4911
      @jean-marchuygevelde4911 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree with Can. But I would put Miles "Call it anything" on top of "So What"... My call anyway!

    • @jiannisDimi
      @jiannisDimi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In the first Minute I would say shit Rock music, nothing like Ornette Coleman free jazz,
      but as i listen throught the whole piece, i do hear a million "shapes of riffs to come"...
      Oh oh... they play some music, and I stay still...
      For much more time after it...

    • @venomouscasca
      @venomouscasca 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Noise is all hear

  • @earlblack2914
    @earlblack2914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This sounds like a good old Zappa song. The man is like the best jazzy infusion player he's always been. I couldn't mix that up for the life of me. Wow, still a mind blower and I'm 65 years old. His music will never get old to me though. I really don't think anyone else would be able to do this with music today. A master of this work for sure.

    • @Yanquirocker
      @Yanquirocker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out the group Club D’Elf

    • @jacobntsuki
      @jacobntsuki ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are plenty of great musicians today, just cause its not whats played on the radio doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jacobntsukiThis wasn’t played on the radio either.

  • @duncality
    @duncality 10 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Grandma says: "Is that music you are listening to?"

  • @3lullabies
    @3lullabies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Amazing...as if King Crimson and Soft Machine somehow had a baby, then Gong and Quicksilver Messenger Service had a baby, and those two babies grew up and had a baby ...that's this. Zappa's musical mind is amazing.

    • @uubuuh
      @uubuuh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and that last baby had Varese playing on the Fisher-Price

  • @Nick-fi1mc
    @Nick-fi1mc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Frank's awesome guitar work often gets overshadowed by everything else he was really good at. He could play a mean guitar

  • @cpdaddy7
    @cpdaddy7 11 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Art Trip and Jimmy Carl Black both on drums. Yowza!

    • @chaosmos24
      @chaosmos24 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Art Trip was monstrous behind the kit.

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Tripp"

  • @DSM9
    @DSM9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is brilliant. Watched it many times. God knows what BBC TV viewers in the UK made of it back in 1968! 😅

  • @georgiethumbs2438
    @georgiethumbs2438 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:37 is my favorite part, so awesome, it just takes off into outer space with the bass and drums holding down the groove, so brilliant.

  • @Caniballe
    @Caniballe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The early Mothers were not the best Mothers, but they had a little something that made them unique in the history of music

    • @xbmpr
      @xbmpr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Frank had said in various interviews he never ever wanted to go back to this lineup but didn’t regret it because he’d liked and played with them for so long.

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd much rather have these than Steve bloody Vai and Terry Bozio

    • @jillsandwitch67
      @jillsandwitch67 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      the later mothers always felt too poppy and clean to me, these guys had sauce

    • @chaosmos24
      @chaosmos24 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The George Duke/Ruth Underwood band was peak Mothers. They had the chops *and* the sauce.

  • @buddesantis4227
    @buddesantis4227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Genius ! The Original Mothers were amazing . Saw them at the Garrick Theater in NY on their first trip east . Hooked ever since .

  • @colt1954
    @colt1954 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a shame it stops short, the last 6 mins are surely amongst the most brilliant studio performances, and in 1968, crumbs truly amazing.

  • @buddesantis4227
    @buddesantis4227 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Was lucky to wander into the Carrick Theater in NY as a college freshman and Motown fan. Exited a stone cold hippie. Thank you Frank and the original Mothers.

  • @kurtknutsen9972
    @kurtknutsen9972 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    glad seen zappa 110 times!

  • @helpimarock66
    @helpimarock66 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I just realized something, King Kong first appeared (briefly) on lumpy gravy in 1968, so I'll bet like at least one person who went to a mothers of invention concert before the release of uncle meat recognized it.

  • @KillerandUndertaker
    @KillerandUndertaker 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    So far ahead of their time it's almost a joke. Heavy as hell this band.

  • @skyhouses9324
    @skyhouses9324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Walking around auckland city in New Zealand .... night time ...... headphones playing Willie the pimp ......... 2019....... tripping ........... AWESOME

  • @davidbussell7799
    @davidbussell7799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have listened to King Kong many times over the past 50 years and continue to enjoy it every time. How many other compositions meet that standard ? For myself personally I can think of everything few. This is my favorite MOI standard that crashes into my consciousness consistently along with Let's Make the Water Turn Black.

    • @davidbussell7799
      @davidbussell7799 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry meant very few not everything few.

  • @venomouscasca
    @venomouscasca 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The dude with the sun glasses learning how to play sax is hilarious.

  • @brianburge5961
    @brianburge5961 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great shots of the tambourine during the guitar solo

  • @Attentionseekingnoob
    @Attentionseekingnoob 9 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    "We are involved in a sort of low key war against apathy, I don't know how you are doing in apathy over there but we have a lot of it boys and girls. A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might, just for a second, question enough of their environment to do something about it". Its odd to see a young and rather nervous Zappa utter such prophetic words

    • @carolynzaremba5469
      @carolynzaremba5469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was right then and he's still right in 2024.

  • @Crutchman13
    @Crutchman13 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Saw the Mothers play many times while growing up in LA. Always great shows. Great to see this video. RIP Mr. Motorhead.

  • @gfisher8710
    @gfisher8710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Starting at 2:36 I had this as my walkup music in my beer league baseball team. Good times. Thank you, Frank

    • @bobski7032
      @bobski7032 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pretty cool jam

  • @georgiethumbs2438
    @georgiethumbs2438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So awesome, I could listen to this forever

    • @carolynzaremba5469
      @carolynzaremba5469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm sure I listened to it at least once on acid. I went somewhere else. Don't know where.

  • @sandraita906
    @sandraita906 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Traditional Jazz, my favourite Zappa track, period.

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mine too. Fuck Lennon and his jam rag. Even though that was a pretty good rendition of the same song...

    • @gordo64ful
      @gordo64ful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was actually performed by the Mothers on a night in which they invited Lennon and Ono onstage. Lennon then released the track with that stupid name and never gave any credit to Frank.

    • @nastyhardcore7641
      @nastyhardcore7641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This isn't traditional jazz. I don't think zappa ever played traditional jazz or any kind of jazz

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nastyhardcore7641 He did occasionally make a jazz noise.

    • @nastyhardcore7641
      @nastyhardcore7641 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SaltpeterTaffy well he had albums with 'jazz' in the title that i don't consider jazz. actually the jazziest he ever got was when he played a couple guitar leads on one of george duke's solo albums. in my opinion his playing was quite bad on those tracks and he was out of his element.

  • @cliffspencer9989
    @cliffspencer9989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mr Zappa. Absolutely brilliant. Thank god he was born. Is all I can say

  • @MBFamilyFoodsPensacola
    @MBFamilyFoodsPensacola 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My first concert was Zappa and the Mothers. Amazingly, the opening band was Simon and Garfunkel. Yin and Yang in one night.

  • @chamberpaint
    @chamberpaint 13 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love seeing Motorhead here, playing sax & tambourine like a wildman, and doing some very fancy dancing as well. Sending him lots of light and love at this heartbreaking time.....

  • @dantean
    @dantean 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have trouble convincing people to treat Frank seriously unless I play them 1966-1971 MOI. Thanks for posting!

  • @DaTrip2warez
    @DaTrip2warez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They broke into the house where future lives and plundered a thousand years of music.

  • @borisblade564
    @borisblade564 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    from the pure chaos and planned noodling at the beginning steps forth a work of magnificence,absolute quality

  • @blackzeppelin6028
    @blackzeppelin6028 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He aquí la más clara muestra de por que Zappa para nosotros (los mas adictos al rock) es una figura clave en la historia. Rompiendo los esquemas musicales y aún así siendo exitoso y convirtiendose en una leyenda. ;-{D

  • @chrisharry3475
    @chrisharry3475 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is probably one of the better early recorded performances on this tour

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This band accomplished amazing things in its brief time . They did exactly what they felt like doing .

    • @carolynzaremba5469
      @carolynzaremba5469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They rehearsed like motherfuckers.

  • @briancatanzaro
    @briancatanzaro 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks so much for posting this. This is my favorite era of the Mothers.

  • @tarhunta2111
    @tarhunta2111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was fantastic.What a genius.

  • @jochanaan58
    @jochanaan58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Monsters, all of them! And that's a high compliment. Cool video too.

  • @leirgauk
    @leirgauk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awwww, it cuts off before it ends :( Soo sad, because this King Kong recording was AMAZING!!!

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +leirgauk It's the BEST version of King Kong I've heard. And I always piss myself when Zappa says: "we've heard people in this land like traditional jazz". It fucking rocks like a bitch, love this line-up of The Mothers.

    • @leirgauk
      @leirgauk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      vollsticks
      Yes!!!! :D It's my fav line-up! Same (or similar) line up as Ahead Of Their Time (also has an amazing version of King Kong!).
      You obviously have an extremely good taste in music, so I want to share with you my favorite song/album of all time: François Tusques - Intercommunal Music (it's on TH-cam). It's far out, energetic free jazz that VERY few people are able to appreciate (but you might be one of them!). Please listen to the whole thing uninterrupted.

    • @vollsticks
      @vollsticks 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      leirgauk Hahah flattery will get you everywhere!
      Yes, the AOTT LP has a great version of King Kong, I agree--also there's a really good version similar to this video on the Live In Toronto LP (can't remember if it's called that--it has John Lennon and Yoko Ono on it) that comes close.
      Francois Tusques--whow that's a name to conjure with! European free jazz is some of the harshest, most uncompromising music ever recorded--Thurston Moore wrote a great "Beginners Guide"-type article about the genre and I investigated some of the artists he mentioned. There's some particularly bonkers Swedish stuff but I'm glad to check out your recommendation, thank you!

    • @leirgauk
      @leirgauk 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      vollsticks
      Ah cool, you referring to the infamous "Jamrag"? :D Haven't heard it, but I'll find it.
      Haha, ye, his name doesn't do him any favors ^^ But ye, European free jazz is far out! I love it very much, although nothing fondles my soul quiet as much as Afroamerican free jazz. And that album is a PERFECT mix of French (Tusques and Guerin) and Afroamerican (the rest) free jazz, hence "intercommunal". You can really hear the racial tension, the aggressive expression of freedom and the bortherly love that is united through the free expression of music. They all contribute with their own unique and brilliant expression of their deepest, most intense emotions. This album is love, this album is life. Please lemme know what you think :)
      I'll check out the Thurston Moore thing. Sure would love to hear some particularly bonkers Swedish stuff ^^ Saw his top 10 underground free jazz list - lotsa good stuff, such as my definite favorite drummer, Sunny Murray, whose BRILLIANT contribution to Intercommunal Music truly makes it the magical wonder that it is!

    • @flaccidego9468
      @flaccidego9468 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +vollsticks
      awesome version. I keep returning to Dweezils version on 'Return of the Son of'
      That version spectacular.

  • @shemsuhornephilim7702
    @shemsuhornephilim7702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Holy Shit this is Fusion, and in 1968 pretty crazy a few years ahead of its time....

  • @Axes83
    @Axes83 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pure Genius.... Ahead of their times and of ours either!!!! That's just above.... a difference of level....

  • @genlob
    @genlob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Kingest of Kongs. Don't think I'll ever tire of listening to this piece of magic.

  • @nickdamico3087
    @nickdamico3087 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is exactly why I keep my Eric Dolphy records mixed in with my Mothers records!

  • @jesjes21
    @jesjes21 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    that ride cymbal that looks like a skookum garbage can lid is fantastic

  • @r.menzel8020
    @r.menzel8020 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was given the pleasure of seeking FZ at the Greek Theater in Berkeley back in 84 i think it was. What a show!

    • @carolynzaremba5469
      @carolynzaremba5469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I saw them in Berkeley in 1971.

  • @syourke3
    @syourke3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Zappa was a huge fan of the French composer Edgar Varese and I think you can hear that influence here.

  • @bobknobbe3561
    @bobknobbe3561 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    oh my god. Amazing! I was at my granddaughter 3 years old preschool, and they made the exact same music. almost note for note. I think old frank stole this from a preschool music class

  • @pye007
    @pye007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of his very best. Extraordinary.

  • @paulharris9360
    @paulharris9360 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing some other Zappa fans already know!!!!!!!!

  • @donaldlong3996
    @donaldlong3996 11 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    02:35......get goosebumps every time i hear those drums come in together, totally awesome piece.

    • @harrysowerby1666
      @harrysowerby1666 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Donald Long it sounds beautifully monstrous at that part.

  • @michaelellingson9282
    @michaelellingson9282 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    a man ahead of his time !

  • @XMIR10C
    @XMIR10C 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds like the day we all went to the Eric Dolphy barbecue. It was a great time , lots of great food and the Thingfish salad was out of this world.

    • @tomn9094
      @tomn9094 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep. Would have been nice if they'd hook up.

  • @cuffedpans
    @cuffedpans 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A lot of people say miles invented jazz fusion but fz was doing this a whole year ahead of bitches brew

  • @amafirenze-vi1uh
    @amafirenze-vi1uh ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Zappa and Miles Davis at the time were reinventing jazz music.

  • @josedias1387
    @josedias1387 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love this! Great musicians and lisergic music.

  • @dizzymystics
    @dizzymystics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mitch Hedberg is a hell of a tambourinist

  • @geraividet
    @geraividet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for sharing!

  • @andrewj.mulheriniv4075
    @andrewj.mulheriniv4075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Epic. Raw and astounding.

  • @JLKDOOM
    @JLKDOOM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I have literally blown about 30 pairs of headphones listening to this, no lie. I crank it all the way up on my soundboard when it kicks in!! I love it. I listen to it so loud that my headphones get hot to the touch and my ears are hot as hell

    • @nige3801
      @nige3801 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol Billy 🤣

    • @garethjenkins5922
      @garethjenkins5922 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Start learning to lip read my friend.

    • @georgiethumbs2438
      @georgiethumbs2438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do not do that. I did that for years and have severe hearing problems today

  • @leftyodaniels2645
    @leftyodaniels2645 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how Frank is jamming out heavily while the Dopey European cameraman shows us the tambourine and the sax player standing there grooving

    • @Efferpheasants
      @Efferpheasants ปีที่แล้ว

      It was 11.30 at night everyone was stoned.

  • @BenLubin
    @BenLubin 12 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    By far the best group Zappa ever had.

    • @artkirakosyan2633
      @artkirakosyan2633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ahead of their time? Literally every band is from that era. How zappa is ahead of their time?

    • @Supertimegamingify
      @Supertimegamingify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@artkirakosyan2633 "Ahead of Their Time" is a live album featuring this incarnation of the Mothers.

  • @AT-kb1ik
    @AT-kb1ik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Anyone seen their performance of this piece where Yoko Ono tries to fuck it up by joining in? They still manage to make it amazing!!!

  • @slcbr0fus600
    @slcbr0fus600 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is amazing! Love this song

  • @Ro1Gg2Bv3
    @Ro1Gg2Bv3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great sound quality!

  • @patrickfeehan6975
    @patrickfeehan6975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mind blowing

  • @ronaldnash488
    @ronaldnash488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    FRANK ZAPPA.. Genius Supreme..If it weren't for this Unique Person just think you how much a disadvantage from what we received vrs what we would have never heard from anyone else !!...😇

  • @helpimarock66
    @helpimarock66 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Percussion starting at 0:50 is so Fucking amazing. It's a staple of nearly every single early mothers show I've heard and I will never get tired of it, its just so unbelievably epic in the ugliest of ways :)

  • @stevesanders6770
    @stevesanders6770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is what ‘A low key war against apathy’ sounds like

  • @diegofreire537
    @diegofreire537 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:16 I love this moment!

  • @LilHaseProductions
    @LilHaseProductions 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm a big fan of Canterbury Scene and early 70s british prog. That main theme at 2:48 is so revolutionary and obviously highly influenced the sound to come out of UK over the next few years. Sounds very like something Soft Machine would write.

    • @jillsandwitch67
      @jillsandwitch67 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i remember reading somewhere that zappa wouldn't let the soft machine open for the mothers because they were so good

    • @LilHaseProductions
      @LilHaseProductions 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jillsandwitch67 I'm a massive fan of Soft Machine. The first iteration of the band across the first 3 albums was just brilliant. They really were doing their own thing.

    • @jillsandwitch67
      @jillsandwitch67 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LilHaseProductions im totally with you there, third is the best album ever

    • @LilHaseProductions
      @LilHaseProductions 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jillsandwitch67 completely agree with that. I heard Third at a revolutionary point of my life and I would listen to a track of it almost every day. That album feels iconic to me from that period of my life.

  • @forku5749
    @forku5749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd love to see a band recreate this moment today

    • @venomouscasca
      @venomouscasca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Easy, just get a bunch of pre schoolers and have them make noise with musical instruments. Same sound lol. Ridiculous.

    • @carolynzaremba5469
      @carolynzaremba5469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@venomouscasca You have no idea about brilliance.

  • @lazyboylarry4345
    @lazyboylarry4345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that Mitch Hedburg with the tambourine?!

  • @Videographic69
    @Videographic69 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Has not gotten better than this!
    Lee

  • @kobocopcustoms
    @kobocopcustoms 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This song is how you feel after walking away from an awkward conversation where you said something you know you shouldn't have

  • @Maxyl56
    @Maxyl56 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They were my first concert too Mother's Day 1970, I was 14

  • @blastfromtheeast
    @blastfromtheeast 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    2:36 . . . Crowd's about to find out that these guys mean business

  • @Colt4.5.
    @Colt4.5. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zappa was fucking sensational.

  • @flaccidego9468
    @flaccidego9468 8 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    "High boys and girls. I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group" :)

  • @jackelliott8050
    @jackelliott8050 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    this is exactly where jazz met acid rock without the acid ! the great piano player DON PRESTON intentionally playing badly . Love it cause it's so funny and serious at the same time .Zappa is up there with Thelonious !

    • @JudeJaded15
      @JudeJaded15 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +jack elliott Frank definitely had the spirit of Monk in him.

    • @jan_Travis
      @jan_Travis 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you know who all the people in this lineup are? I can't really make out who is who.

  • @markknego5743
    @markknego5743 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    the MOST BEYOND BELIEF BAND EVER ! ! ! THANK YOU UNIVERSE ! ! !

  • @pjc1954
    @pjc1954 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2.36 my favourite moment in music.

  • @carlpott2961
    @carlpott2961 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great great stuff. Also great.

  • @pjpucci
    @pjpucci 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Babe Ruth honored this song. Incredible Frank Zappa

  • @alicemccafferty7111
    @alicemccafferty7111 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Endlessly inventive!

  • @CJM333
    @CJM333 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the bassline alone makes me entranced

  • @Archytyp
    @Archytyp ปีที่แล้ว

    That Sax-Solo is Genius!

  • @jeffw497
    @jeffw497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is this KK performance released digitally?
    The best non- acid acid music. The core of the Mothers!
    Estrada lays it down, Frank wails. Underwood, fresh outta Choate and Yale, is great.
    Love it.

  • @wmoli872
    @wmoli872 8 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Mitch Hedberg on tambourine.

    • @Guitarsoul24734
      @Guitarsoul24734 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Haha nice.

    • @maxaronow712
      @maxaronow712 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      his real name's Motorhead Sherwood, if you were curious, but that's funny, he does really look like him.

    • @MarkCzuba
      @MarkCzuba 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nobody rocks a tambourine like old Mitchy.

    • @mikew9543
      @mikew9543 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was just watching the video and scrolled down to make this exact comment.
      " I want to hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations I’ve traveled to, but first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won’t fall down."

    • @lanceuppercut2013
      @lanceuppercut2013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He likes Kit Kats...unless he is with four or more people.

  • @mireilledischer3380
    @mireilledischer3380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I imagine the BBC cameraman with cardigan and pipe having no fucking idea what this is...not one deliberate shot of Frank through his solo.

  • @timmyjohnslats
    @timmyjohnslats 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super radd and cool stuff 😎

  • @1tsmeadam
    @1tsmeadam หลายเดือนก่อน

    Frank Zappa - Guitar, spoken word
    Roy Estrada - Bass
    Jimmy Carl Black - lead Drums, Percussion
    Art Tripp - Drums, percussion
    Don Preston - Keyboard, Gong
    Ian Underwood - Alto Sax
    Motörhead Sherwood - Baritone sax, Tambourine
    Bunk Gardner - Tenor sax
    Ray Collins - Tambourine