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
- Mud Shark
- What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
- Bwana Dik
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie the Pimp
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches en Regalia
- Tears Began to Fall
Music reviews of Fillmore East: June 1971
Music Review: excellent
Rating: 4 Stars
Ben Watson wrote in Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play that people contrasted this verison of the Mothers with the previous, saying "Whereas the original Mothers were presented as some kind of alternative,......Flo and Eddie were presented as sweaty, h-o-rny pop stars whose main interest was getting l-ai-d."
Well, as with Zappa most of the time, the points were missed: the 1970-71 incarnation of the Mothers was a stage show. Tommy, Hair, Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar were all high concept rock operas or rock musicals. So is Live at Filmore.
What Zappa did here was to put together a non-linar rock opera about what it was like to be a rock band on the road in the very early 70s. This was when hard drugs, big money, jet planes, and, most imporatant here, random sex became part of the rock and roll circus. We can't change the world, Nixon is king, let's make bread and score.
Flo and Eddie had the best harmonies in rock, and Zappa used this to create his rock operettas. If you listen, this music is tightly arranged and highly disciplined--every cue is mapped out as it would be in a Broadway musical.
Where most rock stars of the time indulged, Zappa flipped the looking glass and as usual, made the flip into art.
Description of Fillmore East: June 1971
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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 Holdship
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