Frank Zappa - Guitar
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Artist: Frank ZappaEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-02
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Which One Is It?
- Republicans
- Do Not Pass Go
- Chalk Pie
- In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
- That's Not Really Reggae
- When No One Was No One
- Once Again, Without the Net
- Outside Now
- Jim & Tammy's Upper Room
- Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?
- That Ol' G Minor Thing Again
- Hotel Atlanta Incidentals
- That's Not Really a Shuffle
- Move It or Park It
- Sunrise Redeemer
- Variations on Sinister #3
- Orrin Hatch on Skis
- But Who Was Fulcanelli?
- For Duane
- Goa
- Winos Do Not March
- Swans? What Swans?
- Too Ugly for Show Business
- Systems of Edges
- Do Not Try This at Home
- Things That Look Like Meat
- Watermelon in Easter Hay
- Canadian Customs
- Is That All There Is?
- It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary
Music reviews of Guitar
Music Review: Some good stuff, but mostly forgettable....
Rating: 3 Stars
This is a good album, but it's not as great as the mammoth Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar set, and a lot of the material here all sounds the same. Many of the solos/songs don't really stand out at all. They all blend into one long messy solo. That isn't to say there's nothing worth listening to here.
The opener Sexual Harrassment in the Work Place is a very majestic song, with a great Zappa solo and beautiful backing track. Do Not Pass Go has a nice mellow tone to it. The song Variations on Sinister #3 is very good and intricate. Outside Now (Original Solo) is one of the better tracks, and only one of two from the 1979 band with Vinnie Colauita (the other is Systems of Edges, which is equally good). While Chad Wackerman is a good drummer, he just didn't have the same camaradirie with Frank that Vinnie did. The recording of Watermelon in Easter Hay, one of Zappa's greatest compositions, is very nice. While not as majestic as the Joe's Garage version, it's still wonderful and the crowd really responds to it, which helps immensely.
Do Not Try This at Home sounds exactly like the title track from Them or Us (with more improv). In-a-Gadda-Stravinsky sounds more interesting than it actually is. The bass line from In-a-Gadda-da-Vida is used while Zappa and the band improv over it. Good idea, mediocre execution, though.
The album, however, has some of the most interesting titles Zappa ever came up (Orrin Hatch on Skis, Chalk Pie, Swans? What Swans?), but none of those songs are particularly interesting musicially. There isn't much variation here in the material, as there was on the Shut Up set. If you're a Zappa completist, then by all means you should pick this one up. If you're not, stick with the Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar album.
Description of Guitar
The sequel to Shut Up and Play Your Guitar, Guitar is a two-part collection of improvisations by Frank Zappa, assembled from live recordings between 1979 and 1984. Zappa's bands from this period provides a solid foundation for what is essentially a one-man show, as Zappa carves his "air sculptures" from fluid, lyrical guitar notes. The backdrops vary from rock to blues to free-form embellishments to Zappa-defined reggae all the while giving the soloist plenty of room to explore his instrument. While it lacks the interplay between Zappa and drummer Vinnie Colliuta (he appears on only one track of this set) that made its predecessor so remarkable, Guitar contains more than enough of Zappa's musicianship to carry the day, making this an essential part of any Zappa or guitar fan's collection. --Andrew BoscardinAlbum-Oriented Rock (AOR) CDs
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