Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 6
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Artist: Frank ZappaBrand: Rykodisc
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-30
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath
- The Poodle Lecture
- Dirty Love
- Magic Fingers
- The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival
- Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
- Father O'Blivion
- Is That Guy Kidding or What?
- I'm So Cute
- White Person
- Lonely Person Devices
- Ms. Pinky
- Shove It Right In
- Wind up Workin' in a Gas Station
- Make a Sex Noise
- Tracy Is a Snob
- I Have Been in You
- Emperor of Ohio
- Dinah-Moe Humm
- He's So Gay
- Camarillo Brillo
- Muffin Man
- NYC Halloween Audience
- The Illinois Enema Bandit
- Thirteen
- Lobster Girl
- Black Napkins
- We're Turning Again
- Alien Orifice
- Catholic Girls
- Crew Slut
- Tryin' to Grow a Chin
- Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
- Lisa's Life Story
- Lonesome Cowboy Nando
- 200 Motels Finale
- Strictly Genteel
Music reviews of You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 6
Music Review: And so it ends...
Rating: 5 Stars
The final chapter in FZ's tribute to all the musicians he has worked with on the world's stages. A lot of these selections are played very fast, and occaisionally sound like they are being rushed through, but you have to take into consideration, these are all live recordings, and they players are probably caught up in the moment. And, as difficult as a lot of Zappa's material is to play properly, the musicians are obviously having a really good time, despite what a hard taskmaster Frank Zappa was.
As stated elsewhere, the first disc in this volume, and some of the second as well, deal primarily with the topic of sex. There is a lot of audience participation on this volume, reminiscent at times of "Tinseltown Rebellion," with selections like "The Madison Panty Sniffing Festival," and all the spoken word parts, like "Farther O'Blivion." He was well-known for going back to earlier material and redoing it with new treatments of similar themes, the format of practically the whole of "Tinseltown Rebellion." And he brought the audience out from their inhibitions, in "Make A sex Noise," and "Tracy Is A Snob." Of course, there are references to egregeous practices, but given a light, humorous take, as in "Lonely Person Devices/Ms. Pinky." Some people can't pull this off, they make you feel dirty after listening, but Zappa's humorous take on these things comes off as well as someone like George Carlin, a true master of language and culture himself.
Disc Two is slightly more varied in its content, but holds the same mood as Disc One, basically a performer and his backing band giving the audience a good, entertaining show. There are different incarnations of The Mothers in the series, but they are only represented here, in the 1970-1971 phase, with Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman as lead vocalists, and their critics notwithstanding, two very talented singers, and a couple really funny guys, at that. See "Playground Psychotics" for confirmation of this.
As the notes say, there is only one instance of overdubbing in this series, and it is on this volume, The selection featuring Lisa Popeil on lead vocals, called "Lisa's Life Story;" a really strange performance. The drums didn't sound right on the original tape, so to insure a good sounding take, the drums were reworked. Also, as a side note, the only studio work in the series appeared on Volume 5, with some studio trickery inserted in "Right There," Roy Estrada's showpiece of weirdness with the original Mothers Of Invention, and an alternate version of "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama," also the original Mothers, on volume 5, as well.
This series is to be taken as a showpiece of the different ensembles Zappa has worked with over the years, and in some instances, the first half of a particular song is edited onto the second half of a different version of the same song, an interesting effect, but in Volume 6, the continuity is interrupted (in my opinion, anyway) with an unusual editing job on "Lonesome Cowboy Nando," which is just a spontaneous reworking of "Lonesome Cowboy Burt," originally from "200 Motels." The original is the "Flo and Eddie" line-up (Flo being Volman and Eddie being Kaylan), featuring Jimmy Carl Black singing. Here, the 1988 band is playing it while Zappa improvises some words about an inside joke that only the guys in the band get and laugh at, but to an outsider, it makes no sense. Nowhere near as funny as Ike Willis' "Lone Ranger" jokes, concerning an old Lenny Bruce routine, which come up at different times in this series. But this performance is intercut with segments of The Mothers playing this song at The Pauley Pavilion in 1971(The show where "Just Another Band From L.A." was recorded ), the same band that played the music for "200 Motels," and it is a far superior performance, compare the two; they are both in this track, back to back. This leads into the "200 Motels Finale," which is actually the second half of the the film's version of "Strictly Genteel," a fast, feel-good jam with references to the film in the lyrics, and, the second disc, this volume, and the series ends with the Halloween performance at the Palladium in New York, of "Strictly Genteel." This was the performance featured on the MTV special in its early days, when MTV still played a variety of music, not the format it now has. The band finishes, Frank says "Good night," and that's it. The end of the series.
If one wants to hear the whole series, it is a good idea to buy (or borrow)them in chronological order, as the first volume is a primer to the whole series, two is the Helsinki concert; one show, three is mostly the 1984 band, four goes all over the place, similar to number one, five is a contrast between the original Mothers Of Invention and the 1982 band, and six is the one with all the racy material, a lot of which is pretty funny, and some nice instrumentals. Each one has something to offer, but all six volumes are really for the hard-core fan of Frank Zappa's music and career.
R.I.P. Frank.
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