Guitar is a 1988 live album by Frank Zappa. It is the follow-up to 1981's Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar; like that album it features Zappa's guitar solos excerpted from live performances, recorded betwe 1979 and 1984. It garnered Zappa his sixth Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumtal Performance.
Guitar was originally intded to be a 3-record box set (like Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar), but Zappa decided, with this release, to start using compact discs as his primary distribution medium rather than records. As such, it was Zappa's first album to be released simultaneously on vinyl and CD. The double CD, released on Rykodisc in the US and Zappa Records in Europe, contained all 32 tracks while the double LP was pared down to 19 tracks and released on Zappa's Barking Pumpkin label (US) and Zappa Records (EU).
Aside from Watermelon in Easter Hay, Sexual Harassmt In The Workplace and Outside Now, all tracks were derived from performances of other songs, as on Shut Up 'n Play Your Guitar. Other solos were excerpted from The Black Page, Let's Move to Cleveland, Drowning Witch, Zoot Allures, Whipping Post, City of Tiny Lites, Advance Romance, Hot-Plate Heav at the Gre Hotel, King Kong, Easy Meat, Ride My Face to Chicago, Sharlea, A Pound for a Brown on the Bus, and Inca Roads.
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Track names, though unrelated to the actual compositions, make many referces to popular culture and world history. Do Not Pass Go refers to the Monopoly phrase that appears to prevt players from collecting a monetary bonus; Jim & Tammy's Upper Room recalls televangelists Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Messner; Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?, Sunrise Redeemer and Hotel Atlanta Incidtals are referces to the locations of the vues in which the pieces were played; Move It or Park It is a colloquialism that could express frustration with an apprehsive driver of a motor vehicle; Orrin Hatch on Skis refers to Utah Republican Sator Orrin Hatch; But Who Was Fulcanelli? refers to an alias appartly used by a 19th-ctury Frch alchemist and author; For Duane, one of Zappa's many readings of Whipping Post, referces Duane Allman; GOA is titled after the region of India; Do Not Try This at Home refers to the disclaimer oft associated with dangerous or risky feats on television or video.
Chalk Pie was Zappa's planned title for a 1982 release of which its tracks evtually appeared on Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and The Man from Utopia.
In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky refers both to Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and 20th-ctury composer Igor Stravinsky, one of Zappa's influces. During the piece, bassist Scott Thunes plays the well-known motif from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, while Zappa plays a line from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Taps is also quoted by Thunes.
A Picture Of Frank Zappa With The Famous Burnt Hendrix Strat Guitar From The 1980's, With Some Different Wiring And Pickup Configurations.
Variations on Sinister #3, though derived from a version of Easy Meat, gained its name from the interpolation of themes from Theme from the 3rd Movemt of Sinister Footwear from You Are What You Is.
Canadian Customs almost certainly refers to the Canada Border Services Agcy. Zappa is said to have expericed problems with the CBSA and created a routine around them with Napoleon Murphy Brock and André Lewis circa 1975.
It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary is a portmanteau of It Ain't Necessarily So, writt by George and Ira Gershwin with libretto by DuBose Heyward for Porgy and Bess and St. James Infirmary Blues, a composition with no officially recorded writer, famously recorded by Louis Armstrong and later by Cab Calloway. Guitar credits the latter to Joe Primrose, but the song's author is unverified. Both songs are quoted on the track.
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The Real Frank Zappa Book, Zappa's autobiography, contains the following statemt, which most likely accounts for the track name Winos Do Not March:
Longer edits of But Who Was Fulcanelli? and For Duane and a shorter edit of Things That Look Like Meat appear on the 1987 compilation The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa. One of its tracks, A Solo from Heidelberg, derived from Yo' Mama, was originally intded to appear on Guitar.
Similar albums are Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Trance-Fusion, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa.Dweezil Zappa, musician and son of Frank Zappa, is to open up an official Reverb.com storefront this week, selling a number of unique s, pedals, amplifiers and more. A portion of the shop’s proceeds will go towards the charity Feeding America.
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– a green hot-rodded Charvel S-type. Alongside the , you’ll also get the suit Zappa wore in the video. Zappa noted that the video itself is a prime example of 1980s cheese, describing it as “perhaps the most hated video of all time … it’s often ranked as the worst video ever made.”
Alongside this, a number of custom-built s will go up for sale. You can see one of these below, complete with a vibrant, tiling multicolour pattern converting the entire – including the fretboard.
And was built by Neal Moser. Reverb’s video below also features Dweezil discussing several other of the instruments that will be offered by his official store.
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The store goes live this Wednesday (27 January). You can sign up to be notified, and see more of what will be up for sale, here.
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