The subject of penguins first came up during the 1967 Garrick Theatre shows, and then onstage with the Flo & Eddie Mothers: A stuffed penguin would be shot through a hoop of fire made out of coat hangers wrapped with tissues. The first word of the next song title is, after all, "Pygmy." "Knirps" is also German slang for "short person." Frank might have been aware of this tie-in to his munchkin ethic. Knirps, a German umbrella company, is mentioned, hinting that a closed umbrella might be used as a sexual implement (and foreshadowing, in opened/protective form, the giant dog’s ejaculation in " Cheepnis" later on Roxy). The reference to a penguin (a white groupie bound in black straps, considering the bondage-related introduction) follows up on the frozen wasteland of the suite about Nanook on Apostrophe ('). The “Brian” Frank asks to turn up the onstage floor monitor volume is Brian Desper, his 1973-'74 sound man. Some overdubs, mainly to double Napoleon Murphy Brock’s vocals, were added that summer. The "gymnasium extravaganza" at Edinboro State College in Pennsylvania on provided some additional material (" Son Of Orange County" and “ More Trouble Every Day”), as did the second of two concerts performed at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois on Mothers’ Day (May 11): a section of " Penguin In Bondage". Most of the album’s material comes from The Mothers’ six-night residency at the Roxy in Hollywood, Dec 7-12, 1973. Liner Photography by Sherwin Tilton, Coy Featherston & Steve Magedoff. Overdubs at Bolic Studios & Paramount Studios, Hollywood.
For fans of Zappa's intricate material like "RDNZL," "The Black Page," or "Inca Roads," this album is a must-have.
All the pieces were premiere recordings, except for "More Trouble Every Day" and "Son of Orange County," a revamped, slowed down "Orange County Lumber Truck"/"Oh No." Compared to the man's previous live recordings (Fillmore East: June 1971, Just Another Band from L.A.), this one sounds fantastic, finally providing an accurate image of the musicians' virtuosity.
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Other highlights include "Penguin in Bondage" and "Cheepnis," a horror movie tribute. The sequence "Echidna's Arf (Of You)"/"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" stands as Zappa's most difficult rock music and provides quite a showcase for Underwood. The band is comprised of George Duke (keyboards), Tom Fowler (bass), Ruth Underwood (percussion), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Walt Fowler (trumpet), Napoleon Murphy Brock (vocals), and Chester Thompson (drums) - drummer Ralph Humphrey, keyboardist Don Preston, and guitarist Jeff Simmons appear on the non-Roxy material. Only three tracks ("Dummy Up," "Son of Orange County," and "More Trouble Every Day"), taken from other concerts, are 100 percent live. Three-quarters of the album was recorded live at the Roxy in Hollywood and extensively overdubbed in the studio later. But the temptation for more challenging material was not long to resurface and, after a transitional LP (Apostrophe, early 1974), he unleashed a double LP (reissued on one CD) of his most complex music, creating a bridge between his comedy rock stylings and Canterbury-style progressive rock. Buy the album Starting at $16.59Īfter his affair with jazz fusion (Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, both released in 1972), Frank Zappa came back in late 1973 with an album of simple rock songs, Over-Nite Sensation.
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