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Post by singingsparrow on Mar 22, 2004 22:03:11 GMT -5
For those of you who can endure listening to epic tracks, "Billy The Mountain" with a duration at 24:46, definitely takes the cake.
One can't help but be amused at the nonsense of this epic masterpiece, with the escapades of Billy and Ethel.
For those of you who've heard it, what parts stuck out at you and what do you think the song is REALLY about?
Sincerely, Noah Eaton
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Post by irock on Mar 23, 2004 1:09:15 GMT -5
Frank Zappa has always been rough sledding for me. I've had friends who liked him so I've been exposed to the music plenty. Some of it is amusing a time or two, but none of it holds up to repeated plays, imo.
I remember listening to this track and if I recall correctly, it chronicles the travels of a southern California mountain visiting Vegas and New York. It's humorous, but again it's not something I'd want to listen to often.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers certainly deserve their off-beat fame, but for my part I'd probably have forgotten them years ago had it not been for their mention in Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water. That song tells the true story of a fire at an FZ&M concert in Montreau, Switzerland in 1971.
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Post by stevie nice on Mar 23, 2004 21:16:55 GMT -5
I don't believe I'm familiar with this, I found a live version from their "Just Another Band From LA" Is this the version you mentioned? I'm kinda semi familiar with Zappa, My friend Joe's father, Bill Gelber was a session bassist who was a big Zappa fan and when we were 15-18 years old, spent some time at Joe's house (or Joe's Gargage, ar ar ar) listening to some of the Mothers Of Invention stuff.
My dad, for some inexplicable reason, had "Hot Rats" "Mothermania" and "Worst Of..." in his record collection, but I think my brother and I and then my friends spent more time listening to them. Some of the things on Mothermania are absolutely hysterical, they're taken from Freak Out and some of those early albums. But I don't know how to classify Zappa, amazing guitarist and brilliant satirist? Was that his intention?? I mean some of those things on the 2 comp albums are just hilarious; "I wanna be the 'Duke Of Prunes' in June, I bite your neck" And that song that sounds like an interview with some girl named Suzy, and she says "forget it!" and the band hums, and some of the stuff I heard from the later era albums that we as 17 or so would listen to when we cut school, like the entire "Joe's Garage" album with "Crew Slut" "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee" and "Wet Tshirt Night", and then you hear him jamming on songs like "Willie The Pimp" and "Gumbo variations" and I just, I don't know, I just never knew what to make of him. I guess a person can be a genius at more than one thing.
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Post by reception on Dec 27, 2004 15:41:57 GMT -5
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