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What are your favorite Zappa albums? Mine are Joe's Garage, Hot Rats, The Yellow Shark, and Zoot Allures.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,156 posts)I so wish I had been born earlier so I could have seen him live. He died when I was 10
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,843 posts)for obvious reasons:
johnsolaris
(220 posts)Hi,
I was lucky to see him live 2 times. The first time, George Duke & Jean Luc Ponty were in the band, It was a great show.
The second time I was able to sneak my camera in & I still have the slides from the show.
The Grand Wazoo is my favorite album from him.
Turin_C3PO
(14,156 posts)That's what I love about Zappa, he could do jazz (Grand Wazoo, Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka), pop, classical (LSO, Yellow Shark), heavy metal, and doo wop (Ruben and the Jets), sometimes all on the same album. He was a musical genius.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)When I saw Frank's band it also included George Duke & Jean Luc Ponty. Well, Jean Luc at least two of the three times. Incredible stuff.
Initech
(100,155 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)But if I was forced, I might choose Zoot Allures, Bongo Fury, and Roxy and Elsewhere.
On edit, Cyberswede reminded me I should add Apostrophe. But I love them all and would add Joe's Garage, Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar and The Grand Wazoo.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I mean, the title alone!
I almost got a chance to meet him. I was in NYC and had a friend who had connections in arty circles. I had developed a musical scale based on the Fibonacci series. (It's an Autistic thing. ) One of Rosalie's friends was interested, and suggested that Zappa might be, too -- but this was the early '90s, and he was already ill, so nothing ever came of it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)In no particular order.....Bongo Fury, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Joe's Garage, Zoot Allures, Waka Jawaka, Hot Rats................many others.
The following version retains more emphasis on the piano that I don't hear on subsequent versions. Even when the Youtube video descriptions say "original 1969 mix".