3 LP BOX JOE'S GARAGE ACT 1,2, 3 CONCEPT: GROUPIES, NAUGHTY SCHOOL GIRL PSYCH
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ORIGINAL BOX SET THREE ALBUM PRESS ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
= FRANK ZAPPA =
"Joe's Garage Act 1,2 & 3" ..|/\|...............................................|/\|.. USA - Zappa Records/BARKING PUMPKIN
Original BOX SET containing 3 LP's, in their original covers ... hard to find being nearly 40 years of age ....
here's the soup:
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The Central Scrutinizer is out to protect you from the harmful effects of that horrible force called music. Such is the premise of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa's three-act concept album which explores the world of groupies, governments, sex toys, and Catholic school girls. As always, Zappa's aim is true and his scope wide, following Joe (voiced by his long-time co-conspirator, Ike Willis) as he starts a band, loses his girl, falls in love with a robot, and tries to find his true place in society. Filled with catchy classics ("Catholic Girls" "Crew Slut") and blazing guitar work ("Keep it Greasy," "Watermelon in Easter Hay"), this is the sort of smorgasbord of imagination and artistry that only Zappa could produce.Say what you will about Frank Zappa but the man was never meant to suffer in silence - always putting his torment hilariously out-in-front of the cultural zeitgeist. Case in point - Joe's Garage. About 25 years before former Vice President Al Gore launched his crusade to reduce our carbon footprint to Colonial proportions (and just before Tipper Gore's, Parents Music Resource Center attempted to put their scolding, censorship-dusted fingerprint all over naughty song lyrics) Zappa unloaded a 3-LP broadside against what he perceived to be a growing intolerance of free expression in the arts.
As only he can, Zappa blended his signature love of infantile profanity superimposed against some of the most complex and improvisational rock composition ever recorded. Joe's Garage is for all intents and purposes a government-sponsored propaganda play, produced as a tone-deaf high school documentary - crudely inveighing against the "sleazery" of youth gone wrong through music. The protagonist, "Joe" is a feckless garage musician who unwittingly gets drawn into a life as a rock roadie (for the band "Toad-O") to save his girlfriend, "Mary from Canoga Park" who is now a wanton comfort girl for all the "boys on the bus."
The story is puerile, the lyrics coarse but the overwhelming absurdity of the plot-line - told through Zappa's omniscient narration in the guise of "The Central Scrutinizer" is beyond brilliant. Wet T-Shirt contests go awry - prophylactically enhanced home appliances talk - STD's abound - as Joe and Mary fall irreversibly in the X-rated trance of Rock `n Roll. As extreme and profane as the story-line is, as is the case with most great satire, it is always difficult to know where extreme ends and truth begins. Joe's Garage is no exception.
The Central Scrutinizer (3:28)
Joe's Garage (6:10)
Catholic Girls (4:20)
Crew Slut (6:38)
Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt (4:45)
On The Bus (4:32)
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (2:23)
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (5:43)
Scrutinizer Postlude (1:35)
A Token Of My Extreme (5:30)
Stick It Out (4:34)
Sy Borg (8:56)
Dong Work For Yuda (5:04)
Keep It Greasey (8:22)
Outside Now (5:50)
He Used To Cut The Grass (8:35)
Packard Goose (11:31)
Watermelon In Easter Hay (9:05)
A Little Green Rosetta (8:15)
CONDITION: The cover: rated: the outer box is VG++ only visual bit of wear around the edges, main front and back of the box is clean and there are no splits ... there are no delete marks, no bends, and no writing ... the covers, original as they are, inside the box are M- and well preserved... one is a gatefold, both are very nice...M-
The vinyl: Rated: M- all three records ,clean, will play spotless... all six labels are clean A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people... EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING All imperfections are noted both cover & record NOTE: All Items backed by money back guarantee! IF you have a problem PLEASE let us solve for you BEFORE leaving ANY negative feedback. Thanks! GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean VG+ a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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