FRANK ZAPPA Baby Snakes - US Picture Disc LP - Prog Jazz-Rock Avantgarde

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FRANK ZAPPA

Baby Snakes

US Picture Disc LP released on Barking Pumpkin Records.
Stickered clear sleeve.

BPR-1-1115-RE1   ▲12821   jm   1-1   818-PUMPKIN   S-16116
BPR-2-1115-RE1   ▲12821-X   jm   1-1   818-PUMPKIN   S-16117

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This short but delectably sweet release is for most intents and purposes the soundtrack to the Frank Zappa concert film of the same name. Both were captured on location at New York City's Palladium (formerly the Academy of Music) in 1977, during the artist's brief yearly residency in the Big Apple in and around Halloween. By the time of these concerts, Zappa was embroiled in all manner of unpleasantness with Warner Bros. Records -- a fact not lost to listeners as he comments upon their tumultuous relationship during some off the cuff dialogue with Terry Bozzio (percussion/vocals), as heard on "Titties and Beer." That behind-the-scenes drama certainly didn't best the perpetually resilient Zappa as he, Bozzio, Adrian Belew (guitar/vocals), Ed Mann (percussion), Patrick O'Hearn (bass), Tommy Mars (keyboards/vocals), Peter Wolf (keyboards), and vintage Mothers of Invention member Roy Estrada (not so sexually aroused gas mask/vocals) are joined by some of "New York's finest crazy persons" for half an hour-plus of musical madness as only Zappa could deliver.

Although the title track, "Baby Snakes," is essentially the same studio version that graced 1979's Sheik Yerbouti, the rest of the material is live. "Black Page, No. 2" is a jaunty instrumental that Zappa had composed specifically with Bozzio in mind. It then developed into a full-blown ensemble piece, and in the context of both the film and aural companion was used to accompany an enforced recreational audience-participatory dance contest. "Jones Crusher" is a hard-drivin' rocker with lead vocals from Belew, marking one of his finest moments in the Zappa band to have ever made it onto a legit release. "Disco Boy" and the somewhat obligatory "Dinah-Moe Humm" are typically excellent renderings of these performance staples and obvious crowd-pleasers.

The platter concludes with the tongue-in-cheek epic homoerotic ode "Punky's Whips," with Bozzio once again demonstrating why he was such a faultless multifaceted foil for Zappa.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Baby Snakes
Titties 'n' Beer
The Black Page No. 2
Jones Crusher
Disco Boy

Side Two

Dinah Moe Humm
Punky's Whips

Released on 'Barking Pumpkin Records'

Catalogue No. BPR 1115

Disc is in EX condition

Clear sleeve shows some storage rippling

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