FRANK ZAPPA - Guitar - Original Sealed US Double LP
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FRANK ZAPPA
Guitar
Original US Double LP released on Barking Pumpkin Records in 1988. Gatefold Sleeve.
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Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along.
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Released in 1988, Guitar may be the most important and ironically one of the least-known entries in Frank Zappa's voluminous discography. His proficiencies as a composer and instrumentalist have long been lauded. However, anthologies of this nature provide an outlet for the remarkable breadth and depth of Zappa's manual dexterity and improvisational scope, which can now be enjoyed on a myriad of levels.
The casual enthusiast can revel in the seemingly endless personas and sounds summoned from the soloist and band alike. Devotees of the artist and/or instrument are presented with example upon example of Zappa's ability to create masterworks on the fly and often in the context of larger pieces.
Interestingly, when Guitar was prepped for CD, several of the mixes were altered. So, the original two-LP set -- despite containing 13 fewer cuts -- is preferred by some.
That minutia aside, simply listening to Zappa as a primary player is always a treat for inclined parties and there are a few exceptional selections scattered throughout. "For Duane" -- a nod to fellow stringman Duane Allman -- is made all the more poignant for having been played before a (kinda) hometown crowd in Atlanta, GA, November 25, 1984. Other standouts include a pair of Joe's Garage-related cuts: "Outside Now" -- dating back to March of 1979 -- and the emotional immediacy infused into "Watermelon in Easter Hay," the latter taken from a Jones Beach show on August 16, 1984.
On the whole, Guitar joins the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar trilogy as a key component in unravelling the endless enigma of Frank Zappa as a major fretmeister.
Tracks Are :-
Record One
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace / Republicans / Do Not Pass Go / That's Not Really Reggae / When No One Was No One
Once Again, Without The Net / Outside Now (Original Solo) / Jim & Tammy's Upper Room / Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio? / That Ol' G Minor Thing Again
Record Two
Move It Or Park It / Sunrise Redeemer / But Who Was Fulcanelli? / For Duane / GOA
Winos Do Not March / Systems Of Edges / Things That Look Like Meat / Watermelon In Easter Hay
Released on 'Barking Pumpkin Records' in 1988
Catalogue No. D1 74212
Discs are in Unplayed condition
Sleeve is in Sealed condition (small sawcut to spine)
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7" SINGLES £1.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
12" SINGLES & LP's £2.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
CD's £1.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE RATES TO EUROPE:
7" SINGLES: £2.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
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CD's £2.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
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7" SINGLES: £3.00 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
12" SINGLES & LPs: 1 LP - £6.50 / 2 LPs - £8.50 / 3 LPs - £11.50 / 4 LPs - £13.50 / 5LPs - £16.00 / 6 LPs - £18.00 / 7 LPs - £20.00
CD's £2.50 FOR THE FIRST THEN 50p FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
*********DOUBLES COUNT AS TWO*********
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