FRANK ZAPPA "HOT RATS" Rare Orig '69 BIZARRE LABEL Gatefold NM

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May 3, 2015 Sold Date

Apr 23, 2015 Start Date

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BIZARRE / Reprise RS6356 stereo from 1969 with six total songs, including the legendary "Willie The Pimp"."Hot Rats" is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. Five of the six songs are instrumental ("Willie the Pimp" features a short vocal by Captain Beefheart). It was Zappa's first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention. In his original sleeve notes Zappa described the album as "a movie for your ears." Because Hot Rats largely consists of instrumental jazz-influenced compositions with extensive soloing, the music sounds very different from earlier Zappa albums, which featured satirical vocal performances with extensive use of musique concrète and editing. Multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood is the only member of the Mothers to appear on the album and was the primary musical collaborator. Other featured musicians were Max Bennett and Shuggie Otis on bass, drummers John Guerin, Paul Humphrey and Ron Selico, and electric violinists Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty. This was the first Frank Zappa album recorded on 16-track equipment and one of the first albums to use this technology. The gatefold cover has some slight age discoloration & some wrinkle on the back only, is VG+(+). The vinyl is NEAR MINT.