FRANK ZAPPA Hot rats Rare Orig UK LP Captain Beefheart
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Frank Zappa
Hot Rats
Very Rare Original UK LP released on Reprise Records in 1969. 1st pressing on the Three Colour Steamboat Label and comes in a Gatefold sleeve.
Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. The album consists of six tracks, five of which are instrumental (the song "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 focuses on long instrumental jazz-like compositions with extensive soloing, the music sounds very different than earlier Zappa albums which featured short songs with satirical vocal performances with extensive use of musique concrete and editing techniques. The only member of the Mothers to appear on the album is multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood who was also the primary musical collaborator. Other featured instrumentalists were noted guitarist-songwriter Shuggie Otis (the son of renowned R&B musician and broadcaster Johnny Otis) on bass, drummers Aynsley Dunbar and John Guerin and 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 16-track rock recordings released to the public. Recording machines with 16 individual tracks allow for much more flexibility in multi-tracking and overdubbing than the 4 and 8-track tape recorders that were standard in 1969. While Zappa was recording Hot Rats in Los Angeles, The Beatles were working on their Abbey Road album at EMI's soon to be famous Abbey Road Studios in London. By comparison, The Beatles were limited to 8-track technology. Hot Rats still stands out as one of Zappa's greatest musical and technological achievements and remains one of his most popular albums.
Matrix No's
Side One - RSLP 6356 A1
Side Two - RSLP 6356 B1
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Peaches En Regalia
2. Willie The Pimp
3. Son Of Mr. Green Genes
Side Two
1. Little Umbrellas
2. The Gumbo Variations
3. It Must Be A Camel
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Released on 'Reprise Records' in 1969
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Catalogue No. RSLP 6356
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Disc is in Ex + condition (few light hairlines from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition (a small sticker tear in top right corner, white on white)
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