FRANK ZAPPA LUMPY GRAVY ORIG '68 VERVE PSYCH LP RARE
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FRANK ZAPPA~LUMPY GRAVY~ORIG '68 VERVE PSYCH LP! RARE!
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FRANK ZAPPA LUMPY GRAVY VERVE RECORDS - V6 8741
Original 1968 pressing of this rare LP in gatefold cover! Cover is in VG++/EXCELLENT condition with light ringwear on the front and back and a bottom seam split which has been tapedVG++/. Vinyl is in VG++ condition with light surface scratches. It plays very well with occasional light surface noise.
Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa's first solo album, was released months before the Mothers of Invention's third LP (even though its back cover asked the question: "Is this phase two of We're Only in It for the Money?") and both were conceptualized and recorded at the same time. We're Only in It for the Money became a song-oriented anti-flower power album with one contemporary/musique concrète/sound collage hybrid piece by way of conclusion. Lumpy Gravy collaged bits of orchestral music, sonic manipulations, spoken words, and occasional pop ditties into two lumps of 16 minutes each. This album presents Zappa's first recordings with a decent orchestra, the 50-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. His symphonic writing was very much influenced by Stravinsky and Varèse. It still had to lose its sharp edges and find the lushness found in 200 Motels. The segments of music are loosely tied together by bits of dialogue from inside the piano. MOI members and friends were invited to talk with their head inside a grand piano with the sustain pedal depressed (the technique was immortalized in the song "Evelyn, A Modified Dog"). The reverberating space gave the voices an eerie quality, but made it very difficult to convincingly edit the material. Thus, the plot emanating from these portions remains very vague (it was clarified 25 years later in Civilization Phaze III). The song bits include "Oh No," "Theme from Lumpy Gravy" (aka "Duodenum"), "King Kong," and "Take Your Clothes off When You Dance," all in instrumental versions, all making their first appearance on record. The starting point of Zappa's "serious music," Lumpy Gravy suffers from a lack of coherence, but it remains historically important and contains many conceptual continuity clues for the fan. The opening line of part one ("The way I see it, Barry, this should be a dynamite show") became a classic reference.
Side One
"Lumpy Gravy, Part One" – 15:48 "The Way I See It, Barry" "Duodenum" "Oh No" "Bit Of Nostalgia" "It's From Kansas" "Bored Out 90 Over" "Almost Chinese" "Switching Girls" "Oh No Again" "At the Gas Station" "Another Pickup" "I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again"
Side Two "Lumpy Gravy, Part Two" – 15:51 "Very Distraughtening" "White Ugliness" "Amen" "Just One More Time" "A Vicious Circle" "King Kong" "Drums Are Too Noisy" "Kangaroos" "Envelops the Bath Tub" "Take Your Clothes Off"
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