Frank ZAPPA - Hot Rats - Original French press - Near Mint
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FRANK ZAPPA - Hot Rats
Reprise / Bizarre - 44 078
Original French pressing (start of the 70's)
Gatefold cover - Heavy Vinyl
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 focuses on instrumental jazz-like 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 & Ron Selico, and electric violinists Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty.
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #13 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums". It was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
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Grading (Record Collector Magazine's Grading System) :
Cover : Mint (perfect cover, edge and spine)
Record : Near Mint (vinyl as new)
Labels : Mint
Audio grading : plays Mint (barely played, no distortion, no scratches - tested on a high quality Hi Fi system)This record will be carefully packaged and quickly dispatched.
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