Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mother (A Butterboy Compilation) (3 x CDs)

FRANK ZAPPA

Previously posted January 13, 2021

Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mother (A Butterboy Compilation) (3 x CDs)

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.

As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. He continued his eclectic and experimental approach whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz, or classical. Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums. Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist with a controversial critical standing; supporters of his music admired its compositional complexity, while critics found it lacking emotional depth. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. 

The Guitarist... Zappa is widely recognized as one of the most significant electric guitar soloists. In a 1983 issue of Guitar World, Jon Swenson declared: "the fact of the matter is that [Zappa] is one of the greatest guitarists we have and is sorely unappreciated as such." His idiosyncratic style developed gradually and was mature by the early 1980s, by which time his live performances featured lengthy improvised solos during many songs. A November 2016 feature by the editors of Guitar Player magazine wrote: "Brimming with sophisticated motifs and convoluted rhythms, Zappa's extended excursions are more akin to symphonies than they are to guitar solos." He was further described as using a wide variety of scales and modes, enlivened by "unusual rhythmic combinations". His left hand was capable of smooth legato technique, while Zappa's right was "one of the fastest pick hands in the business."

Zappa transcriptionist Kasper Sloots wrote, "Zappa's guitar solos aren't meant to show off technically (Zappa hasn't claimed to be a big virtuoso on the instrument), but for the pleasure it gives trying to build a composition right in front of an audience without knowing what the outcome will be."   (Wikipedia)

Zappa's music has been variously categorized under experimental rock, jazz, classical, avant-pop, experimental pop, comedy rock, doo-wop, jazz fusion, progressive rock, proto-prog, avant-jazz, and psychedelic rock., all of which exist on this compilation. Frank Zappa’s guitar improvisation technique and guitar soloing was unique with its odd grouping of rhythms, modal approach and the timbre of his sound which offers the listener a generally recognizable experience. Frank Zappa is equally adept at acoustic and electric guitar.

The 60 tracks presented here focus on his wonderful guitar solos captured in the recording studio and in live sessions and concerts. There is also a bonus where Frank Zappy supplied the lead guitar on the Grand Funk Railroad album "Good Singin' Good Playin'" (that he also produced).  I am sure you will agree that the man could really play exciting guitar... I guess you are in for an interesting ride. Enjoy!

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Track lists

CD1

01 Black Napkins (Zoot Allures Version 2-76) 4:15

02 Watermellon in Easter Hay 8:42

03 Willie the Pimp 9:23

04 Chalk Pie 4:52

05 Muffin Man 5:32

06 The Deathless Horsie 6:21

07 Ship Ahoy 5:22

08 Outside Now (Original Solo) 5:28

09 Rdnzl 8:13

10 Inca Roads 8:45

11 Transylvania Boogie 4:56

12 In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky 2:49

13 Yo' Mama 12:41

14 That Ol' G Minor Thing Again 5:02

15 Stucco Homes 9:08

16 Po-Jama People 7:39

17 Treacherous Cretins 5:34

18 Son of Mr. Green Genes 8:57

19 Zoot Allures 4:13

20 Pink Napkins 4:38

CD2

21 Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More 5:38

22 Son of Orange County 5:54

23 Sunrise Redeemer 3:58

24 Apostrophe' 5:49

25 Chunga's Revenge 6:14

26 Pinnocchio's Furniture 2:05

27 Stuff Up the Cracks (Alternate Mix) 6:05

28 Cruisin' for Burgers 9:12

29 Get a Little 2:33

30 While You Were Out 6:03

31 Too Ugly for Show Business 4:20

32 Systems of Edges 5:32

33 Any Kind of Pain 5:42

34 Rat Tomago 5:14

35 Beat it With Your Fist 1:58

36 What's New in Baltimore 5:03

37 Imaginary Diseases 9:14

38 Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio 2:49

39 Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 3:42

40 Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar 8:30

CD3

41 Rare Acoustic Jam, 1970 (Frank Zappa & Shuggie Otis Live in Studio) 8:31

42 Sleep Dirt 3:20

43 The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution 13:19

44 Nine Types of Industrial Pollution 5:58

45 Filthy Habits 7:33

46 Gee, I Like Your Pants 2:31

47 Theme From the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear 3:31

48 Heavy Duty Judy 4:38

49 Eat That Question 6:40

50 Any Downers 2:08

51 Swans What Swans 4:23

52 Duck Duck Goose 3:01

53 Variations on Sinister #3 5:15

54 City of Tiny Lites 5:30

55 Drowning Witch 9:22

56 Road Ladies 4:10

57 Wonderful Wino 3:38

58 The Evil Prince 7:12

59 Easy Meat 7:39

60 Black Napkins (Live 75) 7:10

61 Out to Get You (Bonus Track FZ on Guitar) 4:44

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