After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention following a short tour of Canada during the summer of 1969, Zappa hired musicians for his studio work before forming a new Mothers in August 1970. The new band was augmented by bassist Jim Pons and vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, all of whom Zappa recruited from the Turtles, that hit-making teen-sensation unit that had reached the top of the pop charts with such hits as "Happy Together" and "Elenore." Legend has it that Zappa had tried to enlist former Monkee Micky Dolenz on drums at the same time, but Dolenz declined the offer. The new lineup made several albums with Zappa, beginning with Chunga's Revenge (owing to legal problems, Volman and Kaylan were originally billed as "Phlorescent Leech and Eddie," which led to the duo's being called Flo & Eddie henceforth), but the Fillmore East recording remains its vanguard. Zappa was still obsessed with the ridiculous phenomenon of pop stars, and now he had two genuine articles in his band. Thus, in between live renditions of some of his soon-to-be instrumental classics, Zappa, Volman, and Kaylan delighted the Manhattan audience with rude and crude skits about pop stars and groupies. The whole shebang is then climaxed with Flo & Eddie doing a letter-perfect rendition of the Turtles' "Happy Together" before ironically concluding with Zappa's own "Tears Begin to Fall," the kind of pop ditty Zappa was poking fun at throughout this performance. Although it now all sounds rather tame in the era of rap and porn rock, it was attacked as crass at the time of its release. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being frequently hilarious. Following the performance, the Mothers were joined onstage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a set that's captured on the live disc that eventually accompanied Lennon's Some Time in New York City. What a night! --Bill Holdship
From the Label
This is the one that everybody who went to high school in the early '70s just had to own. The Mothers played the Fillmore shortly before it closed its doors in 1971. Much of this album is given to an oral, so to speak, history of good old rock'n'roll decadence by Professors Flo & Eddie. It's the story of an Unnamed Rock Band, the Edgewater Inn, the young ladies they find there and an unsuspecting saltwater creature -- that's right, you heard right, the secret word was "Mud Shark". The notorious groupie routine "Do You Like My New Car?" gives maximum innuendo for the buck and its punchline is a letter-perfect rendition of "Happy Together," Flo & Eddie's old hit with the Turtles.
This may be the closest thing to an outright comedy album that FZ ever released, but the brilliant instrumental seques (including snippets of "Little House I Used to Live In" and "Willie the Pimp") aren't to be overlooked.
Fillmore East - June 1971,Frank Zappa,Rykodisc,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
Fillmore East - June 1971 [Original recording remastered] [Live]
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Fillmore East: June 1971
Frank Zappa & the Mothers Manufacturer: Zappa Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000009S9 Release Date: 1995-05-30 |
Tracks:
- Little House I used To Live In
- The Mud Shark
- What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
- Bwana Dik
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie The Pimp (Part One)
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches En Regalia
- Tears Began To Fall
Amazon.com essential recording
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention following a short tour of Canada during the summer of 1969, Zappa hired musicians for his studio work before forming a new Mothers in August 1970. The new band was augmented by bassist Jim Pons and vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, all of whom Zappa recruited from the Turtles, that hit-making teen-sensation unit that had reached the top of the pop charts with such hits as "Happy Together" and "Elenore." Legend has it that Zappa had tried to enlist former Monkee Micky Dolenz on drums at the same time, but Dolenz declined the offer. The new lineup made several albums with Zappa, beginning with Chunga's Revenge (owing to legal problems, Volman and Kaylan were originally billed as "Phlorescent Leech and Eddie," which led to the duo's being called Flo & Eddie henceforth), but the Fillmore East recording remains its vanguard. Zappa was still obsessed with the ridiculous phenomenon of pop stars, and now he had two genuine articles in his band. Thus, in between live renditions of some of his soon-to-be instrumental classics, Zappa, Volman, and Kaylan delighted the Manhattan audience with rude and crude skits about pop stars and groupies. The whole shebang is then climaxed with Flo & Eddie doing a letter-perfect rendition of the Turtles' "Happy Together" before ironically concluding with Zappa's own "Tears Begin to Fall," the kind of pop ditty Zappa was poking fun at throughout this performance. Although it now all sounds rather tame in the era of rap and porn rock, it was attacked as crass at the time of its release. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being frequently hilarious. Following the performance, the Mothers were joined onstage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a set that's captured on the live disc that eventually accompanied Lennon's Some Time in New York City. What a night! --Bill HoldshipCustomer Reviews:
My Least Favorite Zappa Material.......2007-07-26
STILL A FAVORITE.......2007-04-16
Life On The Road.......2007-03-04
Right away, the sound quality becomes an obvious issue. It's got a low fidelity, like it was recorded on cheap equipment, and it probably was. It opens with a reworked "Little House I used To Live In," but the melody isn't recognizable until about halfway into it. No disrespect to this phase of the band, but the original release is far superior. This segues into "The Mud Shark." A simple vamp with Zappa telling a story of Don Preston's meeting with the members of another band, The Vanilla Fudge, and what was done with some mud sharks that were caught while fishing from a window in the Edgewater Inn.
"What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?" begins the groupie motif of this record. Mark Volman is singing the part of a teenage groupie, and Howard Kaylan is doing the part of an out-of-town touring musician, and even though it is misogenistic and of questionable taste, it is a good blues song, and it tells of the relationship between groupie and "rock star." "Bwana Dik" and "Latex Solar Beef" are just weird and smutty. Juvenile, phallic, locker-room humor is the theme this performance takes on, but it is done with such conviction, you have to appreciate it, however tasteless. It is, however, life on the road, with groupies who will tolerate almost anything to get into a popular musician's pants. Keep this in mind.
There is a lot of controversy and speculation over the instrumental version of "Willie The Pimp" included here, as the original vinyl release fades the first half out at the end of Side One, for the listener to flip the record over and listen to the second half at the beginning of Side Two. Here, there is no second half, "Part One" fades out, per the original record, and a substantial part of a very good guitar solo is lost. Maybe a later release will include the whole piece. Let's hope. The CD has a moment of silence here, but the LP cuts from "Willie," right into "Do You Like My New Car?," also known as "The Groupie Routine." This takes the idea of "What Kind Of Girl..." to its extreme, Volman as the teenage groupie and Kaylan as the touring musician again, and it is probably the smuttiest thing I've ever heard, apart from "Joe's Garage" and "Thingfish." But, to its credit, it's side-splittingly funny. Zappa got the writing credit, but anyone can see where the material came from; Flo & Eddie are two of the biggest cut-ups out there. It's crude, and downright crass, but, especially for its time, a laugh riot. Here, we get to see who the out-of-town rock star is, because when he promises to sing his hit "with a bullet," the mothers launch into a rendition of The Turtles' "Happy Together." Self-parody at its finest.
The Encore section is where they show you what they're made of. Original band member Don Preston joins the current band onstage for a blistering "Lonesome Electric Turkey," a workout on the moog synthesizer with the band just tearing it up in the background. They shape this into "Peaches En Regalia" from Zappa's "Hot Rats" record, and they play it well. The disc closes with "Tears Began To Fall," and there's a side of me that believes there is a slower, quieter version of this. It's that kind of song, but the band has fun with it through the fade out.
Not the whole concert, but a pretty good taste of a very raunchy, very funny, and very good show. So many people have missed the boat, to not even be aware of those days.
An uneven triumph........2007-02-06
Flo and Eddie Rule.......2006-10-24
my favorites are Peaches en Regalia, Tears began to fall, Happy together, among others, but I think a full version of ''Willie The Pimp'' would have fit perfectly, anyway a good buy, great example of what the former turtles Flo and Eddie were capable of. Also a great lineup with Frank Zappa STRICTLY on guitar...
If you don't have it, buy it, listen to the samples...It Rules!!!!!
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Fillmore East: June 1971
Frank Zappa & the Mothers Manufacturer: Zappa Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005MIJ4 Release Date: 2005-08-16 |
Tracks:
- Little House I Used To Live In
- The Mud Shack
- What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
- Burana Dlk
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie The Pimp Part One/Willie The Pimp Part Two
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches En Regalia
- Tears Began To Fall
Album Description
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1971 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase Cover. Strictly Limited to 2000 Copies!Customer Reviews:
Great fun, shame about the recording standard.......2006-07-27
I'm glad that this Zappa recording is still available, but it's not a vital contribution to the development of either rock music or comedic theatre. The humour is, frankly, very teenage schoolboy -- i.e. strong sexual content, as it's called these days -- and only raises its interest level when making side-swipes at the cultureof the day (e.g. the Vanilla Fudge and the Edgewater Inn, Seattle).
The standard of musicianship is, as ever, high, when you can discern it. Sadly the recording quality is very low. Musically, Zappa was in some ways his own worst enemy: as soon as he had played a riff once, he was bored with it, so he moved on to another musical theme, to the frustration of much of the audience.
If you want a great Zappa live recording of around the same period, without the blatant sexual humour, but with Captain Beefheart and some outstanding rock music, and much better recorded too, buy BONGO FURY.
WHAT A RIP OFF!!!!!!.......2005-11-06
Holy Crap, this is awesome........2005-08-26
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Fillmore East: June 1971
Frank Zappa & the Mothers Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000E7N2 Release Date: 1990-05-14 |
Tracks:
- Little House I Used to Live In
- Mud Shark
- What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
- Bwana Dik
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie the Pimp
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches en Regalia
- Tears Began to Fall
Amazon.com essential recording
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention following a short tour of Canada during the summer of 1969, Zappa hired musicians for his studio work before forming a new Mothers in August 1970. The new band was augmented by bassist Jim Pons and vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, all of whom Zappa recruited from the Turtles, that hit-making teen-sensation unit that had reached the top of the pop charts with such hits as "Happy Together" and "Elenore." Legend has it that Zappa had tried to enlist former Monkee Micky Dolenz on drums at the same time, but Dolenz declined the offer. The new lineup made several albums with Zappa, beginning with Chunga's Revenge (owing to legal problems, Volman and Kaylan were originally billed as "Phlorescent Leech and Eddie," which led to the duo's being called Flo & Eddie henceforth), but the Fillmore East recording remains its vanguard. Zappa was still obsessed with the ridiculous phenomenon of pop stars, and now he had two genuine articles in his band. Thus, in between live renditions of some of his soon-to-be instrumental classics, Zappa, Volman, and Kaylan delighted the Manhattan audience with rude and crude skits about pop stars and groupies. The whole shebang is then climaxed with Flo & Eddie doing a letter-perfect rendition of the Turtles' "Happy Together" before ironically concluding with Zappa's own "Tears Begin to Fall," the kind of pop ditty Zappa was poking fun at throughout this performance. Although it now all sounds rather tame in the era of rap and porn rock, it was attacked as crass at the time of its release. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being frequently hilarious. Following the performance, the Mothers were joined onstage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a set that's captured on the live disc that eventually accompanied Lennon's Some Time in New York City. What a night! --Bill HoldshipCustomer Reviews:
My Least Favorite Zappa Material.......2007-07-26
STILL A FAVORITE.......2007-04-16
Life On The Road.......2007-03-04
Right away, the sound quality becomes an obvious issue. It's got a low fidelity, like it was recorded on cheap equipment, and it probably was. It opens with a reworked "Little House I used To Live In," but the melody isn't recognizable until about halfway into it. No disrespect to this phase of the band, but the original release is far superior. This segues into "The Mud Shark." A simple vamp with Zappa telling a story of Don Preston's meeting with the members of another band, The Vanilla Fudge, and what was done with some mud sharks that were caught while fishing from a window in the Edgewater Inn.
"What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?" begins the groupie motif of this record. Mark Volman is singing the part of a teenage groupie, and Howard Kaylan is doing the part of an out-of-town touring musician, and even though it is misogenistic and of questionable taste, it is a good blues song, and it tells of the relationship between groupie and "rock star." "Bwana Dik" and "Latex Solar Beef" are just weird and smutty. Juvenile, phallic, locker-room humor is the theme this performance takes on, but it is done with such conviction, you have to appreciate it, however tasteless. It is, however, life on the road, with groupies who will tolerate almost anything to get into a popular musician's pants. Keep this in mind.
There is a lot of controversy and speculation over the instrumental version of "Willie The Pimp" included here, as the original vinyl release fades the first half out at the end of Side One, for the listener to flip the record over and listen to the second half at the beginning of Side Two. Here, there is no second half, "Part One" fades out, per the original record, and a substantial part of a very good guitar solo is lost. Maybe a later release will include the whole piece. Let's hope. The CD has a moment of silence here, but the LP cuts from "Willie," right into "Do You Like My New Car?," also known as "The Groupie Routine." This takes the idea of "What Kind Of Girl..." to its extreme, Volman as the teenage groupie and Kaylan as the touring musician again, and it is probably the smuttiest thing I've ever heard, apart from "Joe's Garage" and "Thingfish." But, to its credit, it's side-splittingly funny. Zappa got the writing credit, but anyone can see where the material came from; Flo & Eddie are two of the biggest cut-ups out there. It's crude, and downright crass, but, especially for its time, a laugh riot. Here, we get to see who the out-of-town rock star is, because when he promises to sing his hit "with a bullet," the mothers launch into a rendition of The Turtles' "Happy Together." Self-parody at its finest.
The Encore section is where they show you what they're made of. Original band member Don Preston joins the current band onstage for a blistering "Lonesome Electric Turkey," a workout on the moog synthesizer with the band just tearing it up in the background. They shape this into "Peaches En Regalia" from Zappa's "Hot Rats" record, and they play it well. The disc closes with "Tears Began To Fall," and there's a side of me that believes there is a slower, quieter version of this. It's that kind of song, but the band has fun with it through the fade out.
Not the whole concert, but a pretty good taste of a very raunchy, very funny, and very good show. So many people have missed the boat, to not even be aware of those days.
An uneven triumph........2007-02-06
Flo and Eddie Rule.......2006-10-24
my favorites are Peaches en Regalia, Tears began to fall, Happy together, among others, but I think a full version of ''Willie The Pimp'' would have fit perfectly, anyway a good buy, great example of what the former turtles Flo and Eddie were capable of. Also a great lineup with Frank Zappa STRICTLY on guitar...
If you don't have it, buy it, listen to the samples...It Rules!!!!!
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Fillmore East: June 1971
Frank Zappa & the Mothers Manufacturer: Video Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AA4IH6 Release Date: 2001-11-27 |
Tracks:
- Little House I Used To...
- The Mud Shark
- What Kind Of Girl Do...
- Bwana Dik
- Latex Solar Beef
- Willie The Pimp, Part One
- Do You Like My New Car?
- Happy Together
- Lonesome Electric Turkey
- Peaches En Regalia
- Tears Began To Fall
Album Description
IMPORTED FROM JAPAN BY RYKODISCThis collector's dream set completes our 20-disc series of limited edition Frank Zappa Japanese imports. Packaged in deluxe mini-album jacket sleeves, these 10 classic albums are packaged to re-create the original vinyl packaging in miniaturized form!
Customer Reviews:
A classic.......2007-03-20
Don't worry about the language and content. I think I turned out OK and am not a pervert no matter what Tipper Gore believes.
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