Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III [2CD]

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 21.09.2012
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
opis:
RollingStone:
Frank Zappa’s satirical rock opera, Joe’s Garage, is ambitious and mad, brilliant, peculiar and incoherent — epithets that have also been applied to German expressionist Georg Buchner’s unfinished play, Woyzeck. This may seem like a ludicrously lofty cross-cultural reference to attach to an album most notorious for a song about Catholic girls’ aptitude for fellatio, but there you have it. As a music maker and recording artist, Zappa has always cultivated two warring images — the serious composer with a social satirist’s sense of irony versus the smutty crowd pleaser with a puerile sense of humor. No matter how much fans of Hot Rats complain that their hero’s “seriousness” is compromised by the “frivolousness” of “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” (or vice versa), Zappa remains true to himself: the mensch with a dirty mind…

Music writer William Ruhlmann gave 3 out of 5 stars for the individual releases Act I and Acts II & III. Ruhlmann wrote of Act I, "although his concern with government censorship would see a later flowering in his battles with the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), here he wasn't able to use it to fulfill a satisfying dramatic function." Ruhlmann also felt that Acts II & III "seems so thin and thrown together, musically and dramatically".

Don Shewey of Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "If the surface of this opera is cluttered with cheap gags and musical mishmash, its soul is located in profound existential sorrow. The guitar solos that Zappa plays in Joe's imagination burn with a desolate, devastating beauty. Flaws and all, Joe's Garage is Frank Zappa's Apocalypse Now." The collected Acts I, II & III release received 4.5 out of 5 stars from Allmusic's Steve Huey, who wrote "in spite of its flaws, Joe's Garage has enough substance to make it one of Zappa's most important '70s works and overall political statements, even if it's not focused enough to rank with his earliest Mothers of Invention masterpieces."

For his performance on Joe's Garage, Vinnie Colaiuta was named "the most technically advanced drummer ever" by Modern Drummer, which ranked the album as one of the top 25 greatest drumming performances of all time.
On September 26, 2008, Joe's Garage was staged by the Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles, in a production authorized by the Zappa Family Trust.

muzycy:
Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar, vocals
Denny Walley – slide guitar, vocals
Ike Willis – lead vocals
Peter Wolf – keyboards
Tommy Mars – keyboards (Act 1)
Arthur Barrow – bass guitar, guitar (on "Joe's Garage"), vocals
Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar on "Outside Now" and "He Used to Cut the Grass"
Ed Mann – percussion, vocals
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums, combustible vapors, optometric abandon
Jeff (Jeff Hollie) – tenor sax (all tracks Act 1)
Marginal Chagrin (Earle Dumler) – baritone sax (all tracks Act 1)
Stumuk (Bill Nugent) – bass sax (all tracks Act 1)
Dale Bozzio – vocals (all tracks Act 1)
Al Malkin – vocals (all tracks Act 1)
Craig Steward – harmonica (all tracks Act 1)

more info2: www.frankzappa.com