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It includes stuttering hippie vocals by Eric Clapton, "Uh, out of sight. Are, are you hung up?", engineer Gary Kellgren whispering about Frank Zappa's mighty, omniscient presence in the control room, a brief guitar lick and Jimmy Carl Black saying "Hi, boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group."
The album is a notable entry in Zappa's discography, because it was the last to feature a majority of his early 1970s band, which appeared on albums Over-Nite Sensation (1973), Apostrophe (') (1974), Roxy & Elsewhere (1974), and One Size Fits All (1975).
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger is a 1984 album featuring the music of Frank Zappa, conducted, in part, by Pierre Boulez.
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The title track was also commissioned by Boulez, and contains references to Zappa's 1971 film, 200 Motels.
According to Zappa, the beginning background music was inspired by Lightnin' Slim's "Have Your Way".
"Igor's Boogie" is a reference to a major Zappa influence, composer Igor Stravinsky.
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The album's unusual title, Zappa would later say in an interview, comes from an actual snack that he enjoyed eating, consisting of a burnt Hebrew National hot dog sandwiched between two pieces of bread with mustard.
Cel-Ray was also mentioned in the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention record albumI, "The Mothers at the Fillmore-1971. The character of Billy Rose (played by James Caan) in the 1975 film Funny Lady also habitually drank celery tonic, as an alternative to alcohol. Finally, it was used as a plot point joining assistant Harriet Smith and senator James Elton in the popular web series Emma Approved, written and directed by the makers of "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries".
Chad has also toured with James Taylor, best friends Mark Linn-Baker and Larry Sweeney, John Patitucci, Jeff Lorber, and Joe Sample, as well as fellow Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio in a series of all-percussion concerts.
The album artwork was originally intended to resemble that of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats LP, but a miscommunication between the band and Virgin saw a negative photographic effect used as opposed to the infrared photography of Zappa's album.
The song was popular on the Dr. Demento Show in the 70s, and in Zappa's concerts, with memorable guitar solos from Zappa, also featuring George Duke on keyboard and Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax.
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It concerns the Mystery Man, a typical guru or psychic, offering to help the narrator reach Nervanna sic for a "nominal service charge," and the narrator's refusal to buy into his act, "Look here, brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris?" When the Mystery Man gets pushy, Zappa as the narrator tells how he snatched the crystal ball, hypnotized the Mystery Man, stole his stuff and blew his mind.
His interview subjects have included John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Steve Jobs, Ai Weiwei, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jack Nicholson, Ted Taylor, Carl Sagan, Betty Friedan, Barney Frank, Fareed Zakaria, and many others.
DiscReet was shut down in 1979 following the decision by Warner Bros. to release three albums for which Zappa claimed Warner did not have proper authorization, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral Favorites.
While assumed by many to have been related, Frank Zappa stated in his biography, The Real Frank Zappa Book, that in fact they were not.
Zappa claimed that Cohen and his brother were profiting unduly from his earnings, and Cohen countersued, claiming that Zappa had taken his album Zoot Allures to a rival record label contrary to a contract between them.
The festival introduced Maria Callas in the Netherlands, and was also the first to successfully set up a large symphonic tribute to Frank Zappa with "200 motels-the suite" in 2000 (after failed attempts to have Zappa perform himself in the festival in 1981).
"Take the Time" includes a sample from Frank Zappa's 1979 song "Dancin' Fool", specifically Zappa saying "Wait a minute...", as well as Kurtis Blow's 1980 song "Christmas Rappin'", in which Blow says "Hold it now..."
"G-Spot Tornado", assumed by Zappa to be impossible to play by humans, would be performed by Ensemble Modern on the concert recording The Yellow Shark.
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All compositions were executed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS with the exception of "St. Etienne", a guitar solo excerpted from a live performance of "Drowning Witch" from a concert in Saint-Étienne, France on Zappa's 1982 tour.
# "Chunga's Revenge" (Frank Zappa) – 5:02 (cover of the title track from Frank Zappa's 1970 album Chunga's Revenge)
Its title track was later rerecorded as part of Zappa's 1979 album, Joe's Garage.
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Another track, "Wonderful Wino," was rerecorded and released on Zappa's Zoot Allures album.
The album is made up mostly of instrumentals, featuring Zappa's own compositions, with some arrangements of Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók themes by his bassist, Scott Thunes.
The drums were sampled from Terry Bozzio's drum solo on "Hands with a Hammer" from Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3.
Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail Zappa and musician Frank Zappa.
Zoogz Rift, a musician influenced by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
Pachygnatha zappa is a spider named after musician Frank Zappa because of its unique markings which resemble his famous moustache.
Vervloesem's guitar playing style has been associated with that of: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Zappa, Nels Cline, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai.
The album features recordings of Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention around the time of the film, 200 Motels.
He and FBI Agent Reynolds (Alexandra Castillo), who have taken over the case due to Anne being taken across state lines, learn that Tony Zappa is the abductor and that he is wanted on other charges for causing a manhunt after closing down the Mall of America in search of him the month before.
The cover of Frank Zappa's The Man from Utopia album features an illustration by Tanino Liberatore, showing Zappa as RanXerox.
In 2001, Terry Bozzio and Chad Wackerman released the video "Solos and Duets" which features "The Black Page" played as a duet between the two ex-Zappa drummers with a transcription of the piece scrolling along the bottom of the screen as it is being played .
According to Beatles author and Zappa biographer Barry Miles, the unreleased Beatles experimental track "Carnival of Light" which was recorded in January 1967 resembles "The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet," although it is believed that "Carnival of Light" is more fragmented and abstract than Zappa's effort the previous year.
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film released in 1988 by Frank Zappa, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels.
After a mini-tour of the UK, the Wrong Object performed with Zappa's percussionist Ed Mann at the 2004 Zappanale festival.
Inspired by bands such as the Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, although the 2008 album Milagrosa borrows more from the band Shellac.
A guitar solo duet between Zappa and Steve Vai taken from the song "Stevie's Spanking" was later released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4.
He has been credited with first using the terms "freak" and "freak-out" to describe the scene, and with Franzoni and other members of the troupe contributed to the first album by Zappa and the Mothers, Freak Out!.
Excerpts from "The World's Greatest Sinner" soundtrack, composed by Zappa, are audible on both "I Don't Know If I can Go Through This Again" (from Lumpy Gravy) and "Mother People" (from We're Only in It for the Money).
Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, endemic to New Guinea where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers.
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Zappa was named after musician Frank Zappa "for his articulate and sagacious defense of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution".