FRANK ZAPPA | "I COME FROM NOWHERE" (reaction)

[@bjwnashe5589]

Insane guitar solo!

[@CarlosMarques-b8n]

Harmonically the song seems to be falling apart at any time but never does, maintaining a tension that sets the song apart from what you expect from a regular heavy rock song. It's really wild!

[@saturninebear]

On first listen I didn't get this at all. But I was very young. 40+ years later and I just love it.

[@charleschadwick8042]

oh lord just saw a 50 year old Frank talking 3 years from death! holy wow! I am at 63 I am still going on 17 in my head lol gosh soon i will have bested jerry by 10 i dont want to pursue these thoughts lol thanks! you guys are listening to the stuff i played along with some note for note, as I taught myself guitar played cello i didnt want to be trapped by sheet music so first you find one note then, every song is a puzzle! 4 fingers and 6 strings and all songs are unique well thats how i learned got my les paul at 18 and no amp for many months anyway, anything played comes down to patterns of 4 and 6s,! i love living music unencumbered by fussy notation

[@carlamurray9150]

We miss u Frank

[@enricocavallo4386]

The famous Bulgarian bagpipe at 3:47.

[@428chase]

The cover art for the album (from which it gets its name) shows the classic Droodle, by Roger Price. The shapes in the cover art also suggest the letters "ZA" but looks like a ship arriving to late to save a drowning witch

[@timfeeley714-25]

The witch's hat is visible just in front of the bow of the ship.

[@SightAfterDark]

Love it

[@-R.Gray-]

There vocals sort of lead into Frank's own on the song "Drowning Witch". This album has Steve Vai "Impossible guitar parts", and "Valley Girl" with 14 year old Moon on vocals.

[@johnanderson290]

Gawd I LOVE this song!! Thank you Frank!!

[@marcribe6483]

Music to play so your mother leaves your room. I also use to use an assortment of Yoko Ono tracks. Worked like a charm.

[@SightAfterDark]

😂😂😂

[@charleschadwick8042]

go Frank! Saw him 6 or 7 times

[@charleschadwick8042]

love you guys! I did what you are doing 40 years ago i appreciate your dedication and output! music and science (,was a chemist) always new! once recorded dont look back! well thats improv guidelines... ❤

[@SightAfterDark]

Thank you kind sir!

[@Royalle_with_Cheese]

I bought this album when it was brand new, hot out of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, so nothing was being played on the radio yet. I listened to it straight through, as you're supposed to listen to Frank, and I thought this was the standout track on the album with that guitar jam going on. Valley Girl was the surprise hit on the album, taking even Frank by surprise. In retrospect, Drowning Witch is the best song on the album.

[@enricocavallo4386]

This is exactly how I feel about the album! Drowning Witch is the best, but this tune is an underrated gem.

[@SightAfterDark]

Sounds like a great experience!

[@charleschadwick8042]

i love this album!!!! thanks!

[@KlodDano]

The french guy said as you! So Wild!

[@TheUtke]

This was a rare one-off. Was never performed live. Also, a rare studio guitar solo, and a killer one, at that! I love the lyrics, and can’t for my life figure out how they became this way.

[@mrgreengenes04]

Although the main riff was performed live as far back as 1969 with the original Mothers. The 1988 band did learn the song during rehearsal, it was abandoned before the tour began.

[@charleschadwick8042]

oh no this Zappa came out and I wasnt even dreaming of puzzling any out i used to play 20 small cigars note for note with Chunga took about an hour to work out i guess i could again nah i only play what my mind hears and fingers feel now last 30 years really

[@mikedemike5393]

ONE OF THE WHEELS IS SIX SIDED.

[@GlowToneChannel]

That's Roy Estrada singing lead vocals, who was the bass player / vocalist in The Mothers Of Invention. He toured with Frank in 1976 and appears in the film "Baby Snakes." Estrada also sings the multi-tracked high vocals on this albums opening song "No Not Now" (which you really should listen to!) and appears on the next album, "The Man From Utopia." There's a very brief clip of Frank with Roy on the short film "Two On The Town" where they are in the studio adding vocals to "The Radio Is Broken" which you reacted to a year ago.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the info!

[@paulfenwick8767]

Neither Adrian or Vai, that's Frank!. Vai is on the album though. I love the driving rhythm, Chad on Drums and Arthur/Patrick on bass. I love the vocals. Always thought they were a piss take of Bryan Ferry tied in with the lyrics to sum up that said superficial prick🙂 Great track, great album great pick Wayne. The only downer for me is the life story of narcissist charleschadwick

[@shoutinchuck3363]

Cheers Paul! Same downer for me. I was going to post a comment, but then I backed off when I realized I couldn't possibly add anything more to what charleschadwick has already said. 🤣

[@charleschadwick8042]

@@shoutinchuck3363 oh why thank you! I was totally all Zappa from 13 to around 20

[@paulfenwick8767]

@@shoutinchuck3363 He thinks you're complimenting him🤣🤣

[@shoutinchuck3363]

@@paulfenwick8767 Ha ha! Guess I should've used tags. 🤣

[@thomasvieth578]

Zappa goes Talking Heads

[@charleschadwick8042]

Stevie Vai i believe belew was a talking head then i saw his debut tour! october 1978

[@SightAfterDark]

Awesome!

[@Royalle_with_Cheese]

Whose debut tour? Belew debuted with Frank in fall 1977. Vai debuted in fall 1980.

[@charleschadwick8042]

I saw Adrian Belew for Sheik yer Bouhti Then it was Stevie.at The Tinseltown tour, then a I saw a shut up and play your guitar show Mothers Day at the Baltimore Civic Centre opened with a 10 minute Chungas Revenge and from there two and a half hours of the finest solos of all whew! that was the very best show!. 81 or 82???

[@Frankie_Zappa]

@@charleschadwick8042 It was '81.. Frank and his Rocking Teenage Combo only played in Europe in '82, same band though.

[@seanc.murphy3573]

haha, yeah - when Frank makes a tune so slick and greasy-funky (the front side of the tune) it’s like of course he’s gonna grab freakin’ Roy Estrada to “sing” like a dufus. Frank didn’t dislike his fans, but he was SUCH a ball-buster when he did stuff like that. the solo interplay with the heavy distortion on his Les Paul, the bass player gettin’ all kindsa musical, dancing around Frank’s tonality, and Chad being Chad, playing fills and polyrhythms like the freakin’ on-the-spectrum beautiful human he is… that’s some seriously cool heavy shit right there - fucking ouch! 😊 thx guys seanM

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Sean!

[@charleschadwick8042]

@@seanc.murphy3573 ahh you get me too! thanks! the stuff i love nearly 100 LPs is my foreever Zappa ! and it will always be the same on vinyl!!!!

[@athanatic]

Eyebrows!

[@zappafrank1]

Thats a serious deep cut.

[@SightAfterDark]

For real

[@andreasrosenberg9317]

Me 2 about the vocal

[@charleschadwick8042]

took all summer saving to buy the Les the twin reverb i got was even more it took a while oh boy plugged it in and I had Led Zepp's 1-3 down note for note not solos riffs well, i put on heartbreaker, plugged it in and OMG It sounds almost identical to jimmie's!!!! loved playing it dry for a year omg i couldnt put it down for several years

[@davidblake5415]

I agree with you Dan, when he sings lines that it irritates! PS have you reacted to any John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers agree gods recent passing? I recommend The Supernatural. Absolutely exquisite guitar!

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks David!

[@charleschadwick8042]

jammed to cuban santetia drumming the have notes easy to tune it generated a novel scale and open chordd

[@charleschadwick8042]

was offered almost $30,000 for it 20 years ago thr money was good to go but nope will never have another!!!!

[@charleschadwick8042]

best $400 I ever spent!

[@charleschadwick8042]

oh man i had some extremely weird but cool things happen recently heres all i will say for now i was on megaphone records well i looked for Fat (1992) and there were two guys, strangers, telling stories i had lived! they knew all about megaphone i finally said ummn guys i was on the label they didnt say we know of your work, nope no flattery , wss nicely asked to post all the extinct mega cds that cant be found anywhere doing a great service?!? my mind is melting and you want WORK!?! LOL later i just found out i have a small cult like following its so weird

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for sharing with us!

[@charleschadwick8042]

i cant process it its from 30 years ago i dunno funny goofy and weird lesson learned was do your best and there is never a need to alter it and when our demo tape from 1986 was posted by a guy in germany well that was just a bit much!

[@charleschadwick8042]

my summer depression is hitting hard, sorry if i made anybody defend Frank i can separarate art from the artist its honest to love somebody but aay their art is vomit inducing go ahead! dont ask my opinion if it sells it must have been good?!? lol

[@stuie46]

Try The radio is broken.

[@SightAfterDark]

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[@yodel_diploma2315]

I didn't like "Ship Arriving..." the first time I heard it because it was so different from the MOI stuff...

[@charleschadwick8042]

audio is like fleas on a dog i get something i like it sounds like crap play a shiny turd and it sounds marvelous i will surprise you with a shout out this will be my first publically released music in a long time i do have a rep i cant post garbage!

[@amedeeabreo7334]

Great song. The vocal *is* annoying...but this is exactly how people from Nowhere sing! In fact...this singer won on the show Nowhere Idol in that same year. He could sing in all keys.

[@gandalfshakur8235]

The vocals sound like a satire on Sparks (1st section) and/or Roxy Music (2nd). Kind of annoying but funny because it's annoying. Gotta love the FtotheZ.

[@charleschadwick8042]

money cheapens intrinsic value of a great instrument to me anyway

[@outernothingness1177]

A killer solo on this one. And I love how annoying the vocals are. :-) Shame it's a fade out though.

[@jpdj2715]

You did "The Torture Never Stops" by Zappa with Captain Beefheart. Zappa did a tour with live recordings "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" and it has "The Torture Never Stops" part 1 & 2 with brief vocal opening and a lot of brilliant guitar after that. Incredible and brilliant music - I'm not a big fan of Frank's operatic rock-operette stand-up comedy music. Much of the social commentary is justified, but musically, meh. This live guitar thing however, wow.

[@volpeverde6441]

frank took on all forms of music.... including some very weird lyrics.... pity this album doesn't have a couple more tracks.... valley girl/drowning witch/teen age prostitute....

[@charleschadwick8042]

it's his swan song for me I say no to Joes Garage it tortured me as a closeted 20 year old gay guy! He got very bigoted and homophobic in his last decade shame

[@seanc.murphy3573]

I hear that. but - I would point you to interviews thru the years where he was very respectful and decent about “homosexuality”, homosexual individuals. I say he was decidedly NOT “homophobic”. sophomoric?, very. scared of or hateful toward people who are gay… no way. Joe’s Garage ‘gay’ references are largely gesturing at things that go on, on the business side of the record business - shitty practices he’d encountered and/or heard about enough times to conclude it was ‘a thing’. anyway - you have a right… but seriously - he was 40 sounding like a 14 y/o stupid boy at times, absolutely - but not homophobic or at all hateful. he was a dick at times, obviously - and obnoxious at times. but IMO not, not a shit person. seanM

[@johnanderson290]

@@seanc.murphy35731000% agree. Thank you Sean for your response.✌️

[@charleschadwick8042]

Thing fish is totally offensive

[@volpeverde6441]

that's the one zappa album I threw out.... and I have about 70, including lives and boots....

[@charleschadwick8042]

@@volpeverde6441 oh lord the fake ebonics I am white and couldnt stand the phony nod to the real black american culture that evolved to keep love and families pulling through well i get half sick thinking about my beloved Delta blues being born through surviving inhumane state spondsered cruelty oh well i love it all up to drowning witch heavy solid music i get lost in that Zappa is in my heart and mind forever! i dont hate him, just didt like barking pumpkin i keep the great and the reat is not for me; R I P Mr Zappa thank you!

[@charleschadwick8042]

evening with wild man fisher? merry go merry go merry go rounnd yowzers!

[@charleschadwick8042]

i even like the early denos lost in a whirl

[@seanc.murphy3573]

haha, yeah - when Frank makes a tune so slick and greasy-funky (the front side of the tune) it’s like of course he’s gonna grab freakin’ Roy Estrada to “sing” like a dufus. Frank didn’t dislike his fans, but he was SUCH a ball-buster when he did stuff like that. the solo interplay with the heavy distortion on his Les Paul, the bass player gettin’ all kindsa musical, dancing around Frank’s tonality, and Chad being Chad, playing fills and polyrhythms like the freakin’ on-the-spectrum beautiful human he is… that’s some seriously cool heavy shit right there - fucking ouch! 😊 thx guys seanM

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for sharing Sean!