FRANK ZAPPA - "THE TORTURE NEVER STOPS" (reaction)

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[@SightAfterDark]

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[@breakup66]

I was a teenager when I bought this (15, I'm 61 now! 😫). The first time I got it home and listened to it, my mum was sat in the next room. To say she was not impressed with what I was listening to is an understatement 😂. This album was my introduction into the world of Zappa!

[@cliffspencer9989]

Superb story sir. 👍👍👍

[@somersetcace1]

To this day, my mom is 81 years old and still remembers that song and still comments on it, because we use to play it wide open constantly. "That song is disgusting!!" LOL

[@mattjohn4731]

So good. I think Zoot was my 2nd and We're Only In It For The Money was my first. I loved how dissimilar the two lp's sounded 🔊🤯

[@sheldonwheaton881]

My mom asked " What are you listening to? " Not terribly impressed.🗿

[@cliffspencer9989]

@@sheldonwheaton881 I take it you’re mum is not a fan of mr Zappa then 😭😭😭😭

[@richardwirt3193]

He opened up with this song every Halloween at the Palladium In the 70s I went to every show

[@kgilliagorilla2761]

Frank and company played The Uptown in Chicago for his Halloween shows. Went to a bunch of them. Always amazing.

[@kerbygator]

@@hackupboulders That was me, sorry....

[@stevebinning977]

An amazing song. There is an excellent earlier live version with Captain Beefheart on vocals which ćan be found on one of the "You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore" live compilations. Well worth a listen.

[@simonpegge2843]

In 1988 I found a cassette of this album in the stereo of a Ford fiesta I bought for £950 ! That was the beginning of my Zappa journey!

[@SightAfterDark]

It was meant for you!

[@ljw5768]

One of Frank’s best vocal performances. I love the swirling electric piano and the bass lines too.

[@Civilizashum]

All of it Frank

[@chazblitz]

Gail doing her Yoko imitation. Those guitar tones....! I love alot of things about Frank and his music but the tones he gets just amaze me still. Love it!!

[@ImpressionismFTW]

Yoko wishes she sounded that good

[@gostrum1]

It’s not Gail! It’s Dale Bozzio

[@cazgerald9471]

In addition to guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, FZ is also credited as director of recreational activities I agree, he really paints a picture that puts you in the dungeon.

[@Peter-K]

The background vocals were done by Gail, his wife, and as great as some of the live versions are, this one is special. Even Frank's tone of voice in this one was never really replicated live, when you watch live versions he sings it in a more comical tone. It was a staple of his shows, not just Halloween, but all year long. Not surprised that you ranked it as high as you did, it is considered one of his most classic songs. Thanks James, it's about time one of us got to this one! Still wondering how they haven't heard the song before this one on the album...another classic. Just goes to show that as much as they have done, there are so many still unheard...

[@ImpressionismFTW]

Evidently Gail knew about the circular motion

[@HareDeLune]

@@ImpressionismFTW Destined to take the place of the Mudshark in your mythology.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Peter!

[@Reno_Slim]

Sounds just like Dale Bozzio to me...Rhonda from Thingfish.

[@HareDeLune]

@@Reno_Slim Also "the charming Mary from Canoga Park", from Joe's Garage.

[@leoscone4036]

I saw Zappa at Pauley Pavilion UCLA back in 1975 or so. He really liked to play this song loooong. So, he's about 2/3's of the way through a fifteen minute version of this song, and I look over and one of the guys I went to the show with has actually fallen asleep in the middle of Frank's loooong solo, and he's got a stringer of drool connecting his nodded head to his pants. It was perfect.

[@songsmithy07]

🤣

[@TheFenario]

Hahaha

[@SightAfterDark]

😆

[@alancumming6407]

I always tried for a power nap when he played this or Dina Moe Hum but it was too loud. What was your friend's secret?

[@stretchgilbert]

My favorite Frank vocal. I love how his solo is tucked away in the mix. One of my favorite FZ albums.

[@myrtlepalmwasher]

Frank's song Rat Tomago is a guitar solo excerpt from a live version of The Torture Never Stops. It is one of his most rip-your-head-off solos. It's on his Sheik Yerbouti album.

[@carlsmoker1167]

I was introduced to “The Torture Never Stops “ on 12/31/1982. I was already a Zappa fan though I was not familiar with Zoot Allures. I was on LSD and easily associated with this tune. Great review!!

[@davetothebeard]

A concert staple, with many radical rearrangements over the years. My favorite comes from the 88 tour which is really funny with a blistering solo as well. This tune yielded some of Frank’s best solos.

[@Bonzo_B]

That is an amazing version!!! Ike's vocals are superb on that one!!! The whole Best Band album is just a scream from start to finish!

[@cliffspencer9989]

Yet another truly unique track by the genius that is mr frank Vincent Zappa. God bless you sir ❤️❤️

[@ansparaco]

My favorite version is on the Thing Fish album, "the torchem never stops".

[@sergioferraro5604]

Frank already knew the future

[@waltercrain5921]

i'd been playing zappa for my good buddy, college roommate. trained musician. anyway, there is often resistance. it's difficult. there was a day i played "the blue light" from tinsel town rebellion, he came into the main room and heard how they pronounced "brute cologne", and he literally (i mean literally in the original sense) fell on the floor laughing. it's hard but funny. fan ever since.

[@karlkaefer7112]

Nice to see you back doing reactions to Frank Zappa! Hope things are well with you!

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Karl, hope you’re well too!

[@MrLeoYaus]

I'm so glad you tuned in. Two things to say: 1) her face just after @6:30 just after Frank gets to work on the first solo, and 2) one must absolutely listen to the last thirteen chords that close the song. just after @10:08.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Leo!

[@DUBEE43]

FRANK used to come to New York and Connecticut every Halloween.☠👹👽👿 So cool he was!!👍😎

[@andikusumanto3213]

Frank zappa the Best ..rock,jazz blues,opera..I'm from Indonesia I like fank zappa....

[@joannetelling]

'Slime and rot and rats and snot and vomit on the floor.' One of the finest lines ever penned.

[@countryroad7295]

Love those bell bottom pants When I was 16 I could put 3 cans of 16oz beer in each pant leg and sneak in the concert

[@SightAfterDark]

😆

[@raffinicoghosian8699]

Hahah loooove this one. Many great live versions over the years. The one and only FZ, man I miss him.

[@happilyeggs4627]

Loved your description of Frank's voice. This track has one of my favourite Frank guitar solos.

[@poormanselectronicsbench2021]

The guitar, and tuning, sounds like the same one he used on a few tracks on the "Sleep Dirt" album as well.

[@cd6914]

I love the Zappa's way you are

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks CD!

[@andreasrosenberg9317]

Zappa playes all the instruments on this, except drums (Terry Bozzio)

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

This whole album, Zoot Allures, is fantastic!

[@martinstarnes2237]

Working title on the '75 tour: 'Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him A Pepsi?'. As well as the various other released versions of the song that other people have mentioned, Frank released a number of double & triple albums that were just guitar solos from live concerts (he recorded everything from his shows), and there are at least three versions of guitar solos from 'The Torture Never Stops' to be found there, too, although all given new titles in their own right. And Rat Tomago on Sheik Yerbouti, which I think you have listened to on some other platform, is also a TTNS guitar solo! Full of useless information, me.

[@billymac23454]

The song that got me turned on to Frank Zappa way, way backin the mid 1970's, once heard never forgotten! I have to add that this is the way to do reaction videos, I.e. no constant pausing to make inane comments, well done! Liked and subscribed

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks so much Billy!

[@dianak7368]

One of my top 3 fav FZ albums

[@jeffreymatthew7931]

This is more about sociology than it is imagining a crayon drawing that goes on the fridge, I think.

[@gostrum1]

In my top 5 favourite songs of all time. A great song of existential despair

[@barrywilson1294]

Often in Zappa songs important lyrics are in the last verse to drive home his point. “ Flies all green 'n buzzin' in his dungeon of despair Who are all those people that he's locked away up there Are they crazy? Are they sainted? Are they zeros someone painted? It has never been explained since at first it was created But a dungeon like a sin requires naught but lockin' in Of everything that's ever been Look at hers Look at him That's what's the deal we're dealing in”

[@barrywilson1294]

True story. I was in college when this album was released. One night some friends stopped (they had been out drinking) by my dormitory room and I played the first side of the LP. When “Torture” came on one particularly cute friend vomited after hearing the first two verses. From then on until she graduated she never failed to remind me in front of anyone that I made her vomit by playing a Zappa song.

[@mikedemike5393]

@@barrywilson1294 wE HAD 12 PEOPLE IN A DARK ROOM PARTYING WHILE WORKING OVERTIME AT NIGHT..After hours of listening to eagles and shit regular popular music someone asked Steve To put the album of the artist I had inspired him to buy...I had no idea what we were going to hear...Originally they were up for the comedy but this disturbed half of them that they demanded it be turned off...The acid did not help them much...i was riding fine and never got to finish hearing till years later..Not a great fan of Zoot..

[@SightAfterDark]

😆woah!

[@markdrinkard4150]

Also done full blown on Thingfish

[@paulfenwick8767]

love this album. For me it's a thank you Mothers but you've served your purpose, I've outgrown you and need to move onwards and upwards album, and my god, doesn't he do just that!

[@franklinzappa7043]

In 1981 I was a Senior in HS, I was introduced to this Musical Masterpiece what is " Zoot Allures" , By Mr. Frank Zappa, and in 1982 I was honored and very fortunate to have Seen Him Live in Boulder Colorado for the You Are What You Is Tour. Still my all time Greatest Concert Ever, Ever...🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 ZPZ is purty Badass Live too. Father Frank is Looking down Proudly on his son Dweezil. ..........🤘😎

[@bernycout]

Sleep Dirt and Zoot Allures are my two best Frank albums!! with the sound guitar solos and the drumming of Bozzio wow

[@johnroberts5637]

The live version with Captain Beefheart on vocals and harmonica is my personal favorite. It's a little more up tempo than this studio version with extras. Here's a link if you want to check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn7Sc3-Qp9B7n9E

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks John!

[@alancumming6407]

The Beefheart version is really good. I was bored to death when I saw Zappa playing this at the Hammersmith Odeon in'77. Too slow, ponderous and long for me. Others will disagree!

[@sheldonwheaton881]

"Wind up Working in a gas station" ! " Disco Boy"!🗿

[@brucepieroni9102]

Sort of a prophetic ode to Guantanamo Bay.

[@mikedemike5393]

This is to the laboratories under Virginia and all the DUMB'S in the USA where they experiment on slaves under ground...this has been literally going on for decades....who are all those people that he stashed away down there..are they crazy...are they sainted ...are they zero's...someone paint it...It has never been explained...just like a dungeon is like a sin..requires a whole lot of locking down...everything that has ever been...look at her ..look at him....THAT'S WHAT THE DEAL WE ARE DEALING IN.

[@erikmaronde2244]

Great analysis! I always wondered what this song is really trying to say. Hypnotizing. And disturbing.

[@carlosmarques9468]

Frank never fails when it comes to soloing over Torture. Here he plays all guitars and he really pulls off wonderful noises.

[@HareDeLune]

To be fair, Frank *does* inject a touch of ironic levity in his own style at one point in the song. Frank changes the words of the chorus to "...by the light of the Iron Sausage...". This is a reference to the song 'Dong Work for Yuda', from the 'Joe's Garage' album. Frank's music has a ton of little references and call-backs like this. Very easy to miss if you haven't heard much of his work.

[@mikedemike5393]

It a WW2 reference to Hitler's night of the long knives...In the night of the iron sausage is Franks version.

[@Frunobulax74]

Hare deLune - The lyric is: In the night of the iron sausage. Dong Work is a reference to the line in Torture since it was written later.

[@HareDeLune]

@@Frunobulax74 @R A bit of casual research shows that you are correct. Zoot Allures came out in '76 and Joe's Garage in '79. Apologies.

[@tomkitchen9457]

frank wasn't afraid to take us to a dark place.

[@TommiBrem]

Totally worth checking this versions against the versions on "The best Band you never heard in your life" and the version Captain Beefheart on YCTDASA 4

[@kengregory6026]

What i love about your channel is 1) not only do you play some great Zappa with insightful reactions( without interrupting the music) ...but 2) the comments yield some great views and inside info on FZ from people who really know his work (I've only scratched the surface but am aware he was a genius..not a word to be used lightly, but definitely deserved in FZ's case)..Thx guys, I'm late to the party but slowly working backwards through your FZ stuff

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for being here Ken!

[@Megamare1]

Even the bass line sounds dark and torturous Have to keep the windows closed while cranking it. Got neighbors, ya know 😂 #MusicIsTheBest ❤

[@mikedemike5393]

I was working at news ltd Sydney newspaper(owned by Murdoch family) in 1977 when a guy I turned on to Zappa bought this album that I had not heard. About 12 of us would house in Bronte beach near Bondi and after doing day shift would put those advertiser inserts into papers half the night and fly over to the beach for social gathering purpose...we were fellas from all parts of Sydney...In those days they had to be inserted by hand that shit ads.. Now we had listened to all the usual pop schmuck like eagles and Jackson Brown all night...Yunno all the country rock shit these guys were mostly into until someone said put that album on..The early songs of the album amused them and we were stoned that much they surprisingly got into Zappa...Then this song came on and I'll tell you a secret ..we were all tripping on acid to give us legs to survive 3 shifts and when this song got into the torture segments they freaked out and demanded it be turned off...It disturbed them to the core..The early descriptive parts amused them...and let me tell you this song is not a metaphor...it is literal and it is the real ''hotel California''..This song describes what is happening under ground across the world and the children 800,000 A YEAR THAT GOES MISSING IN THE USA. THESE WERE NOT ALTAR BOYS AND THAT SONG SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF THEM..many feel it is comedic..which it is to hide the literal reality. Dan, my lad ..you ask for visuals..Here is a visual representation with the version from the album ''thingfish'' of the torture never stops with an added song ''evil prince'' visuals by my friend plasticdada

[@mrfranksan]

Makes me think of Gupantaimo. Frank was a prophet.

[@mikedemike5393]

@@mrfranksanWell there is Cuba but most don't understand there are dozens of these floating jails all over the earth...why I say floating is beecause under admiralty law places like court houses and hospitals are ships in dry dock legally..There is an island in the atlantic that has a similar holding facility...Also Iceland and Greenland have no mans land jail there ...not to mention the floating ships that are jails..On the water you don't get protection from jurisdictional law...you are under JAG prosecution...Many believe that high profile actors/politicians are being held in newly refurbished gitmo. World wide there are hundreds if not Thousands of Deep underground military bases (DUMBS)that serve for scientific experimentations and prisons....there are cities under ground with mach 2 rail networks that use maglev rail where the carriage does not touch the track...The elites can travel NY to Europe in 30 minutes.

[@Robscot1963]

I think you’re on to something. An animated version of TTNS? It would be epic. Consider watching the live version from the 1981 Halloween concert at the palladium. Steve Vai is there and frank plays a great solo. And as a sidenote,...that was another concert I attended. Lol 😉

[@RichieG]

The song really does lend itself to animated interpretation. This was an obvious remix from the original, and that's not a bad thing. Cons: IMO they added too many random noises. Pros: I really like that Frank's guitar work was not out of balance with the volume of the bed the band was laying down. I think in the original he might have been cranked up a bit higher drowning out a bit of the band but I haven't heard that version in quite some time.

[@HareDeLune]

@@RichieG It sounded the same to me, except for the newly added jagged sounds under some of the guitar parts. Unnessary, imo.

[@RichieG]

@@HareDeLune Oh, I could easily be wrong. Those added bits were detrimental, we agree. As for the mix balance, it sounded better to me on this listen than the original, granted I haven't heard the original for ages!

[@HareDeLune]

@@RichieG I have the original on my phone. Will have to listen to it again. : )

[@ManWithoutThePants]

Frank Zappa's soloing is always instantly recognizable. No one plays like that. He has kind of weird style compared to other guitarists.

[@ImpressionismFTW]

I think the last verse of this song deserves a close listen, i'm convinced it re-contextualizes the meaning of the song to be about more than just literal torture.

[@Pstephen]

Ben Watson (in his Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, a Marxist study of FZ albeit from a long-term fan) reckons the cries of pain / sex noises in this are a kind of revenge for the 28 days' sentence he got for producing an audio sex tape for a client who turned out to be an undercover cop; the sex noises are so much more overt than those on the original tape, and he got paid for it as well.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

the torture stops when you listen to anything Frank released.

[@SightAfterDark]

Well said!

[@Ajonr]

I can't say why, but I always liked this piece musically. Now that you've spent some time listening to Frank, I think it's time for you to check out "Shut Up 'n Play Your Guitar".

[@williamiagrossi7382]

Another favorite of mine, when we were at work and were given extra work we would look at each other and say the torture never stops. And then have a laff. Zoot Allures is a great album not a bad song on it.✌️❤️😃

[@darrenthomas9116]

Fun fact frank plays a fret less guitar on this track (ampeg I think could be wrong )

[@nehcivil3001]

This is Frank doing the bass, the keys, and the fretless guitar. The only other instrumentalist here is Bozzio.

[@ferenchegedus3256]

I really like you two, keep up your nice work!

[@astrogoodvibes6164]

Imagine this accidentally dropping onto your local pop radio station while you're stuck in traffic. Some songs should only be heard with fire proof headfones....this is one of Franks creepiest and smokiest. Some spooky stuff went on up in Laurel Canyon.

[@mikedemike5393]

You believe Mcgowen's blog..I remember when the ''mostly true story of Laurel canyon would return one return on the search engine and that was the blog itself....Dave McGown's writes later for'''Centre for an Informed America'' CIA....The whole premise of his blog was all these artist had parents in military..tell me anyone in USA who was born between 1940-45 and did not have a parent in the military industrial complex.

[@astrogoodvibes6164]

@@mikedemike5393 I never use one source. I have Carroll Quigly's report on PDF...it's easy to find online. McGowan used some of Quigley's work as well as the Tavistock institute, the British Royal Society, the writings of Bertrand Russell and Aleister Crowley, FOIA released reports from the Anglo/US Intelligence Establishment and others to write his book. Also, it's not that so many born in the US between '40 and '45 had parents in the MIC but that the majority of these artists parents were in key positions including the development of biological weapons, military intelligence and propaganda.

[@mikedemike5393]

@@astrogoodvibes6164 well zappa's father never made biologic weapons and by the 60's mustrad gas was stored and a problem in that regard...The greatest threat to the USA AT THAT TIME WAS the tavistock/fabian society and the British invasion..Zappa's father may have represented in the war that was happening in the CIA and that was coming from jesuit and vatican connections along mafia and Irish catholic police...Did Frank break away from controls as a eldest son of his father..There are early 1971 interviews with the father and he understands the sons art and its effect pretty much as one may view it today...The key to Zappa is when he was the middle high school boy to go to and then his rebellion after his father caught him fiddling with the girl across the road.. hE WAS A MODEL STUDENT at that time so when he speaks about having the moustache and hoodie that become later...If you are familiar to his music I'll point you to one of his recordings that was never released with the original words,,''I'm so happy i could cry'' is the song which later become ''take your clothes off when you dance'' No Dave McGowan draws a long bow..Zappa even sings about a man from the CIA creeping around Laurel Canyon in a song about 1967...

[@SightAfterDark]

😆for sure

[@1962egl]

The song paints a picture

[@donnielsen154]

Dark musical humor at its best

[@stevious7278]

Certainly not one of Frank's lighter, humorous tunes! But man; there's no denying he could certainly paint a vivid picture on the inside of your skull! The slow, brooding rhythm combined with the lyric is so visceral, isn't it? I do get the impression though, that the lady in the song is perhaps enjoying the experience somewhat a little too much...perhaps... poot.

[@darrylaldrow7274]

The song after torture never stops is Ms. Pinky!!! You got to hear Ms. Pinky!!!lol

[@Hrth6]

I made it my August request so they will be hearing it in a few weeks.

[@johntabacco]

They played this on a commercial radio station here on Long Island WLIR. When it was over the female DJ said the song made her throw up. Well, that's better than no reaction I guess. I always thought FZ painted such a great - disturbed picture here. I heard it when I was 15. No one in high school got it. Now it's deeply rooted in my musical history. FZ's guitar / keys and bass playing create an amazingly ever evolving dark texture. And his low voice really works perfectly. Terry Bozzio's slow prodding drums work well in tandem to the tortured victim. Human beings can be so fucked up. Why all this evilness? "That's what's the deal we're dealin' in"... Also, the only people on the cover to play on this album is Zappa and Bozzio (to his left). The other two, Patrick O'Hearn and Eddie Jobson played on the following album. All post versions of this song (live) are pretty much fun vehicles for various musical quotes from TV themes.

[@AndyMmusic]

"Or are they zeros someone painted" Could be a real dungeon or could be something that just looks like a dungeon!

[@mikedemike5393]

could be kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGWoqn-BrtmJj8k

[@rickgarms7656]

Such a sexy and neurotic vibe! Thanks Guys.

[@andykelly4056]

Live in New York version is tremendous

[@bjwnashe5589]

Play this real loud and your neighbors will call the cops.

[@zappafan3473]

oh. god. yes.

[@mikedemike5393]

This album was created by Frank using a 4 track machine and him playing most of the instruments...He was in a law suite with Warner bros and they took his recording material and he basically was reduced to the four track machine in the basement scenario...He realised it was not going to work and decided the only way was to tour live around the world and by using the same setup as far as which channel snare and kick were to be in he could mix and match recorded concerts for content....Then he discovered all the big four record companies used the same accountants and law firms and if they wanted you black banned you would be black banned....He was possibly one of the first to create his own cottage industry of distribution by subscription...Eventually he beat warner bros and received his master tapes in damage condition...The issue is he owed 4 albums and he made them in a 4 album set and said''pay me''...they said fuck off but released them as singles as he released his own work.

[@Frunobulax74]

@mike demike - most of the album Zoot Allures was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.

[@mikedemike5393]

@Zolar Czakl sO hERB LIKE MOST MANAGERS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS WERE SHADY CHARACTERS involved in all sorts of money making schemes and many were dodgy at best...Many had no idea of the music business but were heavy enough to deal with other shonky people in promotions and clubs and venues...He was ripping Zappa off I believe and indulged in coke with his brother..So Zoot allures is before WB lawsuit which may have been designed to set them against Cohen ensuring Zappa got a legal victory...

[@mikedemike5393]

@Zolar Czakl so they wanted to pay him as they released each album...that could have taken four to five years minimum...maybe it was the wording of the contract that said payment would be made when product was delivered...he won the case so they must have reneged on some aspect of the contract. For the time it is a very advance cross section of music...pretty much all styles of music of the 20th century....what is different between Rueben's old recording to the new...the drumming is too precise in what ive heard and I never heard the original.

[@villadavid164]

Frank was adding that ASMR effect haha

[@shakypuddin9857]

Finally the album zoot allures. Although not a patrion subscriber i requested this song numerous times. One of my favorites.

[@SightAfterDark]

It worked out!

[@buddystewart2020]

One of my favorite tracks from Frank.

[@zippydoodah1547]

Lyrics... Wow

[@helenavantrooie7645]

Only know the live version on Cheap Thrills. This is so much better.😀

[@AmberPearcy]

Well, if we ever get around to the movies….hahaha. I also own the one that has this song title’s name.😉 Anyway, that’s where the claymation is.

[@SightAfterDark]

😆Ok!

[@gelsol]

De Torchum...

[@beelzebob23]

So many great versions of this song. YCDTOSA v3 has a killer one. Thing Fish another. On of FZ's epics. Love the line "His carving style is well rehearsed," then he goes into a blistering solo.

[@twelvemonkeys8786]

Had to subscribe.. Zappa Zappa zappa.. Say no more..

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for your support Twelve Monkeys!

[@twelvemonkeys8786]

@@kosta380 why?

[@chaosmos24]

Hate to be that guy, but the definitive version of this is the live performance with captain Beefheart on vocals and harmonica.

[@SightAfterDark]

You can be whoever you want here! Thanks for the info!

[@jakesmith1942]

the young lady is so B E A U T I F U L

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

This is only the second time I've listened to the entire song lol

[@TommiBrem]

Yeah. This.

[@davehagi9883]

Beautiful.

[@nehcivil3001]

The recreational activities vocal refers to FZ's pornography bust in '64, where he's been approached to make a stag film, by a cop, and he said no way for that budget but I can make you a tape... ten days in Tank C

[@trumbaron]

Terry Bozzio again, with some soft 12-tuplets!

[@iDuckman]

I enjoy the version on 'Thingfish' more. Not so slow, better instrumentation, and a slight tongue-in-cheek intonation.

[@damonhines8187]

Bought this new, only FZ I ever owned. Wasn't yet a guitar icon of mine, couldn't really do him justice in my best years, imho. A fave off the album anyhoo. Why WOULD ya stop it?

[@marauder600]

The live version of this from the best band you never heard in your life set is even better. Frank’s guitar work is other worldly! And his band was spot on as usual. You should really explore the never heard in your life sets. All amazing live stuff including covers of purple haze and stairway to heaven.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Mitch!

[@andyshan]

This album is amazing, the rest of the songs are short and concise by comparison but compelling and incredibly edgy. Possibly my favourite studio album from Zappa. Interestingly the personnel on the album cover do not match the players on the album tracks. It's an oddly random, Zappa thing.

[@gubbenpersson]

Ok, but its realy about how it was to be insane..in those days. in instiutiusons..som friend of him had a bad time

[@thomasvieth6063]

I know a few live versions of this by now, but I always turn back to this studio rendering because I find it the most artistic. And the screams do not come from Gail, as far as I know, but from Dale, Terry Bozzio's wife. He is the one sitting on the bar stool, by the way. Oh, and I am not the fasted to pick up on bass line, but I find the bass utterly remarkable in this piece.

[@Peter-K]

In his autobiography 'The Real Frank Zappa Book,' Frank states it was Gail and a friend of hers in their bedroom recording 10 hours of it, doing things he chose not to disclose.

[@joevonnegut6702]

Terry Bozzio is sitting on the ladder; that's Eddie Jobson on the stool. Patrick O'Hearn is standing behind Bozzio. Oddly, neither Jobson nor O'Hearn play on Zoot Allures. Always loved the cover, regardless.

[@davidbarrus6542]

This is a excellent album. ♥️

[@teresacaetano5536]

Sempre exelentes escolhas jovens .👑 já tinha saudades vossas 😍

[@mrfranksan]

Imagine if this was your introduction to Zappa.

[@SightAfterDark]

😆right!

[@obbor4]

It's a great song. Frank's take on the record companies that make prisoners of their artists and continually rake them over the coals in pursuit of the mighty dollar. I saw Zappa live eight times. When they made him, they broke the mold!

[@SightAfterDark]

For sure

[@markdearlove8634]

Geat reaction. One of my total favourites sinister midget and all. Dudes, Dan, if your loving the imagery induced by this you are going to love 'Thing Fish'. It makes some people fidgety. But I reckon yous will be loving a bit of Bbrroadway Entertaimment.

[@HareDeLune]

Broadway the hard way?

[@markdearlove8634]

@@HareDeLune great album but not what I meant. Thing fish is a tripple album with a storyline that follows a couple of misfortunates as they attend a theatre looking for some traditional Broadway entertainment. It doesn't go well!🤣

[@HareDeLune]

@@markdearlove8634 Uh-oh! Sounds like I have more albums to buy! 😆

[@MrWaterpumpkin]

With more immagination, you can even hear the rats at about 8:30-8:40 :)