I was asked to listen to Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay (First Reaction!!)

[@poloreacts27]

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[@alldayadventures5418]

This song is from the famous JOE'S Garage (Triple album set). Joes garage Act 1 was the Zappa Introduction album for most folks growing up in the 70;s. The Title Track was played often on the radio. The narration you heard at the start of this song (Easter Hay) is the END part of an entire story line of Joe's life in Music. The First 20 Minutes of Act 1, is 100% off the Hook. Best Story Telling you ever heard. YOU NEVER HEARD a story like it in your life. The Background Music is off the Hook. The Subject Matter will make you laugh and maybe Blush too...! Totally an off the Hook Album. MUST BE PLAYED as one 20Minute Song. If broken up into parts, you loose 50% of the image he trys to paint. JOES GARAGE ACT 1 You won't regret it.

[@TonyTheBassPlayer1]

Yes it is freestyled. Frank wrote every note of the songs out for the musicians and then whooped the band into perfection and then would take it live and do improvised solos that he called "Air Sculptures." This is one such Air Sculpture.

[@koaik]

You should do "willie the pimp" next 😉

[@kosta380]

Zappas shit music without sense, is suitable for flushing the toilet 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@dface6447]

if you haven’t heard Duprees Paradise Live from Stockholm you MUST check it out🤯,as in all of Zappas performances the solos are spectacular and in the category of those best on the 2nd listen 😁 and then it just gets better every time 👍,enjoy (i hope).

[@eddielathum8405]

watermelon in Easter hay is the last thing I want to hear when I leave this life

[@garymacdonald7866]

ive already told my family this must be playeds at my funeral, including the central scrutiniser at the start

[@ondrejpetyniak4582]

@@garymacdonald7866 the same

[@everthop8112]

Same here

[@keithtidy186]

Yes

[@Ninang363]

He wrote this for his son, Dweezil. When Dweezil first played it live he played it for his mother she was in the front row at The Beacon Theater in NYC. He was crying as he was playing and the entire theater was there with him, and her. I have photos. It felt like the most intimate and personal moment I have ever had with an artist plus, several hundred others.

[@Ninang363]

After the applause, we all needed a moment. It was grande

[@kosta380]

Shit ugly zappa was an insult to other composers

[@Ninang363]

@@kosta380 “I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.” ― Frank Zappa

[@timfeeley714-25]

"Watermelon in Easter Hay", full name "Playing a Guitar Solo With This Band is Like Trying To Grow a Watermelon in Easter Hay",[1] ~ Wikipedia

[@BugsLivesmatter66613]

I had sex with E.T. (and a bunch of his friends!)

[@tictocbang7443]

Joe’s Garage is a masterpiece. The production, the musicianship, the story. It’s a mind blower.

[@SPKdesign1]

Best listened to in sides for KZbin.

[@simonzai7386]

I did all the album's in order on 3 tabs of acid once😃

[@JdBa2]

It’s one of my top 20 favorite albums of all time. Masterpiece is right.

[@davidtirendi7745]

Zappa was a gobsmacking genius. Lucky enough to see him live a couple times and actually met him after a show. Joe’s Garage is one of my all time favorite albums. RIP Frank. Thank you for all of it!

[@scotttrainer9704]

You gotta love a guy who is so determined to make a name for himself that he gets himself booked on the most popular late night tv show of its time to do a performance playing a bicycle.

[@miranflores2967]

I loved that.

[@adrianjones1317]

Always our end of night track..after the wonderful house party nights in Wrexham in beautiful North Wales.... Beautiful Friends.... Beautiful Zappa....Dioclch yn Fawr Frank..

[@Mr.Schitzengigglez]

I saw his Son, Dweezil play this on his Others of Intention tour. Beautiful song. Very hard to play. Dweezil was holding back tears the whole time.

[@2032bick52]

He wouldn’t play it for a long time and then when I saw him do it he was wiping away tears in between licks. Honored and amazed.

[@Mr.Schitzengigglez]

@@2032bick52 he refused to play it live, until he could get it perfect. Which is incredibly hard to do.

[@kosta380]

The whole shit Zappa family, you can throw in the trash 😂

[@andysielaff2252]

That guitar can actually speak words better then any of us can. Specially his guitar

[@timfeeley714-25]

No drugs for Frank! Frank said in an interview once that Watermelon was his favorite song that he wrote, his son Dweezil had tears in his eyes the first time he played it live after his dad died. I would like it played at my funeral. I'm asking you to listen to Fran'ks last great live solo from Prague in 91, it's called A Reggae Improvisation In A Major. Thanx for the reaction. "I write and play music for myself, my sole intended audience" ~ Frank Zappa

[@kosta380]

Zappas shit music without sense , is suitable for flushing the toilet 🤣

[@samteks125]

Yeah, he was very anti-drugs, but imagine enjoying this on some fine bud. Must be a match made in heaven

[@rcgmpearson]

Nicotine is a drug

[@bigdogbob845]

@@rcgmpearson Many of Frank's videos should be referenced as......Where's Frank's Cigarette ?

[@beelzebob23]

Frank probably was the smartest dude in the room, most of the time.

[@ianobrien3248]

Check out the entire album. Joe's Garage got me into Zappa.

[@ianobrien3248]

"Stick It Out" is my fav lol

[@altohippiegabber]

@@ianobrien3248 Aber beklecker nicht das sofa, sofa!😏

[@nodythova8543]

Me too. Sy borg brought me in. I was floored

[@trevorsanders5303]

The greatest guitar piece ever recorded

[@danwest9900]

Thank you for reacting to Watermelon in Easter Hay by Zappa!!! It is one of my favorite pieces of music ever, and whenever I listen to it I immediately think of wonderful things: friends, love, joy, music, long summer days. Zappa's guitar work here is so soulful and intimate - you can really hear his LOVE of playing the guitar in this song! I would argue that some of Zappa's best music had no lyrics or singing. He even composed 12 tone, serialized musical pieces that are obscure yet fascinating.

[@DCXLVIXIII]

By the end of this song, I feel like I've just experienced one of the most wonderful days of my life in some beautiful setting!

[@chrisgist3090]

Frank was extremely “anti-drug use” ….difficult to digest but the only thing Frank was ever high on was massive amounts of coffee & cigarettes…….& the music!👍🏼🎸 Mad musician!!😆

[@damiandoucette]

coffee, cigarettes, music, and his own gray matter.

[@m.ericwatson968]

Heard him in an interview say he tried weed once and all it did was make his throat hurt and he got tired so it wasn't for him

[@kosta380]

The whole zappa family, you can throw in the trash

[@2032bick52]

@@kosta380 why be on this thread if that’s what you think? You are damaged. A whole family in the trash? Get psych help, please.

[@danbardos3498]

And hotdogs.

[@KarlKarsnark]

A lot of Frank's stuff is "out there" and mostly just for music nerds, but this is pure poetry. So simple. So beautiful. Lots of folks get married and buried to this song. It's easy to hear why.

[@simonwilsoncreative]

Franks only sad solo. The song everyone played when he passed, always makes me shed a tear 😢. So happy you’re enjoying it 😊

[@bikingfencer]

Hell, it's the song all of us will have played at our funerals.

[@chassetterfield9559]

In this performance, he is like David Gilmour - he's not trying to shred as many notes as possible into each bar, but allows each individual note to develop into the space he leaves for it.

[@predeterminedmeat5024]

He does shred in some parts

[@brucekaren6693]

When the world ends this is the song that will be playing.

[@davidzimmerli489]

A true artist can equate sorrow with beauty. This is a perfect example .....

[@scottenlow5249]

OMG! Who's cutting the onions? I'm not crying. You're crying.

[@jasonrutter1699]

I seen zappa plays zappa his son playing this song in AC and he started to cry and kept playing and i looked to see the audience, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place Long live Frank zappa.

[@AqueousMantra]

I realized I've never seen Dweezil play this. Looked it up... then had a completely normal manly cry on a Saturday morning

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

@@jasonrutter1699 Zappa plays Zappa..Frank would have hated it.And Frank might have hated Gail for making his son go through the hoops that became ZPZ..instead of.. hey sure my kid can play my sh*t when im gone

[@DanStrahan-pq7do]

Certainly the man for his time and place. My favorite American, all time. Stunning intelligence, unparalleled work ethic, courage, honesty, HUMOR, owned all stages around the planet when he performed with all of his band. No other artist remotely similar

[@Christopher-Baltimore]

I gotta hear more Zappa. This was beautiful.

[@Maza675]

Try 'black napkins' and 'orange county lumber truck'

[@ATLANTABOY527]

Gotcha

[@nicholasmartin297]

Black Napkins AND Pink Napkins. Pink Napkins is Black Napkins after it has smoked a bowl of indica. …Quite a large bowl.

[@somersetcace1]

What I love about this track aside from the magnificent guitar is how he slowly and gradually added more and more ambiance, instruments, etc. If you listen really closely there's some kind of a phase going back and forth that sounds like wind. It's an epic piece. Not bad for an imaginary solo. 😏

[@timriley4543]

So Zappaesque in it's simple, mournful beauty and with its tongue firmly in its cheek. This song always brings a tear to my eye. Thanks Frank, you'll never truly die...ever. Your reaction captured it, Polo.

[@brettschacht4183]

My favorite guitar solo! Please check out Frank's "What's New in Baltimore?", another guitar highlight from his vast catalog.

[@gong63]

From "Does Humor Belong in Music"? One of my favorite tracks!

[@m.ericwatson968]

The first time I made it through this album, got to this song, it brought a tear to my eye, seriously, just splendid

[@russellmcgraw777]

Frank will go down in history as one of music's finest and greatest artists. He will be vaunted with the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. A level of excellence and creativity few, if any, modern day musicians could ever hope to reach. And having witnessed a number of his live shows, I firmly believe that he is the GOAT.

[@wendellwiggins3776]

Zappa actually was a total non drug person & discouraged it to his bands even at the height of the psychedelic music era where he was one of the pioneers of the strange, bazaar & trippy. My first encounter was at 14 visiting my Biology teacher's home in 1970. He was playing a tune with all talking, no music, repeating mostly "IT CANT HAPPEN HERE" over and over for 3 minutes. The strangest drug induced sounding thing I ever heard recorded.

[@marcribe6483]

Possibly his most romantic guitar solo. After Watermelon, you might chose to hear Sleep Dirt; which is Frank Zappa on acoustic guitar playing a solo. Not a whole lot of those in his catalog.

[@ralphmunn6689]

For me, this is one of the most moving songs in the entire rock catalogue; it does instrumentally what Comfortably Numb does with words AND music. If you care to, check out his son Dweezil playing this in concert, some parts note-for-note, others improvised (as Frank would want it.) Dweezil is brilliant on guitar, despite crying all the way through the song - and I cried with him. I don't ask for much, but I want this played at my wake. 🙏

[@wanderer0617]

Wonderful reaction to Frank Zappa's beautiful guitar solo. Thanks so much.

[@lorinapetranova2607]

I'm in tears. I didn't know Frank Zappa could write such incredibly beautiful music. Many blessings ya'll n thanx for makin my day just a bit better.

[@billmilligan7272]

Yes, this was free-styled, in front of a live audience on a concert tour in Japan. In my opinion this is the best guitar solo I've ever heard, and I've heard hundreds if not thousands of them over my life. Apparently Frank loved it too and so he lifted the concert audio straight onto the album and had it represent the final act of real creativity in a world where music had been made illegal. It's a chilling story. Frank's voice in the beginning is him playing the main villain.

[@peters7025]

Every time I hear this the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. One of the great pieces of music of the 20th century imo. Great reaction

[@jazzzman8050]

Your “prom beat” is actually a stately 9/4 time signature, which is why the band plays it so carefully…it’s neither natural, nor easy. Frank just flows over it on guitar, though 😎🎸👍

[@danielmoskowitz3060]

Think it's 4/4 +5/4 no?

[@jazzzman8050]

@@danielmoskowitz3060 you could well be right, probably so. Also a combination you’d have to pay attention to when playing : )

[@danielmoskowitz3060]

@@jazzzman8050 One thing I noticed about the time signature of this song is it seems to mimic human respiration at rest. Inhale, exhale then a short pause before inhaling again. It's my theory that that's what he tapped into to create such a soothing and beautiful composition. It's just comforting. Like someone coming to terms with their own death.

[@lizstraub6621]

Frank wrote that song for his wife Gail when she was very sick and they didn’t think she would live. On his own deathbed he told her to sell his entire catalog of music, except Watermelon In Easter Hay because that was for her. His son Dweezil eventually played it in public and it’s perfect, but hard to watch because he’s choking back tears the whole time. Not just because of the history of the song, but he said it is the first song his father taught him how to play. To answer your question, no Frank wasn’t high lol that isn’t him speaking in the intro. Frank didn’t do drugs, and did not tolerate drug use in his band. He wanted them all fit to perform for the audience that bought tickets. His addictions were cigarettes and coffee, and his wife and their 4 children. RIP Frank. You did more to fight censorship in music than anyone and every musician should know your work and thank you for your efforts to keep music art, and not subject to censorship. He fought valiantly on Capitol Hill and everyone should watch the tapes of those hearings. He was a genius.

[@mauicesmith1762]

Indeed it is.

[@TonyTheBassPlayer1]

There is a song Frank did that was embraced by the Jazz community to the point of it becoming a jazz standard. It is an instrumental called Peaches in Regalia. Want something that will drop your jaw, dude seriously take a listen to Peaches in Regalia. Sorry for so many comments but the only thing a Zappa Head loves more than listening to Zappa, is turning someone else onto Zappa! I will make this my last one promise, LOL.

[@bigbananadealer846]

one of the first songs recorded on i believe an 8-track?

[@DanStrahan-pq7do]

FZ started as a percussionist in H.S. band. Required top players and rehearsed them into a place of singular perfection. Auditions were legendary in his home studio, where you might play anything over days of unreal time sigs. and instantaneous segues into a completely opposing genre of music: Doo wop...reggae...punk...r&b...NO MISTAKES

[@mauricedorreboom5388]

"It feels like a Zappa kind of day" ... wouldn't mind having that printed on my shirt and wear it proud!!!

[@stevebracher6998]

Such an emotional song. I remember this is what was on the Zappa hotline the morning he passed. Exicited to see other folks appreciating Zappa. Polly want a Zappa?

[@salsashark7386]

Love this one, another great Zappa solo Apostrophe!, Watermelon makes me think of marooned by pink Floyd another breath taking solo and in the same vain neil Youngs cortez the killer These are all amazing tracks hope you get to hear them some day

[@enutrofdude]

GOTTA do Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain"! (1970, I believe.) Absolute brain-melting guitar work, often overlooked by "classic rock" fans not being aware that P-Funk rocked as well as they funked.

[@jonncockrell3606]

US old timers know!

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

So mad at radio and record execs ...that shoulda been a number one record..instead i had to stumble on it 30yrs later.. Good Ghoughts , Bad Thoughts is every bit as good.Eddie Hazel should be acknowledged..

[@I.P1976]

Legends like Zappa and Hendrix could make the guitar talk to you, so no need for vocals everytime

[@bigdogbob845]

Far and away one of Frank's most amazing compositions. A Hauntingly Beautiful Melodic Masterpiece, by the master of musical genius, Frank Zappa.

[@garymacdonald7866]

i loved seeing the look on your face during this piece. it looks like how i feel when listening to it. frank was a genius

[@kdm28]

Thank you Polo My brother tragically died last week and he loved guitar and Zappa..... I needed this🙏🏻

[@kenlawless7247]

Zoot Alures is a beautiful guitar song.

[@boboquisp]

My personal favorite!

[@mvdeano]

This composition, which I have been listening to, time and time again, for decades, makes me realize the luck of having existed on this planet when Frank created this masterpiece. What a time to be alive.

[@amyobrien4245]

I love this reaction. You really roll with it!!!

[@hertzer2000]

his shit gives yer bones goosebumps.

[@GoodCorporateRobot]

No doubt you’re going to get comments about context. This is from one of Franks epic operas, Joes Garage. It should be listened to front to back at once. From the mind of a self taught composer and guitarist, written and produced by him in his home studio, the UMRK (Utility Muffin Research Kitchen). Zappa was a force rarely seen in the world of music and is sorely missed. I’m very happy that you are enjoying this discovery and thank you for an excellent reaction! Cue marlon the troll.

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

Not recorded at Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. It didn't exist yet, except in his plans and in the songs Muffin Man and Little Green Rosetta. Recorded at Village Recorders "B," LA April-June 1979 Mastered (and additional recording?) at Kendun "D," LA This was the last album to be recorded in a rented studio. I Don't Wanna Get Drafted single was the last song recorded in a rented studio. Ocean Way Recorders, Hollywood February 1980

[@kosta380]

Zappas shit music without sense, is suitable for flushing the toilet 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@faegoyle777]

Holy cow! You have just made it to my favorite part of music. I create my own idea or interpretation of these instrumentals. This one's a particularly beautiful track.

[@ralphmunn1685]

This "song" is amazing for many reasons. 9/4 time isn't supposed to be lyrical. A two-chord vamp isn't supposed to hold your attention for this long. The clean tone, verging on Surf, isn't supposed to be this "deep." Yet all that is true, and a lot more that my pedestrian mind can't comprehend. If I have anything resembling a funeral, I want this played at it, on a loop. For as long as you're there, this is what I want you to feel. 🙏

[@owre]

The best thing about this is that we realize how much poignancy is added by the “silly” beginning. As a guitarist who played a bit professionally and had my time, but moved on, I find the idea of a “last imaginary guitar solo” to be heart wrenching. I’ve already told my daughter I want this played at my funeral. (Btw, I still play real guitar solos all the time, but you get the idea).

[@enutrofdude]

Right up there with Roy Buchanan's "Sweet Dreams" and Stevie Ray Vaughn's cover of "Little Wing" as a transcendent and chill guitar-based instrumental.

[@pgwichtendahl]

Next to Paul Kossoff's Time Away (full version) no better example of an artist who can make a guitar cry. Pure gut level communication. I saw him in an amphitheater in Iowa around 1980. He played two "full out, I ain't stopping until I feel like it" solos. The first one was Illinois Enema Bandit. I have been playing guitar for 40 years and I don't think I can even describe the things he pulled off in the almost 20 minute solo that night. The second one, close to the end was this one which he broke into out of a quickie rendition of REUNZL. He had everyone broke down. I looked around my area and people were standing and weeping along with the guitar. It was STUNNING!

[@shemanic1]

The album version you are listening too is probably the most pure guitar I have ever heard & remains a tune I will love forever. There are several live versions but this remains tops for me.

[@robertherring9277]

Joe's Garage is an amazing concept album! Had both 8-tracks lol! He freaked my parents out, but they had to admit the music was really good!

[@mikemaricle9941]

I've loved this since I first heard it over 40 years ago.

[@gong63]

"Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" is a great (mostly) instrumental and lives on regular playback rent-free in my head.

[@ilikezappa]

Speechless. Such virtuosity. Zappa was off the planet talented.

[@davidmcqueen3405]

I never heard this one before. The accompaniment seems to be in 9/4 time..keeps you off balance ... Makes the guitar even more incredible.

[@user-im5fb9ns3g]

Zappa WAS the smartest guy in the room, and is still the smartest guy in many rooms today.

[@dennisgilbert4008]

Check out ‘Filthy habits’ if you want more instrumental action. Once the late 70’s arrived Frank would start his shows with an instrumental. FLY ON….

[@dennisgilbert4008]

The full title of this song is, “Trying to play a solo with these guys is like trying to grow watermelon in Easter hay”

[@kosta380]

Zappas shit music without sense sucked 😂😂😂

[@danieldecost5690]

If I understand the story correctly he wrote this song to recognize the birth of his son Dweezil. Who is himself an absolute face melter of a guitarist. Eddie Van Halen taught him how to play.

[@timfeeley714-25]

"Watermelon in Easter Hay", full name "Playing a Guitar Solo With This Band is Like Trying To Grow a Watermelon in Easter Hay",[1] ~ From Wikipedia

[@kosta380]

Without that shit pathetic zappa, the music World would be much better

[@heyokastu2]

this song brings tears to my eyes every time

[@ElbertJones-yr5zv]

I once saw a Frank Zappa concert in Houston. The stage was set up with three levels. I saw Zappa climb the amplifiers to the highest level. He played a guitar solo. climbed down to the first level. Then he finished singing the song

[@markcirioni4571]

No that's an actual song , one of the most beautiful I've ever heard , was lucky enough to see him 7 times enjoy

[@o2bavr6]

I was lucky enough to see Frank for the Shut Up and Play Your Guitar tour in the early 80,s. Glad you enjoyed Watermelon In Easter Hay, it's one of my favorite Zappa songs. But then again I could name 10 Zappa songs that are my favorite.

[@lordofthehornets4739]

For guitar work Rat Tomago, Ship Ahoy and Packard Goose are of my three favourites. Performance wise I'd recommend the Token Of His Extreme live take on Inca Roads (the solo isn't too shabby either) but it can be a bit intimidating with all the changes in time signatures if you're not ready :)

[@JPHandel]

This would have been my recommendation for the next track and what I often suggest to people who want to hear Zappa for the first time.

[@sea6bear]

I love watching people’s reaction to this tune…It’s extremely emotional!

[@vincentdaniel1818]

I heard this on the radio when it first came out. It launched me down the Frank Zappa rabbit hole. It remains my favorite guitar solo still.

[@paulwhite7972]

Frank once said that he felt no emotion when playing the guitar. Its just notes on a page to him. He mocked all those guys who pull faces when reeling off a lovely guitar solo. The trouble is, one listen to Watermelon In Easter Hay and you know he was lying. There's no way he could have played this and not felt it.

[@jazzzman8050]

Totally agree! He played with passion and fire most of the time, very expressive!

[@kosta380]

Zappas shit music without sense sucked

[@jrosner6123]

To this day- I can't make it through the opening motif without bawling. Happened the first time I heard it as a teen- such a sad resolve, set in a beautiful musical landscape. It touches all of the pain you think you got rid of.

[@dougfm415]

“I never knew I didn’t need lyrics ‘til now” - Polo (June 2023) 7:18 Should make a TShirt out of that quote!!! Really enjoying your channel and your discovery of music! I’m sure you have a list of requests a million miles long but could you put the Black Crowes “Sometimes Salvation”, “My Morning Song” or “Cursed Diamond” on the list? 🍻🎶 Polo! (Studio version of My Morning Song, not all live versions have the backup female vocalists)

[@Regulus863]

his most introspective and heartfelt guitar solo it brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. just like another person's comment last thing I want to hear before I leave this life

[@mikesimpson3207]

This is such a perfect example of Zappa's most underrated skill. (Not his playing, anybody could tell you he was a great improviser). Zappa will go a whole album making crass jokes, which is absolutely the case on this album (Check out "Keep It Greasey" for a prime example from the same record), and just when it's threatening to devolve into irony poisoning, he will bring some amazing moment of sincerity that hits like a truck, all the more because you don't expect it in these cartoonish surroundings. And more often than not, he chooses to do it without words. I always got the feeling that Zappa was a sensitive soul, but felt that being too straightforward about it was corny. So he'll sing these goofy, sarcastic lyrics to keep the audience at a respectful distance, but every once in a while his guitar will howl, and laugh, and weep openly. Green Onions is great, btw.

[@Frunobulax74]

@mikesimpson3207 - I think it is as simple as Frank made music that directly represented all aspects of his personality. At least that's what he said for years in interviews.

[@Panufo]

I bought this record in 1980. This track reduces me tears every. Single. Time. Glad you're on board.

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

This is the only completely instrumental song to make me cry..theres got to be some scientific explanation about that soaring high extended note he plays throughout the song that makes it hit so hard for so many..im sure there is but Frank knew..edit: i also bought it when it came out..a little steep for a 10th grader $12.99

[@Panufo]

@@chrisross-fd3fo I thought it was a dirty trick on FZ's part to lure us in with Pt I at regular album price, then force us to buy a double album (Parts II & III) to find out what happens to Joe. Ultimately, worth every penny. Well played, Frank... ;)

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

@@Panufo and also he didnt partake in Columbia Houses free samples..i used to love those ..so charitable,so giving although my parents say the still get stickers addressed to Marvin Danquechure 55 Oak St Apt 3b..and also i never listen to a songs words..just the vocals..took me a long time to make that happen..i know its about..some dude..franks lyrics have a way of seeping in tho..hes alright he dont seem like he's preaching like a ton of other music..hey waiiiit..now that i think about..nvrmnd..Im groovin to Don Hana

[@Paige-1970]

First, thank you for not stopping the music 40 times to comment on it, much appreciated. Second, I would recommend you watch his son Dweezil do this live. He nails his father's music so amazingly. And his looking up to the heavens at times while playing it - is beautiful and heart wrenching at the same time. Definitely channeling his Dad. RIP Frank, miss you much.❤

[@VendettaPtown]

Zappa was a musical genius and artist. I don’t say that about just anyone as much as I am into all genres. I look at music in only 2 categories… good or bad. It either touches your soul or it doesn’t.😎

[@mulberrystreet8090]

i heard this song and listen to it often but you said my goodness i said yesss he got it and at the same time i start to cry!!! TRUE

[@roscius6204]

one of my favorite Favorites.

[@nanvolentine9110]

Frank was a genius.

[@richardkafka5625]

I had the opportunity to see his son Dweezil play this in Baltimore. He gets very emotional every time he plays it thinking of his dad.

[@Frunobulax74]

@richardkafka5625 - I could understand Dweezil getting emotional the first time playing it live, or even the first 5 times, but him tearing up every time, even over 20 years after Frank's death has always seemed contrived to me. Kinda like James Brown falling to the floor and pretending he can't continue, but them does, every time.

[@michaelshalom5622]

This song is clearly a masterpiece. Sublime. Glad you liked it. I enjoyed your reaction. I've been listening to Zappa since 1969 and have all his recordings and saw him perform several times. Check out his son Dweezil who FAITHFULLY plays his dad's music. WIEH brings tears to my eyes most of the times I listen to it. Majestic. Timeless. Simple and superb. Zappa's catalogue is enormous and very eclectic. There's a lifetime of music to listen and grow with. Enjoy.

[@joebarrera9741]

FRANK ZAPPA WILL ALWAYS BE A GUITAR GOD

[@imthemanntoo]

"Green Onions" is by Booker T. & The M.G.'s. Cool song.

[@jayhensley7681]

His son Dweezil is a great guitarist too.

[@hamfox9714]

I can’t remember if dweezil was orangelo or lemongelo?

[@kosta380]

The whole zappa family, you can throw in the trash 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@richardphilpott1225]

Never saw Jimi but I got to see Frank many times, so there's that.

[@PhilDonegan-ry8wq]

A language all on it's own.genius is eternal!FVZ.LEGEND!!!!!

[@theklaus7436]

The solo is beautiful and I think it’s the best number he made. But not to forget the production is amazing

[@joechurch7]

That right there is the unmistakable sound of a Fender Stratocaster. As sweet as the day is long...... You'd like the song Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts by Funkadelic. It's mostly instrumental and is in the same vein of sweetness as Watermelon in Easter Hay

[@m.ericwatson968]

yes, that plucky, bell like single coil sound, Zappa belongs in the pantheon of the guitar greats like Beck and Hendrix

[@kosta380]

Zappa was filth

[@stevedotwood]

He always played BEYOND the bars

[@mikeobrien288]

Feels like a Zappa kind of day. Quote of the day.

[@dannymoore6886]

Frank's a genius.

[@lipby]

FZ is one of the few rock figures that I would call a legitimate genius.

[@DannyD714]

close your eyes and drift away to one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded. what a gift frank gave us with this song.

[@harrymingelickr883]

A Great Concept Album , and as ALWAYS Filled with GREAT Instrumental pieces and sociopolitical commentary. It will be a VERY VERY VERY Long Time before we see an Artist of his Caliber. I've seen Frank a dozen times since the 70's (and got his autograph , still one of my Prized Possessions) Always a Great Show Never Disappointed even when he was not well in the late 80's . WE MISS YA FRANK !

[@Kram62]

This is the last song on the epic album Joe's Garage. The "Central Scrutinizer" was Frank's voice-over the album between songs...On second thought A little Green Rosetta might be the very last tune

[@jazzzman8050]

Yep, this track ends the story of Joe, in the opera “Joe’s Garage”. Joe was a guy who loved music, and played guitar in a future era where music becomes illegal. He can’t quit, and ends up in jail, playing imaginary guitar in his head, in his cell.

[@skipthompson2290]

Frank Zappa's my all time favorite guitarist