Jimmy Carl Black Story [Import]

Jon Larsen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Zonic Entertainment
• ASIN: B001HADEYQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #490,433 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. En Route

2. Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black

3. An Early Glimpse of Planet Ruth

4. Spaceship Bigear, Pt. 3

5. Turn It on, Elliot

6. A Helping Hand from Unca Mickey

7. Opal, You Hot Little Bitch

8. Jimmy Carl Black's Dachs Reduction

9. Mayday from Space

10. First Encounter in Space with a Real Martian

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. "My Name Is Jimmy Carl Black"

2. The Atomic Gadget on Anthony/"That Happened in Our Little Town"

3. "No Trumpets in Rock'n'roll"/The Keys

4. California in 1964/"In Walked Roy Estrada"/The Soul Giants/Auditioning

5. "Then We Went to Hawaii"/LSD

6. Back to LA/Frenchy's a Go-Go/The Original Suzy Creamcheese/"You, You an

7. San Francisco and Fillmore West/Freak out Comes Out/"Turn It on, Elliot

8. New York City/Absolutely Free/Off-Off Broadway at the Garrick Theater/D

9. Europe 1967/Barbarella and Roger Vadim/Zappa Food Poisoned in Italy/Sto

10. "He Didn't Like Hippies"/Jammin' with Jimi Hendrix

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review by Ken Dryden, December 26, 2008

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This review is from: The Jimmy Carl Black Story (MP3 Download)

Review by Ken Dryden
Guitarist Jon Larsen's The Jimmy Carl Black Story is a follow up to his earlier Strange News From Mars, once again featuring former Frank Zappa drummer Jimmy Carl Black reprises his role as a spacy narrator, reading text written by Larsen with a fair amount of references toward Zappa's songs from the early years, especially excerpts from "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" in 200 Motels. Unfortunately, this time the music isn't as strong as the first volume, with Larsen songs often coming across as early 1970s Zappa-light, a watered-down imitation of the sextet that the late guitarist led with George Duke and marimba player/percussionist Ruth Underwood, but without a saxophone (a harmonica is used at times). The music ranges from soft fusion to reggae and light rock, but none of the tunes ever sticks in one's memory for long. The second disc is a "rockumentary," essentially, a length audio interviewwith Black. Sadly, Jimmy Carl Black lost his battle with cancer around the time of this CD's release.