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Fillmore East, June 1971 Explicit Lyrics
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Live, Remastered
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Track Listings
| 1 | Little House I used To Live In |
| 2 | The Mud Shark |
| 3 | What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? |
| 4 | Bwana Dik |
| 5 | Latex Solar Beef |
| 6 | Willie The Pimp (Part One) |
| 7 | Do You Like My New Car? |
| 8 | Happy Together |
| 9 | Lonesome Electric Turkey |
| 10 | Peaches En Regalia |
| 11 | Tears Began To Fall |
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Product Description
Fillmore East by Frank Zappa
Amazon.com
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention following a short tour of Canada during the summer of 1969, Zappa hired musicians for his studio work before forming a new Mothers in August 1970. The new band was augmented by bassist Jim Pons and vocalists Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, all of whom Zappa recruited from the Turtles, that hit-making teen-sensation unit that had reached the top of the pop charts with such hits as "Happy Together" and "Elenore." Legend has it that Zappa had tried to enlist former Monkee Micky Dolenz on drums at the same time, but Dolenz declined the offer. The new lineup made several albums with Zappa, beginning with Chunga's Revenge (owing to legal problems, Volman and Kaylan were originally billed as "Phlorescent Leech and Eddie," which led to the duo's being called Flo & Eddie henceforth), but the Fillmore East recording remains its vanguard. Zappa was still obsessed with the ridiculous phenomenon of pop stars, and now he had two genuine articles in his band. Thus, in between live renditions of some of his soon-to-be instrumental classics, Zappa, Volman, and Kaylan delighted the Manhattan audience with rude and crude skits about pop stars and groupies. The whole shebang is then climaxed with Flo & Eddie doing a letter-perfect rendition of the Turtles' "Happy Together" before ironically concluding with Zappa's own "Tears Begin to Fall," the kind of pop ditty Zappa was poking fun at throughout this performance. Although it now all sounds rather tame in the era of rap and porn rock, it was attacked as crass at the time of its release. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being frequently hilarious. Following the performance, the Mothers were joined onstage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a set that's captured on the live disc that eventually accompanied Lennon's Some Time in New York City. What a night! --Bill Holdship
From the Label
This is the one that everybody who went to high school in the early '70s just had to own. The Mothers played the Fillmore shortly before it closed its doors in 1971. Much of this album is given to an oral, so to speak, history of good old rock'n'roll decadence by Professors Flo & Eddie. It's the story of an Unnamed Rock Band, the Edgewater Inn, the young ladies they find there and an unsuspecting saltwater creature -- that's right, you heard right, the secret word was "Mud Shark". The notorious groupie routine "Do You Like My New Car?" gives maximum innuendo for the buck and its punchline is a letter-perfect rendition of "Happy Together," Flo & Eddie's old hit with the Turtles.
This may be the closest thing to an outright comedy album that FZ ever released, but the brilliant instrumental seques (including snippets of "Little House I Used to Live In" and "Willie the Pimp") aren't to be overlooked.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches; 2.5 ounces
- Manufacturer : Rykodisc
- Run time : 1 hour
- Date First Available : October 21, 2006
- Label : Rykodisc
- ASIN : B0000009S9
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #193,151 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,248 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
- #3,316 in Progressive Rock
- #4,996 in Hard Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Up until 2012, all CD versions of Fillmore East suffered from digital reverb and deletion of Willie The Pimp Part 2. Frank made those decisions. Then came the 2012 remaster and it sounds fantastic. I've never listened to the vinyl (mostly because I hate vinyl) but it reverts to the vinyl mix. And I prefer the 2012 remaster to the CDs that came before 2012.
Tracks 1 through 8 are essentially one very long version of "The Groupie Routine". It's quite raunchy and deliciously fun! "The Mud Shark" is a very catchy track and you may find yourself just humming it to yourself for no real reason. Track 8 is a fun punchline to the tracks that came before it. The rest is primo Zappa with some amazing solos. Afterwards, Track 11 is a great salute to bebop. It's a fantastic closer to a very good album.
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Me gusta la colaboración de los turtles, hilarantes y buenísimos. No lo dudéis y disfrutar!
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