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Frank Zappa: Fillmore East - June 1971

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Label: Bizarre Records
Released: 1971.08.02
Time:
 43:11
Category: Surf Music, Doo-Wop, Garage Rock
Producer(s): Frank Zappa
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.zappa.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Little House I Used to Live In (F.Zappa) - 4:58
[2] The Mud Shark (F.Zappa) - 5:16
[3] What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are? (F.Zappa) - 4:51
[4] Bwana Dik (F.Zappa) - 2:27
[5] Latex Solar Beef (F.Zappa) - 4:22
[6] Willie the Pimp, Part One (F.Zappa) - 2:50
[7] Willie the Pimp, Part Two (F.Zappa) - 1:54
[8] Do You Like My New Car? (F.Zappa) - 7:08
[9] Happy Together (G.Bonner/A.Gordon) - 2:57
[10] Lonesome Electric Turkey (F.Zappa) - 2:34
[11] Peaches en Regalia (F.Zappa) - 3:22
[12] Tears Began to Fall (F.Zappa) - 2:46

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Frank Zappa - Guitar, Dialogue, Vocals, Producer

Ian Underwood - Woodwinds, Keyboards, Vocals
Aynsley Dunbar - Drums
Howard Kaylan - Lead Vocals, Dialogue
Mark Volman - Lead Vocals, Dialogue
Jim Pons - Bass, Vocals, Dialogue
Bob Harris - Keyboards, Vocals

Don Preston - Mini-Moog on [10]

Barry Keene - Engineer
Toby Foster - Mixing
Toby Foster - Mastering
Bob Stone - Digital Remastering
Cal Schenkel - Cover Design, Artwork
Ferenc Dobronyi - Repackaging

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Recorded in Fillmore East, New York City, June 5–6, 1971.


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.



As an enduring work, Fillmore East: June 1971 is a mixed bag, but it does represent the peak of the Flo & Eddie edition of the Mothers. Most of the songs are essentially comedy routines set to music, often dealing with the life of a touring rock musician and, of course, the various opportunities for sexual adventure therein; in one scenario, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan reprise their Turtles hit "Happy Together" in exchange for sexual favors. The humor is often glib and juvenile, marking the beginnings of Frank Zappa's tactic of making complex music more accessible with half-sardonic arena-frontman antics and crowd-pleasing dirty jokes. Whether one considers the results funny and parodic or crass and pandering, the band is undeniably good, especially as showcased on "Little House I Used to Live In," "Willie the Pimp, Pt. 1," and "Peaches en Regalia."

Steve Huey - All Music Guide



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 - Amazon.com



Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1971. It is the twelfth album in Frank Zappa's discography, and was produced by Zappa and mixed by Toby Foster.

Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live concept-like album. It portrays a peek-behind-the-curtain of the life of a rock band on the road as narrated by Frank Zappa, and contains many thematic elements that, because of time and budget constraints, couldn't be included in the similar movie 200 Motels. The most famous part of the album is "The Mud Shark", a telling of a story told to Mother Don Preston by some members of Vanilla Fudge about a hotel, Seattle's Edgewater Inn, where guests could fish from their rooms. In the tale, a mud shark is caught by one of the members of Vanilla Fudge or its crew and, when combined with a groupie and a movie camera, depravity ensues. Although not stated in "The Mud Shark," this 1969 incident, now referred to as "the Shark episode," also involved Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham and road manager Richard Cole, with Vanilla Fudge's singer/keyboardist Mark Stein operating the movie camera.

Frank and the Mothers then portray stereotypically egotistical members of a rock band "negotiating" with a groupie and her girlfriends for a quick "roll in the hay." The girls are insulted that the band thinks they are groupies and that they would sleep with the band just because they are musicians. They have standards; they will only have sex with a guy in a group with a "big, hit single in the charts – with a bullet!" and a "dick that’s a monster." In "Bwana Dik", singer Howard Kaylan assures the girls that he is endowed beyond their "wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies." And, not to be put off by the standards of these groupies, the band sings the girls the Turtles (of which Kaylan, Volman, and Pons had been members) hit "Happy Together", to give them their "bullet". The album ends with an encore excerpt including both Zappa's familiar "Peaches en Regalia" and what was possibly his most successful early-rock and roll pastiche, "Tears Began to Fall" (also issued as a single).

When this album was reissued on compact disc by Rykodisc, "Willie the Pimp, Pt. 2" was omitted from the track line-up. It was finally released on CD on the 2012 reissue of the album. Also, in the CD edition, the last minute of "Latex Solar Beef" was placed at the beginning of "Willie The Pimp Part One", making it longer. It is unclear if this was intentional or not.

As an encore on one of the two nights of this Fillmore East appearance John Lennon and Yoko Ono emerged from the wings to play a half hour set with the band. This part of the show was released under Lennon's name on a disc called "Live Jam", which was included as a bonus disc with Lennon's album "Some Time in New York City". It can also be heard on Zappa's 1992 release Playground Psychotics.

Lennon used a copy of the cover of the Zappa album (adding his own red-inked credits to the album's black-ink handwritten ones) to provide liner notes for Live Jam.

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