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Frank Zappa — Willie The Pimp
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SparkyMarky
(Rotterdam, Holland)
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 02:24
 
One of the best rock songs of the last 40 years - a profound tapestry of Frank guitar and the Captain's vocals. Love it

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 16:51
 
 rdo wrote:

 I think I may need to go to the doctor now because this song has given me ear cancer.     
 
That may be from trying to keep your ears too tightly-closed, or restricting them to a narrow spectrum of musical styles.  Maybe not.



tbaloney619
(The Lakeshore, NE Wisconsin)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 16:44
 
Thank-you Bill.  RIP Captain Beefheart.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 16:40
 
Wahoo!
first time hearing this here.
I lub it!

nuggler
(RU Sirius ?)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 16:38
 

Excellent Bill G. Excellent !!

To The Captain . . .& Frankie Z   {#Cheers}



GawgaBoy
(State of Confusion)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 16:37
 
RIP Captain.

calypsus_1
Posted: Jun 13, 2010 - 15:59
 

Sheik Yerbouti _Frank Zappa by ~OhioArt2
©2006-2010 ~OhioArt2

From the cover of Sheik Yerbouti .



Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 20:00
 
Zappa. Wow. I can remember sitting in our across-the-street neighbor's basement bedroom listening to his "Freakout" album with a very weird lamp that cast images all over the walls because the heat from the light bulb made the carved shade spin around. A very ingenious invention. More so was Zappa, singing "It can't happen HERE... It can't happen HERE... I'm telling you, my dear, that it can't happen HERE..."  He gave me nightmares for years.

And here I am, waxing rhapsodic about his work. Well, yeah, he haunted me. But he also inspired me, drove me to fits of rebellion, probably caused others in my life to think I'd gone totally bugf*ck... Point is, he was an artist who demanded interaction. If he accomplished his goal, a listener was moved to take some kind of action - whether it was to light candles, dance around naked, write a novel, park in a different space, or stand on the roof of a building and make shapes out of clouds.

Zappa was not a passive artist. He was a hellion, in the best possible way. More than that, I think, he was a humanist, getting his point across in his sometimes inane, seemingly-silly ways. He loved to point out the idiocy in humans by poking fun, or by slipping very sly snarkiness under the radar in his lyrics.

Love him or hate him - he'd grin at both extremes.  Zappa was his own man.  He left this earth too soon. And I love every damned thing he ever recorded.

Zep
(The big country)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 19:42
 
Excellent album cover.

Wasted
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 19:42
 
I think I just enjoyed a Frank Zappa song...  I feel dirty.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 19:42
 
We'd listen to this and compare it to Clapton, Garcia, and god knows who. Imagine our surprise many, many years later when we found out that Hot Rats was a jazz-rock fusion experiment. Oh. We thought it was just rock'n'roll.

The_Enemy
(The Sewer)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 19:38
 
 rdo wrote:
I think I may need to go to the doctor now because this song has given me ear cancer.     
 
You can get both exams with the same lubed glove in the same visit.


Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: May 05, 2010 - 02:32
 
loving this {#Bananajam}

BowTieDad
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Posted: May 05, 2010 - 02:29
 
 rdo wrote:
I think I may need to go to the doctor now because this song has given me ear cancer.     
 
lobotomy might help'ya rdo


Wuddi
(Outer Space)
Posted: May 05, 2010 - 02:28
 
 rdo wrote:


Are you being serious?  I want to laugh at your post because it is so unusual, but I think you are truly concerned about this and you are surely right to be so.  I think I may need to go to the doctor now because this song has given me ear cancer.     
 

dto. ! {#Frustrated}

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Apr 03, 2010 - 10:18
 
 justin_thyme wrote:
Frank Zappa died so young (53), and so needlessly, from prostate cancer — a disease that can nearly always be detected at a curable stage with a combination of PSA blood testing and a digital rectal exam.  It's a shame that so many men are phobic about a having a doctor's gloved-n-lubed finger briefly up their butts, even if only once every couple of years; many lives could be spared if that attitude were to change on a large-scale basis.  {#Sad}
 

Are you being serious?  I want to laugh at your post because it is so unusual, but I think you are truly concerned about this and you are surely right to be so.  I think I may need to go to the doctor now because this song has given me ear cancer.     

parttime
(Kona Hawaii)
Posted: Apr 03, 2010 - 10:15
 
 justin_thyme wrote:
Frank Zappa died so young (53), and so needlessly, from prostate cancer — a disease that can nearly always be detected at a curable stage with a combination of PSA blood testing and a digital rectal exam.  It's a shame that so many men are phobic about a having a doctor's gloved-n-lubed finger briefly up their butts, even if only once every couple of years; many lives could be spared if that attitude were to change on a large-scale basis.  {#Sad}
 

I concur Justin. An oz of prevention is worth a lb of cure ...+ I wish he was around a little longer.....


justin_thyme
(Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 19:24
 
Frank Zappa died so young (53), and so needlessly, from prostate cancer — a disease that can nearly always be detected at a curable stage with a combination of PSA blood testing and a digital rectal exam.  It's a shame that so many men are phobic about a having a doctor's gloved-n-lubed finger briefly up their butts, even if only once every couple of years; many lives could be spared if that attitude were to change on a large-scale basis.  {#Sad}

solrac
(38th parallel)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 19:17
 
you all should have around in the early seventies. great band that will never die

musickat
(Lake of the Ozarks)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 19:16
 
yes one of the few Zappa songs that I really like.   great to hear once in a while, as you said.  this came on a vinyl compilation put out by the record company.   there were ads on the sleeves for various compilations.  they were $3-4.00 each.   This one had Capt. Beefhart, Tim Buckley, the Mothers and more.   Far out stuff!!

 hoppin_bob wrote:
So very good.
I do not need to hear it often... but I do need to hear it.  So tight, so rehearsed.... just amazing after all these years.
I think this is among Frank's best... and I love that Sugar Cane violin.
 



coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 19:14
 
 hoppin_bob wrote:
So very good.
I do not need to hear it often... but I do need to hear it.  So tight, so rehearsed.... just amazing after all these years.
I think this is among Frank's best... and I love that Sugar Cane violin.
 
Indeed !
Great guitar...


hoppin_bob
(vancouver BC)
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 23:26
 
So very good.
I do not need to hear it often... but I do need to hear it.  So tight, so rehearsed.... just amazing after all these years.
I think this is among Frank's best... and I love that Sugar Cane violin.

ezzyme
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 23:24
 
Yes, I bought it. How could you not own this? Saw Zappa a couple of years before he died, I was on some psychedelic, at UCSB events stadium. He shredded in a fusion jazz way. Unbelievable! 

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 23:18
 
Only got to see him one time. Frank still rocks.

ambrebalte
(Beijing)
Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 23:17
 
10
More Zappa Bill !

I saw him in 88 in Strasbourg/France, where two songs* of the "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" album were recorded
Doesn't seem that long ago... {#Mrgreen}
*Mr. Green Genes and Florentine Pogen



Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 13:18
 
 jagdriver wrote:


               A great concert it was!
Psychedelic Stooges were Iggy and the Stooges' first band name—-did you go to that one?

 



Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 13:14
 
Independent of other comments here I just wanna say that while doing some craft handwork and having just drunk an espresso I got high as a kite while listening to this song. I've liked it a long time but never realized how ....stimulating it is. If only people would put down the crackpipe and listen to some crazy guitar and do something with their hands the world would be a better place.

NickDanger
(Athens - not that one, the music one)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:59
 

Back in the day, when we were the few in our high school listening to this and other FZ albums, many of our friends didn't understand what we saw (or heard) in Frank.  That was okay then, and still is, because many of us appreciate his genuis.  This is an example of what separates RP from the herd.  Thanks Bill!



w3weasel
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:58
 
 h8rhater wrote:

Go back to pop music... maybe Hannah Montana can do it for you.

 
Awful is awful.  Simply being 'different' than pop doesn't qualify it as great music.

In its day it was remarkable, not for its ingenious song writing or masterful playing, but simply because zappa and crew were thumbing their nose at the industry with a sound that frankly wasn't very commercially viable (by record industry standards).

Unfortunately, all the 'groundbreaking' stuff like the in-your-face guitar solo just seems so unimpressive today, and the zeal with which they twang incessantly away one fuzzbox distorted note at a time for what... like 5 minutes of solo?  It just comes across like an insect buzzing about my face.  me no likey.

I love the enthusiasm, I love the historical significance, but the song is just not enjoyable outside of it's historical perspective.


Prodigal_SOB
(Back Home Again in Indiana)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:56
 
 Bat wrote:
One of the greatest rock guitar solos of all times.

Is that Jean Luc Ponte on the violin?  I think he played with Zappa about this time period.
 
He plays on the album, but it is Sugar Cane Harris on this cut.  Did Bill really play Zappa two days in a row?


RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:54
 
 kulbreez wrote:
why is it that listening to Zappa solos always makes me feel stoned, but he didn't partake of such things (nor do I; it makes me feel too fuzzy)? I first noticed this phenomenon whilst listening to 'Call Any Vegetable.'

 
I often feel better after listening to good music.  It's a powerful force - as Shakespeare noted, "Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast."  Just go with it!


TimeWaster
(The lower of the two Dakotas)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:54
 
This song is not good. It is giving my coworker a headache and it makes me want to go sit on the toilet and get rid of this concentrated evil that has entered my body through my ears.

This song is NOT sooooooo good for the ears.


Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:53
 
Okay, if you're 14 or stuck in, like, 30 years ago.


dsmcd01
(swimming with the sharks)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:53
 
Reminds me...I gotta get a donation to RP. 

daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:52
 
let's not overlook john guerin drums on this one! AWESOME! he's kickin the crap outta them things!


Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:51
 
Thought I'd lost it, but I still have my American Flag shirt that Frank autographed for me at Ravinia in 1969!! Oh yea!!


Bat
(Austin)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:50
 
One of the greatest rock guitar solos of all times.

Is that Jean Luc Ponte on the violin?  I think he played with Zappa about this time period.

h8rhater
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:49
 
 SusieQ wrote:
CIA doesn't need waterboarding...just play then this wretched stuff that just goes on and on and on, and ON...my ears are bleeding and that's just a start.  Yeah, that's why they don't play it anyMORE.
 
Go back to pop music... maybe Hannah Montana can do it for you.


marcucho
(Querétaro, Mx)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:48
 

Love the screaming monkey  who haha!!! who haha!!! {#Bananajam}



mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:47
 
...this may well be the best frank zappa ever that i've heard...

jonahboo
(in a corner)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:46
 
FUCK YEAH

Bosami
(Deep in the heart of nowhere)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 12:45
 
FZ !! OH YEAH. {#Dancingbanana}

polymerchm
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 17:38
 
Captain Beefheart at his finest!!!!  But this setlist is a real repeater.  Step Right Up -> WiIlle the Pimp  -> Billy Holiday again. 

jpfueler
(South o' Ft Worth)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 17:37
 
 ce wrote:
Great googly moogly!
It's GREAT to hear some more Zappa on RP!
This hits the spot very nicely after Tom Waits' "Step right up", but then Bill has the unmitigated audacity to follow it up with Billie Holiday.
She's very nice too, but whoa... please, not right after this mayhem.
 
Well, sometimes Bill goes for the shock segue. . . . at least he did a bit of chatting between the two great tunes.


martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 17:34
 
 SusieQ wrote:
CIA doesn't need waterboarding...just play then this wretched stuff that just goes on and on and on, and ON...my ears are bleeding and that's just a start.  Yeah, that's why they don't play it anyMORE.
 
ears are bleeding ... well at least you have the volume properly adjusted

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 17:32
 
The dude can play

ce
(the Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 25, 2009 - 03:56
 
Great googly moogly!
It's GREAT to hear some more Zappa on RP!
This hits the spot very nicely after Tom Waits' "Step right up", but then Bill has the unmitigated audacity to follow it up with Billie Holiday.
She's very nice too, but whoa... please, not right after this mayhem.



a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, MilkyWay))
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 15:58
 
 ronniegirl wrote:
WOW - some new Frank to RP!!!   Rock on dude!  Saw him live in LA in 1975 on New Years Eve with Captain Beefheart and Dr. John.  WOW.

 
That might have been the tour when my mom wouldn't let me go. She insisted I waited until 1976 when I was 15.


SusieQ
(Losama Angamalesama)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 15:57
 
CIA doesn't need waterboarding...just play then this wretched stuff that just goes on and on and on, and ON...my ears are bleeding and that's just a start.  Yeah, that's why they don't play it anyMORE.

daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 15:53
 
LOVE IT