Zappa instrumentals

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Some favorites:

"Watermelon in Easter Hay" from Joe's Garage Part 2. I played it as a requiem the day Frank died.

All of Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites, "Duke of Prunes" in partcular. Amazing guitar feedback control.

There are also some good instrumentals on Make a Jazz Noise Here.
 
Which Hot Rats are you referring to? Waka Jawaka? Or the older one with the original Captain Beefheart version of Willie the Pimp?

Dog Breath Variations is a real test of resolution. And it must be from the LP, since the CD was totally screwed up.
 
Dog Breath was on Uncle Meat. As the liner notes indicate, the section immediately following the words, "...my ship of love is ready to attack," is particularly interesting.

Have you heard the live versions of Peaches and Willie on "Live at the Fillmore '71?" The latter has one of the finest wah-wah guitar solos I've ever heard.
 
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Have you heard the live versions of Peaches and Willie on "Live at the Fillmore '71?" The latter has one of the finest wah-wah guitar solos I've ever heard.

Too bad Willie the Pimp got split over two sides of the Fillmore LP.

This thread started me on a Zappa jag. I had forgotten what a good record The Grand Wazoo was. Playing that led to side two of Zoot Allures, with the very, um, 'atmospheric' The Torture Never Stops. Then Sleep Dirt, then disc 1 of Make a Jazz Noise Here (disc 2 in on right now). My wife commented on what 'interesting' music I had been playing before bedtime...
 
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