FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

IAN FORTNAM

Whisky A Go Go, 1968 ZAPPA RECORDS/UME Previously unreleased live experiment from peak-period Mothers. On the face of it, this looks like something of a peach for aficionados of the never-sharper Zappa. Just four months prior to this extensive three-set hullabaloo, he’d delivered the Mothers’ iconoclastic freak-defining, hippie-baiting We’re Only In It For The Money collection. Recorded at one of the band’s favourite venues on Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard and advertised via an open invitation in the LA Free Press as “five full hours of unprecedented merriment, which will be secretly recorded for an upcoming record album”, Whisky A Go Go, 1968 has been a long time coming. So was it worth the wait? “There are extensive improvisations that just don’t work.” As its 32-track unexpurgated immensity remorselessly unfolds, one…

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