FRANK ZAPPA Waka/Jawaka – Hot Rats SCARCE ORIG UK 1972 nr EX with LOVELY SOUND.

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Artist or Band: FRANK ZAPPA

Album Title: Waka/Jawaka – Hot Rats

Producer(s): Frank Zappa

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Big Swifty.

Side 2: Your Mouth; It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal; Waka/Jawaka.

Label/Format: Reprise – original format with no Warners logo, both have matt, smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with deep tan colour. Any spindle marks are very few, fine and faint as seen with close angled viewing.

Cat Number: K 44203.

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Weight of this Record: 135 grams. A very good solid weight for this one.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Moderately scarce as an pressing, like most from his catalogue, this failed to chart with just steady sales through the 1970s as more discovered this man’s music.

Original Year of Release: 1972

Matrix Nos: K 44203 A1 / K 44203 B2

Run-Out Etchings: Side One has the word ‘KIPPER’ and side two has ‘kipa jakipa’

Musicians: Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, electric bed springs; Tony Duran – slide guitar, vocals; George Duke – ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano, tack piano; Sal Marquez – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, chimes; Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – electric bass, vocals, fuzz bass; Aynsley Dunbar – drums, washboard, tambourine; Chris Peterson – vocals; Joel Peskin – tenor sax; Mike Atschul – baritone saxophone, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet, tenor sax; Jeff Simmons – Hawaiian guitar, vocals; Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar; Janet Ferguson – vocals; Don Preston – guitar, Mini-Moog; Bill Byers – trombone, baritone horn; Ken Shroyer – trombone, baritone horn; Gerry Sack - muted maracas.

Brief Artist & Album Info: Still wheelchair-bound, Zappa took his musicians into Paramount Studios. On the 17-minute ‘Big Swifty’, overdubbing allowed Zappa to turn a sextet into a virtual big band. Aynsley Dunbar’s drumming supplied perfect fluency, aided by Alex Dmochowski, his English bassist (playing under the name ‘Erroneous’). The closing theme was a Zappa guitar solo transcribed by trumpeter Sal Marquez and arranged for brass. Electric instrumental soloing over a rock beat invited comparisons to Miles Davis and John McLaughlin, but there is an ironical twist to the tunes that makes the music undeniably Zappaesque. George Duke’s splendid keyboards and Sal Marquez’s muted-trumpet also have a humorous quality. Whereas contemporary jazz rock was reaching out to the cosmos, Zappa kept everything low-key and amusing. “Your Mouth’ is a tale of psychotic male jealously (‘you might loose a bunch of teeth… my shot gun… just might want to blow you away’), but sung in a deceptively light style (and with a killer country slide-guitar solo by Tony Duran). ‘It Just might be a One-shot Deal’ describes someone hallucinating and advises them to dig it ‘while it’s happening’. Jeff Simmons, who had recorded a brilliant album of psychedelic balladry for Zappa’s Straight label - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, plays Hawaiian guitar. Although a commercial non-starter, this album is a great favourite among jazz and jazz-rock fans who are open-minded enough to give Zappa a listen. This more than merits it’s ‘Hot Rats II’ status and the two long instruments are simply superb. It paved the way for the even bigger Grand Wazoo project that followed, and this era of heavy jazz-rock and solo workouts is one of my favourite Zappa periods. Waja/Jawaka is probably still one of Zappa’s most under-appreciated works, and that should never be. It had some blistering solos by Marquez, Don Preston on Moog and, of course, Zappa himself. Dunbar’s drumming is fantastic throughout and with his time in the band, rarely sounded better. The title song especially is magnificent and performs a magnificent prelude to ‘The Grand Wazoo’, still one of my favourite FZ albums. This a lovely original with a clean cover and great sound with very little unwanted.

Cover Condition and Details: NEAR EXCELLENT: a single unlaminated format with matt, smooth surfaces. Printed and made by MacNeill. Includes the original plain white inner sleeve.

Cover Front: Only marked down from full excellent for a tiny hole in the spine as can be seen. A little rubbing on the corner tips, and traces on the edge solds here-and-there, but little else to fault on this wear prone surface.

Cover Back: Largely the same, the lack of ugly ringwear is a consider plus on a cover that seldom avoids it.

Top Edge: Very straight with any rubbing light and patchy.

Bottom Edge: Again straight, moderate rubbing to the centre and right end, elsewhere, light and patchy.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, mostly quite sharp with any thickening or burring light as seen viewed end-on, this guaranteed untrimmed. Record enters on this edge.

Spine and Text: The aforementioned small hole is near the bottom corner as seen, that apart, this spine has little to fault. Solid, straight with barely any compression. Practically all text is unworn and as clear as when made, a little rubbing to the very bottom end.

Corners: Light left corner tip rubs, the right pair more moderate, a possible tiny split repair to the bottom right. Fine to very fine shape largely retained with no bashes, any evidence of dinking minimal.

Cover Summary: Still an attractive all-round example of this somewhat wear-prone 1970’s cover, one that could prove difficult to find much better. One modestly aged, it should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(+): a plain white unlined inner with two pristine window circles, minimal creasing or ageing, all edges unsplit with no repairs.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: NEAR EXCELLENT: very clean with fine shine and solidly pressed. Under bright angled light, ultra fine surface marks are seen, mostly very wispy, even finer than hairlines. Viewed in normal room light, barely anything shows, there are NO penetrating stylus scratches, thus this copy plays impressively with little unwanted. Such minor wispy blemishes often the result of dry cloth ‘cleaning’, and totally harmless. This splendid copy should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing B&W speakers that include the legendary tweeter from their awesome Nautilus range that reveals every blemish or minuscule sound present on any record.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This record plays even above it’s visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Now with the smut-snigger lyrics gone, Zappa got into more serious instrumental work. It has always been one of Frank’s most under-appreciated albums which is a shame, it has musicianship of the highest quality and Dunbar’s drumming was never better than on this impressive album. The sound is very clean and totally distortion-free and there is no sound degrading at all. A real expanded jazz-rock workout similar to Hot Rats and The Mothers art-rock masterpiece The Grand Wazoo. It remains melodic and even catchy, the two main long tracks are simply superb with wonderful soloing and beautiful percussion from Dunbar. Any audio blemishes minimal and no tracking issues*. One that merits strong recommendation.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2.2 grams.

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