Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy 1968 Original Gatefold Verve V6-8741 VG++ Vinyl
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Frank Zappa ~ Lumpy Gravy
- 1968 Original, 1st Stereo pressing
- Made in the U.S.A.
- Verve Records ~ V6-8741
- Vinyl is VG++; plays VG+ to Mint-, mostly VG++; background wear and some faint ticks and clicks during quiet passages and the silence between tracks. Vinyl has a faint mark or two on side 1; Side 2 has a small collection of faint marks and shallow scratches and a few, faint paper inner-sleeve-like marks; mostly inaudible.
- Labels are VG++; a few faint spindle-marks and very minor wear and/or manufacturer imperfections.
- Gatefold cover is VG+ with cover-wear and faint scratches; minor corner-bends and wear, minor edge-wear.
- Includes the original plain inner-sleeve; split-seam and tear on left-edge.
- Out of Print, Original Album.
"Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa's first solo album, was released months before the Mothers of Invention's third LP (even though its back cover asked the question: "Is this phase two of We're Only in It for the Money?") and both were conceptualized and recorded at the same time. We're Only in It for the Money became a song-oriented anti-flower power album with one contemporary/musique concrète/sound collage hybrid piece by way of conclusion. Lumpy Gravy collaged bits of orchestral music, sonic manipulations, spoken words, and occasional pop ditties into two lumps of 16 minutes each. This album presents Zappa's first recordings with a decent orchestra, the 50-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. His symphonic writing was very much influenced by Stravinsky and Varèse. It still had to lose its sharp edges and find the lushness found in 200 Motels. The segments of music are loosely tied together by bits of dialogue from inside the piano. MOI members and friends were invited to talk with their head inside a grand piano with the sustain pedal depressed (the technique was immortalized in the song "Evelyn, A Modified Dog"). The reverberating space gave the voices an eerie quality, but made it very difficult to convincingly edit the material. Thus, the plot emanating from these portions remains very vague (it was clarified 25 years later in Civilization Phaze III). The song bits include "Oh No," "Theme from Lumpy Gravy" (aka "Duodenum"), "King Kong," and "Take Your Clothes off When You Dance," all in instrumental versions, all making their first appearance on record. The starting point of Zappa's "serious music," Lumpy Gravy suffers from a lack of coherence, but it remains historically important and contains many conceptual continuity clues for the fan. The opening line of part one ("The way I see it, Barry, this should be a dynamite show") became a classic reference."
-allmusic
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