Frank Zappa Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar CBS 3LP Vinyl Box Set Limited Edition EX

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Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar

Label: CBS  66368

3LP Vinyl Box Set Limited Edition

Europe, 1981

Three Vinyls range from EX to NM with very faint and minimal surface wear on a couple of sides . Clean and unmarked labels. Original inner sleeves present. Side times written neat and small on inner sleeves. Box  is VG+, intact with no split edges, no cut-outs, clean and unmarked, no stains, no price stickers, some light surface wear from age, use, storage and handling.

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Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar  is a series of three albums -  Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar,  Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More, and  Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar  - released by  Frank Zappa  in 1981. The albums consist solely of  electric guitar  instrumentals and improvised solos (mostly) played live by Zappa and featuring a wide variety of backing musicians. The music was well received by critics, and Zappa subsequently produced additional albums focusing solely on guitar-oriented instrumental music. The albums were initially released as individual LPs in May 1981 on  Barking Pumpkin Records  and sold only through mail order in the United States. The recordings were subsequently reissued as a  triple album  box set in 1982 and distributed by  CBS Records  in Europe. The complete package later appeared as a two CD set.

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Frank Zappa  (December 21, 1940  – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader. In a career spanning more than 30  years, Zappa composed  rock,  pop,  jazz,  jazz fusion,  orchestral  and  musique concrète  works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band  the Mothers of Invention  and as a solo artist.  His work is characterized by  nonconformity,  improvisation sound experimentation,  musical virtuosity  and  satire  of American culture.  Zappa also directed feature-length films and  music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his generation. As a mostly self-taught composer and performer, Zappa had diverse musical influences that led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical  modernism, African-American  rhythm and blues, and  doo-wop  music. He began writing classical music in high school, while simultaneously playing drums in rhythm-and-blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His debut studio album with the Mothers of Invention,  Freak Out!  (1966), combined satirical but seemingly conventional  rock-and-roll  songs with extended sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach throughout his career.

Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas and characters reappearing across his albums.  His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so, and he has been described as the "godfather" of  comedy rock. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and  organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for  freedom of speech,  self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he disapproved of recreational drug use, but supported decriminalization and regulation. Zappa was a highly productive and prolific musician with a controversial critical standing; supporters of his music admired its compositional complexity, while detractors found it lacking emotional depth. He had greater commercial success outside the U.S., particularly in Europe. Though he worked as an  independent artist, Zappa mostly relied on distribution agreements he had negotiated with the major  record labels. He remains a major influence on musicians. His many honors include his posthumous 1995 induction into the  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  and the 1997  Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.