Frank Zappa- APOSTROPHE(‘)

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Frank Zappa- APOSTROPHE(‘)- CD- 1974/2008- Videoarts Music/Jasrac- No UPC (VACK-1323)- 150 grn
FZ Papersleeve Edition.
APOSTROPHE(') is the fifth solo studio album and eighteenth in total by Frank Zappa, released in March 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats. The first half of the album loosely follows a continuing theme. "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" and "Nanook Rubs It" tell of a dream the singer had where he saw himself as an Eskimo named Nanook. It continues into "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast," which Zappa said was inspired by a television commercial for Imperial margarine. As was the case with many of Zappa's albums, APOSTROPHE(') was a melange of archival and recent recordings; side one of APOSTROPHE(') (1974) and Over-Nite Sensation (1973) were recorded simultaneously. The tracks on side two originate from various 1972 sessions with overdubs recorded in 1973 and 1974, except for "Excentrifugal Forz", where the drum track (played by Johnny Guerin) originally came from the Hot Rats sessions in 1969 (along with the bass and drum tracks for "Lemme Take You To The Beach" on Studio Tan (1978) and Läther (1996), although in the case of "Excentrifugal Forz" this is not actually noted in either the album liner notes or official correspondence), and "Stinkfoot", where the basic track, possibly originally known as "The Bass & Drums Song", dates from the Chunga's Revenge sessions in early 1970.
PERSONNEL: Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, bass, bouzouki; Sal Marquez – trumpet; Ian Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone; Bruce Fowler – trombone; Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty – violin; Ruth Underwood – percussion, vibraphone; George Duke – keyboards; Tony Duran – rhythm guitar; Harper May, Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski), Jack Bruce – bass; Ralph Humphrey, Johnny Guerin, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Gordon – drums; Lynn (Linda Sims), Robert "Frog" Camarena, Ruben Ladron de Guevara, Debbie (Debbie Wilson), Ray Collins, Sue Glover, Kerry McNabb, George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tina Turner (uncredited) - Back-up vocals.
"Apostrophe (')" is an instrumental featuring bassist Jack Bruce and session drummer Jim Gordon, who was on tour with Zappa's band at the time of the session in November 1972. Bruce is credited on the album cover with bass guitar and co-writing the title song. However, in an interview for Polish rock magazine Tylko Rock he said that he had not played any bass guitar parts or done any co-writing on "Apostrophe (')", only the cello intro. He reminisced, "So I turned up in a NY studio with my cello, I'm listening to music, pretty awful, and just don't know what to do with myself, and Frank says to me: "Listen, I would like you to play a sound, like this... whaaaaaang!!!" So I did what he asked me to do. Whaaaaaang!!! That was all. That was my input to Frank Zappa's most popular record!" Bruce had studied the instrument at the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama and performed with it on some of his other recordings. However, Zappa has referred to Bruce playing bass on the song in an interview: "Well, that was just a jam thing that happened because he was a friend of Jim Gordon. I found it very difficult to play with him; he's too busy. He doesn't really want to play the bass in terms of root functions; I think he has other things on his mind. But that's the way jam sessions go."
Replica From Original Japanese Edition.
No OBI-Strip.
Comes In A Cardboard Sleeve Includes 12-Page B/W Foldout Japanese Inlay.
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