Just Another Band from L.A.

Occupation

Just Another Band from LA is a live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released in 1972. It was taken on August 7, 1971 at Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. With the band were among the singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, and the bass player Jim Pons, former members of the group The Turtles. They appeared, mainly because of copyright problems, the Mothers under the name "The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie ", also known as Flo & Eddie, at.

The first side of the album contains the 24:47 min long piece of Billy the Mountain. It is the absurd story of a mountain that gets with his wife Ethell, a tree, the royalties for his appearance on postcards and it makes a vacation and doing so wreaks some destruction. The play is seen as a satire on the then-popular rock operas. An unedited version of the piece can be heard on the album Playground Psychotics.

The piece " Eddie, Are You Kidding? " refers to a TV advertising of Edward Nalbandian, the owner of a clothing shop in Los Angeles. This advertising was so pervasive that it was even mentioned in the " The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

The album was released as a 1990 and 1995 remastered CD on Rykodisc.

Others

In October 2008, Dweezil Zappa explained that the Zappa Plays Zappa band would play the song Billy the Mountain on a small tour.

Title list

Page 1

Page 2

The following pieces of the concert were not published:

  • " Peaches En Regalia "
  • "Tears Began to Fall"
  • " Shove It Right In "
  • " Sofa suite" [incl Divan ]
  • " Little House I Used to Live In "
  • "Mud Shark, What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are? "
  • " Bwana Dik, Latex Solar Beef "
  • " Willie the Pimp "
  • " Do You Like My New Car? " [Incl The Groupie Routine ]
  • " Happy Together "
  • "Lonesome Cowboy Burt "
  • " 200 Motels Finale"

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Record label Reprise Records Genre Singing Electronic keyboard Waka/Jawaka Freak Out! Absolutely Free Lumpy Gravy Uncle Meat Mothermania Hot Rats Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Fillmore East – June 1971 The Grand Wazoo Over-Nite Sensation One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album) Bongo Fury Zoot Allures Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti Orchestral Favorites Tinsel Town Rebellion You Are What You Is The Man from Utopia Baby Snakes (soundtrack) London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I Them or Us Francesco Zappa (Album)
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