Joe's Garage
Occupation
- Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals
- Warren Cuccurullo - rhythm guitar, vocals
- Denny Walley - slide guitar, vocals
- Ike Willis - Lead Vocals
- Peter Wolf - keyboards
- Tommy Mars - keyboards
- Arthur Barrow - bass, guitar (on Joe 's Garage ), vocals
- Patrick O'Hearn - bass on Outsider Now and He Used to Cut the Grass
- Ed Mann - percussion, vocals
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums, explosive liquids optometrical, abandon
- Jeff Hollie - Tenor Saxophone
- Marginal Chagrin - Baritone Saxophone
- Dale Bozzio - vocals
- Al Malkin - Vocals
- Craig Steward - Harmonica
Joe 's Garage is a rock opera by Frank Zappa, the two albums 1979 - Joe 's Garage Act I and the double album Joe 's Garage Act II & III - appeared.
Action
Against the backdrop of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, in which, as Zappa was banned in booklet of the album, music, playing the rock opera in an American fascist society in which - based on the principle of "total criminalization ", the suppression of the population serves - music is illegal. For the enforcement of "laws that have not yet adopted " is the Central Scrutinizer (English as principal investigator ) responsible. He tells - a warning to the audience - the story of the musician Joe, with which it had almost taken a bad end because of his love for music.
Joe is a musician who makes music with friends in a garage, first achievement was in the audience and finally gets a record deal - and then the band breaks up. After he loses his girlfriend Mary, because they a traveling musician group as a groupie or " crew - bitch " joins, and a further disappointment that befalls him with Lucille, Joe turns to " L. Ron Hoover's First Church of Applientology " to. He learns there that he was a " deferred Appliances fetishist ". As a result, he meets up with Sy Borg, a cross between a vacuum cleaner and pork, which he accidentally destroyed during a sadomasochistic lovemaking. Joe Consequently taken to the prison in which other musician and former music producer incarcerated. Of the inmates he is oppressed and abused. Out physically and mentally to its limits, Joe plays the guitar after his release only in his imagination. Finally, after a last imaginary guitar solo played ( Watermelon in Easter Hay ), Joe, " the only right thing to do " decides: to renounce the music and to accept a job as a baker's assistant.
Title list
Act I
Act II
Act III
Reception
Don Shelley characterized the work in Rolling Stone Magazine as "ambitious and crazy, brilliant, strange and incoherent " and compares it with Büchner's Woyzeck. The soul of Joe 's Garage find on the surface fully cheaper gags and musical mishmash in deep sorrow, Joe 's Garage was " Zappa's Apocalypse Now ."
Kelly Fisher Lowe sees in the albums Zappa's masterpiece - because of the results presented there musical expertise, the technical brilliance and ability, and not least because of the highly charged political text.