FRANK ZAPPA THE MOTHERS Freak Out ORIG 1st PRESS 2 LP

$

50

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  **VERY HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL U.S.A VERVE RECORDS**

ORIGINAL FIRST PRESS WITH NOTE IN SQUARE INSIDE GATEFOLD (SEE PICTURE)

             **FRANK ZAPPA**

     **THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION**

                  **Freak Out!**

                                                         RELEASED IN 1966

                          PSYCH GATEFOLD COVER!!! 

        ORIGINAL 1st PRESSING U.S.A VERVE RECORDS (BLUE LABEL) STEREO V-5005-2

THIS IS THE 1st. PRESS THAT HAS A NOTE: PLANNING ON VISITING L.A. THIS SUMMER?... INSIDE A SQUARE ON INNER SIDE OF GATEFOLD!!!

ORIGINAL VERVE INNER RECORD SLEEVES WITH PICTURES OF OTHER VERVE MUSICIANS INCLUDED!!!

One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Every Day," Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas — both musical and conceptual — first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

CONDITION:

RECORDS: I JUST FINISHED LISTENING TO THESE RECORDS AND THEY SOUND GREAT!! WITH VERY LOW BACK NOISE ON MORE SILENT PARTS AND VERY OCATIONAL CLICKS, THAT I'M SURE WILL DISAPEAR WITH A CLEANING SOLUTION, AND VISUALLY: RECORDS HAVE ONLY FEW THIN VERY SUPERFICIAL LINES (SEEN UNDER A LAMP) AND SOME MICRO THIN ALMOST TRANSPARENT VERY SUPERFICIAL LINES (ONLY SEEN UNDER A LAMP) PLAYING GREAT!! NO SKIPS, NO RETURNS AND NO JUMPS!!

GATEFOLD COVER: WITH RARE FIRST PRESS SQUARE, WITH THE VISITING L.A? NOTE ON INNER SIDE OF GATEFOLD!!! HAS SOME RING WEAR AND WEAR ON EDGES, BUT SORPRICINGLY IT DOEN'T HAVE SPLITS LIKE REGULARLY THIS ONE HAS IN ALL THE DOZENS THAT I HAVE SOLD (IT IS ONLY VERY LIGHTLY OPENING ON THE BACK/UPPER RIGHT CORNER AND VERY VERY SMALL) BUT IT IS STILL VERY HARD!!! WITH NO CUTS, NO SAWS, NO PUNCH HOLES, NO WRITTING, LOOKS GREAT!!! (SEE PICTURE)  

VERVE RECORDS INNER RECORD SLEEVES INCLUDED!!!

           A MUST FOR ROCK COLLECTORS!!!

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WE HAVE MORE FRANK ZAPPA AND MORE ROCK LISTED, CLICK ON UPPER RIGHT (VIEW SELLER`S OTHER ITEMS) AND SAVE ON SHIPPING WHEN YOU BUY TWO OR MORE .

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