FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS FREAK OUT EX/NM ORIG 1966 2 LP SET HOT SPOTS MAP OFFER
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Nov 26, 2014 Sold Date
Nov 19, 2014 Start Date
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FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS~FREAK OUT~EX/NM ORIG 1966 2 LP SET~HOT SPOTS MAP OFFER!

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Mothers Of Invention – Freak Out!
Verve Records ‎– V6-5005-2

VERY RARE 1st/2nd PRESSING OF THIS 1966 ALBUM - 48 YEARS OLD AND LOOKING GOOD!!
1st issue cover with "Freak Out - Hot Spots" map/poster offer printed on the right-hand inside of the gatefold jacket!

"Tableaus" appears as part of the song title on the label for the track on Side D, "Tableaux" appears as part of the song title for the track on the inside of the gatefold.

Regestration #s in the trail-off grooves of the vinyl include RE-4, RE-1, RE-1, RE-1 for sides 1,2,3 and 4, respectively.

Cover is in VG++ condition with ringwear, moderate wear to the edges but NO splits!
Vinyl is in EX/NM condition!!

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.

Tracklist
A1     Hungry Freaks, Daddy     3:27
A2     I Ain't Got No Heart     2:30
A3     Who Are The Brain Police?     3:22
A4     Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder     3:31
A5     Motherly Love     2:45
A6     How Could I Be Such A Fool     2:12
B1     Wowie Zowie     2:45
B2     You Didn't Try To Call Me     3:17
B3     Any Way The Wind Blows     2:52
B4     I'm Not Satisfied     2:37
B5     You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here     3:37
C1     Trouble Every Day     6:10
    Help, I'm A Rock (Suite In Three Movements)    8:37
C2.1     1st Movement: Okay To Tap Dance     
C2.2     2nd Movement: In Memoriam, Edgar Varese     
C2.3     3rd Movement: It Can't Happen Here     
    The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet (Unfinished Ballet In Two Tableaus)    12:17
D1.1     I. Ritual Dance Of The Child Killers     
D1.2     II. Nullis Pretii (No Commercial Potential)     


    Recorded At – T.T.G. Studios
    Engineered At – T.T.G. Studios

Credits

    Arranged By, Conductor, Leader – Frank Zappa
    Artwork, Graphics, Text By [Map Insert] – Frank Zappa
    Bass, Guitarrón, Soprano Vocals [Boy Soprano] – Roy Estrada
    Drums, Vocals [Also Sings In Some Foreign Language] – Jim Black*
    Guitar, Vocals – Frank Zappa
    Instruments [Hypophone] – Kim Fowley
    Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar [Clear White Light] – Elliot Ingber
    Lead Vocals, Harmonica, Tambourine, Finger Cymbals, Other [Bobby Pin, Tweezers] – Ray Collins
    Performer – Arthur Maebe*, Benjamin Barrett, Carl Franzoni, Carol Kaye, David Wells*, David Anderle, Edwin V. Beach, Emmet Sargeant, Eugene De Novi*, Gene Estes, George Price, John Rotella, Joseph Saxon, Kenneth Watson, Kurt Reher, Neil Le Vang*, Paul Bergstrom, Plas Johnson, Raymond Kelley*, Roy Caton, John Johnson*, Virgil Evans, Vito*
    Producer – Tom Wilson (2)
    Written-By – F. Zappa*, A. Collins* (tracks: A4)



   
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