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All rights reserved.Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury (CD 1999)
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Album Notes Personnel: Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals); Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, harmonica); Denny Walley (slide guitar, vocals); Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, vocals); Bruce Fowler (trombone); George Duke (keyboards, vocals); Terry Bozzio, Chester Thompson (drums). Engineers: Kerry McNab, Mike Braunstein, Kelly Kotera, Mike Stone, Davey Moire, Frank Hubach. BONGO FURY was recorded live at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, Texas on May 20-21, 1975. "200 Years," "Cucamonga" and the introduction to "Muffin Man" were recorded at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, California in January-February 1974. Digitally remastered by Bob Stone in 1987. Zappa and Beefheart were birds of a feather. Though each was fiercely individualistic, idiosyncratic and uncompromising, they both followed their own path of sophisticated wierdness so far that each was probably the only artist the other could relate to in terms of peerage. The pair had collaborated here and there many times, but BONGO FURY is their only album-length effort. Recorded at a 1975 Austin concert, this is essentially a Zappa program, with Beefheart sitting in (Zappa's monstrously talented mid-'70s band featuring Terry Bozzio and George Duke provides accompaniment). Beefheart is incapable of making a passive guest appearance, though, and his rugged, blues werewolf growl dominates the proceedings every time it appears. Compositionally, Beefheart contributes only a couple of brief tracks, but he meshes well with Zappa's arrangements and compositions. BONGO FURY is a classic example of succesful collaboration; Beefheart's rawness is contrasted nicely by Zappa and company's technical facility, and Zappa's refined style is given some grit by the good Captain. Editorial Reviews Q (08/01/1995) Rolling Stone Q (08/01/1995) | |||||||||||||||
Reviews  Giggling and gasping with Frank and DonReview created: 09/09/08 by: marconibungalows ( 5 )  I first heard this album a year after it was recorded in Austin Texas. 1976 was the bicent of the USA. Zappa and Beefheart smelt something in the detail...It simply has some of the funniest narrative lyrics, full of sex, politics and the heat of the desert creeping in under the tent flap that Capn Beefheart has lifted in the corner. And the music these lyrics are couched in is a marvelous blend of frank's ditzy Varese sensibilities and a blues that has 18 carat dirt smeared through it like a nougat with bubbles of nitrous oxide:it's a gas. I deny anybody to listen to it twice and not hum the tunes and giggle along with the Muffin Man or Poofter's Froth-Wyoming Plans Ahead. See. Gotcha. Review ID: 10000000008667244 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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