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📌10 October 1969

Frank Zappa
📀 Hot Rats
#InstrumentalRock #JazzFusion #ProgressiveRock #AvantProg #RockBlues

55 years ago Frank Zappa from Baltimore, #USA released his 2nd studio album as a solo artist.

Hot Rats was concieved as a "movie for your ears".
Zappa used advanced recording equipment to create an album of outstanding technical and musical quality.
The album is composed of 5 instrumental tracks while the song "Willie The Pimp" features his friend 👉 Captain Beefheart on vocals.

I don't often listen to Zappa, but when I do I always start with this one ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#FrankZappa – guitar, octave bass, percussion
#IanUnderwood – piano, organus maximus, flute, all clarinets, all saxes

Additional musicians
#CaptainBeefheart – vocals
#MaxBennett, #ShuggieOtis – bass
#JohnGuerin, #PaulHumphrey, #RonSelico – drums
#DonHarris "Sugarcane", #JeanLucPonty – violin
#LowellGeorge – rhythm guitar
#10October

🎧Listen to Hot Rats 👉 here