Frank Zappa – Bass

According to the interweb, Zappa plays the bass guitar on this choon. Who am I to argue with the interweb?

I am not a masshoosive fan of Frank Zappa although I very much respect his artistry. He took the whole thing into areas where no-one else dared to go and his musicianship and compositional acumen are undeniable but I sometimes think he forgets to make thing beautiful and overemphasises the ‘cleverness’ of it all. I also came to it late so I was elsewhere in terms of my headspace so maybe I didn’t give him a fair listening. This track is an exception, of course, and I always think of it as Zappa’s ‘hit single’. The part is a tough read because there are a few ‘odd’ notes in there (I would go as far as to say they are wrong/poor choices but you can’t be sure with Zappa!).

This is the bass part (as far as I could figure it out from the mix) to ‘Peaches En Regalia’ from the 1969 Zappa album ‘Hot Rats’.