748 - Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (1967)

TRACKS
1 Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 1 (Zappa) 15:51
"The Way I See It, Barry"
"Duodenum"
"Oh No"
"Bit Of Nostalgia"
"It's From Kansas"
"Bored Out 90 Over"
"Almost Chinese"
"Switching Girls"
"Oh No Again"
"At the Gas Station"
"Another Pickup"
"I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again"
2 Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 2 (Zappa) 15:52
"Very Distraughtening"
"White Ugliness"
"Amen"
"Just One More Time"
"A Vicious Circle"
"King Kong"
"Drums Are Too Noisy"
"Kangaroos"
"Envelops the Bath Tub"
"Take Your Clothes Off"
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CREDITS
All Nite John - Choir, Chorus
Harold Ayres - Strings
John Balkin - Bass
Dick Barber - Vocals
Arnold Belnick - Strings
Harold Bemko - Strings
Chuck Berghofer - Bass
Jimmy Carl Black - Percussion, Drums, Choir, Chorus
Jimmy Bond - Bass
Bruce - Choir, Chorus
Dennis Budimer - Guitar
Frank Capp - Drums
Donald Christlieb - Wind, Woodwind
Gene Cipriano - Wind, Woodwind
Eric Clapton - Guitar
Vincent DeRosa - Horn, French Horn
Joseph DiFiore - Strings
Jesse Ehrlich - Strings
Alan Estes - Percussion, Drums, Gong, Marimba, Timbales, Bells, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Gene Estes - Percussion, Gong, Marimba, Timbales, Bells, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Roy Estrada - Bass, Vocals
Larry Fanoga - Vocals, Choir, Chorus
Victor Feldman - Percussion, Drums, Gong, Marimba, Timbales, Bells, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Bunk Gardner - Wind, Woodwind
James Getzoff - Strings
Gilly - Choir, Chorus
Philip Goldberg - Strings
John Guerin - Drums
Jimmy "Senyah" Haynes - Guitar
Harry Hyams - Strings
J.K. - Choir, Chorus
Jules Jacob - Wind, Woodwind
Pete Jolly - Piano, Celeste, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Electric Harpsichord
Ray Kelly - Strings
Jerome Kessler - Strings
Alexander Koltun - Strings
Bernard Kundell - Strings
William Kurash - Strings
Michael Lang - Piano, Celeste, Harpsichord, Keyboards
Mike Lang - Piano, Electric Harpsichord
Arthur Maebe - Horn, French Horn
Leonard Malarsky - Strings
Shelly Manne - Drums
Lincoln Mayorga - Piano, Celeste, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Electric Harpsichord
Motörhead - Choir, Chorus
Ted Nash - Wind, Woodwind
Patrick O'Hearn - Bass, Wind
Dick Parisi - French Horn
Don Preston - Bass, Keyboards
Pumpkin - Choir, Chorus
Jerome Reisler - Strings
Emil Richards - Percussion, Gong, Marimba, Timbales, Bells, Tympani [Timpani], Vibraphone
Lyle Ritts - Bass
Tony Rizzi - Guitar
Ronnie - Choir, Chorus
John Rotella - Percussion, Woodwind
Joseph Saxon - Strings
Ralph Schaeffer - Strings
Leonard Selic - Strings
Kenny Shroyer - Trombone
Paul "Scooby" Smith - Piano, Electric Harpsichord
Tommy Tedesco - Guitar
Al Viola - Guitar
Bob West - Bass
Ronny Williams
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Arranger, Conductor, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Tibor Zelig - Strings
James Zito - Trumpet
Jimmy Zito - Trumpet
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REVIEW
by François Couture
Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa's first solo album, was released months before the Mothers of Invention's third LP (even though its back cover asked the question: "Is this phase two of We're Only in It for the Money?") and both were conceptualized and recorded at the same time. We're Only in It for the Money became a song-oriented anti-flower power album with one contemporary/musique concrète/sound collage hybrid piece by way of conclusion. Lumpy Gravy collaged bits of orchestral music, sonic manipulations, spoken words, and occasional pop ditties into two lumps of 16 minutes each. This album presents Zappa's first recordings with a decent orchestra, the 50-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. His symphonic writing was very much influenced by Stravinsky and Varèse. It still had to lose its sharp edges and find the lushness found in 200 Motels. The segments of music are loosely tied together by bits of dialogue from inside the piano. MOI members and friends were invited to talk with their head inside a grand piano with the sustain pedal depressed (the technique was immortalized in the song "Evelyn, A Modified Dog"). The reverberating space gave the voices an eerie quality, but made it very difficult to convincingly edit the material. Thus, the plot emanating from these portions remains very vague (it was clarified 25 years later in Civilization Phaze III). The song bits include "Oh No," "Theme from Lumpy Gravy" (aka "Duodenum"), "King Kong," and "Take Your Clothes off When You Dance," all in instrumental versions, all making their first appearance on record. The starting point of Zappa's "serious music," Lumpy Gravy suffers from a lack of coherence, but it remains historically important and contains many conceptual continuity clues for the fan. The opening line of part one ("The way I see it, Barry, this should be a dynamite show") became a classic reference.
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