Watermelons in easter hay frank zappa biography

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Act III

SCENE SEVENTEEN
WATERMELON IN EASTER HAY

CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER:
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER. Joe has just worked himself into an imaginary frenzy during the fade-out of his imaginary song. He begins to feel depressed now. He knows the end is near. He has realized at last that imaginary guitar notes and imaginary vocals exist only in the mind of the imaginer. And ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway?! Excuse me. Who gives a fuck anyway? So he goes back to his ugly little room and quietly dreams his last imaginary guitar solo.

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In the Frank Zappa: Guitar album

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Notes About This Song

• As mentioned during "Star Special", FZ as a guest DJ on BBC Radio 1 in 1980, the original name of the track is a bit longer: "And I will now provide you with a piece of information about the title: that's not the complete title of this song. The REAL title of this song is 'Playing A Guitar Solo With This Band Is Like Trying To Grow A Watermelon In Easter Hay'. And that's where it came from."

CC Clues In This Song

1979 tune by Make yourself be heard Zappa

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The Music Aficionado

April 17, 2017 •17

On Halloween night in 1978 Frank Zappa closed his band’s North American tour with a four-hour marathon show at the Palladium in New York City. The now legendary show is fondly known to his fans as “the big one”, after Zappa decided to combine the early and late shows into one and introduced the show with: “All right this is the big one. Since this is the big one, we’re gonna do an extra long show. I hope you don’t have to leave early”. Many put this show on their top live Zappa performances and considering the mammoth amount of shows that had been taped and bootlegged during his prolific career, this is no minor achievement. The evening was even more special, as the band was joined by guest L Shankar, the great Indian violinist who became known to western audiences a few years earlier with Shakti, the band he formed with John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain.

On stage that night was a similar personnel to the one that would record a few months later the triple-LP rock opera Joe’s Garage, an album that is an acquired taste for many, and not considered one of his best. But it includes one of my favorite in all of Zappa’s large catalog of amazing performances: