ZAPPA - a token of his extreme Pt 7 son of orange county

[herrdruhl]

much ado about nothing...musicians of this caliber often will take impromptu liberties with the music, and in fact FZ was notorious for this.

[fadethetrade]

1:46 frank got a little off on his guitar concept there!

[mrcopepod]

Just love Napoleon Murphy Brocks voice perfect for Zappa songs. George Duke and Ruth Underwood ...... what a band... something special....

[michaelpietzsch]

I AM NOT A CROOK

[Chope89]

Such an incredible artist Frank is.

[raukzenta]

Kick my ass and call me charly!...

[54herve]

pourquoi cela n est pas sur le dvd? dommage!!

[stubb64]

Why haven't I seen this before? Obviously the Dub Room DVD I have is horribly foreshorten. Damn, I miss Frank.

[rleary1]

Help me somebody, ANYBODY!! I've been watching a lot of Zappa from this period on Youtube tonight (Napoleon/Duke/One size fits all period)

IS ANY OF THIS AVAILABLE ON DVD????? or where the hell can I get it? This is frickin fantastic!!

[Shinmeiryu]

You can download it via torrents.

[thegirl44]

"Dub Room Special" is the only North American release available on DVD with those artists and, unfortunately, it isn't a complete show. Just the odd song here and there from different performances. The great shows that were available on VHS like, A Token Of His Extreme and the HBO/Palladium produced performance haven't been issued on DVD yet. Don't even get me started on the Roxy performances. I say steal Zappa's shit offline, it's the only way you're gonna get it.

[brucechrist]

there are no words for how much i love this man, absolute genius

[BulutCyp]

who's the vocal?

[bapyou]

The vocalist is Napolean Murphy Brock. The harmony vocalist is George Duke (on keyboards also).

This song is about Richard Nixon. It features the lyric "I am not a crook", uttered by Nixon at a press conference as he was leaving office.

[lukoshey79]

what a melody, fuck these guys can sing, i try to whistle it some times but its just out there! thankyou zappa and thanks for the post. and then the nixon song yeah,, i drove two german friends crazy with this one to the point they were singing it without knowing the meaning, much fun much fun indeed. xxxx

[BigSwifty68]

Great post!!! I drove a roommate of mine BONKERS singing Son of Orange County at the top of my lungs EVERY DAY when I first got Roxy & Elsewhere.

[thegirl44]

i had a room mate that drove me nuts singing son of orange county at the top of his lungs every day ,,,,lol ya i know what you mean

[nothingblue1]

i can't believe you are such a fool

[thegirl44]

My husband's a fool because he had a roommate who used to torment him with Zappa? The punchline of the story is that the fellow only knew the first three verses and would repeat them ad nauseum. He also would hum the guitar solo from Montana when he was nervous, apparently.

[thegirl44]

I figured out that you were quoting the song after I posted the comment, I was singing while doing the dishes and came across the line.

Frank sold his catalogue to Rykodisk before his death, never a good idea for any artist. ZFT has come out with every excuse in the book as to why the Roxy and Elsewhere performance video is taking so long but none of them wash.

IFC has the rights to 200 motels and shows it on their channel but we can't get a DVD copy? How does that work?

[jancivil]

the general idea of that business decision, ironically enough, was so that Gail didn't have to take care of the business of his recordings after he died...

[thegirl44]

You could try getting ahold of the user bongolampo on this site. He's got quite a bit of Zappa stuff and he might know the best sites for downloading the hard to find performances and bootlegs. I have a lot of his stuff but it's all on LP, VHS and reel to reel so it's hard to convert it to a computer file with good quality.

[chile601]

I love this fuckin song..NMB is incredible and what can you say about FZ..RIP Frank..I love you man

[naponapo3]

best melody ever

[Falumpaset]

this era of zappa's career was the perfect band.  greatest group of musicians in all of history.

[GDarkstar74]

Absolutely

[bapyou]

You got that right.

[iamben69]

Sublime genius.

[trigjeeeh]

the notes of that intro solo to the son of orange county are so beautiful they make me weep

[dothedewupurs]

Not only is Frank Zappa the man, Napoleon is just plain crazy

[rabe56]

first vocal part is "oh no", the part that starts with "and in your dreams" is "son of orange county lumber truck", it called son because it is the second version of the same song from Weasels

[phideauxiii]

yes rabe is right, i didnt split oh no off of son of orange county, the shift happens at 1:40 beginning with frank dropping into the intro guitar peice, the lyrics "and in your dreams" shortly to follow.

[natn0]

@phideauxiii it's actually at 1:33

[fadethetrade]

@natn0 Not true,that was the segue to the new song,but his guitar melody was a little off there at 1:46. listen to the roxy album and you'll understand

[BasswipeNC]

@rabe56 The "and in your dreams" part is actually the end of "Oh No" on Weasels. That part is not in the song “Orange County Lumber Truck” on Weasels Ripped my Flesh. But that end part of “Oh no” is used in the song “Son of Orange County”.

[mavrojh]

why is it called "son of orange county?" I thought this song is "Oh no," off of the album "Weasels ripped my flesh."

[Th3B3H0ld3r]

just totally brilliant!

[iequalfeces]

hm why is the beginning shorter? like the guitar rift would last like 3 seconds now its only like one

[iequalfeces]

thanks for uploading this!