How Could I be Such a Fool - Frank Zappa

[corndunks]

Ray Collins... I fucking love you

[xplanetstudio]

so wonderful

[tuxguys]

The stand out cut from the LP Ray Collins was born to sing on.

[ikeick]

That's funny, it sounds different from my c.d. that i've had for 10-20 years, what's jelly roll gum drop sound like?!? Anyway, this is my 2nd fav Zappa effort after shiek yerbouti, gotta like do-wop to dig this people, Frank was hip & wanted to share, enjoy it!!

[xplanetstudio]

Freaks forever! big stuff here, redneck............

[theoriginaljeffro]

I wanna hear the original Mothers on here... this blows.

[plasticjesus108]

@theoriginaljeffro SUCK IT UP. IT'S OUT THERE...

[theoriginaljeffro]

@plasticjesus108 I have it on the original Verve LP, I just wanted to hear it on YOUTUBE :-)

[Mekaniktom]

@theoriginaljeffro

The Verve Mix is much better than this Chat Wackerman Overdubs. I hate it.

[theoriginaljeffro]

@Mekaniktom I second that motion. For a guy who understood his fan base so well, this was a really weird decision. He could have even used an original LP in the new mastering project if he wanted.... Hmm, control freaks.

[Mekaniktom]

@theoriginaljeffro

I am happy that Zappa-Family-Trust decided to release the old Verve-Mix with Bonus Tracks: Greasy-Love-Songs (2010)

[theoriginaljeffro]

@Mekaniktom

I'm not paying the obscenely perverted amounts the ZFT are asking for these new releases.

[ikeick]

@theoriginaljeffro I have an original promo copy and it's all surface noise by now but it was great playing it to death as a kid and even now!

[alargedog]

man this is the story of every1s lives

[robsta974]

Fucking love it ! Even this early, Zappa sounds like he's takin the piss out of music !

[GhostownMusicGroup]

So Dope!

[lowgrau]

I don't know what happened after Frank met Stravinski

[horn01529]

This was one of my best friends favorite songs,,, God Bless you Dino

[harkrum]

happens to us all...snit!! Snat!!

[Khultan]

This is really from 1966?

[gawkkkkkkkkkkkkkk]

@Khultan 1968



[Khultan]

@gawkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Thank you. It's fantastic : ) I love the 1960s.

[astroyet]

Ray Collins (lead vocals)

Frank Zappa (lead guitar)

Roy Estrada (bass)

Jimmy Carl Black (drums)

Arthur Tripp (drums)

Ian Underwood (piano, alto saxophone)

Don Preston (piano)

Motorhead Sherwood (baritone saxophone, tambourine)

Bunk Gardner (tenor saxophone)

[ryne1414]

where did you get this CD man, have no idea where to get it

[DimensionsofChange]

I think I'm gonna spend Valentine's day listening to this album

[xxxslayerxxx666]

who sung the original i KNOW this melody from somewhere!!!! it's most likely a do wop band lol.

[micheljch]

@xxxslayerxxx666 The original was on the first Mothers of Invention LP "Freak Out" two years earlier but with a very different arrangement. It's quite possible that this was the original arrangement, however, as Zappa and Ray Collins were writing songs together in the early 60s long before the Mothers came to be . . .

[tundradog]

Ray Collins rules!

[zeromeobass]

Zappa for President! Oh wait, the other one.

[ZupraVisor]

OMG LOL! zappa cracks me up with this version of his songs

[MrHannibal31]

Wonderfulll

Mes toutes premières parties basses!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrHannibal31]

Wonderfulll



[zappadead13]

flawless snap



[zappadead13]

flawless

[nonfoods1]

zappa family definately! posted from master.

[nonfoods1]

zappa family or ceo ryko posted this! definately! from master.

[harvey1954]

Listen to the original Mothers version for a classic tune. This one goes nowhere. Frank could really do wop and R&B when he wanted to, but was too scared to go for it so he would make fun of it. It's sad that he would reduce a great tune of his own just to show how hip he was.

[tuxguys]

One of the two best cuts from a great LP, the first LP that acknowledged to the rock world that the "'50s'" really existed... and this was two years before Sha Na Na appeared at Woodstock.

Zappa: A Genius, almost a Prophet.

[papaOUjohn]

Friday night expectations = Saturday morning regrets!!!

[ssur55]

Boy, this sure sounds like the vinyl version - I don't hear the fretless bass and the constant drum rolls of the updated version. You sure this isn't the vinyl? I never liked the updated version for the reasons listed above. They put an 80's bass and drum sound with 50's songs and it didn't work for me.

[WillNTobin]

I think it's about time they release the original version on CD. I'm pretty sure this is the 1984 remix version. If I'm not mistaken...

[kasparov227]

lol, 132..... genius..... lmao

[noctisimperatrixx]

680

[vinzer72frie]

vinyl version !

[AZUFO1123]

yea i feel like shit got dumped by mygirl plastic as fuck :( help frank:(

[angie4josh]

you should listen to "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"

[TiniNormi]

@AZUFO1123

I feel ya... I'm recovering from one of those too. Songs like this seem really fitting.

[cozinnit]

yep. every now and then we become 'plastic' for someone else, and then we get reality check pain feelings in our hearts. but frank knew. oh so cold it may seem but total love and freedom is the ultimate achievement.

[tuxguys]

My god. The Mothers use some old material to salute the Four Seasons. I've known this cut since I bought the LP in a bargain bin in 3/71, and I just got it.

[rerg75]

i'm missing something, this is not the version of freak out, anyway is good.

[pivotbass]

Cruisin' with Ruben and the Jets

[narozzz]

Does anyone, ANYWHERE have a clip of that famous Kabuki-style performance of this song that was done for TV? Or is that lost to the sands of time forever?

[tskfred]

Thanks for your post! I will add some songs from vinyl version (i prefer that... i know every note in the songs .. I really like the empty mix ... it makes the vocals extra strong...

[triangletheorytrey]

I need this record. I enjoy Frank Zappa and the rest of the people he has worked with.  RIP-FZ

[pitzernaldo]

Uma das melhores canções de todos os tempos!! Que melodia!! Que maravilhosa interpretação!! Vai ao fundo dos tempos, ao fundo das noites...

[barkingpumpkin90]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the original version???

How did you get this???

How do I find it?

I have this record, but the cd is remastered and overdubbed and I prefer the original mix...

Do they have this version on cd?

[ClarkeMarek]

Not legally, no, unless you have a way of ripping CD's to LP. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but otherwise I doubt you'll get this version on CD unless Gail releases it Project Object style.

(And if anybody from the ZFT reads this, I'm not trying to slam anybody connected to it, just explaining the situation.)

[usases]

I love it...;)

[rich4364]

good song and good user name

[InsectRepellant]

The Freak Out! version is WAAAY better!

[exentr]

I think the best version of How Could I be such a Fool is at Mystery Disc. Most material at Mystery Disc is taped live and have lots and lots and lots of quality. I love that disc. It contains very much crazy humor as well.

[TiniNormi]

The Freak Out! version is one of my favorite songs from that album.

[luangu]

Zappa! :)