Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention 1968-10-23 Paris

[BuddyMilo]

This is such good shit I can't breath...

[linuxman48858]

Simply Amazing!

[BigJiggety]

Did this version ever make it on an album? I thought I knew the Mothers but this while emblematic is novel in many ways. Great clip!

[ElPiggo]

trippy!

[surion56]

Where's the "Love" button?

[lexifantastiq]

Wow, I love this! Does anyone know the name of the song?

[TheWeblace]

@lexifantastiq Sleeping in a jar

[SuperStuey2]

Dude!!!!

[MFPhoto1]

This thought just occurred to me. Can this be considered the forerunner of fusion jazz?

[plasticrobotsounds]

Anyone know if the WHOLE show circulates?

[Tullvideoclips]

RIP Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood...

[eltonsdl]

Genius thing!

No one human can make it like the Frank "Master" Zappa!! Zappa is the Stephen King of music.

The Zappa's sound is not for anyone... is must to have good ears to understand it.

[sahueso666]

ZAPPA IS THE MASTER, NO ONE LIKE HIM, SUPERIOR THAN ANY OTHER MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER

[posthumanhero]

@sahueso666 yes, the best, the verry verry best!.......bigger better..............MORE MORE MORE .........."he's better than him".......tribal ritual/spirituality.money, talent greed..........false......list­en to the birds sing.........free jazz.

[JohnnyFoster]

After listening to this, I see that for many, past and present, that it's / it was, more important to sound different than to sound good. Self-indulgent cacophonous nonsense. I appreciate that Zappa was trying to experiment and go to "new" places, but for him to have received the accolades he has to date, is simply absurd. The truly-gifted George Duke and Ian Underwood finally wised-up and found their proper channels after this silliness chapter in their musical lives.

[RudySchwartzProject]

@JohnnyFoster Type "George Duke on Frank Zappa" into the search bar. I don't think he views it in that light.

[MrFirthguy]

gosh everyone frank and the Beatles are both really good they make different types of music i like them both so stop fighting over who is better

[dazemmit]

Aaaalaa qué maestro!!!

[MrSprite69]

I DIDN'T KNOW TILL AT THE AGE OF 60. JUST HOW BAD MY TASTE WAS UNTILL I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID.OMG WHERE WAS MY HEAD

[paulinebutcher]

There was something raw and charismatic about this first Mothers of Invention that later versions didn't have though the music later may have been more mature.

[Mikdeelo]

This reminds me of some classical music I've heard.

Can I get this as a ringtone?

[elkey1000]

@Mikdeelo Good idea. Have soft like Acid 4.0, record live from YT or download this tune (appears on Ahead of Their Times album), cut it, do some EQ, save as mp3 and put in your cell.

[DoctorRazzArea4]

Frank Zappa will never understand what made the velvet underground famous

[almudjk]

this is fairy music

[WackaJawacka]

Willie the Pimp..



[in2dionysus]

A rich vibe from the bass line and who knows what else; the realm salutes.

[lg1t3bcc29]

8 million light years ahead of his time

[pedalla]

@lg1t3bcc29 that doesn't make sense.... but i get the picture and i agree..

[MultiMifune]

That's Jimmy Carl Black.

He's the "Indian of the group".

hOOOOOOOO!!

Great stuff.

[6789drummerboy]

"There isn’t anything weird about my music. Weird is a skeleton in the closet, wearing a rubber mask with warts all over its nose, and all that kind of shit. That’s not what I do. The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audile wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat."

-Frank Zappa

[DustinCoker123]

why can't more people understand the audio is just as, if not more important than the video? if i had something to show, i would definitely want it to be enjoyable, not just out there. for those of you on youtube who have something to show us, please take the time and would make it worth uploading! thank u TooleMan87 for such contribution! it beats wasting time shoveling through shit. =)

[Wombat635]

DIE HIPPIES!!!

[pedalla]

@Wombat635 hippies smoke pot and listen to three chord music... even these days, you will have to kill a lot of people... even yourself... :/

[Wombat635]

@pedalla I always thought hippies were a little more politically driven than that. You paint a worse picture of them than I do. Sorry no faces for you.

[pedalla]

@Wombat635 :(

[Gatitoplz]

First time I heard Mothers of invention I was like "whats going on here" I was surprised, I mean, before that I heard music I could not understand quite well, but these new sounds they just pierced into my mind in such a deep and frightening way... after hearing their music again, I reallized I was standing in front of a gigantic, well thought, complicated and masterfull work of art... I still can't listen to their music withouth feeling a chill running through my body

my god they are masterful

[weBjammin625]

WHAAAA

[ZeppelinRules]

My god that was awesome. Why does no one make music like that any more.

[fireblossom2u]

@ZeppelinRules There may be someone or two out there and perhaps they will show up on Youtube....BUT No one will string notes, beats and pauses together like FZ. It was and is no more.

Make no mistake...what you hear here and in any FZ performance is FRANK. He made good and brilliant musicians better.

[GavesaQuadrada]

Zo cooL

[SuperJJRousseau]

Cool Floss.

[a1zzzz]

@Prodigy947 based upon your comment, it would appear that you have outed yourself. cheers !

[PoiSML]

MASTERPIECE

[bjoey96]

@PoiSML you can give me the name of the song please?

[byronbenoit12]

@bjoey96 i think its called the string quartet

[legunncat]

@Prodigy947 PS: Kobe Bryant is a rapist.

[legunncat]

@Prodigy947 You're just too stupid to appreciate.

[Huija]

Thank for this marvelous material. <3 frank zappa forever!!!

[geesmith]

@Prodigy947 Your expert opinion?

[MrKeyboardDK]

1968???? You were in DIAPERS.....

[lambsio]

wtf :)

[MrKeyboardDK]

Wow, What A Trip!

[JM13121]

Dude you rock! thanks for the black and white video..

[MelGibsonSafari]

co to za nuta w tle?

[MelGibsonSafari]

seed please. 98.8% pliz

[TheGringoLoco]

Zappa's die-hard, hardcore, loyal followers are definitely a very tight circle amongst themselves. I totally missed the boat when it comes to Zappa. His compositions are definitely layered, complex, thought-out, schizophrenic, and as an artist, I give him props for his insanely genius creativity, but the art that he created, the music itself, does nothing for me in terms of "entertaining" me. 

[MisterNifty]

@TheGringoLoco I agree. They were something like Jethro Tull. The genius of the individual parts never came close to superceding the potential of the whole.

[habinax]

dieldiedielidleidleidleidlidid­idiideildeddleledlidlidleiledi­dlieldiel thats the sound it plays in my mind 24/7

also its playing the tetris melody and allways if i get a knife im looking with my rapeface on it and think "knife knife knife knife"

[cosmopolitician1]

Hoo-ray! This is fucking awesome. Sounds great.

[guitarvocs]

Mother Mary and Joseph!!! I didn't know this existed, and I've never heard it. I'm a fan since almost back this far, saw FZ three times in the mid seventies, but I love the King Kong era stuff. Pardon my ignorance, but does this piece have a name? I'm not going to get much else done today. I've already watched it three times.

[zcosmos9]

@guitarvocs I recognize "Sleeping in a Jar" as part of it......

[Hughgotit76]

@guitarvocs For song info click the "show more" link above :)

Yeah, I love this too!

[itarethetroll]

@guitarvocs I'm pretty sure it's just a medley of some stuff from "Uncle Meat" and some improv.

[kthjnkn]

sooooooooooooooooooooooo fing amazing

[zeromeobass]

The Mothers farted better than Bieber ever will sing.

[assfacedfucker]

Gotta love Roy Estrada

[bouli123]

R.I.P. Jimmy Carl Black

[StinkySQL]

Thanks, it really shows off Franks composition skills.

[zackypooofillinois]

3:55 charly manson

[taopagan]

@zackypooofillinois ahhhh ha ha - yeh.

[MGoudatalks]

2 beiber fans have just past by

[207LAB]

 A prune isn't a vegetable, A cabbage is a vegetable..........

[TooleMan87]

@xXHinaNekoXx Maybe the Bieber fan/victim learned something from this video?

[xXHinaNekoXx]

@TooleMan87 maybe haha, it would be good ;]

[zootzrats]

@TooleMan87 Yeah... Just like Harry annd Rhonda did!!

[joakorush2112]

@TooleMan87 just dont mention him on this kind of videos please.

[squirrelmaster89]

Not only a composer, but a brilliant conductor as well. In my opinion, the best ever

[THEinterrobang]

Ahhh I do loves me a 5/8 meter.

[THEinterrobang]

Ahhh I do loves me a 5/8 meter.

[RobSteez]

@THEinterrobang 5/4 boy

[THEinterrobang]

@RobSteez ahh my bad, it's only been about 30 years since I'd thought about odd signatures

[uu9999uu]

LSD!!

[DimensionsofChange]

It really makes it man!

It's a real thing!

[fatesaccomplice]

Composer. Don't get too many like him. I don't even care too much for this. Weird guy, smart.

[tvisbad47]

Freaking Genius.

[keltyk]

Thank you uploader- for improving the audio- This is excellent quality

[Nellynoodlebums]

Real class!

[1949frrichard]

Zappa was an incredibly arrogant self-absorbed genius who produced some of the most sophisticated music of his or any other time. To have seen him in concert (or in this live footage) is to see the workings of a highly disciplined composer/conductor/performer..­. One of a kind.

[ss11s]

@1949frrichard I saw Zappa and I must say that it was the tightest most well-rehearsed show I have ever seen. Further the sound system was crisp and the lows were tight and not messy sounding. This was in the early 1980's and the sound system was better than anything you would hear in a pop or rock show today. He ran a VERY tight ship.

[zaneisthemaster]

0 people are musically retarded

[elmikeFTS]

GOOD 1

[zeromeobass]

Fucking brilliant is what that was. Thanks so much.

[ZarBono]

Esto no tiene precio!!!. Que solida era esta magnifica banda, liderada por el artista mas grande del siglo XX y de toda la historia, Frank Vincent Zappa. R.I.P.

[nepalnt21]

mussorgsky!

[unknownkingdom]

@nepalnt21 At the beginning, it does sound like he very briefly wanders into part of the melody from the opening Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. It's so short I can't tell if it's a coincidence or an intention 'musical quote.'

[nepalnt21]

good

[Merzbowxnoise]

Could it be that the video is faster than the audio?

[ichbinsnichmehr]

oh mein gott, keiner macht heute noch so geile musik

[LuneyTune72]

The coolest thing about this band is that they will always be way ahead of their time. The Mothers came from another galaxy and crashed landed on Earth. I was born 3 years before Zappa's death and knowing that I lived while he was still alive is worth being thankful for, it's the closest I'll ever get to the man. Every day I read more about him, learn another song, and try to get into his mind. I've been taking on his personality and beliefs because of this.

[marcmickey2]

AWESOME - Great video !

[spacehopperballs]

IMO - Comparing Zappa and the Mothers(even this line up without Dunbar) to the Beatles

is absurd.

The Beatles were a massive PR Stunt of recording studios, films and miming

FZ and the Mothers were not "Cute" they were just the real deal

[Tengent]

@spacehopperballs Hey I think Zappa was pretty cute..

[Spinking11]

@spacehopperballs No need to insult the Beatles to praise Frank.

[spacehopperballs]

@Spinking11 Erm? Sorry didin mean to - just came out that way :-(;

[Spinking11]

@spacehopperballs No problem it's just this whole knocking other musicians on youtube(most of the time to get thumbs up) get's on my tits. Both the Beatles and Zappa had a huge influence on modern music. But to say the Beatles were a PR stunt is a bit far IMO, they were as radical as the Mothers in Britain the only difference is that through good management they got mainstream commercial success. Apologies for the rant. :)

[spacehopperballs]

@Spinking11 At least they did the Germany thing so they could basically play. Loved Lennon and Harrison

But have a low opinion of McCartney "Maybe I was having a go at McCartneys over produced bland solo stuff"

"The new rock music is intended to broaden the generation gap, alienate parents from their children, and prepare young people for revolution." - FZ

[CatorsCinema]

@Spinking11 zappa said the shaggs were better than the beatles

he was right.

[artrocker65]

@spacehopperballs they were just having their own fun. FZ is a spoiled boy

[zaurtrien]

@spacehopperballs you dont know a thing about the beatles, in your ignorance and closed mind you think they were a PR stunt... but thats what they look like when you think your taste in music is the only truth... so childish (what you stated is like saying zappa is just a crazy man making noise and trying to be weird)

[BuridansEsel1]

Amazing!!!!!!

[dharmaseed]

So ladies 'n' gennelmen, at this point in our plot, the three talented members of the Mothers have quit the band to form their own group, with a lot of discipline.

[chickenthr33]

Great video, great sound. A bit out of synch though.

[plasticjesus108]

VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY AWESOME!

[jimmyjam666420]

What is really great about this video is all of the Bunk and Ian footage. As well as the 'Social Commentary' cues that Frank has Ray doing, as well as everyone else. Definate gem that exists in this universe thanks to TooleMan87 and YouTube!

[MrSpronticus]

Far!

[eajanzen]

The last minute or so had me visualizing a fight between Kirk and an alien on the original Star Trek. Anyone else agree?

[squirrelmaster89]

The theme stated first at 3:01 is "Sleeping In a Jar" sped up from the album version. Zappa almost always performed his songs differently than they appeared on record

[doctornoe]

God bless you Mr. Rosewater (obscure Vonnegut reference) for putting this out.

[Ostrosozok]

@doctornoe

That's not obscure, you tart.

I ought to sodomize you.

[themitchies]

Legend of the Golden Arches is the start of this set.

[themitchies]

screw the beatles. zappa and beefheart are the best things to emerge from the 60s

[chickenthr33]

@themitchies That's a little harsh. First of all The Beatles released their first single in 1963, few years before Zappa was Zappa. I'm sure The Beatles had some influence on Zappa as well, he covered "I am the Walrus" and he also did a Beatles medley during a show if I remember correctly. He also played "I am the Walrus" during his BBC One Hour radio guest host appearance.

I don't think enough credit can go towards Zappa, Beatles, and Pink Floyd.

[Thejohnjackjoe]

rare and good....... the mothers at their best......

[themitchies]

One of the best youtube finds for me.

Is there more footage from this performance that someone could provide?

[Bootleder]

Magical... simply breathtaking.

[pje723]

octandre at 7:10!

[themanfromrussia]

Anything and everything by Frank & The Mothers is a must have.

[elkey1000]

What song is this and on did it appear on any of albums? Thanks

[aumata78]

qualcuno conosce il nome del pezzo??

[DaleCredico]

Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague, and, as always,

Motorhead played a mean tambourine.

THANKS BIG FOR THE VIDEO!

[duaino12000]

Incredible, a timeless gem

[zeromeobass]

Nothing better than early Mothers.

[funky4stringer]

this is amazing..thank you!!

[funky4stringer]

thank you so much..this is amazing video footage and you did exellent with the audio..i can watch this all day!!!!

[kicks74]

Love!

[svenolley]

excellent.

[rrr1063]

Toolman, you're a superhero! May the ForZ be with you. ;-) Greatings from Oztralia.

[MartySol]

Good job TooleMan!

[IamTheSlime95]

VAMOS ZAPPA!!!

[mickindanny]

Incredible! You have provided a service to humankind. Thanks!

[woodrailking]

I like the inaudible version better.

[chaspagano]

yes it do sound bettah!

[SteveSparx]

Awesome jewel