Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.
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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 imagination of The Imaginer . . . and . . . ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway? . . . So . . . So . . . Excuse me . . . Ha ha ha! Mm-mh . . . So . . . Ha ha ha . . . Ha ha ha! 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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[norfolknchance100]

@Pocahontas928 i still get the goosebumps when music does that to you evertime,has to be a special track probaly the best guitar solo ever written in my opiniom

[palebluedot4ev]

Thanks to one of my best friends who introduced me to Frank Zappa's music, I'm now a huge fan. I always think of him and of all the good times we've shared when I listen to FZ. Love ya bro!!!

[bigrockets]

I agree with the above comments 100%. Being a guitarist I also love the solo in Watermelons and Easter Hay. Frank was ahead of his time and I miss him today.

[59mar]

startin' at 1:23.

[ozoshah]

directly to the imaginary guitar solong:------->3:57

[norfolknchance100]

@MrGranousty Thing fish on acid,Say no more

[gordula4]

Great what zappa does...!

[gerardotripoli]

play a solo with this band is like to grow a watermelon in Easter egg

[FunkyHonkyCDXX]

This song is every shred of anguish you've ever had in your life twisted and warped in such a way that it's so beautiful it's painful.

[cata60]

i was so sad when heard Zappa passed away..i Listened that whole day Watermelon in Easter Hay and Sofa...Heavenly music