Guitar

by Frank Zappa

Guitar cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 26 April 1988
  • Label: Barking Pumpkin
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:12:14
  • Community rating: 3.46/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the direct sequel to 'Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar', this sprawling double-album isolates the bandleader's heavy, highly unorthodox electric guitar improvisations. Stripped entirely of vocal interruptions, the collection highlights his distinctive phrasing and spontaneous composition methods spanning multiple touring lineups.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, instrumental, improvisation, uncommon-time-signatures, progressive, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Sexual Harassment In The Workplace (3:42)
  2. Which One Is It? (3:04)
  3. Republicans (5:07)
  4. Do Not Pass Go (3:37)
  5. Chalk Pie (4:52)
  6. In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky (2:49)
  7. That's Not Really Reggae (3:16)
  8. When No One Was No One (4:49)
  9. Once Again, Without The Net (3:43)
  10. Outside Now (Original Solo) (5:28)
  11. Jim & Tammy's Upper Room (3:11)
  12. Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio? (2:49)
  13. That Ol' G Minor Thing Again (5:02)
  14. Hotel Atlanta Incidentals (2:44)
  15. That's Not Really A Shuffle (4:23)
  16. Move It Or Park It (5:43)
  17. Sunrise Redeemer (3:58)
  18. Variations On Sinister #3 (5:16)
  19. Orrin Hatch On Skis (2:12)
  20. But Who Was Fulcanelli? (2:48)
  21. For Duane (3:24)
  22. GOA (4:51)
  23. Winos Do Not March (3:14)
  24. Swans? What Swans? (4:23)
  25. Too Ugly For Show Business (4:20)
  26. Systems Of Edges (5:32)
  27. Do Not Try This At Home (3:50)
  28. Things That Look Like Meat (6:54)
  29. Watermelon In Easter Hay (4:02)
  30. Canadian Customs (3:35)
  31. Is That All There Is? (4:08)
  32. It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary (5:14)

Credits

  • Art Hotel - graphics
  • Jeffery Fey - graphics
  • Scott Thunes - bass
  • Chad Wackerman - drums
  • Steve Vai - guitar [stunt guitar]
  • Bobby Martin - keyboards, keyboards, saxophone, vocals
  • Tommy Mars - keyboards, keyboards, vocals
  • Ed Mann - percussion

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