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| 1. Adventures of Greggery Peccary |
| 2. Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra [Instrumental] |
| 3. Lemme Take You to the Beach |
| 4. RDNZL |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Look out, here he comes again...,
By Patrik Lemberg (Tammisaari Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Studio Tan (Audio CD)
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" is a musical masterpiece; one of Zappa's most coherent, yet polygonal and well performed pieces considering its length (20+ minutes). The studio sound of the whole album is clear, and the stereophony is sharp - it is quite amazing that this material was recorded 1974-1976. Something I find exceptionally impressive is the variation and accuracy of sound-effects on "Greggery". Ensemble Modern has recently recorded a (very well performed) version of this piece, but the version on "Studio Tan" is certainly what will stay closer to heart of dedicated Z-fans. On both "Greggery" and "Low-Budget Orchestra" five musicians perform; Zappa, George Duke, Chester Thompson, and Bruce and Tom Fowler, so especially on "Greggery" a lot of overdubs have been recorded, but it's not noticeable, the piece doesn't contain even one note too many, everything makes perfect sense, hence "musical masterpiece". "Low-Budget Orchestra" and "RDNZL" aren't far from masterpieces, either. Influences from Stravinsky clearly predominate "Low-Budget Orchestra", and the speeded-up percussion (played by Zappa) towards the end of the piece reminds a lot of the percussion from the "Uncle Meat" days, which was actually when this piece was written. "Lemme Take You to the Beach" cracks me up - it's a very fun, short, and uplifting piece, needed to reveal even further aspects of Zappa's compositional vocabulary. Without this track the album wouldn't be the same. It's the only song where Chester Thompson and George Duke aren't featured; they're replaced by Paul Humphrey and Eddie Jobson (Davey Moire sings, Max Bennett plays the bass, and Don Brewer plays the bongos). "RDNZL" is simply amazing - very much so from a compositional point of view. James Youman is featured on bass, and Ruth Underwood on percussion. "Studio Tan" is one of the discs you will need to some day be able to fully appreciate all sides of Frank Zappa, The Composer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Who is making those new brown clouds?,
By Tom (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Studio Tan (Audio CD)
I'm ambivalent about much of Zappa's work from the mid-70's onwards but this album contains one of his most amazing creations: "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary". Never mind all that arid orchestral nonsense Zappa was inclined to puke up every now again to prove his avant-garde credentials, this track blows that stuff out of the water in terms of ingenuity, creativity and risk-taking. Probably more than any other track in Zappa's oeuvre, this track is as much influenced by Carl Stalling (a great 20th Century American composer) as Stravinsky. Not only that, but lyrically it is both amusing and intriguing (though it runs out of steam towards the end) being both a parody on "trend-mongers" and a philosophical treatise (well, sort of) on the nature of time. The rest of the album does little for me, I confess to finding "Let Me Take You to the Beach" especially irritating.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zappa's greatest record,
By TUCO H. "H. TUCO" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Studio Tan (Audio CD)
'The Adventures of Greggerry Peccery' is probably Zappa's most mind blowing excursion into musical theatre. It is an endlessly creative panorama of soundscapes satirizing certain kinds of 'business tycoons.' In case you're wondering, all this stuff was composed and written down; this isn't some kind of off the cuff improvisation. It can be performed by any ensemble of musicians able to play it (though no one can replace Zappa's personality which is the main feature). Zappa's band is probably his greatest ever, featuring George Duke, Chester Thompson (later of Weather Report and Genesis), Eddie Jobson (of Roxy Music and U.K.) and Ruth Underwood among others. The second 'side' features two of Zappa's most brilliant rock 'n' roll instrumentals and one of his most hilarious song parodies. There isn't anything self-indulgent in the solos Zappa takes here; everything is economically constructed and magnificent.
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