Lumpy Gravy was released today in 1968! Well the non-recalled version technically, it’s complicated. I had it on earlier and didn’t even realize the anniversary was today. Don’t listen to it much but I should probably change that.
Zappa ‘66 Vol. 1: Live at TTG Studios is out now! Have not listened to all of this yet but what I’ve heard has been pretty interesting. Not a usual Mothers show, that’s for sure. “I Could Be A Slave” was on an old bootleg called Tis the Season To Be Jelly which Zappa officially released in the ‘80s as part of Beat the Boots, everything else is new to my knowledge.
Sad to hear that Ike Willis passed. Fantastic musician and vital member of Zappa’s bands from the late ‘70s to the final tour. Here’s some of my Ike-led favorites.
Oh no! RIP Ike. I’ll never forget seeing him in a very small club with Project/Object in the early 00s (may have even been ‘99). Ike crushed it that night. The man with what Zappa called a “bionic baritone” and far and away my favorite singer to ever take the stage alongside FZ. 
“These executives have plooked the fuck out of me…”
Ike expresses so much pathos in the YCDTOSA VOL. 4 version of Outside Now. It always kills me. RIP Ike.
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First track “ Freak Chouflee’” is just 14 mins of jamming, sick stuff!
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