Frank Zappa

Sheik Yerbouty

This Fan-Frank-Tastic, a "MUST HAVE" for your collection

Review Score:

(10/10)
Fittingly this is FZ's best seller, it has it all. I bought it (double vinyl) in about 1981/2, and fell in for the bawdy lyrics and perfect rythyms for the first couple of years. City of Tiny Lites, Wild Love, Dancin Fool, Bobby Brown. Some years after this album, I believe there was some dude with that name, he must have been a fan.

Anyway, when the opening track sets the foundation, you know its going to be a warm thrilling ride, with "I, Have Been in You, Baby, and You, Have Been in Me".

We had a ball with this album when we were breaking through the puberty blues, no doubt about it. Then I got older, played guitar and tThen I heard the, dare I say it, supreme live and studio tracks of those wonderful instrumentals and guitar pieces. You must hear Rat Tomago, Sheik Yerbouti Tango and 'Yo Moma if you thought you could play guitar and be original, forget about it. Turn it up, at! home, in your car, whatever. Share these tracks with anyone nearby.

This album gets better every year, its a CD now, straight through, no interruptions.

The first song is a classic, the last song is the piece de resistance, but you just have to love em all. The others in between make the grade, not one complaint. That Strat sings on this disc, I am priviliged to have heard it for the last 16 yrs, Although I wish I was around to have heard all his albums as they were released, but hey, I can hear them all now, and its always a pleasure. Start with this one, kick back, relax, enjoy.

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