Band: Zappa & Mothers Of Invention
Album: 200 Motels
Date: 1971
Country: UK
Label: United Artists
Original
Features: Double album gatefold sleeve, poster and booklet.
Ladies & gentlemen, here it is.....
200 MOTELSssssss...
I got the album and the movie... and a bootleg (more later)
This is an album and a movie at the same time. Zappa decided to gather the London Philharmonic Orchestra and bring some guests in for the movie.
Ringo Starr (Beatles) as Frank Zappa, Keith Moon (The Who) as a nun and all the Mothers of Invention band, including Groupies and the fundamental pieces for the scenario, Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan (Flo & Eddie)
This movie/record is... hard to explain!
A satirical movie documentary hilariously performed to showcase a rock band on tour. This includes members' drug use, groupies, redneck cowboys from small towns, terrible town hall villages and hoovers, plus other housekeeping utilities!
Basically, it is an absurd documentary with a mixture of rock tracks and orchestral variations. It's hard not to laugh, and it's not easy to understand!
Highlight tracks to me are: Strictly Genteel, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, *** Dimension, Mystery Roach, This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy and many others!
It all wrapped up in theatrical comedy, animation, serious music and chaos.
Does humour belong in music? Yes! Even if it is absurd, bizarre, comical, hilarious and an orchestral experimentation.
If you have never watched this movie before, do it! If you dont understand, watch it again. If you think it's crazy, think Dadaism and watch it again, if nothing works... listen to the record!
This is the mad genius at work!
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