Just Another Band from LA

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Just Another Band from LA
Live album by Frank Zappa , The Mothers of Invention

Publication
(s)

March 26, 1972

Label (s) Bizarre / recapitulation

Format (s)

LP vinyl , CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

5

running time

45:18

occupation

production

Frank Zappa

Studio (s)

Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles , California

chronology
200 motels
(1971) 		Just Another Band from LA Waka / Jawaka
(1972)

Just Another Band from LA is a live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention that was released in 1972. It was recorded on August 7, 1971 at the Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campusin Los Angeles . With the band belonged the singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan as well as the bassist Jim Pons , former members of the group The Turtles . They joined the Mothers under the name "The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie", also known as Flo & Eddie, mainly because of copyright problems.

The first page of the album contains the 24:47 minute track Billy the Mountain . It is the absurd story of a mountain who with his wife Ethell, a tree, receives royalties for its appearance on postcards and takes a vacation from it and causes some destruction in the process. The piece is seen as a parody of the rock operas popular at the time . An unedited version of the piece can be heard on the album Playground Psychotics .

The play Eddie, Are You Kidding? refers to a TV ad directed by Edward Nalbandian, the owner of a clothing store in Los Angeles. This commercial was so ubiquitous that it was even featured on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show .

The album was released as a remastered CD on Rykodisc in 1990 and 1995 .

Others

In October 2008, Dweezil Zappa announced that the band Zappa Plays Zappa would play Billy the Mountain on a small tour.

Track list

page 1

  1. Billy the Mountain (Zappa) - 24:47

Page 2

  1. Call Any Vegetable (Zappa) - 7:22
  2. Eddie, Are You Kidding? (Kaylan, Seiler, Volman, Zappa) - 3:10
  3. Magdalena (Kaylan, Zappa) - 6:24
  4. Dog Breath (Zappa) - 3:39

The following pieces from the concert were not released:

  • Peaches en Regalia
  • Tears Began to Fall
  • Shove It Right In
  • Sofa Suite [incl. Divan]
  • Little House I Used to Live In
  • Mud Shark, What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
  • Bwana Dik, Latex Solar Beef
  • Willie the Pimp
  • Do You Like My New Car? [Incl. The Groupie Routine]
  • Happy together
  • Lonesome Cowboy Burt
  • 200 motels finals

Chart placements

Album - Billboard (North America)

year Chart position
1972 Pop albums 85

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Nalbandian, 78; LA Clothier Became a Local Celebrity With Live TV Ads for His Zachary All Store
  2. ^ Charts and Awards for Just Another Band from LA . Allmusic . Retrieved August 22, 2008.

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