Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar

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Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Live album by Frank Zappa

Publication
(s)

May 11, 1981

Label (s) Barking Pumpkin Records , CBS
Rykodisc (CD)

Format (s)

LP vinyl , CD

Genre (s)

Rock music

Title (number)

20th

running time

106: 52

occupation
  • Roy Estrada - vocals
  • Andre Lews - keyboard
  • Eddie Jobson - keyboard

production

Frank Zappa

Studio (s)

Utility Muffin Research Kitchen

chronology
Tinsel Town Rebellion
(1981) 		Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar You Are What You Is
(1981)

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (Eng. Shut up and play your guitar ) is a rock album by Frank Zappa , which was released on vinyl in 1981 . It consists - with one exception - of guitar solos, most of which Zappa recorded between 1979 and 1980. The album was aimed at guitar-savvy listeners and originally consisted of three separate records, titled Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar , Shut Up' n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar . These were initially sold exclusively by mail order , as demand was expected to be rather low. Because of the unexpectedly great success, the records were given the usual distribution as a triple album a short time later. Zappa shows his skill as a solo player on the album, so there are about four solos from the piece Inca Roads , which were recorded by Zappa within three days, whereby "hardly a lick is repeated". In the last piece, Canard du jour , Zappa improvises in a duet with Jean-Luc Ponty on bouzouki or electric violin.


Track list

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

  1. five-five-FIVE - 2:35 (February 19, 1979)
  2. Hog Heaven - 2:46 (Oct 18, 1980)
  3. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - 5:35 (Feb. 18, 1979)
  4. While You Were Out - 6:09 (1979)
  1. Treacherous Cretins - 5:29 (Feb 17, 1979)
  2. Heavy Duty Judy - 4:39 (Dec 5, 1980)
  3. Soup 'n Old Clothes - 7:53 (11 Dec 1980)

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More

  1. Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression - 3:56 (Dec 11, 1980)
  2. Gee, I Like Your Pants - 2:32 (Feb. 18, 1979)
  3. Canarsie - 6:06 (Feb 19, 1979)
  4. Ship Ahoy - 5:26 (Feb 3, 1976)
  5. The Deathless Horsie - 6:18 (19 Feb 1979)
  6. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More - 6:52 (Feb. 17, 1979)
  7. Pink Napkins - 4:41 (Feb. 17, 1977)

Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

  1. Beat It with Your Fist - 1:39 (Oct. 30, 1980)
  2. Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - 8:45 am (Feb 19, 1979)
  3. Pinocchio 's Furniture - 2:04 (Dec 5, 1980)
  4. Why Johnny Can't Read - 4:04 (Feb. 17, 1979)
  5. Stucco Homes - 8:56 (1979)
  6. Canard du jour - 10:12 (1972)

reception

Sean Westergard closes his review on allmusic.com with the remark that the album should "be heard by anyone who likes to play the guitar."

literature

  • Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , Chapter 9, section Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar , p. 409-415 .
  • Frank Wonneberg : Grand Zappa - International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar . Retrieved June 17, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , Chapter 9, section Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar , p. 409-415 .
  3. ↑ Frank Zappa. Texts and background information on Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar on globalia.net. Retrieved June 19, 2011 .