0508. Frank Zappa
Hot Rats

An almost enirely instrumental album, Hot Rats, was Frank Zappa's second solo album after dissolving the Mothers Of Invention and it starts out dangerously prog-ish.

Peaches En Regalia is a bit like a Zappad-up version of something from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, so I'm getting a bit of a pompus vibe for a while. But Willie The Pimp, however, has both more of a blues rock-feel and some vocals (the only ones on the album and delivered by Captain Beefheart).

Although the scent of prog whiffs by once or twice more it's an amazing ride onwards, with the thirteen minute The Gumbo Variations as the lynchpin of this jazz-infused album. I don't get the same feeling of being bullshitted as on Freak Out! and well, this time it wasn't any need to play tricks as this is up front difficult music.