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==Lyrics==
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''Instrumental''
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==Versions of this Song==  
==Players On This Song==
 
* Frank Zappa guitar & percussion
 
* [[Tony Duran]] slide guitar
 
* [[George Duke]] ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano
 
* [[Sal Marquez]] many trumpets & chimes
 
* [[Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski)|Erroneous]]  electric bass
 
* [[Aynsley Dunbar]] drums
 
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
===Zappa Albums===
 
In order of recording.
 
* [[Waka/Jawaka]]
 
* [[Zappa Wazoo]]
 
* [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]
 
* [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2]]
 
* [[Studio Tan]] and [[Läther]], cited in '''(The Adventures Of) Greggery Peccary'''
 
* [[Make A Jazz Noise Here]]
 
  
===Tributes & Cover Albums===
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===''Waka/Jawaka'' version===
*[[Meridian Arts Ensemble]]: [[Smart Went Crazy]]
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* [[Big Swifty (1972 - Paramount Studios)]]
*[[The Muffin Men]]: [[Muffinz]] as [[Big Swifty]] and [[Big Swifty|Big Swifty (Reprise)]]
 
*[[Ensemble Ambrosius]]: [[The Zappa Album]]
 
*[[Zappatistas]]: [[Live In Leeds]]
 
*[[Colin Towns plus NDR Bigband|Colin Towns + NDR Bigband]]: [[Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (And Funny Smells)]] as 2nd part of track 13
 
*[[Yahozna Band]]: [[05]]
 
  
==Notes About This Song==
 
  
*FZ on "'''Big Swifty'''": (from [[The Complete History Of The Few Last Weeks Of The Mothers Of Invention]]):
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===''You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2'' version===
<blockquote>"This piece (which comprises all of Side One of the [[Waka/Jawaka|HOT RATS Waka/Jawaka]] album) presents a theme in rapidly alternating time signatures, a few solos, and an out-chorus done up in a sort of Prom Night orchestration which suspends the opening rhythmic structure over a straight 4/4 accompaniment.<br>
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* [[Big Swifty (1974 - Helsinki)]]
The restatement of the theme is actually derived from a guitar solo on the album which [[Sal Marquez]] took down on paper. After about an hour of wheeling the tape back and forth, [[Sal Marquez|Sal]] managed to transcribe this rhythmically deranged chorus (I don't have the ability to do this kind of musical dictation, but, since [[Sal Marquez|Marquez]] had a full-bore education at North Texas University, he had it covered). After he'd written it out, we proceeded to over-dub three trumpets on it, and, presto! An organized conclusion for "'''Big Swifty'''."<br>
 
The arrangement played here presents that line in a harmonized setting, as well as a number of orchestrational refinements of the opening material (such as the addition of woodwinds and percussion to segments which, on the recording, were played by guitars and trumpets). 'It's not "just like the record," but you'll get the idea."<br></blockquote>
 
  
==CC Clues In This Song==
 
The track on [[Make A Jazz Noise Here]] is citing '''Carmen''' (Georges Bizet), '''Lohengrin''' ([[Richard Wagner]]) and '''1812 Overture''' (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
 
  
The track on [[Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (And Funny Smells)]] is citing '''Carmen''' as well.
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===''Joe's Domage'' version===
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* [[The New Brown Clouds (1972 - unknown)]]
  
[[Category:Tracks]]
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[[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]
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===''Make A Jazz Noise Here'' version===
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* [[Big Swifty (1988 - Munich)]]
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===''The Roxy Performances'' version===
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* [[The Roxy Performances]]

Revision as of 05:32, 27 January 2018

Versions of this Song

Waka/Jawaka version


You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 version


Joe's Domage version


Make A Jazz Noise Here version

The Roxy Performances version