The seventh album from this artist from USA.
Frank Zappa did the guitars, octave bass and percussions here.
He had help from around a dozen guests, among them Jean Luc Ponty, Captain Beefheart and Lowell George, who provided drums, bass, guitar, electric violin, piano, organ, woodwinds and vocals.
This album is Frank Zappa's first official solo album and a pause from his Mother Of Inventions band.
It is also something entirely different again from the first six albums.
Hot Rats is fifty minutes long jazzy fusion album.
There are some blues here too and some progressive rock. Captain Beefheart's vocals on the second track add a hint of avant-garde too. It is still jazz though.
There is a lot of guitars from Frank Zappa here and a lot of woodwinds. We also get electric violins and some organs too. Even some very good piano solos.
The result is a good album, indeed. My favourite Frank Zappa album so far........ by many country miles. This is indeed a good album in it's own right and well worth checking out.
3 points
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