Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III (1979)

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III (1979)

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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III

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Act I: Joe's Exploits

1. "The Central Scrutinizer"   3:28

2. "Joe's Garage"   6:10

3. "Catholic Girls"   4:26

4. "Crew Slut"   6:31

Act I: Sex and Side Gigs

5. "Wet T-Shirt Nite" (retitled "Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt" in 1987)   4:45

6. "Toad-O Line" (retitled "On the Bus" in 1987)   4:19

7. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"   2:36

8. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up"   5:43

9. "Scrutinizer Postlude"   1:35

Act II: The Closet

1. "A Token of My Extreme"   5:30

2. "Stick It Out"   4:34

3. "Sy Borg"   8:56

Act II: Prison

4. "Dong Work for Yuda"   5:03

5. "Keep It Greasey"   8:22

6. "Outside Now"   5:50

Act III: Dystopian Society

1. "He Used to Cut the Grass"   8:35

2. "Packard Goose"   11:34

Act III: Imaginary Guitar Notes

3. "Watermelon in Easter Hay"   9:09

4. "A Little Green Rosetta"   8:15

 

Frank Zappa Band Members / Musicians

Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals

Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar, vocals

Denny Walley – slide guitar, vocals

Ike Willis – lead vocals

Peter Wolf – keyboards

Tommy Mars – keyboards (Act 1)

Arthur Barrow – bass guitar, guitar (on "Joe's Garage"), vocals

Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar on "Outside Now" and "He Used to Cut the Grass"

Ed Mann – percussion, vocals

Vinnie Colaiuta – drums, combustible vapors, optometric abandon

Jeff (Jeff Hollie) – tenor sax (all tracks Act 1)

Marginal Chagrin (Earle Dumler) – baritone sax (all tracks Act 1)

Stumuk (Bill Nugent) – bass sax (all tracks Act 1)

Dale Bozzio – vocals (all tracks Act 1)

Al Malkin – vocals (all tracks Act 1)

Craig Steward – harmonica (all tracks Act 1)

Frank Zappa – Central Scrutinizer, Larry, L. Ron Hoover, Father Riley & Buddy Jones

Ike Willis – Joe

Dale Bozzio – Mary

Denny Walley – Mrs. Borg

Al Malkin – Officer Butzis

Warren Cuccurullo & Ed Mann – Sy Borg

Terry Bozzio – Bald-Headed John

The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen Chorus – Al Malkin, Warren Cucurullo, Dale Bozzio, Geordie Hormel, Barbara Issak & most of the people who work at Village Recorders

Ferenc Dobronyi – Cover Design

Steve Alsberg – Project Coordinator

Joe Chiccarelli – Engineer, Mixing, Recording

Norman Seeff – Photography, Cover Photo

John Williams – Artwork

Steve Nye – Remixing

Mick Glossop – Remixing

Stan Ricker – Mastering

Jack Hunt – Mastering

Thomas Nordegg – Assistant

Tom Cummings – Assistant

Joe's Garage is a three-part rock opera recorded by American musician Frank Zappa in September and November 1979. Originally released as two separate studio albums on Zappa Records, the project was later remastered and reissued as a triple album box set, Joe's Garage, Acts I, II & III, in 1987. The story is told by a character identified as the "Central Scrutinizer" narrating the story of Joe, an average adolescent male, from Canoga Park, Los Angeles, who forms a garage rock band, has unsatisfying relationships with women, gives all of his money to a government-assisted and insincere religion, explores sexual activities with appliances, and is imprisoned. After being released from prison into a dystopian society in which music itself has been criminalized, he lapses into insanity.

The album encompasses a large spectrum of musical styles, while its lyrics often feature satirical or humorous commentary on American society and politics. It addresses themes of individualism, free will, censorship, the music industry and human sexuality, while criticizing government and religion, and satirizing Catholicism and Scientology. Joe's Garage is noted for its use of xenochrony, a recording technique that takes musical material (in this instance, guitar solos by Zappa from older live recordings) and overdubs them onto different, unrelated material. All solos on the album are xenochronous except for "Crew Slut" and "Watermelon in Easter Hay", a signature song that Zappa described as the best song on the album, and according to his son Dweezil, the best guitar solo his father ever played.