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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

No, no, I just misunderstood you since I think I praised the guitar work more on The Long Named Song more than Truck Driver Divorce; I definitely prefer Truck as a complete song, but it has quite a bit of lyrical setup before reaching the instrumental section which I find helped my appreciation for the instruments. Based only on the guitar work, I suspect that I'd prefer the Long Named Song.

...Also, TDD's Initial Score was only 57.04, it just went *way* up by the end so "Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar" actually has a bit of an edge on initial impressions. So since that song is more immediately enjoyable and doesn't have an entire story backing it up, I think it'd be fair to say I'm more drawn to the guitar playing on it. Or at the very least, it'd be up for debate.

ohh ok, i see what you mean now.

yeah, this is exactly why i was hesitant to nominate ROTSOSUAPYG as an example of zappa's late '70s guitar playing. like i said before, a lot of zappa fans don't like the guitar solo albums at all because they think the solos lose a lot of their power when you listen them out of the contexts of their respective songs. case in point, this solo was actually extracted from a live performance of the song inca roads.

if you're still taking bonus song noms, i recommend this one. this is also from one of the guitar solo albums (shut up 'n play yer guitar), but this actually IS a complete song. zappa's solo here is not quite as long (or good, in my opinion) as the ROTSOSUPYG solo but i still really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwCv4p1veAI