Advantages: Another Classic Zappa performance Disadvantages: The tracks that didn't fit on the CD
Zappa. The name on a CD case should be considered a guarantee of the quality of content inside.
Since discovering Frank's work through collecting everything his one-time guitarist Steve Vai's work; Zappa now hold a place in my opinion as the finest musician/composer/social commentator of the 20th Century.
And this album, made up of live recordings from the 1988 world tour, is one of his finest hours. Zappa has a righteous dig at a great many groups ... ...of the time ("Sincerely Ron, we mean it!"). However the delivery of the the messages is not a rant, more a collection of finely crafted music with appropriate social commentary over the top. Play "Any Kind of Pain" to many sections of the entertainment industry and the would love it - and most probably completely miss the pop it takes at them. The musical interjections of other pieces within "Rhymin Man" show just how tight a live band can be....when ...
welshpete 15.07.2002
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