Which Ocean *IS* the Ultimate Solution?

Posted almost 5 years ago
It seems I'm running into more and more people who share my appreciation of Frank Zappa's guitar skills. Many know him for his 70s and 80s vocal oriented songs like "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and "Valley Girl", and his skills as a composer have been acknowledged, but Frank was also a *SICK* guitar player.This song "The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution" is originally from a late 70s release called Sleep Dirt. The story behind Sleep Dirt is a long one and worth hearing, but the short version is that when the original LP was released on CD, Zappa overdubbed drums and vocals much to the dismay of his fans. Later, the Lather box set containing this material was released but it contained a shortened version of this track. So this is a clean vinyl transfer so you can hear one of Zappa's greatest guitar workouts as it originally blew minds back in 1979...

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  1. fairportfan says Frank used to refer top himself as "a composer who also operated a guitar". The *Book of Rock Lists* has a list of Greatest Rock Guitarists, which includes several people who, in my opinion, weren't worthy to carry Frank's guitar cases. But not Frank Zappa. This, of course, may have something to do with the fact that music journalists are (more or less) human, and Frank once published a list of The Five Greatest Rock Journalists:
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    Permalink posted 07/30/2007

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