To runce the irruncible spoon ....
Kennst du Schenectady?
An unused Agnus Dei.
Odorless green ideas smell furiously.
— Groucho Marx in Monkey Business
Since (as noted erewhile) Uncle Meat was an early Zappa acquisition of mine, I especially enjoy the fact that the show documented on Disc Four of the Over-Nite Sensation 50th anniversary box (in Detroit’s Cobo Hall on 12 May 1973) opens with a kind of Uncle Meat Suite, starting with a loose chamber-musicly “Exercise #4.” Then, missing Ricky Lancelotti, a purely instrumental “Fifty-Fifty” whose overall tenor feels like an echo of the Grand Wazoo. Then Sal Marquez sings a sultry “Inca Roads.” Oh, very nice trumpet solo, too. Then a preview of Apostrophe (’), the “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” medley, closing with a sped-up reprise of “St Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast.” Then “Cosmik Debris,” and a concluding medley of “King Kong”/“Chunga’s Revenge” and “Son of Mr Green Genes.” Overall, I’d say that one of the things I’m especially glad of in this box, is all the Jean-Luc Ponty.
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