JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A.

The second Frank Zappa live album (still with Flo & Eddie) was "Just another band from L.A.", it includes the huge "song" "Billy the Mountain", which is a prototype of what Zappa would later do with "The adventures of Greggery Peccary" and the whole "Thing-Fish" record: an unnecessarily large play that narrates a story that it is hard to follow if you're not a native English speaker or pay a lot of attention to the lyrics during the 24 minutes it lasts.

The B-side of the record is more accessible: two short songs from THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION's studio albums ("Call any vegetable" from "Absolutely free" and "Dog breath" from "Uncle meat") and two original songs that give uniqueness to the record ("Magdalena" and "Eddie, are you kidding?"). Further than that, there is not too much to say about the music this record offers.

SONG RATING: Billy the Mountain, 3 Call any vegetable, 4 Eddie, are you kidding? 3 Magdalena, 4 Dog breath, 4

AVERAGE: 3.6

PERCENTAGE: 72

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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