Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - 1988 - Broadway The Hard Way [EAC FLAC]

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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar.

The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California that served as the backing musicians for Frank Zappa. Their work is marked by the use of sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows.

Originally an R&B band called The Soul Giants, the band's original lineup included Ray Collins, David Coronado, Ray Hunt, Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black. Zappa was asked to take over as the band's guitarist following a fight between Collins and Coronado, the band's original saxophonist/leader. Zappa insisted that the band perform his original material, changing its name on Mothers Day to The Mothers (which for legal liability reasons was morphed by record executive decision into The Mothers of Invention), and leading the band to substantial popular commercial success. Originally formed in 1964, the band first became popular playing in California's underground music scene in the late 1960s. Under Zappa's helm, the band was signed to jazz label Verve Records as part of the label's diversification plans, and released The Mothers of Invention's début album Freak Out! (1966), featuring a lineup including Zappa, Collins, Black, Estrada and Elliot Ingber.

Under Zappa's leadership and a changing lineup, the band released a series of critically acclaimed albums, including Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money and Uncle Meat, before being disbanded with Zappa's departure in 1969. In 1970, Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers that included Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons, George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (formerly of The Turtles, but who for contractual reasons were credited in this band as The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie). Later adding another ex-Turtle, bassist Jim Pons, this lineup endured through 1971, when Zappa was injured by an audience member during a concert appearance.

Zappa focused on big-band and orchestral music while recovering from his injuries, and later formed the Mothers' final lineup in 1973, which included drummer Ralph Humphrey, trumpeter Sal Marquez, keyboardist/vocalist George Duke, trombonist Tom Fowler, bassist Bruce Fowler, and percussionists Ruth Underwood & Ian Underwood. The final album using the Mothers as a backing band, Bongo Fury (1975), featured guitarist Denny Walley and drummer Terry Bozzio, who continued to play for Zappa on non-Mothers releases.

Broadway The Hard Way

Released October 14, 1988 (LP)
May 25, 1989 (CD)
Recorded February 9– June 9, 1988
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, jazz fusion
Length 71:03 (CD)
Label Barking Pumpkin
Producer Frank Zappa

Tracklist:
1 Elvis Has Just Left the Building 2:25
2 Planet of the Baritone Women 2:48
3 Any Kind of Pain 5:42
4 Dickie’s Such an Asshole 5:46
5 When the Lie’s So Big 3:38
6 Rhymin’ Man 3:50
7 Promiscuous 2:03
8 The Untouchables 2:26
9 Why Don’t You Like Me? 2:58
10 Bacon Fat 1:30
11 Stolen Moments 2:58
12 Murder by Numbers 5:37
13 Jezebel Boy 2:27
14 Outside Now 7:50
15 Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel 6:41
16 What Kind of Girl? 3:17
17 Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk 9:15

Broadway the Hard Way is a Frank Zappa live album recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl album through Zappa's mail order label Barking Pumpkin in October 1988, and subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989.

Ripped from original CD with Exact Audio Copy.
Art, cue sheet & Rip log included. All tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag.

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