Fillmore East - June 1971 - Frank Zappa

Filmore East is a 1971 album with a concept idea of travelling with a rock band, the two main stories are "The Mud Shark" whereby the band are allowed to fish from their hotel rooms and catch a mud shark and much of the rest of the album which features an egotistical fictional rock band played by Zappa and Co. that is trying to pull some girls who are considered groupies. Now I think it focuses on this latter topic a bit too much and that the best track on the whole album is most definitely "Bwana Dik" a crazy cheerful tune with operatic tendencies where Zappa informs the girls that he is well endowed. (the girls claimed earlier that they ...  Read the complete review