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Hot Rats, the second solo album by Frank Zappa, is considered by his fans and critics alike to be a groundbreaking, important record, as well as one of his most innovative efforts of all time.The first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention, Zappa composed, arranged, and produced all of the music on Hot Rats while playing electric guitar on all tracks. The album contains the song Peaches en Regalia, widely recognized as a modern jazz-fusion standard. This entire groundbreaking and historical recordincluding using new sixteen-multitrack recording and overdub technics for the first time everwas captured in photos by Bill Gubbins, who shot the recording sessions and live performances of the record immediately following its release. Most of these images have never before been published in book form, appearing here for the first time. The Hot Rats Book: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats: also contains essays by author Bill Gubbins; Ia

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      Publisher Backbeat
      Published 15 December 2019
      ISBN-13 9781493047758
      978-1493047758
      ISBN-10 1493047752
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      Book Synopsis
      Hot Rats, the second solo album by Frank Zappa, is considered by his fans and critics alike to be a groundbreaking, important record, as well as one of his most innovative efforts of all time.The first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention, Zappa composed, arranged, and produced all of the music on Hot Rats while playing electric guitar on all tracks. The album contains the song Peaches en Regalia, widely recognized as a modern jazz-fusion standard. This entire groundbreaking and historical recordincluding using new sixteen-multitrack recording and overdub technics for the first time everwas captured in photos by Bill Gubbins, who shot the recording sessions and live performances of the record immediately following its release. Most of these images have never before been published in book form, appearing here for the first time. The Hot Rats Book: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats: also contains essays by author Bill Gubbins; Ia

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