Waka/Jawaka!

flanabyss12 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:36 pm **Posts:** 108

I've always kind of overlooked this album in preference to The Grand Wazoo, but I've recently started to get into it. What are your thoughts about Waka, people?

BillyDaMt · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:27 am

4 great songs.
Oh, and W/J has Don's famous Moog solo too! :mrgreen:

punknaynowned · **Joined:** Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:14 am **Posts:** 5570

It's Hot Rats Act II
It's the Wazoo Ensemble
It's namesake is on Quaudiophiliac in a wunnerfull surround with more stuff!
It's George Duke and Tony Duran, It's the Fowler Brothers and Ruth
It's short but packs a mighty punch that keeps on punchin
Big Swifty is one of my favorite songs

<take it away, folks>

jimmie d killed the forum · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:04 am

Vote for you favorite Waka/Jawaka album track at the following forum link:

http://www.zappa.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12283&highlight=favorite+favourite+song+waka+jawaka

PappaWas1975 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:38 pm

Played W / J last night. Great album, yes...

BRAVO SIERRA · **Joined:** Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:11 am **Posts:** 4859

flanabyss12 wrote:

I've always kind of overlooked this album in preference to The Grand Wazoo, but I've recently started to get into it. What are your thoughts about Waka, people?

What do you think of Hot rats? WJ in my opinion IS FZ musically.

Trennasol · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:23 pm

Waka/Jawaka is one of my very favorite FZ releases. On vinyl of course!!!!

Isaac · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:07 am

Trennasol wrote:

Waka/Jawaka is one of my very favorite FZ releases.

Agreed.

[size=0]Isaac[/size]

AbnucealEmukaah83 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:20 am

One of my favorites, only 4 songs, but it never gets boring.
I have it on vinyl and love everything about it, not just the music.
The album cover is great and also the picture of FZ on the back must be one of the best ever !

Waka/Jawaka rules, but then again, so does the Grand Wazoo, Imaginary Diseases and Wazoo.
A great period in FZ's already great career...

conor_oreilly · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:16 am **Posts:** 22

Listening for the first time right now and a fan already (half way through Big Swifty).

:smoke:

calvin2hikers · **Joined:** Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:41 pm **Posts:** 16828

I was just listening to this today. I love the pedal steel in One Shot Deal.

sleeping in a jar · **Posted:** Fri Mar 15, 2019 4:06 pm

calvin2hikers wrote:

I was just listening to this today. I love the pedal steel in One Shot Deal.

Me too. One Shot Deal was one of the songs I used to play for people to try and get them to like Zappa, because of that solo.

thenoisydrum · **Joined:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:16 am **Posts:** 2572

sleeping in a jar wrote:

calvin2hikers wrote:

I was just listening to this today. I love the pedal steel in One Shot Deal.

Me too. One Shot Deal was one of the songs I used to play for people to try and get them to like Zappa, because of that solo.

sleep / cal,
That pedal steel solo is one of my favourite musical moments, period. I have only ever had this on vinyl and the sound quality is great. So warm.
Dunbar's drumming is perfect. Quite basic sounding, as in keeping the beat going, but very difficult to play as smoothly as he does.
For me, the track takes a turn with the line "you can be scared when it gets too real". Don't know why but it gives me goose pimples. Then, those goose pimples get goose pimples when Dunbar's tom tom roll introduces that solo.......

calvin2hikers · **Joined:** Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:41 pm **Posts:** 16828

I think this whole album is excellent, even Your Mouth.

Tero · **Posted:** Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:05 pm

It's fine for the musical material, but when I collect Zappa oddities in a playlist...Baby Take Your Teeth Out etc., I laways include the froggy song, http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/W ... .html#Deal

and after all, many things we do are One Shot Deals!

punknaynowned · **Joined:** Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:14 am **Posts:** 5570

^^^
I've always wondered what this was about.
It seems like a specific story yet it's elliptically told
when Frank's story-songs could be very direct and explicit.
This time he chose to be eliptical.

Anybody know? Was it in the book and I just forgot?

Tero · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:20 pm

I believe it’s existentialist. :mrgreen:

The picture of Zappa is one of my faves. Top 5 portraits.

KUIII · **Joined:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:28 pm **Posts:** 11233

Tero wrote:

I believe it’s existentialist. :mrgreen:

The picture of Zappa is one of my faves. Top 5 portraits.

The sweater vest was up for auction a couple of years ago. I wonder who bought it and what they did with it.

Tero · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:37 pm

When I was 18 I had my mom knit me a Paul McCartney type vest. I asked her not to buy new yarn, so her bands had black and gray as well.
https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/movie/m ... he-beatles

slime.oofytv.set · **Joined:** Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:29 pm **Posts:** 10255

kuiii wrote:

... The sweater vest was up for auction a couple of years ago. I wonder who bought it and what they did with it.

item # 359

frank zappa waka/jawaka vest

$2,187.50

Mr. Nice Guy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:41 pm

with David Clayton Thomas and members of Kris Kristofferson's band

Shrewnews · **Joined:** Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:57 pm **Posts:** 915

slime.oofytv.set wrote:

frank zappa waka/jawaka vest

$2,187.50

It was the 50 cents that put him over the top.

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