Frank Zappa – “Joe's Garage” / “Catholic Girls” (2022) Картина - Noël Van Hoof

Frank Zappa – “Joe's Garage” / “Catholic Girls” (Joe's Garage – Act I)
“Joe's Garage” was my first introduction to Zappa's music after the Dutch dj Ad Visser devoted an evening show to this album. We're talking about 1979 and I was fifteen, the age when young people soak up everything they see and hear as a sponge. “Joe's Garage” was the starting point for me to delve further into Zappa's music, including his older work. I started collecting his records. For me there is a Zappa before and after “Joe's Garage”.
“Joe's Garage” is a three-part rock opera. The album is narrated by a government employee identifying himself as “The Central Scrutinizer”, who delivers a cautionary tale about Joe, a typical adolescent male who forms a band as the government prepares to criminalize music. The Central Scrutinizer explains that music leads to a "slippery slope" of drug use, disease, unusual sexual practices, prison, and eventually insanity.

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Frank Zappa