Co has been invited by leading guitar magazine GITARIST to choose his favorite FZ guitar track, along with the likes of Steve Vai, Mike Keneally and Guthrie Govan.
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Here is Co’s comment.
Enjoy!
TITLE: BLACK NAPKINS
From: ZOOT ALLURES
Of course, the question of choosing 1 favorite Zappa track should be prohibited by law. But in this context I choose Black Napkins from the LP Zoot Allures, a release from October 1976. A live recording made in Osaka earlier that year. A year of decisions: Manager Cohen was fired, the lawsuits piled up and the band’s name was changed from Mothers to ZAPPA, in Frank’s words: ‘like Montrose’. In this version he seems to tell us all about this, because BN sounds like the voice of a man on a mission: in this small line-up, the guitarist Zappa shows himself to be a master of storytelling, phrasing, tone, and everything with that almost unmanageable honesty. He would play the tune many more times, but even he would never match the razor-sharp undertones of this recording.