And still they come. It seems that not a day goes by that there isn’t yet another extended Frank Zappa gem released to luxuriate in. His sons Ahmet and Dweezil might still be embroiled in exasperating legal wranglings over the family name, but in the meantime, Ahmet appears to be spending his days rifling through his dad’s extensive archive with the help of Joe Travers, gatekeeper of the Zappa vault. And what riches it holds. Frank didn’t lay down a guitar lick without pressing ‘record’ or go on stage without the sound engineer capturing that night’s performance.
The original One Size Fits All begins with the complex, clever and complete Inca Roads (basic tracks recorded in LA, guitar solo from a show in Helsinki: Zappa 101) and continues to transcend from there. It didn’t hurt that the Mothers at that point included keyboard player George Duke, drummer Chester Thompson and saxophonist/singer Napoleon Murphy Brock.
