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Title: Cheap, horrible, great fun
Review: In which Frank lets his quondam lead singers, Flo and Eddie, recreate before a live audience the repulsive negotiations of an archetypal groupie and an archetypal rock star. I shouldn't really find this album funny, but I do, if only because of the sheer preposterousness of not only performing this kind of thing but actually releasing it as a live album. The band is actually very good, in a shambling early 70s kinda way, and Flo and Eddie (aka Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles, in case you didn't know - remember "Happy Together"? It forms the climax to this album! ) had a sort of sleazy naivety that none of Zappa's other singers have ever tried to recreate (for all their gifts, the rest of them end up sounding like Zappa wannabes.) It also has a storming live version of "Peaches en Regalia". Maybe not as evilly pointed and musically intricate as "Roxy and Elsewhere" or "Zappa in New York", but still a vital antidote to pretentious rock piety.
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