Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage (1979)

Of course, not his first but one of his later brilliant works and my particular favourite.  Frank was a musical genius, brilliant guitarist and composer and producer of over 60 albums featuring every style of both popular and modern classical and jazz music.  He sadly died of cancer at age 53.  Who knows where his talent would have taken him.  He was also very political, hating Evangelical Christianity and most Republicans.  He had a habit, or indulgence of including ‘humour’ of a quite outrageous nature into his music.  This album is a loose story of Joe, who falls foul of the laws that haven’t been written yet, including ‘Music’.  Bizarre and brilliant and hilarious by turns Frank was on top of his sometimes erratic form with this album.  Too hard to choose any favourites but the instrumental guitar track ‘Watermelon In Easter Hay’ is sublime and one of my favourite guitar tracks ever.