IMAGINARY DISEASES

This was one of the albums many of us Zappaphiles had been waiting for. And it delivers. With all of the live recordings Frank had allowed us to hear over the years, he never released anything of "The Petit Wazoo". But here it is in all of it's splendor.

The only piece that is totally familiar is Rollo which later became the grandiose finale to the Don't Eat Yellow Snow suite. Farther O'Blivion (not the section of Yellow Snow) contains sections of The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary, The Be-Bop Tango and other later songs, but stands out on it's own.

The rest of the album is mostly jams, with some incredible horn playing and some of Zappa's finest soloing. But there are some other written sections thrown in as well, that will delight the hard core Zappa fan.

It's good to know that there may still be some more gems like this in the Zappa vault.

This probably should rate four stars, but listening to it always make me feel so good that I have to give it five.