Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar (1981) [Flac M3U+CUE] Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar is a triple vinyl album, originally issued mail order-only as three separate volumes, featuring live material recorded by Frank Zappa between February 1977 and December 1980. The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc Ponty on baritone violin dating from a 1972 studio session. It was later issued in 1982 in the UK by CBS as a box set with different artwork (with the original US LP covers now being used as inner sleeves) and with liner notes including a review of the original three-volume edition. The album was released in 1981 and reissued by Rykodisc on CD in 1986 as a two disc set and again in 1995 as a three disc box. There is a widely held belief that the order of the tracks "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" and "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" were swapped on the two disc set; in fact, this is not the case. The source of the confusion may be the back cover of the 2-CD set, which lists the two tracks as swapped. The inside booklet, however, lists the tracks in correct order, and the actual track timings and contents confirm that "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" (5:38) is on disc 1 and "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" (6:53) is on disc 2. The album is entirely instrumental and features mainly guitar solos, hence the title. It is, however, interspersed with brief verbal comments between tracks, many of which also appear on Läther, as was originally intended. Each disc is titled after a variation on the album's name, which is shared with the title track found on each respective disc. Most solos on the album are culled from performances of another song. The three title tracks are derived from successive renditions of "Inca Roads"; various other solos were taken from readings of "Conehead", "Easy Meat", "The Illinois Enema Bandit", "City of Tiny Lites", "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Chunga's Revenge", and "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus". "Ship Ahoy" was the coda from a performance of "Zoot Allures" the first part of which appears on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3.[1] The opening track, "five-five-FIVE", is built around a musical idea that involves two measures of playing in 5/8 time followed by one measure in 5/4, thus explaining the song's name. Some of the solos from these albums are featured in The Frank Zappa Guitar Book. Similar albums: Guitar, Trance-Fusion, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa. TRACKLIST: Shut up and Play Yer Guitar - Disc 1 1. five-five-FIVE - 2:35 2. Hog Heaven - 2:46 3. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - 5:35 4. While You Were Out - 6:09 5. Treacherous Cretins - 5:29 6. Heavy Duty Judy - 4:39 7. Soup 'n Old Clothes - 3:02 Shut up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More - Disc 2 8. Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression - 3:56 9. Gee, I Like Your Pants - 2:32 10. Canarsie - 6:06 11. Ship Ahoy - 5:26 12. The Deathless Horsie - 6:18 13. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More - 6:52 14. Pink Napkins - 4:41 Return of The Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - Disc 3 15. Beat It With Your Fist - 1:39 16. Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - 8:45 17. Pinocchio's Furniture - 2:04 18. Why Johnny Can't Read - 4:04 19. Stucco Homes - 8:56 20. Canard Du Jour - 10:12