Just Another Band from L.A.

Infobox Album |
Name = Just Another Band from L.A.
Type = Live album
Artist = The Mothers


Released = March 26, 1972
Recorded = August 7, 1971
Genre = Comedy rock, hard rock
Length = 45:18
Label = Bizarre/Reprise
Producer = Frank Zappa
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:edjm7i3jg7or~T1 link]
*Robert Christgau (C) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=4155 link]
Chronology = Frank Zappa
Last album = "200 Motels"
(1971)
This album = "Just Another Band from L.A."
(1972)
Next album = "Waka/Jawaka"
(1972)

"Just Another Band from L.A." is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music). It was recorded live in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA. Another live album released during the Flo and Eddie days, "Just Another Band from L.A." features an edited version of the mini-opera "Billy the Mountain." A full version was later released on Playground Psychotics in the early 1990s. Often overlooked by reviewers, this album marks an important period in the band's career due to the extensive use of the Turtles band, soon to be dissolved with Zappa's stage fall. The song "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" refers to Edward Nalbandian.

It was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Rykodisc in 1990 and in 1995.

Track listing

ide one

#"Billy the Mountain" (Zappa) – 24:47

ide two

#"Call Any Vegetable" (Zappa) – 7:22
#"Eddie, Are You Kidding?" (Kaylan, Seiler, Volman, Zappa) – 3:10
#"Magdalena" (Kaylan, Zappa) – 6:24
#"Dog Breath" (Zappa) – 3:39

Personnel

* Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
* Mark Volman – lead vocals
* Howard Kaylan – lead vocals
* Ian Underwood – woodwinds, keyboards, vocals
* Aynsley Dunbar – drums
* Don Preston – keyboards
* Jim Pons – bass guitar, vocals

Charts

Album - "Billboard" (North America)

References