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The Grand Wazoo is the eleventh album by The Mothers, sixteenth overall by Frank Zappa, released in November 1972. It was written and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence after being assaulted in December 1971 in London, UK.
Dunbar was later the drummer for Frank Zappa, playing on the solo albums Apostrophe (') and Waka/Jawaka, and the Mothers ' albums The Grand Wazoo, Fillmore East – June 1971, and Just Another Band from L.A., as well as the film 200 Motels.
Aynsley Thomas Dunbar ( Liverpool, 10 gennaio 1946) è un batterista britannico di blues, blues-rock, Jazz, rock progressivo, Hard rock e pop-rock . Ha suonato come membro di numerosi e importanti gruppi sia come musicista d'accompagnamento che come ospite ed è stato pure leader di un proprio gruppo, gli Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation .
The Grand Wazoo è il sesto album di inediti del musicista e compositore statunitense Frank Zappa, pubblicato nel 1972 dalla Reprise Records . Rappresenta l'ipotetico terzo capitolo della trilogia jazz-fusion che Zappa aveva iniziato con Hot Rats (1969) e proseguito poi con Waka/Jawaka (luglio 1972). [ senza fonte]
The long The Grand Wazoo follows. It opens with a fine solo by Zappa on semi-acoustic guitar through a wha-wha pedal. Massive winds, a theme that stays in one's mind long after the record is over, some rock-blues, and an appropriately nasal slide guitar solo by Tony Duran.
Alain Dister hob die Rolle des Schlagzeugers Aynsley Dunbar hervor, der „der Band eine für die Idiome des Pop sehr charakteristische rhythmische Pulsation [verlieh]: ein kräftiger Beat, der jeden Solisten antreibt und auf dem die ganze Rhythmusstruktur der Gruppe zu beruhen scheint.“
A word about Aynsley Dunbar, a rock drummer of unusual skill and taste who adapts his style expertly to the music here. On the title track he drives the ensemble as if he had been born a big-band drummer.
