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You are reading Best FZ Covers: Billy The Mountain by Eric Severinson which was posted on Saturday, May 29th, 2010 at 7:33 pm by Balint. This entry is filed under Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery.
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May 29th, 2010 at 8:35 pm »
Billy was a piece I always struggled with, despite repeated listening attempts. I thought this was great…he really opened it up and in one fell swoop has showed the importance of covers.
May 29th, 2010 at 9:19 pm »
Great!!!
May 30th, 2010 at 1:51 am »
Thanks for posting this, Balint.
“Billy the Mountain” has always been one of my favourite pieces by Zappa (and entirely under-appreciated by some of his fans, I think). It belongs alongside his other great epic songs: “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It”, “Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown” (with vocals), “The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary”, “Drowning Witch”, “I Come From Nowhere” and others. Each combines FZ’s dark sardonic humor with witty quotidian observations and FZ’s penchant for self mythologizing his place and his time in his songs while juxtaposing complex polyrhythms musically and vocally against one another.
Eric Severinson’s cover achieves this effortlessly. Bravo.
May 30th, 2010 at 1:34 pm »
Wow! That was great!!! At times it did sound just like Volman and Kaylan, don’t you think?
Great stuff!!
May 30th, 2010 at 5:11 pm »
This is fantastic.
May 30th, 2010 at 9:55 pm »
Love it !!! This guy is too much !!!
June 5th, 2010 at 12:23 am »
excellent! but is part 2 up yet??