Willie The Pimp (track)
by Frank Zappa

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Willie The Pimp by Frank Zappa
Year: 1969
From the album Hot Rats (track #2)

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Willie The Pimp appears on the following album(s) by Frank Zappa:

• Hot Rats (track #2) (this album) (1969)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (track #4) (1991)
• The Hot Rats Sessions (track #42) (2019)
• The Mothers 1971 (track #22) (2022)
• The Mothers 1971 (track #55) (2022)
• The Mothers 1971 (track #82) (2022)

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From giorad 06/07/2020 09:09 | #252972

Top song by all accounts.

Marvelous guitar solo and overall orchestral background.

Spot on Beefheart's vocals.

.... And it was in the late 1960s!

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From pantoffeljoscha 07/19/2015 17:25 | #146065

For me this is the first time that Zappa really shows that he is the greatest and most creative guitar player of all time. Also this song reminds me of Rage against the Machine (hot riff and Beefheart is rapping over it) only 30 years before. Yeah, Zappa was sooo way ahead of his time...

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From Jasonconfused 12/20/2012 00:42 | #58323

Love the dirty sounding riff and Captain Beefheart's sleezy vocals!

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