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Originally Posted by Frownland
I haven't seen much praise for their improv but generally agree. What makes them great is their songwriting and hallucinatory, heavy sound best showcased on Disraeli Gears. Neither Clapton nor the insanely overrated Ginger Baker are interesting enough to sustain an extended jam. Jack Bruce's Zappa work tells me he probably has the chops for it though.
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Wiki gives a confusing entry on that:
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"Apostrophe (')" is an instrumental featuring bassist Jack Bruce and session drummer Jim Gordon, who was on tour with Zappa's band at the time of the session in November 1972. Bruce is credited on the album cover with bass guitar and co-writing the title song. However, in an interview for Polish rock magazine Tylko Rock he said that he had not played any bass guitar parts or done any co-writing on "Apostrophe (')", only the cello intro. He reminisced, "So I turned up in a NY studio with my cello, I'm listening to [Zappa's] music, pretty awful, and just don't know what to do with myself, and Frank [Zappa] says to me: "Listen, I would like you to play a sound, like this... whaaaaaang!!!" So I did what he asked me to do. Whaaaaaang!!! That was all. That was my input to Frank Zappa's most popular record! [laughs]"[10] Bruce had studied the instrument at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and performed with it on some of his other recordings.
However, Zappa has referred to Bruce playing bass on the song in an interview: "Well, that was just a jam thing that happened because he was a friend of (drummer) Jim Gordon. I found it very difficult to play with him; he's too busy. He doesn't really want to play the bass in terms of root functions; I think he has other things on his mind. But that's the way jam sessions go."[11]
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I guess we'll believe Zappa who apparently didn't do drugs?
Also, that's a banging track, whoever played bass on it.