What's not to love? Zappa playing a killer solo, Ruth Underwood is the Marimba Queen, Ralph Humphrey playing incredible fills, and Tina Turner and the Ikettes singing background vocals. So much talent, so much fun.
Of the Ikettes' harmonies, Zappa later said:
”It was so difficult, that one part in the middle of the song "Montana", that the three girls rehearsed it for a couple of days. Just that one section. You know the part that goes "I'm pluckin' the ol' dennil floss..."? Right in the middle there. And one of the harmony singers got it first. She came out and sang her part and the other girls had to follow her track. Tina was so pleased that she was able to sing this that she went into the next studio where Ike was working and dragged him into the studio to hear the result of her labor. He listened to the tape and he goes, ‘What is this shit?’ and walked out".
Related, they paid Ike $10,000 to stay out of the studio when Tina recorded "Mountain Deep, River High".
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