Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation in a retrospective assessment for AllMusic, Sean Westergaard wrote, "Frank Zappa was one of the finest and most under appreciated guitarists around. Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllMusic ( Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More)ĪllMusic ( Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar) Some of the solos from these albums are featured in written form in The Frank Zappa Guitar Book. The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc Ponty on baritone violin dating from a 1972 studio session. "Ship Ahoy" was the coda from a performance of "Zoot Allures" the first part of which appears on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. The three title tracks are all derived from the song "Inca Roads" various other solos were taken from "Conehead", "Easy Meat", "The Illinois Enema Bandit", "City of Tiny Lites", "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Chunga's Revenge", and "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus". More of these bits appear on other Zappa albums such as Läther. The music is entirely instrumental but interspersed with brief bits of comic dialogue from Zappa band members. Zappa later conceived the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar series, which contained two tracks originally prepared for Warts and All. As this project neared completion, Zappa found it to be "unwieldy" due to its length. The complete package later appeared as a two CD set.Īfter the release of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and planned to release a triple LP live album called Warts and All. The recordings were subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982 and distributed by CBS Records in Europe. The albums were initially released as individual LPs in May 1981 on Barking Pumpkin Records and sold only through mail order in the United States. The music was well received by critics, and Zappa subsequently produced additional albums focusing solely on guitar-oriented instrumental music. The albums consist solely of electric guitar instrumentals and improvised solos played by Zappa and featuring a wide variety of backing musicians. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a project consisting of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, is a series of albums by Frank Zappa.
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