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Another one of those mixed bags.  I like the music but I struggle to get past Dr. John's voice.

You're a tough nut to crack.  You understandably dislike guys with horrible voices like Bob Dylan and Dr. John, but you also dislike guys with fantastic voices like Dennis DeYoung.  There's just no pleasing you at all.

@utee94 , this was on my mind to share with you since I figured as a bit of a hidden gem, this album and the songs therein might be previously unknown to you.  This one in particular, I've thought for years was Steve Lukather and EVH.  Welp, mind = blown, world = rocked, everything I thought I knew is upside down.  I swore I read that in the album credits, and it sounds like EVH to me, but it's not.  If you're able to hear this in discernible stereo, the left channel is Steve Lukather, the right channel is Steve Stevens (of Top Gun theme fame, channeling his best EVH impersonation imo), and f*** me, the center channel is not even real guitar, according to nerds on the internet I know.  They say it's Jan Hammer on.....synth.  I'm still skeptical that a synth in 1989 can sound that much like a guitar, and especially some of the effects and "extras" I hear on it particular to guitar rigs that I've never heard a synth produce.....but wtf do I know.  I admit it doesn't make sense that two guitar players are separately panned left and right and then one of them also gets a middle balance (it would be Luke......it definitely isn't Stevens)

Apparently I correctly remember that EVH is on this album, playing bass on several tracks, of all things, but not on guitar here.  Either I'm getting old or I just failed to reed goode back when I got this.  Anyway, here's Luke and not-Eddie:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB3v4rvuAPY

Zappa, being at his heart a jazz man, was a stickler for perfect rhythm - and oddly complicated ones at that.
There's an apocryphal story about Bozzio entering the rehearsal hall where Frank had placed the sheet music for his new composition "The Black Page", allegedly so named because the sheer volume of notes made the sheet music look completely black.

Bozzio was eating a sandwich, put it down on the stand next to himself, picked up his sticks and started playing it perfectly. Frank walked in and gave him a look of annoyance. Bozzio shrugged, traded one stick for his sandwich, and took a bite - all while continuing to execute every note on the page.