Production
Most of Side 1 was recorded at Zappa's Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio at his home in Los Angeles; while the majority of the material on Side 2 was extracted from live performances during tours in 1981 and 1982. The live material was originally intended for an unreleased album titled Chalk Pie, which was scrapped after it had been bootlegged.
The cover art for the album shows the classic Droodle (from which the album gets its name), whose shapes also suggest the letters 'ZA' (and 'P', sideways), as in 'Zappa'.
The song "Drowning Witch" is one of the most complex instrumentals that Zappa ever wrote, featuring musical quotations from The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and the Dragnet TV theme.
Read more about this topic: Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
Famous quotes containing the word production:
“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Perestroika basically is creating material incentives for the individual. Some of the comrades deny that, but I can’t see it any other way. In that sense human nature kinda goes backwards. It’s a step backwards. You have to realize the people weren’t quite ready for a socialist production system.”
—Gus Hall (b. 1910)