"G-Spot Tornado" was written by Frank Zappa. He thought that the composition was so difficult to play that it could not possibly be performed by a human, therefore he initially recorded the song using a
Synclavier DMS. The piece, one of, "Zappa's most successful Synclavier releases in the
tonal idiom..., employ[s] the
verse-chorus structure of pop and rock music." "Especially in [its] orchestral incarnation, [
G-Spot Tornado] is one of the most riveting, rhythm-dominated, inexorable things Frank ever wrote." The composition was selected as one of the top ten favorites of subscribers to Zappa fanzine ''T'Mershi Duween''.
Parental advisory label "G-Spot Tornado" was released at the time when the
RIAA introduced the
Parental Advisory, and therefore the discs were forced to have a parental advisory even when none of the album's tracks had lyrics, but rather due to the song's title which mentioned the
G-spot, the female
erogenous zone. Zappa went to the
Parents Music Resource Center Senate Hearing, a former committee formed in 1985 by the wives of many
Deputies with the stated goal of increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related or sexual themes by labeling albums with
Parental Advisory stickers. Zappa spoke with
William Rehnquist (then
Chief Justice of the United States), justices
Sandra Day O'Connor,
Clarence Thomas, and
Al Gore, who declared himself a fan of
the Mothers of Invention.
The Yellow Shark "G-Spot Tornado", arranged in 1992 by Ali N. Askin, was part of Zappa's last album
The Yellow Shark (1993) interpreted this time by human musicians at
Ensemble Modern in
Frankfurt, Germany, with participation of Canadian Dancer
Louise Lecavalier. This performance proved Zappa's assumption that the composition was unable to be played by humans incorrect. == References ==