Strange Fish

"Two brothers (Jeremy & Joe Haynes)… 13 years and 1000 miles apart write, produce, and record a concept album based on Hemmingway's Old Man and The Sea and our relationship with our father, who was a fisherman himself. Probably lost a few of you already with the sheer geekiness of that sentence, but for those who chose to stick around, and happen to be fans of melodic rock music with some powerful but approachable ‘Prog’ leanings…

Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984) [2CD] {1995 Ryko Remaster}
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© 1995 Rykodisc / The Zappa Family Trust | RCD 10544/45
Rock / Experimental Rock

Like his masterpiece JOE'S GARAGE, Zappa's THING-FISH is an epic rock opera on a grand scale. The comical narration by Ike Willis in the title role, with his own Amos-&-Andy-ish dialect, may seem like harmless buffoonery on the surface, but there is a dastardly evil undercurrent. The overall theme is the attempt by the establishment to systematically do away with certain undesirables in society. Instead, bizarre mutations called the mammy nuns are created and proceed to overtake mankind through the context of a Broadway show.

Josh Clayton-Felt was one of the many fantastic songwriters that emerged in the early '90s with a hot debut album that was quickly forgotten about when grunge arrived. Although School of Fish had a minor hit with the rolling "3 Strange Days," there were several equally great songs on the album that should have made a dent.

1993's Human Cannonball was the second (and final) album from School of Fish, an alternative rock band that almost, but not quite, made it big when people cared about this kind of music.