This is terrific. Thanks for posting. The Beefheart cover is convincing, at least of difficult as a Zappa cover. Lots of orchestration! Splendid. The horns you wrote are funny and serious at the same time, right in the Zappa realm. Bravo!
Bless you, Sir. Hot Rats is my second favorite Zappa album ( We're Only In It For The Money is a first). Everything here seems to be faithful to, if not the original track, then to the spirit of it. Frank would seriously have been really proud of you.
Great job on one of my all time favorite tunes. Got the Beefheart vocal pretty good. Wondered how you were going to handle the insane guitar solo. Very cool.