alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ: About this FAQ
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part1
This document is not meant to discourage anyone from participating or
initiating discussion on the FZ news- group. It is meant to make the
reader aware of some of the topics that have already been discussed
and sometimes beaten into the dust. This document is by no means the
last word on anything, especially where personal opinions or
observations are involved. This document is NOT officially sanctioned
or sponsored by anyone, READ: No one is directly paying for its
existence. The providers of the network connections needed to post
this are in- directly paying for its distribution.
The alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ is split up in these parts:
* The Main FAQ
General questions and some conceptual continuity
* "Whatever Happened To ..."
Keeps track of all Zappa's band members.
* The Zappa Discography
* The Zappa Singles Discography
* The Zappa Videography
* The Zappa Bibliography
* Bootlegs Information
* Vinyl vs. CD's
Discusses the differences between the original vinyl albums and
the CD versions.
* Notes and Comments
Many lyrics and conceptual continuity explained.
* The '88 Tour
Everything about the 1988 Broadway The Hard Way Tour.
* Other Zappa Projects
Information about other artists and projects that Zappa worked with.
The original version of this FAQ was by Rob Sweet (sw...@skat.usc.edu)
Let's hear it for him.
In addition to all the netters, We would like to thank D. Cell and
Pandi Raldi for all their help.
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part2
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These are the Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) for
alt.fan.frank-zappa. original version by sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob
Sweet) currently maintained by heed...@fwi.uva.nl (Robbert Heederik)
The answers include message headers from the originator whenever
possible. This file is posted bi-weekly (that's twice a month). To add
updates or changes, send them to: heed...@fwi.uva.nl
GENERAL QUESTIONS
1. I heard that Frank Zappa has passed on. Is this true?
2. I just started listening to Zappa. Which albums should I check
out?
3. I find some of Zappa's lyrics to be offensive. Is Zappa a sexist?
4. Where can I find a discography of Frank Zappa's music?
5. What are the names of Frank Zappa's kids?
6. Where can I find Zappa stuff on the net?
7. What are those funny-looking uppercase acronyms I see when people
are mentioning Zappa albums?
8. What are those Frank Zappa CDs/cassettes on Rhino? Are they a
ripoff or what?
9. What Frank Zappa videos are available?
10. Are there any books about Frank Zappa?
11. What is T'Mershi Duween? What other FZ fanzines are available?
12. Was Zappa's real name Frank or Francis?
13. What is the Zappa hotline?
14. What other recording acts did Zappa produce or play with?
QUESTIONS REGARDING LYRICS, RUMORS AND CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY
1. I heard that Frank Zappa participated on a "Gross Out" contest on
stage. Is this true?
2. What is a "Florentine Pogen"?
3. Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in Burbank?
4. Who is the bass player on The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka,
credited only as "Erroneous"?
5. What is the cat saying on the Barking Pumpkin logo?
6. What is the Japanese text on the cover of Zoot Allures?
7. Who is on the cover of the Hot Rats album?
8. What role did FZ play in the PMRC "record-rating" hearings?
9. How can I get a copy of the congressional hearings on record
labeling?
10. What is "vloerbedekking"?
11. What are the backwards lyrics in "Ya Hozna"?
12. What does WPLJ stand for?
13. Who is Francesco Zappa?
14. Who is Brother A. West?
15. Did Zappa invent the wah-wah peddle?
16. What is a "Telefunken U-47"?
17. What is "Phydeaux 3"?
18. How is the Mudshark dance performed?
19. Where do the guitar solos from "Guitar" and "SUNPYG" come from?
20. Did Al DiMeola play with Frank Zappa?
21. Who is Suzy Creamcheese?
22. What was the original cover to "The Best Band You Never Heard In
Your Life" like? Mine is black. Why did they switch covers? What
happened to "Bolero"?
23. Is it "Bobby Brown" or "Bobby Brown Goes Down"?
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I heard that Frank Zappa has passed on. Is this true?
Frank Vincent Zappa, who was born December 21, 1940, died in his
Laurel Canyon home shortly before 6 PM PST, on December 4, 1993, after
a long battle with prostate cancer. A short time later, his wife Gail
announced that Frank had departed for his "last tour".
Moon Zappa had this to say:
[Originally posted by (Mike Fitzmaurice)]:
"You have reached the Zappa Hotline. This is Moon. My mother and my
family are asking those of you wishing to send flowers or to
commemorate my father in some way, to make a donation in Frank's
name to the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library
Association, a 501-C tax-exempt organization, reachable by phone at
312-280-4223 or by fax at 312-440-9374, or to the Cousteau society,
or GreenPeace, or any favorite environmental cause.
"My family is concerned about those of you who would like to express
their sympathies, but are financially restricted. Just play his
music, if you're a musician, and if you aren't, play his music
anyway -- that will be enough for him.
"My family hopes to be able to announce a memorial service at some
future date."
"Lastly, my mother asks that you be kind to your family, and to your
friends, and most especially to yourself."
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I just started listening to Zappa. Which albums should I check out?
All of them, of course! (Take a look at the discography.)
If you already have a Zappa album, and you want something similar to
that, take a look at these suggestions by Johannes Labisch
(j...@cs.tu-berlin.de).
I HAVE ALBUM X AND I LIKE IT VERY MUCH. WHAT ARE SIMILAR ALBUMS?
Here's how to find out:
* Check out why you like that album (lyrics?, jazz?,
synclavier?,...). Find a "class" which matches. Then buy all the
albums in that class that you don't have. ;-)
* Search for the name of the album. Then look in which class that
album is mentioned. If it sounds interesting, buy all the albums
in the class. ;-)
(No. I don't get any money out of it...)
Thanks to everyone who had some input to that.
The annotations describe how "good" the contents of that album fit in
that class:
all
All (or at least very much)
most
Most (more than 3/4)
part
About half of it
some
Less then a half, but this stuff is ok.
A plus sign (+) marks "class leaders". That does not mean that this
album is the best (in that class), just it fits the best in that
class. Sometimes there are more than one "class-leaders". Don't worry.
For the hardcore-fz-fanatics:
* These are just hints, don't take them too seriously.
* Sometimes there are a few albums missing. If you think, a new
listener should listen to that special album, send me a note.
* If you think, a new listener should not be put in THAT direction
(because there's a bad album in a class), send me a note.
* If you think this is stupid: Go ahead and read again and again and
again again "Hi. I'm new. What album should i listen to?" and
DON'T send me a note. :-)
1973-1975
+ Apostrophe(')
+ Bongo Fury
+ One Size Fits All +
+ Over-nite Sensation +
+ Roxy & Elsewhere
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 2
60'S Satire
+ Absolutely Free (most)
+ Freak Out (most)
+ We're Only In It For The Money (most) +
Big Band Stuff
+ Make A Jazz Noise Here (most) +
+ The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. (part)
+ The Grand Wazoo (all) +
+ Waka Jawaka (most)
+ Zappa In New York (some)
Chamber Music
+ Ahead Of Their Time (part)
+ Burnt Weeny Sandwich (most) +
+ Francesco Zappa (all) (This album is not composed by Frank
Zappa)
+ Lumpy Gravy (most)
+ The Perfect Stranger (part)
+ The Yellow Shark (most) +
+ Uncle Meat (most)
Collage
+ F.Z. Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (some)
+ Lumpy Gravy (most) +
+ Uncle Meat (most)
+ We're Only In It For The Money (most) +
+ Weasels Ripped My Flesh (some)
Complex Rock
+ One Size Fits All (most)
+ Roxy & Elsewhere (all)
+ Ship Arriving Too Late (most) +
+ Studio Tan (part)
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 2 (most)
+ Zappa In New York (most) +
Flo & Eddie
+ 200 Motels (most)
+ Chungas Revenge (most)
+ Mothers/Fillmore June 1971 (most) +
+ Playground Psychotics (part)
+ Just Another Band From LA (all) +
Guitar
+ Guitar (all) +
+ Hot Rats (most)
+ Joe's Garage (on ACT 2&3)
+ Shut up 'n'play yer guitar (all) +
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 3
+ Them or Us (some)
Jazz
+ Burnt Weeny Sandwich (part)
+ Grand Wazoo (all) +
+ Hot Rats (all) +
+ Sleep Dirt (most)
+ Uncle Meat (part)
+ Waka/Jawaka (most)
+ Make a Jazz Noise Here (most)
Live
There are so many live recordings by Frank. So this class is
propably not necessary. Anyway: It has no class leader.
+ Ahead of Their Time (all)
+ Baby Snakes (all)
+ Bongo Fury (most)
+ Broadway The Hard Way (all)
+ Does Humor Belong In Music? (all)
+ Guitar (all)
+ Just Another Band From LA (all)
+ Make A Jazz Noise Here (all)
+ Mothers/Fillmore June 1971 (all)
+ Playground Psychotics (part)
+ Roxy & Elsewhere (all)
+ Sheik Yerbouti (all)
+ Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar (all)
+ The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (all)
+ The Yellow Shark (all)
+ Tinseltown Rebellion (most)
+ Weasels Ripped My Flesh (most)
+ You Can't Do That On StageAnymore, Volume 1-6 (all)
+ Zappa in New York (all)
Love-Songs
I bet there are more albums with that Do-Wop stuff...
+ Cruisin With Ruben and The Jets (all) +
+ Freak Out! (some)
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 4 (part)
Orchestral
+ 200 Motels (part) +
+ Ahead Of Their Time (some)
+ Lumpy Gravy (part)
+ Orchestral Favourites (all, with rock-group)
+ The London Symphony Orchestra (all) +
+ The Perfect Stranger (most)
+ The Yellow Shark (all) +
Sex
+ 200 Motels (some)
+ Joe's Garage (some)
+ Mothers/Fillmore June 1971 (most)
+ Overnite Sensation (part)
+ Sheik Yerbouti (some)
+ Thing-Fish (some)
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6 (part) +
Stories
+ 200 Motels (some)
+ Ahead Of Their Time (some)
+ Apostrophe (part)
+ Joe's Garage (all) +
+ Just Another Band From L.A. (part) +
+ Playground Psychotics (some)
+ Studio Tan (part) +
+ Thing-Fish (all) +
+ Zappa In New York (some)
Synclavier
+ F.Z. meets the Mothers Of Prevention (most)
+ Francesco Zappa (all)
+ Jazz from hell (all) +
+ The Perfect Stranger (part)
The '84 Tour
+ Does Humour Belong In Music (all) +
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 3
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 4
The '88 Tour
+ Broadway The Hardway (all)
+ Make A Jazz Noise Here (all)
+ The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. (all) +
The Roxy Line Up
+ One Size Fits All (most)
+ Roxy & Elsewhere (all) +
+ You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 2 (all)
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I find some of Zappa's lyrics to be offensive. Is Zappa a sexist?
Zappa has written many songs that seem to "attack" a particular
lifestyle or belief system. Most people will find at least one of
these songs to be directed at them personally. The best advice for
those offended: Lighten up!. Zappa seems to believe that if you cannot
laugh at yourself, then you are taking yourself too seriously.
from The Real Frank Zappa Book:
AM I A `SEXIST' - OR WHAT?
If you were to take all the lyrics I've ever written and analyze how
many songs are about `women in demeaning positions,' as opposed to
`men in demaning positions' you would find that most of the songs
are about stupid men.
The songs I write about women are not gratuitous attacks on them,
but statements of fact. The song "Jewish Princess" caused the Anti-
Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith to complain bitterly and
demand an apology. I did not apologize then and refuse to do so now
because, unlike `The Unicorn', such creatures do exist - and deserve
to be `commemorated' with their own special opus.
The basic function of any ethnic protective PR organization is to do
what Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California) suggested on the
`Larry King show' - "maintain the fiction." (He used it in context
of protecting the Reagan administration during the Iran-contra
scandal, suggesting it was our duty as Americans to support the
President by looking the other way.)
Italians have an organization to `maintain the fiction' that no
Italians are in the Mafia, nor do they sell drugs while engaging in
murder for hire. If you want to believe that, fine - welcome to
Fantasy Land. If you want to believe that wrestling is real, go for
it - and if you want to believe that women are a wonderful species
that: [1] never goes to the toilet; [2] can't possibly do anything
wrong; [3] is completely superior to men, then believe it - whatever
makes you feel good.
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Where can I find a discography of Frank Zappa's music?
A Zappa discography FAQ will be posted to alt.fan.frank-zappa on a
monthly basis. See also the answer to "Where can I find Zappa stuff on
the net?".
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What are the names of Frank Zappa's kids?
Frank's wife is Gail
Frank's kids: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin.
Dweezil and Ahmet have a rock 'n roll band named Z.
(more from The Real Frank Zappa Book):
When Dweezil was born, Gail decided to have `natural child- birth'.
At that time, the only hospital in Los Angeles that would allow this
process to occur with a Dad in the delivery room was Hollywood
Presbyterian Hospital.
When it was time for the Big Delivery, we experienced a slight delay
- we had to fill out a mass of papers before they'd let us in,
riddled with irrelevant questions like: "What religion are you?"
Gail looked at me and said "What do we put?" I said, "Musician."
That was the first thing that upset the admitting nurse. The second
thing to spoil her afternoon was when she asked: "What are you going
to name the child?" Gail said, "Dweezil."
Gail's got a funny looking toe which had been the source of family
amusement so often that it had aquired a `technical name': it wasn't
really a toe - it was a "Dweezil." I thought then and continue to
think today, that Dweezil is a nice name. Fuck the nurse if she
didn't like it.
The nurse pleaded and pleaded with us not to name the child Dweezil.
Labor pains and all, she was going to make Gail stand there unless
we gave her another name to put on the form. I couldn't see letting
Gail suffer just to argue the point, so I rattled off an assortment
of names of guys we knew: IAN (Underwood) DON (van Vliet) CALVIN
(Schenkel) EUCLID (James "Moterhead" Sherwood) As a result Dweezil's
original birth certificate name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa.
The nurse thought that was okay.
In spite of this harrowing experince, we always called him Dweezil.
He was five years old when he discovered the `real names' on his
birth certificate.
Dweezil was very upset, and demanded that steps be taken to rectify
this tragedy. We hired an attorney and had his name legally changed
to Dweezil.
(from the April 1993 Playboy interview):
PLAYBOY: Would they have been different had you named them Sally or
John?
ZAPPA: It's the last name that get's them in trouble.
PLAYBOY: How?
ZAPPA: I'm viewed as being weird. When somebody calls you weird,
then anything you touch becomes weird. On the other hand, they like
being weird.
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Where can I find Zappa stuff on the net?
FTP
The anonymous ftp site ftp.uwp.edu has stuff on the net and gif/jpeg
pictures for many different artists. After logging on, type cd
zappa.frank and you will end up in the right directory.
Lately this ftp site has been extremely busy, so try these mirror
sites first:
Mirror of uwp's lyrics and pictures:
www.wit.com /music (Waukesha,
WI)
ftp.sunet.se /pub/music (Sweden)
Lyrics only:
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de /pub/rec/music/vocal/lyrics/uwp (Germany)
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Another site is at aloysius.ee.tut.fi in the /zappa directory. There
is a discography, a GIF directory and some sound files in Macintosh
and Sun/NeXT formats.
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Guitar tablatures can be found on the ftp server at ftp.nevada.edu.
Look in the /pub/music/tabs/z/frank-zappa directory.
This site is mirrored at these other sites:
ftp.uu.net /doc/music/guitar (Falls Chu
rch, VA)
unix.hensa.ac.uk /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar (UK)
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de /pub/rec/music/guitar/songs/nevada (Germany)
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/misc/guitar (Germany)
ftp.uni-paderborn.de /doc/guitar (Germany)
ftp.diku.dk /pub/music/guitar (Denmark)
ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at /pub/mirror/guitar (Austria)
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GOPHER
The All-Music Guide contains over 200,000 music titles. This contains
reviews, ratings (!) and discographies of lots of artists, including
Zappa (120K).
Put this in your .gopherrc:
Type=0+
Name=Zappa, Frank [AMG]
Path=0/pop/z/za/zappa.f
Host=allmusic.ferris.edu
Port=70
Admin=All Music Guide
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WWW
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage is a World Wide Web server full of
Zappa stuff. It contains lyrics of over 250 Zappa songs, gif/jpeg
images of the album covers, interviews and a selection of MIDI and
Sun/NeXT audio files.
The URL is http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/
Feel free to mail heed...@fwi.uva.nl (Robbert Heederik) any questions
or comments about this web server.
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The Black Page is another web server. On this one you can find GIF
images, interviews, the FAQ, the exact location of asteroid zappafrank
and the answering machine message from Barking Pumpkin.
The URL is http://www.catalog.com/mrm/zappa.html
The Black Page is maintained by Marianne Mueller. Her email address is
m...@netcom.com.
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A Tribute To Frank Zappa has pictures and reviews of Allan Strattons
favourite albums.
The URL is http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~stratton/zappa/zappa.html
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Vinsku's Discography has a list of all officially released albums, the
Beat The Boots series and a list of known bootlegs.
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What are those funny-looking uppercase acronyms I see when people are men
tioning Zappa albums?
(This is not really a frequently asked question, but has the
vulnerability to become one.) Some of Zappa's album titles are longer
than albums that most regular people listen to. To prevent
Carpal-Tunnel syndrome in the typing fingers, some readers have
abbreviated the album titles.
These are some common acronyms and the full album titles:
ASATLTSADW
A Ship Arriving Too Late Save A Drowning Witch
JABFLA
Just Another Band From L.A.
OSFA
One Size Fits All
SUNPYG
Shut Up N' Play Your Guitar
TBBYNHIYL
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
TMFU
The Man From Utopia
WOIIFTM
We're Only In It For The Money
YAWYI
You Are What You Is
YCDTOSA
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore
[ note: RDNZL looks like an acronym, but is actually the title of a
song that originally appeared on the album Studio Tan. On the original
Warner Bros. vinyl release, the song was listed as "Redunzl". This is
one of the albums that Warner Bros. released without Frank's
permission, and Zappa filed suit against Warner to obtain the rights
to those albums. ]
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What are those Frank Zappa CDs/cassettes on Rhino? Are they a ripoff or w hat?
~From: ra...@CS.Yale.Edu (Dan Rabin)
The ACTUAL, TRUE ANSWER:
They are copies of bootleg recordings that were originally marketed
illicitly. Rhino asked Zappa for permission to release them legally.
Zappa said yes: Rhino wasn't asking him to do any work, and he would
get royalties this way and also help wipe out demand for the illegal
products (hence `Beat the Boots') which have always infuriated him.
Rhino made the recordings from the actual records, and took the
cover art from the actual bootleg cover art. Naturally, the illegal
bootleggers weren't about to cooperate by providing the original
tapes, nor were they likely to complain about having their artwork
copied.
So there you have it. No one is trying to rip off the Zappa fan, but
Rhino and Zappa have conspired to rip off the bootleggers who
originally ripped off Zappa.
There *are* interesting tidbits on the bootlegs, such as a version
of `Holiday in Berlin' with words actually having to do with a
sojourn in Berlin. The sound quality is terrible. This is the exact
same tradeoff that potential bootleg-buyers have always faced,
except that now they won't be breaking any law by making the
purchase. If you weren't offended by the existence of the bootlegs
in the first place there's no reason to be offended now.
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What FZ videos are available?
A Zappa videography FAQ will be posted to alt.fan.frank-zappa on a
monthly basis. See also the answer to "Where can I find Zappa stuff on
the net?".
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Are there any books about Frank Zappa?
A Zappa bibliography FAQ will be posted to alt.fan.frank-zappa on a
monthly basis. See also the answer to "Where can I find Zappa stuff on
the net?".
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What is T'Mershi Duween? What other FZ fanzines are available?
T'Mershi Duween is a Zappa Fanzine published in Britain.
T'Mershi Duween (c/o Fred Tomsett)
P.O.Box 86
Sheffield
S11 8XN
UK
Six (approx) issues of this A5 B+W Zappa Fanzine are released
annually.
UK: UK pounds 8.00
Europe: UK pounds 9.60
ROTW: UK pounds 10.00 (surface)
ROTW: UK pounds 13.00 (air mail)
These prices cover six issues. American (or other) readers can send
US$, in which case send $20 (surface) cash ($22 cheque);$25 (air) cash
($27 cheque). Otherwise cash, cheques, POs, giros etc. Please make
eurocheques payable to B Tomsett for ease of cashing. Add UK pounds
3.50 if sending Giros from Switzerland. Send cash or bank cheque.
We have a stock of back issues, namely numbers 10, 11, 18-34. Cost
singly is UK pounds 1.35 (UK) UK pounds 1.60 (Europe) UK pounds 2.20
(ROTW). Or buy them all for UK pounds 21 (UK); UK pounds 23 (Europe);
UK pounds 26 (ROTW).
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~From: johns...@delphi.com (John Scialli)
This is per Volume 4 of the TORCHUM NEVER STOPS (reference books)
CURRENT MAGAZINES
T'MERSHI DUWEEN [see above]
BLACK PAGE
Piet de Doelder
PO Box 9188
1800 GD Alkmaar
NEDERLAND
(Transfer Hfl. 30,- to the account of the Dutch Postbank no. 2320206
at the name of Piet de Doelder)
SOCIETY PAGES
Rob Samler
PO BOX 395
Deer Park NY 11729-0395
UNITED SNAKES OF AMNERIKA
ZAP
Jean-Marie Orliange
Petit-Billoux
Peyrelevade
F-19290 Sornac
FRANCE
MOTHER PEOPLE
PO BOX 6443
Bridgeport CT 06606-6443
USA
DEFUNCT MAGAZINE (but maybe there are humans left
with piles of stuff collecting dust)
YEARS OF PUBLICATION LISTED IN PARENS
*Society Pages* (50 issues until '90)
Society Boks
22 Bekkelagshogda
1109 Oslo-11
NORWAY (but get the mags from the alive
Society Pages in Deer Park, NY (see above})
*Cucamonga* (1980-84)
No address
NEDERLAND
*Da Werdz* (?)
GERMANY
*Totally Zappa* (?)
No address
USA (13 issues)
*Cosmik Debris* (?)
USA
*Mother's Home Journal* (1972-73)
Graig Pinkus
USA
*Hot Raz Times* (11 issues until '75)(from 1973)
Urban Gwerder
SWITZERLAND
*L'oeil de Zappa* (1980-82, 6 issues)
FRANCE
*Dancin' Fool* (1 issue in 1984)
GERMANY
*Le Petit Zappa Illustre* (5 issues)
1 Rue de Iles
F-06160 Juan-les-Pins
*Absolutely Free* (9 issues until 1984)
(A Newsletter) by Norbert Obermanns
(author of Zappalog)
Postfach 15
D-4048 Grevenbroich-3
GERMANY
Sorry for the inconsistent formatting. My mind
smells like fish.
-Dr. Memory
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~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
I think Mother People is history. If it's up & running again, don't
subscribe. The asshole ran off with hundreds of subscribers' $ around
'89 sometime.
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Was Zappa's real name "Frank" or "Francis"?
Frank's full, real name was "Frank Vincent Zappa". For years, Zappa
himself thought his first name was "Francis" and had even used it in
press releases and album liner notes. He discovered later, when he saw
his birth certificate, that his real birth name was "Frank", not
"Francis".
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What is the Zappa hotline?
You can reach the official Zappa hotline by calling (818) PUMPKIN -
(that's 818-786-7546). They answer on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific time. All other times you will hear a
recorded message. Call this number to find out info for press
releases, album releases, interviews, and other Zappa-related info.
They also have a merchandising department that sells T-shirts,
posters, etc. There is a magazine about Zappa called Society Pages,
that can be ordered on the hotline. The Pumpkin mailing address is:
BARFKO-SWILL
P.O. Box 5418
North Hollywood, CA 91616-5418 USA
The address for Zappa's distributor in London, England is:
Music For Nations / Zappa Records
102 Belsize Lane
London
NW3 5BB
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~From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
In response to some inquiries as to the (European) addresses of the
places which sell (Zappa) CD's:
2001 Versand
Postfach
D -- 60381 Frankfurt/Main
phone +49-69-4208000
fax +49-69-415003 or 415004
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The correspondence address for Z (Dweezil and Ahmet's band) is:
Z
c/o Hollywood North
PO Box 5227
N. Hollywood CA 91616
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What other recording acts did Zappa produce or play with?
The following albums contain music that was produced and/or written by
Zappa. There is some more detailed info in another FAQ documnet called
"Other Zappa Projects" If anyone has more data on these recordings
please email to me (sw...@skat.usc.edu) and I will add it to the FAQ
document.
King Kong -- Jean-Luc Ponty
Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart
Good Singin', Good Playin' -- Grand Funk
Flint -- Flint
Lightning Rod Man -- Lowell George and The Factory
Touch Me There -- Shankar
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up -- Jeff Simmons
Permanent Damage -- GTO's
An Evening With Wild Man Fischer -- Wild Man Fischer
For Real -- Ruben and the Jets
Go Boy Wonder -- Burt Ward (single)
Would You Like A Snack? -- Jefferson Airplane
Feel -- George Duke
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I heard that Frank Zappa participated in a "Gross Out" contest on stage. Is
this true?
The following is from Frank's autobiography, "The Real Frank Zappa
Book":
The other fantasy is that I once `took a shit on stage.' This has
been propounded with many variations, including (but not limited
to):
1. I ate shit on stage.
2. I had a `gross-out contest' (what the fuck is a `gross-out
contest'?) with Captain Beefheart and we both ate shit on stage,
etc.
3. I had a `gross-out contest' with Alice Cooper and he stepped on
baby chickens and then I ate shit on stage, etc.
I was in a London club called the Speak Easy in 1967 or '68. A
member of a group called the Flock, recording for Columbia at the
time, came over to me and said:
"You're fantastic. When I heard about you eating that shit on stage,
I thought, `That guy is way,way out there.'"
I said, "I never ate shit on stage." He looked really depressed -
like I had just broken his heart.
For the records, folks: I never took a shit on stage, and the
closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn
buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
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What is a "Florentine Pogen"?
You might ask yourself why anyone would want to ask the above
question. For those who are scratching your heads, there is a song
called "Florentine Pogen" on "One Size Fits All", "The Best Band You
Never Heard In Your Life", and "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore"
vol. 4.
From: lis...@sics.se (Bjorn Lisper)
"Pogens" is an anglified spelling of the Swedish bakery "Pagens"
(where the "a" has a ring on top). "Pagens" is south Swedish dialect
and means "the boy's" (cookies, say). In Sweden, Pagens makes all
sorts of cookies, bread etc. It turns out that these Florentine
Pogens being sold in California are a type of cookie that Pagens
sells in Sweden, but under a different name. So Pagens seems to have
some business in California as well.
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Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in Burbank?
At Ralph's Vegetarian Poodle Clipping.
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Who is the bass player on The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka, credited only as
"Erroneous?"
~From: k...@claris.com (Ken Walter)
I looked it up in "Zappalog" and his real name is Alex Dmochowski.
According to the same source, he also played with:
Annette & Victor Brox
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
Graham Bond
Heavy Jelly
John Mayall
Michael Chapman
Peter Green
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~From: de...@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
Erroneous auditioned for the band I was in about 10 years ago. It
was easy to identify him with the picture in one of the records. I
don't remember his real name but he said they used "Erroneous"
because he was not a member of the musicians union.
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What is the cat saying on the Barking Pumpkin logo?
On the Barking Pumpkin (Frank's record company) logo there is a
pumpkin saying "arf!" and a cat saying (in Kanji):
______ __\|/__
|__| ____ /|\
|__| | | _______
_|__| |__| |__|__|
| |__|__|
_______ _|___|_
___|___ _|___|_
____|____ / \
Someone was nice enough to inquire about this with someone else who
could read this sort of thing. The literal trans- lation was given as
"sacred feces" or in the current slang, "holy shit".
(ASCII Kanji characters provided by : wa2...@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
(robert.f.casey))
~From: JOHNS...@delphi.com
The Real Frank Zappa Answer (as opposed to the real answer). When
Tinseltown came out it was the first with the BP logo. I wrote Frank
and he graciously replied within a month. here is the full text of
his letter to me (I asked what's the cat saying & what's the cat's
name)(also I'm an M.D. which explains Frankie's references):
June 16, 1981
Dear John:
In becoming a doctor, you probably spent too much time learning to
read Latin, and that is why you can't understand what the cat is
saying. Medical professors in our country would probably be more
advanced if they spent more time reading Chinese and taking
advantage of some of the things the Chinese have learned in the last
three thousand years in the art of healing...but never mind.
I believe the cat is merely saying, "radio" and the cat's name is
not "Mao"; as a matter of fact, I haven't thought of a name for her
yet but I suppose "Wanda" would be okay.
Obviously you must be doing your job really well. There probably
aren't any sick people in your area - you must have cured them all,
otherwise you wouldn't have any spare time to write me a letter.
Keep up the good work.
Yours truly,
Frank Zappa
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What is the Japanese text on the cover of Zoot Allures?
~From: ag...@Freenet.carleton.ca (Dennis Guertin)
Back when ZOOT ALLLURES came out I was working in an engineering
department, which had a Japanese exchange engineer posted to Canada. I
brought the album in to ask him and the converstaion went something
like this:
"Yoshi, what's this say?"
"Nothing."
"What do you mean "nothing"?"
"I mean it doesn't mean anything?"
"Do you mean you can't read it?"
"No, I can read it."
"Well, what's it say?"
"Nothing."
"Yoshi, can you read this or not?"
"I can read it."
By this point I finally figured out that he meant since the meaning
was not decipherable to him, it meant nothing to him.
"Yoshi, say what this says."
"I don't know what it means. It says "Frank Zappa".
Now, I don't know if he was pulling my leg and goddamn he WAS so
polite he wouldn't have said "Shit" if his mouth was full of it, but
that's what he said. I assumed his thought processes were going
"What's a frank zappa?". That reminds me: Anyone know the joke for
which the punchline is "What's an Ali McGraw?". Been trying to
remember it for a decade or two.
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~From: lab...@DBresearch-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
I have an old interview (from that time) at home (german translated)
where Franks is asked about these signs and he says it's his name, in
two different ways of writing. One of it was "Fu-ran-ku Zap-pa".
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~From: rn....@rose.com (Mark Erdman)
Yeah, the five characters on the back cover are just random characters
that can be read as "Furanku Zappa". It's not the way the Japanese
people _really_ write his name, though. Actually, the characters for
writing foreign names in Japanese are really simple, maybe 4 lines at
most. The ones on the back cover are Chinese-style characters, which
would usually be used to express ideas instead of sounds like the ones
they write foreign languages or conjugate verbs with. I'm not sure why
he put it on that cover, but I have a suspicion about how it got
there. In the book I mentioned last time, Frank said that when his
son, Dweezil, was a kid he used to have a Japanese friend, and would
try writing things in kanji all the time. So my theory is that Dweezil
did it for the album. About the thing on the front cover - I'm not
skilled enough to read it, but I recognize it as a _hanko_ print.
These are little seals that Japanese people register and use as their
signatures when they sign bank transactions. Usually, they're just the
person's name in stylized form. I have a penfriend living near
Yokohama whose father is a skilled _hanko_ craftsman.
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~From: QGB0...@niftyserve.or.jp (Noriyuki Tsunofuri)
The characters on the back cover can be pronounciated "fu ran ku za
ppa". The hanko graphic on the front cover can be "za ppa". Those are
kanji characters.
There are three character systems in Japanese language. Two kanas,
Hira-kana and Kata-kana, and Kanji. Kanas are Japanese invention and
has no meaning in each character. You know "A" itself doesn't mean
anything. It makes sense when it used with other characters.
Combination. That's the same with kanas.
But kanji is not the case. Kanji was imported from China, VERY LONG
AGO (although usage and pronounciation is very different). And it does
have meaning.
Normally, in Japanese, foreign things and names are described in Kata
kana. Its shape is simpler than kanji. I think that is what Mark
Erdman says.
Sometimes western people use kanji. I understand they want to have an
"oriental feel". That's good but, as I've said, each Kanji has meaning
so maybe they should be careful about the selection of character.
Otherwise, it might give wrong impression.
For example, the characters on the front cover of "ZOOT ALLURES" mean
"miscellaneous leaves". Some say it's inappropriate word which stands
for ZAPPA because it reminds of drugs. We all know FZ was strictly
against any kind of drugs.
The back cover ones mean "no-frantic-pain miscellaneous school". (this
school is not the school of medecine or law. The impressionist school,
the Stoic school. That school.) That's better, I think.
But basically, these character was chosen in accordance with
pronouciation. So it's grammatically incorrect and as a sentence, it
means nothing.
Regarding the origin: the Mothers did concert tour in Japan, early
1976. It was the last tour as "The Mothers" and only Japanese tour of
FZ. The Mothers performed once in Kyoto University, and hanko and
name-plate were presented to FZ from student committee. FZ used the
hanko on the front and words of the name-plate on the back cover.
(according to the liner notes of MSI's edition of "ZOOT ALLURES")
FZ must be impressed people of Kyoto. They welcomed FZ in various
unusual way. FZ performed superbly and the Kyoto concert became
legendary among Japanese fan.
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Who is on the cover of the "Hot Rats" album?
The woman on the cover of "Hot Rats" is Christine Frka. She was one of
the baby-sitters for Frank's kids and a member of the GTO's (Girls
Together Outrageously), a group that Frank had produced an album for.
She also recommended that Frank record Alice Cooper. She died of an
overdose sometime in the '70's.
(source: The Real Frank Zappa Book)
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What role did FZ play in the PMRC "record-rating" hearings?
(from Option Magazine Interview JAN-FEB 1987):
Several months ago, it seemed a refreshing and deliciously ironic
moment when Frank Zappa was spotted on television, testifying before
a Senate committee. He was dressed in a jacket and tie, much as he
was more than two decades ago for an appearance - in which he
musically played a bicycle - on the Steve Allen Show. Before the
committee, however, with the accumulated notoriety of the
intervening years in evidence only as subtext, the talkative,
knowledgeable and apparently incensed musician held forth as the
most reasonable voice of the afternoon.
Considering the urgent problems you'll find on the front pages of
even the lamest paper, the committee was holding hearings on the
non-issue of applying ratings to rock records. Zappa had come to
Washington to help nip this bit of proto- fascism in the bud.
Instigated by the Parents' Music Resource Center, a well-connected
group of Washington wives with kids in school and time on their
hands, the committee was examining the possibility of a casual link
between rock music and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, Satanism,
concert violence and other things which no one could seem to recall
having existed before 1956.
Asked how something as trivial as record-rating became the subject
of a Senate inquiry, Zappa simply remarked, "A couple of blow-jobs
here and there and Bingo! - you get a hearing." He added that Tipper
Gore - wife of Senator Albert Gore and a key figure in the PMRC -
had recently demanded that MTV president Tom Freston go to
Washington to discuss the rating of music videos. While any
legislation against the various music media doesn't seem likely at
this point, Zappa notes that the current administration is doing
what it can to further its own ideology, such as reviewing all
documentaries being produced by both National Public Radio and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
(OP)- Within the last year the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC)
has requested that record companies rate records they produce
similar to the current rating of films. You've been involved in this
recent controversy. What did the record industry finally agree to?
(FZ)- Well, to quote you from the Associated Press Wire Report,
dated November 1, 1985, the basic points of the agreement between
the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the PMRC are
that "parents' groups will have no role in determining what is
explicit." Next, "the record companies will determine what is
explicit." When asked, "What is explicit?," Stanley Gortikov
(president of the RIAA) replied, "What's explicit is explicit."
Third, "those artists whose contracts give them control over their
packaging are free to ignore the understanding." Does this sound
like something you could enforce?
I think the record industry allowed the ladies to save a little face
(by making a formal agreement at all), which just encourages them
more. The PMRC has moved to new quarters in Virginia; they are no
longer in Washington D.C. They have a new printed fund-raising
package which heralds their victory while omitting those parts of
the agreement that render it inoperable. The fund-raising package
says that if you'll send them money, they will send you more
examples of the horrors of these lyrics. They are making an industry
out of this thing! Meanwhile, Reverend Jeff Ling, their consultant,
has this new slide show that he is taking around.
The night before I testified in the State Senate, I attended a
cocktail party that a bunch of legislators were invited to. The bill
had already passed in the House of Delegates. My objective in this
exercise was to keep the bill from going anyplace in the Senate
because if the Senate approves the bill it becomes law. But if you
kill the bill in the Senate, it's dead. Delegates and Senators were
coming to this cocktail party. Every time somebody would say,
"Here's Delegate So-and-So," I would say, "Which way did you vote?"
And of the ones who voted for the bill, I always asked them, "Why?"
Most of them were embarrassed that they had. And I would say, "Would
you care to apologize?," and hand them a piece of paper to get their
apology in writing. I've got slips of paper from at least five
delegates who voted for the thing with the most unbelievable quotes.
I read the apologies in the Senate the following day. Here's some
quotes: "I was swept away by the rhetoric." And "I had to vote that
way because that's the way my district is." That guy came from a
district where he might have had his legs badly mutilated if he
hadn't done it.
(See also "How can I get a copy of the congressional hearings on
record labeling?".)
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How can I get a copy of the congressional hearings on record labelling?
~From: j...@mozart.att.com (Jeff Rocca)
To obtain a printed copy of the congressional record label hearing,
send a check for $5 payable to "superintendent of documents" to
superintendent of documents
congressional sales office
washington, dc 20402
and request a copy of the printed hearing on record labeling from
september 19, 1985 (reference gpo stock number 052-070-06101-4).
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What is "vloerbedekking"?
~From: eijk...@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
In the Orange County medley on Make a Jazz Noise Here, Frank says
'and you'll never hear vloerbedekking again'. This must have puzzled
more people than just me.
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~From: Richard K Fox :
'On a bootleg I have, at this point in the Orange County medley,
Frank says "May you never hear surf music again" and they launch
into the theme to Lumpy Gravy.'
[ed. note: "And you'll never hear surf music again" is a line from
Jimi Hendrix' "Third Stone From the Sun" ]
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~From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller) :
'I have a tape of a zappa bootleg of extremely poor quality. It's
called _Vitamin Deficiency_. It may or may not be the same as the
one called _No Commercial Potential_. In addition to a few good bits
by the Flo & Eddie Mothers, including the original Sofa, (Give me
some floor covering under this fat floatin sofa is sung in Dutch
contrasted to the German on YCDTOSA I)'
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~From: eijk...@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
And since I'm Dutch I know that 'vloerbedekking' means 'floor
covering'...
Another mystery dispelled. (Don't you just love this sort of
trivia...)
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~From: "PUPP E. DOG"
I'd like to pass on my own answer for Q.21 (Vluer-bedecking), for
what it's worth.
On "The Orange County Lumber Truck" (Track 6, Disc 1 of Make A Jazz
Noise Here) what Frank actually seems to be saying is; "May you
never hear Fluer - Bedecking again! To Fluer - Bedeck is literally:
to strew flowers, or in the case of music, to gratutitously
ornament, or embelish the performance of a score with trills,
flourishes, etc. This is one of Mr. Z's many classical - music
in-jokes.
It might be noted that this is also exactly what the band does with
this medley.
So with apologies to Victor, let's leave flooring to Y.C.D.T.O.S.A.
#1 and salute a great Fluer - Strewer, Frank Zappa.
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What are the backwards lyrics in "Ya Hozna"?
"Ya Hozna" is a song from the album "Them or Us". The backward lyrics
are from "Valley Girl" outtakes, "Sofa #1", and "Lonely Little Girl".
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~From: lab...@DBresearch-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch):
Here is the corrected version of the Ya Hozna lyrics. The credit for
doing this has to be given to to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor), who
listened to all the backward lyrics and checked out the running time
at when they appear. I deleted the english translation of the word to
"Sofa" and entered the german ones.
4:23 [English:] I am the heaven
4:15 I am the water
4:08 [German:] Ich bin deine Ritze
3:54 Ich bin deine Ritze und Schlitze
3:47 [English:] I am the clouds
3:42 [German:] Ich bin der Chrome Dinette [sic!]
Ich bin Eier aller Arten
Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte
3:22 Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte
3:20 (ha-ee-ya)
3:15 [English:] I am embroidered
3:09 [German:] Ich bin der Dreck unter deinen Walzen
3:08 [English:] Oh, no, [whip?] it on me, honey [?]
3:06 (ha-ee-ya)
3:04 (ha-ee-ya)
3:00 [German:] Ich bin hier
2:58 (ha-ee-ya)
2:47 Ich bin der Autor aller Felgen und Damask-Paspeln
2:39 Ich bin der Chrome Dinette
[Radio:] You're a lonely little girl
2:28 But your mommy and your daddy don't care
2:24 [German:] Ich bin hier
2:22 (ha-ee-ya)
2:17 Und du bist mein Sofa
2:12 [Radio:] You're a lonely little girl
[German:] Ich bin hier
2:01 Und du bist mein Sofa
1:57 (cadenza)
[Moon:] I'm, like, [green? grief?]
I'm, like, [squat?]
I'm, like, so
Repeat, like, so
Oh, I'm, like, [?.... appalling...?]
I'm, like, okay, like, so
1:43 Oh, I'm so
1:31 [German:] Ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz und verlorenes Metallgeld
1:27 (Metallgeld)
1:25 (ha-ee-ya)
1:20 Und du bist mein Sofa
1:15 Ich bin hier
1:13 (ha-ee-ya)
[Moon:] You'll never [? she's ... ]
Like, so; like, so; like, so
1:06 Okay, I like it
[German:] Ich bin hier
0:54 And you are my sofa
Und du bist mein Sofa
0:50 (cadenza)
[Moon:] Yeah, like, [...?...], faster, faster
Go, do it, do it [right? great?]
Yeah, I'm feelin' good
I'm lookin' great
Yeah, fer shure
0:38 Like, no way
[German:] Ich bin hier
0:26 Und du bist mein Sofa
0:22 (cadenza)
Ich bin hier
0:10 Und du bist mein Sofa
0:06 (cadenza)
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What does WPLJ stand for?
WPLJ is an acronym for a "wine-cooler" type drink, that was popular in
the 40's and 50's. It is made with white port wine and lemon juice. It
also inspired the group "The Four Deuces" to write a song about it.
This song, "WPLJ", was later redone by Zappa, and may have influenced
the choice of call letters for a New York radio station.
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~From: mjpa...@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Parisi)
Here's the complete chronology of WPLJ. White Port and Lemon Juice
was a popular wine cooler. A california R&B group liked the drink,
so they wrote and recorded a song about it. The group was the Four
Deuces, and the song was WPLJ, a big R&B hit on Music City Records
in about 1955. Zappa, as we all know, was a huge R&B fan, liked the
song, and decided to record it, and it showed up on Burnt Weeny
Sandwich (GAWD this is a tasty little sucker!). The studio version
is much closer to the original than the live versions. Any good
oldies record store should have the Four Deuces version in some
format. I think that the WABC-FM people changed their call letters
before Zappa did his version of the song. I remember hearing
comments about "The R&B classic that became a radio station" some
time in the late sixties.
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~From: re...@watson.ibm.com (Diane Reese)
In the '70s, a progressive FM station in New York City known as
WABC-FM changed its call letters one day to "WPLJ" -- I was
listening to them (cleaning up my bedroom, if my memory serves) the
first day they broadcast under the new call letters, and they were
slyly asking listeners to call in and tell them what we thought
their call letters stood for! The overwhelming response was, as
you'd expect, "White Port and Lemon Juice," with Zappa references
abounding. Your chronology is backwards, Zappa came first, and at
least SOMEONE involved in picking the new call letters was a fan.
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Who is Francesco Zappa?
There is a Frank Zappa album called "Francesco Zappa". It is music
from an (obscure) Italian composer whose name Frank had seen
somewhere, possibly Grove's Music Dictionary. The modern-day Zappa
decided to record this Baroque music on his Synclavier and it became
one of his first projects to employ the Synclavier exclusively.
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~From: etx...@eua.ericsson.se (Mats eriksson)
There actually WAS a composer named Francesco Zappa living in Italy
during the Baroque-era. When I bought the album and read the text on
it I thought it was a joke. But I have found the real Francesco
Zappa mentioned in music literature (written before the album was
released). I don't know if the music on the album is composed by the
real Francesco, but if you give me some time I just might be able to
verify this.
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~From: hac...@xanth.cs.orst.edu (Dianne Hackborn)
Yes, it was composed by Francesco:
The music of Francesco Zappa is from the collection of the Music
Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
But I still think the album should be listened to like "Cruisin'
with..." :)
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Who is Brother A. West?
"A Few Moments With Brother A. West" is a song from the album, "The
Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life", which features an arrogant
TV evengelist-type person doing a little 'rap'.
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~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
A West is the artist who did the lil cartoon things in The Real FZ
Book. I saw the show in Philly where that track came from & Frank
announced after the intermission that AW was a friend & was pulling
our legs BUT imagine that there are people out there like that _for
real_!
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Did Zappa invent the wah-wah peddle?
~From: JOHNS...@delphi.com
I asked Frank this during a radio appearance on Allan Handelman's
East Coast Live Show (Allan's 27th interview of Frank over the
years!) originating on WRFX, Charlotte, NC 11/1/92. FYI I'll type my
question, the form of which cracked Frankie up, since it was asked
with a potentially shit-eating grin:
John Scialli (JS):
I've got a couple of questions....One of these has to do with one of
these stories that's been around for 25 years. I guess it's a myth
or something and I've certainly perpetrated [sic] it at times.
Something that you did..something...let's see...you put it on the
stage floor...I guess you stepped on it. Let me see how to put this
delicately...[Frank starts to protest what he thinks the question
will be]...Did you invent the wah-wah peddle?
Frank Zappa (FZ):
Did I what???
JS:
Did you invent the wah-wah peddle?
FZ:
No I did not. I was one of the first people to buy it and use it but
I..eh..The first wah-wah peddle I saw was a Vox wah-wah peddle that
had on the bottom of it "The Clyde McCoy Wah-Wah Peddle" 'cause I
think they probably had to...they felt they had to license the idea
of "wah-wah" from Clyde McCoy who was a trumpet player who used to
use a wah-wah mute on his trumpet. That was 1967 when I got
that...but I did not invent it.
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What is a "Telefunken U-47?
In the song "Crew Slut", from "Joe's Garage Act I", there is a line
that goes: "It looks just like a Telefunken U47." This is a
not-so-subtle phallic reference.
More data:
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~From: line...@delphi.com
The U47 by Telefunken is a VERY expensive relic from the days of
vacuum tube amplification systems and anyone fortunate enough to own
one MIGHT let you look at it (from a distance) for a price. Actually
touching one is out of the question. Every one I have seen has been
hand carried and kept under lock and key. They are a condenser
microphone with a vacuum tube preamp and have what is subjectively
called a "warm sound" compared to modern devices. The U47 is
invaluable when recording a no-talent puke with a "fingernails on a
chalkboard" type voice, as it can almost make them sound human. It
can make a talented performer sound superhuman and a quality
instrument sound like angels singing.
Several decades ago, Telefunken was bought out by, or changed their
name to, Neuman (sic) (pronounced Noy_man) and released the U87, a
modern version with squarish edges and a solid state preamp. They
are expensive but very common and are seen in radio stations and in
rock videos, usually with a round, white "spit-screen" in front of
them.
If you have a chance to get either one TAKE IT! Even if you are not
a musician.
A U47 would probably get you a lifetime of backstages passes or at
least the first pick of the groupies.
[ed. note: The other German microphone company spells their name
"Neumann", and also made U47, U67 tube microphones. I am not sure
what the difference is between a Telefunken U47 and a Neumann U47. ]
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What is "Phydeaux 3"?
In the song "Fembot in a Wet T-shirt", from "Joe's Garage Act I",
there is a line that says "Weren't you the girl who was stuck to the
seat on Phydeaux 3" ?
More data:
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~From: sro...@wv.mentorg.com (Sam Rouse)
I think Phydeaux was the name of Frank's tour bus(es) for a number
of years. The first time I saw him (Portland OR Paramount, probably
sometime in 1976) the tour bus behind the hall was painted to look
just like a Greyhound bus, but the word "Greyhound" that normally
occupies the entire side of the bus was replaced with "Phydeaux"
(same lettering style), and the sleek greyhound logo picture was
replaced with a dorky-looking, crosseyed dog saying "Arf!". I don't
know whether Phydeaux 3 refers to the third incarnation of the bus,
or the third in the fleet that may have been in existence by the
time of JG.
Tour busses I've seen at subsequent tours didn't have the FZ
graphics, but I guess the name stuck.
In the cityscape on the back cover of the Absolutely Free lp is a
sign showing a dog collar and the caption 'BUY A FYDO fits swell'.
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~From: pupp...@delphi.com ( "PUPP E. DOG" )
The Band's Buses, on one of their West Coast tours were labeled
"Phideaux One","Phideaux Two", etc. Phideaux = Fido, as in Doggy!
This is part of a running gag which concerned Frank's road Manager's
(don't remember his name) supposed *love* of dogs. See
Y.C.D.T.O.S.A.#1, Babbette for more on this.
As several people pointed out Phideaux Three is the bus Mary was on
(Joe's Garage). Fido is also mentioned in the various 'Stinkfoot'
versions, while poodles get mention in 'The Poodle Lecture'
(Y.C.D.T.O.S.A. #6) and the various 'Dirty Love's. Note also, the
*many* barking dog effects in his work.
The obvious conclusion: Frank likes dogs. Well hey, dogs like Frank
too!
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~From: ja...@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
At one show I saw, his tour bus had in the little marquee above the
front windshield (usually reserved for the name of the destination
or "CHARTER") the word: "SHOWUSYRTITZ"
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How is the Mudshark dance performed?
"Mudshark" is a song that first appeared on the "Live at the Filmore
East" album. The song is a folkloric retelling of bizarre events that
occured at a Seattle hotel with members of the rock group "Vanilla
Fudge" and their groupies.
More data:
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~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
I have a recording of Frank describing the Mudshark Dance to the
audience. You open your legs, clasp your hands together & s q u a t
! To do it in 4/4 time, step left, step right, squat, rest. All the
time you should have your hands together down by the knees.
The Mud Shark dance was described by FZ in Melbourne 6/29/73.
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Where do the guitar solos from "Guitar" and "SUNPYG" come from?
~From: hm7...@cs.tut.fi (Mikkola Hannu) and others
GUITAR
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace > Stinkfoot
Which One Is It > Black Page #2 ( YCDTOSA Vol 5 )
Republicans
Do Not Pass Go > Drowning Witch 2nd Solo
Chalk Pie > Zoot Allures
In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
That's Not Really Reggae
When No One Was No One > Zoot Allures
Once Again Without The Net > Andy or Lets Move to Cleveland
Outside Now ( Original Solo ) > Joe's Garage II > Broadway Album
Jim And Tammy's Upper Room > Advance Romance ( YCDTOSA Vol 5 )
Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio > Drowning Witch 2nd Solo
That Ol' G Minor Thing Again > City Of Tiny Lights
Hotel Atlanta Incidentals > Green Hotel
That's Not Really A Shuffle > Zoot Allures
Move It Or Park It > Them Or Us , Black Page #2 ( YCDTOSA
V
ol 5 )
Sunrise Redeemer
Variations On Sinister #3 > Tinseltown Rebellion Album & Easy Mea
t
Orrin Hatch On Ski's > Ride My Face to Chicago
But Who Was Fulcanelli? > Drowning Witch
For Duane > Whipping Post
GOA > Lets Move to Cleveland
Winos Do Not March > Sharleena or Yo Mama (Sheik YerBouti)
Swans? What Swans? > He Used to Cut the Grass ????
Too Ugly For Show Business > Show opener, first set, Berkeley '81
Systems Of Edges > Inca Roads = Shut Up #4
Dont Try This At Home > Them Or Us , Black Page #2 ( YCDTOSA
V
ol 5 )
Things That Look Like Meat
Watermelon In Easter Hay > Joe's Garage III
Canadian Customs
Is That All There Is
It Aint Necessarily The St James Infirmary > King Kong ( YCDTOSA Vol 3 )
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~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
Republicans is probably from Let's Move to Cleveland.
That's...Reggae is City of Tiny Lites
Sunrise Redeemer is also Cleveland
Things...Meat is City of Tiny Lites
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SHUT UP N' PLAY YOUR GUITAR
Five-Five-Five
Hog Heaven
Shut Up N Play Your Guitar Some More > Inca Roads
While You Were Out > A song of its own
Trecherous Cretins
Heavy Duty Judy > ( Best Band )
Soup N Old Clothes > Illinois Enema Bandit 12-11-80
Variations On The Santana Secret Chord Progression > City of tiny lights 12-11-
8
0
Gee, I Like Your Pants
Canarsie
Ship Ahoy > Song of its own but followed straight
after Zoot Allures solo in Osaka
The Deathless Horsie > ( YCDTOSA Vol 1 )
Shut Up N Play Your Guitar > Inca Roads
Pink Napkins
Beat It With Your Fist
Return Of The Son Of Shut Up N Play Your Guitar > Inca Roads
Pinocchio's Furniture
Why Johnny Cant Read
Stucco Homes > Studio Jam
Canard Du Jour > Studio Jam
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~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
Gee I Like Your Pants is yet another Inca Roads .
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Did Al DiMeola play with Frank Zappa?
On the song Peaches III, from "Tinseltown Rebellion", Warren Cucurullo
played a guitar parody after Frank's introduction, "Let's hear it for
another great Italian, ladies and gentleman, Al DiMeola". BUT ...
More data:
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~From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
Al isn't actually on that album. Warren is doing his DiMeola
impression on guitar, & Frank is joking about that on the album.
Al played on "Clowns on Velvet" and "Ride Like the Wind"(!) at the
Ritz, NYC, with Frank's band on 11/17/81. I believe Al requested
that his solo on "Clowns" not be released because he was unhappy
with it for some reason. In fact, they didn't even play at the same
time then since Frank can be heard on the tape complaining that they
didn't have enough hookups to plug in 2 guitars simultaneously. As
far as I know, that's the only time these 2 great Italians ever got
together in concert.
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~From: spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Pat Buzby)
Al DiMeola sat in with FZ's band at a concert at the Ritz in NYC,
11/17/81, on "Clownz On Velvet" and a cover of the Christopher Cross
hit "Ride Like The Wind." FZ wanted to release this performance of
"Clownz" officially, but DiMeola refused because he didn't think his
solo was good enough. (Having heard this tape thanks to a kind
gentleman in this newsgroup, I agree with DiMeola.)
BTW, if I remember right, "All You Need Is Glove" lists "Clownz" as
being just over a minute long. If this timing is accurate, then the
cut they released is heavily edited. The full performance is pretty
long.
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Who is Suzy Creamcheese?
Suzy Creamcheese was a longtime groupie/friend of The Mothers and
Zappa. Her real name is Pamela Zarubica. She is often confused with
Pamela Des Barres, another friend of the Zappa family. Maybe they look
alike too ?
More data:
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~From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
If Suzy Creamcheese's real name was Pamela Zurubica (this would be
good FAQ material, but I don't know the whole story), then it wasn't
Miss Pamela from the GTOs. That Pamela was Pamela Miller, later
Pamela Des Barres after marrying the singer/actor....check out the
book "I'm With the Band" for some great stories about Frank and
other rock icons from the 60s and 70s....
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~From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
Pam Z was the main Cheese, Pam M, later aka Pam DB was the GTO &
nanny. However in the source interview of Pam Z by David Walley for
Walley's dumb-but-hard-to-find-and-I-got-one book, No Commercial
Potential Pam Z mentions also being a nanny for the kids and as
working on the GTO album.
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What was the original cover to "Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life" like?
Mine is black. Why did they switch covers? What happened to "Bolero"?
This album is from the short-lived '88 tour. The tour ended after
personal problems between band members caused Frank to dissolve the
band, even though he believed that it was prob- ably his finest
touring force assembled. This would turn out to be Zappa's last tour.
When the CD was released, it included a version of Ravel's "Bolero".
Apparently, those responsible for the publishing rights of Bolero were
not flattered by Zappa's rendition, and new releases of TBBYNHIYL did
not include Bolero.
I recently saw a black covered version with Bolero. So I don't know
what the story is. An "undosclosed source" has told me that that the
Ravel people had a change of heart and OK'ed the Bolero version. Who
knows ?
More data:
~From: wa...@u.washington.edu (David Lee)
The original cover shows the band on stage. What I heard was that
they neglected to get permission from the guy who took the shot, and
he shows up suddenly and wants all sorts of revenue from the cover
publication, and Frank said no way so he just changed it to black. I
was lucky enough to find an original cover version used at a local
record store.
See also The '88 Tour FAQ
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Is it "Bobby Brown" or "Bobby Brown Goes Down"?
Sheik Yerbouti contains a track called "Bobby Brown". There seem to be
two different CD versions of Sheik Yerbouti. One the latest release
the song is titled "Bobby Brown Goes Down", while on the earlier
release it is titled "Bobby Brown".
The lyrics in the booklet of the new release indicate that the song is
really titled "Bobby Brown".
And before you ask, the song is not about the 'popstar' with the same
name.
Check out the "Vinyl vs. CD" FAQ if you are interested in the
differences between Zappa's Vinyls and CDs.
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Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part3
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Musicians TimeLine
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Remarks:
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* some minor corrections since last version
* did not take into account 200 Motels and the 'orchestral' Cd's.
Maybe the omission of '200 motels' is responsible for some gaps
between 69 and 71.
* bootlegs: only 'The Ark' taken into account
* sorted by descending dashes and then by ascending (first+last) name
* Included the instruments:
B = bass v = vocals
D = drums t = trumpet
G = Guitar w = woodwinds
K = Keyboards b = brass
P = percussion g = gong
S = Sax
T = Trombone
V = violin
H = Harmonica
65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89
| 66| 68| 70| 72| 74| 76| 78| 80| 82| 84| 86| 88| 90
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Jimmy Carl Black Dv|--------- - - |
Roy Estrada Bv|--------- --- - - |
Ray Collins v |-------- - - |
Eliot Ingbar G |--- |
Don Preston K | ----- ---- -- |
Jim Sherwood S | ----- - |
Bunk Gardner S | ----- |
Billy Mundi | --- |
Ian Underwood KS| ---- -------- |
Arthur Tripp D | ---- |
Ruth Underwood P | -- ---------- |
Nelcy Walker | -- |
Sugarcane Harris V | -- --- - |
Dave Samuels P | - - |
Buzz Gardner t | - |
Lowell George Gv| - |
Johnny Guerin D | -- -- |
Max Bennet B | -- --- |
Paul Humphrey | -- |
Don Van Vliet Hv| - - -- |
Ron Selico | - |
Shuggie Otis | - |
Aynsley Dunbar D | -------- |
Howard Kaylan v | ---- |
Mark Volman v | ---- |
George Duke Kv| -- -- ------- - |
Jeff Simmons BG| -- - -- |
Jim Pons Bv| -- |
Jean-Luc Ponty V | - ---- |
Bob Harris Kv| - -- - -- |
Alan Estes P | - |
Bob Zimitti P | - |
Earl Dumler w | - |
Ernie Tack b | - |
Ernie Watts S | - |
Fred Jackson w | - |
Joanne Caldwell w | - |
Johnny Rotella w | - |
Lee Clement g | - |
Tony Ortega w | - |
Bruce Fowler T | ----- - -- --- |
Ralph Humphrey D | ----- |
Erroneous B | --- |
Sal Marquez tv| --- |
Tow Fowler B | -- ---- -- |
Malcolm McNabb b | -- |
Tony Duran G | -- |
Bill Beyers t | - |
Chris Peterson v | - |
Janet Ferguson v | - |
Joel Peskin Sw| - |
Ken Shroyer b | - |
Mike Altschul bw| - |
Pete Kleinov G | - |
Rickie Lancelotti v | - |
Jack Bruce B | -- |
Jim Gordon D | -- |
Napoleon Murphy Brock Sv| ------- - - -- |
Chester Tompson D | ----- |
Walt Fowler t | -- --- |
Kerrie McNabb v | - |
Susan Glover v | - |
Terry Bozzio Dv| ----------- |
Dave Parlato B | ----- |
Patrick O'Hearn B | ---- ----- - - - |
Johnny Guitar Watson v | - - -- |
Don Brewer P | - |
Andre Lewis K | --- - |
Thana Harris v | -- - |
James Youman B | -- |
Denny Walley Gv| - -- --- - |
Davey Moire v | - - - |
Eddie Jobson KV| - -- |
Bianca Odin Kv| - |
Ray White Gv| - -- ---------- |
Lu Ann Neil | - |
Sharkey Barker | - |
Don Pardo v | - |
Lou Marini S | - |
Michael Brecker S | - |
Randy Brecker t | - |
Ronnie Kuber S | - |
Tom Malone t | - |
Tommy Mars K | ------------ - |
Peter Wolf K | ------ - |
Ed Mann P | ----- ----- --- |
Adrian Belew Gv| --- |
David Ocker | - - |
Randy Thornton | - |
Arthur Barrow BK| ------ - - |
Vinnie Colaiuta D | --- -- |
Dale Bozzio v | -- --- |
Al Malkin | -- |
Shankar V | - |
Ike Willis Gv| - --- - ---- --- |
Craig Stewart H | - |
Warren Cucurullo G | - - |
David Logeman D | --- |
Chad Wackerman D | ----- -- --- |
Scott Thunes B | ----- -- --- |
Steve Vai G | ----- |
Lisa Popeil v | - - |
Bobby Martin Kv| ---- -- --- |
Moon Zappa v | - - |
Dweezil Zappa G | - - |
Ahmet Zappa v | - |
Brad Cole | - |
Craig Stewart | - |
Alan Zavod K | -- |
Archie Shepp S | - |
Albert Wing S | --- |
Kurt McGettrick S | --- |
Mike Kenneally Gv| --- |
Paul Carman S | --- |
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| 66| 68| 70| 72| 74| 76| 78| 80| 82| 84| 86| 88| 90
65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89
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ARTHUR BARROW
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Was Zappa's "Clonemeister" after the 1978 tour. He had the responsibility
of running rehersals in Frank's absence.
Last I heard of Barrow, he was touring with ex-Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger,
as was Preston, but that was some time ago. Appears on Krieger's "No Habla"
CD (1989).
Had a solo album 'Music for Listening ' released in 1992 on Tom and Slev's
New Masters, which has since folded, though Arthur has copies (but I have
no address for AB). Had some sort of underground rap hit late 1993 in the
California area. Worked with disco king Giorgio Moroder in the
1980s (god help us).
Arthur Barrows album "Eyebrow Razor" (changed from "Raiser") is ready to
go into manufacturing this month (Oct 94).
ADRIAN BELEW
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After touring with FZ, Adrian toured with the Talking Heads. He first did
this because FZ had planned a break and AB was to join FZ again when he
was going to form a new band. But then FZ changed his mind and when he put
together a new band AB was still with the Talking Heads (He's on the live album
"The name of this band is..").
AB also toured with David Bowie (live album:"Stage"). He joined King Crimson
for a couple of tours and three albums ("Discipline", "Beat" and "Three of
a Perfect Pair"). After the Crimson split-up he released solo-albums and
did some studio-work (Herbie Hancock, amongst others).
Solo albums :
1. "The Lone Rhino" (1981)
2. "Twang Bar King", (1983)
3. "Desire Caught by the Tail" (1985??)
4. "Young Lions" (1991)
5. "Desire of the Rhino King" (1991) - digitally remastered
compilation of 1, 2, and 3
6. "Acoustic Adrian Belew"
7. "Here"
Adrian Belew had a solo acoustic tour last fall (where he was distributing
his own acoustic cd) & should be coming out with another solo album
(electric with sidemen this spring). (source: Belew's mouth at Wolf
Trap last fall by way of Belew fan Erik Brady).
I'm 80% sure that he toured with Laurie Anderson and appears in her
movie of the tour "Home of the Brave".
In 1987/8 Adrian Belew played with a band called "The Bears".
They released two albums on Primitive Man/IRS/MCA: "The Bears" (1987)
and "Rise and Shine" (1988). Adrian produced both albums. I'm not sure
how many shows they did, but I did catch them in NYC, I believe it was
at "Irving Plaza". The band featured Adrian - guitar, vocals;
Rob Fetters - guitar, vocals; Bob Nyswonger - bass;
Chris Arduser - drums. The group was formed in his home town of
Cincinnati, Ohio. They all wrote. Adrian did most of the vocals.
I just picked this ("Here") up this weekend and only have had time to
listen to it a couple of times. The general feel of the album reminds
me of "Revolver"-era Beatles (ie, a slightly psychedelic pop album).
Belew plays all the instruments (the CD booklet consists of a bunch of
photos of Belew playing the instruments (and making tea) pasted together
as if it is an entire band). On one track, his bass playing is
very McCartney-esque (reminds me of "Taxman"). Of course, there are
lots of swirling, layered guitars throughout. The songs are all fairly
simple, but he has written some memorable melodies. Don't buy this if
you are expecting "Elephant Talk", but if you like well-crafted
Beatlesque-pop (I do), I think you will enjoy this album.
If you get a chance to see Adrian Belew, you should do so. I
also picked up a copy of The Acoustic Adrian Belew, which contains
acoustic versions of a number of his own songs, and a Beatles and
Roy Orbison cover.
Adrian Belew may be the nicest man in the music business. After the
show, he hung around and talked to the fans one on one. I got him to
autograph my copy of "The Acoustic Adrian Belew" and chatted with him
about the new Crimson. He said that they have already started recording
and that their final recording session is scheduled for December.
He said that the album should be out in March or April of next year.
He said that with all the players it was pretty hard to tell who was
playing what. He also mentioned that they were recording at Peter
Gabriel's studio in Bath.
He has gotten back together with Robert Fripp and Company with a New
and Improved King Crimson (a double trio). They have released their first
album, a 31:04 CD called "VROOOM". Per the liner notes, "This was
recorded between May 2-7th, 1994 during the first full rehearsals of this,
the double trio formation of King Crimson. We present VROOOM as a calling
card, rather than a love letter, to those generous enough to give it
ears." The 94/95 King Crimson consists of:
Robert Fripp - Guitar
Adrian Belew - Guitar, voice, words
Trey Gunn - Stick
Tony Levin - Basses and stick
Pat Mastelotto - Acoustic & Electronic Percussions
Bill Bruford - Acoustic & Electrinic Percussions
It has been said in rec.music.progressive that a "full" CD will be
released in the spring of 95. This 31 minute CD has pissed off some KC
fans saying why should they pay $15 for a 31 minute CD of rehearsal
material. But then again, "Beat" is 35:21 long.
JIMMY CARL BLACK
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Formed Geronomo Black back in the 70's. I think there were two albums.
Had an album out in the late 80's; called his band "The Mannish Boys";
never heard it.
Well, as I already mentioned in my post, Black, Preston and Gardner appear to
suing Zappa for his releasing the old MOI stuff without consulting
them.
Also appears on vocals on a couple of tapes by Ant Bee
(Billy James) and the Muffin Men CD 'Say Cheese and Thank You'. New
Grandmothers CD reasonably imminent, I expect.
Jimmy has been touring Europe with Eugene Chadbourne this fall &
winter. He had been thinking about moving to Italy. (source: T'Mershi Duween)
Jimmy Carl Black is credited on the cover of "Highway Cafe of the Damned"
by the Austin Lounge Lizards (P 1988; Watermelon 1001). He plays drums
on three songs: "Industrial Strength Tranquilizer," "When Drunks Go Bad,"
and "Get a Haircut, Dad." This is the only one of their four albums he
is listed on. I doubt that he ever played with them outside the studio.
This band, not to be confused with the Lounge Lizards, plays humorous
songs--largely bluegrass, but other styles as well. As their name
suggests, they are based in Austin, Texas, where I think JCB lived for
a while.
For awhile in the 80s Jimmy Carl & Arthur Brown (Crazy World of Arthur
Brown) had a painting company called Black & Brown Painting in Austin.
You may know this already, but Jimmy Carl Black did some recent touring
with radical hyperactive improvising/spoofing guitarist Eugene Chadbourne.
I don't know the details, such as venues and dates, but I know there are
audio documents of it: a CD entitled _Locked in a Dutch Coffeeshop_,
attributed to "The Jack and Jim Show," on (I believe) the Fundamental
label, and a C-90 cassette available directly from Chadbourne.
See GRANDMOTHERS.
DALE BOZZIO
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Dale and Terry split up at the same time as Missing Persons,
which was in 1986, as did Terry and Dale's marriage. Terry is remarried.
Dale Bozzio--had a solo album under the name "Dale" called
"Riot in English" in 1988--sort of a Janet Jackson/Karyn White/
Robert Smith/Samantha Fox/Prince sounding thing.
She is remarried and has two kids. According to
her manager, she is still involved in the music business, although
I haven't heard anything about it specifically. In 1991 she toured
as "Missing Persons" and did Missing Persons songs with a hired band.
She appeared at Zappa's Universe which was for Frank's 50th
birthday--eleven months late--it was held in Nov. 1991.
She sang "Fembot in a Wet T-shirt" and did the Mary speech from
"Packard Goose,"modifying it slightly to say "Music...and Frank
Zappa...are the best."
TERRY BOZZIO
------------
The ground breaking news on Terry Bozzio is that he has just done some work
with Duran Duran in the studio, recording, "Here Comes Success" (Iggy Pop
tune). This has made a lot of us DD/FZ/Missing Persons fans very happy, as
Duran hasn't had a stable drummer in many a year. Terry is a welcome addition
even if it is only a quick stint.
Oh yeah, don't forget Missing Persons, 3 albums ( none on CD, there is a
Best of though ) all worth picking up.
_Spring Session M_
_Rhyme & Reason_
_Color in Your Life_
"Spring Session M" appears on cd. I believe it's an import
from Japan. Terry will also appear on some songs on the upcoming
Duran Duran album.
Was in a band called UK with Eddie Jobson and John Wetton. Terry replaced
Bill Bruford on drums. Can be found on the LP "Danger Money" (1979).
Bozzio is in a band at the moment called Lonely Bears with Hymas etc.,
the 3rd CD is due out at any time the first two CDs are superb
you can get them at G&S Music 0442 63287
TERRY BOZZIO is working in lotsa groups, and played on Jeff Beck's killer
GUITAR SHOP CD. Also toured with Jeff. Still has an edge.
Toured with Jeff Beck and is now touring with someone else, um, I
forget who though. I think he might be touring with Steve Vai's
current band.
Terry Bozzio is right now(?) on tour with Vai, a band presently consisting
of Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio, T.M. Stevens (bass), and Devin Townsend (vocals).
Has played on Jeff Becks "Guitar Shop" album and Steve Vai's,
"Sex and Religion."
Terry Bozzio has left Vai's band (source: T'Mershi Duween).
I've heard that Terry has recorded an album with Mick Karn, David Torn,
and Bozzio, to be released by the medium label. This came over the usenet,
but I'll be buying it when it comes out. Supposedly it's credited to all
their names.
I picked a Gary Wright album a few years ago cause it listed Bozzio,
but I don't believe the playing was much distinctive or memorable.
I've emailed ModernDrummer magazine (from rec.music.makers.percussion),
requesting that they post or email a Bozziography.
I believe there's some mo' Bozzio on the Jeff Beck collection that comes
in the FenderTweed case.
Bozzio is on David Torn's new album: "POLYTOWN is anything but quiet.
It's a ferocious, freewheeling electric improvisation. [Mick] Karn and
Terry Bozzio's rock background give it a groove and center around which
Torn whirls lines that transfigure in space." (John Diliberto, April 1994)
Saw Terry Bozzio's current band Polytown live last night, and just want
to say that it was one amazing percussion performance. Polytown is a
three person 90's supergroup thing, but to me Bozzio's playing was
consistantly interesting, and of course in the power trio format he
was given lots of space to show it off.
Saw Terry Bozzio's current band Polytown live last night, and just want to say
that it was one amazing percussion performance. Polytown is a three person
90's supergroup thing, but to me Bozzio's playing was consistantly
interesting, and of course in the power trio format he was given lots of
space to show it off.
NAPOLEAN MURPHY BROCK
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Joined the George Duke band in the late 70s, and recorded a few albums.
Supposedly seen in Newcastle (England) in 1989 or
1990, where he had been talking to Kitchenware Records about a solo album,
which apparently came to nothing. After leaving the music biz, he went in to
raising dogs (good occupation for an ex-Zappa player; don't know how many
poodles he got through).
JACK BRUCE
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Mr. Bruce played in 60s bands including "Cream" with Eric Clapton
and Ginger Baker. Recently released a Cream-like album and single
as part of the band "BBM", for "Baker, Bruce, and Moore" with Gary
Moore handling Clapton's old role.
CHUNKY
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Nobody seems to remember Ilene Rapaport, aka Chunky. I'd be interested in
hearing what she is doing now. She had a band called Chunky, Novi and Ernie
in the 70s who played around North Hollywood. Novi played with Zappa I
believe during that period as well (she is a violist, and I forget her
name). Ernie was the token male in the band, on bass.
I'm not sure if he ever actually played with Zappa, but another violist,
Danny Seidenberg, who may have participated in some Zappa projects, is now
in Turtle Island. Does he appear on any recordings?
VINNIE COLAIUTA
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I recently heard that Vinnie Colaiuta is touring with Sting. Vinnie is
doing the current tour w/Sting. They were spotted on TV in
Europe. VC did the last Sting tour in '91 which was damn good.
He plays with Sting now. I saw it on TV last week. He is still great,
although I feel he doesn't really het a change to show off that great
accompanying (sp.??) style of drumming that made it work so good with
Frank's music. Vinnie Colaiuta played with Sting last night on the
Grammys. (source: my tv)
He also drummed on Jennifer Warnes' 1986 album Famous Blue Raincoat.
Just found another album that Vinnie Colaiuta appears on
... it's another Jennifer Warnes production called The Hunter,
which dates from 1992!
As far as I remember now, he played on a few tracks on the latest
"The The" Album.
Plays on David Benoit's "Inner Motion" (one song only) .
Vinnie C. plays on Joni Mitchells "Wild Things Run Fast" (1982) and
"Dog Eat Dog" (1985). Perhaps on later albums as well, but I'm pretty
sure he didn't play on earlier albums. He left FZ in 1982. I remember
reading an interview in which Vinnie says that his first real studio
job was Al Kooper "Championship Wrestling", which was released in 1982.
Appears on a few tracks on Allan Holdsworth's Secrets and Wardensclyffe
Tower. So does Chad Wackerman.
Vince has been busy doing jazz-fusion-type things:
he appears on bassist Bunny Bruenel's 'Dedication' (Musidisc),
trumpeter Jeff Beal's 'Three Graces' (Tiloka) and guitarist (?)
Jeff Richman's 'The Way In' (MGI Records).
I think he played with Buell Neidlinger (b) , Marty Krystall (ts),
and Hugh Schick (tp) on the BIG DRUM cd dedicated to pianist Herbie Nichols.
One of my favorite albums he's on (besides Joe's Garage and Ten Summoners
Tales) is the 1991 release by Brazillian singer/songwriter/pianist Ivan
Lins (perhaps best known for his standards "The Island" and "Love Dance."
The album is called "Awa Io" and it's on reprise records.
The album also features Tony Levin on chapman stick, and Heitor T.P.
(simply red) on guitar...
Vinnie Colaiuta played drums on the album track "Breath After Breath"
from the Duran Duran album "Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)", 1993.
The song is a collaboration between Duran Duran and Milton Nascimento.
He did not tour with them.
Played on the Soundtrack to "Beaches"
I don't know if he appears on the album or not (I'll assume yes),
but Vinnie Colaiuta has appeared with John Patitucci (bassist) in
support of the latter's ANOTHER WORLD album. Reviewer Jon Andrews
said the set was long and exciting, and included "increasingly feverish
grooves with Patitucci's six-string electric bass and Gary Thomas'
soprano sax playing in unison, surrounded by thick synthesizer chords
and percussive crossrhythms from [Sammy] Figueroa and drummer Vince
Colaiuta."
RAY COLLINS
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Released a cassette of demos in 1993, called 'Love Songs'. Also
an album of demos in 1981(?) on Polar Records (he says from memory). An odd
character; apparently hates Zappa's guts.
I think he is briefly in "Video From Hell". Goes something like:
Collins: Is that thing recording
Zappa: No.
Collins: You're lying, the tape recorder is ALWAYS going.
...
Collins: Zappa's dishing out the shit, one more time...
It's rather funny, if I could remember at all how it went. :)
WARREN CUCCURULLO
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Warren Cuccurullo (please note spelling, it is correct, no matter
what the liner notes say...)--in case anyone wondered what he is doing
now, he is in Duran Duran and has completely turned their sound around
and brought them into a whole new level of music. He has been with
them since 1986, and has been a full member since June 1989. The
Duran fans are being very slow to accept him, but I have won a few
converts.
If anyone has been wondering what Warren sounds like now, Duran Duran
was on MTV Unplugged Dec. 15, 1994 at 9 PM Eastern.
If you see the movie "With Honors," they (Duran Duran) did a cover
of the Led Zeppelin song "Thank You" and are on the soundtrack. Yes,
that is Warren on that great acoustic guitar and backward sounding
electric solo. He also was the guitarist on Duran Duran's recent
hits "Ordinary World," "Come Undone," and "Too Much Information."
One final note about Warren--he performed "Watermelon in Easter Hay"
as a tribute to Frank Zappa at the following Duran Duran show on the
past tour: 12/6/93 Portland OR, 12/7/93 Seattle, WA, 12/8/93 Vancouver,
BC, 1/13/94 (New York, NY) and 1/28/94 London, England.
PAMELA DES BARRES
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Played Journalist in 200 Motels. Was a member of The GTOs ("Girls
Together Outrageously") whose album was produced by Zappa. Author
of book "I'm with the band". Has slept with Chris Hillman, Mick
Jagger, Jimmy Page, etc, etc, etc.
DR. JOHN
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The latest release by Dr. John (Mac Rebennack), TELEVISION, has ex-Zappa
concert members Ronnie Cuber (baritone sax, horn arr. on some tracks)
and Randy Brecker (trumpet).
In his recently released autobiography, "Under a Hoodoo Moon", Dr. John
has some info. on when he played with Zappa in LA. He says that he was
asked to play the same 5-6 notes over and over again while a chorus made
wierd noises. He says that he asked to go to the bathroom and then never
returned. From his description, it appears to be the sessions for
FREAK OUT that produced either, "Help, I'm a Rock," or "Return of the
son of Monster Magnet."
GEORGE DUKE
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Released many jazz albums, some of which are:
"Faces in Reflection" - 1974
Ndugu (Leon Chancler) - drums
John Heard - bass
No FZ related material
"Feel" - 1974
Ndugu (Leon Chancler) - drums
John Heard - bass
FZ appears as Obdewl X on "Love" and "Old Slipper"
"The Aura Will Prevail" - 1975
cover of "Enchidna's Arf" and "Uncle Remus"
Ndugu (Leon Chancler) - drums
Alfonso Johnson - bass
No Zappa alumnus on this one.
"I Love the Blues, She Heard My Cry"
Tom Fowler - bass
Ruth Underwood - marimba, gongs, percussion
Bruce Fowler - trombone
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - vocals, guitar
Not all the above musicians are featured on all tracks.
"Liberated Fantasies"
Napolean Murphy Brock - vocals
Ruth Underwood - voice of riddle
Played with Billy Cobham in 1974, 1976.
Released collaborations with Stanley Clarke (even doing "Louie Louie")
Also reasonably popular as a producer among young black artistes (sorry,
I can't name any!) Continues to release albums.
George Duke produced one or two songs for one of the last Miles Davis albums.
George is currently working on his next solo release. Recent projects
include production work for Johnny Gill and Anita Baker, music direction
for Comic Relief, incidental music for assorted children's television shows,
and "The Muir Woods Suite", an album of original orchestral music. (source:
Keyboard Magazine, April 1994)
George Duke did production and practically all instruments on the
Denise Williams world-wide hit "Let's hear it for the boy" sometime
in the mid/late 80s. I've seen an interview where from memory he
said that he did most of the instrumentation using memorymoogs
and minimoogs.
ANSLEY DUNBAR
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Played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers prior to joining the Mothers.
Released "Blue Whale" in 1970 which included a sixteen minute "Willy the Pimp"
He was with Jefferson Starship. I don't even know if they exist now.
I think Aynsley Dunbar was in the original Journey for a time. Poor lad.
Yes, but that was pre-schlock (read: pre-Perry) Journey. Their first
album was actually pretty good -- sort of heavy fusion-influenced rock.
There is a band called Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with a three albums
(according to holonet). I'm not sure from what era they are.
Aynsley Dunbar RETALIATION. From the late 60's/early 70's.
I have no idea what the music was like, or who he was retaliating
against. The ads for his albums (remember vinyl?) used to appear on a lot of
record sleeves in the early 70's. As said before he played with Mayall in
the 60's. I think from '66 to '67. Last week I got my hands on their first LP
in a second hand shop. It is produced by John Mayall. No release year on
the cover, but my guess is '68. The music is basically blues or R&B oriented,
including an organ. The bass player is Alex Dmchowski, alias Erroneous.
Aynsley had played with Dweezil (playing drums on one of Dweezil's albums ).
He left Jefferson Starhip quite a while ago, played one album with Whitesnake
before Vai joined. Was interviewed by Guitar Player for their special ZAPPA!
mag in 1992. (source: Zappa! mag & my record collection)
My friend Mike recently saw AD on tour with The Pat Travers Band.
Actually got to meet the man. Said he was *immensely* cool.
Very nice, well mannered and personable. Another snippet for
the archives on Zappa members.
If by "the drummer from Journey" you mean Aynsley Dunbar, I'd say yes,
he's one of the very few real rock drummers who can also play real jazz.
He did both with Zappa, who he played with for years. For rock, also check
out his playing with Bowie ("Pin-Ups"--some of his best recorded performances),
Nils Lofgren (first LP), Flo & Eddie, and Lou Reed ("Berlin" LP).
For jazz playing, listen to Zappa's "Grand Wazoo" and "Waka/Jawaka";
on both of these, his drumming is magnificent, and is "real" jazz playing,
not the fake stuff that rock drummers sometimes try to pull off.
TONY DURAN
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Found on the "For Real" by Ruben and the Jets album mentioned in some posts.
Should we remember that the lad played with Captain Beefheart? OK, we won't.
ROY ESTRADA
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Formed Little Feat with Lowell George. Was in band for first couple of
albums.
Last played with Zappa around 1979(around Baby Snakes time).
He of course spent several productive years in the Magic Band, under the
pseudonym Orejon.
There is the possibility of a cassette release of demos by Roy
on Billy James' Electric Yak Records out of North Carolina. Will post again
if I hear anything.
Here's a bit about Roy Estrada:
After Roy left Little Feat (I don't know why he left), he settled
here in Loveland, Colorado. (I don't know what trick of fate brought
him to Loveland, either. Perhaps Motherly not brotherly or otherly love.)
He raised a kid here and drove a truck through Colorado and Wyoming,
delivering movies to various theaters. I used to work at one of the
places where he made his deliveries.
But I didn't really meet Roy until (sometime in the late 70s) he came
up and introduced himself to some friends of mine who were playing at
a bar in Fort Collins (a somewhat bigger town north of Loveland). He said
he really liked their playing because they reminded him a lot of Little
Feat (they did a few Feat covers), and he wanted to jam. They subsequently did.
I got to meet Roy during one of these jams and/or one of the accompanying
informal parties. Roy's a regular sort of guy and (as you might expect)
a lot of fun. He also just liked to hang out, drink beer, work on cars, etc.
Not too long after my friends and Roy started hanging out, Zappa
came to Fort Collins to play at the university there (Colorado State).
Roy got everybody in to the rehearsal. Frank gave Roy a big hug and
had him sing some of the falsetto parts to show the new band how it
was done. (I guess Roy used to sing the really high stuff on the old
Mothers albums.) They hung out for the show.
After that, Roy started thinking about getting back into the music business.
He did some demo tapes with a few of my friends and tried to shop them
around with some producers in LA. I don't know if anything ever happened
with the tapes, or if they have any correlation to the Flying Yak demo
tapes you mention. Roy did start showing up on some of Zappa's stuff
again about this time. May just be coincidence.
Anyway, in April I talked to one of my buddies who did the demo tapes with
Roy. (This guy's name is Mark Radley, and he plays a pretty mean blues guitar.)
He's stayed in touch with Roy and said the Estrada man is out in LA now,
doing music and driving a truck on the side (maybe he's delivering movies
again). (Kind of amazing that someone with as much musical talent is kind
of out on the sidelines when there's so much crap that you hear. Nobody
ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people, I guess.)
FLO and EDDIE
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After leaving the Mothers, they released at least 5 albums with
the name Flo and Eddie.
1- The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie (1972)
2- Flo and Eddie (1973)
3- Illegal, Immoral and Fattening (1975)
4- Moving Targets (1976)
5- Rock Steady with Flo and Eddie (1981)
#4, Moving Targets, contained the song "Keep it Warm" which had quite a bit
of airplay.
#5, Rock Steady, was re-released in 1987 by Rhino records as "Prince Flo &
Jah Edward." This contains a reggae version of Happy Together!
Rhino also put out a compilation CD in 1987 called "The Best of Flo &
Eddie," which contained tracks from the first 4 albums above, plus songs
from the movies "Dirty Ducks" and "Texas Detour." Flo and Eddie have done
lots of soundtrack and backing vocal work. (They sing backup in the song
"Bang a gong.")
#3, Illegal Immoral and Fattening, was recently released on CD.
Also a disk called "The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie Captured Live" was
released by Rhino in 1992. It contains the old Turtles hits like Happy
Together, Elanoire (sp), and others... The white hair and beard look
- - - different - but the voices are still the same.
Reunited the Turtles a year or two back and did a 20th or 25th anniversary
tour (or maybe even a 30th anniversary?).
Oops, I should have included Flo and Eddie in the news about being in the
studio with Terry and Duran Duran. Apparently they did backing vocals. This
is all verified information from Warren Cuccurullo himself.
Flo and Eddie were also the afternoon drive-time DJs at WXRK-FM
("K-Rock" -- Howard Stern's home station) in New York for a while, about
a year ago. Anybody know why they left the airwaves?
I really don't think they were cut out for that industry. Probably the
stresses were too much for them, and I don't expect they liked living in
New York. Howard thought they were idiots and used to poke fun at them
a lot (lucky for them they weren't in competition).
One snippet had two Flo & E impersonators talking about what washed up
boring has-been rock stars from the 70's they could call today. One of
them suggested the guitarrist from Blodwyn Pig. I died laughing.
They have been doing The Bottom Line in NYC for the last umteen years on New
Years. I saw them last year and two years before that as well. Excellent show.
They usually do a little segment on the Zappa years, but most of the show is
Turtles material (which is nice, but after a while, it takes on an oldies show
feel). They usually do the Sanzini Brothers. A bit slower than on the Illegal
Immoral and Fattening album, but still worth while. Last year they did a long
Nikki Hoi segment. I have a homebrew bootleg of the show from 90-91. They did a
Batman spoof in the beginning, and a Menudo spoof after the intermission.
Flo and Eddie have played at the Bottom Line in New York practically every
New Year's Eve weekend that I can remember since the mid 70's. On one of
these occasions in the late 70's, Frank Zappa showed up and played a few
songs with them. Last year at the Bottom Line they did a large chunk of
side one of We're only in it for the Money for "all the Zappa fans out
there," which was odd because they didn't sing on that album. Most of the
audience had no idea what was going on, but they did a great job.
>Flo and Eddie
And if you think about it, flow and eddy are two things that water does...
pretty neat pun huh?
I can't believe no one here has mentioned the movie Dirty Duck. Has no one here
ever seen this? It's an animated movie by Flo and Eddie with the songs Cheap as
the movie theme (now this is a cheap little movie), Karma Sutra Time, We're
Living in a Jungle and a few others.
Flo & Eddie also did backup vocals on the Alice Cooper album _From the Inside_.
For you completists out there (I haven't seen this mentioned yet),
Flo & Eddie did the prominent background vocals on Springsteen's
"Hungry Heart".
They wrote/performed the music for the Care Bears.
Luckily we don't get this in the UK, so no idea what it is/was.
They also appeared on the 'Gumby' compo album (some sort of
conservation doodad), along with Dweezil.
Also, I heard that they did the backing vocals for Marc Bolan's "Bang a Gong".
Only 70% sure on this one. I think my source was _I'm with the band_
Yeah I know some of you folks here don't care much for the F & E era, but
for those of us who do, let me say that they did excellent versions
tonight (12/94) at the Bottom Line of the following:
Magic Fingers Mystery Roach
Lonesome Cowboy Burt The Air
Call Any Vegetable Eddie Are You Kidding
THE FOWLERS (all five or six of 'em)
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The Fowlers appeared behind Stan Ridgway's vocals on "The Cannon Song"
in the Kurt Weill/Bert Brecht tribute album, Lost In The Stars.
Has a disk out with most of the brass/woodwind section of the '88 band
titled BREAKFAST FOR DINOSAURS.
"Breakfast For Dinosaurs". To put my impression of this one i
perspective I should first say that I *did* like "Hunter" a lot although
I can understand why you may have not have. Some of it sort of comes
across as stuff that might make it onto a 'soft' jazz radio playlist.
And although that kind of stuff usually makes me want to stick my head
in the potty and hurl... I dunno, I can't help but liking it. I find
myself putting it on if I'm reading or surfing the 'Net and don't want
to get _too_ drawn into the music so I can stay focused on what I'm doing.
It *will* draw me out and transport me sometimes though, so at least for
me, there is something happening here. "Dinosaurs" also falls into this
'commercial' style although there are a few more kick_ass numbers on this
one. Vinnie Colaiuta is kinda wow on the three numbers he appears on and
Tom Fowler does some electric bass stuff that gets me twitchin'. Ike just
appears on one tune and although it isn't the best thing I've heard him do,
this song has a real nice full ensemble instrumental break in it.
The electric guitarist on this album, Mike O'Neill does some great
vamping throughout.
Steve Fowlers' "Captured". This one doesn't really get
me too excited. It's nice. It has its' moments. It has a decent vocal
number with <grin> Marvin Fowler singing. Mike O'Neill is present and
provides some swank guitar. Chester is perfection. If I wandered into a
club and these guys were playing this I'd clap real loud and mean it.
If my apart- ment were burning down though it would be way down on the
list of stuff to get rescued from the music collection.
Steve Fowler also has two releases: 'Captured' and 'The Last Blue Sky'.
Most of this stuff (except 'Ants Can Count' on Terra Nova Records) is on
the Brothers' own Fossil Records. Some of them were also in a band called
Airpocket who had albums released in Japan, I believe.
The Fowlers (Walt, Brice, Steve and Tom) in "The Ears Have it"
BRUCE FOWLER
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Bruce Fowler plays on:
Woody Herman -- Somewhere, 1969 w/ Bill Chase, Sal Nistico, Ronnie Cuber
(who is on FZ's "In New York")
Joey Sellars -- Something for Nothing, 1989 w/ Kei Akagi
I remembered the title to the Bruce Fowler/Phil Teele LP (soon to be CD).
It's called 'Synthetic Division'. Jolly odd it is too...
Bruce has two solo CDs:
"Entropy", 1993
Straight-ahead jazz-rock. First, the one that really knocked my
socks off is the one that you (DH) already have - "Entropy".
Did ya notice that Tom is on acoustic bass all the way on this.
In fact there is no electric anything; no guitar, no synths..
HEY! *Its the Fowler Brothers Unpluged*. The song "A Bash Fit
For a King" is worth the whole price of the disk. Try sitting
through that one without moving. (For extra credit: What old
American TV show theme song gets quoted by the piano at the
beginning of the last section of this tune?).
This disk goes on my top shelf.
Bruce Fowler: Trombone and Words
Steve Fowler: Also Sax, Flute
Tom Fowler: Acoustic Bass, Violin
Walt Fowler: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Albert Wing: Tenor Sax
Chester Thompson: Drums
Billy Childs: Piano
Kei Akagi: Piano
Kurt McGettrick: Baritone Sax, Eb Contrabass Clarinet
Phil Teele: Bass Trombone
Suzette Moriarty: French Horn
"Ants Can Count" , 1990
This baby to me comes across as more of a collection of brass chamber
ensemble pieces than a jazz thing. Eight out of the eleven cuts
are sans rhythm section and feature, besides Bruce and his brothers,
Steve only plays sax on one tune and sticks to flute elsewhere.
If you were to get me in a headlock and not let go till I said something
critical about this CD then maybe after a while I'd blurt out that the
production could have been better and that a couple of tunes end a tad
abruptly. Otherwise, to my ears this is a good listen. Check out Bruce
doing circular breathing on the solo number called "One Man One Bone".
I will never understand how anybody can do that.
Bruce Fowler: trombone
Walt Fowler: trumpet
Steve Fowler: flute & alto saz
Suzette Moriarty: french horn
Phil Teele: bass trombone
Ed Fowler: piono & bass
Tom Fowler: bass
Ed Mann: percussion (two tracks)
Billy Mintz: drums (two tracks)
Chester Thompson: drums (one track)
Clark Woodard: drums (one track)
Bruce Fowler appears in the Robert Altman film Short Cuts, which
is currently showing, at least in NYC. Bruce has the part of the
trombone player, oddly enough, in a small jazz combo in an LA
nightclub called the Low Note. He's in quite a few scenes
throughout the movie, and is seen and heard playing the
trombone, but has no spoken lines. The movie has an all-star
cast; among the other musicians in the film are Tom Waits and
Huey Lewis, who both have substantial speaking roles. That band also
included Greg Cohen on bass and NRBQ's Terry Adams on piano.
Bruce is credited with orchestration on the sound track for the
soon-to-be-releasedLion King (this is a Disney animation with
music by Elton John, who also sings the title cut, and lyrics by
Tim Rice).
That's not the only thing he's been up to. This film thing seems to be Bruce's
new trend---he was also responsible for orchestrating a musak-style version of
"Superfreak" for the movie "Batman Returns" a couple of years ago.
I saw his name in the credits of "Speed" last night. I think he was one
of three orchestrators/musical directors/soloists, I can't remember exactly.
I saw Bruce playing in Vinnie Golea's (sp?) band at the L.A.
Art museum a couple weeks back. The music was interesting space-jazz
that I enjoyed, but my jazz-fan ( and Fowler/Zappa fan) friend who came
along, was not as receptive. Very long pieces. In fact, I think the
last set may have been one long song.
Bruce Fowler also did some work with Oingo Boingo in the '80s. Check out the
"Boingo Alive" and "Dead Man's Party" CDs. There may be others, but since my
collection is small, I cant' say for sure.
TOM FOWLER
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Tom has a solo release 'Heartscapes' which sounds a bit like Level 42.
Also, see the "Fowler's "
WALT FOWLER
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Walt is on Chad Wackerman's latest, The View.
Walt has a solo CD due for release soon.
I just found Walt Fowler playing trumpet on 70's Johnny Guitar Watson
albums "Funk beyond the call of dutry" and "A real mother". I got them
for years but never have seen Walt. Credits for studio engeneer go to
Kerry McNabb, who also dis this job on a bunch of Zappa recordings.
Both of these Watson records are great, btw. (If your into 70
cool-kinda-funk-blues-pop.
BOB HARRIS - two guys
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Frank Zappa employed two guys named Bob Harris. The '70s Bob
can be seen in the picture gracing the contents page of one of the tribute
mags that came out about Frank after he died. It's a picture of the Flo/Eddie
band. He's right above Frank's left shoulder. Don't know where he is now.
FZ said in an interview in Society Pages that the one who played in the
Flo & Eddie Mothers is not the same as the one who played with Zappa
in the early 80s.
Thana Harris was the wife of Bob Harris #2. Her vocals on Sleep Dirt
were not recorded at the original sessions, but were overdubbed years
later for the CD release. The 80s Bob Harris lives in central Colorado
and performs on the weekends with his wife, Thana.
SUGARCANE HARRIS
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I haven't seen anything from SUGARCANE HARRIS in years, but he's no spring
chicken anymore. I did see lots of his jazz/blues albums from the 70's
on a German label in a used record store in New Orleans recently, and now I'm
sorry I didn't buy them.
Somebody told me a couple of years ago that Sugercane had died. I hope
I'm wrong on this one.
I got to see him in LA (Long Beach actually?) in the early 70s. I've lost
my memory of this but it may have been with Dewey (his original pairing,
Don and Dewey - cf. Freak Out). I love his Epic album Sugarcane (E30027),
produced by Johnny Otis, with a back cover by Rick Griffin. A wonderful
musician. I used to live in his little house.
Around 87-88 there was this band called Tupelo Chain sex. Can't remember much
about them; I know they toured North America and had one or two lps. Guess they
were based in California but that's not entirely sure. From an interview I read
in some "alternative" rock mag of the time Sugarcane Harris was sporadically in
and out of the band; the reason he was not a regular is that he kept having
trouble with the law and had to do stints in prison. Drugs, I think.
I hope this is a helpful bit of information. Discography-wise, after his
great debut on Epic he recorded two (I think) albums with blues guitarist
Harvey Mandel. One was named "Pure Food and Drug Act" and had a cover of
"Eleanor Rigby". Then as you said he did three or four albums on the German
MPS label. I remember one of these was a live set with Robert Wyatt and had
a cover of Horace Silver's "Song for my Father"; the lp was called "Sugarcane's
got the blues". Another album was named "Cup full of Dreams".
As Aynsely Dunbar he played with John Mayall. However not at the same
time. Sugercane was with Mayall in the early 70's. At least he participate
on the double LP "Ten Years have Gone" released 1973.
BUNK GARDNER
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Is a member of the "Grandmothers" (or was it Buzz ?) currently touring in
Europe. Also in this band are Jimmy Carl Black and Don Preston.
LOWELL GEORGE
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Appeared on the GTO's album, "Permanent Damage"
Formed Little Feat with Roy Estrada.
Passed away in 1978, shortly after his album "Thanks, I'll Eat It Here"
came out.
New CD with old stuff (pre-Little Feat) released in 1993 - "Lightning
Rod Man". Lightning Rod Man actually features FZ as producer
and stuff, as well as Ian Underwood and other Mothers. It was
recorded before he joined the MOI by a band called The Factory.
Played Shakuhachi (bamboo flute) on Akiko Yano (later Mrs Ryuichi
Sakamoto)' debut album.
JIM GORDON
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Played Drums on Apostrophe, and is probably best known for co-writing Layla
with Eric (God! It's God! I see God!) Clapton.
His current claim to fame is that he's locked away forever in an insane
asylum for chopping up his mother, after becoming convinced that she was the
devil.
JOHN GUERIN
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The drummer on Joni Mitchell's "Mingus" is John Guerin. John Guerin and
bass player Max Bennett were both in Tom Scotts band that backed Joni
in the Early seventies. They can be heard on "Miles of Aisles".
Guerin, Bennett and Tom Scott appear on Mitchells solo records from the
mid seventies. Bennett and Guerin appear on "King Kong, Jean-Luc
Ponty plays the music of FZ".
RALPH HUMPHREY
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I have a friend who studied at GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology, I think),
three years ago. He told me that Ralph was teaching drumming at PIT
(Percussion Institute of Technology), and referred to him as a "short, very
kind guy with a big beard. Ralph's speciality obviously was polyrythmics
(which it should be if you've played with FZ). He also had a band with
other guys at the school, called Outside Men, who played "interesting,
experimental music".
My friend also told me that Ralph played with Michael Ruff, an american
FM-rock guitarist.
Drums on Manhatten Transfer's "The Christmas Album" (1992).
ELLIOT INGBER
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Elliot Ingber was in the Mothers at the time of "Freak Out" (oddly
enough, in those days FZ did not consider himself good enough to be
the lead guitarist in his own band!) but left shortly thereafter to
form the Fraternity of Man with Richie Hayward and Martin Kibbee
(who was the "Fred Martin" credited on some Little Feat songs).
They did only one LP that I know of, which had the original version
of "Don't Bogart That Joint" (which became world famous when "Easy
Rider" came out), as well as a version of "Oh No" a few years before
FZ would put it out himself on "Weasels Ripped My Flesh".
Of course, Hayward hooked with Lowell George and Roy Estrada
(when the Mothers disbanded in 69) to form Little Feat, which is
where the Feat/Ingber connection comes in.
Elliot's tenure with Beefheart was brief; he joined right after
"Lick My Decals Off" and played most of the tour in support of the
record but quit midway due to (supposedly) a distaste for life on
the road. He was christened Winged Eel Fingerling and did record
the next CB album "The Spotlight Kid" but didn't tour with him any
further.
He was also involved with the Mallard project (2 albums) -
which is the Magic band (sans captain) and with real (??) names -
their eponymously titled first album (on virgin) is available
and well recommended.
There's also some Ingber-material on "looking up grannies dress"
by the Grandmothers. That's right. And on the first Grandmothers
album titled "The Grandmothers," (1980 Rhino Records) there are two
songs by Elliot Ingber:
"A Bit Blue" "We Don't Feed No Livestock Here"
Elliot Ingber - guitar Elliot Ingber - lead guitar
Johnny Dyre - harp Ira Ingber - washboard
Larry Taylor - guitar "Lil' Johnny" - guitar & vocal
[recorded in the early '70s] Richie Hayward - drums
[recorded in 1971]
The biography on the album cover says "Elliot Ingber lives in
Hollywood and keeps himself in shape by riding a 15-speed racer
and drinking lots of water. He's been writing his very different
blues and rock." [note: circa 1980]
The second Grandmothers album titled "Looking Up Granny's Dress"
(1982 Rhino Records) also has a song by Elliot Ingber on it
"Gingerwail"
Elliot Ingber - lead guitar
Ira Ingber - guitar & bass
Don U. Matic - drums
[recorded in ????]
EDDIE JOBSON
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Before joining FZ Jobson had played in Curved Air and Roxy Music and had done
various studio dates / guest apearances (sp?). After leaving FZ he formed
"UK" together with Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth and John Wetton.
After the first album (called "UK") Holdsworth and Bruford left. Bruford
was replaced by none other than Terry Bozzio. In this line up they recorded
"Danger Money" and "Night after Night", a live album. "UK" split up
in december '79. Jobson then joined Jethro Tull for an album (called "A") and
a tour. In '83 he recorded "The Green Album" as a member of "Zinc" a band put
together by Jobson. Since then he's been doing commercials, writing scores
for TV showes and synth-programming. Released one solo album called "Theme of
Secrets". (1985)
Anyway, while flipping though the TV last Friday night, I caught the end
credits of the NBC show "Viper". Nothing big, except when I saw "Music
composed by Eddie Jobson". I couldn't believe it. For those who don't
know, he is on Zappa's "Live In New York" CD. I had no idea what he was
up to nowadays, so I was glad to see he is still around. A side note,
this guy has also played with Yes, Jethro Tull, U.K., and a few other
bands. Very versatile guy.
Also worth mentioning is Eddie Jobson's _Theme of Secrets_ CD. Released
on the Private Music label in 1985. All compositions were composed and
performed by Eddie Jobson on the Synclavier Music Computer.
MIKE KENEALLY
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Solo stuff, released Hat. Helped organize Zappa's Universe back in 91
and probably was involved in the post production of the CD/Video.
Currently working on a second solo album, when not
on tour with Z. Unfortunately it won't be finished until August 94.
If it's as good as 'hat.', it'll be fab and worth all your pennies.
Mike Keneally is currently touring with Z & is a columnist
for "Guitar Player". (source:Late Show last Monday/ Guitar Player mag.)
Keneally here. I finally managed to sneak enough time away from my day
job at the multi-colored aquarium-pebble factory to cobble together
another solo opus... BOIL THAT DUST SPECK - A cornucopia of moods,
rhythms & snide comments. You'll smile & hop, your brow will furrow,
your cranium walls will be a vivid emerald green.
MICHAEL KENYON
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This entry is here for the "completists". Michael Kenyen is the infamous
Illinois Enema Bandit. Per the news account:
"Michael H. Kenyon, 30, the suspected enema bandit who terrorized
coeds at the University of Illinois for 10 years, has pleaded
guilty in Urbana, Ill., to six counts of armed robbery. He has
admitted administering enemas to woman victims in at least three
of the six robberies."
FZ wrote "The Illinois Enema Bandit" as a ??tribute?? to this
upstanding citizen.
Where is he now? Who the hell knows!
DAVID LOGEMAN
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So, whatever became of David "I forget your name even though you've been
in the band..." Logeman? Where did he play previously? This guy was the
right drummer for the vocal-oriented songs which dominated the
Spring/Summer '80 tour. When came to killer instrumental improvs
well...IMHO, his chops sounded like variations on "Shave & A Haircut".
David Logeman had also been playing drums for "Jan & Dean".
(source: I believe I read this ... in GOLDMINE?????, not sure.)
ED MANN
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Has a few solo releases and was (is ?) a member of the "Repercussion Unit"
a band of 6 percussion players.
Released an album around 1990 or so (forget the name)
featuring Fowler Bros.
He teaches percussion at CalArts. I had a friend who went there and I
think Ed was one of his advisors.
Ed Mann hast at least two solo releases (early 90s) "Get Up" and
"Perfect World".
Have released a couple of jazzy disk on CMP (?).
I'm pretty sure (90%) that he played on Mick Karn's album "Bestial Cluster".
Ed mann's "Have No Fear" due out this year on Muffin (in arrangement with
CMP)
SAL MARQUEZ
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Has a solo release (92 ?) out called "One for Dewey". A tribute to
Miles Dewey Davis, and the music is 50s/60s -Davis like. He's also
a member of the GRP big band who released an album 1 or 2 years ago.
(His solo album is on GRP too). Like real, *real* Davis-like.
Marquez does a convincing copy, even if that's pretty much old hat
these days.
Played trumpet and did horn arrangements for Robbie Krieger's "Robbie
Krieger and Friends" (1977).
Sal was a member of the Tonight Show Band with Branford
Marsalis. Got a haircut for the gig.
TOMMY MARS
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Tommy Mars appeared on Steve Vai's Flexable/Leftovers. I haven't heard
from him since. I too am interested in news about him as I think
he and George Duke have been Zappa's best Kbd. players. I read in
a long ago article that Zappa said, "(Tommy Mars) definitely has his
own harmonic concept."
Toured Europe with Ed Mann in 1992 and was talking about making
an album with him. Never happened as far as I know. Shame. Makes brief
appearance on Vai's 'Flex-Able Leftovers' or the US 'Flex-Able' CD, playing
violin (what a talent!).
He recently finished recording and touring with Mona Lisa Overdrive. He
is now working on his first solo album for Stone Records. (source: Keyboard
Magazine, April 1994)
Robert Martin
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I was looking through promotional material for Leo Kottke, of all people,
and it mentioned that his album Great Big Boy (1991) features
"Robert Martin, conservatory-trained french horn player and FZ alumnus,
on keyboards and bass." (Bass?) This is the only mention of him I've
ever seen aside from his work with Zappa.
2 weeks ago, I watched a show on TV ("Schmidteinander" for all the
german ppl), where there had a live band playing. A guy named
Kal Davies, playing some sort of Soul and Blues, featuring Bobby
Martin on keyboards and vocals.
BILLY MUNDI
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Formed a group called Rhinoceros in the early seventies. Cross
between early Chicago and R&B.
If anyone finds out where Billy Mundi is, please tell Jimmy
Carl Black who wants to get in touch with him!
PATRICK O'HEARN
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Patrick O'Hearn has been releasing albums on his own. At least one of
these albums, "River's gonna rise", with the help of Terry Bozzio and
Warren Cucurrullo(?).
Patrick O'Hearn solo career--he has in fact had several albums,
and both Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo have helped on some. I know
in particular that Warren helped on Rivers Gonna Rise, Indigo, and the
White Sands Soundtrack
Released a bunch of New Age stuff. Apparently used to keep in touch
with Zappa due to Zappa's use of an instrument called a "Roland
Octapad." (1990 time frame).
Last night I began reading a screenplay named "Silent Tongue" by playwright
and actor Sam Shepard (acting credits include "The Right Stuff", "Country"),
and the title page credits Patrick O'Hearn for music.
Warren Cucurullo reckons he is going to work with Patrick and Terry
Bozzio this year (1994) on an album. Let's hope so.
Patrick O'Hearn and White Sands--yes he did the score for that movie,
as well as Fatherhood and the upcoming Silent Tongue. If you look closely
in the credits to the movie White Sands, you will see that he was assisted
in this by Warren Cuccurullo and Terry Bozzio.
SHUGGIE OTIS
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On your (way cool) chart of featured musicians you might note that
Shuggie Otis played guitar. In case you didn't know, he was the son
of the great band leader Johnny Otis who provided a bridge between
big band jazz, jump band swing and rock and roll in the early to mid
50's introducing such acts as Little Eva. Shuggie, a pretty damned good
guitar player, was featured on an album entitled Cold Shot! and recorded
something else produced by Al Kooper (of Blues Project and BST fame).
Since then he appears to have gone to ground.
JIM PONS
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Has been, and as far as I know, still is--film coordinator for the NY Jets,
which is what his job was when he was profiled on TV. In that profile, they
showed him playing the bass in church, which he said is the only time he
gets to play the bass anymore.
JEAN LUC PONTY
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Played with John McLaughlin in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Released many jazz albums, some of which are:
"Jean Luc-Ponty Experience" - 1969
Live with the George Duke Trio
Dick Berk - Drums
John Heard - Bass
No FZ related material
"Kong Kong" - 1970
JLP plaus the Music of FZ, covers of:
"King Kong", "Idiot Bastard Son", "Twenty Small Cigars", "Music for
Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra", "America Drinks and Goes Home"
featuring: George Duke, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Wilton Felder,
John Guerin, Ernie Watts, Buell Neidlinger, Don Cristieb
FZ plays guitar on "How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That"
"Aurora" - 1976
Darryl Stuermer - guitar
Patrice Rushen - keyboards
Tom Fowler - bass
Norman Fearrington - drums
"Imaginary Voyage" - 1976
Darryl Stuermer - guitar
Allan Zavod - keyboards
Tom Fowler - bass
Mark Craney - drums
DON PRESTON
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Don played synthesizer about five years ago on John Carter's Castles
of Ghana (it may be the album after that in the series--I'd have to check)
on Grammavision. He personally got rave reviews for his soloing. However,
that band never toured (Carter died last year) and I haven't heard from him
since.
Saw Don Preston playing with Robbie Krieger (Doors) at a small club
in Hollywood in the late 70's. They were playing stuff similar to Jeff Beck
and Jan Hammer (Blow By Blow - Wired).
Don Preston did a jazz/rock/flamenco album with Robby Krieger of The Doors.
Some time in the early eighties I went to see The Carla Bley Band at
the Paradise Club in Boston and was pleasantly suprised to see Don
Preston in the band.
P.S. Don Preston is also on an album by trumpeter Michael Mantler (husband
of Carla Bley?) named "Live", with Jack Bruce.
Black, Preston and Gardner appear to be in a band called the Grandmothers.
Don Preston appeared on the Mike Mantler release ALIEN on ECM/Watt around
1988 or so. I think he still plays with Mantler on occasion.
Don played in the LA Art Ensemble or whatever it was called, with people
like Buell Neidlinger and other hip CalArts types. He also played in Gil
Evans band. He was very good at transforming.
Played on:
Carla Bley -- Escalator Over the Hill, 1968-71 w/ Don Cherry, Jack Bruce,
John McLaughlin, Charlie Haden, Linda Ronstadt
Michael Mantler -- Alien, 1985 (already mentioned?)
Bobby Bradford -- Comin' On, 1988 w/ John Carter, Richard Davis, Andrew
Cyrille
John Carter -- Fields, 1988 (part of the "Roots and Folklore" series
already mentioned in other postings that includes "Shadows on a Wall")
Just moved out to Germany as well, where he lives near
Jimmy Carl Black (also resident in Germany) and is still a Grandmother. A
video from 1988 'Dr Ogo Moto' is also due soon for release, again I think
on Muffin; maybe on Electric Yak in the US.
Don Preston's _Vile Foamy Ectoplasm_ was released on CD in 1993 by
Muffin Records, Germany. It's quite good! It contains tracks that
Don Preston recorded over the years with different musicians.
1 track was recorded in 1973 with
Don Preston - Modular Moog, Mini Moog Emil Richards - vibes, percussion
Dave Prichard - guitar
Erik Lindeman - piano
Dave Parloto - bass
Chris Parloto - drums
Roy Estrada - "Get any onya"
3 tracks were recorded in 1975 with
Don Preston - Fender Rhodes, Modular Moog, Mini Moog
Arthur Barrow - guitar, bass
Bruce Fowler - trombone
Michael Crayden - percussion
Frank Wilson - drums (1 track)
Bruce Gary - drums (the other 2 tracks)
1 track was recorded in 1976 with
Don Preston - Modular Moog, Mini Moog, Moog Theremin, Steiner E.V.I.
3 tracks were recorded in 1981 with
Don Preston - vocals, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
Jimmy Carl Black - vocals, percussion
Walt Fowler - trumpet, synthesizer
Mike Miller - guitar
Tom Fowler - bass
Tony Morales - drums
1 track (a 15 minute piece) was recorded in 1967-68 & 1993 with
Don Preston - Fender Rhodes, organ, synthesizer, piano, drums,
violin, gong
Meredith Monk - vocals, bells, bass
Donn Preston - vocals, piano
Bunk Gardner - tenor sax, flute, body noises
Tom Wayburn - percussion
Jimmy Carl Black - snorks, violin, strangeness
Roy Estrada - violin, moans, wheezes
Saw a cheezy Sci-Fi flick called "Android" on the Sci-Fi Channel the other
day. Don Preston was credited with the music. Nothing very distinctive,
but I have to admit that the film was so bad it seriously detracted from
listening very closely to the music. Not even "Cheepnis"-grade sci-fi.
No idea how old the movie was; mid-to-late 70's I would guess.
Don has been working with composer/trumpeter Michael Mantler for awhile.
Check out "Alien" and "Michael Mantler Live" on the Watt/ECM label. Sorta a
hybrid between modern jazz and modern classical music, with Don doing
orchestrations on synths. On the live album Jack Bruce sings and Nick Mason
(PF) drums as well, sorta old home week for aging art-rockers 8^)
He appears on keyboards on the live album, and also orchestrated these
massive synthesizer architectures on _Alien_ (which has nothing to do with
the movie except a similar emotional tenor). Dubs available if necessary,
but you should try and buy this stuff; Mantler's one of the more
interesting unheard composer/performers out there.
Don also contributed heavily to the last few John Carter releases (mostly
on Gramavision) before Carter passed away in the early 90's. Carter was a
pioneering composer, saxophonist and clarinetist who worked extensively
with Bobby Bradford, a cornetist who has played with Ornette Coleman
amongst others.
In the liner notes of one of the Carter releases, he dubbed Don Preston
the "father of modern synthesis."
Yeah, shouldn't that have been *mother*? It was on "Shadows on a Wall", the
last in the series.
I particularly recommend the live set, which is not on Gramavision, but
Hat Art. Don really gets to stretch out (on synth and piano)....and
basically, it's one of the most awesome "out" jazz records ever made.
Also wrote some of the music on 'Apocalypse Now'. Also a few other
films. More to follow...
Oh yeah, Don Preston's on the CD too (Eugene Chadbourne, _Locked in a Dutch
Coffeeshop_) -- but not playing with Jimmy Carl;
he's on another (earlier) session that Chadbourne just spliced in (shades
of conceptual continuity), where Chadbourne, Preston, jazz sitar player
Ashwan (sp?) Batish et al. jam out and somebody reads the text to Captain
Beefheart's "Neon Meate Dream of an Octafish."
L. SHANKAR
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Continues to play a combination of pop and classical Indian music
and fusion.
Has been playing with Peter Gabriel since the mid 80's, and appeared on
the Tonight Show several months ago with PG's band. He and bass player
Tony Levin performed a silly dance during one of the songs.
Shankar is featured prominently on Material's new album
"Hallucination Engine". This album also features the ever-scintilating
vocals of writer & zappa-fave William S. Burroughs. (source: my
record collection)
Shankar has a band called "Shankar & Caroline". I saw them play at the
Realworld festival last year at St Austell. They have released at least
one album, but I'm not overwhelmed.
CAL SCHENKEL
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Calvin is alive and well and living in Willow Grove, PA. I agree, it's
hard to separate the impact of Frank's earlier stuff from Cal's
inspired images. He's a true original and every time I see his work I
smile inside. A couple of years ago, he designed the logo for my
company, Obvious Moose (it's a Reuben and the Jets-esque moose, just
kinda shrugging at you. I'm still in love with it).
I spoke with him a couple of weeks ago and he was involved in a show of
his work. He's been selling his creations in several different media,
and I believe he once told me that the Zappas had agreed to let him
sell copies of Zappa LP covers he'd designed, each one specially
modified and individually Schenkelized. I don't know if he's still
doing those.
I don't think he'd mind if I gave out his work address; he's a very
easy going dude and is very much still in business:
Cal Schenkel Artwerks
P.O. Box 78
Willow Grove, PA 19090
JEFF SIMMONS
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A 1968 (?) solo album 'Lucille Has Messed My Mind
Up' (hey, I know that title!). However, his greatest moment is the
animation in the otherwise avoidable '200 Motels'. Rumoured to have
been working on a solo album some time in the late 1980s.
In my wanderings around the city, I strolled into an obscure record shop
in the U of W area in north Seattle looking for FZ vinyl. The owner
told me that Jeff had called him the day before about something
(apparently they are old friends) and I told him that someone on
the Net was asking about the former Mothers' whereabouts. I was
informed that Jeff now does session work and casuals in the area,
and is doing well!
RINGO STARR
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Played the role of "Larry the Dwarf" in 200 Motels. Previously had
played in bands at English holiday resorts. Presently rumoured to be
recording with two buddies from the Liverpool early 60s scene. Has
drummed for Leon Russel.
CHESTER THOMPSON
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Chester has played drums with Genesis, Phil Collins, and Weather Report.
SCOTT THUNES
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Zappas Universe, "Z" (see Mike Knealy)
Recently seen playing with the Waterboys on British TV.
Also recently, I saw Steve Vai on MTV introducing his new band. He had Scott
on bass. Scott also played in Z.
ART TRIPP
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After working with FZ he was with Captain Beefheart. Appears on "Shiny Beast
(Bat Chain Puller)".
In an interview with FZ (around 1984) he (FZ) said that he was an insurance
salesman now.
Yeah, he moved back here to where he grew up and joined his father's
business, and I think developed a commercial real estate business out of it
as well.
I talked to him some years back, and then tried to get a hold of him more
recently without success. I finally reached somebody at the business number
who told me after a pause that he had passed away. I was quite shocked to
hear this, but later realized that I hadn't been clear and she must have
meant his father. Gerry Pratt says he is now a chiropractor and Gerry has
some other more recent info I believe. I wonder if he still has his chops.
His work as a chiropractor apparently brought him in to contact with his
ex-employer Don (van) Vliet (Capt Beefheart), who's supposedly ill with MS,
according to Jimmy Carl Black. Interesting, as AT didn't have many good
words to say about CB (or Zappa) while he was a muso.
IAN UNDERWOOD
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Ian Underwood now makes his living playing keyboards on film soundtracks
in Los Angeles. You'll see his name in film credits and recording credits
once in a while.
Some films he has been associated with are:
"The Name of the Rose", under "synthesizer programming"
"Sneakers" as a featured musician
Demon Seed
Field of Dreams
Witness (I think)
Maurice Jarre's film soundtrack to The Mosquito Coast.
Does some studio producing and synth programming. Recently produced
(or helped produce) a Quincy Jones album including synth programming
and hand clapping of all things.
Ian appears on the recently released Lowell George/Factory CD
'Lightning Rod Man'. (for apparently 15 seconds)
Played on:
Lenox School of Jazz Concert, 1959 w/ Ornette Coleman, Herb Pomeroy
John Handy -- Where Go the Boats w/ Lee Ritenour
Manhattan Transfer's "The Christmas Album" (1992)
That's right. If you've exposed yourself to any popular culture of the last
15 years or so, then you've almost certainly heard Ian's keyboard work. Among
the most "significant" studio credits of his is a little ditty called
"We Are the World."
I've seen him on Dave Grusin (sp?) albums. The man gets exposure on the
GRP label. I'll let others buy those albums, though.
Make sure you are sitting down before you read any further.
OK? ................................ OK.
He played keyboards for ...
<cringe>
..................................*Barbara Striesand* <AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHH!>... in the late 70's.
RUTH UNDERWOOD
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I wish I knew. Whatever did happen to Ruth? Is she still married
to Ian? Why isn't she playing in some band or orchestra?
I know somebody (X) who purportedly knows Ruth's Parents.
According to X, Ruth now goes by her maiden name, no longer
performs, and is raising her children somewhere in
the vicinity of San Francisco.
>From a recent interview: "A couple of years ago, when I heard that
Frank was ill, I called him up. For 14 years we had no contact at all.
He invited me to the house and we enjoyed some really nice visits with
each other. Last June ('93) he called and asked if he could sample some
of my stuff. I was shocked because I hadn't touched a pair of mallets
since March of '77. I ended up practicing for 14 hours, which was all the
time I could get together in the context of my life now. I spent four
days at Frank's house sampling. This was really a miracle for me - that
I could be reunited with him and still have something to offer."
Appeared on the BBC Late Show FZ special, looking
older but still OK. Interview only. Be nice to think she still
played, though I doubt it.
STEVE VAI
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A great album with Vai in it is the one he did with the group Alcatrazz
called Disturbing the Peace.
Does anyone out there know what's gonna happen with the project that steve vai
mentioned in sept.guitar world ,That is him ,bozzio + the ensemble moderne
playing frank's 'complicated' stuff(i.e 'black page')in fall 94.
His band Vai toured Europe late 1993, then supposedly broke up, but
apparently didn't and off to Japan in March 1994.
Steve Vai also did an album for Shankar's group "The Epidemics" in the
late '80's. (source: my record collection)
For those of you who like Steve Vai, here's big news. He'll be touring with
Satriani sometime soon, and guess what? He's working with Ozzy Osbourne now!
I don't know whether you guys did this deliberately or not, but there is so
much info on Vai cut out of the "Whatever Happened to..." FAQ.
Vai's credits are quite extensive--he has 3 albums:
Flexible - The CD version has bonus tracks from "Flexible Leftovers".
One of the tracks, "Bledsoe Bluvd," features Tommy Mars playing the
violin and ejaculating "Thren keld, wing nut, why not rheam."
Another track, "So Happy," features the infamous Laurel Fishman
(see Real FZ Book), who is noted for the spherical shitball as well
as her lifestyle (summed up in "Stevie's Spanking").
Passion and Warfare - Probably his best work.
Sex and Religion - The title made me decide not to buy it--that and I heard
his music is primarily vocal now, bordering on "pop rock."
Aside from his solo material, he has also worked with David Lee Roth, on the
album "Eat 'Em and Smile," and Whitesnake.
And then there is P.I.L's "Album" (later renamed to "Compact Disc" on CD).
CHAD WACKERMAN
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Chad's got a new CD out under his own name. Haven't heard it.
Releasing solo stuff. Has 2 CDs. His band includes Alan Holdsworth
on guitar and I think Jeff Berlin on bass. He also has been doing
back-up drumming for a variety of people in the studio including
Ed Mann, Fowler Brothers, and he also appeared a few years back as
drummer to Barbara Streisand!
Chad Wackerman plays on the following Alan Holdsworth : Road Games,
Metal Fatique, Atavachron, Sand, one song on Secrets, Wardensclyffe Tower.
Chad was in the house band on the ill fated (of course, it was a great
show) Dennis Miller Show. One nite Miller decided to give the band the
name "The Wackermen".
The discography in the tribute to FZ issue of PULSE! earlier this year
has him down as the drummer from the "ill-fated Pat Sajak show".
I think they confused the two shows; I remember Wackerman taking over
the Miller band leader role when Andy Summers quit.
Chad Wackerman plays on Andy Summers' jazzy album "Charming Snakes".
Chad Wackerman was just in Salt Lake City, drumming for John Tesh (The
Entertainment Tonight guy).
I saw a Chad Wackerman CD called "Forty Reasons" in a used record
shop. It features Allan Holdsworth on guitar. Any thoughts?
It's really good, at least if you're a drummer. :) It's all instrumental,
somewhere in the jazz/rock domain, quite a bit of improvisation, very tight
playing. I don't think the composing is very awe-inspiring, but the
playing certainly is.
[But what is even better are Ed Mann's CDs, especially "Get Up."]
Co-incidentally, I only logged on today to post about the new CW CD
that apparently has the same line-up as FORTY REASONS. From an ad in
JAZZIZ, Dec/Jan 1994:
CHAD WACKERMAN, the view (CMP CD 64)
~~~~~~~~
Long time Zappa drummer Chad Wackerman reassembles the virtuosic
band that burned through his solo debut, Forty Reasons (CMP 48) for
an intense set of hip, intelligent electric-jazz. Jimmy Johnson,
bass and Jim Cox, keyboards return in support of Wackerman along
with trumpeter Walt Fowler guitarist Carl Verheyen and guest soloist
Allan Holdsworth.
DENNY WALLEY
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Denny Walley performed on the last night of Zappa's Universe performing
the blues version of "Bamboozled By Love" (Nov 10,1991).
He and his wife "Janet the Planet" (yes from baby Snakes movie) were
seen at The night of Zappa Music at Linclon Center in Feb 1993
(I saw them, they were 3 seats over from me). (source: my eyes & ears)
JOHHNY GUITAR WATSON
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>I saw an ad for a new Johnny Guitar Watson CD last month(11/94). Does anyone
>know anything about this CD? Is it new stuff? Is it a compilation? etc.
I haven't heard it personally but I've seen it at Tower and a friend owns it.
Supposedly one of the songs is dedicated to Frank and there's some real
intersesting new stuff on it. Still kind of funkish but good I'm told.
ERNIE WATTS
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I haven't seen anyone mention that Ernie Watts used to play with
the Tonight Show Band (Johnny Carson)
RAY WHITE
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Ike says that Ray's been playing down around Oakland. Ike's brother,
who lives down there, stay's in closer touch with Ray, than Ike does.
For those of you living in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can see
Ray White doing some of the old Zappa tunes ("Keep It Greasy",
"City of Tiny Lights") that he used to sing.
He will be performing with a local jazz-oriented band, MMQ, at San
Francisco's own Ramp, on Friday, April 29th, around 5:30pm.
MMQ contains some serious Zappa fans, and they have performed a
blistering version of Zoot Allures for quite some time. They have
recently become friends of Ray's, who lives here in the Bay Area,
and he has happily agreed to sit in with them for a few gigs.
Ray is currently playing with a killer transvestite blues band,
Veronica Klaus, and is in great singing and playing shape,
according to MMQ. If you're a San Franciscan, or are going to
be in the area on Friday, come out and see the man!!! (The band
ain't bad either!)
IKE WILLIS
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Solo band out in Oregon or Washington (state).
Ike is touring Europe, Spring '94, fronting a British band,
"The Muffin Men", who have a CD of FZ covers, that sounds like
"pretty good musicians". They are sincere fans. Very sincere.
I picked up a disc by Ike Willis called "Should'a Gone Before I Left"
which is pretty good. I has Arthur Barrow on bass and Ray White doing
some vocals. Interesting find! Anyway, does anyone know if this is the
only Ike Willis solo effort and if other FZ alumni have stuff out.
I realize the obvious like Vai, Flo & Eddie, T. Bozzio., but some of
the less noticed stuff. It's on Muffin Records. The album cover is
in crayon, or some kind of colored pencil. Poor print job on the
artwork and inside picture.
Ran into Ike Willis today and he wanted to sell me a Band from Utopia
CD for $15. I guess he has that, a second solo album, the re-release
of his first solo album, and will be getting together soon with Tommy
Mars, Arthur Barrow et al to record yet another album to be released
soon. (whew!)
IKE WILLIS BAND..."Shoulda gone before I left" is re-released on CD
as a picture disc <& remixed I hope>. Available now!
IKE WILLIS BAND...New CD is already in works. Ike is busy with
recording. Guests will be Tommy Mars, Andy Treacy, Arthur Barrow,
Bruce Fowler and others. Sounds like a must!
ALBERT WING
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Appeared on Breakfast for Dinosaurs and The Hunter by the Fowler
Brothers. Also wrote a few of the songs on those albums.
He was also in the same touring band as Dweezil for
the Japanese guy Yazawa some time last year (1993). Yazawa is
apparently as big as Springsteen in his native Japan, but you probably
haven't heard of him if you live outside the Nipponese islands.
PETER WOLF
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Peter Wolf maintains a hectic schedule of production on Los Angeles.
Recent clients include the Pointer Sisters, Chicago, and Indecent
Exposure. He is also working on his debut solo album, tentatively
scheduled for release in July 94 on the Angel label. (source: Keyboard
Magazine, April 1994).
TODD YVEGA
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Todd programmed the Synclavier and computers for FZ. He currently is
doing the background music for "Duckman", an adult oriented cartoon
shown on the U.S.A. network. During the program, there are snippets
of FZ compositions, some of which to date are: Big Swifty, King Kong,
T'Mershi Duween, Let's Make the Water Turn Black, Alien Orifice, plus
other bits and bites left in FZ's database.
ALAN ZAVOD
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Alan Zavod had been playing keyboards for Jean-Luc Ponty before
joining FZ.
I saw an old X-Rated Movie from the late 70's early 80's called,
"A Taste of Money" staring Constance Money, the girl who played
the neighbor in the movie "10"...anyway...the credits listed Alan Zavhod
as the musical director and composer.
OFFSHOOT AND RELATED GROUPS
===========================
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
-----------------
Could someone confirm if Don Van Vliet is still out
in Trinidad California?
Don moved away from Trinidad many years ago. He built another house in the
woods in Big Sur, but has since moved back to the desert. Gerry Pratt said
he was going to be feted in Europe around now, but I haven't heard anything
recently about his actual whereabouts.
Supposedly very ill with something. Jimmy Carl
Black says MS (and he's in regular contact with CB).
His paintings are going on tour in 1994 too. Wish he'd give it
up and make another album.
Living as a reclusive painter, making rather a lot of money.
Rumours put about regarding him being seriously ill with either cancer
or MS are apparently completely untrue.
MALLARD
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Mallard were the Magic Band after they left Beefheart in 1974 (post
Clear Spot- with Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo), Mark Boston
(Rockette Morton), John French (Drumbo) and Art Trip III (Ed Marimba).
John French was going to be the vocalist but bottled out - so they
bought in gruff-voiced John Thomas (I think that is the name).
Released two albums - first one recorded in England
with the help of Jethro Tull was issued in UK/Europe only:-
1975 UK Mallard on Virgin V2045
Second more Country Rock was issued in UK and US:-
1976 UK In A Different Climate on Virgin V2077
1976 US In A Different Climate on Virgin PZ34489
I was told in the summer that this stuff was going to come out on CD.
GRANDMOTHERS
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Well, as I already mentioned in my post, Black, Preston and Gardner appear to
be in a band called the Grandmothers. It is a band which is made up of
changing members, but the three I mentioned form the base of it. What they
sound like, or what their intentions are, I do not know. They played in
Amsterdam on december the 7th, 1994.
Black (of all persons) also appeared on MTV (yuck) on december the 7th. He
still seamed to be a bit pissed that Frank broke up the Mothers in 1969. But
hey, even he would have to admit that ALL the other drummers in the
following line-ups were better then him?!
But on a Dutch station JCB said that playing with Frank was the best
thing that ever happened to him. Didn't sound pissed to me.
Buzz Gardner or Don Preston said (forgot which one) said that Frank was
like a father figure to him, but that , like with his own father, they didn't
seem to communicate very well.
The Grandmothers are some ex-Mothers of Invention:
Don Preston
Jimmy Carl Black
Elliot Ingber
Bunk Gardner
I have one of their (two) records from ca. 1980, called "Lookin'
up Granny's Dress". It contains own compositions by the GM's and,
if memory serves me right -- some FZ stuff, too.
The record is not _that_ bad...
Saw the Grandmothers Of Invention yesterday in Brussels...
They were EXCELLENT! (whatever happened in Amsterdam and whatever Frank
said about them in the past).
About 400 people were there I guesstimate...
Lineup:
Don Preston: keyboards, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black: drums, vocals, cowboy hat
Bunk Gardner: saxes, flute, vocals, "Wait A Minute, That's IMPOSSIBLE!"
Sandro Levo (sp???): guitar, vocals
Xxxx Yyyy (???): bass, vocals
- The guitar player Sandro is an Italian: remarkably Zappa look-, move-,
and play-alike... If his voice had a lower pitch and if he wouldn't
have his Italian accent, you'd swear you had the master before you...
His guitar sound and style are pure Zappa and very okay!
- Bunk Gardner's sax was amazing.
- Jimmy's typical drum sound was really authentic.
- Don Preston's lead singing was super.
- Good bass by Xxxx Yyyy (sorry about the name).
Sound quality was extremely good: much and much and very very much
better than what the Muffin Men had to offer. The group played and
sang very disciplined and they seemed to have a very good time.
Songs:
Willie The Pimp
King Kong
Little House I Used To Live In
Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown
Aybe Sea
Who Are The Brain Police?
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Trouble Every Day
The Dog Breath Variations
Mother People
Plastic People
Big Leg Emma
Big Swifty (not sure about this one!)
Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
Bobby Brown (just a few measures)
Peaches En Regalia
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Oh No
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Lonesome Cowboy Burt (encore #1)
Help, I'm A Rock (encore #2)
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
and, some very good own material
Pretty impressive list if I may say so... Some of the songs were complete,
some were just fragments.
All in all this was an excellent concert (2.5 hours of playing).
Those who weren't there because Frank once said they were pitiful,
were dead wrong. If you have a chance to go see them in Paris or
where ever, go see them. No excuse!
THE GRANDMOTHERS..."Dreams on Long Play" is going to be remixed now
and will be released also with a diferent front cover in the U.S.
MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE
----------------------
For those who haven't heard: the Meridian Arts Ensemble is a very talented
and innovative brass quintet, intent on expanding the repertoire, often
commissioning new works. The MAE released an album called "Smart Went Crazy"
which contains eleven or so minutes of FZ. This is a brass quintet with a
drummer/percussionist added. The disk is 72 minutes long. (DDD) So...
What are you waiting for? Log out and go find it! Comparison to the Kronos
Quartet is inevitable, especially now that MAE has thrown their rendition of
"Purple Haze" into the ring. Those of you searching for this tasty little
morsel, keep looking. I found it at a local Tower Records under Misc Brass
in the Classical section. The Zappa tunes are:
Big Swifty
Harry, You're a Beast
The Orange County Lumber Truck
T'mershi Duween
and Dupree's Paradise.
These are just the first 5 out of 20 cuts on the disk. It took me a while
to hear the rest of the tunes on account of I had to play this delightful
suite about six times before going on. It is GREAT! The following quote
is from the liner notes: "On March 12,1993 the Meridian Arts Ensemble
performed these pieces for Mr. Zappa at his home in Los Angeles. The
composer worked with us by critiquing the performance, making corrections
in the arrangements, and giving suggestions for further interpretations.
...We feel very fortunate to have worked with him, and to have received
his support for our continuing to adapt his work for this ensemble."
Raymond G. Stewart, tuba player of the Meridian Arts Ensemble sez:
The Meridian Arts Ensemble was formed in NYC in 1987 as a standard
brass quintet chamber ensemble. In 1988, when Frank played at the
Beacon we all were ignorant to his music. I think I had to run home
(right past the theater) and watch Cagney and Lacey that night.
I'm surprised at myself still because of any of the MAE members I had
the most FZ background. I owned BONGO FURY on 8-track in high school
and saw him on tour in the late seventies in my hometown of Carbondale, IL.
I was a musician then and his music still just overwhelmed me, but I was
more concerned about other things at that time anyway....
The members of MAE take great pleasure in bringing genres together.
This also includes you, the listener. If we can turn on the blue-hair
crowd to a rowsing set of FZ music and maybe some Babbitt, then we're
halfway there. We also want the 818PUMPKIN-junkie to come to our
concerts and perhaps discover the way Johann Hermann Schein's psalm
settings influenced JS Bach, even though the two never met.
We are not a band which plays the man's music exclusively. Never will be.
Our FORMER manager wanted us to do this. It's not for us. We're also very
"by the book" when asked to perform Frank's music. If it smells funny,
we're gone. Gail is very helpful in this way. A few other people have
really helped us out: Gary Titone, Rob Samler, John Scialli, Frans
Goddijn. I'm sure Jon Nelson could add a few names to this list.
To dispell a rumor, our next CD will not be all FZ. It will be
recorded Feb '95 in Holland and probably contain Peaches en Regalia,
Let's Make The Water Turn Black, Oh No, Igor's Boogie, Eat That Question,
and Echidna's Arf (of you). We also took Run Home Slow/Little March,
Little House I Used to Live In, and three versions of The Black Page
on tour to Europe last summer.
THE MISSING PERSONS
-------------------
The band had Dale & Terry Bozzio, Warren C. and Patrick O'Hearn on it
plus Chuck Wild on keyboards. They released two albums plus a
best of. The first one was called "Spring Session M", released in 1982.
THE MUFFIN MEN
--------------
Great googly moogly,
The Muffin Men are a group of musically talented Zappa fans from
Liverpool. I have been lucky enough to see them twice, and would
describe them as the second best band you've never heard in your life.
They don't attempt Zappa's killer compositions like The Black Page but I
think that they're working up to it. Their performances are full to the
brim of raw, unbridled bafoonery in addition to the superb music. They
may be supporting the Grandmothers on their European tour.
Their debut album "Say Cheese and Thank You" has just been released on
CD. It features "Peaches", "Cosmik Debris", "Andy/Inca Roads" medley,
"The Big Medley" (probably "Oh no, let's make the Harry turn Orange"),
"Let's Move To Cleveland", "Yo Mama", "Willie The Pimp" (with Tonto
Jimmy Carl Black on vocals) and a "sick" version of "Muffin Man". It's
available from Rod Gilliard, 198 Edge Ln, Liverpool L7 5NA, UK for 12
crisp pounds and 50 new pence. (Information from T'Mershi Duween the UK
Zappa fanzine.)
THE MUFFIN MEN..."MULM" CD featuring Ike Willis is out now and available!
THE MUFFIN MEN LIVE!...CD can be expected this year yet.
MUFFIN MEN on TOUR in THE YOU-ESSS-AYYY (USA) in/around May/June 95.
They are looking for venues. The tour planning starts in two weeks.
Offers are welcome. The tour will be with IKE WILLIS and maybe some special
guest here and there (you might win a date with Pia Zadora).
THE BAND FROM UTOPIA
--------------------
Just in short : in was pretty good, and the audience screamed a lot,
when they had to stop at 10pm. The band finally consisted of
Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ike Willis, Ed Mann, Bruce Fowler
Kurt McGettrick, Tom Fowler (On violin! most of the time, bass also),
Arthur Barrow (5-string bass, e- and a-guitar), and a drummer named Jay ???,
not a Zappa drummer.
Some of the songs included were: Illinois Enema Bandit, Pound for a brown,
Outside Now, Easy Meat Tink walks amok (!!!, this was just great),
some We`re only in it-medley. and more. The musicians were enthusiastically
welcomed one by one by the audience. It was just good to see these guys
back on stage again.
OK--I am immensely intrigued now--someone said the drummer's name
was Jay something and then someone else said he was from New Jersey.
Could it have been Jerry Cuccurullo, Warren's brother? He was the
drummer at Warren's show Wednesday night and is about 5'2", dark
hair, etc, played drums on Dale Bozzio's 1991 tour. Just curious.
Band From Utopia will be released as a single CD in November. A second CD
will be out next year. Many advance requests for it.
Band From Utopia will go on tour, probably in the Spring 95
THE ORPHANS
-----------
The Orphans will feature Robert "Bobby" Martin, Ike Willis and Arthur
Barrow. The mix starts this week with release around November.. Maybe some
special guest-type (from another GRoup who will DEAl with muffin).
Robbert Heederik
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FRANK ZAPPA (21.12.1940 - 04.12.1993)
D I S C O G R A P H Y
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[1] FREAK OUT! (2 LP; 1 CD) ??.07.66
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FZ
Ray Collins -- lead vocalist, harmonica, tambourine, finger cymbals, bobby
pin & tweezers
Jim Black -- drums (also sings in some foreign language)
Roy Estrada -- bass & guitarron, boy soprano
Elliot Ingber -- alternate lead & rhytm guitar with clear white light
The Mother's auxiliary:
Gene Estes, Eugene DiNovi, Neil Le Vang, John Rotella, Kurt Reher, Raymond
Kelley, Paul Bergstrom, Emmet Sargeant, Joseph Saxon, Edwin V. Beach, Arthur
Maebe, George Price, John Johnson, Carol Kaye, Virgil Evans, David Wells,
Kenneth Watson, Plas Johnson, Roy Caton, Carl Franzoni, Vito, Kim Fowley
(featured on hypophone), Benjamin Barrett, David Anderle
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
I Ain't Got No Heart [30]
Who Are The Brain Police?
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Motherly Love
How Could I Be Such A Fool [5]
Wowie Zowie
You Didn't Try To Call Me [5,46]
Any Way The Wind Blows [5]
I'm Not Satisfied [5]
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
Trouble Every Day [19,42,50,53]
Help, I'm A Rock [56]
The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet
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[2] ABSOLUTELY FREE ??.04.67
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FZ
Ray Collins -- vocals
Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi -- drums
Roy Estrada -- bass
Don Preston -- keyboards
Bunk Gardner -- woodwinds
Jim Sherwood -- soprano & baritone sax
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 trumpet and 1 contra-bass clarinet added
on 'Brown Shoes Don't Make It'
Plastic People [46]
The Duke Of Prunes [27]
Amnesia Vivace
The Duke Regains His Chops
Call Any Vegetable [14]
Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
Soft-Sell Conclusion
Big Leg Emma [23]
Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?
America Drinks
Status Back Baby [55]
Uncle Bernie's Farm
Son Of Suzy Creamcheese
Brown Shoes Don't Make It [30]
America Drinks & Goes Home
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[3] LUMPY GRAVY ??.12.67
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The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus:
Piano, celeste, electric harpsichord -- Paul Smith, Mike Lang, Lincoln
Mayorga, Pete Jolly
Drums -- Johnny Guerin, Frankie Capp, Shelly Manne
Percussion (gongs, bells, vibes, marimba, timpani, timbales & assorted
insanity) -- Emil Richards, Gene Estes, Alan Estes, Victor Feldman
Woodwinds (flute, bass flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, Eb clarinet,
Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-bass clarinet, alto sax, bass
sax, bassoon & contrabassoon) -- Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, John
Rotella, Bunk Gardner, Don Christlieb, Gene Cipriano
French horns -- Arthur Maebe, Vincent De Rosa, Richard Parisi
Trumpet -- Jimmy Zito
Trombone -- Kenneth Shroyer
Guitars -- Jim Haynes, Tommy Tedesco, Tony Rizzi, Al Viola, Dennis Budimer
Bass -- Bob West, John Balkin, Jimmy Bond, Lyle Ritts, Chuck Berghofer
Strings -- Alexander Koltun, Tibor Zelig, Ralph Schaeffer, Bernard Kundell,
William Kurasch, James Getzoff, Philip Goldberg, Leonard Selic,
Arnold Belnick, Leonard Malarsky, Harold Ayres, Jerome J. Reisler,
Harry Hyams, Joseph DiFiore, Jerome A. Kessler, Raymond J. Kelly,
Joseph Saxon, Jessa Ehrlich, Harold G. Bemko
Chorus -- Louie The Turkey (Kuneo), Ronnie, Foon The Younger, Roy Estrada,
Spider, Jim Motorhead Sherwood, J.K. Adams and Tony, Gilly, Maxine,
Becky, Monica, All Night John (Kilgore), The Other John, Cal Schenkel,
Pumpkin, Larry Fanoga, Eric & Charlotte, Jimmy Carl Black, Sammy,
Harold, Charlie, Bruce etc.
Lumpy Gravy, parts 1 & 2
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[4] WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY ??.02.68
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FZ
Billy Mundi -- drums, vocal, yak & black lace underwear
Bunk Gardner -- all woodwinds, mumbled weirdness
Roy Estrada -- electric bass, vocals, asthma
Don Preston -- retired
Jimmy Carl Black -- Indian of the group, drums, trumpet, vocals
Ian Underwood -- piano, woodwinds, wholesome
Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood -- road manager, soprano & baritone saxophone,
all purpose weirdness & teen appeal (we need it desperately)
Suzy Creamcheese -- telephone
Dick Barber -- snorks
Also:
Gary Kellgren, Dick Kunc, Eric Clapton, Spider
Are You Hung Up?
Who Needs The Peace Corps? [50]
Concentration Moon [55]
Mom & Dad [55]
Telephone Conversation
Bow Tie Daddy
Harry, You're A Beast [46,52,56]
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
Absolutely Free
Flower Punk
Hot Poop
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
Let's Make The Water Turn Black [46,52,56]
The Idiot Bastard Son [47]
Lonely Little Girl
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance [54]
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise)
Mother People
The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny
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[5] CRUISING WITH RUBEN AND THE JETS ??.11.68
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FZ
Ray Collins -- lead vocals
Roy Estrada -- high weazlings, dwaedy-doop & electric bass
Jimmy Carl Black & Arthur Dyer Tripp III -- lewd pulsating rhythm
Ian Underwood & Don Preston -- redundant piano triplets
Jim Motorhead Sherwood -- baritone sax & tambourine
Bunk Gardner & Ian Underwood -- tenor and alto saxes
Cheap Thrills
Love Of My Life [30,51]
How Could I Be Such A Fool [1]
Deseri (Collins/Buff)
I'm Not Satisfied [1]
Jelly Roll Gum Drop
Anything (Collins)
Later That Night
You Didn't Try To Call Me [1,46]
Fountain Of Love (Zappa/Collins)
"No No No"
Anyway The Wind Blows [1]
Stuff Up The Cracks
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[6] UNCLE MEAT (2 LP; 2 CD) ??.03.69
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FZ
Ray Collins -- swell vocals
Jimmy Carl Black -- drums, droll humor, poverty
Roy Estrada -- electric bass, cheeseburgers, Pachuto falsetto
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston -- electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi -- drums on some pieces before he quit to join
'Rhinoceros'
Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner -- piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano
sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or
non-electric depending)
Ian Underwood -- electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet,
alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial
relations & teen appeal
Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp -- drums, timpani, vibes, marimba,
xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook &
specific enquiries
Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood -- pop star, frenetic tenor sax
stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-
upper when he's not hustling local groupies
Special thanks to:
Ruth Komanoff -- marimba, vibes
Nelcy Walker -- soprano voice
Uncle Meat; main title theme [47,57]
The Voice Of Cheese
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
Zolar Czakl
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague [14,47,57]
The Legend Of The Golden Arches
Louie Louie (at The Royal Albert Hall) (Berry)
The Dog Breath Variations [14,47,57]
Sleeping In A Jar [55,56]
Our Bizarre Relationship
The Uncle Meat Variations
Electric Aunt Jemima
Prelude To King Kong
God Bless America (live at The Whisky A Go Go)
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus [23,51,53,56,57]
Ian Underwood Whips It Out (live on stage in Copenhagen)
Mr. Green Genes [8,50]
We Can Shoot You
"If We'd All Been Living In California..."
The Air
Project X
Cruising For Burgers [23,52,55]
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, part 1
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Zappa/Bassoli)
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, part 2
King Kong Itself [49,52,56]
King Kong 2
King Kong 3
King Kong 4
King Kong 5
King Kong 6
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[7] MOTHERMANIA (Best of) ??.04.69
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Brown Shoes Don't Make It [from 2]
Mother People [from 4]
Duke Of Prunes [from 2]
Call Any Vegetable [from 2]
The Idiot Bastard Son [from 4]
It Can't Happen Here [from 1]
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here [from 1]
Who Are The Brain Police? [from 1]
Plastic People [from 2]
Hungry Freaks, Daddy [from 1]
America Drinks & Goes Home [from 2]
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[8] HOT RATS 15.10.69
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FZ
Ian Underwood -- piano, organus maximus, all clarinets, all saxes
Captain Beefheart -- vocals
Sugar Cane Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty -- violin
John Guerin, Paul Humphrey, Ron Selico -- drums
Max Bennett, Shuggy Otis -- bass
Peaches En Regalia [12,30]
Willie The Pimp [12,51]
Son Of Mr. Green Genes [6,50]
Little Umbrellas
The Gumbo Variations
It Must Be A Camel
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[9] BURNT WEENY SANDWICH ??.12.69
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FZ
Lowell George -- rhythm guitar, vocal
Roy Estrada -- bass, vocal
Bunk Gardner -- woodwinds
Ian Underwood -- keyboards, woodwinds
Don Preston -- keyboards
Motorhead Sherwood -- woodwinds, vocal
Don "Sugarcane" Harris -- violin on "Little House I Used To Live In"
Jimmy Carl Black and Art Tripp -- drums, percussion
WPLJ (Dobard/McDaniels) [42]
Igor's Boogie, Phase One
Overture To A Holiday In Berlin
Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Igor's Boogie, Phase Two
Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown [56]
Aybe Sea
Little House I Used To Live In [12]
Valarie (Jackie & The Starlites)
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[10] WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH ??.08.70
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FZ
Ian Underwood -- alto sax
Bunk Gardner -- tenor sax
Jim Motorhead Sherwood -- baritone sax and snorks
Buzz Gardner -- trumper and flugel horn
Roy Estrada -- bass and vocal
Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp -- drums
Don Preston -- piano, organ and electronic effects
Ray Collins -- vocal
Don "Sugar Cane" Harris -- electric violin and vocal
Lowell George -- rhythm guitar and vocal
Didja Get Any Onya?
Directly From My Heart To You (R.W.Penniman)
Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
Toads Of The Short Forest
Get A Little
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue [50]
Dwarf Nebula Professional March & Dwarf Nebula
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [51,53]
Oh No [19,46,52,56]
The Orange County Lumber Truck [46,52,56]
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
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[11] CHUNGA'S REVENGE 23.10.70
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FZ
Ian Underwood -- piano, electric piano, organ, pipe organ, electric alto
sax with wah-wah pedal, tenor sax, rhythm guitar
George Duke -- electric piano, organ, trombone, vocal drum imitations
Sugar Cane Harris -- organ
Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan -- vocals
Jeff Simmons -- bass, vocals
Max Bennett -- bass
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums, tambourine
John Guerin -- drums
Transylvania Boogie [56]
Road Ladies
Twenty Small Cigars
The Nancy & Mary Music
Tell Me You Love Me [30,46]
Would You Go All The Way?
Chunga's Revenge
The Clap
Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink
Sharleena [38,49,55]
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[12] FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971 ??.08.71
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(Live at Fillmore East, June 1971.)
FZ
Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan -- lead vocals & dialog
Ian Underwood -- winds & keyboards & vocals
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums
Jim Pons -- bass & vocals & dialog
Bob Harris -- 2nd keyboard & vocals
Don Preston -- Mini-Moog
Little House I Used To Live In [9]
The Mud Shark
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? [48]
Bwana Dik
Latex Solar Beef
Willie The Pimp, Part One [8,51]
Willie The Pimp, Part Two (only on LP)
Do You Like My New Car? [46]
Happy Together (Bonner/Gordon)
Lonesome Electric Turkey
Peaches En Regalia [8,30]
Tears Began To Fall
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[13] 200 MOTELS (2 LP) ??.10.71
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FZ
Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan -- vocals & special material
Ian Underwood -- keyboards & winds
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums
George Duke -- keyboards & trombone
Martin Lickert -- bass
Jimmy Carl Black -- vocal on "Lonesome Comboy Burt"
Ruth Underwood -- orchestra drum set
Jim Pons -- voice of the "Bad Conscience"
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth
The Top Score Singers conducted by David van Asch
Classical guitar ensemble supervised by John Williams
Narrated by Theodore Bikel
Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
Mystery Roach
Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue)
Tuna Fish Promenade
Dance Of The Just Plain Folks
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise)
The Sealed Tuna Bolero
Lonesome Cowboy Burt [50,54]
Touring Can Make You Crazy
Would You Like A Snack?
Redneck Eats
Centerville
She Painted Up Her Face [54]
Janet's Big Dance Number
Half A Dozen Provocative Squats [54]
Mysterioso
Shove It Right In [54]
Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude
I'm Stealing The Towels
Dental Hygeine Dilemma
Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Penis Dimension
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning
A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes
Magic Fingers [54]
Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
Dew On The Newts We Got
The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts
The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth
The Girl's Dream
Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce
Strictly Genteel (The Finale) [27,44,52,54]
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[14] JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A. ??.03.72
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(Live at Pauley Pavillion, UCLA, Los Angeles, 07.08.71.)
FZ
Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan -- lead vocals
Ian Underwood -- winds, keyboards & vocals
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums
Don Preston -- keyboards & Mini-Moog
Jim Pons -- bass & vocals
Billy The Mountain [55]
Call Any Vegetable [2]
Eddie, Are You Kidding?
Magdalena
Dog Breath [6,47,57]
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[15] WAKA/JAWAKA 05.07.72
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FZ
Tony Duran -- slide guitar, vocal
George Duke -- ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano, tack piano
Don Preston -- piano & Mini-Moog
Sal Marquez -- many trumpets & chimes, flugel horn, vocal
Mike Altschul -- baritone sax, tenor sax, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet
Bill Byers, Ken Shroyer -- trombone & baritone horn
Joel Peskin -- tenor sax
Erroneous (Alex Dmchowski) -- electric bass, fuzz bass, vocal
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums, washboard, tambourine
Chris Peterson, Janet Ferguson -- vocal
Jeff Simmons -- Hawaiian guitar & vocal
"Sneaky Pete" Kleinow -- pedal steel solo
Big Swifty [46,47,52]
Your Mouth
It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal
Waka/Jawaka
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[16] THE GRAND WAZOO ??.11.72
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FZ
George Duke -- keyboards, vocals
Don Prestpn -- Mini-Moog
Tony Duran -- guitar
Erroneous (Alex Dmchowski) -- bass
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums
Janet Neville-Ferguson, "Chunky" (Ilene Rapaport) -- vocals
Mike Altschul, Earl Dumler, Tony "Bat Man" Ortega, Joanne Caldwell McNabb,
Johnny Rotella, Fred Jackson, Ernie Watts, Joel Peskin -- woodwinds
Sal Marquez -- brass, vocals
Malcolm McNabb, Bill Byers, Ken Shroyer, Ernie Tack -- brass
Bob Zimmitti, Alan Estes -- percussion
Lee Clement -- gong
For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)
The Grand Wazoo
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
Eat That Question [52]
Blessed Relief
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[17] OVER-NITE SENSATION 07.09.73
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FZ
Ian Underwood -- flute, clarinet, alto & tenor sax
George Duke -- keyboards & synthesizer
Jean-Luc Ponty -- violin & baritone violin
Sal Marquez -- trumpet & vocals
Bruce Fowler -- trombone
Ricky Lancelotti, Kin Vassy -- vocals
Ruth Underwood -- marimba, vibes & percussion
Tom Fowler -- bass
Ralph Humphrey -- drums
Camarillo Brillo [54]
I'm The Slime [23,46]
Dirty Love [54]
Fifty-Fifty
Zomby Woof [46,50]
Dinah-Moe-Hum [35,54]
Montana [47,51]
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[18] APOSTROPHE(') 22.03.74
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FZ
Ian Underwood -- saxophone
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- saxophone, back-up vocals
Sal Marquez -- trumpet
George Duke -- keyboards, back-up vocals
Tony Duran -- guitar
Sugar Cane Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty -- violin
Ruth Underwood -- percussion
Jack Bruce, Erroneous, Tom Fowler -- bass
Jim Gordon, Johnny Guerin, Aynsley Dunbar, Ralph Humphrey -- drums
Ray Collins, Kerry McNabb, Susie Glover, Debbie, Lynn, Ruber Ladron De
Guevara, Robert "Frog" Camarena -- back-up vocals
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow [46]
Nanook Rubs It [46]
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast [46]
Father O'Blivion [46,54]
Cosmik Debris [49,50]
Excentrifugal Forz
Apostrophe(') (Zappa/Bruce/Gordon)
Uncle Remus (Zappa/Duke)
Stink Foot [47,52]
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[19] ROXY AND ELSEWHERE (2 LP) 10.09.74
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(Most tracks live at the Roxy, Hollywood, 10/11/12.12.73. Some tracks
live at Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Mothers Day 1974; or Edinboro State
College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 08.05.74.)
FZ
George Duke -- keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
Tom Fowler -- bass
Ruth Underwood -- percussion
Jeff Simmons -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Don Preston -- synthesizer
Bruce Fowler -- trombone, dancing (?)
Walt Fowler -- trumpet
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- tenor sax, flute, lead vocals
Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson -- drums
Debbi, Lynn, Ruben, George & Froggy -- additional back-up vocals
Preamble
Penguin In Bondage [42,50]
Pygmy Twylite [47]
Dummy Up
Preamble
Village Of The Sun [47]
Echidna's Arf (Of You) [47]
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? [47]
Preamble
Cheepnis [47]
Son Of Orange County [10,46,52,56]
More Trouble Every Day [1,42,50,53]
Preamble
Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church) [57]
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[20] ONE SIZE FITS ALL 25.06.75
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FZ
George Duke -- keyboards, syntesizers, vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- flute, tenor sax, vocals
Chester Thompson -- drums
Tom Fowler, James "Bird Legs" Youman -- bass
Ruth Underwood -- vibes, marimba, other percussion
Johnny "Guitar" Watson -- vocals
Bloodshot Rollin' Red -- harmonica
Inca Roads [47,50]
Can't Afford No Shoes
Sofa #1 [23,46,50]
Po-Jama People
Florentine Pogen [50,51]
Evelyn, A Modified Dog
San Ber'dino
Andy [50]
Sofa #2 [46]
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[21] BONGO FURY (w. Captain Beefheart) 02.10.75
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(Live at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, Texas, 20/21.05.75, except
'200 Years Old' and 'Cucamonga' are studio tracks.)
FZ
Captain Beefheart -- harp, vocals, shopping bags
George Duke -- keyboards, vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- sax, vocals
Bruce Fowler -- trombone, fantastic dancing
Tom Fowler -- bass, also dancing
Denny Walley -- slide guitar, vocals
Terry Bozzio -- drums, moisture
Chester Thompson -- drums
Debra Kadabra
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy [51]
Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (Van Vliet)
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
200 Years Old
Cucamonga
Advance Romance [49,52,53]
Man With The Woman Head (Van Vliet)
Muffin Man [54]
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[22] ZOOT ALLURES 29.10.76
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FZ
Terry Bozzio -- drums, bg. vocals
Davey Moire -- vocals
Andre Lewis -- organ, vocals
Roy Estrada -- bass, vocals
Dave Parlato -- bass
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- sax, vocals
Ruth Underwood -- synthesizer, marimba
Donnie Vliet -- harmonica
Lu Ann Neil -- harp
Ruben Ladron de Guevara, Sharkie Barker -- bg. vocals
Wind Up Workin' In The Gas Station [54]
Black Napkins [52,54]
The Torture Never Stops [23,39,46,50,51]
Ms. Pinky [39,54]
Find Her Finer [50]
Friendly Little Finger
Wonderful Wino (Zappa/Simmons) [55]
Zoot Allures [42,49,50]
Disco Boy [35,51]
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[23] ZAPPA IN NEW YORK (2 LP; 2 CD) 13.03.78
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(Live at Palladium, New York, Christmas week 1976.)
FZ
Ray White -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Eddie Jobson -- keyboards, violin, vocals
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass, vocals
Terry Bozzio -- drums, vocals
Ruth Underwood -- percussion, synthesizer, various humanly impossible
overdubs
Don Pardo -- sophisticated narration
David Samuels -- vibes
Randy Brecker -- trumper
Mike Brecker -- tenor sax, flute
Lou Marini -- alto sax, flute
Ronnie Cuber -- baritone sax, clarinet
Tom Malone -- trombone, trumpet, piccolo
John Bergamo, Ed Mann -- percussion over-dubs
Louanne Neil -- osmotic harp over-dub
Titties & Beer [35]
Cruisin' For Burgers [6,52,55]
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Punky's Whips [35]
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [49,54]
The Illinois Enema Bandit [54]
I'm The Slime [17,46]
Pound For A Brown [6,51,53,56,57]
Manx Needs Women
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
Big Leg Emma [2]
Sofa [20,46,50]
Black Page #2 [35,51,52,53]
The Torture Never Stops [22,39,46,50,51]
The Purple Lagoon/Approximate [47,51]
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[24] STUDIO TAN 15.09.78
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FZ
George Duke -- keyboards, vocals
Ruth Underwood -- percussion, synthesizer
Bruce Fowler -- trombone
Tom Fowler, Max Bennett, James "Bird Legs" Youman -- bass
Chester Thompson, Paul Humphrey -- drums
Davey Moire -- vocals
Eddie Jobson -- keyboards, yodeling
Don Brewer -- bongos
The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra
Lemme Take You To The Beach
RDNZL [47,53]
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[25] SLEEP DIRT 12.01.79
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FZ
George Duke -- keyboards
Dave Parlato, Patrick O'Hearn -- bass
James "Bird Legs" Youman -- bass, guitar
Terry Bozzio, Chester Thompson, Chad Wackerman -- drums
Ruth Underwood -- percussion
Thana Harris -- vocals
Bruce Fowler -- all brass
Filthy Habits [51]
Flambay
Spider Of Destiny
Regyptian Strut
Time Is Money
Sleep Dirt
The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution
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[26] SHEIK YERBOUTI (2 LP; 1 CD) 03.03.79
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FZ
Adrian Belew -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards, vocals
Peter Wolf -- keyboards, butter
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass, vocals
Terry Bozzio -- drums, vocals
Ed Mann -- percussion, vocals
David Ocker -- clarinets on "Wild Love"
Napoleon M. Brock, Andre Lewis, Randy Thornton, Dave Moire -- bg. vocals
I Have Been In You [54]
Flakes
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
I'm So Cute [54]
Jones Crusher [35]
What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World
Rat Tomago
We Gotta Get Into Something Real
Bobby Brown [49]
Rubber Shirt (Zappa/Bozzio/O'Hearn)
The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
Baby Snakes [35]
Tryin' To Grow A Chin [46,54]
City Of Tiny Lites [52,53]
Dancin' Fool [53]
Jewish Princess
Wild Love
Yo' Mama
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[27] ORCHESTRAL FAVORITES 04.05.79
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FZ
Dave Parlato -- bass
Terry Bozzio -- drums
Emil Richards -- percussion
Conducted by Michael Zearott
Strictly Genteel [13,44,52,54]
Pedro's Dowry [36]
Naval Aviation In Art [37]
Duke Of Prunes [2]
Bogus Pomp [44,56]
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[28] JOE'S CARAGE, act 1 (acts 1-3: 2 CD) 17.09.79
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FZ
Warren Cucurullo -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Denny Walley -- slide guitar, vocals
Ike Willis -- lead vocals
Peter Wolf, Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Arthur Barrow -- bass, vocals
Ed Mann -- percussion
Vinnie Colaiuta -- drums, conbustible vapors
Jeff -- tenor sax
Marginal Chagrin -- baritone sax
Stumuk -- bass sax
Dale Bozzio, Al Malkin -- vocals
Craig Steward -- harmonica
The Central Scrutinizer
Joe's Garage [49]
Catholic Girls [54]
Crew Slut [54]
Wet T-Shirt Nite
Toad O-Line
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [49]
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [49]
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[29] JOE'S CARAGE, acts 2 & 3 (2 LP) 19.11.79
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FZ
Warren Cucurullo -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Denny Walley -- slide guitar, vocals
Ike Willis -- lead vocals
Peter Wolf -- keyboards
Arthur Barrow -- bass, vocals
Ed Mann -- percussion, vocals
Vinnie Colaiuta -- drums, optometric abandon
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass on "Outside Now"
A Token Of My Extreme [47]
Stick It Out
Sy Borg
Dong Work For Yuda (Zappa/Smothers)
Keep It Greasy [49]
Outside Now [45,48,51]
He Used To Cut The Grass
Packard Goose
Watermelon In Easter Hay [45]
A Little Green Rosetta
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[30] TINSELTOWN REBELLION (2 LP; 1 CD) 11.05.81
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FZ
Ike Willis, Ray White, Steve Vai, Warren Cucurullo -- rhythm guitar & vocals
Denny Walley -- slide guitar & vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards & vocals
Peter Wolf -- keyboards
Bob Harris -- keyboards, trumpet & high vocals
Ed Mann -- percussion
Arthur Barrow -- bass & vocals
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass on "Dance Contest"
Vinnie Colaiuta -- drums
David Logemann -- drums on "Fine Girl" & 1st half of "Easy Meat"
Creg Cowan -- featured in a role of eccentric well-to-do Oregonian party giver
Fine Girl [46]
Easy Meat [53]
For The Young Sophisticate
Love Of My Life [5,51]
I Ain't Got No Heart [1]
Panty Rap
Tell Me You Love Me [11,46]
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Dance Contest
The Blue Light [39]
Tinseltown Rebellion [42]
Pick Me, I'm Clean
Bamboozled By Love [49]
Brown Shoes Don't Make It [2]
Peaches III [8,12]
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[31] SHUT UP 'N' PLAY YER GUITAR (3 LP; 2 CD) 11.05.81
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(Live guitar solos '77 - '80. Originally released as three separate albums.)
FZ
Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Steve Vai, Ray White -- rhythm guitar
Warren Cucurullo -- rhythm guitar, electric sitar
Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Bob Harris, Andre Lewis, Eddie Jobson -- keyboards
Arthur Barrow, Patrick O'Hearn, Roy Estrada -- bass
Ed Mann -- percussion
Vinnie Colaiuta, Terry Bozzio -- drums
Jean-Luc Ponty -- baritone violin
Five-Five-Five
Hog Heaven
Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar
While You Were Out
Treacherous Cretins
Heavy Duty Judy [50]
Soap 'N' Old Clothes
Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression
Gee, I Like Your Pants
Canarsie
Ship Ahoy
Deathless Horsie [46]
Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar Some More
Pink Napkins
Beat It With Your Fist
Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar
Pinocchio's Furniture
Why Johnny Can't Read
Stucco Homes
Canard Du Jour (Zappa/Ponty)
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[32] YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (2 LP; 1 CD) ??.09.81
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FZ
Ike Willis, Ray White -- rhythm guitar and vocals
Bob Harris -- boy soprano and trumpet
Steve Vai -- Strat abuse
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Arthur Barrow -- bass
Ed Mann -- percussion
David Ocker -- clarinet and bass clarinet
Motorhead Sherwood -- tenor sax, bg. vocals
Denny Walley -- slide guitar, bg. vocals
David Logeman -- drums
Craig "Twister" Stewart -- harmonica
Jimmy Carl Black, Ahmet, Moon, Mark Pinske -- bg. vocals
Teenage Wind [51]
Harder Than Your Husband
Doreen [53]
Goblin Girl
Theme From The 3rd Mvmt Of "Sinister Footwear" [45]
Society Pages [49]
I'm A Beautiful Guy [49]
Beauty Knows No Pain [49]
Charlie's Enormous Mouth [49]
Any Downers?
Conehead
You Are What You Is [39]
Mudd Club [39]
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [39]
Dumb All Over [46]
Heavenly Bank Account [46]
Suicide Chump [46]
Jumbo Go Away
If Only She Woulda
Drafted Again
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[33] SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH ??.05.82
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FZ
Steve Vai -- impossible guitar parts
Ray White -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, sax & vocals
Ed Mann -- percussion
Scott Thunes, Arthur Barrow, Patrick O'Hearn -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Roy Estrada, Ike Willis, Bob Harris -- vocals
Lisa Popeil -- vocal on "Teen-Age Prostitute"
Moon Zappa -- vocal on "Valley Girl"
No Not Now [39]
Valley Girl
I Come From Nowhere
Drowning Witch [49]
Envelopes [36]
Teen-Age Prostitute
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[34] THE MAN FROM UTOPIA ??.03.83
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FZ
Steve Vai -- impossible guitar parts (on Strat & acoustic)
Ray White -- guitar & vocals
Roy Estrada -- pachuto falsettos etc.
Bob Harris -- boy soprano
Ike Willis -- bionic baritone
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, sax & vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Arthur "Tink" Barrow -- keyboards, bass, micro bass, rhythm guitar
Ed Mann -- percussion
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Vinnie Colaiuta -- drums
Craig "Twister" Steward -- harmonica
Dick Fegy -- mandolin
Marty Krystall -- saxophones
Cocaine Decisions [49]
The Dangerous Kitchen [46]
Tink Walks Amok
The Radio Is Broken
Moggio [53]
The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou (Medley) [51]
Stick Together [51]
Sex
Luigi & The Wise Guys
The Jazz Discharge Party Hats
We Are Not Alone
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[35] BABY SNAKES ??.03.83
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(Soundtrack from the movie 'Baby Snakes'. Live at Palladium, New York,
Halloween 1978.)
FZ
Terry Bozzio -- drums
Roy Estrada -- high vocals, bass
Adrian Belew -- guitar
Ed Mann -- percussion
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Peter Wolf -- keyboards
Intro Rap
Baby Snakes [26]
Titties 'N' Beer [23]
The Black Page #2 [23,51,52,53]
Jones Crusher [26]
Disco Boy [22,51]
Dinah Moe Humm [17,54]
Punky's Whips [23]
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[36] LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, vol 1 09.06.83
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The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano, and
David Ocker -- solo clarinet
Chad Wackerman -- drum set
Ed Mann -- featured percussionist
Sad Jane
Pedro's Dowry (large orchestra version) [27]
Envelopes [33]
Mo 'N' Herb's Vacation (Parts 1-3)
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[37] THE PERFECT STRANGER 23.08.84
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Ensemble InterContemporain, conducted by Pierre Boulez
The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (Synclavier)
The Perfect Stranger
Naval Aviation In Art? [27]
The Girl In The Magnesium Dress [57]
Outside Now Again
Love Story
Dupree's Paradise [47,52]
Jonestown
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[38] THEM OR US (2 LP; 1 CD) 18.10.84
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FZ
Ray White -- guitar, vocals
Steve Vai -- guitar
Dweezil Zappa -- guitar
Ike Willis -- vocals
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -- vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- vocals
Roy Estrada -- vocals
Moon Zappa -- vocals
George Duke -- piano, vocals
Bob Harris -- vocals
Thana Harris -- vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Brad Cole -- piano
Ed Mann -- percussion
Scott Thunes -- bass
Arthur Barrow -- bass
Patrick O'Hearn -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
The Closer You Are (Lewis/Robinson) [51]
In France [49]
Ya Hozna
Sharleena [11,49,55]
Sinister Footwear II [52]
Truck Driver Divorce [51]
Stevie's Spanking [51,52]
Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
Marqueson's Chicken
Planet Of My Dreams
Be In My Video [46]
Them Or Us
Frogs With Dirty Little Lips
Whippin' Post (Allman) [42]
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[39] THING-FISH (3 LP; 2 CD) 21.11.84
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FZ
Steve Vai -- guitar
Ray White -- guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Chuck Wild -- broadway piano
Arthur Barrow -- bass
Scott Thunes -- bass
Jay Anderson -- string bass
Ed Mann -- percussion
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Steve De Furia & David Ocker -- synclavier programmers
Ike Willis, Terry Bozzio, Dale Bozzio, Napoleon Murphy Brock,
Bob Harris, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -- vocals
Prologue
The Mammy Nuns [46]
Harry & Rhonda
Galoot Up-Date [30]
The 'Torchum' Never Stops [22,23,46,50,51]
That Evil Prince [51]
You Are What You Is [32]
Mudd Club [32]
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [32]
Clowns On Velvet
Harry-As-A-Boy
He's So Gay [54]
The Massive Improve'lence
Artificial Rhonda [22,54]
The Crab-Grass Baby
The White Boy Troubles
No Not Now [33]
Briefcase Boogie
Brown Moses [51]
Wistful With A Fist-Full
Drop Dead
Won Ton On
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[40] FRANCESCO ZAPPA 21.11.84
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The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (Synclavier)
(The music is from the collection of the Music Library at the University
of California, Berkeley.)
Opus 1:
#1: 1st movement Andante
2nd movement Allegro con brio
#2: 1st movement Andantino
2nd movement Minuetto grazioso
#3: 1st movement Andantino
2nd movement Presto
#4: 1st movement Andante
2nd movement Allegro
#5: 2nd movement Minuetto grazioso
#6: 1st movement Largo
2nd movement Minuet
Opus 4:
#1: 1st movement Andantino
2nd movement Allegro assai
#2: 2nd movement Allegro assai
#3: 1st movement Andante
2nd movement Tempo di minuetto
#4: 1st movement Minuetto
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[41a] FZ MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION 21.11.85
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FZ
Steve Vai -- guitar
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -- guitar, vocals
Ike Willis -- guitar, vocals
Ray White -- guitar, vocals
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Ed Mann -- percussion
Voices on 'Porn Wars' -- Moon, Dweezil, Senator Danforth (R-Missouri), Senator
Hollings (D-South Carolina), Senator Trible (R-Virginia), Senator Hawkins
(R-Florida), Senator Exon (D-Nebraska), Senator Gorton (R-Washington),
Senator Gore (D-Tennessee), Tipper Gore, Reverend Jeff Ling, Spider Barbour,
All Nite John, unknown girl in piano
I Don't Even Care
One Man - One Vote
Little Beige Sambo
Aerobics In Bondage
We're Turning Again [54]
Alien Orifice [52,54]
Yo Cats (Zappa/Mariano)
What's New In Baltimore? [42,53]
Porn Wars
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[41b] FZ MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION (European version) ??.11.85
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FZ
Steve Vai -- guitar
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -- guitar, vocals
Ike Willis -- guitar, vocals
Ray White -- guitar, vocals
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, vocals
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Ed Mann -- percussion
We're Turning Again [54]
Alien Orifice [52,54]
Yo Cats (Zappa/Mariano)
What's New In Baltimore? [42,53]
I Don't Even Care
One Man - One Vote
HR 2911
Little Beige Sambo
Aerobics In Bondage
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[42] DOES HUMOR BELONG IN MUSIC? 27.01.86
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(Live from '84 tour.)
FZ
Ray White -- rhythm guitar, vocal
Ike Willis -- rhythm guitar, vocal
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, sax, vocal
Alan Zavod -- keyboards
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Dweezil Zappa -- guitar solo on 'Whippin' Post'
Zoot Allures [22,49,50]
Tinsel-Town Rebellion [30]
Trouble Every Day [1,19,50,53]
Penguin In Bondage [19,50]
Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [48]
What's New In Baltimore? [41ab,53]
Cock-Suckers' Ball (trad. arr. Zappa)
WPLJ (Dobard) [9]
Let's Move To Cleveland [50,51]
Whippin' Post (Allman) [38]
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[43] JAZZ FROM HELL 15.11.86
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Synclavier, except "St. Etienne":
FZ
Steve Vai -- rhythm guitar
Ray White -- rhythm guitar
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Bobby Martin -- keyboards
Ed Mann -- percussion
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Night School
The Beltway Bandits
While You Were Art II
Jazz From Hell
G-Spot Tornado [57]
Damp Ankles
St. Etienne
Massaggio Galore
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[44] LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, vol. 2 17.09.87
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The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano, and
Chad Wackerman -- drum set
Ed Mann -- featured percussionist
Bogus Pomp [27,56]
Bob In Dacron
Strictly Genteel [13,27,52,54]
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[45] GUITAR (2 CD) ??.04.88
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(Live guitar solos '79 - '84.)
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
Which One Is It?
Republicans
Do Not Pass Go
Chalk Pie
In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
That's Not Really Reggae
When No One Was No One
Once Again, Without The Net
Outside Now (Original Solo) [29,48,51]
Jim & Tammy's Upper Room
Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio?
That Ol' G Minor Thing Again
Hotel Atlanta Incidentals
That's Not Really A Shuffle
Move It Or Park It
Sunrise Redeemer
Variations On Sinister #3 [32]
Orrin Hatch On Skis
But Who Was Fulcanelli?
For Duane
GOA
Winos Do Not March
Swans? What Swans?
Too Ugly For Show Business
Systems Of Edges
Do Not Try This At Home
Things That Look Like Meat
Watermelon In Easter Hay [29]
Canadian Customs
Is That All There Is?
It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary (Gershwin/
Gershwin/Heyward/Primrose)
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[46] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 1 (2 CD) ??.04.88
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(YCDTOSA series contains live performances between '65 and '88.)
The Florida Airport Tape
Once Upon A Time
Sofa #1 [20]
The Mammy Anthem [39]
You Didn't Try To Call Me [1,5]
Diseases Of The Band
Tryin' To Grow A Chin [26,54]
Let's Make The Water Turn Black/ [4,52,56]
Harry, You're A Beast/ [4,52,56]
The Orange County Lumber Truck [10,52,56]
The Groupie Routine [12]
Ruthie-Ruthie (Brock/Berry)
Babbette
I'm The Slime [17,23]
Big Swifty [15,47,52]
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow [18]
Plastic People (Zappa/Berry) [2]
The Torture Never Stops [22,23,39,50,51]
Fine Girl [30]
Zomby Woof [17,50]
Sweet Leilani (Owens)
Oh No [10,19,52,56]
Be In My Video [38]
The Deathless Horsie [31]
The Dangerous Kitchen [34]
Dumb All Over [32]
Heavenly Bank Account [32]
Suicide Chump [32]
Tell Me You Love Me [11,30]
Sofa #2 [20,23,50]
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[47] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 2 (2 CD) ??.09.88
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(The Helsinki Concert, live 22.09.74.)
FZ
Napoleon Murphy Brock -- sax, vocal
George Duke -- keyboard, vocal
Ruth Underwood -- percussion
Tom Fowler -- bass
Chester Thompson -- drums
Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme) [29]
Stinkfoot [18,52]
Inca Roads [20,50]
RDNZL [24,53]
Village Of The Sun [19]
Echidna's Arf (Of You) [19]
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? [19]
Pygmy Twylyte [19]
Room Service
The Idiot Bastard Son [4]
Cheepnis [19]
Approximate [23,51]
Dupree's Paradise [37,52]
Satumaa (Finnish Tango) (Mononen)
T'Mershi Duween [52]
The Dog Breath Variations [6,14,57]
Uncle Meat [6,57]
Building A Girl
Montana (Whipping Floss) [17,51]
Big Swifty [15,46,52]
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[48] BROADWAY THE HARD WAY ??.11.88
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(New live material from '88 tour.)
FZ
Ike Willis -- guitar, vocal
Mike Keneally -- guitar, synth, vocal
Bobby Martin -- keyboard, vocal
Ed Mann -- percussion
Walt Fowler -- trumpet
Bruce Fowler -- trombone
Paul Carman -- alto sax
Albert Wing -- tenor sax
Kurt McGettrick -- baritone sax
Scott Thunes -- bass
Chad Wackerman -- drums
Guest vocalist -- Eric Buxton
Elvis Has Just Left The Building
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Any Kind Of Pain
Dickie's Such An Asshole [49]
When The Lie's So Big
Rhymin' Man
Promiscuous
The Untouchables (Riddle/Willis)
Why Don't You Like Me?
Bacon Fat (Williams/Brown)
Stolen Moments (Nelson)
Murder By Numbers (Sting/Summers)
Jezebel Boy
Outside Now [29,45,51]
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [42]
What Kind Of Girl? [12]
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
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[49] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 3 (2 CD) ??.10.89
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Sharleena [11,38,55]
Bamboozled By Love [30]
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [28]
Advance Romance (1984) [21,52,53]
Bobby Brown Goes Down [26]
Keep It Greasey [29]
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [23,54]
In France [38]
Drowning Witch [33]
Ride My Face To Chicago
Carol, You Fool
Chana In De Bushwop (Zappa/Diva Zappa)
Joe's Carage [28]
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [28]
Dickie's Such An Asshole [48]
Hands With A Hammer (Bozzio)
Zoot Allures [22,42,50]
Society Pages [32]
I'm A Beautiful Guy [32]
Beauty Knows No Pain [32]
Charlie's Enormous Mouth [32]
Cocaine Decisions [34]
Nig Biz
King Kong [6,52,56]
Cosmik Debris [18,50]
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[50] THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE (2 CD) ??.04.91
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(Live songs from '88 tour.)
FZ
Ike Willis -- rhythm guitar, computer-synth, vocal
Mike Keneally -- rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, vocal
Ed Mann -- vibes, marimba, electronic percussion
Walt Fowler -- trumpet, flugel horn, synth
Bruce Fowler -- trombone
Paul Carman -- alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
Albert Wing -- tenor sax
Kurt McGettrick -- baritone sax, bass sax, contrabass clarinet
Scott Thunes -- electric bass, mini-moog
Chad Wackerman -- drums, electronic percussion
Heavy Duty Judy [31]
Ring Of Fire (Kilgore/Carter)
Cosmik Debris [18,49]
Find Her Finer [22]
Who Needs The Peace Corps? [4]
I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Cory/Cross)
Zomby Woof [17,46]
Bolero (Ravel)
Zoot Allures [22,42,49]
Mr. Green Genes [6,8]
Florentine Pogen [20,51]
Andy [20]
Inca Roads [20,47]
Sofa #1 [20,23,46]
Purple Haze (Hendrix)
Sunshine Of Your Love (Brown/Bruce/Clapton)
Let's Move To Cleveland [42,51]
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Ball/Graff/Olcott)
"Godfather Part 2" Theme (Rota)
A Few Moments With Brother A. West (A.West/Zappa)
The Torture Never Stops, Part 1 [22,23,39,46,51]
Theme From "Bonanza" (Evans/Livingston)
Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version) [13,54]
The Torture Never Stops, Part 2
More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version) [1,19,42,53]
Penguin In Bondage (Swaggart Version) [19,42]
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue [10]
Stairway To Heaven (Page/Plant)
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[51] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 4 (2 CD) ??.06.91
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Little Rubber Girl (Zappa/Walley)
Stick Together [34]
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [10,53]
Willie The Pimp [8,12]
Montana [17,47]
Brown Moses [39]
The Evil Prince [39]
Approximate [23,47]
Love Of My Life (Collins/Zappa) [5,30]
Let's Move To Cleveland - Solos (1984) [42,50]
You Call That Music?
Pound For A Brown - Solos (1978) [6,23,53,56,57]
The Black Page (1984) [23,35,52,53]
Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Norworth/Von Tilzer)
Filthy Habits [25]
The Torture Never Stops (Original Version) [22,23,39,46,50]
Church Chat
Stevie's Spanking [38,52]
Outside Now [29,45,48]
Disco Boy [22,35]
Teen-Age Wind [32]
Truck Driver Divorce [38]
Florentine Pogen [20,50]
Tiny Sick Tears
Smell My Beard (Duke/Zappa)
The Booger Man (Duke/Brock/Zappa)
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy [21]
Are You Upset?
Little Girl Of Mine (Levy/Cox)
The Closer You Are (Lewis/Robinson) [38]
Johnny Darling (Statton/Statton)
No, No Cherry (Ceasar/Gray)
The Man From Utopia (Woods/Woods) [34]
Mary Lou (Jessie) [34]
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[52] MAKE A JAZZ NOISE HERE (2 CD) ??.06.91
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(Live instrumental music from '88 tour.)
FZ
Ike Willis -- rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
Mike Keneally -- rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
Bobby Martin -- keyboards, vocal
Ed Mann -- vibes, marimba, electronic percussion
Walt Fowler -- trumpet, flugel horn, synth
Bruce Fowler -- trombone
Paul Carman -- alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
Albert Wing -- tenor sax
Kurt McGettrick -- baritone sax, contrabass clarinet
Scott Thunes -- electric bass, mini-moog
Chad Wackerman -- drums, electronic percussion
Stinkfoot [18,47]
When Yuppies Go To Hell
Fire And Chains
Let's Make The Water Turn Black [4,46,56]
Harry, You're A Beast [4,46,56]
The Orange County Lumber Truck [10,46,56]
Oh No [10,19,46,56]
Theme From "Lumpy Gravy" [3]
Eat That Question [16]
Black Napkins [22,54]
Big Swifty [15,46,47]
King Kong [6,49,56]
Star Wars Won't Work
The Black Page (New Age Version) [23,35,51,53]
T'Mershi Duween [47]
Dupree's Paradise [37,47]
City Of Tiny Lights [26,53]
Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat" (Stravinsky)
Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto #3 (Bartok)
Sinister Footwear, 2nd Mvt. [38]
Stevie's Spanking [38,51]
Alien Orifice [41ab,54]
Cruisin' For Burgers [6,23,55]
Advance Romance [21,49,53]
Strictly Genteel [13,27,44,54]
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BEAT THE BOOTS 1 (10 LP; 9 CD) ??.07.91
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(8 bootlegs rereleased with Zappa's permission.)
'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JELLY (live 30.09.67)
(Location: Stockholm, Sweden)
FZ
Jimmy Carl Black
Ian Underwood
Bunk Gardner
Don Preston
Jim Sherwood
Roy Estrada
Ray Collins
Billy Mundi
You Didn't Try To Call Me
Petroushka
Bristol Stomp
Baby Love
Big Leg Emma
No Matter What You Do (Tchaikovsky's 6th)
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog
Gee
King Kong
It Can't Happen Here
THE ARK (live 18.07.68)
(Location: Boston)
FZ
Jimmy Carl Black
Ian Underwood
Bunk Gardner
Don Preston
Jim Sherwood
Roy Estrada
Artie Tripp
Big Leg Emma
Some Ballet Music
Status Back Baby
Valarie
My Guitar
The Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat/King Kong (Medley)
FREAKS & MOTHERFU*#@%! (live 11.05.70)
(Location: Fillmore East)
FZ
Mark Volman
Howard Kaylan
Jeff Simmons
Aynsley Dunbar
George Duke
Ian Underwood
Happy Together (Bonner/Gordon)
Wino Man - With Dr. John Routine
Concentration Moon
Pallidan Routine
Call Any Vegetable
Little House I Used To Live In
Mudshark Variations
Holiday In Berlin
Sleeping In A Jar
Cruising For Burgers
PIQUANTIQUE (live 21.08.73)
FZ
Jean-Luc Ponty
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ruth Underwood
George Duke
Ralph Humphrey
(Location: Stockholm, Sweden)
Kung Fu
Redunzl
Dupree's Paradise
T'Mershi Duween
Father O'Blivion
UNMITIGATED AUDACITY (live 12.05.74)
FZ
George Duke
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Don Preston
Jeff Simmons
Walt Fowler
Chester Thompson
(Location: Notre Dame University)
Dupree's Paradise
It Can't Happen Here
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
How Could I Be Such A Fool
I Ain't Got No Heart
I'm Not Satisfied
Wowie Zowie
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Harry, You're A Beast
Oh No
More Trouble Every Day
Louie Louie
Camarillo Brillo
SAARBRUCKEN 1979 (2 LP; 1 CD) (live 03.09.78)
(Location: Saarbrucken, Germany)
FZ
Arthur Barrow
Denny Walley
Tommy Mars
Vinny Colaiuta
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Ike Willis
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Keep It Greasy
Village Of The Sun
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
City Of Tiny Lights
Pound For A Brown
Bobby Brown
Conehead
Flakes
Magic Finger
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Nanook Rubs It
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Rollo
Bamboozled By Love
ANYWAY THE WIND BLOWS (2 LP; 2 CD) (live 24.02.79)
(Location: Paris, France)
FZ
Arthur Barrow
Vinny Colaiuta
Peter Wolf
Tommy Mars
Warren Cucurullo
Denny Walley
Ike Willis
Watermelon In Easter Hay
Dead Girls Of London
I Ain't Got No Heart
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Cosmic Debris
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
City Of Tiny Lights
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat
Jumbo Go Away
Andy
Inca Roads
Florentine Pogen
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Keep It Greasy
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Another Cheap Aroma
Wet T-Shirt Night
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
Peaches En Regalia
AS AN AM (live 31.10.81 & 21.05.82)
(Location: Palladium NYC (side 1), Koln, Germany (side 2))
FZ
Ray White
Tommy Mars
Scott Thunes
Ed Mann
Chad Wackerman
Bobby Martin
Steve Vai
That Makes Me Mad
Young & Monde
Sharleena
Black Napkins
Black Page
The Torture Never Stops
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BEAT THE BOOTS 2 (11 LP; 8 CD) 16.06.92
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(7 bootlegs rereleased with Zappa's permission.)
ELECTRIC AUNT JEMIMA (live ??.??.68)
(Location: Family Dog, Denver)
FZ
Jimmy Carl Black
Roy Estrada
Bunk Gardner
Don Preston
Jim Sherwood
Art Tripp
Ian Underwood
Little House I Used To Live In
Dog Breath Variations
Blue Danube
Hungry Freaks Daddy
Dog Breath
King Kong
Trouble Every Day
A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
English Tea Dancing Interlude
Plastic People
King Kong
America Drinks
Wipe Out
OUR MAN IN NIRVANA (live 08.11.68)
(Location: Fullerton, CA)
FZ
Jimmy Carl Black
Roy Estrada
Bunk Gardner
Don Preston
Jim Sherwood
Art Tripp
Guest: Larry "Wild Man" Fischer
Feet Light Up
Bacon Fat
The String Quartet including:
A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
Sleeping In A Jar
The Wild Man Fischer Story
I'm The Meany
Valarie
King Kong
TENGO NA MINCHIA TANTA (live ??.??.70)
(Location: Fillmore East, NYC)
FZ
George Duke
Aynsley Dunbar
Howard Kaylan
Mark Volman
Jeff Simmons
Ian Underwood
Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?
A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
Sleeping In A Jar
Sharleena
The Sanzini Brothers
Groupie Routine (early version):
What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
What Kind Of A Girl Do You Think We Are?
Bwana Dik
Latex Solar Beef
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Little House I Used To Live In
Holiday In Berlin
Inca Roads
Easy Meat
Cruising For Burgers
DISCONNECTED SYNAPSES (live ??.??.70)
(Location: Palais Gaumont, Paris, France)
FZ
George Duke
Aynsley Dunbar
Howard Kaylan
Mark Volman
Jeff Simmons
Ian Underwood
Guest: Jean-Luc Ponty
Sanzini Brothers
Penis Dimension (interpolating early "Bwana Dik")
The Air
Dog Breath
Mother People
You Didn't Try To Call Me
King Kong
Who Are The Brain Police?
SWISS CHEESE/FIRE (2 LP; 2 CD) (live 04.12.71)
(Location: Casino de Montreux, Geneva, Switzerland)
FZ
Don Preston
Aynsley Dunbar
Howard Kaylan
Mark Volman
Jim Pons
Ian Underwood
Intro
Peaches En Regalia
Tears Began To Fall
She Painted Up Her Face
Provocative Squats
Call Any Vegetable
Anyway The Wind Blows
Magdalena
Dog Breath
Give Me Some Floor Covering Under This Fat Floating Sofa
(includes "Sofa" And "Stick It Out")
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Wonderful Wino
Sharleena
Cruisin' For Burgers
King Kong
Fire!
CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY (live 19.11.76)
(Location: Detroit)
FZ
Ray White
Eddie Jobson
Patrick O'Hearn
Terry Bozzio
Stinkfoot
Dirty Love
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lights
AT THE CIRCUS (live ??.09.78)
(Location: Zirkus Krone, Munich (non-public performance))
FZ
Denny Walley
Ed Mann
Arthur Barrow
Ike Willis
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Vinny Colaiuta
A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
Baby Snakes
Dancing Fool
Easy Meat
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Mother People
Wonderful Wino
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
Seal Call Fusion Music
Bobby Brown
I'm On Duty
Conehead
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[53] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 5 (2 CD) ??.06.92
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The Downtown Talent Scout
Charles Ives
Here Lies Love (Martin/Dobard)
Piano/Drum Duet
Mozart Ballet - Piano Sonata in B flat (Mozart)
Chocolate Halvah (Zappa/George/Estrada)
JCB & Kansas On The Bus #1 (Kanzus/Black/Kunc/Barber)
Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme
The Little March
Right There (Zappa/Estrada)
Where Is Johnny Velvet?
Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke
Trouble Every Day [1,19,42,50]
Proto-Minimalism
JCB & Kansas On The Bus #2 (Kanzus/Black/Kunc/Barber)
My Head? (Mothers Of Invention)
Meow
Baked-Bean Boogie
Where's Our Equipment?
F.Z./JCB Drum Duet
No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve
A Game Of Cards (Zappa/Sherwood/Tripp/Underwood)
Underground Freak-Out Music
German Lunch (Mothers Of Invention)
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [10,51]
Easy Meat [30]
The Dead Girls Of London (Zappa/Shankar)
Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
What's New In Baltimore? [41ab,42]
Moggio [34]
Dancin' Fool [26]
RDNZL [24,47]
Advance Romance [21,49,52]
City Of Tiny Lites [26,52]
A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus) [6,23,51,56,57]
Doreen [32]
The Black Page #2 [23,35,51,52]
Geneva Farewell
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[54] YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, vol. 6 (2 CD) ??.07.92
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The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath
The Poodle Lecture
Dirty Love [17]
Magic Fingers [13]
The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [23,49]
Farther O'Blivion [18,46]
Is This Guy Kidding Or What?
I'm So Cute [26]
White Person
Lonely Person Devices
Ms. Pinky [22,39]
Shove It Right In [13]
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station [22]
Make A Sex Noise
Tracy Is A Snob
I Have Been In You [26]
Emperor Of Ohio
Dinah-Moe Humm [17,35]
He's So Gay [39]
Camarillo Brillo [17]
Muffin Man [21]
NYC Halloween Audience
The Illinois Enema Bandit [23]
Thirteen (Zappa/Shankar)
Lobster Girl (O'Hearn/Colaiuta/Zappa)
Black Napkins [22,52]
We're Turning Again [41ab]
Alien Orifice [41ab,52]
Catholic Girls [28]
Crew Slut [28]
Tryin' To Grow A Chin [26,46]
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance [4]
Lisa's Life Story (Zappa/Popeil)
Lonesome Cowboy Nando [13,50]
200 Motels Finale [13]
Strictly Genteel [13,27,44,52]
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[55] PLAYGROUND PSYCHOTICS (2 CD) 27.10.92
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(Live material & dialogs '70 - '71.)
FZ
Mark Volman -- vocal, dialog
Howard Kaylan -- vocal, dialog
Jim Pons -- bass, vocal
Bob Harris -- wurtilitzer
Don Preston -- keyboards, electronics
Ian Underwood -- keyboards, alto sax, dialog
Aynsley Dunbar -- drums, dialog
Jeff Simmons -- dialog
George Duke -- dialog
Martin Lickert -- dialog
A Typical Day On The Road, part 1 (M.O.I)
"Here Comes The Gear, Lads"
The Living Garbage Truck
A Typical Sound Check
"This Is Neat"
The Motel Lobby
Getting Stewed
The Motel Room
"Don't Take Me Down"
The Dressing Room
Learning "Penis Dimension"
"You There, With The Hard On!"
Zanti Serenade (Preston/Zappa)
Divan
Sleeping In A Jar [6,56]
"Don't Eat There"
Brixton Still Life
Super Grease (M.O.I/Zappa)
Wonderful Wino (Simmons/Zappa) [22]
Sharleena [11,38,49]
Cruisin' For Burgers [6,23,52]
Diphteria Blues (M.O.I)
Well (Ward)
Say Please (Lennon/Ono/Zappa)
Aaawk
Scum Bag (Lennon/Ono/Kaylan/Zappa)
A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono (Lennon/Ono)
A Typical Day On The Road, part 2 (M.O.I)
Beer Shampoo
Champagne Lecture
Childish Perversions
Playground Psychotics
The Mudshark Interview
"There's No Lust In Jazz"
Botulism On The Hoof
You Got Your Armies
The Spew King
I'm Doomed
Status Back Baby [2]
The London Cab Tape (M.O.I)
Concentration Moon, part 1 [4]
The Sanzini Brothers (Underwood/Volman/Kaylan)
"It's A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This"
Concentration Moon, part 2 [4]
Mom & Dad [4]
Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra
Billy The Mountain [14]
The True Story Of 200 Motels
"He's Watching Us"
If You're Not A Professional Actor
He's Right
Going For The Money
Jeff Quits
A Bunch Of Adventures
Martin Lickert's Story
A Great Guy
Bad Acting
The Worst Reviews
A Version Of Himself
I Could Be A Star Now
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[56] AHEAD OF THEIR TIME ??.04.93
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(Live at Royal Festival Hall, London, England, 28.10.68.)
FZ
Ian Underwood -- alto sax, piano
Bunk Gardner -- tenor sax, clarinet
Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood -- baritone sax, tambourine
Roy Estrada -- bass, vocals
Don Preston -- electric piano, odd noises
Arthur Dyer Tripp III -- drums, percussion
Jimmy Carl Black -- drums
Members of The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Prologue (Bogus Pomp) [27,44]
Progress? (Preston/Underwood/Gardner/Tripp/Sherwood/Zappa)
Like It Or Not
The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson (Black/Zappa)
Holding The Group Back (Estrada/Underwood/Zappa)
Holiday In Berlin [9]
The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves The Stage
Undaunted, The Band Plays On
Agency Man
Epilogue
King Kong [6,49,52]
Help, I'm A Rock [1]
Transylvania Boogie [11]
Pound For A Brown [6,23,51,53,57]
Sleeping In A Jar [6,55]
Let's Make The Water Turn Black [4,46,52]
Harry, You're A Beast [4,46,52]
The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part 1) [10,46,52]
Oh No [10,19,46,52]
The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part 2) [10,46,52]
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[57] THE YELLOW SHARK ??.11.93
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Ensemble Modern, conducted by Peter Rundel and FZ
Intro
Dog Breath Variations [6,14,47]
Uncle Meat [6,47]
Outrage At Valdez
Times Beach II
III Revised
The Girl In The Magnesium Dress [37]
Be-Bop Tango [19]
Ruth Is Sleeping
None Of The Above
Pentagon Afternoon
Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
Times Beach III
Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America, 1992
Welcome To The United States
Pound For A Brown [6,23,51,53,56]
Exercise #4
Get Whitey
G-Spot Tornado [43]
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[58] CIVILIZATION, PHAZE III (2 CD) ??.12.94
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Synclavier
Ensemble Modern, conducted by FZ
Voices -- Spider Barbour, All-Night John, Frank Zappa, Euclid James
'Motorhead' Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Louis 'The Turkey' Cuneo, Monica,
Gilly Townley, Unknown Girl #1, Unknown Girl #2, Moon Unit Zappa,
Michael Rappaport, Ali N. Askin, Catherine Milliken, Walt Fowler,
Todd Yvega, Michael Svoboda, Michael Gross, William Formann,
Uwe Dierksen, Stefan Dohr, Daryl Smith, Franck Ollu, Hermann
Kretzschmar, Dweezil Zappa
"This Is Phaze III"
Put A Motor In Yourself
"Oh-umm"
They Made Me Eat It
Reagan At Bitburg
"A Very Nice Body"
Navanax
"How The Pigs+ Music Works"
Xmas Values
"Dark Water!"
Amnerika
"Have Tou Heard Their Band?"
Religious Superstition
"Saliva Can Only Take So Much"
Buffalo Voice
"Someplace Else Right Now"
Get A Life
"A Kayak (On Snow)"
N-Lite
Negative Light
Venice Submerged
The New World Order
The Lifestyle You Deserve
Creationism
He Is Risen
"I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back"
Secular Humanism
"Attack! Attack! Attack!"
I Was In A Drum
"A Different Octave"
"This Ain't CNN"
"The Pigs' Music"
A Pig With Wings
"This Is All Wrong"
Hot & Putrid
"Flowing Inside-out"
"I Had A Dream About That"
Gross Man
"A Tunnel Into Muck"
Why Not?
"Put A Little Motor In 'Em"
"You're Just Insulting Me, Aren't You!"
"Cold Light Generation"
Dio Fa
"That Would Be The End Of That"
Beat The Reaper
Waffenspiel
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* Frank Zappa & Related Singles Discography & Price Guide Circa
1/27/89
* Singles with Contributions by Frank Zappa
* EPs with contributions by Frank Zappa
FRANK ZAPPA & RELATED SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY & PRICE GUIDE CIRCA 1/27/89
From Goldmine Vol. 15, No. 2 January 27, 1989 compiled by Neil Umphred
FORMAT:
Group/Performer
Label / Record Number
Year
Value as of 1/27/89
Comment if applicable
_________________________________________________________________
THE MASTERS
Breaktime / 16 Tons
emmy / 100082
1962
100.00
(A-side partly written by fz and ray collins)
THE PENGUINS
Memories of El Monte / ?
Original Sound / 27
1962
100.00
(A-side written by fz and ray collins)
BOBBY JAMESON
Gotta Find My Roogalator / ?
Penthouse / 503
1962
100.00
(A-side written by fz)
RON ROMAN
Love of My Life / Tell Me
Daani / 101
1963
100.00
(A-side partly written by fz and ray collins)
BOBBY RAY & THE FERNS
How's Your Bird? / The Worlds Greatest Sinner
Donna / 1378
1963
100.00
(Both sides written by fz)
BOB GUY
Dear Jeepers / Letter From Jeepers
Donna / 1380
1963
100.00
(A-side partly written by fz )
BRIAN LORD & THE MIDNIGHTERS
The Big Surfer / Not Another One
Vigah / 001
1963
100.00
(A-side written by fz )
NED & NELDA
Hey Nelda / Surf Along
Vigah / 002
1963
100.00
(A-side written by fz and ray collins)
THE HOLLYWOOD PERSUADERS
Grunion Run / Tijuana SUrf
Original Sound / 39
1963
25.00
(Written and guitar by fz)
JIM MUSIL COMBO
Grunion Run / North Beach
Jay Emm / 423
1963
100.00
(A-side written by fz)
CONRAD & THE HURRICANE STRINGS
Hurrican / Sweet Love
Daytone / 6401
1963
100.00
(Both sides produced by fz)
MR. CLEAN
Mr. Clean / Jessie Lee
Original Sound / 40
1964
100.00
(Both sides written and produced by fz)
THE ROTATIONS
Heavies / The Cruncher
Original Sound / 41
1964
100.00
(Produced by fz)
THE HEARTBREAKERS
Every Time I See You / Cradle Rock
Donna / 1381
1964
100.00
(A-side, fz on guitar)
THE HOGS
Loose Lips Sync Ship / Blues Theme
HBR / 511
1966
100.00
(Some sources credit fz with guitar on A-side)
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
How Could I Be Such a Fool? / Help, I'm a Rock
Verve / 10418(DJ)
1966
40.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
How Could I Be Such a Fool? / It Can't Happen Here
Verve / 10418
1966
65.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Trouble Comin' Every Day / Who Are The Brain Police?
Verve / 10458(DJ)
1966
40.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Why Don't You Do Me Right? / Big Leg Emma
Verve / 10513(DJ)
1967
40.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Why Don't You Do Me Right? / Big Leg Emma
Verve / 10513
1967
65.00
(Both A & B Sides are non-LP tracks)
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Lonely Little Girl / Mother People
Verve / 10570(DJ)
1967
40.00
BURT WARD
Boy Wonder, I Love You / Orange Colored Sky
MGM / 13632
1967
100.00
(Both sides arranged, conducted and produced by fz)
RUBEN & THE JETS (MOI)
Deseri / Jelly Roll Gumdrop
Verve / 10632
1968
50.00
RUBEN & THE JETS (MOI)
Any Way The Wind Blows / Jelly Roll Gumdrop
Verve / 10632
1968
50.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Uncle Meat (Promotional Jukebox EP)
Reprise / PRO-332
1969
100.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Dog Breath / My Guitar
Reprise / 0840
1969
40.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Hot Rats (Promotional Jukebox EP)
Reprise / PRO-366
1970
100.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Peaches En Regalia / Peaches En Regalia
Bizarre / 0889(DJ)
1970
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Peaches En Regalia / Little Umbrellas
Bizarre / 0889
1970
40.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
WPLJ / My Gutiar
Bizarre / 0892(DJ)
1970
30.00
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
WPLJ / My Gutiar
Bizarre / 0892
1970
40.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Tell Me You Love Me / Would You Go All The Way?
Bizarre / 0967(DJ)
1970
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Tell Me You Love Me / Would You Go All The Way?
Bizarre / 0967
1970
40.00
FRANK ZAPPA
200 Motels (Promotional Radio Spots)
Bizarre
1971
150.00
FRANK ZAPPA
What Will This Evening.../ Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
United Artists / 35319
1971
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Magic Fingers / Magic Fingers
United Artists / 50857(DJ)
1971
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Magic Fingers / Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
United Artists / 50857
1971
40.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Tears Began To Fall / Tears Began To Fall
Straight / 1027(DJ)
1971
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA / MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Tears Began To Fall / Tears Began To Fall
Bizarre / 1052(DJ)
1971
30.00
FRANK ZAPPA / MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Tears Began To Fall / Junior Mintz Boogie
Bizarre / 1052
1971
40.00
(Both sides are non-LP tracks)
THE MOTHERS
Cletus Awreetus-Awightus / Cletus Awreetus-Awightus
Bizarre / 1127(DJ)
1972
20.00
THE MOTHERS
Cletus Awreetus-Awightus / Eat That Question
Bizarre / 1127
1972
30.00
THE MOTHERS
I'm The Slime / Montana
DiscReet / 1180
1973
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Uncle Remus / Cosmik Desbris
DiscReet / PRO-586(DJ)
1974
20.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow / Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
DiscReet / 1312(DJ)
1974
20.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow / Cosmik Desbris
DiscReet / 1312
1974
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Find Her Finer / Find Her Finer
Warner Brothers / 8296(DJ)
1976
20.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Find Her Finer / Zoot Allures
Warner Brothers / 8296
1976
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Disco Boy / Disco Boy
Warner Brothers / 8342(DJ)
1976
20.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Disco Boy / Ms. Pinky
Warner Brothers / 8342
1976
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
What's It All About (A brief interview with fz for public service
religious broadcast)
Program / #418
1978
20.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Dancin' Fool / Dancin' Fool
Zappa / Z-10(DJ)
1979
10.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Dancin' Fool / Baby Snakes
Zappa / Z-10
1979
6.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Dancin' Fool / Baby Snakes (Picture Sleeve)
Zappa / Z-10
1979
15.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Dancin' Fool / Baby Snakes (12" single)
Zappa / MK-83(DJ)
1979
15.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Dancin' Fool / Baby Snakes (12" w/ Picture Cover)
Zappa / MK-83
1979
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Joe's Garage / Joe's Garage
Zappa / Z-31(DJ)
1979
15.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Joe's Garage / Central Scrutinizer (12" promo w/ Picture Cover)
Zappa / Z-31
1979
25.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Joe's Garage / Central Scrutinizer
Zappa / MK-107(DJ)
1979
10.00
FRANK ZAPPA
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted / I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
Zappa / ZR-1001(DJ)
1980
10.00
FRANK ZAPPA
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted / Ancient Armaments
Zappa / ZR-1001
1980
4.00
(Both sides are non-LP versions)
FRANK ZAPPA
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (Picture Sleeve)
Zappa / ZR-1001
1980
5.00
FRANK ZAPPA
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted / Ancient Armaments
Zappa / ZR-1001
1980
25.00
(12" Single w/ Picture Cover)
FRANK ZAPPA
Goblin Girl / Pink Napkins
Barking Pumpkin / 02616
(12-inch)
1981
12.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Valley Girl / Valley Girl
Barking Pumpkin / 02972(DJ)
1982
4.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Valley Girl / You Are What You Is
Barking Pumpkin / 02972(DJ)
1982
3.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Valley Girl / You Are What You Is (Picture Sleeve)
Barking Pumpkin / 02972
1982
6.00
FRANK ZAPPA
Valley Girl / Valley Girl
Barking Pumpkin / 02972(DJ)
1982
25.00
(12-inch Single w/ Picture Cover)
FRANK ZAPPA
Valley Girl / You Are What You Is
Barking Pumpkin / 02972
1982
8.00
(12-inch Single w/ Picture Cover)
SINGLES WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY FRANK ZAPPA
(from: hen...@milan.research.otc.com.au (Henry Griggs))
Details from Norbert Obermanns' Zappalog, 1982.
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The Masters - Breaktime / 16 Tons
Emmy 10082
A side written by Williams/Buff/Zappa
The Penguins - Memories Of El Monte / Be Mine
Original Sound 27
released 1962
A side written by Zappa/Collins
Bobby Jameson - Gotta Find My Roogalator / ?
Penthouse 503
A side written by Zappa
Ron Roman - Love Is My Life / Tell Me
Daani 101
A side written by Ron Roman/Frank Zappa/Dave Aerni
Baby Ray & The Ferns - How's Your Bird / The World's Greatest Sinner
Donna 1378
released 3/1963
both sides written by Zappa
Bob Guy - Dear Jeepers / Letter From Jeepers
Donna 1380
released 1963
both sides written by Zappa for a monster movie
Brian Lord & The Midnighters - The Big Surfer / Not Another One
Vigah 001
released 5/1963
A side written by Zappa
Ned & Nelda - Hey Nelda / Surf Along
Vigah 002
released 6/1963
both sides written by Zappa/Collins
Hollywood Persuaders - Grunion Run / Tijuana Surf
Original Sound 39
released 1963
A side written by Zappa, Zappa plays guitar
Jim Musil Combo - Grunion Run / North Beach
Jay Emm 423
A side written by Zappa
Conrad & The Huricane Strings - Hurricane / Sweet Love
Daytone 6401/Era 3130
released 12/1963
produced by Zappa
Mr Clean - Mr Clean / Jessie Lee
Original Sound 40
released 1964
both sides written by Zappa, Zappa plays
Rotations - Heavies / The Cruncher
Original Sound 41
released 1964
produced by Zappa (listen to Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
on WOIIFTM and you will hear the first 20 seconds of Heavies)
The Heartbreakers - Everytime I See You / Cradle Rock
Donna 1381
released 1964
Zappa plays
The Hogs - Loose Lip Sync Ship / Blues Theme
HBR 511
released 1966
Zappa plays (possibly) (See LP Pebbles Volume 3)
Burt Ward - Boy Wonder I Love You / Orange Coloured Sky
MGM 13632
released 1967
produced, arranged and conducted by Zappa
A side written by Zappa
Sonics - Any Way The Wind Blows / Lost Love
UNI 55039
released 1967
A side is cover version of Zappa song
Animals - The Other Side Of This Life / It's All Meat
MGM 13795
released 8/1967
arranged by Zappa (see lp Animalism)
Stack Waddy - You Really Got Me / Willie The Pimp
Dandelion 20001-331
B side is cover version of Zappa song
Ruben & The Jets - If I Could Be Your Love Again / Wedding Bells
Mercury 73381
released 1973
produced by Zappa, A side written and arranged by Zappa
L. Shankar - Dead Girls Of London (stereo) / Dead Girls Of London
(mono)
Zappa Records MK 114
released 1979
produced by Zappa, written by Zappa/Shankar, Zappa sings
EPS WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY FRANK ZAPPA
Ned & Nelda - Hey Nelda / Surf Along
Moxie 1001
Baby Ray & The Ferns - How's Your Bird / The World's Greatest Sinner
same as singles
Burt Ward - Boy Wonder I Love You / Orange Coloured Sky
Bob Guy - Dear Jeepers / Letter From Jeepers
same as singles
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Reprise 60104
a Help I'm A Rock
b 1906 / Leyla
released 1967
A side is cover version of Zappa song
In 1983, Rhino Records released a 12" EP called Rare Meat (RNEP604),
with some of these singles on it. It contained:
Baby Ray & The Ferns - How's Your Bird
The World's Greatest Sinner
The Heartbreakers - Every Time I See You
Bob Guy - Dear Jeepers
Letter From Jeepers
The Heartbreakers - Cradle Rock
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Barking Pumpkin/Honker Video has released a (small) number of Frank
Zappa videos:
1. Baby Snakes
2. The True Story of 200 Motels.
3. Does Humor Belong in Music?
4. The Amazing Mr. Bickford
5. Video From Hell
6. Uncle Meat
7. Dub Room Special
8. Zappa's Universe (released September 1993)
As of this writing the Zappa family does not own the (distribution?
publishing?) rights to "200 Motels" but it is available on video.
Frank's first television appearance was in the early 60's on the Steve
Allen Show. He played a "bicycle concerto".
He played a drug-lord in an episode of "Miami Vice".
Frank makes a brief appearance in the Monkees' film, "Head". He also
appears in an episode from the Monkees' TV show.
Zappa made appearances on two episodes of Saturday Night Live. He
performed in two skits and performed the songs "I am the Slime", "The
Meek Shall Inherit Nothing", "The Purple Lagoon", and "Dancin' Fool".
The song "Conehead" from YAWYI, was inspired by the SNL Conehead
skits.
Frank is the voice of "The pope" on an episode of "Ren and Stimpy" The
episode is titled "Powdered Toast-Man". [ed. note: The credits at the
end of "PTM" were changed from "The pope" to "The man with the funny
white hat".]
Mr. Zappa also appears in A&E's series "Class of the 20th Century".
_________________________________________________________________
The following reviews are from Richard Fox (fo...@cis.ohio-state.edu):
Uncle Meat
A movie started in 67 with the original Mothers of
Invention. Finished in 88 or 89 and released on
videotape. The movie has basically 2 parts to it. One is
based on the live concert footage of the Mothers plus a
small orchestra in the London Festival Hall in 68. This
footage is based on the story of members of the band
quitting to start their own band either because they want
a band of all disciplined music or they want to escape
from under Zappa's shadow and play real rock and roll.
The remainder of the movie is made up of Dom DeWild (Don
Preston) pretending to be a Jeckyl and Hyde sort. Really
wierd. There are also some videos of the band for the
songs Mr. Green Genes and Holiday in Berlin (from Burnt
Weenie Sandwich). The concert footage is good and the
videos are fun, but the rest is just plain bizzare.
200 Motels
Movie from 1970 starring Ringo Starr (as Zappa), Theodore
Bikel, the Mothers of Invention (this is the Flo and
Eddie band with George Duke, Ansley Dunbar, Ian Underwood
and Ringo Starr's chauffeur playing bass), and Keith Moon
as a nun!! Its a surrealistic look at how touring makes
you crazy and the efforts that band members have to go
through to get some action (women). The entire movie is a
musical with some lines of dialogue but mainly songs. The
London Royal Philharmonic orchestra and some choir play
through most of the movie. The Mothers do several songs
as well. The movie is wierd (of course) and would have
been much better had they been given more than 7 days to
film it. It is very difficult to watch if you do not
understand the context behind much of it. The movie also
features a 10 minute animated sequence. I would recommend
watching the True Story of 200 Motels either right before
or right after you watch the movie.
The True Story of 200 Motels
A 1 hour look at how 200 Motels was made. It is very
informative and includes outtakes from the movie plus a
look at the filming of the movie. There are interviews
and also some live concert footage from 1970 and 1973
(Dummy Up from Roxy and Elsewhere!!!). It was released in
1989 and is a nice little look at what making 200 Motels
was like.
Baby Snakes
a 3 1/2 hour feature based around the Halloween concert
in 1977 in NYC. There is about 1 1/2 hours of concert
footage and the rest is composed of the typical Zappa
wierdness, noise, crowd scenes, backstage scenes,
claymation scenes and a look at Barking Pumpkin's
warehouse. The concert footage includes Titties and Beer,
Punky's Whips, Camarillo Brillo/Muffin Man, San
Bern'dino, Dinah Moe Humm, Black Page #2, Disco Boy,
Jones Crusher, City of Tiny Lights, Tryin To Grow A Chin,
I Have Been In You, Broken Hearts are for Assholes and a
few more. There is also a video to Peaches En Regalia at
the end. The intermission portion shows clips from
Barking Pumpkin distribution.
Does Humor Belong in Music?
a 1 hour video of a concert from 1984. There is also a CD
of this name but the songs and performances differ on the
CD. This is an excellent video and shows off the vocal
talents of the 84 band. Songs include Zoot Allures,
Tinseltown Rebellion, Trouble Every Day, He's So Gay,
Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasy, Honey Don't You Want A Man
Like Me?, Cosmik Debris, Dinah Moe Humm, Be In My Video,
Dancing Fool and Whipping Post. There is also a little
interview footage.
Video From Hell
Contains clips of the above videos, a sort of best of
video Zappa. Of particular interest is Zappa addressing
the Maryland State Legislature about censorship laws.
This part is very amusing. There is also a clip from an
Australian talk show appearance by Zappa in which Frank
conducts the audience and show's band in a wierd little
improv. There is also a clip from the 82 band playing
King Kong (the "Blowjob" portion which is on Stage III)
and a guitar duet between Steve Vai and Frank during
Stevie's Spanking. Also, there is the song from Jazz From
Hell, Night School, played over footage of the making of
200 Motels.
Dub Room Special
Combination of interviews, 1974 KCET footage, and 1981
MTV footage (see below)
Zappa's Universe
this is the video release from Zappa's Universe and
follows most of the CD release. The video and CD have
some different songs, most notably are the inclusions of
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Black Page, Uncle Meat, Wet
T-Shirt Nite (sung horribly by Dale Bozzio) and the full
Waka/Jawaka. Waka/Jawaka is the highlight of this video
which is well worth buying. Also highlighted are the
guitar duet between Steve Vai and Dweezil on Dirty Love.
Yellow Shark
a performance of Yellow Shark was broadcast in Europe.
With some hope, this will be released on video at some
point in the US. But so far, noone seems to know if this
will happen.
ILLEGAL VIDEOS:
"Illegal Videos": There are several unofficial videos available, all
from tv appearances. The ones I know about are:
1973 Stockholm TV
50 minutes of the Little Wazoo band (featuring Jean Luc
Ponty). Consists of Montana, Duprees Paradise and a
medley of basically the Adventures of Greggary Peccary
and Be-Bop Tango. There is another version of this which
features about 80 minutes of music and has 3 or 4 more
songs including Stinkfoot and Cosmic Debris (if I
remember correctly)
US TV (from KCET LA I believe)
1 hour of this band performing songs like Florentine
Pogen, Oh No, Inca Roads, Stinkfoot, Cosmik Debris and
others. Some claymation over parts. This has been
released as A Token of His Extreme. Portions of this
performance also appear on Dub Room Special.
1980 French TV
An appearance on French TV. The footage is about 30
minutes in length and includes Joes Garage, Why Does It
Hurt When I Pee?, Ms. Pinky and ILlinois Enema Bandit.
Some additional footage might also be floating around on
the Mudd Club footage.
Saturday Night Live
2 appearances, once as guest in which he performs in
Coneheads and Night on Freak Mountain plus songs I'm the
Slime, Meek Shall Inherit Nothing and Dancing Fool. A
bootleg exists of the songs performed during one of these
appearances, this bootleg also includes Rollo (Son of St.
Alphonzo), Purple Lagoon featuring John Belushi as Samuri
singing along, Peaches and others.
??????
some footage from the 1979 band. I have seen about 10
minutes of this. I don't recall a name for it though.
Mudd Club
some footage from Zappa's 1978 (or 1980?) appearance at
the Mudd Club. Not very good footage at all.
1981 MTV
from Halloween at the Palladium in NYC. MTV broadcast
some of this show (or all of it?). It was subsequently
spliced up and shown as various features such as Dumb All
Over (45 minutes), You Are What You Is (45 minutes) and
the Torture Never Stops (1 hour 50 minutes). Also parts
are shown in Dub Room Special. Songs mainly consist of
You Are What You Is plus songs from Sheik Yerbouti. Also
has Strictly Genteel.
Spanish TV
Almost all of a concert from Barcelonia including Big
Swifty, I am the Walrus, Bolero, a few songs from
Broadway the Hardway, The Torture Never Stops/Lonesome
Cowboy Burt, and others.
Zappa Compilation
there exists some form of compilation video which has
interviews of FZ throughout his career.
There is also appearantly a 2 video set of various interviews of FZ
throughout his history including stuff as recent as his
reactions to the Persian Gulf War.
__________________________________________________________
~From: 4-t...@bong.saar.de (Marc Aurel)
Two more illegal (?) videos, both from German TV:
Zappa at Circus Krone
In 1978 Zappa rented the big top of Circus Krone for some
days to rehearse with his band. Parts of the rehearsals
were videotaped by the BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk) and
aired on some sunday morning ;) in 78 or 79. Added
footage contains Frank shopping in Munich and an
interview with his bodyguard. The band: Arthur Barrow,
Denny Walley, Tommy Mars, Vinny Colaiuta, Peter Wolf, Ed
Mann, Ike Willis. The songs: mostly '78 tour stuff, incl.
'Bobby Brown Goes Down'. 45 min.
The Yellow Shark
The German pay-tv station "Premiere" did a live broadcast
of "The Yellow Shark", performed by "Ensemble Modern" at
the "Alte Oper" in Frankfurt. Intermission is used for a
special on FZ incl. lots of verbal and musical quotes
(and German comments).
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CONCERTS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INTERVIEWS, DOCUMENTARI
ES, NEWS STORIES, OTHER
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: "G.D. Pratt"
Here is some stuff from Fred Tomsett about Videos:-
FZ videos: there is indeed a video of Zappa on the Steve Allen show.
Very odd. Lots of chat, then the concerto. B&W, natch.
'Baby Snakes' also exists as an edited down version, running 90 mins
or so. Not seen it.
There are also audience vidos of various 1988 gigs such as Vienna,
and a few German shows. Quality varies, but Vienna is OK.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Glenn)
FZ was on a Make Me Laugh & _Dance Fever_ in Dec, 1979. Did they
have a celebrity guest thing on MML? I had assumed FZ was trying to
get a contestant to laugh.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: bi...@ERA.COM (Bill Flynn)
(this is from old FZ interview around time of Joe's Garage,
unfortunately I did not save it.)
Frank was actually a contestant! FZ won - no one made him laugh.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: tom.br...@satalink.com (Tom Brunetti)
As someone has previously wrote, Frank did an episode of dance fever
as a talent judge. He came out on stage doing a goofy shuffle so to
speak. I took it as he was sort of mocking the disco thing. All the
other judges seemed to take it to serious.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: dsi...@panix.com (David Silver)
I remember this show very well. He did a "goofy shuffle" at the very
end of the show when all of the judges were invited to dance on the
stage with Denny Terio and the contestants during the closing
credits. I don't recall anything about that being taken badly by
anyone. He seemed to take the judging seriously, giving some pretty
high scores. One thing I remember wast that every time he spoke he
leaned way down toward the microphone so you could barely see his
face. I figured this was because as concert performer, he was
accustomed to speaking directly into microphones. On TV, you just
tend to speak naturally and let the mic pick your voice up from
wherever it is. I think one of the other judges was the den mother
from the TV show Facts of Life. I found it really amusing seeing him
up there next to her.
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~From: a...@ddci.dk (Anders Uhl Pedersen)
I have an update on the section of illegal videos, since English TV
broadcast a FZ special a couple of times and one of the times with 1
1/2 hours of prev. unreleased live material (mainly).
It was broadcast in "The Late Show" in the summer of 1993 including
interviews with FZ, Dweezil, Ahmet, Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood, Ruth
Underwood, Steve Vai and "The Father of the Simpsons" (I'm sorry,
but his name eludes me for the moment.) The "videos" afterwards
includes a BBC recording of King Kong (not broadcast since the late
60's), a lot of live material from various tours and some "videos"
of Baby Snakes, Night School and G-Spot Tornado.
Here is, as promised, a more detailed listing of the contents of
"The Late Show"'s FZ special:
Length: App. 45 min
The show includes lots of material from Frank's career from the
earliest days to rehearsing with Ensemble Modern in the preperation
of The Yellow Shark. Also, there are interviews with the following
persons: (The brackets is "The Late Show"'s introduction of the
persons when they appear)
Matt Groening (Cartoonist "The Simpsons")
Jim 'Motorhead' Sherwood (Saxophonist MOI 1964-69)
Ruth Underwood (Percussionist Zappa Band 1972-76)
Steve Vai (Guitarist Zappa Band 1980-82)
Dweezil Zappa (Son)
Ahmet Zappa (Son)
Frank Zappa
After the show there is 90 min. with music ONLY. These are the
titles and the years in which the performance was recorded:
1. King Kong (BBC Studio Recording) 1968
2. This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich from 200 Motels (Royal
Festival Hall) 1968
3. Cosmik Debris (Probably the same show as "A Token of His
Extreme") 1974
4. City Of Tiny Lights 1979
5. Stink Foot (Same as 3) with claymation) 1974
6. Baby Snakes (Studio version - the same intro as on the album
'Baby Snakes'. The video contains FZ working with some
claymation) 1982
7. Stevie's Spanking 1982
8. Inca Roads (Same as 3) with claymation) 1974
9. San Bernadino (Probably same show as 4)) 1979
10. Nigh School (Claymation) 1986
11. You Are What You Are Is (Official Video)
12. Camarillo Brillo (Probably same as 4)) 1979
13. Muffin Man (Continued directly from 12) 1979
14. G-Spot Tornado (Synclavier? Rapidly changing pictures) 1986
15. Montana (Same as 3)) 1974
16. Black Napkins (Probably same show as 4)) 1979
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~From: (ive...@utkvx.utk.edu) Stan Ivester
Stockholm '73 is circulating in an old 60-min version and, I'm told,
in a newly uncovered 75-min version on video. My copy is not great,
being the old version and partly from an optical transfer. Someone
in Europe (that's a big help, I know) must have a low-generation
copy.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: Zomby Woof
There is a old video tape of Frank appreaing on The Steve Allen Show
playing, of all things, a bicylce.
If you listen real close, as he slaps a pair of drum sticks along
the wheel spokes as the tire is being rotated, you can hear it's his
type of music.
There is also the immortal version of Frank on Australian TV as he
takes over the show and conducts the band and the audience.
It was a real moment.
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~From: nort...@med.unc.edu (Robert W. Northcott)
I have a very fond memory of watching Steve Allen's mid-sixties
show, which I assume was syndicated since I got it on a UHF channel
from Charlotte, NC, and one of the best I saw was when the Mothers
appeared. I do remember that they played "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" and
I think "Americal Drinks Up..." and Steve announced the first song
with quite a bit of surprise and good-natured humor in his voice. I
don't remember enought to state who was actually on stage; I assume
it was the 67-68 original Mothers line up. Absolutely Free must have
been the most recent LP at that time. Anyway, having owned Freak Out
at the time, I was already familiar with HFD and it made quite an
impression when they appeared. FZ sat down at talked for a minute;
unfortunately time has eroded my recollections. Is this anywhere on
tape???
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~From: dm...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey M. Gold)
I don't know why Zappa did not release Sofa until One Size Fits All,
but I do remember seeing the '71 band perform Sofa on TV. It was the
Dick Cavett Show, which used to be on opposite Johnny Carson in the
early 70's. No one had VCR's in those days, so I suppose there is on
point in asking if anyone has a tape of it. Does anyone else even
remember that performance?
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~From: obr...@imagen.com (Doug Obrecht)
Yeah, I remember it. They also did "Who are the Brain Police". But I
thought it was on a show in the middle of the afternoon (in L.A.).
Ah, the things you can do on a large floating purple sofa. (Just
don't get any jiz on it.)
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~From: nat...@coos.dartmouth.edu (Mark A. Natola)
Somewhere I think I have an audio tape made from this show. The
Mothers also did "Who are the Brain Police". I believe FZ is
interviewed and he comments that he is amazed that he was asked to
be on the show. 200 Motels was also discussed during the interview.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: fo...@neuron.cis.ohio-state.edu (The Guitarist From Hell)
A little less than 1/2 of "The Dub Room Special" is stuff from the
'74 TV show
I've seen snippets of "The Dub Room Special" [...] which can't be
the Roxy and Elsewhere TV thing because there was no Bruce Fowler,
Ralph Humphrey (? - Chester's co-drummer) and whoever else was on
Roxy but not on YCDTOSA Vol.2. So this TV recording is still a
mystery to me.
Simon
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The footage on Dub Room Special is from KETC (sic) LA tv, a 1974 show that
was broadcast. The footage for this performance exists in two
forms, about 5 songs on Dub Room Special, and a 60 minute chunk
on a tape later named "A Token of His Extreme". These two forms
have overlapping footage, but each has different footage as well. Songs
include Inca Roads, Florentine Pogen (both of which were used for
the studio versions on One Size Fits All), Approximate (intro only),
Stinkfoot, Cosmik Debris, Montana, Dupree's Paradise (intro), A Token
of His Extreme, and a few more I am probably forgetting.
The only footage of the Roxy video that I have seen is on The True
Story of 200 Motels in which we see Dummy Up. Supposedly much of
the Roxy & Elsewhere concert that originated from the Roxy, was
filmed. You can hear a comment on Stage 3 about "while we
reload the cameras" before they do Dickie's Such an Asshole.
And on parts of Roxy, you hear Frank talk about this "movie".
I believe the plan was to air the film/video on US tv (or maybe
European TV) like they did with the 1974 performance for KETC (sic)
in LA, or the mTV concert from 1981. But as far as I can tell though,
it was never aired. I have dug around for a copy of a videotape of
this performance and the only feedback I have been given from a videotape
collector/bootlegger was that "yes the tape does exist, it is
EXTREMELY rare and very expensive and the copy you might obtain would
be of horrid quality". I take it that this means that the guy
at one time did see a bad copy and it would be very difficult for him
to track down another.
__________________________________________________________________________
Re: Zappa on Saturday Night Live
~From: dsi...@panix.com (David Silver)
The first appearance was around Halloween, 1976. He performed "I'm
the Slime" and "Approximate". If you look at the band credits on
"Zappa In New York" you will see several SNL band members listed.
(Lou Marini, Ronnie Cuber, etc.) He evidently brought them along for
just the NYC gigs. I saw FZ in Boston the week before with Eddie
Jobson, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, and the immortal Bianca Odin
(who was canned soon after).
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~From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
On that first show, Frank & band actually did 3 songs. They
performed a very lively "Peaches en Regalia"; unfortunately, when
the SNL shows were later rerun in the '80s in a one-hour format (and
after VCRs became available to the general public), "Peaches" was
cut, which is why very few copies of that song on the show survive.
I have a copy, but the quality is so awful that it's barely
watchable even for a fanatic like myself. A few visual highlights of
that particular "Peaches" performance: Eddie Jobson plays a
clear-plastic violin; and Frank, Ray White, & Patrick O'Hearn bow
and make some kind of semi-religious gesture toward Terry Ted during
his brief solo.
Also, it was closer to Xmas than to Hween; thus all the references
to Xmas in the show (Candice Bergen introduces the first song as "a
special Xmas treat, the mellow sounds of FZ," or words to that
effect). Plus Frank made a brief appearence in the "Killer Xmas
Trees" sketch; one of the trees killed him in a police lineup.
I saw it when it happened, on a tiny little black&white TV.
__________________________________________________________________________
~From: pk...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter Overton King)
Last week I came into possession (hrumph) of an FZ videotape not
mentioned in the FAQ anywhere. It contains two very different items.
FZ + the Mothers of Invention, 06.10.68 German TV: "Happening im
Studio"
Like the title says... it was a "happening" in the
studio. The set opens with a loosely-coordinated rock &
roll jam, interrupted by a commercial or whatever they
had instead of commercials in 1968 Germany, a brief
interview with FZ from 1970 or so, and then back to 1968
for the happening. This consisted of a performance with
all songs segue and partial improvisation. Sombody more
familiar with early Mothers could identify the parts
better than I, surely, but I can make out the following:
1. Pound for a Brown
2. Sleeping in a Jar
3. [???] instrumental improvisation
4. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
5. Who Are the Brain Police?
FZ 1992: Austrian TV: "PEEFEEYATKO"
This show is a documentary concentrating on FZ's
technique of composition with the Synclavier. It has some
great bits of dialogue, and there are wonderful intercut
remarks by several composers such as Boulez, Xenakis, and
Stockhausen (and some footage of FZ with the first two).
The director also felt compelled to periodically insert
b&w sequences from monster movies here and there, and
also footage of some bozo talking about Bigfoot.
Well, to hear FZ talking about his music and
demonstrating what he can do at his Synclavier is great
fun. But the real gem here is that the musical background
is ALL BY FZ -- from his Synclavier. And there is a
several-minutes-long segment in the middle entitled
"Electronic Music by Frank Zappa" with no dialogue or
distractions, not a demo, either, but what sounds like a
well-realized piece of music already. (Maybe from CP3?)
The dialogue etc. is in English, with what looks to me
like Finnish (?) subtitles. (Anyway, not German!) If
anyone knows how to get a high-quality transfer of music
off a videotape I'd be very pleased to know.
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part7
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What's In
=========
FZ books
_The Real Frank Zappa Book_,
_Them Or Us_
Books about FZ
_Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play_
_No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa &
the Mothers of Invention"_
_No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa Then and Now_
_Good Night Boys and Girls_
_Mother! Is the story of Frank Zappa_
_Mother! The Frank Zappa Story_
_Frank Zappa - a visual documentary_
_In his own words_
_Viva Zappa: Un Alchimiste Delirant - Mode l'Emploi_
_Viva Zappa!_
_Zapzapzappa_
_Frank Zappa_ ( Rolf Ulrich Kaiser )
_Frank Zappa et les Mothers of Invention_
_Frank Zappa y the Mothers of Invention_
_Frank Zappa: Der Rebel aus dem Untergrund_
_Alla Zappa_
_Zappalog: The First Step of Zappalogy_
_On Tour with the Evil Prince_
_Zappa: a Biography_
_Frank Zappa and Mother Story_
_Frank Zappa : Sztori 1940-1989_
_A Definitive Tribute to Frank Zappa_
Songbooks
_Frank Zappa Songbook, Vol. 1_
_The Frank Zappa Guitar Book_
_Frank Zappa. Plastic People. Corrected Copy. Songbuch_
_Zappa (e piu duro di tuo marito)_
_Real Fake Book_
Reference books
_Torchum Never Stops_
_Frank Zappa: cronique discographique_
_Project Documention_
Additional materials
_Once a Catholic_
_Bat Chain Puller_
_I'm With The Band_
Biblio, Full-Blown
==================
Title Origins
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_The Real Frank Zappa Book_
by FZ and Peter Occhiogrosso,
Published by Poseidon Press,
New York, 1989,
ISBN 0-671-63870-X,
352 pages
_The Real Frank Zappa Book_
by FZ and Peter Occhiogrosso,
Published by Picador Books, London,
1989,
ISBN 0-330-31073-9,
352 pages
_The Real Frank Zappa Book_
by FZ and Peter Occhiogrosso
Published by Picador Books, London,
1990,
ISBN 0-330-31625-7,
352 pages
_Frank Zappa: I am the American Dream_
by FZ and Peter Occhiogrosso,
Published by Goldmann Verlag,
Germany, 1991,
ISBN ????
???? pages
( German translation of _The Real
Frank Zappa Book_ )
Comments
----------------------------------
" One reason for doing this is proliferation of stupid books ( in
several languages ) which purport to be ABOUT ME. I thought there
ought to be at least ONE, somewhere, that had REAL STUFF in it.
Please be advised that this book does not pretend to be sort of
'complete' oral history. It is presented for consumption as
entertainement only."
The Real FZ book, p.9
Title Origins
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_Them 0r Us (The Book)_
by FZ,
Published by Barfko Swill, Los Angeles
in 1984,
No ISBN,
351 pages
Comments
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From: wygiw...@aol.com (WygiWys007)
"Them or Us [the book]" by Frank Zappa, contains the lyrics to "Flam Bay,"
"Spider of Destiny" and "Time is Money," (from Sleep Dirt) These were all
part of the (unproduced) Hunchentoot stage play.
From: bro...@netcom.com (Eddie G.)
The book is written in quasi-screenplay style and contains tons of conceptual
continuity stuff. It is partly narrated by Francesco Zappa, that obscure 18th
century Italian composer, who in the book is now a short, paunchy man in his
50's living in New Jersey. I would have to say that the book is for fan's of
Frank's work and it is those people who would find it hysterically funny. Here
is the forward, perhaps it can give you some insight:
"This cheesy little home-made book was prepared for the amusement of people
who already enjoy Zappa music. It is not for intellectuals or other dead
people.
It is designed to answer one of the more troubling questions related to
conceptual continuity: 'How do all of these things that don't have anything
to do with each other fit together, forming a larger absurdity?'
Your enjoyment of the contents could be anhanced by hearing some of the
music described in the text. The albums shown on the back cover contain some
of these songs. Other songs derive from 'Joe's Garage' and "Ship Arriving
Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch'.
This is a story book. It is not a rock & roll biography. This is the only
REAL & OFFICIAL FRANK ZAPPA BOOK. All other books attempting to trade on my
name are unauthorized and full of misinformation. This book is dedicated to
all of the fans who have made the last 20 years of large-scale absurdities
possible.
This book used to be called 'Christmas In New Jersey'."
So there you have it, I don't know if this helps any or not, I can only
strongly urge you to acquire this book, as it is one of my all-time favorite
pieces of literature. The album covers on the back of the book are:
"Francesco Zappa", "Them Or Us", "Thing-Fish", and "Old Masters". The front
cover is that photo from "True Glove" with the maestro and his oven mitten.
From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
I see the book as kind of a depository for a number of screenplays and
theater pieces that Frank was never able to get produced--elements of Thing
Fish, Hunchentoot, and a bunch of other stuff all seem to have been worked
together into one giant thing that's impossible to categorize.
Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa: The Negative
Dialectics of Poodle Play_
by Ben Watson,
published by QUARTET 1993,
ISBN 07043 70662
597 pages
Comments
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From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
A very scholarly work, 597 pages, 2 inches thick, footnotes, no photos.
So this is not fluff. Chapters: Origins; Freakdon and the Hippies; Glam
Rock and the Market; Music Music; Bizarre to DiscReet; Guitars; Laether; CBS
and Corporate Rock; More Guitars; Orchestras and Broadway; Synclavier and Total
Control; Stageism, or, Issuing the Oeuvre; Webern vs. Televangelism; Epilogue:
Going to Meet the Man; Appendix: A Discography For Non-Fetishists.
Last sentence: "Not just a consistent irritant to moralists in any guise,
Frank Zappa is a hero for anyone who thinks that the class system, along
with its high/low cultural divide, is something that needs dismantling."
From: j...@phaedrus.stc.att.com (Jeff Rocca)
In the USA, you can mail-order Ben Watson's book _Frank Zappa The Negative
Dialectics Of Poodle Play_ from
Music Machine
11459 Cronhill Drive, Suite O
Owings Mills, Maryland 21117
Tel: (410)356-4567
FAX: (410)356-4693
The cost is $55, plus $4 for shipping.
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
This is *very difficult* to find in the states right now. The only I had
an outstanding order with Music Machine (address above), but they couldn't
get hold of it. I was finally able to get my hands on a copy from Bill
Camarata at Trail's End Music, who can be reached on-line at
<7610...@compuserve.com>. Good news is that this is supposed to be
published in 1995 in the US (Can't 'member the expected date/publisher. I'll
see if I can dig this up...)
From: Pat Buzby <spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu>
I understand that this is going to be coming out in the U.S. sometime
soon. My take on it : Ben Watson's expostulations on FZ's music are generally
amusing and sometimes illuminating, but the book has two major flaws in my
view - it includes loads of factual/interpretational errors, and Watson
knows a lot about political theory, but not a damn thing about music.
From: al...@grafton.dartmouth.edu (Alex Hartov)
I concur. At times Ben Watson has some interesting insights on the
"conceptual continuity" of Zappa's work, at others he is downright full of
shit.
For what it's worth.
Title Origins
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_No Commercial Potential:
The Saga of Frank Zappa &
the Mothers of Invention"_
by David Walley
Published by Outerbridge and Lazard,
New York, 1972,
184 pages
_No Commercial Potential: The Saga
of Frank Zappa Then and Now_
by David Walley
Published by E P Dutton, New York
1980,
184 pages
Comments
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From: David....@launchpad.unc.edu (david eugene vinson)
It talks quite a bit about his formative years, and covers his musical career
through about the end of 1970. The discography listed in the appendix ends at
200 Motels, if that helps you pinpoint the date a little better. It's not a
great book, but it contains some interesting stuff, including lots of quotes.
From: nat...@coos.dartmouth.edu (Mark A. Natola)
I also have a copy of this book (with a purple cover). I saw an updated
version about 10 years ago, that updated Franks career to that point. So,
there are a couple of versions of that book floating around.
Title Origins
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_Good Night Boys and Girls_
by Michael Gray,
published by ???????,
England, 1975,
ISBN ?????,
????? pages
Comments
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From: Pat Buzby <spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu>
I noted the reappearance of this book with amusement when I checked out
the local bookstores while on xmas break. Gray's bio was published once
around 1975 (which was the only time he interviewed FZ), then updated once in
the mid-80's, and again recently to take advantage of a certain unfortunate
incident that occured last December.
I found some of Gray's speculation on FZ's personal/family life guiltily
enjoyable to read (though quite obviously b.s.), but otherwise I wouldn't
recommend this book. It's less pretentious than Ben Watson's "Negative
Dialectics," but also less illuminating, and contains almost as many factual
errors. Hopefully one day someone who actually is well-informed about music
will consider writing an FZ bio. (IMO, "Viva Zappa!" by Dominique Chevalier
is about as close as anyone's gotten to writing a decent book about him.)
Title Origins
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_Mother! Is the story of Frank Zappa_
by Michael Gray,
published in 1985 by Proteus Books,
ISBN 0 86276 146 8 -paperback
ISBN 0 86276 147 6 -hardback
128 pages
_Mother! The Frank Zappa Story_
by Michael Gray
Published by Plexus Publishing, London,
1993,
ISBN 0-85965-119-3,
255 pages
Comments
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From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
Thankz 6
Introduction 7
1. Let's Make The Water Turn Black: 11
Zappa's Childhood & Adolescence In
Brown-Shoes-Don't-Make-It America
2. We Got This Car, When It Hits The Wall: 36
Early Attempts At Self-Promotion,
Selling Jingles & Earning Money From Music
3. Goodnight Ruben & the Jets: 52
The Metamorphosis Into The Mothers Of Invention
4. Freak Out/Overnight Sensation: 73
Into The International Rock Scene, Smelling
Bad And Armed With Vegatables
5. What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?/ 103
Would You Go All the Way?:
More Of The Frank Zappa
& The Mothers Chronology
6. Revised Music For Guitar & Low Budget 136
Orchestra/The Duke Loses And Regains His Chops:
The End Of The Frank Zappa
& The Mothers Chronology
7. None Of The Above/The Ocean Is The 171
Ultimate Solution:
The S.S. Zappa Sails Alone
8. Pedro's Dowry/The March To Dupree's Paradise: 188
Orchestral Favorites, Porn Wars & The End
Of The Road
9. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore?: 211
More Trouble Every Day, Bamboozled By Love
Dizcography 241
From: mar...@hurtig.quark.lu.se (Markus Ringner)
There's a new edition from 92 or 93 with a couple of extra pages and a
picture from a Yellow Shark performance.
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
"Revised and updated 1994"
Plexus Publishing Ltd.
256 pages, including index
_Mother!_ includes many stories, anecdotes (many of which have been questioned
by others in this newsgroup) and photos that I haven't seen elsewhere.
From: rm...@gnu.ai.mit.edu ()
It was distributed by Cherry Lane Books Company, Inc.
PO Box No. 430
Portchester, NY 10019
From: c...@sm.luth.se (Caj Zell)
It is a *critical* biography, so towards the end the author lets you know
that he's not enirely happy with how FZ treats his friends and relatives.
Though I'm not the kind of guy that supports everything FZ have said and done,
I do not agree with Gray on this point (at least not on his comments on
Zappa's treatment of his wife). I think that two persons emotional
relationship should not be judged by people outside this relationship as long
as there is no risk of physical/ psychological harm (which is hard to imagine
in this case).(What's your professional opinion, John S.?)
Ehummmm......back to the book. Well, I definitely consider it worth reading.
I haven't found any other *straight* biography on Zappa.
From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
Good point about judging relationships. Sounds like this guy got dissed by
Zappa and decided to dump on him in the book. Regarding Frank being
emotionally retarded, we all know (and love and depend on the fact that) Frank
was a nerd. So what? Ringo Starr said he was the nicest person in show biz.
This also points out that Frank was afterall an actor playing the part of an
aloof eccentric. I bet Diva sees him differently but her view is not
newsworthy so who would include it in a unauthorized bibliog-rape?
John S.
From: jqc...@axp2.acf.nyu.edu
Michael Gray's Mother! The Frank Zappa Story is a piece of shit. I can't
believe how bad it is. As an example: "For eldest son Dweezil, being his own
person has meant growing up to be just like dad. Not only a
rock-musician/composer: that would be no more nor less understandable than if
he'd become a sociology professor. But Dweezil Zappa is a
rock-musician/composer who plays lead guitar, who records with his dad's
musos, who got his father to produce the debut album that should have been
saying, 'This is me!', and who gives his own songs titles that sound like
no-one else in the world but his father. If your Frank Zappa Junior, there's
not much idependent spirit about calling your songs 'You Can't Judge A Girl
By The Panties She Wears' and (the admittedly canny) 'I Can't Fuck Without
Falling In Love'" (Page 236). Gray somehow concludes that Dweezil's choice
to become a musician like his father was forced upon him by his father. If
Gray had done any serious work for this book, he would have discovered that
Dweezil was very much interested in becoming a professional baseball player
until High School (I forget why he changed his mind).
The whole conclusion of the book is that Zappa was a complete control
freak with no friends and a wife who didn't like him very much (this is based
on a single interview Gail gave to Victoria Balfour): "The only kind of freak
Frank Zappa ever was was a control-freak" (Page 239). This might be true to
a certain extent, but I also know that Frank liked his musicians to put their
own personal stamp on his music and that he encouraged them to bring out their
own musical personality. To base an entire conclusion of a book on one
interview that Gail gave is bad scholarship (if he based it on other sources
there is no indication). Which brings up another interesting feature about
this book, Gray never footnotes anything. Even though he uses extensive
quotes throughout the book, you can never check his sources because he doesn't
give any.
Why does Frank have to suffer from such shabby scholarship? If I had the
time I would like to research and write a bio myself, but I guess this will
have to wait until I get my PhD.
From: a...@ddci.dk (Anders Uhl Pedersen)
How about this: On page 94 Gail and FZ's wedding at the New York City Hall
is described and the paragraph ends thusly: "The proceedings were rushed
through just before closing-time by an official who punched in their card on
a time-clock sitting on top of what Zappa decribed as 'a cheesoid Formica
replica-pulprit'. Two days later, Moon Unit was born."
Hmm. I thought I read in The *REAL* FZ Book that he was in Europe when she
was born... I continued to struggle my way through this here book and on page
100 it says: "Next day, The Mothers and the entourage flew on to Copenhagen
while Tom Wilson and Zappa darted out for a brief visit to Italy, to
investigate the possiblilty of being commissioned to write the music for
Vadim's movie, Barbarella. Frank flew back to Copenhagen for the third European
concert.
After that concert, news came through from New York that Gail had given
birth." I might have misunderstood something, but this would make Gail a
pretty special woman since the time span between the time that "Moon Unit was
born" and the time she "gives birth" again is a great deal below 9 months.
But, obviously, when Moon was born was probably not a very significant event
in Frank's life, so why worry about when it was?
So much for accuracy...
From: jao...@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Olson)
I thought this was an informative book that went into a lot of detail about
Franks' early career. It spent a little too much time talking about the
legendary suzie creamcheese but I found it a good source of information on
Franks' early life and times. It also gave some insight into the loyalty of
the musicians in the bands to Frank, and some insight into the break-up of
the '88 band (or '84?).
From: mbi...@delphi.com (Michael Bitts)
Yeah, I bought Gray's book in 1986, I had been listening to FZ for a couple
of years, and I knew next to nothing about his life when I first picked it up.
Thank goodness the writing was so poor that I just had to think "Now wait a
minute". His rag is just so full of mis-information. I can't believe it's
still in print and UPDATED!
What I would *really* like to see is Matt Groenig finish his FZ bio. I read
an interview where he said he had written down 500 pages of notes,
supplemented by 1,500 pages of research material, during the time before
_Life in Hell_. Sure would like to see him finish it.
Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa - A Visual Documentary_
by Barry Miles,
published by Omnibus Press, 1993,
ISBN 0.7119.3099.6,
112 pages
_In His Own Words_
by Barry Miles,
published by Omnibus Press, 1993,
ISBN 0.7119.3100.3
96 pages
Comments
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From: sa...@pitt.edu (Alan Saul)
Despite occasional inaccuracies and the overkill of it all, these are nice
references and have lots of pictures of interest to FZ fans. For instance
somebody was recently complaining about a shortage of Gail pictures. There are
maybe half a dozen in these. The two books are somewhat redundant, but they
focus on different kinds of information aside from the photos.
From "A visual documentary":
It was while The Mothers were playing The Trip that Frank met Pamela
Zarubica, an 18 year old student who hung out at Cantor's. Frank called her
Suzy Creamcheese and began to spend a lot of time at her Laurel Canyon
apartment at 8404 Kirkwood Drive. It was not long before he moved in.
Pamela's flat Los Angeles monotone was a contributing factor to the
popularity of The Mothers' first few albums. (Frank had a tendency to call
all girls Suzy Creamcheese and when Susan Ziegler, the daughter of the
owner of the Ziegler Ballrooms in Los Angeles where The Mothers often
played moved to London, everyone thought that she was the Suzy Creamcheese
on the records. The London Suzy Creamcheese was much loved by the English
tabloids during the summer of love, both for her name and her very short
dresses.)
From: za...@violet.berkeley.edu (Bob Freeland)
Well, I'm probably excessively cantankerous, but A Visual Documentary pisses
me off. About a third of the book is sixth-grade-level paraphrase of the
autobiography that manages to introduce factual errors. Whoever Miles is,
he's evidently an idiot. The tour listings are far from complete.
I like In His Own Words much better. It's essentially just extracts of old
interviews, but it's Frank having fun, often at the expense of the interviewer.
As Alan says, there's at least some good reference material in both books,
and hard core maniacs will buy them regardless.
From: she...@delphi.com
I acquired this volume [In His Own Words] at a record convention here in
Austin over the weekend, and I must say that it's a nice read. The book is
comprised of quotations from FZ over many years on a variety of topics.
(There's also a few nice pix.) It sells for fifteen bucks, and is ninety-six
pages in length.
This book isn't some slapped-together hunk o' cheese like "Viva Zappa!" is.
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_Viva Zappa:
Un Alchimiste Delirant - Mode l'Emploi_
by Dominique Chevalier
Published by Calman-Levy, Paris,
France, 1985,
ISBN 2-7021-1410-5
127 pages
_Viva Zappa_
by Dominique Chevalier
Published by Omnibus Press, London,
1986,
ISBN 0-7119-0821-4
127 pages
Comments
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From: patrick...@fsa.ulaval.ca (Patrick Gaumond)
The best book in french available. Lots of pictures never seen before.It
has the translation of 2 orchestral absurdities. A mode d'emploi from A to
Z with topics like: Argent (money), Discipline, Drogue, Recrutement. After
that you have some texts on important musicians ( Belew, Ruth, Ian and Vai).
Followed by Discography with impressions. Fillmore: Old fans are sleeping,
Wazoo: a master piece, Bongo Fury: It sucks, Zoot: Zappa was too busy playing
"all" the instruments and like all the frenchies that had ever listen to
Thing Fish, he didn't like it...
After that you have maybe 10 articles by Frank. The end of the Mothers,
What I listen to and others. At the end you have a bibliograhy, a
filmography and some fanzines information.
From: "Wilson, Andrew F" <AFWi...@iee.org.uk>
Viva Zappa. This is an English translation, by Matthew Screech, of _Viva
Zappa: Un Alchimiste Delirant - Mode d'Emploi_. The book starts off with a
brief biographical run-through, that peters out at 'Sheik Yerbouti'. Next
come some short sections on particular topics and musicians who Zappa has
worked with. The main part of the book is a 'critical discography' which
describes each LP in turn, from 'Freak Out' to 'Does Humor Belong in Music?'.
The next part of the book is by far the most interesting, being reprints of
seven magazine articles written by Zappa between 1967 and 1981. Curiously,
there is no acknowledgement of Zappa's copyright of these pieces. The text
is well illustrated with slightly dark black and white photographs and a small
number of colour photographs. This is probably one of the books which Zappa
had in mind when he refers in _The Real Frank Zappa Book_ to a 'proliferation
of stupid books (in several languages) which purport to be about me'.
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_Zapzapzappa_
by Rolf Ulrich Kaiser,
Kinder der Geburtagpress, Koln, 1969
ISBN ????,
???? pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa_
by Rolf Ulrich Kaiser,
Hoorn, Holland, 1971
ISBN ????,
???? pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa et
les Mothers of Invention_ by Alain Dister,
Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 1975
ISBN ????
186 pages
_Frank Zappa y
the Mothers of Invention_
by Alain Dister
Published by Ediciones Jucar, Madrid,
Spain, 1981,
ISBN ????
???? pages
( Spanish translation of _Frank Zappa et
les Mothers of Invention_ )
_Frank Zappa:
Der Rebel aus dem Untergrund_
by Alain Dister
Published by Heyne Verlag, Munchen,
Germany, 1980,
ISBN ????
???? pages
( German translation of _Frank Zappa et
les Mothers of Invention_ )
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Alla Zappa_
by Urban Gwerder
Published by Edition Bucherkarawane,
Adliswil, Switzerland, 1976,
No ISBN,
82 pages
Comments
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From: j...@panini.att.com (Jeff Rocca)
I spotted a thin paperback book in my local CD store. [ Mon, 23 Jan 95] It
had a black and white cover with a picture of Frank on it and the words
"Alla Zappa." That's all I know about it, since it was sealed in cellophane
and the store clerk was not willing to open it.
Title Origins
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_Zappalog:
The First Step of Zappalogy_
by Norbert Obermanns
Published by Nobbi, Frimmersdorf,
German, 1981,
ISBN ????
???? pages
_Zappalog:
The First Step of Zappalogy_
by Norbert Obermanns
Published by Rhino Records,
Los Angeles, 1982 ,
ISBN ????
128 pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_On Tour with the Evil Prince_
by Rene de la Salle,
Published by ???? in Canada,
1990,
ISBN ????
???? pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Zappa: a Biography_
by Julian Colbeck,
Published by Virgin Books, London,
1987,
ISBN 0-86369-156-0
190 pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa and Mother Story_
by Otto Oboril,
Published in Czechoslovakia,
1991,
ISBN 80-900281-4-4,
???? pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa : Sztori 1940-1989_
by Csaba Andras Dezsi,
Published by Gyor Megyei Lapkiado
Vallalat, Budapest, Hungary,
1989,
ISBN ????,
203 pages
Comments
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Title Origins
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_A Definitive Tribute To
Frank Zappa_
by Miller Freedman,
published by ?????,
ISBN ????,
???? pages
Comments
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
I don't know too much about this item, don't know even is it really a
book or something else, below is what I've seen in newsgroup:
On Thu, 5 Jan 1995, Bill Lantz wrote:
It is in the Interview called "One Size Fits All (1977) and is in the
Miller Freedman's A Definitive Tribute to Frank Zappa.
Steve Rosen: What about the contemporary heavies, like Jeff Beck or John
McLaughlin?
Frank Zappa: I like Jeff, yeah. I've listened to "Wired" [Epic], and
there are a couple of solos on there that I like. And I like
some of his stuff on "Rough and Ready" [Epic]. A person
woud be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique.
The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if
it were a machine gun. But I'm not always enthusiastic about
the lines I hear or the ways in which they're used. I don't
think you can fault him, though, for the amount of time and
effort it must have taken to play an instrument that fast.
I think anybody who can play that fast is just wonderful.
And I'm sure 90% of teenage America would agree, since the
whole trend in the business has been "faster is better."
Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa Songbook, Vol. 1_
transcribed by Ian Underwood,
published by Frank Zappa Music, Inc.
and Munchkin Music Co. in 1973
No ISBN
???? pages
Comments
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From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
The Frank Zappa Songbook, Vol. 1 is a collection of sheet music....
The Songbook contains piano transcriptions for
Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Mother People, Igor's Boogie, Penis Dimension,
How Could I Be Such a Fool, Let's Make the Water Turn Black, Oh No,
America Drinks and Goes Home, Son of Suzy Creamcheese,
Excerpt from Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Symphony Orchestra
(piano with concert pitch melody line),
Excerpt from Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Symphony Orchestra
(transposed Bb Clarinet part),
I'm Not Satisfied, Mom & Dad, Absolutely Free, Uncle Meat,
The Idiot Bastard Son,
Piano Introduction to Little House I Used to Live In (revised)
plus a section of FZ's manuscripts, which are labeled "of limited interest".
That mostly means that they're not playable--I think they're quite interesting.
The manuscripts include
A first sketch from the recording session of Waka=Jawaka,
(only one page, with coffee stains, which quickly degenerates
into scribbling).
Two extracts from the "Pleated Gazelles" section of 200 Motels:
"Nun Suit" (looks like piano + vocal) and "The Girl, In a Statement
to the Press, Explains" (full score).
The full score (orchestra) for "Can I Help You with this Dummy",
which was originally scheduled for use in 200 Motels.
Title Origins
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_The Frank Zappa Guitar Book_
transcribed by Steve Vai and
with his intro
published by ???????????????
ISBN 0-7119-0223-2,
302 pages
Comments
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From: David Scurr <david...@canrem.com>
FZ's Guitar Book includes guitar solos from 8 albums
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
Distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
7777 West Bluemound Road
P.O. Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
USA
Introduction 5
Steve Vai, Transcriber 6
The Copyists 7
Notation 8
Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar 9
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five-five-FIVE 10
Hog Heaven 17
While You Were Out 44
Treacherous Cretins 70
Heavy Duty Judy 79
Soup'n Old Clothes 90
Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar Some More 107
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Variations on The Carlos Santana Secret
Chord Progression 108
Gee, I Like Your Pants 118
The Deathless Horsie 124
Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar Some More 136
Pink Napkins 153
Return Of The Son of Shut Up'n Play
Yer Guitar 159
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Stucco Homes 160
Joe's Garage, Acts II & III 213
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Watermelon In Easter Hay 214
Packard Goose 226
Outside Now 243
He Used To Cut The Grass 250
Sheik Yerbouti 269
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Sheik Yerbouti Tango 270
Rat Tamago 275
Mo' Mama (unreleased) 281
Zoot Allures 291
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Black Napkins 292
A Few Words For Those Who Managed To
Get This Far 302
Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa.
Plastic People. Corrected Copy.
Songbuch_
Deutsch von Carl Weissner,
published by Zweitausendeins Frankfurt,
Dezember 1977,
No ISBN,
496 pages.
Comments
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From: Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Every song is on the left page in english, on the right page you have a
german translation (which is not very good as I know now, but it helped me
to learn some nasty english words. :-) )
I don't know if it still is in print now. I heard a rumour that they are
working on a second(third) edition containing the words of ALL LPs/CDs.
(It now has only the words up to Bongo Fury, and Lumpy Gravy is missing.)
From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
'Cause I lost another very informative Joe's posting :-(((((( I should
explain myself that the words Corrected Copy mean one but very important
thing. Lyrics ( mostly transcribed by some brave Germen ) was later CORRECTED
by FZ himself. So you would cherrish not only nasty words :-) but also the
genuine Frank (handwrited!) remarkes and corrections.
The whole history goes like this. The copy of first edition ( unauthorised
I believe ) was given to Frank during some of his German tour. Ok, - he called
next day, - I like it, send me another 200 copies. Man! Are you kiddin'?
But it was done. And after a while as compensation arrived from USA a copy
with Frank own handwriting on many pages. And was printed as it was and
called Corrected Copy.
Beautiful book, but some omission is very disappointing. No Help I'm A Rock
in Freak Out! section. No Strictly Genteel and Be-Bop Tango to gloriously end
200 Motels and Roxy respectively. Nobody's perfect, you know :-)
Title Origins
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_Zappa (e piu duro di tuo marito)_
by Massimo Bassoli,
Gammalibri, Milan, 1982,
ISBN ????,
???? pages
Comments
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From: patrick...@fsa.ulaval.ca (Patrick Gaumond)
Translation in italian of Zappa's texts
From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
Massimo Bassoli was the guy who growled all these nasty :-) italian words on
Uncle Meat Tengo Na Minchia Tanta.
tengo na minchia tanta, tengo na minchia accussi'
devi usare un pollo, devi usare un pollo
From: Francesco Gentile <gent...@sci.uniroma1.it>
Massimo Bassoli is an Italian rock journalist. He is the editor of the
rock magazine "TUTTIFRUTTI" published monthly, and before that he was the
editor of another magazine called "ROCKSTAR". Both magazines are a kind of
fashion thing mainly devoted to the USA and UK majors' music with some Italian
stuff certainly not the best to my taste. He also wrote a book about FZ,
published in 1982, called "ZAPPA (E' PIU' DURO DI TUO MARITO)" (in English:
"Zappa (harder than your husband)"). Fortunately this book is mainly a lyrics
and interviews thing with a few personal opinions at the beginning. I don't
like very much this book but you must know that the only book about uncle
Frank I like is THE REAL ONE!
Title Origins
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_Real Fake Book_
by ????
published ??????????
ISBN ??????,
????? pages
Comments
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From: GWOR...@ix.netcom.com (Gary Worsham)
I've seen the "Real Fake Book", often used by aspiring jazzbos for lead
sheets. It contains (last I looked) lead sheets for "Son of Mr. Green
Genes", "Peaches en Regalia", and "Blessed Relief".
Title Origins
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_Torchum Never Stops_
Vol. 1,2,3 & 4
by the Torchure Team,
Published in Germany,
1991-1992,
No ISBN,
796 pages
Comments
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From: jam...@zappa.UK.Sun.COM (James White - SUN Scotland)
Found Vol 2,3 & 4 of "The Torchum Never Stops". These are paperback books.
Vol 2 & 3 had no selaphane ( excuse the spelling, can't be bothered lookind
for a dictionary ) over them so I had a little peek. Vol 2, I think, had album
lists and basically contained all the liner notes from the album covers on it.
Vol 3 had all the bootlegs available.
From: mdr...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden")
Classic fan items as well as invaluable references. (Vol 1 lists all the
official releases BTW.) I'd rate these above all other books except Miles'
and NDOPP. They contain only 100% pure facts, many of them unobtainable
elsewhere, nobody's stupid opinions (why pay for them, I've got my own), no
after-taste.
From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
I highly recommend Torchum, very detailed and easy to cross reference. You
got a concert date: look it up and find out the boot(s) it is on. Then go to
boot catalogue to get lineup, etc.
The 4 volume Zappa reference, Torchum Never Stops, is still available but
did not move to Austin, Texas with Reinhard. You can order from:
Willi Jager
Stuttgarter Str. 88
D-71144 Steinenbronn
Germany
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
I only have Volume 2. It seems that there is some sort of continuous page
numbering scheme that proceeds from volume to volume - Volume 2 appears
to begin at page 170 and end at page 330, depending upon how you count.
I'd need to obtain the other volumes or defer to others to correctly
resolve the page numbering.
Vol.2 - Index
PAGE 1 * "You Got Book Nr."
PAGE 2 * ERROR ???
PAGE 3 * Thank's Again
PAGE 4 * Intro & ATTENTION !!
PAGE 5 * INDEX VOL. 2
PAGE 6 * A View To Volume 1, 3, & 4
##############################################################################
continuing Pages from " THE TURCHUM NEVER STOPS " - VOL.1
PAGE 169 * CD-VIEW
170 * CD-INTRODUCTION
171 * CD->LIST<
172 - 208 * CD'S +
+ extra Pages * " The Best Band you never heard in your Life "
* " You can't do that on Stage anymore VOL.4 "
* " Make a Jazz Noise Here "
* " Beat the Boots "
* " Ship arriving too late "
+ * LATE ARRIVEL - MC'S !!!!
PAGE 210 * 3" CD-SINGLES & CD-MAXI'S
211 - 212 * CD-PROMOS
213 * CD'S - VARIOUS ARTISTS
214 - 217 * MC'S ->LIST< & Introduction
218 * MC - SAMPLER & PROMO
219 * US - 4 TRACK TAPES-REELS & CARTRIDE's
220 - 221 * `FILMOGRAPHIE' (Films by FZ)
222 - 237 * VIDEOS (by FZ)
239 - 258 * SONGLIST
260 - 263 * LABLES (by FZ)
264 * FUT'CHA
266 - 269 * `ZAPPAESKEN' - SINGLES
270 - 278 * `ZAPPAESKEN' - >LIST<
279 * `ZAPPAESKEN' - BANDS' (Bands wich playin FZ-Music #
- will be continued in VOL.4)
280 - 282 * `ZAPPAESKEN' - ORCHESTRA (FZ Music played by others)
283 - 302 * `ZAPPAESKEN' - RECORDS
304 - 305 * `GOOGLY MOOGLY' ->LIST<
306 - 325 * `GOOGLY MOOGLY' - RECORDS
326 - 328 * DWEEZIL ZAPPA - SINGLES / MAXIS /
PROMO / Various Artists
329 * DWEEZIL ZAPPA - LP's
one more for the WORLD !!
* DWEEZIL ZAPPA - LP " CONFESSIONS "
* NOTES
Title Origins
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_Frank Zappa:
cronique discographique_
by Christophe Delbrouck.
Paris (47, rue Saint-Honore, 75001) :
Editions Paralles, 1994. -
ISBN: 2950650252
272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Prix: 160 F
Comments
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From: baz...@bsing.ing.unibs.it (Marco Bazzoli)
A good book about FZ story trough the discography (to The Yellow Shark); info
on concerts, musicians, songs, Mgm, Warner..., bootlegs and so on. Many
pictures (B/W).
Title Origins
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_Project Documention_
by Den Simms
Published by the Author,
Vallejo CA, USA,
1988,
No ISBN,
140 pages
Comments
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From: "Wilson, Andrew F" <AFWi...@iee.org.uk>
A statement on page 2 reads: 'This "book" is not for sale. It is meant to
be distributed freely for the purpose of education and amusement. The reader
is urged to make copies for anyone who wants one. The reader is urged to do
this for free, or for no more than the cost of copying. This "book" is
intended solely to distribute information without any generation of profit.
In this respect, please respect the author's wishes.'
The volume is a highly detailed information resource about Frank Zappa's
1988 Broadway the Hard Way tour of the USA and Europe. In particular, there
is an analysis of all songs played on the tour, set lists and descriptions of
each concert, including transcriptions of many spoken comments or lyric
mutations, a selection of press cuttings reviewing the concerts, drawings and
photographs, and even a quiz (with the answers, so you can see how you did).
It is highly recommended.
Title Origins
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_Once a Catholic_
by Peter Occhiogrosso
published ??????????
ISBN ??????,
????? pages
Comments
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From: Michael_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Michael Gushulak)
Peter Occhiogrosso is indeed a real person; he has written or co-written
other books besides the one with Frank. One of them, "Once a Catholic", is
a collection of interviews with several famous people who grew up in the
Catholic faith. It includes a chapter on FZ.
Title Origins
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_Bat Chain Puller_
by Kurt Loder
published by St. Martin's Press
in 1989
ISBN 0.312.04588-3
377 pages.
Comments
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From: Michael_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Michael Gushulak)
... That book also includes two short interviews with FZ, as well as a
chapter on Captain Beefheart.
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
CONTENTS
PART I. FAME 1
10. Frank Zappa (1988) 107-120
PART V. CLASSIC ROCK 341
33. _Trout Mask Replica_: Captain Beefheart and His Magic 363-367
36. _We're Only in It for the Money_: The Mothers of
Invention 375
Title Origins
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_I'm With The Band_
by Pamela De Barres
- Hardcover version published by
William Morrow and Co., New York,
1987,
ISBN ????
??? pages
- Paperback version published by
Jove Books, New York, 1988,
ISBN 0.515.09712.8,
280 pages
Comments
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
In fact it's just a suggestion. I have never had a chance to see the
memoires myself. But she lived and supposedly been fucked in Frank Laurel
Canyon living room so who knows...
From: dsm...@world.std.com (David Smith)
Pam also has a sequel out, which also has some Zappa material. I'm
planning on acquiring it soon, so I'll post details at that time.
Miss Pamela's newest book:
_Take Another Little Piece by Pamela De Barres
of My Heart_ published by William Morrow and Co.
in October 1993
ISBN 0-425-13945-X,
320 pages (including index)
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Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part8
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This document is a very incomplete listing of non-official
and bootleg recordings of Frank Zappa. If you see something that
interests you, please do NOT ask me for a copy. My collection is
scant at best. This list came from a number of sources, some of
whom are rightfully sensitive about their privacy and time management.
Your best bet would be to post a request on the alt.fan.frank-zappa
newsgroup (Usenet), and perhaps some kind soul will volunteer a trade
or a gift. It's been known to happen.
It should be noted that bootleggers who made a profit from
illicit Zappa recordings were probably one of Frank Zappa's least
favorite people. This led to the issuing of the "Beat the Boots"
series (Rhino records) which were bootleg recordings "re-issued"
on a legitimate label, with profits going to Zappa and Rhino. See
the Zappa discography for more info.
If you would like to contribute to this document, please send
e-mail to me at the address listed at the top. If possible, please
include the following data: title of recording, date of performance
or recording, song list, song lengths, band personnel, media type
(CD, vinyl, tape, etc.), quality of recording, liner notes, name of
label (if provided) and anything else that may be of interest to any
future alien anthropologists.
This document is in a primitive stage at the moment. You may
find many duplicate entries, spelling errors, and downright erroneous
information. In other words, it's a @#$%^& mess! If you would like
to be the new maintainer of this document, I would be very happy to hand
the duties over to you. I haven't had any volunteers yet.
With luck and time allowing, it may evolve into something mean-
ingful to people who care about this stuff.
I would like to thank the following contributors (you know
who you are) :
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KNOWN BOOTLEGS 1967:
"'Tis the Season to Be Jelly" (1 disc) - Sweden 30/9/67. Released
officially as part of 'BEAT THE BOOTS 1', July 91.
"Oldies But Goldies" (1) - reissue of "'Tis the Season to Be Jelly"
(extra material from Royal Festival Hall, London 1968)
"Thigh" (2) - another reissue of "'Tis the Season..." (& Hollywood 71)
"Pigs And Repugnance" - Garrick Theater 20/6/67
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I Was A Teenage Maltshop
(also released with "History and Collected Improvisations"
[pale yellow label])
~Date: 60's; 27-Apr-1975
Loc: Various; Boston
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3657
X-Ref: Zappalog #201
Musicians:
1964: FZ, Ray Collins, Jim Black, Roy Estrada, Don Van Vliet,
female vocalists on "Status Back Baby"
1975: FZ, Bruce Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozio, Tom Fowler,
Denny Walley, George Duke, Don Van Vliet
Side 1 - 1964:
1. I Was A Teenage Maltshop
2. Status Back Baby
3. Ned The Mumbler
4. Ned Has A Brainstorm
5. Toads Of The Short Forest
6. Charma
7. Plastic People
9. How's Your Bird
10. The World's Greatest Sinner
11. Memories of El Monte
Side 2 - 1975: (Recorded in Boston April 27 1975)
12. Camarillo Brillo
13. Muffin Man
14. Let's Make The Water Turn Black
15. Willie The Pimp
notes:
1. recorded in 1964 for a teenage opera called "I Was a Teenage Maltshop"
2. 1964
3. 1964
4. 1964
5. original version recorded in 1964
6. recorded in the mid 60s
7. recorded during the recording sessions for Freak Out
8. same track as the Bobby Jameson single Penthouse 503. Written by FZ
9. and 10. same tracks as the single by Bobby Ray & The Ferns, Donna 1378,
released 3/1963 written by Zappa
11. same track as the single by The Penguins, Original Sound 27,
released 1962 written by Zappa/Collins
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Necessity Is...
(also known as Rustic Protrusion)
~Date: 1963-1969
Loc: Unreleased Tracks and Studio Alternatives
Length: 60 min
Catalog: Mud Shark mz 3601
X-Ref: Zappalog #202
Musicians: FZ, Ray Collins, Jim Black, Roy Estrada, Don Preston,
Bunk Gardner, Arthur Tripp, Jim Sherwood, Don Van Vliet
1. Shop Talk
2. Sounds Like This
3. Gas Mask - 1969
4. Igor's Boogie - 1969
5. Lost In This Whirlpool - 1963
6. Do It In C
7. Booger Freaks Of America
8. Anyway The Wind Blows - 1963
9. Fountain Of Love - 1963
10. Opus 5 - 1963, Clairemont
11. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance - 1963
12. Hey Nelda - Ned and Nelda, written by FZ/Collins,
June, 1963
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KNOWN BOOTLEGS 1968:
"The Ark" (1) - July 18,1968, Boston. Released officially as part of
'BEAT THE BOOTS 1', July 91. The official release omits 3
tracks performed with (and composed by) Captain Beefheart.
"Oldies But Goldies" - Royal Albert Hall, 68 (& Stockholm 67)
"Electric Aunt Jemima" - Family Dog, Denver. Released officially as
part of 'BEAT THE BOOTS 2', June 92.
"Our Man In Nirvana" - Fullerton, Ca., 8/11/68. Released officially
as part of 'BEAT THE BOOTS 2', June 92.
"The String Quartet" - same as "Our Man In Nirvana".
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Metal Man Has Hornets Wings
(also Confidential or Wasp Man Has Hornet's Wings)
~Date: 1964, 1965, 1968; Presented on KWST on 1-Nov-1975
Loc: Various
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: wrmb 365
X-Ref: Zappalog #206
Musicians:
1964: FZ, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jim Black
1965: FZ, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jim Black, Elliot Ingber
1968: FZ, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jim Black, Don Preston,
Bunk Gardner, Jim Sherwood, Ian Underwood, Arthur Tripp
Metal Man Has Hornets Wingz - 1963, by The Soots feat. Don Van Vliet
Dupree's Paradise - 1974, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Black Napkins -
Story of Electricity - 1964, Beefheart
Unconditionally Guaranteed - 1964, Studio Z, Night Before Police Raid
Whiskey Gone Behind The Sun - 1964, Bar in Pomona, First Mothers Recording
Mondo Hollywood - 1965, Hollywood
Lightning Rod Man - 1968 or 1969, by the Factory feat. Lowell George
My Guitar Wants to Kill
Your Mama - 1969, A&R Studios, NYC, Released as single
Rock Around the Clock - 1964
Sandwich Song - 1964
How Could I Be Such a Fool - 1965, first rehearsal, just before Freak Out
Boogie For Berkeley - 1968
Neon Meat Dream of An
Octofish - Beefheart
King Kong - 1968, London
The Speed Freak Boogie -
It's partly a tape of Zappa on a radio show
in the 70s, playing some old unreleased Mothers tapes. There's also a
hodgepodge of various Zappa and Beefheart live material, including some
alleged rarities-the title track is an alleged Zappa/Beefheart
collaboration, pre Mothers (but since the LP also had "Lightning Rod Man"
which I believe was identified here as a Lowell George track, I'd take the
cover info with a grain of salt.
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TITLE: Untitled
~Date: 1967, 1968
Loc: Garrick Theater; Studio
Length: ~90 min
X-Ref:
Musicians: FZ, Roy Estrada, Jim Black, Ray Collins, Billy Mundi,
Don Preston, Bunk Gardner
1. Big Leg Emma
2. King Kong
3. Pig Music
4. America Drinks and Goes Home
5. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
6. King Kong
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7. Chunga's Revenge
8. Revenge of the Knick Knack People
9. German Customs
10. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
11. Interview
12. Dog Breath
13. Why Don't You Do Me Right
14. Big Leg Emma
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Petrouska
(also released with "History and Collected Improvisations")
~Date: 13-Sep-1967; 31-Dec-1974
Loc: Concert House, Stockholm; Long Beach Arena
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3658
X-Ref: Zappalog #207
Musicians:
1967: FZ, Jim Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston,
Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins, Billy Mundi
1974: FZ, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler,
Chester Thompson, George Duke
1967:
1. You Didn't Try To Call Me
2. Petrouska (Stravinsky)
3. Bristol Stomp (Appel-Mann)
4. Baby Love (Supremes)
5. Big Leg Emma
6. King Kong
7. It Can't Happen Here
8. You Don't Care How You Treat Me
1974:
9. Pygmie Twylyte
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Untitled
(Some material same as Petrouska and 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly CD)
~Date: 13-Sep-1967; ??-???-1968
Loc: Concert House, Stockholm; Royal Festival Hall, London
Length: ~110 min
Musicians: FZ, Jim Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston,
Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins, Billy Mundi
1967:
1. Intro
2. You Didn't Try To Call Me
3. Petrouska
4. Bristol Stomp
5. Baby Love
6. Big Leg Emma
7. No Matter What You Do
8. Blue Suede Shoes
9. Hound Dog
10. Gee
11. King Kong
1968:
12. Uncle Meat Medley
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KNOWN BOOTLEGS 1969:
"Poot Face Boogie" (1) - Live and studio 68-69.
"Vitamin Deficiency" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie" (and "Safe
Muffinz", see 1971)
"No Commercial Potential" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie" (and "Safe
Muffinz", see 1971)
"Rustic Protrusion" (1) - also released as "Necessity Is...".
Unreleased tracks and studio alternatives from 63-69
"Necessity Is..." (1) - see "Rustic Protrusion"
"Incognito" - Albert Hall, 69 (and Fillmore West 71)
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Trick Or Treat
~Date: ??
Loc: ??
Length: 45 minutes
Musicians: ??
1. Why Don't You Do Me Right
2. Big Leg Emma
3. Lonely Little Girl
4. Dog Breath
5. Tears Began To Fall
6. Junior Mintz Boogie
7. Orange County Lumber Truck
8. Uncle Meat
9. Gas Mask
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Hot Rats At The Olympic
~Date: 7-Mar-1970
Loc: Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles
Length: 45 minutes
Catalog: tmoq 71059
X-Ref: Zappalog #208
Musicians:
FZ - G,V
Ian Underwood - S
Aynsley Dunbar - D
Don Sugar Cane Harris - P,O,V
Max Benett - B
1. Sharleena 10:25
2. Twinkle Tits 10:20
3. Directly From My Heart to You 5:50
4. Chunga's Revenge 24:31
notes:
2. Twinkle Tits (Little House I used to live in - premiere);
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Untitled
(Some material same as Tengo Na Minchia Tanta CD)
~Date: ??-Dec-1970
Loc: Fillmore East, NYC
Length: ~45 min
Musicians: FZ, Grace Slick, Howard Kaylen, Mark Volman, George Duke
Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Ian Underwood
1. Intro w/ Grace Slick
2. The Sanzini Brothers
3. Little House I Used To Live In
4. Holiday Inn Berlin
5. Cruisin For Bergers [sic?]
6. The Sanzini Brothers: The Pyramid Trick
7. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
8. What Kind of A Girl Do You Think We Are?
9. Bwana Dik
10. Latex Solar Beef
11. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
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Safe Muffinz (partial)
~Date: mid-1971
Loc: El Monte Legion Stadium
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: takrl 1929
X-Ref: Zappalog #212
Musicians: FZ, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar,
Jim Pons, Ian Underwood
1. Call Any Vegetable
2. The Air
3. Dog Breath
4. Mother People
5. You Didn't Try To Call Me
6. Would You Go All The Way
7. Rudy Wants To Buy You A Drink [sic?]
8. Road Ladies
9. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening
10. What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are
11. Bwana Dik
12. Latex Solar Beef
13. Daddy, daddy, daddy (partial)
(Missing: Do You Like My New Car, Happy Together, What Will This Evening
Bring Me This Morning)
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Poot Face Boogie
~Date: 27-Nov-1971
Loc: Rotterdam
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: takrl 1909
X-Ref: Zappalog #214
Musicians: FZ, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar,
Jim Pons, Ian Underwood
1. Peaches En Regalia
2. Tears Began To Fall
3. She Painted Up Her Face
4. Half A Dozen Provacative Squats
5. Daddy Daddy Daddy
6. Shove It Right In
7. Who Are The Brain Police
........................
8. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama *
9. Interview
10. Dog Breath *
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11. Sofa Story Part I: Get Me Some Flooring
12. Sofa
13. Sofa Story Part II: Squat The Magic Pig
14. Stick It Out
15. Sofa Story Part III: A Light Shines Down From Heaven
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16. Interview
........................
notes:
8. - 1969, A&R Studios, Released as single
10. - 1969, A&R Studios, Released as single
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# VITAMIN DEFICIENCY, 1971
2 LP
Also appeared as `No Commercial Potential', `Poot Face Boogie' (side 1 & 2)
and `Safe Muffinz' (side 3 & 4).
M.Volman/H.Kaylan/J.Simmons/G.Duke/A.Dunbar/I.Underwood
1. Peaches en Regalia; Tears Began to Fall; She Painted Up her Face/
Provocative Squats/Shove It Right In; Who are the Brain Police?;
My Guitar (studio, YCDTOSA #5); Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
(studio - but not from `Uncle Meat')
2. Once Upon a Time/Sofa No.2 : Geef mij wat vloerbedekking onder deze vette
zwevende sofa (Recorded in Rotterdam - The MOI singing in dutch.
`And you'll never hear vloerbedekking again' (Lumpy Gravy, `Jazz Noise'
refers to this.); Stick It Out; Divan;
Lighting Rod Man (studio, with Captain Beefheart)
3. Call Any Vegetable; The Air; Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague;
Mother People; You Didn't Try to Call Me; Would You Go All the Way?;
Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
4. Road Ladies/What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?; What Kind of
Girl do You Think We Are?; Bwana Dik/Latex Solar Beef; Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
;
Do You Like my New Car?/Happy Together; What Will This Evening Bring Me
This Morning?
# IN EUROPE, 1971
LP
Same as `Vitamin Deficiency' side 1 & 2. Also appeared as 'Live in Amsterdam'
(but none of the material was recorded there).
1. Peaches en Regalia; Tears Began to Fall; She Painted Up her Face
Provocative Squats/Shove It Right In; Who are the Brain Police?
2. Once Upon a Time/Sofa No.2 (`Dutch version'); Stick It Out; Divan
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# In Europe lp World White
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1971
Live in Europe with Flo & Eddie. Side 2, with the 'Dutch Sofa', was recorded
in Rotterdam (I'm not sure about side 1). Another interesting track is an
early version of 'Stick it Out'.
Also appeared as 'Live in Amsterdam' (wrong title; none of the material was
recorded there as far as I know).
1. Peaches en Regalia
Tears Began to Fall
She Painted Up her Face/Provocative Squats/Shove It Right In
Who are the Brain Police?
2. Once Upon a Time
Sofa No.2 : Geef mij wat vloerbedekking onder deze vette zwevende sofa
('Dutch version')
Stick It Out
Divan
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# Vitamin Deficiency 2lp Phoenix Rec.
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1971
All of the material from 'Zappa in Europe' can be found on this one, on side
1/2, but side 1 & 2 from this record have some extra material (studio and
spoken).
This is a good bootleg if you like the 'Flo & Eddie-period'.
Issued (or parts of it issued) under different titles like 'Poot Face Boogie'
and 'No Commercial Potential'.
1. Peaches en Regalia
Tears Began to Fall
She Painted Up her Face/Provocative Squats/Shove It Right In
Who are the Brain Police?
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
(studio, like YCDTOSA #5)
spoken part
Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
(studio, but not from `Uncle Meat')
2. Once Upon a Time
Sofa No.2 : Geef mij wat vloerbedekking onder deze vette zwevende sofa
(`Dutch version'. At the beginning of `Lumpy Gravy Theme' on
`Jazz Noise', FZ says `And you'll never hear vloerbedekking again'.
It refers to this performance. Vloerbedekking = Fussbodenbelag.)
Stick It Out
Divan
spoken part
Lighting Rod Man (studio)
3. Call Any Vegetable
The Air
Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
Mother People
You Didn't Try to Call Me
Would You Go All the Way?
Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
4. Road Ladies
What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
What Kind of Girl do You Think We Are?
Bwana Dik/Latex Solar Beef
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Do You Like my New Car?/Happy Together
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?
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TITLE: Grand Wazoo Comic Book Extravaganza
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~Date: 23-September-1972
Loc: Felt Forum, NY
Length: ~90 min
Musicians: Petit Wazoo I
FZ
Tony Duran
Dave Parlato
Jim Gordon
Earl Dumler
Malcolm McNabb
Tom Malone
Glenn Ferris
Gary Barone
Bruce Fowler
Lochengrin ACT 3
Think It Over
The Grand Wazoo
Approximate
The Grand Wazoo
Arooh Who Did It ACT 1-3
Fraudulents
Dog Breath
Uncle Meat Variations
Big Swifty
Penis Dimensions
New Brown Clouds
[ from Tiny Bootlegs ]
# GRAND WAZOO COMIC BOOK EXTRAVAGANZA - Felt Forum, N.Y. 23-9-1972
C 90 min
With: I.Underwood/T.Duran/D.Parlato/J.Gordon/M.Altschul/S.Marquez/
T.Malone/B.Fowler/R.Underwood, and many others (`Grand Wazoo Band')
A: Introduction; Think it over (The Grand Wazoo);
Approximate (comical play for all instruments, starring lots of ugly notes
)
B: A Room, who did it; Fraudulents; Dog Breath/Uncle Meat; Big Swifty;
Penis Dimension; New Brown Clouds (Regyptian Strut)
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TITLE:
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~Date: 11-Mar-1973
Loc: Arlington, Texas
Length: ~90 min
Musicians:
FZ
Jean-Luc Ponty
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ian Underwood
Ruth Underwood
Ralph Humphrey
George Duke
RDNZL
Uncle Meat
Exercise #4
Dog Breath
Fifty Fifty
Deviations
Inca Roads
Montana
Mr. Green Genes
King Kong
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TITLE:
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~Date: 9-May-1973 (Mother's Day)
Loc: Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ
Length: ~180 min
Catalog:
X-Ref:
Musicians:
FZ
Jean-Luc Ponty
Sal Marquez
Bruce Fowler
Ian Underwood
George Duke
Tom Fowler
Ruth Underwood
Ralph Humphrey
Tape 1:
RDNZL
Willie The Pimp
Montana
Dupree's Paradise
Camarillo Brillo
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Nanook Rubs It
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Father O'blivion
excerpt from Greggary Peccary
BeBop Tango
Tape 2:
Cosmic Debris
Exercise #4
Dog Breath
Dog Breath Variations
Uncle Meat
Fifty-Fifty
Big Swifty
Eat That Question
Zomby Woof
Mr. Green Genes
King Kong
Chunga's Revenge
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TITLE: Ultra Modern Stringbeans
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~Date: 29-Jun-1973
Loc: Festival Hall, Melbourne
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3651
X-Ref: Zappalog #217
Musicians:
FZ
Jean-Luc Ponty
George Duke
Ian Underwood
Ruth Underwood
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Sal Marquez
Uncle Meat
Dog Breath
Dog Breath Variations
Montana
Fifty-Fifty
Mudshark
Farther O'blivion (BeBop Tango)
[ from History and Collected Improv]
Record 1: Dark Blue Label
aka Ultra Modern Stringbean, Tiny Nightmares
Recorded live at the Festival Hall in Melbourne Australia on June 29, 1973
Side 1
1 Exercise Four Frank Zappa
2 Dog Breath Jean Luc Ponty
3 Dog Breath Variations George Duke
4 Uncle Meat Ian Underwood
5 Montana Ruth Underwood
Bruce Fowler
Side 2 Tom Fowler
6 Mudshark Ralph Humphrey
7 Farther Oblivion Sal Marquez
Ultra Modern Stringbean/Tiny Nightmares have a different track listing
for side 1. They have:
1 Uncle Meat
2 Dog Breath
3 Dog Breath Variations
4 Montana
5 Fifty Fifty
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TITLE: Nifty
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~Date: ??-???-1973; 8-Jul-1973
Loc: NJ; Horden Pavillion, Sydney
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3652
X-Ref: Zappalog #218
Musicians:
1973a:
FZ
Ruth Underwood
George Duke
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Chester Thompson
Napoleon Murphy Brock
1973b:
FZ
Jean-Luc Ponty
George Duke
Ian Underwood
Ruth Underwood
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Sal Marquez
1973a:
Pygmie Twylyte
Dupree's Paradise
Dog Breath
1973b:
Father O'blivion
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Nanook Rubs It
St. ALfonso's Pancake Breakfast
Penguin In Bondage
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
Record 2: Sky Blue Label
aka Nifty
Side 1
Recorded live in New Jersey in late 1973
1 Pygmy Twylyte Frank Zappa
2 Dupree's Paradise Ruth Underwood
3 Dog Breath George Duke
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Chester Thompson
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Side 2
Recorded live at the Horden Pavillion in Sydney Australia on July 8 1973
4 Farther Oblivion Frank Zappa
5 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow Ian Underwood
6 St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast Ruth Underwood
7 Penguin In Bondage Jean-Luc Ponty
8 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing George Duke
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Sal Marquez
The track listing for side 1 of Nifty is slightly different. It has:
4 Farther Oblivion
5 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
6 Nanook Rubs It
7 St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast
8 Penguin In Bondage
9 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing
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TITLE: Hoffstra and Elsewhere
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~Date: 6-Sep-1973
Loc: Hoffstra University
Length: ~90 min
Musicians:
FZ
George Duke
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Jeff Simmons
Chester Thompson
Ruth Underwood
Cosmic Debris
Montana
Duprees Paradise
Inca Roads
Pygmie Twylyte
Cheepnis
BeBop Tango
Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy
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TITLE: Frank Zappa Vs. The Tooth Fairy
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~Date: 19-Jul-1974; 21-Jul-1974
Loc: Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, CA
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3655
X-Ref: Zappalog #221
Musicians:
FZ
Ruth Underwood
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Chester Thompson
Tom Fowler
George Duke
Gloria
Inca Roads
Pygmie Twylyte
The Idiot Bastard Son
Cheapnis
[ from History and Collect ]
Record 5: Red label
aka Frank Zappa vs The Tooth Fairy
Recorded live at the Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos on
(side 1) July 21, 1974
(side 2) July 19, 1974
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 Gloria Ruth Underwood
2 Inca Roads Napoleon Murphy Brock
Chester Thompson
Side 2 Tom Fowler
3 Pygmy Twylyte George Duke
4 The Idiot Bastard Son
5 Cheapnis
6 Clear Version Of Cheapnis
Frank Zappa vs The Tooth Fairy does not list track 6.
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TITLE:
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~Date: 9-Aug-1974
Loc: Bologna, Italy
Length: ~90 min
Catalog:
X-Ref:
Musicians:
FZ
Ruth Underwood
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Chester Thompson
Tom Fowler
George Duke
A Token of My Extreme
Stinkfoot
Inca Roads
Approximate
Peguin In Bondage
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Dog Breath Variations
Uncle Meat
Cosmic Debris
David Bowie Soundcheck
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Agency Man Soundcheck - 1967, NYC
Story of Electricity - 1964, Beefheart
Metal Man Has Hornets Wingz - 1963, by The Soots fear. Don Van Vliet
Pick Me I'm Clean - Munich,1980
City Of Tiny Lights - Munich,1980
King Kong - Essen,1968
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TITLE: Ein Monster In Der Musikhalle
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~Date: 11-Sep-1974
Loc: Wighalle, Vienna
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3654
X-Ref: Zappalog #222
Musicians:
FZ
Ruth Underwood
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Chester Thompson
Tom Fowler
George Duke
A Token Of My Extreme
The Hook
My Little Augustine
Dixie
Dupree's Paradise
I'm The Slime
Pygmie Twylyte
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# Boston, Mass. 27-4-1975 - 90 mins
Title of the bootleg might be `No Bacon for Breakfast' (2 lp's)
There's also a 1 lp bootleg from Boston april '75 called `I was a
Teenage Maltshop'.
Band as on Bongo Fury (with Beefheart), but sound quality and
performance are not-so-good here. Let's give it a 6, no more.
Songs:
A: Instrumental (solo)
Camarillo Brillo/Muffin Mam solo
Let's make the Water turn Black (not the instrumental medley)
Penguin in Bondage
Debra Kadabra
Poofter's Froth WPA (with band introduction)
George Duke whips it out (solo).
B: Torture never stops (1975 version, but not so good as on YCDTOSA #4)
??
Montana
Florentine Pogen
Willie the Pimp
[ from History ]
Record 3: Orange Label
aka Ein Monster In der Musikhalle
Recorded live at the Wighalle in Vienna on September 11, 1974
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 A Token Of My Extreme Ruth Underwood
2 The Hook Napoleon Murphy Brock
3 My Little Augustine Chester Thompson
4 Dixie Tom Fowler
5 Dupree's Paradise George Duke
Side 2
6 I'm In The Slime
7 Pygmy Twylte
Ein Monster In der Musikhalle lists track 1 as
1 Intro.
[ from Tiny Bootlegs ]
# EIN MONSTER IN DER MUSIKHALLE - Vienna 11-9-1974
C 50 min (from LP)
R.Underwood/N.M.Brock/C.Thompson/T.Fowler/G.Duke
Token of my Extreme; The Hook/My Little Augustine; Dupree's Paradise
I'm the Slime; Pygmy Twylyte; Room Service (Vienna version)
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TITLE: A Token Of My Extreme
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~Date: 11-Apr-1975
Loc: Claremont College
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3656
X-Ref: Zappalog #225
Musicians:
FZ
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Terry Bozio
George Duke
Don Van Vliet
A Token Of My Extreme
Stinkfoot
Sleeping In A Jar
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
Debra Kadabra
Florentine Pogen
Why Doesn't Someone Get Him A Pepsi
[ from History ]
Record 6: Silver label
aka A Token Of My Extreme
Recorded live at the Claremont College on April 11, 1975
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 A Token Of My Extreme Bruce Fowler
2 Stinkfoot Tom Fowler
3 Sleeping In A Jar Napoleon Murphy Brock
4 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead Terry Bozzio
Denny Walley
Side 2 George Duke
5 Abra Kadabra plus Don Van Vliet
6 Chester's Gorilla
7 Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him A Pepsi
(This song was written for Don Van Vliet and
it was to be released on Bongo Fury. Actually
it came out on Zoot Allures as The Torture
Never Stops. This is the world premiere of
this song.)
A Token Of My Extreme lists track 6 as Florentine Pogen.
[ from Tiny bootlegs ]
# A TOKEN OF MY EXTREME - Claremont College, CA 11-4-1975
C 45 min
B.Fowler/T.Fowler/N.M.Brock/T.Bozzio/D.Walley/G.Duke,
plus Captain Beefheart (`Bongo Fury band')
A Token of my Extreme (the song as on `Joe's Garage' - with vocals); Stinkfoo
t;
Sleeping in a Jar; Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead; Debra Kadabra
(poor sound); Florentine Pogen; Why doesn't somebody get him a Pepsi?
(Torture Never Stops, premiere - actually the story of Captain Beefheart)
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TITLE: If You Get A Headache
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~Date: 13-May-1975; 23-Oct-1975
Loc: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis; Boston
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3654
X-Ref: Zappalog #226
Musicians:
1975a:
FZ
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Terry Bozio
George Duke
Don Van Vliet
1975b:
FZ
Roy Estrada
Terry Bozio
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Andre Lewis
1975a:
Apostrophe
Stinkfoot
I'm Not Satisfied
Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy
1975b:
You Can Swallow My Pride
Any Downers
Packard Goose
Camarillo Brillo
Muffin Man
[ from History ]
Record 4: Pink Label
aka If You Get A Headache
Side 1
Recorded live at the Kiel Auditorium in St Louis on May 13 1975
1 Apostrophe Frank Zappa
2 Stinkfoot Bruce Fowler
3 I'm Not Satisfied Tom Fowler
4 Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy Napoleon Murphy Brock
Terry Bozzio
Denny Walley
George Duke
plus Don Van Vliet
Side 2
Recorded live in Boston on October 23 1975
5 You Can Swallow My Pride Frank Zappa
6 Any Downers? Roy Estrada
7 The Mothers Go Cosmic Terry Bozzio
8 Love Is Where It's At Napoleon Murphy Brock
9 Camerillo Brillo Andre Lewis
10 Muffin Man
If You Get A Headache has a slightly different listing for side 2. It has:
5 You Can Swallow My Pride
6 Any Downers
7 Packard Goose
8 Camarillo Brillo
9 Muffin Man
[ from Tiny Bootlegs ]
# IF YOU GET A HEADACHE - St.Louis 13-5-1975 & Boston 23-10-1975
C 45 min
St.Louis: Bongo Fury Band
Apostrophe'; Stinkfoot; I'm not Satisfied; Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Boston: R.Estrada/T.Bozzio/N.M.Brock/A.Lewis
You Can Swallow My Pride; Any Downers; The Mothers go Cosmic/Packard Goose
(quite unlike `Joe's Garage'); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man
[ see also "Serious Music" ]
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TITLE: Back On The Straight And Narrow
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~Date: 24-Jan-1976
Loc: Adelaide, Australia
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: zx 3660
X-Ref: Zappalog #227
Musicians:
FZ
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Andre Lewis
Terry Bozio
Roy Estrada
How Could I Be Such A Fool
Ain't Got No Heart
I'm Not Satisfied
Black Napkins
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
The Illinois Enema Bandit
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
The Torture Never Stops
[ from History ]
Record 10: Green Label
aka Back On The Straight And Narrow
Recorded live in Adelaide on January 24 1976
Side 1
1 How Could I Be Such A Fool? Frank Zappa
2 Ain't Got No Heart Napoleon Murphy Brock
3 I'm Not Satisfied Andre Lewis
4 Black Napkins Terry Bozzio
5 Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like With Me? Roy Estrada
Side 2
6 Illinois Enema Bandit
7 Let Me See Your Thumb
8 The Torture Never Stops
Back On The Straight And Narrow has a different track listing:
Side 1
1 The Illinois Enema Bandit
2 Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
3 Tryin' To Grow A Chin
4 The Torture Never Stops
Side 1
5 How Could I Be Such A Fool Frank Zappa
6 I Ain't Got No Heart Napoleon Murphy Brock
7 I'm Not Satisfied Andre Lewis
8 Black Napkins Terry Bozzio
9 Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like With Me Roy Estrada
[from Tiny Bootlegs ]
# BACK ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW - Adelaide, Australia, 24-1-1976
C 45 min
N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/T.Bozzio/R.Estrada
How could I be such a Fool?; Ain't got no Heart; I'm not Satisfied; Black
Napkins; Honey, don't you want a Man like Me?; The Illinois Enema Bandit;
Wind up workin' in a Gas Station; Tryin' to grow a Chin; Torture Never Stops
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TITLE: Conceptual Continuity (Same as CD)
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~Date: 19-Nov-1976
Loc: Detroit
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: Mud Shark mz 3603
X-Ref: Zappalog #228
Musicians:
FZ
Ray White
Eddie Jobson
Patrick O'Hearn
Terry Bozio
Stinkfoot
Dirty Love
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lights
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TITLE: Leatherette
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~Date: 1976, 1977
Loc: Various Studio and Live Recordings (part of Lather)
Length: ~90 min
Catalog: lunar toones 2s-5
X-Ref: Zappalog #229
Musicians: Various
Dead Girls Of London (Vocals: Van Morrison)
A Little Green Rosetta
Nuns In Frozen Heaven (aka Ship Ahoy)
Corks And Safeties (aka Down In De Dew)
For The Young Sophisticate
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Black Page No. 1
Punky's Whips
Tittie's And Beer
One More Time For The World (aka The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution)
Flambay
Interview: Martin Perlich, 1972
Interview: Jerry Kay, 1978
(*3)
~~From: ----------@------.---
Which reminds me...I don't recall "Leather" (also called "Lather") listed
among the bootlegs. When Frank was having trouble with WB in the late 70s,
he went on a radio show and played the tapes of his proposed, but held up
release, a 4LP set called "Leather." He did it specifically to annoy WB,
telling the listeners something like "Here it is, folks-free. You can't
beat this price." Warners sued him again.
There were supposedly several bootlegs of this broadcast, though I never had
one. It runs in my mind that most of it, if not all, came out on "Zappa in
New York" "Sheik Yerbouti" and the "Baby Snakes" movie. Anyone have more
specific info?
~~From: -------@--------
Chunks (and small pieces) of "Lather" are scattered on albums into
the '80s. "Zappa in New York," "Studio Tan," "Sleep Dirt," and
"Orchestral Favorites" provide most of "Lather," but there have been
a number of alterations and additions to the tracks intended to be on
"Lather":
--"Lather" has a handful of tracks that have never seen official
release: the original studio version of "For the Young
Sophisticate," and the '76 band's renderings of "Tryin' To Grow A
Chin" and "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes," as well as a collage
called "Duck Duck Goose" and an instrumental called "Down in de Dew."
--About two minutes are cut out of "Lather"'s version of "Titties &
Beer."
--A different performance of "Punky's Whips" appears on "Lather"; it
seems to have almost no guitar until the scorching solo at the end.
--"I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth" is titled "Lather" and is a
slightly different performance, with a few extra bars of Eddie Jobson
Moog.
--"Flambay" is cut short and, like "Spider of Destiny," has no Thana
Harris vocals (does anyone know when they were recorded?).
Along with Warner Brothers' release of most of "Lather" in a
different format, small portions of it (and allusions to it) have
surfaced on "Sheik Yerbouti" (e.g. the two dialogue tracks), "Joe's
Garage" (e.g. "Crew Slut"), "Tinsel Town Rebellion" (e.g. "Easy
Meat"), "SUAPYG," and even "Thing-Fish," which contains Terry
Bozzio's trademark "ulp, ulp, ulp" noises.
I agree that the FAQ *must* devote some space to "Lather." Even if
it isn't a very popular bootleg, it is essential to conceptual
continuity freaks.
~~From: ---@----.---.---.---
2 disc CD titled "Leatherette"
Here is the track listing...
Disc 1
1. Dead Girls Of London (lead vocals by Van Morrison) 5:55
2. Green Rosetta (original version) 12:15
Nuns In Frozen Heaven (whole lotta love)
Corks And Safetys
Another Cheap Aroma
3. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 8:10
4. Black Page 2:10
5. Punky's Whips 10:50
Disc 2
1. Titties And Beer 6:30
2. The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution 8:35
3. Flambay 1:50
4. Camarillo Brillo 3:50
5. Black Napkins (conversations with FZ) 7:07
6. 1972 With Martin Perlich 18:38
7. 1978 With Jerry Kay 4:30
The Players: FZ, Van Morrison, Adrian Belew, Tommy Mars, Terry Bozzio, Patrick
O'Hearn, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann, Eddie Jobson, Ray White, Ruth Underwood, Don
Pardo, Randy Brecker, David Samuels, Mike Brecker, Lou Martini, Ronnie Cuber,
Tom Malone, Warren Cucurullo, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta,
L. Shankar, Phil Palmer, Dave Marquee, James Lascelles, Simon Phillips.
# LEATHERETTE
C 90 min (from 2 LP)
Abridged version of the `Lather' box. Live & studio, very good sound.
With: A.Belew/P.O'Hearn/T.Mars/P.Wolf/E.Mann/T.Bozzio/R.White/E.Jobson/
R.Underwood/D.Pardo/D.Samuels/R.Brecker/M.Brecker/l.Marini/R.Cuber/
T.Malone/W.Cucurullo/D.Walley/A.Barrow/V.Colaiuta/L.Shankar
A: Dead Girls of London - original version, vocals by Van Morrison (!);
Green Rosetta; Nuns in Frozen Heaven; Corks and Safetys; Another Cheap
Aroma; Tryin' to grow a Chin (live NY 1977); Broken Hearts are for Asshole
s
(live NY 1977); The Black Page; Punky's Whips (original version, live NY)
B: Titties and Beer (original version, live NY); One More Time for the World
(The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution); Flambay;
Conversations with FZ, 1972 & 1978
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TITLE: Lather (partial)
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~Date: 1976, 1977
Loc: Various Studio and Live Recordings
Length: ~100 min
Catalog: Zappa srz-4-1500; unreleased
Musicians: Various
Regyptian Strut
Naval Aviation In Art
* Missing: A Little Green Rosetta
* Missing: Duck Duck Goose (aka Ship Ahoy)
* Missing: Down In De Dew
* Missing: For The Young Sophisticate
* Missing: Tryin' To Grow A Chin
* Missing: Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
The Illinois Enema Bandit
Lemme Take You To The Beach
Revised Music for Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra
RDNZL
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
* Missing: The Black Page #1
Big Leg Emma
* Missing: Punky's Whips
* Missing: Flambay
The Purple Lagoon
Pedro's Dowry
Lather (aka I Promise Note To Come In Your Mouth)
Spider of Destiny
Duke of Prunes
Filthy Habits
* Missing: Titties and Beer
One More Time For The World
The Adventures Greggary Peckary
Note: Missing tracks are on Leatherette
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TITLE: Titties and Beer (LP)
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~Date: 3-Feb-1977
Loc: Pavillon De Paris
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: hfq 177
X-Ref: Zappalog #230
Musicians:
FZ
Eddie Jobson
Ray White
Patrick O'Hearn
Terry Bozio
The Illinois Enema Bandit
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Dong Work For Yuda
Manx Need Women
Titties and Beer
Black Napkins
[from Tiny Bootlegs ]
# TITTIES AND BEER - Zoot Allures Live in Paris, 1977
LP
Same songs as on side 3 & 4 from `Black Page'. Good version of title track.
R.White/T.Bozzio/P.O'Hearn/E.Jobson
1. The Illinois Enema Bandit (last part); My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama;
Tryin' to Grow a Chin; Broken Hearts are for Assholes; Dong Work for Yuda
2. Manx Needs Women; Titties and Beer; Le Serviette Noir (`Black Napkins')
[ from Menard ]
# Titties and Beer-Zoot Allures Live in Paris lp
-------------------------------------------
1977
Same band as on 'Black Page' but recorded in Paris.
The songs on this one are nearly the same as side 3 & 4 from 'Black Page'.
As you might expect from the title, this record features 'Titties and Beer'
(so does 'Black Page'). This song leaves room for improvisation, so there
are many different versions from various performances. I prefer this 'French
one'. Another nice track is a short, a capella version of 'Dong work for Yuda
'
(not listed on the cover - whole listing is quite incorrect).
1. The Illinois Enema Bandit (last part)
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
Broken Hearts are for Assholes
Dong Work for Yuda
2. Manx Needs Women (not listed)
Titties and Beer
Le Serviette Noir (Yes, another extended version of 'The Black Page')
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TITLE: Tiny Nightmares
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~Date: 31-Oct-1977
Loc: Felt Forum, NY
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: imp 1.13
X-Ref: Zappalog #231
Musicians:
FZ
Adrian Belew
Patrick O'Hearn
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Terry Bozio
San Berdino
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
City Of Tiny Lights
The Squirm
Big Leg Emma
Dance Contest
Black Page No. 2
Jones Crusher
Camarillo Brillo
Black Napkins
Record 9: Cream label
aka Tiny Nightmares, Zurkon Music
Recorded live at the Felt Forum in New York on Halloween, October 31 1977
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 Intro Adrian Belew
2 San Ber'dino Patrick O'Hearn
3 I Wanna Be Dead Tommy Mars
4 Tiny Lights Peter Wolf
5 Big Leg Emma Ed Mann
Terry Bozzio
Side 2
6 Audience Participation Time
7 Black Page No 2
8 Camerillo Brillo
9 Black Napkins
Tiny Nightmares/Zurkon Music have different listings for both sides:
Side 1
1 San Ber'dino
2 Tryin' To Grow A Chin
3 City Of Tiny Lights
4 The Squirm
5 Big Leg Emma
Side 2
6 The Dance Contest Invocations
7 Black Page No 2
8 Jones Crusher
9 Camarillo Brillo
10 Black Napkins
# ULTRAMODERN STRINGBEAN (TINY NIGHTMARES, side 1 & 2) -
Melbourne, Australia, 29-6-1973
LP
Appeared on CD as `Mudshark'.
Little Wazoo Band: J.L.Ponty/I.Underwood/R.Underwood/B.Fowler/
T.Fowler/G.Duke/R.Humphrey/S.Marquez
1. Exercise Four/Uncle Meat/Dog Breath Variations; Montana; Fifty-Fifty
2. The Mudshark; Father O'Blivion (`Be-Bop Tango', like on `Piquantique')
# ZURKON MUSIC (TINY NIGHTMARES, side 3 & 4) - N.Y.C. 31-10-1977
LP
Also on `Baby Snakes' video. Appeared on CD as `Donna You Wanna'.
A.Belew/P.O'Hearn/T.Mars/P.Wolf/E.Mann/T.Bozzio
1. San Ber'dino; Tryin' to Grow a Chin (YCDTOSA #6?); City of Tiny Lites;
The Squirm (guitar solo); Big Leg Emma
2. Invocations/Dance Contest; Black Page #2 (`Baby Snakes' CD?); Jones Crushe
r;
Camarillo Brillo; Black Napkins
# Tiny Nightmares 2lp Beacon Island Rec, Australia
---------------
1973 & 1977
Side 1/2 from Melbourne 1973, with The Little Wazoo Band (with J.L. Ponty).
Side 3/4 from N.Y.C. 31-10-1977.
1977-band: Belew, O'Hearn, Mars, Wolf, Mann, Bozzio.
The 1973 and 1977 material were issued separately on other bootlegs.
1. Uncle Meat/Dog Breath Variations
Montana
Fifty-Fifty (instrumental version, not listed on the cover)
2. The Mudshark
Father O'Blivion
(instrumental version, sort of 'Be-Bop Tango', like on 'Piquantique')
3. San Ber'dino
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
City of Tiny Lites
The Squirm (guitar solo)
Big Leg Emma
4. Invocations/Dance Contest
Black Page #2
Jones Crusher
Camarillo Brillo
Black Napkins
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TITLE: Wax Flags (LP)
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~Date: 31-Dec-1977
Loc: UCLA
Length: ~90 min
Catalog: fz 500
X-Ref: Zappalog #234
Musicians:
FZ
Adrian Belew
Patrick O'Hearn
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Terry Bozio
Roy Estrada
Envelopes
I Have Been In You
Flakes
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Wild Love
Punky's Whips
Stinkfoot
Black Page No. 2
Jones Crusher
Disco Boy
Dinah Moe Humm
Bobby Brown
Conehead
Camarillo Brillo
Muffin Man
San Berdino
Black Napkins
Auld Lang Syne
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TITLE:
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~Date: 15-Feb-1978; 1984
Loc: Berlin; Rotterdam, Norway
Length: 70 min
Catalog:
X-Ref:
Musicians:
1978:
FZ
Terry Bozio
Patrick O'hearn
Adrian Belew
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
1984:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
Titties and Beer
Black Page #2
Jones Crusher
Dupree's Paradise
Sheik Yerbouti Tango
Dong Work For Yuda
Bobby Brown
Envelopes
Disco Boy
Dinah Moe Hum
Camarillo Brillo
Muffin Man
Rotterdam, 1984:
----------------
Whippin' Post
Norway, 1984:
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Heavy Duty Judy
Ride on My Face To Chicago
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TITLE: Rubber Slices (partial)
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~Date: 9-Sep-1978
Loc: Knebworth Festival
Length: ~90 min
Catalog: lunar tunes 2s-8
X-Ref: Zappalog #237
Musicians:
FZ
Denny Walley
Ike Willis
Arthur Barrow
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Vince Colaiuta
Deathless Horsie
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
A Pound for a Brown
Bobby Brown
Conehead
Flakes
* Missing: Keep It Greasy
* Missing: Village Of The SUn
* Missing: The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
* Missing: City Of Tiny Lights
Magic Fingers
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Nanook Rubs It
St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast
Father O'Blivion
Bamboozled By Love
[ see also Knebworth ]
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TITLE: Serious Music
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~Date: 1961 - 1978
Loc:
Length: ~52 min
Sinister Footwear: Parts 1 - 21 26:54
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
The World's Greatest Sinner 11:54
Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Fred E. Graff
Recorded: 1961
Satan (narrator): Paul Frees
Clarence "God" Hillard: Timothy A. Carey
Revenge of The Knick Knack People 6:20
Ballet for piano, percussion, and tape effects
Recorded: 1978
RDNZL
4:08
Wazoo Ensemble studio version
Recorded: 1972
Inca Roads
3:56
Wazoo Ensemble studio version
Recorded: 1972
# SERIOUS MUSIC
C 55 min (from LP)
Studio recordings. Sound is very good.
A: Sinister Footwear - 27 min orchestra piece by the Berkeley Symphony Orches
tra;
RDNZL - excellent studio recording, q 1972
B: The World's Greatest Sinner (q 1961); Revenge of the Knick Knack People -
ballet for piano, percussion & tape effect, q 1978; Inca Roads - excellent
studio recording, q 1972
# Serious Music (complete) plus other (H/PP) stuff - 90 mins
H: from `If you get a Headache' (Boston, oct. 23 1975)
PP: from `Pygmy Pony' (which, in turn, is taken from the `Dupree's
Paradise' bootleg - Durham, N.C. feb. 22 1973)
Sound quality of `Serious Music' is excellent.
A: Sinister Footwear - 26 min orchestra piece by the Berkeley Symph. Orch.
Swallow my Pride (H)
Any Downers/Packard Goose (H) - Not quite as they became to sound later
RDNZL - Excellent studio recording from around 1972
B: The World's Greatest Sinner (+/- 1961)
Revenge of the Knick Knack People - ballet for piano, percussion & tape
effect +/- 1978
Inca Roads - Excellent studio recording from around 1972
The Nancy & Mary Music (PP)
Fifty-Fifty (PP)
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TITLE: Son Of Serious Music
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~Date: ~1978
Location:
Length: ~48 min
The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Bob In Dacron 11:53
Sad Jane 9:06
Spontaneous Minimalist Composition 1:59
Mo 'N Herb's Vacation 25:56
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TITLE: Project-Object
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~Date: 21-Sep-1978
Loc: Poughkeepsie
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: Mud Shark mz 3604
X-Ref: Zappalog #238
Musicians:
FZ
Denny Walley
Ike Willis
Arthur Barrow
Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Vince Colaiuta
Instrumental
Bobby Brown
Conehead
Moe's Vacation
I Have Been In You
Little House I Used To Live In
Tell Me You Love Me
Yo Mama
# PROJECT-OBJECT - Poughkeepsie, NY, fall 1978
CD (42 min)
Phase 2 of `Conceptual Continuity'. Very good sound.
D.Walley/I.Willis/T.Mars/P.Wolf/V.Colaiuta/E.Mann/A.Barrow
Prelude to Bobby (piano/kb-solo); Bobby Brown; Conehead; Moe's Vacation
(short weird instrumental); I Have Been in You (with nice explanation about
this song; funny stuff); Little House I Used to Live in (long instrumental);
Tell Me You Love Me; Yo Mama
# Project-Object cd Archivio
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1978
New York (Poughkeepsie?), fall 1978. Sound quality is VERY good; maybe from
radio broadcast?
Btw: I consider the sound on the BTB-series as `normal bootleg quality'.
This one here is certainly better. Total playing time 41:55.
Songs:
Prelude to Bobby (piano/kb-solo)
Bobby Brown
Conehead
Moe's Vacation
(short weird instrumental, like 'Approximate-Manx needs the Black Page'
)
I Have Been in You (with nice explanation about this song)
Little House I Used to Live in
(Instrumental; probably part of another song. It certainly doesn't soun
d
like 'Little House'. Maybe part of `Pound for a Brown'?)
Tell Me You Love Me
Yo Mama
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TITLE: At The Circus (Same as CD)
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~Date: 18-Jun-1970; 1-Jul-1978
Loc: Uddel; Circus Krone, Munich
Length: ~45 min
Catalog: a 6606
X-Ref: Zappalog #240
Musicians:
1970:
FZ
Mark Volman
Howard Kaylan
Jeff Simmons
George Duke
Aynsley Dunbar
Ian Underwood
1978:
FZ
Peter Wolf
Ed Man
Denny Walley
Ike Willis
Tommy Mars
Arthur Barrow
Vince Colaiuta
1978:
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Baby Snakes
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
1970:
Mother People
Wino Man
1978:
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee
Seal Call Fusion Music
Bobby Brown
I'm On Duty
Conehead
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TITLE:
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~Date: 10-May-1980
Loc: Rotterdam (Radio Broadcast)
Length: 90 min
Musicians:
FZ
Ike Willis
Arthur Barrow
Tommy Mars
David Logeman
Ray White, Ray White, Ray White
Chunga's Revenge
Keep It Greasy
Outside Now
City of Tiny Lites
Teenage Wind
Bamboozled By Love
Pick Me, I'm Clean
Society Pages
I'm A Beautiful Guy
Beauty Knows No Pain
Charlie's Mouth
Cosmic Debris
You Didn't Try To Call Me
Love Of My Life
You Are What You Is
Easy Meat
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee
Dancin Fool
Bobby Brown
Ms. Pinky
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
Illinois Enema Bandit
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TITLE: SONGS EINSTEIN, JR NEVER HEARD
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~Date: ??-???-1980
Loc: Erdbeben, Munich
Length: ~60 min
Musician:
FZ G.V
Arthur Barrow B
Ike Willis G,V
Ray White G,V
Tommy Mars K
David Logeman D
1. Chunga's Revenge 4:49
2. Mudd Club 3:03
3. The Meek Shall Inherit 3:01
4. Joe's Garage 2:17
5. Pound for a Brown Part I 1:56
6. Cosmik Debris 3:10
7. Keep it Greasy 2:51
8. Pick Me, I am Clean 4:49
9. Enema Bandit 8:42
10. You Didn't Try to Call Me 3:22
11. Ain't Got No Heart 2:03
12. Love of my Life 1:58
13. City of Tiny Lights 9:00
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TITLE:
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~Date: 17-Nov-1981
Loc: Ritz, NYC
Length: ~140 min
Musicians:
FZ
Ray White
Tommy Mars
Scott Thunes
Chad Wackerman
Ed Mann
Bobby Martin
Steve Vai
* Al DiMeola
Deathless Horsie
Montana
Easy Meat
You Are What You Is
Mudd Clubb
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Dumb All Over
Heavenly Bank Account
Suicide Chump
Jumbo Go Away
Envelopes
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
What's New In Baltimore
Moggio
Bamboozled By Love
Sinister Footwear
Stevie's Spanking
Cocaine Decisions
Nigger Business
Doreen
Goblin Girl
Black Page
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
Strictly Genteel
* Clowns On Velvet
* Ride Like The Wind
Zoot Allures
This Is My Story
Whippin Post
Watermellon In Easter Hay
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TITLE: (Radio Broadcast)
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~Date: 31-Oct-1981
Loc: Palladium, NYC
Length: ~90 min
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ed Mann
Tommy Mars
Ray White
Steve Vai
Bobby Martin
Beautiful Guy
Beauty Knows No Pain
Charlie's Enormous Mouth
Fine Girl
Teenage Wind
Harder Than Your Husband
Bamboozled By Love
Sinister Footwear
Stevie's Spanking
Cocaine Decisions
Nigger Business
Doreen
Goblin Girl
Black Page No. 2
Tryin To Grow A Chin
Strictly Genteel
The Torture Never Stops
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TITLE:
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~Date: 12-Aug-1984
Loc: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Length: ~90 Minutes
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
Black Napkins
City of Tiny Lights
You Are What You Is
Mudd Clubb
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Advance Romance
He's So Gay
Bobby Brown
Keep It Greasy
Trouble Every Day
Penguine In Bondage
Hot Plate Heaven
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee
Camarillo Brillo
Muffin Man
Cosmic Debris
Whippin' Post
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TITLE: Kreega Bondola
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~Date: 1-Sep-1984
Loc: Saratoga Performing Arts Centre
Length: ~180 Minutes
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
Tape 1:
1. Heavy Duty Judy 3:05
2. Band Intro 0:49
3. Carolina Hardcore Xtasy 6:29
4. Advance Romance 7:23
5. I'm The Slime 4:32
6. Be in my Video 3:22
7. What's New in Baltimore 2:51
8. Lucille 3:09
9. Ride My Face to Chicago 3:18
10. Teenage Wind 2:42
11. Truckdriver Divorce 5:37
12. Cocaine Decision 2:51
13. Nig Biz 5:49
14. Sharleena 8:02
15. Keep it Greasy 3:27
16. Don't You Want a Man 3:59
17. Carol 4:03
18. Chana in the Bushwop 4:01
19. Kreega Bondola 14:04
Tape 2:
20. Intro 1:04
21. He's So Gay 2:30
22. Bobby Brown 2:34
23. Crew Slut 6:33
24. On Women 1:20
25. Camarillo Brillo 3:28
26. Muffin Man 2:31
27. Enema Bandit 9:26
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TITLE: Zapped Again
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~Date: 16-Sep-1984
Loc: Rotterdam
Length: ~90 Minutes
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
Chunga's Revenge
Teenage Wind
Truck Driver Divorce
Penguin In Bondage
Hot Plate Heaven
Cocaine Decisions
Nigger Business
Sharleena
He's So Gay
Bobby Brown
Keep It Greasy
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
Carol
Chana In De Bushwop
Kreega Bondola
The Closer You Are
Johny Darling
No No Cherry
Cosmic Debris
Dinah Moe Hum
Whippin' Post (on Berlin 78 tape)
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TITLE:
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~Date: 3-Nov-1984
Loc: Stoneybrook, NY
Length: ~90 min
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
King Kong
Bamboozled By Love
In France
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
Ride on My Face To Chicago
Deathless Horsie
Cocaine Decisions
Nigger Business
Alien Orifice
Lucille
City of Tiny Lites
You Are What You Is (Heh-heh)
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee
WPLJ
Sharleena
Cocksucker's Ball
Dynamo Hum
Illinois Enema Bandit
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TITLE: All You Need Is Glove
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~Date: 1984
Loc:
Length: ~90 Minutes
Musicians:
FZ
Chad Wackerman
Scott Thunes
Ike Willis
Ray White
Bobby Martin
Alan Zavod
In France
Truck Driver Divorce
Cocaine Decisions
Sharleena
Carolina Harcore Ecstasy
Advance Romance
Teenage Wind
Envelopes
He's So Gay
Keep It Greasy
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Oh No
Trouble Every Day
Penguin In Bondage
Dumb All Over
Stick It Out
Chunga's Revenge
Clowns On Velvet - from Ritz, 17-Nov-1981
Frogs with Dirty Little Lips - from Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 11-Dec-1980
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TITLE:
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~Date: 4-Feb-1988; ?8|9?-Feb-1988; 13-Feb-1988
Loc: Beacon Theater, NYC; Warner Theatre, Wash.; Tower Theater, Phil.
Length: 120 min
Musicians:
'88 Band
Beacon Theater:
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Black Page
Dickie's Such An Asshole
When The Lie's So Big
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Any Kind Of Pain
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
Sofa #2
Packard Goose
The Torture Never Stops
Warner Theatre:
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Florentine Pogen
Andy
Inca Roads
Beacon Theater:
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Why Don't You Like Me
Disco Boy
Teenage Wind
Truck Driver Divorce
Who Needs The Peace Corps
I Left My Heart In San Fransisco
Turning Again
King Kong
Stairway To Heaven
Dancin' Fool
Whippin' Post
I Am The Walrus
Strictly Genteel
Tower Theater:
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Heavy Duty Judy (Ed Meese Version)
Zomby Woof
City Of Tiny Lites
Pound For A Brown On The Bus
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TITLE:
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~Date: 3-Mar-1988
Loc: Auditorium Theater, Chicago
Length: 120 minutes
Musicians:
'88 Band
Stinkfoot
When The Lie's So Big
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Any Kind Of Pain
What's New In Baltimore
Stick Together
My Guitar Want's To Kill Your Mama
Willie The Pimp
Montana
Inca Roads
Zoot Allures
Norwegian Jim
Lousiana Hooker
Texas Motel
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are
Peaches En Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
Yo Cats
Packard Goose
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
Illinois Enema Bandit
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TITLE:
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~Date: 25-Mar-1988; 3-Mar-1988; 13-Feb-1988; 22-Apr-1988
Loc: Nassau Coliseum; Auditorium Theater, Chicago; Tower Theater, Phil.;
Carl Diem Halle, Wurzburg, Germany
Length: 120 minutes
Musicians:
'88 Band
Nassau Colliseum, 25-Mar:
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Black Page
Ain't Got No Heart
Love Of My Life
Inca Roads
Sharleena
Who Needs The Peace Corps
I Left My Heart In San Fransisco
Dickie's Such An Asshole
When The Lie's So Big
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
Sofa #2
Bolero
America The Beautiful
Auditorium Theater, 3-Mar:
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Stolen Moments
Murder By Numbers (w/ Sting)
Tower Theater, 13-Feb:
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Heavy Duty Judy (Ed Meese Version)
Carl Diem Halle, 22-Apr:
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Heavy Duty Dudy
Ring Of Fire
Ring Of Fire 2
Bolero of Fire
Nassau Colliseum, 25-Mar:
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Packard Goose
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lites
Pound For A Brown On The Bus
A Few Words From Brother A. West
Norwegian Wood
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Strawberry Fields
Peaches En Regalia
Stairway To Heaven (w/ Dweezil)
I Am The Walrus
Whippin' Post (w/ Dweezil)
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TITLE:
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~Date: 27-Apr-1988; 25-May-1988
Loc: Oslo, Norway; Mannheim, Germany
Length: ~110 min
Musicians:
'88 Band
Oslo:
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Stinkfoot
Ain't Got No Heart
Love of My Life
Packard Goose
Alien Orifice
Sharleena
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Harry You're A Beast
Oh No
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Lumpy Gravy
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Advance Romance
Bobby Brown
Keep It Greasy
The Torture Never Stops
Norwegian Wood
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Strawberry Fields
Mannheim:
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Stairway To Cornhole
Untouchables
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I Am The Walrus
The Illinois Enema Bandit
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TITLE:
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~Date: 27-Apr-1988; 1976
Loc: Oslo, Norway; Unknown
Length: ~120 min
Musicians:
'88 Band
Tape 1:
Stinkfoot
Ain't Got No Heart
Love of My Life
Packard Goose
Alien Orifice
Sharleena
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Harry You're A Beast
Oh No
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Lumpy Gravy
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Advance Romance
Bobby Brown
Keep It Greasy
The Torture Never Stops
Norwegian Wood
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Strawberry Fields
Tape 2:
City Of Tiny Lights
Pound For A Brown
Make A Sex Noise
Bolero
Rhymin' Man
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Sofa
Andy
Inca Roads
Strictly Genteel
1976:
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
The Torture Never Stops
Stranded In The Jungle
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TITLE: Stairway To Berlin
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~Date: -May-1988
Loc: Berlin
Length: ~120 min
Musicians:
'88 Band
Intro (Black Page Vamp)
Packard Goose
Any Kind Of Pain
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque
I Am The Walrus
Ain't Got No Heart
Andy
Inca Roads
Bolero
Norwegian Wood
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Strawberry Fields
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lights
A Pound For A Brown
Stairway To Heaven
Bobby Brown
Whippin' Post
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee
Strictly Genteel
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TITLE:
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~Date: 22-Sep-1992
Loc: Berlin
Length: 90 min
Musicians:
Ensemble Moderne
Martin
Beat The Beeper
Ruth Is Sleeping
Amnerika
None of The Above
Pentagon Afternoon
Times Beach III
German Beer Song
Welcome To The United States
Overture
Dog/Meat
Outrage At Valdez
Times Beach II
III (revised 1992)
The Bebop Tengo
G-Spot Tornado
G-Spot Tornado, Encore
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part9
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| alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ Bootlegs Information |
| Part 2 of 2 |
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| Original version by Rob Sweet (sw...@skat.usc.edu) |
| Maintained by Robbert Heederik (heed...@fwi.uva.nl) |
| Version 2.3, September 26, 1994 |
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TITLE: Assorted Audio Material / Guitar World According to Frank Zappa
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~Date: 1974-1993
Loc: Varous
Length: 90 min
Ain't Got No Heart 2:20 - 1978 or 1979, from FZ as DJ on WPIX, 1979
(was to be released on Warts and All LP)
Purple Lagoon + ?? 2:27 - from FZ as DJ on WPIX, 1979
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 3:30 - Studio, (c) 1980
Zappa ZR-1001-A single
(different than on You Are What You Is)
FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Arthur Barrow
Vince Colaiuta, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann
Ancient Armaments 4:10 - Palladium, NYC, 31-Oct-1978, (c) 1980
Zappa ZR-1001-B single
Sharleena 7:00 - 23-Dec-1984, Universal Amphitheatre, LA
Sound Page #28 from Guitar Player
Magazine, January 1987 (different edit
than YCDTOSA I)
Black Page #1 2:00 - Synclavier,
Sound Page #29 from Keyboard Magazine
February 1987
Frankie's In Town 6:00 - Steve Vai
Improvizale v a Dur s
Frankem Zappo 8:00 - Prazsky Vyber, w/ FZ intro and guitar solo
Prague, 1991
Big Swifty 5:00
Tmershi D'ween 1:45
Dupree's Paradise 2:00
- Meridian Arts Ensemble, Live on WQXR
radio, NYC, 11-Apr-1993
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The Guitar World According
to Frank Zappa (cassette): - (c) 1987, Guitar World
Sleep Dirt 3:17 - December, 1974, Caribou Studios, Colorado
FZ, Bird-legs Youman
(same as on Sleep Dirt)
Friendly Little Finger 4:17 - 1975, dressing room at Hofstra University,
overdubbed at The Record Plant, LA
FZ, Ruth Underwood, Roy Estrada, Terry
Bozio
(same as on Zoot Allures)
excerpt from Revised Music
for Low Budget Symphony
Orchestra 2:21 - 1974, The Record Plant, LA
FZ, Bruce Fowler, George Duke, Tom Fowler,
Chad Wackerman
(same as on Studio Tan)
Things That Look Like Meat 6:06 - December 1981, Salt Lake City, Utah
FZ, Steve Vai, Ray White, Ed Mann, Tommy
Mars, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad
Wackerman
(same as on Guitar)
Down In De Dew 2:54 - 1975, Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA
FZ, Jim Gordon
Unreleased, Outtake from `Apostrophe'
A Solo From Heidelberg 5:26 - 1977, Hiedelberg, Germany
FZ, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Patrick O'Hearn,
Terry Bozio
Unreleased
A Solo From Cologne 5:11 - June, 1982, Cologne, Germany
FZ, Steve Vai, Ray White, Ed Mann, Tommy
Mars, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad
Wackerman
(same as But Who Was Fulcanelli on Guitar)
A Solo From Atlanta 4:05 - November, 1984, Atlanta, Georgia
FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bobby Martin,
Alan Zavod, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman
(same as For Duane on Guitar)
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~~From: David=Lane%HQ%Rati...@Vines1.ratsys.com
"The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa" is not a bootleg, but was a
legitimate cassette-only 1987 release from Guitar World magazine. Later on,
Barfko-Swill was selling it for $7.00, which is how I got mine, but I
don't know if they still sell it.
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(*1)
[ see Hornet Wing ]
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(*2)
~~From: ----------@------.---
In the late 70s, I had a bootleg Zappa 45 of "Punky's Whips"
b/w a guitar based instrumental whose name I can't recall.
Allegedly, these were both left off the "Zappa in New York"
LP. Don't know for sure if either was later released
officially.
~~From: ---@-----.--------.---
I've seen this bootleg 45. It had "Punky's Whips" on both sides. The B-side
was mostly the guitar solo from PW. This version was eventually released on
the CD version of "Zappa in New York".
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~~From: ---.------@------.---
Additional bootlegs.
1. Just a few weeks ago a bought a double CD with the name
'In the Eyes of Osaka' recorded in Feb.'76 in Osaka, Japan.
The band consists of: FZ, Napoleon Murphy Brock (voc, sax),
Andre Lewis (keybrd), Roy Estrada (b), Terry Bozzio (dr).
Disc 1:
Intro
Stinkfoot (comment: including the Poodle Lecture)
Dirty Love
Filthy Habits
How could I be such a fool?
I ain't got no heart
I'm not satisfied
Black Napkins
Advance Romance
Disc 2:
Honey, don't you want a man like me?
The Illinois enema bandit
Wind up workin' in a gas station
The torture never stops
Chungas revenge / Drum solo
Zoot Allures
Ship ahoy (comment: I think this is identical to the one on SUAPYG)
I'm the slime
San Ber'dino
2. Some info on the bootleg TWENTY YEARS OF FRANK ZAPPA
I have only heard parts of this, but I found this at ftp.uwp.edu
some time ago:
TWENTY YEARS OF FRANK ZAPPA
MUD SHARK MZ4801-4812
Side One: (20:20)
Return Of Your Mama (inst.) (Live Feb/79)
Keep It Greasy (Poughkeepsie Sept. 21/78)
Village Of The Sun (Poughkeepsie Sept. 21/78)
I Do A Bunch Of Other Things (Innerview 1976)
Side Two: (23:06)
Titties and Beer (Detroit Nov. 19/76)
What Kind Of Group Do You Think We Are (Detroit Nov. 19/76)
All The Way Down The Tonsils (Uncle Meat session)
Rollo; St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast (live Dec. 31/72)
Zappa's Lecture (Mt St. Mary's College 1963)
Side Three: (20:18)
The Way The Air Smells (Baby Snakes outtake 1979)
Run Home Slow (highlights 1959)
Your Eyes (Baby Snakes 1979)
Side Four: (20:22)
Rance Muhammitz In A Steaming Briefcase (200 Motels 1971)
World's Greatest Sinner (highlights 1961)
This Won't Take Long
What Will This Morning Bnng Me This Evening (200 Motels)
People Think That Groupies Are Such Dirty Girls (200 Motels)
Side Five: (21:43)
Memories Of El Monte (the Penguins)
Grunion Run: Tijuana Surf (the Hollywood Persuaders)
Mr. Clean (Mr. Clean)
Jessie Lee (Mr. Clean)
Heavies (Rotation)
Drums-a-go-go (the HolIywood Persuaders)
Hot Water (the HolIywood Persuaders)
Not Another One (Brian Lord & The Midnighters)
Sixteen Tons (the Masters)
Side Six: (22:24)
Breaktime (the Masters)
How's Your Bird (Baby Ray and the Ferns)
World's Greatest Sinner (Baby Ray and the Ferns)
Hey Nelda (Ned and Nelda)
Surf Along (Ned and Nelda)
Everytime I See You (Heartbreakers)
Dear Jeepers (Bob Guy)
Letter From Jeepers (Bob Guy)
The Big Surfer (Brian Lord & the Midnighters)
Side Seven: (20:20) (Apppleton, Wisc. 1969 & Royal Albert Hall 'June/69)
Eye Of Agamoto
My Guitar Wants To Kill You Mama
Clap and Vomit
Side Eight: (21:32) (Apppleton, Wisc. 1969 & Royal Albert Hall 'June/69)
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
Hungry Freaks Daddy
The Return Of The Son Of The Hunchback Duke
The Story Of A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Side Nine: (20:23) (Fillmore East Nov. 14/70)
Sharleena
The Air
Dog Breath
You Didn't Try To Call Me
King Kong
Concentration Moon
Mom & Dad
Side Ten: (20:00) (Fillmore East Nov. 14/70)
The Duke
Would You Like A Snack
Inca Roads (segment)
Cruising For Burgers
Side Eleven: (19:56) (Hollywood Bowl Oct. 9/72)
The New Brown Clouds
Big Swifty
For Calvin
Side Twelve: (21:43) (Hollywood Bowl Oct. 9/72)
Think It Over
Approximate
Side Thirteen: (20:54)
Redunzel (Stockholm Aug. 21/73)
Cucamongo (Stockholm Aug. 21/73)
Zappa Reads The News (KOAZ radio '74)
Chester's Gorilla (Felt Forum Oct. 30/74) (20:54)
That's Right Let's Boogie (inst.) (Felt Forum Oct. 30/74)
A Few Minutes With Norma Bell (inst.) (Felt Forum Oct. 30/74)
Side Fourteen: (20:34) (Felt Forum Oct. 31/75)
How Could I Be Such A Fool
I Ain't Got No Heart
I m Not Satisfied
Packgard Goose
Black Napkins
Side Fifteen: (Felt Forum Oct. 31/75) (20:05)
Lonely Little Girl
Take Your Clothes When You Dance
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body
Chungas Revenge
Side Sixteen: (Hartford, Ct. Oct. 17/77) (21:29)
Envelopes
Disco Boy
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Wild Love
Side Seventeen: (19:12)
Dead Girls Of London (Hammersmith Odeon Feb/79)
Suicide Chump (Palladium Oct. 27 & 31/78)
Streets & Roads (Shut Up & Play Your Guitar LP)
Side Eighteen: (21:57)
13 (Palladium OCt. 27/78)
Magic Fingers (Palladium Oct. 27/78)
Rubber Girl (Palladium Oct. 31/78)
Peaches En Regalia (Tinsel Town Rebellion)
Side Nineteen: (20:22)
Ms X (Palladium Oct. 31/78)
For The Young Sophisticate (Tinsel Town Rebellion)
More Streets & Roads (Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More LP)
Cyborg (Palladium Oct. 28/78)
Side Twenty: (23:52)
Dance Contest (Tinsel Town Rebellion)
Persona No Grata (Palladium Oct. 28/78)
The Drive Shaft
Deathless Horsie (Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More LP)
Side Twenty-One: (21:44)
Nite Own (Nassau Coliseum May 9/80)
Penis Dimension (200 Motels)
In Memorium: Hieronymus Bosch (We're Only In It For The Money session)
The 12 Inches (Boston Oct. 29/74)
Florentine Pogen (Copenhagen Mar. 5/79)
Side Twenty-Two:
Debra Kadabra (Boston Apr. 27/75)
Stranded In The Jungle (NY Oct. 30/76)
Hard Cheese (WABX radio, Detroit May 25/71)
The Tolkien Tapes (WABX radio, Detroit May 25/71)
Do The Funky Room Service (inst.) (Boston Apr. 27/75) (22:40)
Side Twenty-Three: (22:02)
Zappa's Lecture (St. Mary's College '63)
The Bust (Uncle Meat session)
Dinah Moe Humm (Hartford Oct. 17/77)
Camarillo Brillo (Hartford Oct. 17/77)
Get A Little II (Uncle Meat session)
You Didn't Try To Call Me (Rotterdam May 24/80)
Laid Back
Side Twenty-Four: (23:48)
Love Of My Life (Rotterdam May 24/80)
You Are What You Is (Rotterdam May 24/80)
Catholic Girls (Munich Mar. 31/79)
Fine Girl (Tinsel Town)
Treacherous Cretins (Copenhagen Mar. 5/79)
Comments: Box set with 16-page booklet;
1000 pressed; 565 seized in one raid;
other legal problems netted a further 100 copies;
25 sets with 11.5" X 11.5" b&w covers front and back.
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~~From: ------@-----.--------.---.---.--
Someone was asking about track listings for some of the early Zappa bootlegs.
Here's some info.
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Indiscreet Picture Show (1)
Recorded at the KCET-TV studio in Los Angeles for the 'A Token Of My Extreme'
tv-show in December 1974.
Frank Zappa
Ruth Underwood
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Chester Thompson
Tom Fowler
George Duke
Side 1
Dog Breath
Trouble Every Day
Montana
George Duke Solo
Florentine Pogen Part 1
Side 2
Florentine Pogen Part 2
Oh No
Son Of Orange County
Pygmy Twylyte
Stinkfoot
Inca Roads
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Remington Electric Razor (1)
1 recorded in Passaic on November 8 1974 during the 1st show at the Capitol
Theatre
2,9 recorded in the fall of 1978
3 recorded in Poughkeepsie on September 21 1978
4 recorded in late 1976 or early 1977
5 recorded at the Roxy in Los Angeles in December 1973
6 recorded in fall 1980
7 recorded 1968
8 recorded in February 1971
10 recorded ca 1968
Musicians
2-3,9 4 5 6
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Denny Walley Terry Bozzio George Duke Ike Willis
Tommy Mars Ray White Bruce Fowler Ray White
Arthur Barrow Eddie Jobson Tom Fowler Vince Colaiuta
Vince Colaiuta Patrick O'Hearne Ruth Underwood Arthur Barrow
Peter Wolf Napoleon M Brock Steve Vai
Ed Mann Ralph Humphrey Bob Harris
Ike Willis Chester Thompson Tommy Mars
10
Mothers with Linda Ronstadt
Side 1
1 Freak Me Out Frank
2 Jumbo Go Away
3 Moe's Vacation
4 Dong Work For Yuda
Side 2
5 Tricky Dicky (='Dick Is Such An Asshole')
6 Nite Owl
7 My Name Is Fritz (the mothers make fun about a german customs officer)
8 Outtake from 200 Motels
9 I Can't Get Me No Satisfaction
10 Remington Electric Razor
Review in Mother People #3, 13th November 1981
"This new underground is surprisingly good. Excellent quality and some rare
material. I have chosen to review this LP in 2 parts because there are a
few things of unknown origin and I'm sure other collectors, especially those
of you with this material on tape, will come forward with some valued info
for part 2 (if not, this will have to do.
Side one opens with what _has_ to be a soundboard tape of a few tunes from
the Fall 1978 tour; some ad-lib audience rap titled 'Freak Me Out Frank'
which goes into 'Jumbo Go Away' and 'Moe's Vacation'. Add 'Black Page #2'
which is not listed on the cover. The side (15:39) concludes with a 1977
'original' of 'Dong Work' that sounds like a film or TV outtake.
Side two (15:59) goes back to 1974 with 'Tricky Dicky' which bears a
similarity to what was known as 'Dickie's Such An Asshole', but more
polished. George, Nappy, Ruth, Chester, etc are all here to grace this
politically obsolete lyric which will probably never be released unless Nixon
runs for president again. From 1980 (Fall) comes the Tony Allen classic
'Nite Owl' - clean recording. Following are 2 'unused' tracks from 200
Motels: the first is 'My Name Is Fritz' which is mostly Theodore Bikel &
Jimmy Carl Black, although the Bikel part sounds more like Volman; the second
is the 'Interview' (Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers) a classical
vocally oriented piece fresh from the cutting room floor. Back to 1978 where
madness at the tail end of one of the tunes (live) turns into 'I Can't Get
Me No Satisfaction'. Then the strange one - the title piece 'Remington
Electric Razor' (the Remington Electric Shaver Co. claims to have no
knowledge of this 60 second piece). Sounding like a commercial, an excellent
piece of music, FZ comments on the beginning and the end - the body of the
track is two Linda Ronstadt voices in harmony (I'm sure it's her as I slowed
down the pitch to normal) with some male chanting. It's clever....it could
sell a lot of razors. On the whole this LP "cleans you, thrills you.....
may even keep you from getting busted". (wish I had one)
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The History and Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of
Invention.
This is a 10 lp boxed set, with a booklet Ten Years On The Road With Frank
Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention. The booklet was later available on its
own, as I bought several copies thinking it was something different.
The records are in plain white wrappers. The identity of each record is
determined by the colour of the lp label. The centre of the first two records
are blank. Record 1 is supposed to be dark blue according to the notes on
the back of the box, and record 2 is supposed to be sky blue, but I can't
tell the difference between the two. The centres of the rest of the lps
have "The History & Collected Improvisations", "1962-1976" printed on
both sides, and the two sides are differentiated.
Some tracks have slightly titles to the modern fixed forms of the titles.
I have included the names as they actually appear on the box. Also some track
listings differ slightly from the track listings of the original bootlegs.
This often happens with Zappa's sequing of material where it is hard to tell
where a song starts and ends and if an item is one song or two. I have listed
the deviations.
[ see Stringbean ]
[ see Nifty ]
[ see Ein Monster ]
[ see Headache ]
[see Tooth Fairy ]
[ see Extreme ]
Record 7: Pale Yellow Label
aka I Was A Teenage Maltshop
[see Teenage Maltshop]
Record 8: Bright Yellow Label
aka Petrouska
[see Petrouska]
[ see Narrow ]
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Twenty Years of Frank Zappa - 12 records + 16 page booklet: various from
entire career
I don't own this one, but I have the track listings.
Record 1: The Basic Primer: Z To A
1 recorded live in February 1979
2,3 recorded live in Poughkeepsie on September 21 1978
4 recorded for a radio interview in 1976
5,6 recorded live at the Cobo Hall in Detroit on November 19 1976
7 recorded during the recording sessions for Uncle Meat
8,9 recorded live during the first show in Washington on december 31 1972
10 recorded at Mt St Mary's College, Claremont in 1963
Side 1
1 Return Of Your Mama (instrumental)
2 Keep It Greasey
3 Village Of The Sun
4 I Do A Bunch Of other Things (outtake of the
innerview-show with Jim Ladd)
Side 2
5 Titties And Beer
6 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are
7 All The Way Down The Tonsils
8 Rollo
9 St Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
10 Short outtake from Zappa's lecture
at Mt St Mary's College
The Musicians
1 2,3 5,6 8,9
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Tommy Mars Tommy Mars Patrick O'Hearn Earl Dumler
Peter Wolf Peter Wolf Ray White Malcolm McNabb
Ed Mann Ed Mann Terry Bozzio Gary Barone
Vince Colaiuta Vince Colaiuta Eddie Jobson Tom Malone
Denny Walley Denny Walley Mark Volman (on 6) Bruce Fowler
Ike Willis Ike Willis Howard Kaylan (on 6) Glenn Ferris
Arthur Barrow Arthur Barrow Tony Duran
Warren Cucurullo Dave Parlato
Jim Gordon
Record 2: The Soundtracks
Side 1
1 Outtake from Baby Snakes (1979)
2 Outtake from Run Home Slow (1959)
3 Outtake from Baby Snakes (1979)
Side 2
4 Outtake from 200 Motels (1971)
5 Outtake from The World's Greatest Sinner (1961)
6 Outtake from 200 Motels (1971)
Record 3: Cucamonga Era
Side 1
The Penguins - Memories of El Monte
The Hollywood Persuaders - Grunion Run / Tujuana Surf
Mr Clean - Mr Clean / Jessie Lee
Rotations - Heavies
The Hollywood Persuaders - Drums-a-go-go / Hot Water (no Zappa Involvement)
Brian Lord & The Midnighters - Not Another One
The Masters - 16 Tons
Side 2
The Masters - Breaktime
Baby Ray & The Ferns - How's Your Bird / The World's Greatest Sinners
Ned & Nelda - Hey Nelda / Surf Along
The Heartbreakers - Everytime I See You
Bob Guy - Jeepers / Letter From Jeepers
Brian Lord & The Midnighters - The Big Surfer
Record 4: Gas Mask
Recorded live in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1969 and at the Royal Albert Hall
in London in June 1969 (the story...)
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 Eye Of Agamoto Ian Underwood
2 My Guitar Bunk Gardner
3 Clap & Vomit Jim Sherwood
Roy Estrada
Side 2 Don Preston
4 The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue Jimmy Carl Black
5 Hungry Freaks Daddy Arthur Tripp
6 The Return Of The Son Of The Hunchback Dude Buzz Gardner
7 The Story of 'A Pound For A Brown On The Bus'
Record 5: Hotel Dixie
Recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York On November 14 1970
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 Sharleena Mark Volman
2 The Air Howard Kaylan
3 Dog Breath Jeff Simmons
4 You Didn't Try To Call Me Aynsley Dunbar
5 King Kong George Duke
6 Concentration Moon Ian Underwood
7 Mom & Dad
Side 2
8 The Duke: Would You Like A Snack
Inca Roads (segment)
Crusining For Burgers
Record 6: Grand Wazoo Orchestra
Recorded live at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 9 1972
Side 1
1 The New Brown Clouds
2 Big Swifty
3 For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitchhikers)
Side 2
4 Think It Over (= The Grand Wazoo)
5 Approximate
Frank Zappa Charles Owens
Malcolm McNabb Joanne McNabb
Sal Marquez Earl Dumler
Tom Malone Jerry Kressler
Bruce Fowler Ian Underwood
Glenn Ferris Dave Parlato
Kenny Shroyer Tony Duran
Jay Migliori Jim Gordon
Mike Altschul Tom Raney
Ray Read Ruth Underwood
Record 7: Show And Tell
1,2 recorded live in Stockholm on August 21 1973
3 recorded at KOAZ radio in 1974
4,5 recorded live at the Felt Forum in New York on October 30 1974
6-10recorded live at the Felt Forum in New York on October 31 1975
1,2 4,5 6-10
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Ian Underwood Ruth Underwood Napoleon Murphy Brock
Ruth Underwood George Duke Terry Bozzio
George Duke Tom Fowler Andre Lewis
Bruce Fowler Napoleon Murphy Brock Roy Estrada
Tom Fowler Chester Thompson Norma Bell
Jean Luc Ponty
Ralph Humphrey
Side 1
1 Redunzl
2 Cucamonga
3 Zappa Reads The News
4 Chester's Gorilla (ending of Inca Roads)
5 instrumental
6 instrumental
Side 2
7 How Could I Be Such A Fool
8 I Ain't Got No Heart
9 I'm Not Satisfied
10 Black Napkins
Record 8: Night Of The Iron Sausage
Side 1 recorded live at the Felt Forum in New York on October 31 1975
Side 2 recorded live in Hartford Connecticut on October 17 1977
Side 1 Frank Zappa
1 Lonely Little Girl Napoleon Murphy Brock
2 Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance Terry Bozzio
3 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body Andre Lewis
4 Chunga's Revenge Roy Estrada
Norma Bell
Side 2 Frank Zappa
5 Envelopes Adrian Belew
6 Disco Boy Terry Bozzio
7 I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth Patrick O'Hearn
8 Wild Love Peter Wolf
Ed Mann
Tommy Mars
Record 9: Warts And All (I)
Recorded live at the Palladium in New York and At Odeon Hammersmith in
London.
London New York
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Tommy Mars Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf Peter Wolf
Ed Mann Ed Mann
Vince Colaiuta Vince Colaiuta
Arthur Barrow Denny Walley
Patrick O'Hearn Ike Willis
Denny Walley Arthur Barrow
L. Shankar Warren Cucurullo
Side 1
1 Dead Girls Of London (London, 2/79)
2 Suicide Chump (London, first part October 31 1978, second part from show
number 2 on October 27 1978)
3 Streets And Roads (= Shut Up'N Play Yer Guitar on SUNPYG,
London, February 18 1979)
Side 2
4 13 (instrumental, NY, October 27 1978, second show)
5 Magic Fingers (NY, October 27 1978, second show)
6 Rubber Girl (NY, October 31 1978)
7 Peaches En Regalia (= Peaches III, on Tinseltown Rebellion, London,
Feb 1979)
Record 10: Warts And All (II)
Recorded live at the Palladium in New York and At Odeon Hammersmith in
London.
London New York
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Tommy Mars Tommy Mars
Peter Wolf Peter Wolf
Ed Mann Ed Mann
Vince Colaiuta Vince Colaiuta
Arthur Barrow Denny Walley
Patrick O'Hearn Ike Willis
Denny Walley Arthur Barrow
L. Shankar Warren Cucurullo
Warren Cucurullo (narrating
on Ms X)
Side 1
1 Ms X (NY, October 31 1978)
2 For The Young Sophisticate (same as on Tinseltown Rebellion, London
February 1979)
3 More Streets And Roads (= Shut Up'N Play yer Guitar Some More from
SUNPYG, London, February 17 1979)
4 Cyborg (instrumental, NY, October 28 1978 second show)
Side 2
5 Dance Contest (same as on Tinseltown Rebellion, NY, October 27, 1978)
6 Persona No Grata (instrumental, NY, October 28 1978, first show)
7 The Drive Shaft (= 2nd part of Little House)
8 Deathless Horsie (same as on SUNPYG, London, February 19 1979)
Record 11: Soup And Old Clothes
1 recorded at the nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on May 9 1980
2 recorded in February 1971 for the 200 Motels soundtrack
3 recorded during the recording session for WOIIFTM
4 recorded in Boston at the Orpheum on October 29 1974
5 recorded in Copenhagen on March 5 1979
6,9 recorded in Boston on April 27 1975
7 recorded in New York on October 30 1976
8 recorded at WABX radio in Detroit on May 25 1971
1 4 5
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
David Logeman George Duke Tommy Mars
Tommy Mars Ruth Underwood Peter Wolf
Ike Willis Tom Fowler Ed Mann
Ray White Napoleon Murphy Brock Vince Colaiuta
Arthur Barrow Chester Thompson Arthur Barrow
plus: Tom Waits Denny Walley
Warren Cucurullo
Ike Willis
6,9 7 8
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
George Duke Ray White Howard Kaylan
Napoleon Murphy Brock Bianca Aynsley Dunbar
Denny Walley Eddie Jobson Dick Barber
Bruce Fowler Patrick O'Hearn Dave Dixon
Tom Fowler Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio
plus: Don Van Vliet
Side 1
1 Nite Owl
2 Penis Dimension
3 In memorium: Hieronymous Bosch
4 The 12 inches
5 Florentine Pogen
Side 2
6 Debra Kadabra
7 Stranded In The Jungle
8 Hard Cheese: The Tolkien tapes
(madness in the radio station)
9 instrumental
Record 12: Advanced Study: World Pop Domination
2,5 recorded during the recording sessions for Uncle Meat
3,4 recorded live in Hartford on October 17 1977
6,8,9 recorded live in Rotterdam on May 24 1980
10 recorded live in Munchen on March 31, 1979
12 recorded live in Copenhagen on March 5 1979
3,4 6,8,9 10,12
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
Adrian Belew Ike Willis Tommy Mars
Tommy Mars Ray White Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf Arthur Barrow Ed Mann
Patrick O'Hearn Tommy Mars Vince Colaiuta
Ed Mann David Logeman Arthur Barrow
Terry Bozzio Denny Walley
Warren Cucurullo
Ike Willis
Side 1
1 Outtake from lecture at St Mary's College
2 The Bust
3 Dinah Moe Humm
4 Camarillo Brillo
5 Get A Little II
6 You Didn't Try To Call Me
7 Laid Back (Zappa narrates)
Side 2
8 Love Of My Life
9 You Are What You is
10 Catholic Girls
11 Fine Girl (same as on Tinseltown Rebellion)
12 Treacherous Cretins
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MOI: AMERICAN PAGEANT (Musical Underground Oratorios) (1 CD)
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1. Absolutely Free (3:27)
2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (3:28)
3. It Can't Happen Here (3:54)
4. Duke of Prunes (5:06)
5. Call Any Vegetable (4:21)
6. The Idiot Bastard Son (2:24)
7. Mother People (1:44)
8. Who Are The Brain Police (3:22)
9. You're Probably Wonderin Why I'am Here (3:37)
10. Plastic People (3:40)
11. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (7:26)
12. America Drinks & Goes Home (2:43)
C:1989 Duchesse, EEC No. CD352076
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TINY BOOTLEGS & OTHER ONOFFICIAL LIVE FZ
Nifty stuff, hot poop & serious music from Broadway, Joe's Garage,
The Mudd Club & Elsewhere, featuring all Zappa's Teenage Rockin' Combo's.
For conceptual continuity freaks to get off on.
Warning No.1: No `commercial potential'.
Warning No.2: Not recommended for children or republicans.
# GAS MASK - Appleton, WI 23-5-1969
C 90 min
L.George/R.Estrada/J.Black/A.Tripp/I.Underwood/D.Preston/
B.& B.Gardner/J.Sherwood
A: Eye of Agamoto/Uncle Meat; My Guitar; Clap & vomit (audience participation
);
Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
B: Hungry Freaks, Daddy; Return of the Son of the Hunchback Duke;
Transylvania Boogie/Help I'm a Rock; A Pound for a Brown
[see Hot Rats At]
# 200 MOTELS LIVE WITH ZUBIN MEHTA & L.A. PHILHARMONIC -
UCLA, L.A. 15-5-1970
C 45 min
`Alright Zubin, hit it!'
MOI: R.Collins/J.Simmons/A.Dunbar/I.Underwood/B.Mundi/D.Preston/J.Sherwoo
d
# VPRO'S PIKNIK, 1970
C 20 min
Sound: very good mono. Also on the `Wino Man' bootleg.
M.Volman/H.Kaylan/J.Simmons/G.Duke/A.Dunbar/I.Underwood
Concentration Moon; Mom & Dad; Mother People; You didn't try to Call me;
Call any Vegetable
[see Safe Muffinz]
[ see Grand Wazoo Comic ]
# DUPREE'S PARADISE - Duke University, Durham, N.C. 22-2-1973
C 90 min (from 2 LP)
An abridged version of `Dupree's Paradise' is `Pygmy Pony' (1 LP).
Little Wazoo Band: J.L.Ponty/I.Underwood/R.Underwood/B.Fowler/
T.Fowler/G.Duke/R.Humphrey
A: RDNZL; Dog Breath/Uncle Meat; 50-50; Inca Roads; Warts & Mice Improvisatio
n
B: Montana; Dupree's Paradise; I'm the Slime; The Nancy and Mary Music
(Don't you ever wash that thing?); Cosmik Debris
# ARLINGTON, TX, 11-3-1973
C 90 min
Good sound; apparently this was a radio broadcast.
Little Wazoo Band as on `Dupree's Paradise'
A: RDNZL; Exercise #4/Dog Breath/Uncle Meat; Fifty-fifty;
Audience participation jam/narration: imaginary diseases of the future
B: Inca Roads; Montana; G. Duke solo/instrumental jam; Mr. Green Genes;
King Kong
# NIFTY - New Jersey, late 1973 & Sydney, Australia, 8-7-1973
C 45 min (from LP)
New Jersey: R.Underwood/G.Duke/B.Fowler/T.Fowler/R.Humphrey/
C.Thompson/N.M.Brock
Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up; The Story of Dupree's Paradise/Be Bop Tango theme;
Dog Breath/Uncle Meat
Sydney: Same band as on `Ultramodern Stringbean'
Father O'Blivion (YCDTOSA #6)/Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Nanook rubs it/
St.Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast; Penguin in Bondage; T'Mershi Duween
(`Piquantique')
# "HOFSTRA & ELSEWHERE" - Hofstra College & Waterloo, Canada, late 1973
C 90 min
R.Underwood/G.Duke/B.Fowler/T.Fowler/R.Humphrey/C.Thompson/N.M.Brock
A: Cosmik Debris; Montana; Dupree's Paradise with breast lecture
B: Inca Roads; Pygmy Twylyte; Cheepnis; Be Bop Tango (with edit, apparently
from 2 different performances)
---
filler: Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy (place & date unknown)
# FRANK ZAPPA VS. THE TOOTH FAIRY -
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, CA, 19-7-1974
C 40 min
R.Underwood/N.M.Brock/C.Thompson/T.Fowler/G.Duke
Gloria (story about Ruth Underwood); Inca Roads; Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up;
The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Clear version of Cheepnis - for everybody wh
o
couldn't hear the words
# OUR MAN IN ITALY - Bologna 8-9-1974
C 54 min (from CD)
R.Underwood/N.M.Brock/C.Thompson/T.Fowler/G.Duke
A Token of my Extreme; Stinkfoot; Inca Roads; Approximate; Penguin in Bondage
;
T'Mershi Duween; Dog Breath/Uncle Meat; Cosmik Debris; David Bowie soundcheck
# INDISCREET PICTURE SHOW - KCET TV, L.A. dec. 1974
C 45 min (from LP)
Recorded for the `A Token of my Extreme' TV-show. Another bootleg
from this show (somewhat different) is `A Token of His Extreme' -
not to be confused with the `A Token of My Extreme' bootleg (1975).
Famous performance, good sound, also on video.
R.Underwood/N.M.Brock/C.Thompson/T.Fowler/G.Duke
Dog Breath; Trouble every Day; Montana; George Duke freaks out; Florentine
Pogen (split up into part 1 and 2); Oh No/Son of Orange County; Pygmy Twylyte
;
Stinkfoot (`Tom Waits version'); Inca Roads (tape ends at beginning of solo)
[ see Extreme ]
# BOSTON, Mass. 27-4-1975 (? = NO BACON FOR BREAKFAST ?)
C 90 min
B.Fowler/T.Fowler/N.M.Brock/T.Bozzio/D.Walley/G.Duke,
plus Captain Beefheart (`Bongo Fury band')
A: Instrumental (solo); Camarillo Brillo/Muffin Man solo; Let's make the Wate
r
turn Black (not the instrumental medley); Penguin in Bondage; Debra Kadabr
a;
Poofter's Froth Wyoming (with band introduction); George Duke whips it out
B: Torture Never Stops; ??; Montana; Florentine Pogen; Willie the Pimp
[ see Headache ]
# VANCOUVER, B.C. 1-10-1975
C 90 min
A bit of a blank area from Zappa's official live material, sort of a missing
link. Not his best band, but certainly interesting.
N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/T.Bozzio/R.Estrada
A: Apostrophe'; Baby, don't you want ... (new song); The Illinois Enema Bandi
t
(new); Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy; Lonely Little Girl; Take your Clothes of
f
when you dance; What's the Ugliest Part of your body?; Chunga's Revenge
B: Chunga's Revenge (continued; lengthy version); Swallow my Pride/Any Downer
s/
So you want to come to Canada? (when US citizens pass the border); T'Mersh
i
Duween; Zoot Allures
# WATERBURY, CT. 29-10-1975
C 90 min
N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/T.Bozzio/R.Estrada
A: Stinkfoot; Dirty Love; How could I be such a Fool?; Ain't got no heart;
I'm not satisfied; Black Napkins; Advance Romance; Honey, don't you want
a Man like Me?
B: The Illinois Enema Bandit (A girl from the audience acts as victim);
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy; Instrumental (Chunga's Revenge?)/drum solo
---
filler: Let's move to Cleveland (1984)
[ see Narrow ]
# THE EYES OF OSAKA - Osaka, Japan, 3-2-1976
C 120 min (from 2 CD)
This is the entire `Zoot Allures Black Napkins' concert. Very good sound,
good performance.
N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/T.Bozzio/R.Estrada
Intro (Inca solo); Stinkfoot + poodle chat; Dirty Love; Filthy Habits;
How could I be such a Fool?; Ain't got no Heart; I'm not Satisfied;
Black Napkins (edited on `Zoot Allures'; full length here: > 10 min.);
Advance Romance; Honey, don't you want a Man like Me?; Illinois Enema Bandit;
Wind up workin' in a Gas Station; Tryin' to grow a Chin; Torture Never Stops;
Chunga's Revenge/Terry's drum solo; Zoot Allures (YCDTOSA #3); Ship Ahoy
(`Shut up 'n Play yer Guitar'); I'm the Slime; San Ber'dino
# LET'S DRINK SOME BEER AND HEAR FRANK ZAPPA - Munich, 14-2-1976
C 45 min
N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/T.Bozzio/R.Estrada (+ D.Moire ?)
Chunga's Revenge/Terry's drum solo; Zoot Allures/Ship Ahoy; Dinah Moe Humm;
I'm the Slime; San Ber'dino
# PAPPA ZAPPA - Ludwigshafen, Germany, 15-2-1976
C 90 min (from 2 LP)
R.Estrada/T.Bozzio/N.M.Brock/A.Lewis/D.Moire
A: Prologue (Inca solo); Stinkfoot + poodle chat; Dirty Love; Filthy Habits;
How could I be such a Fool?; Ain't got no Heart; I'm not Satisfied;
Black Napkins
B: Advance Romance; Honey, don't you want a man like me?; Illinois Enema Band
it;
Wind up workin' in a Gas Station; Tryin' to grow a Chin; Torture never sto
ps;
Chunga's Revenge
# MIAMI MATINEE Vol.1 - Miami 1976
LP
R.White/T.Bozzio/P.O'Hearn/E.Jobson + Bianca Odin (voc, kb)
1. Intro; Stinkfoot + poodle chat; Dirty Love; Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Stati
on
(a similar version is on YCDTOSA #6); Tryin' to Grow a Chin
2. Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink; Would You Go All the Way?; Daddy, Daddy;
What Kind of Girl Do you Think We are?; Dinah-Moe Humm
# MIAMI MATINEE Vol.2 - Miami (* = N.Y.C.) 1976
LP
Poor sound on the NYC tracks.
Same band as vol.1
1. You Didn't Try to Call Me (interesting 6 min version); Advance Romance;
Stranded in a Jungle (*)
2. Black Napkins - extended version (> 16 mins); Muffin Man (*) -
very poor sound
# THE BLACK PAGE - Amsterdam, 25-2-1977
2 LP
R.White/T.Bozzio/P.O'Hearn/E.Jobson
1. Introduction; Peaches en Regalia; The Torture Never Stops; Big Leg Emma
2. City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown (listed as `The Black Page'; good FZ
solo); Jones Crusher
3. Blues (little guitar solo); My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama; Tryin' to
Grow a Chin; Broken Hearts are for Assholes; Dong Work for Yuda (a capella
)
4. Manx Needs Women; Titties and Beer; Black Napkins - 15 min, with violin
solo by Eddie Jobson
# STEAMING JUKEBOX - Eppelheim, Germany 24-2-1978
2 LP
Sound quality suffers from crackling noises and audience chat: not very good.
But the material on side 3 & 4 is quite interesting.
A.Belew/P.O'Hearn/T.Mars/P.Wolf/E.Mann/T.Bozzio
1. Introductions; Dancin' Fool; Peaches en Regalia; The Torture Never Stops
(like on YCDTOSA #1, but horrible sound); Tryin' to Grow a Chin
2. Tryin' to Grow a Chin (continued); City of Tiny Lites; Baby Snakes;
A Pound for A Brown
3. Instrumental (solo's from `Pound'); I Have Been in You (with intro about a
German boutique girl); Flakes
4. Flakes (last 45 sec.); Broken Hearts Are for Assholes; King Kong (very goo
d
solos, unfortunately there's an edit somewhere); Wild Love
# THE BEST SLIDIN' IS HORSE RIDIN' - Vienna, march 1978
LP
Sound quality is worse than on `Steaming Jukebox': for real diehards only.
`Pound' and `I have been' are worthwile; the other tracks are `just another
version of ...'
Same band as on `Steaming Jukebox'
1. Introductions; Dancin' Fool; Peaches en Regalia; The Torture Never Stops;
Tryin' to Grow a Chin; City of Tiny Lites
2. City of Tiny Lites (continued); Baby Snakes; A Pound for a Brown on the Bu
s
(most interesting track); I Have Been in You + introduction; Flakes (first
and last parts only; forget this track)
# KNEBWORTH, ENGLAND, 9-9-1978
C 65 min (from CD)
Same as `Saarbrucken 1978' for a great part. Also on `Rubber Slices' (2 LP
with more songs).
D.Walley/I.Willis/T.Mars/P.Wolf/V.Colaiuta/E.Mann/A.Barrow
The Deathless Horsie; Introduction + soundcheck; Dancin' Fool; Easy Meat;
Honey, don't you want a Man like me?; Pound for a Brown; Bobby Brown; Conehea
d;
I'm a Moron/Flakes; Magic Fingers; Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Nanook Rubs it/
St.Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast/Father O'Blivion; Bamboozled by Love
# BREST - France, feb. 1979
2 LP
Roughly (almost) the same as `Anyway The Wind Blows' (recorded in Paris,
part of BTB). `Anyway the Wind Blows' is better.
D.Walley/I.Willis/T.Mars/P.Wolf/V.Colaiuta/E.Mann/A.Barrow/W.Cucurullo
1. He Used to Cut the Grass (Imaginary Guitar Solo); Boutique (introduction);
Dead Girls of London (interrupted; people throw beercans on the stage);
Ain't Got No Heart; Brown Shoes Don't Make It
2. Cosmik Debris; Tryin' to Grow a Chin; City of Tiny Lites; Dancin' Fool;
Easy Meat (q 1 min.)
3. Easy Meat (continued); Jumbo Go Away; Andy; Inca Roads
4. Inca Roads (continued); Florentine Pogen; Honey, Don't You Want a Man
Like Me?; Peaches en Regalia; Montana (last part missing)
# SUNRISE, Fla, 18-4-1980, 1st show
C 90 min
Almost identical to `Joe's Garage Act 4 & 5 Live'. Most of the songs are new.
I.Willis/T.Mars/D.Logeman/A.Barrow/R.White
A: Watermelon; Teenage Wind; Harder than your Husband; Bamboozled by Love;
Pick me I'm clean; Society Pages; I'm a beautiful guy; Beauty knows no pai
n;
Charlie's Mouth; Any Downers; Conehead.
B: Easy Meat; Mudd Club; The Meek; Heavenly Bank Account; Suicide Chump;
Jumbo go away; If only she woulda; Drafted; Joe's Garage; Why does it hurt
when I pee?
# SUNRISE, Fla, 18-4-1980, 2nd show, 2nd part
C 45 min
You didn't try to call me; Ain't got no Heart; Lucille; Outside Now;
Easy Meat; Mudd Club; The Meek; Heavenly Bank Account; Dancin' Fool;
Bobby Brown
# ROTTERDAM, 24-5-1980 (bootlegged as `PERSONALITY')
C 90 min
Good sound; radio broadcast.
I.Willis/T.Mars/D.Logeman/A.Barrow/R.White
A: Chunga's Revenge; Keep it Greasy; Outside Now; City of Tiny Lites;
Teenage Wind; Bamboozled by Love; Pick me I'm Clean; Society Pages;
I'm a Beautiful Guy; Beauty knows no Pain; Charlie's Mouth.
B: Cosmik Debris; You didn't try to Call me; Love of my Life; You are
what you is; Easy Meat; Joe's Garage; Why does it hurt?; Dancin' Fool;
Bobby Brown; Ms. Pinky; Drafted; Illinois Enema Bandit (tape ends during
guitar solo).
# TEENAGE ROCKIN COMBO CONCERT VOL.II - Paris, 1980
C 45 min (from LP)
I.Willis/T.Mars/D.Logeman/A.Barrow/R.White
You didn't try to call me; Ain't got no Heart; Love of my Life; You are
what you is; Easy Meat; Mudd Club; The Meek; Heavenly Bank Account
(good intro by FZ); Suicide Chump; Jumbo go away.
# SONGS EINSTEIN JR. NEVER HEARD - Munich, 3-7-1980
CD (50 min)
Very clear sound. Radio broadcast from `King Biscuit Flower Hour'. Also known
as `Things Wayne Newton never told you' and `Erdbeben in Munchen', a.o.
I.Willis/T.Mars/D.Logeman/A.Barrow/R.White
My CD has 3 tracks:
- Chunga's Revenge; Mudd Club; The Meek; Joe's Garage; Golden Arches (`Pound'
)
- Cosmik Debris; Keep It Greasy; Pick Me I'm Clean; The Illinois Enema Bandit
- You Didn't Try to Call Me (YCDTOSA #1); Ain't Got No Heart; Love of My Life
;
City of Tiny Lites
# FRED ZAPPELIN - Cologne, Germany 7-6-1980 & USA, late 1980
C 90 min (from 2 LP)
Cologne 7-6-1980: I.Willis/R.White/T.Mars/D.Logeman/A.Barrow
A: Pound for a Brown; Pick me I'm Clean; Society Pages; I'm a beautiful guy;
Beauty knows no pain; Charlie's Mouth; Dancin' Fool; Bobby Brown; Ms.Pinky
Rest from various locations in USA: I.Willis/R.White/T.Mars/V.Colaiuta/
A.Barrow/S.Vai/B.Harris
Truck Driver Divorce; You're a Dork; Outside Now
B: Tinseltown Rebellion; The Dangerous Kitchen; Your Ethos (The Blue Light);
Dumb all over; Shall we take os. seriously?; Black Napkins/introduction;
Doreen; Goblin Girl; Broken Hearts are for Assholes; I'm so Cute; Andy
# LONDON, ENGLAND (??), 1980
C 90 min
Really London? Or USA fall 1980?
Band (probably): I.Willis/R.White/T.Mars/V.Colaiuta/A.Barrow/S.Vai/B.Harr
is
A: Cosmik Debris; Keep it Greasy; Lucille; The Blue Light; Tinseltown Rebelli
on;
Pick me I'm Clean; Honey, don't you want?; Mudd Club; The Meek; Dumb all o
ver
B: Dumb all over; Ain't got no Heart; Torture Never Stops (edit)/keyboard &
drum solo; Heavy Duty Judy; Broken Hearts are for Assholes; I'm so Cute; A
ndy
# HALLOWEEN - N.Y.C. 31-10-1981
LP (60 min)
Part of the famous 1981 Halloween performances in NYC. Many bootlegs of these
(2)
shows are available, also on video. Some parts (not on this record) are on
`As An Am' (BTB).
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
1. You Are What You Is; Mudd Club; The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing; Dumb All O
ver
(YCDTOSA #1 - boring guitar solo is included here); Heavenly Bank Account
(YCDTOSA #1); Suicide Chump (YCDTOSA #1 - no solo's on this bootleg);
Jumbo Go Away; We're Turning Again
2. We're Turning Again (continued); Alien Orifice (solo edited on YCDTOSA #6;
full length here); Teenage Prostitute; Flakes; Broken Hearts Are for Assho
les;
Montana; Whipping Post
# HEAVENLY BANK ACCOUNT - N.Y.C. 31-10-1981 & ??
2 LP
Sides 2-4 are the same as `Halloween' (N.Y.C. 31-10-1981). Side 1 is recorded
with the same band (place & date ??). Gothenburg, Sweden 1978 (cover info) is
nonsense.
Same band as on `Halloween'
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
1. Strictly Genteel/introductions; No No Cherry; Man from Utopia; In France
2. You Are What You Is; Mudd Club; The Meek; Dumb All Over; Heavenly Bank Acc
ount
3. Suicide Chump; Jumbo Go Away; We're Turning Again; Alien Orifice
4. Teenage Prostitute; Flakes; Broken Hearts; Montana; Whipping Post
# "NYC HALLOWEEN 1981" - N.Y.C. 31-1-1981
C 68 min (from video)
More from the 1981 Halloween shows. From the following videos:
Dumb All Over (DAO)
The Dub Room Special - official video (also with 1974 KCET TV)
The Torture Never Stops (TNS)
Sound: good mono.
Same band as on `Halloween' and `Heavenly Bank Account'
Fine Girl; Teenage Wind; Harder than your Husband; City of Tiny Lites (DAO)
Stevie's Spanking (DRS); Stinkfoot (DRS - 1974 KCET TV);
Flakes; Easy Meat; Cocaine Decisions; Nig Biz (DRS)
Torture never stops (also on `As An Am'); Strictly Genteel (YCDTOSA #6);
Illinois Enema Bandit (TNS)
# THE RITZ, NYC, 17-11-1981
C 120 min
Also on `Drowning Witch', `Standing Room Only' and `Clownz on Velvet'
(`Toxic Shock' part 1, 2 & 3)
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman + special guest
:
Al DiMeola
A: Intro/Treacherous Cretins; Montana; Easy Meat; You are what you is;
Mudd Club; The Meek; Dumb all over; Heavenly Bank Account; Suicide Chump;
Jumbo go away; Envelopes - into Drowning Witch
B: Drowning Witch; What's New in Baltimore?; Moggio; Bamboozled by Love;
Sinister Footwear II; Stevie's Spanking; Cocaine Decisions; Nig Biz
C: Doreen/Goblin Girl; Black Page #2 (solo is too long - boring); Tryin' to
grow a Chin; Strictly Genteel; Closing benediction (`I wanna intoduce you
to another great Italian: Al DiMeola'); Clownz on Velvet - with Al DiMeola
;
Ride like the Wind - also with Al DiMeola (lead vocals by the drum roadie)
;
While I tune my Guitar; Zoot Allures
D: This is my Story; Whipping Post (reggae version); Watermelon in Easter Hay
# SANTA MONICA, CIVIC AUDITORIUM, 11-12-1981
C 90 min
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
A: Zoot Allures/introduction; Man from Utopia; Dumb all over; Heavenly Bank
Account; Suicide Chump; Jumbo go away; Envelopes/Drowning Witch
B: What's New in Baltimore?; Moggio; We're turning again; Alien Orifice;
Teenage Prostitute (with Lisa Popeil); Pound for a Brown/Nicholas Slonimsk
y
whips it out; Oversexed Hussy (Lisa's life story - YCDTOSA #6); Broken Hea
rts
are for Assholes (interrupted because FZ wants a person who throws food on
the stage to lick it up); King Kong
# PINK ELEPHANTS NEVER CRY (but they sure screw like hell) - Rotterdam, 15-5-19
82
2 LP
This was a good performance with an excellent band. Unfortunately, the sound
is absolutely horrible. Too bad; if just the sound would be better...
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
1. Zoot Allures/introductions; Sofa No.1; RDNZL
2. Advance Romance; We're Turning Again; Alien Orifice; Harder Than Your Husb
and
3. Bamboozled by Love; Young and Monde - 1982 version of `Kreegah Bandolo'
(or `Cleveland'); Tinseltown Rebellion; Approximate; Cosmik Debris
4. Cosmik Debris (continued); Sinister Footwear II (listed as `Wild Love
Improvisations'); Stevie's Spanking
# VOLARE - Cologne, Germany 21-5-1982 (ex. *)
C 45 min (from LP)
R.White/S.Vai/T.Mars/B.Martin/E.Mann/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
Volare (* Milano, july 1982); Zoot Allures/introduction; Sofa No.1; Fine Girl
;
Easy Meat; Dead Girls of London; Shall we take os. seriously? + explaining
intro - funny; What's New in Baltimore?; Moggio
# AUTOGRAPHE - Italy, july 1982
C 45 min (from LP)
Band as on `Volare'
Intro (end of `Mammy Anthem'); Bamboozled by Love; Young & Monde;
Tinseltown Rebellion/Approximate; Drowning Witch/Black Page #2 (end);
Tell me you love me; Stevie's Spanking; Sofa No.1
# KREEGA BONDOLA - Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, NY, 1-9-1984
C 120 min (from 2 CD)
Entire show, very good performance, excellent sound. About the best I've hear
d
from the 1984 band.
1984 band: I.Willis/R.White/B.Martin/A.Zavod/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
A: Heavy Duty Judy/introductions; Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy; Advance Romance;
I'm the Slime; Be in my Video; What's new in Baltimore?; Lucille; Ride my
face to Chicago; Teenage Wind; Truck Driver Divorce; Cocaine Decisions
B: Nig Biz; Sharleena; Keep it Greasy; Honey, don't you want a man like me?;
Carol you Fool; Chana in de Bushwop; Kreegah Bandolo (`Cleveland')
C: The voodoo margerine underpants; He's so gay; Bobby Brown; Crew Slut;
The women's movement; Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; Illinois Enema Bandit
# FITS YOUR 34B, NO MATTER WHICH 43B YOU ARE - Oslo, Norway, 14-9-1984
CD (80 min)
In the `musical chapter' of `The Real Frank Zappa Book' (p.170) there's a
reference to this concert (Dramminn-dramminn-hollinn-hollinn). Secret word
that night: `spoo'. Sound is like `average bootleg' (BTB).
I.Willis/R.White/B.Martin/A.Zavod/S.Thunes/C.Wackerman
Heavy Duty Judy/introductions; City of Tiny Lites; You Are What You Is;
Mudd Club; The Meek; Ride my Face to Chicago; Sharleena; Joe's Garage;
Why Does It Hurt when I Pee?; He's so Gay; Bobby Brown; Kreegah Bandolo
(`Cleveland'); Dinah-Moe Humm; Penguin in Bondage; Green Hotel; Whipping Post
# ZAPPED AGAIN! - Rotterdam, 16-9-1984
2 LP (100 min)
The performance was not as good as the one from 1982, but the sound is better
than on `Pink Elephants' (although not excellent). Also, the entire show is
captured. I treasure this one: first time I saw FZ.
1984 band as on `Kreega Bandolo' and `34B'
1. Chunga's Revenge/introductions; Teenage Wind; Truck Driver Divorce;
Trouble every Day; Penguin in Bondage; Green Hotel
2. Cocaine Decisions; Nig Biz; Sharleena; He's so Gay; Bobby Brown;
Keep it Greasy; Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
3. Carol, You Fool; Chana in de Bushwop; Kreegah Bandolo (`Cleveland')
4. The Closer You Are/Johnny Darling/No No Cherry; Cosmik Debris;
Dinah Moe Humm; Whipping Post
# STONYBROOK, NY, 3-11-1984
C 90 mins
1984 band
A: Zoot Allures; Tinseltown Rebellion; Trouble every day; Penguin in Bondage;
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel; Be in my Video; Goblin Girl;
Black Page #2; I'm the Slime; Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
B: The Evil Prince; Teenage Wind; Truck Driver Divorce; Carol you Fool;
Chana in de Bushwop; Kreegah Bandolo (`Cleveland'); Little Girl of mine/
The Closer you are/No No Cherry
# SEATTLE, 17-12-1984
C 90 min
1984 band
A: Stinkfoot; Teenage Wind; Truck Driver Divorce; The Evil Prince; Cocaine
Decisions; Nig Biz; What's New in Baltimore?; Cock-sucker's Ball/WPLJ;
Advance Romance
B: Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy (joined during solo); My Guitar; Willie the Pimp
;
Montana; Easy Meat; Sharleen; Joe's Garage; Why does it hurt when I pee?;
Bamboozled by Love
# BEACON THEATER, NYC, 4-2-1988
2 x C 90 min
`Broadway the Hard Way' band: I.Willis/M.Keneally/W.Fowler/B.Fowler/P.Car
man/
A.Wing/K.McGettrick/C.Wackerman/E.Mann/B.Martin/S.Thunes
A: Preamble: register to vote; Black Page #2; Dickie's such an Asshole;
When the lie's so big; Planet of the Baritone Women; Any kind of pain;
Jesus thinks you're a Jerk; Sofa No.2
B: Packard Goose (with Stravinsky/Bartok classical piece); Torture never stop
s
part 1/Lonesome Cowboy Burt/Torture part 2
---
filler from Warner Theater (Washington D.C.):
Florentine Pogen/Andy/Inca Roads
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C: Why don't you like me?; Disco Boy; Teenage Wind; Truck Driver Divorce;
Who needs the Peace Corps?; We're turning again; King Kong (with `Porn War
s');
Stairway to Heaven
D: Dancin' Fool; Whipping Post; I am the Walrus (with solo); Strictly Genteel
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filler from Tower Theater (Philadelphia), 13-2-'88:
Heavy Duty Ed (Meese); Zomby Woof; City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown
(with guitar solo)
# CHICAGO, Auditorium Theatre, 3-3-1988
C 130 min
Chicago 1988 was the show where Sting showed up on stage. Good show, audience
tape.
I.Willis/M.Keneally/W.Fowler/B.Fowler/P.Carman/A.Wing/K.McGettrick/
C.Wackerman/E.Mann/B.Martin/S.Thunes (`Broadway band')
A: The Black Page; We're turning again; Alien Orifice; Any Kind of Pain;
Why don't you like me? (same as on `Broadway'); Texas Motel Medley
(Norwegian Jim/Louisiana Hooker w. Herpes/Texas Motel); When the Lie's so
Big; Jesus Thinks you're a Jerk (edit; no monologue)
B: Sofa No.1; Stolen Moments/Murder by Numbers (with Sting); Ain't got no Hea
rt;
Love of my Life; City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown; Stairway to Heaven
C: Stairway (again); Whippin' Post; I am the Walrus; Catholic Girls; Crew Slu
t;
Strictly Genteel
# THE GODFATHER MEETS THE UNTOUCHABLES - live 1988
2 x C 90 min
`Broadway band'
1988 live recordings from different shows. Sound is not very good. But some
of the material is quite interesting.
A: Black Page #2; Dickie's such an Asshole; Stick Together; My Guitar;
Willie the Pimp; Packard Goose (see `Nassau Coliseum'); Torture never stop
s
pt 1/Cowboy Burt/Torture pt 2 (Nassau Coliseum)
B: Torture pt 2 (cont.); Confinement Loaf (Bacon Fat - extra verse compared t
o
`Broadway'); Stolen Moments (extended version); Big Swifty (interpolating
The Untouchables); Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue; Uncle Remus; Catholic Gi
rls
C: Catholic Girls (again - Philadelphia?); Crew Slut (edit); Lucille; Let's
move to Cleveland; King Kong; Find her Finer; Outside Now; Disco Boy
D: Let's make the water turn black/Oh No/Lumpy Gravy; Sharleena; Watermelon;
Peaches en Regalia; Heavy Duty Judy; Eat that Question; Black Napkins;
Bolero
# NASSAU COLISEUM, Long Island, 25-3-1988
2 x C 90 min
This was the last show in the US before the 1988 band went to Europe.
Excellent. Sound is not bad, but could be better (rec. level too high).
I.Willis/M.Keneally/W.Fowler/B.Fowler/P.Carman/A.Wing/K.McGettrick/
C.Wackerman/E.Mann/B.Martin/S.Thunes + Eric Buxton
A: Preamble: register to vote!; Black Page #2; Ain't got no heart; Love of
my Life; Inca Roads; Sharleena; Who needs the Peace Corps?; Dickie's such
an asshole; When the lie's so big; Jesus ...
B: ... thinks you're a Jerk - monologue by Eric Buxton, as on `Broadway';
Sofa No.1; Bolero; America the Beautiful (probably `Bolero' & `America' ar
e
from a different show)
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filler:
Stolen Moments/Murder by Numbers (`Chicago 1988'); Heavy Duty Ed (also
filler on `Beacon Theater'; Ring of Fire (with intro from BBYNHIYL -
unedited here); Ring of Fire (2nd version); Bolero of Fire
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C: Preamble: Chad Wackerman's birthday; Packard Goose (with Stavinsky/Bartok
piece); Torture Never Stops part 1/Lonesome Cowboy Burt/Torture part 2;
City of Tiny Lites; A Pound ...
D: ... for a Brown (on the bus); Brother A. West (different from BBYNHIYL);
Texas Motel Medley (Norwegian Jim/Louisiana Hooker w. Herpes/Texas Motel);
Peaches en Regalia
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Filler ? or is it the same concert ? Probably.
Stairway to Heaven (Dweezil Zappa guitar); I am the Walrus; Whipping Post
(solo by Dweezil & Frank)
# FRANKIE'S GREATEST HITS - Live '88
LP
Track listing on cover is completely incorrect.
Side 1 is live 1988. Side 2 is just crap. Studio (or dressing room?) jamming;
very bad sound. Not recommended, except for `Dupree's Paradise'.
1. I'm the Slime (sound check); Dupree's Paradise (Good version, better than
on `Jazz Noise'. Only track from the record that's really interesting.);
Ring of Fire; Rhymin' Man; Make a Sex Noise (Oslo '88); Elvis Has Just Lef
t
the Building; Star Wars (guitar solo)
2. Your Ethos/Strictly Genteel/Magic Fingers/Call any Vegetable/Dog Breath/
Wonderful Wino/Ms. Pinky/Mom and Dad/Small and Jewish
# THE UNTOUCHABLES - live 1988
CD (65 min)
`Broadway band'
When the Lie's so Big; Planet of the Baritone Women; Any Kind of Pain;
Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk; The Untouchables; Promiscuous; Why Don't you
Like Me?; Who Needs the Peace Corps?; Filthy Habits; Cruisin' for Burgers;
Mr. Green Genes; Zomby Woof; Jezebel Boy; Florentine Pogen
# OSLO, SKEDSMOHALLEN, 27-4-1988
2 x C 90 min
Good sound quality, good show. Secret word that night: `sausage'.
(`Fornebu' is the name of Oslo's airport)
`Broadway band'
A: Stinkfoot; Ain't got no Heart; Love of my Life; Packard Goose (with
classical piece); Alien Orifice; Sharleena; Let's make the Water turn Blac
k
medley/Oh No/Lumpy Gravy Theme
B: Advance Romance; Bobby Brown; Keep it Greasy Torture part 1 (sausage
version)/Cowboy Burt/Torture part 2 (with solo by Walt Fowler); Texas Mote
l
Medley (Sausage Motel)
C: City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown/Make a Sex Noise; Stairway (to sausa
ge); Bolero;
Rhymin' Man (world premiere)
D: Sofa No.1 (Ich bin hier und du bist mein Sausage); Andy; Inca Roads;
Strictly Genteel
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filler from Troy, NY, 6-11-1976:
Wind up working in a gas station; Tryin' to grow a chin; Torture never sto
ps
# BARCELONA 1988
C 115 min
Sound is mono (from video). There are some cuts instead of Spanish commercial
s.
`Broadway band'
A: Preamble (Espanol)/The Black Page #2; Packard Goose; Sharleena; Bamboozled
by Love; Black Napkins; When the lie's so big; Planet of the Baritone Wome
n;
Any kind of pain; Jesus thinks ...
B: ... you're a Jerk; Sofa No.1; Find her finer; Big Swifty; Ain't got no hea
rt;
Love of my Life; Raffle never stops part 1/Cowboy Burt/Torture part 2
(apparently, the secret word that night was `raffle'); Bolero
C: Watermelon; Whipping Post; I am the Walrus; Illinois Enema Bandit
# REMINGTON ELECTRIC RAZOR
C 33 min (from LP)
Various live and studio cuts from different periods. Good sound.
Freak me out Frank (intro to `Babbette', YCDTOSA #1); Jumbo go away (1978
);
Moe's Vacation - 1978, goes into `Black Page'; Dong Work for Yuda
(original version, probably from 1977); Tricky Dickie (1973, YCDTOSA #3);
Nite Owl (1980); My name is Fritz - excerpt from `German Lunch' (1969,
YCDTOSA #5); Interview (not used for 200 Motels); Satisfaction (1978);
Remington Electric Razor - apparently with Linda Ronstadt (?)
# LECTURES
LP
Live & studio, q 1979-1981. Sound is quite good.
With: T.Mars/S.Thunes/B.Martin/C.Wackerman/E.Mann/S.Vai/R.White/I.Willis/
D.Walley/A.Barrow/V.Colaiuta
1. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Again (=`Outside Now' on `Demo's'); Zoot Allure
s II
(solo from Santa Monica 1981); Dancin' Fool (Saturday Night Live ??)
2. Catholic Meat - Easy Meat, with a `Catholic Girls' riff ending;
The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou; Alien Orifice
# DEMO'S
2 LP
Various live & studio, most from 1979-1984.
On side 4 are the versions of some `Sleep Dirt' songs (recorded q 1974) as
originally intended by FZ: with vocals.
1. Side 1 is live Santa Monica 11-12-1981:
Teenage Prostitute (with Lisa Popeil); Pound for a Brown (Nic Slonimsky
whips it out); Lisa's Story of her Life (YCDTOSA #6); Broken Hearts
2. Doreen (from `Crush All Boxes', 1980); Easy Meat (idem.); Stick It Out
(live Hollywood 22-7-1984); Truck Driver Divorce (idem, with George Duke)
3. (Munich 31-3-1979)
The Deathless Horsie; Outside Now (= `Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar again'
on `Lectures')
4. Flambay/Spider of Destiny (vocals by Thana Harris); Planet of my Dreams;
Time is Money (with vocals); Truck Driver Divorce (1981); Frogs with Dirty
Little Lips (1981); In France (live 1984 ??)
~~From: -------@---.---------.--
FZ BOOTLEG LIST
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I. On vinyl & cd:
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=
[ see Safe Muffinz ]
[ see Nightmare ]
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# Miami Matinee Vol.1 lp KAX Rec.
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1976
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# Miami Matinee Vol.2 lp KAX Rec.
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1976
Vol.1 is from Miami, vol.2 also has two tracks from N.Y.C.
Bianca Odin (see YCDTOSA #6) performs on the Miami stuff (vocals & kb).
Other band members: Ray White, Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn, Eddie Jobson.
Sound quality is not very good, but I define it as 'acceptable' (slightly
better on vol.1 than on vol.2)
Both records have very silly covers with wrong (that is, not from 1976)
photos on the back.
Songs on vol.1:
1. Intro
Stinkfoot (followed by a 'poodle chat' like on 'YCDTOSA' #6)
Dirty Love
Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
2. Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
Would You Go All the Way?
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
What Kind of Girl Do you Think We are?
Dinah-Moe Humm
Songs on vol.2:
1. You Didn't Try to Call Me (Different version, over 6 mins. Highlight
of vol.2.)
Advance Romance
Stranded in a Jungle (New York)
2. Black Napkins (extended version: over 16 min.)
Muffin Man (New York - poor sound quality)
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# The Black Page 2lp BZ Rec.
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1977
Amsterdam, feb. 1977. Band: Ray White, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio,
Eddie Jobson. Very good one; one of my favorite Zappa-bootlegs.
1. Introductions
Peaches en Regalia
The Torture Never Stops (one of the best versions I've heard)
Big Leg Emma
2. City of Tiny Lites
(About the earliest version of this song that I know; recorded only
2 months after `Live in NY'. With very O'Hearnish bass.)
Pound for a Brown (Incorrectly listed as 'The Black Page'; with a good
solo.)
Jones Crusher
3. Blues (little guitar solo)
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
Broken Hearts are for Assholes
Dong Work for Yuda (a capella version)
4. Manx Needs Women (not listed)
Titties and Beer
Black Napkins (extended version - violin solo by Eddie Jobson)
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# Steaming Jukebox 2lp
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1978
Germany, febr. 1978. Sound quality is not excellent (crackling noises and
audience chat during some of the songs), but not too bad either.
It is great stuff for 'Sheik Yerbouti-fans'. Many tracks from 'Sheik',
as they sounded before they were overdubbed. Yes, I think it's quite a good
bootleg.
Band: Belew, O'Hearn, Mars, Wolf, Mann, Bozzio.
1. Introductions
Dancin' Fool
Peaches en Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
(version as on 'YCDTOSA' #1, but it sounds horrible here)
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
2. Tryin' to Grow a Chin (continued)
City of Tiny Lites
Baby Snakes
A Pound for A Brown (best part of the bootleg is from this tune to the end
)
3. Instrumental (solo's from 'Pound for a Brown' I think)
I Have Been in You (with long intro; total time > 11 min.)
Flakes
4. Flakes (the remaining 45 sec.)
Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
King Kong
(with very good solos, unfortunately part of it has been cut out)
Wild Love
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# The Best Slidin' is Horse Ridin' lp Black & White/Revival Rec.
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1978
Vienna, march 1978. All tracks on this one are on 'Steaming Jukebox' too.
Sound quality is worse, unfortunately. For diehards only.
Different versions of 'Pound for a Brown' and 'I Have Been in You'; these 2
tracks are most worthwile. Most other tracks are not very interesting;
just another version of 'Tryin' to grow a chin' etc.
1. Introductions
Dancin' Fool
Peaches en Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
(sounds even worse than the one from 'Steaming Jukebox')
Tryin' to Grow a Chin (the umptieth bootleg-version)
City of Tiny Lites
2. City of Tiny Lites (continued)
Baby Snakes
A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (this version is quite good)
I Have Been in You + introduction
Flakes (very first and very last parts only; forget this one)
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# Brest 2lp Shogun
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1979
France (Brest, that's right) 1979. The very most of it is also available on
'Anyway the Wind Blows' (part of BTB; recorded in Paris).
In fact, it's mainly the same, but 'Frank in Paris' contains a little extra.
Sound quality of this one is somewhat disappointing; you'd expect better
when looking at the cover. Since the BTB-release, bootlegs like this one
have become less valuable. `Anyway the Wind Blows' is better.
Songs on this one:
1. He Used to Cut the Grass (Imaginary Guitar Solo)
Boutique (?? It's introduction time after the solo)
Dead Girls of London
(interrupted because people are throwing beercans on the stage)
Ain't Got No Heart (not listed)
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
2. Cosmik Debris
Tryin' to Grow a Chin (yes, once again)
City of Tiny Lites
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat (+/- 1 min.)
3. Easy Meat (rest of the song)
Jumbo Go Away
Andy (track listing on cover is somewhat different, and incorrect)
Inca Roads
4. Inca Roads
Florentine Pogen
Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
Peaches en Regalia
Montana (last part missing)
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# Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard cd
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1980
No information on the cover about where and when it's recorded. But the
year must be 1980, and the location is probably Munich (but I'm not sure
about that). Very good sound quality to be a bootleg. Radio broadcast?
Possible; the Rotterdam 1980 show has also been on the radio (entire show -
see tape section).
Isn't there a bootleg called 'Things Wayne Newton never told you'? I think
that one's also from 1980, and has the same tracks.
Total playing time 49:27.
Songs (the disc has got 3 tracks):
- Chunga's Revenge
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Joe's Garage
Golden Arches (little guitar solo)
- Cosmik Debris
Keep It Greasey
Pick Me I'm Clean
The Illinois Enema Bandit
- You Didn't Try to Call Me
Ain't Got No Heart
Love of My Life
City of Tiny Lites
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# Halloween lp KEF Rec, Switzerland
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1981
Part of the famous 1981-Halloween performance in NYC. (Other parts are
on 'As An Am'.)
Broadcasted in many countries, and many bootlegs of this show are available.
This one has a playing time of 1 hour and features 'You Are What You Is'-
songs mainly. 3 of them are on 'YCDTOSA' #1.
Songs (no tracks listed on the record):
1. You Are What You Is
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Dumb All Over
(including a boring guitar solo - left out on YCDTOSA #1)
Heavenly Bank Account
Suicide Chump
(on YCDTOSA #1 the solo's are included, but they're cut out here.)
Jumbo Go Away
We're Turning Again
2. We're Turning Again
Alien Orifice
(FZ edited out the boring parts of the solo on YCDTOSA #6; here it
has full length)
Teenage Prostitute
Flakes
Broken Hears Are for Assholes
Montana
Whipping Post
See also 'Heavenly Bank Account'
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# Heavenly Bank Account 2lp Pilot/PRC Inc.
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1981 (and 1982?)
Gothenburg, Sweden, dec. 1978, the cover says. This is wrong.
Side 2-4 are the same as 'Halloween' (2 sides on 'Halloween'; 3 sides on
this one): 31-10-1981 in N.Y.C.
Side 1 is from 1981 or 1982 (there's a band introduction). Maybe this is
recorded somewhere in Europe, maybe even Gothenburg. But side 2-4 are NOT;
and none of the recordings are from 1978.
1. Strictly Genteel
Introductions
No No Cherry
Man from Utopia
In France
Rest of the bootleg is the same as `Halloween'
2. You Are What You Is
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Dumb All Over
Heavenly Bank Account
3. Suicide Chump
Jumbo Go Away
We're Turning Again
Alien Orifice
4. Teenage Prostitute
Flakes
Broken Hears Are for Assholes
Montana
Whipping Post
'Halloween' is a better bootleg for the NYC-1981 stuff. And I won't
recommend this one for side 1 only.
---
# Lectures lp
--------
+/- 1979-1982 (? a guess by looking at the band members and the songs)
Soundchecks and alternate studio takes (it sounds like that).
Mainly instrumental stuff, with different bands.
Musicians are Mars, Thunes, Martin, Wackerman, Mann, Vai, White, Willis,
Walley, Barrow, Colaiuta, FZ.
Good sound quality.
1. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Again (Outside Now; see 'Demo's')
Zoot Allures II
Dancin' Fool
2. Catholic Meat (Easy Meat ending with a 'Catholic Girls' riff)
The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou
Alien Orifice
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# Pink Elephants Never Cry (but they sure screw like hell) 2lp Panic Rec.
--------------------------------------------------------
1982
Recorded 15-5-1982 in Rotterdam. This was a good performance with
an excellent band. Good songs on the bootleg too, but the sound quality is
*horrible* Too bad :-( Not recommended.
There seems to be another bootleg from 'Rotterdam 1982'. Never heard it,
but I'd like to; maybe it has a better sound-quality?
1. Zoot Allures
Introductions
Sofa No.1
Redunzel (RDNZL)
2. Advance Romance
We're Turning Again
Alien Orifice
Harder Than Your Husband
3. Bamboozled by Love
Young and Monde (`Kreegah Bandolo', known as `Cleveland' since `Humor')
Tinseltown Rebellion
(interrupted because people are throwing stuff on the stage)
Approximate
Cosmik Debris
4. Cosmik Debris
Sinister Footwear II (listed as 'Wild Love Improvisations')
Stevie's Spanking
---
# Demo's 2lp
------
1974-1984
Various live & studio from different periods, but mainly from 1979-1984.
I think most of the material is available on other bootlegs.
Side 1 is live 1981 with Lisa Popeil.
On side 4 are the versions of some `Sleep Dirt' songs as originally intended
by FZ: with vocals. (The cd version of SD has the vocals. I prefer the
instrumental versions by the way, but that's only my opinion.)
Pretty good sound quality.
1. (Live Santa Monica 11-12-1981)
Teenage Prostitute (with Lisa Popeil)
Pound for a Brown (with an old man named Nicolas Slawimsky on piano)
Lisa's Story of her Life (YCDTOSA #6)
Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
(with interruption because someone throws food on the stage; FZ wants
him to lick it up.)
2. Doreen (From 'Crush All Boxes, 1980)
Easy Meat (idem.)
Stick It Out (Live Hollywood 22-7-1984)
Truck Driver Divorce (idem, with George Duke; interesting version)
3. (Munich 31-3-1979)
The Deathless Horsie
Outside Now
(same as the track `Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar again' on `Lectures')
4. Flambay/Spider of Destiny (Vocals by Thana Harris.)
Planet of my Dreams
Time is Money (with vocals)
(These songs were recorded around 1974.)
Truck Driver Divorce (1981)
Frogs with Dirty Little Lips (1981)
In France (good version- live 1984 ??)
---
# Fits Your 34B, No Matter Which 43B You Are cd
------------------------------------------
1984
Recorded 14-9-1984, somewhere in northern Europe. Where?
In the musical chapter of `The Real Frank Zappa Book' there's a reference
somewhere to a concert from 1984 in Oslo, Norway. The secret word that
night was `spoo'. That's what you hear on this bootleg. FZ also says
`Fornebu' (name of Oslo's airport) somewhere, so it's probably Norway.
Anyway, it has some tracks that were never released in a 1984-version.
Total time is 79:22 (only 1 disc). Sound quality is decent (about `normal
bootleg quality').
Songs:
Heavy Duty Judy
Introductions
City of Tiny Lites
You Are What You Is
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Ride my Face to Chicago
Sharleena
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt when I Pee?
He's so Gay
Bobby Brown
Kreegah Brandolo (titled `Cleveland' on `Humor')
Dinah-Moe Humm
Penguin in Bondage
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
Whippin' Post
---
# Zapped Again! 2lp Sound Board Inc.
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1984
The entire concert from Rotterdam 1984 (16 sept.).
The performance there was not as good as the one from 1982, but this bootleg
is much better than 'Pink Elephants', because of the better sound quality
(compared to `Pink Elephants'), and the fact that the ENTIRE show is captured
(100 minutes).
Not surprisingly, much of the songs on this boot were released on 'Does Humor
Belong..?' and on YCDTOSA #3.
Sound quality is decent (not excellent).
Anyway, I sure like this one because this was the first time I actually saw
FZ on stage.
No tracks are listed on the record. Here they are:
1. Chunga's Revenge + introductions
Teenage Wind
Truck Driver Divorce
Trouble every Day
Penguin in Bondage
Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
2. Cocaine Decisions
Nig Biz
Sharleena
He's so Gay
Bobby Brown
Keep it Greasey
Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
3. Carol, You Fool
Chana in de Bushwop
Kreegah Bandolo (`Cleveland' on `Humor', but I find this a better version.
)
4. The Closer You Are/Johnny Darling
No No Cherry
Cosmik Debris
Dinah-Moe Humm
Whipping Post
---
# Frankie's Greatest Hits-Live '88 lp Showtime Rec, USA
--------------------------------
1988
Track listing on cover (wrong):
1. Stinkfoot, Montana, Bobby Brown, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When i Pee
?
2. Dancin'Fool, Cosmik Debris, Whipping Post, Illinois Enema Bandit
Track listing on label (correct):
1. I'm the Slime (sound check)
Dupree's Paradise (Good version, it has a second solo instead of the stupi
d
sounds on `Jazz Noise'; this is the -only- interesting
track of the bootleg.)
Ring of Fire
Rhymin' Man
Make a Sex Noise (recorded in Norway - see tape section, Oslo '88)
Elvis Has Just Left the Building
Star Wars (just a guitar solo)
2. Your Ethos/Strictly Genteel/Magic Fingers/Call any Vegetable/Dog Breath/
Wonderful Wino/Ms. Pinky/Mom and Dad/Small and Jewish
Side 1 is o.k. but I wouldn't recommend this record for side 1 only.
Forget side 2: demo-like jamming, bad sound quality. Don't know how, where
and when it's recorded, but it's horrible anyway. Just sh*t.
The most (only) interesting track of the bootleg is `Dupree's Paradise'.
---
# The Untouchables cd Raven
----------------
1988
Recorded in the USA during the 1988-tour. New songs from 'Broadway',
and old ones. Sound quality is about `normal'. I think this is the best-known
bootleg from the 1988-tour, and it's quite good, but it doesn't add much
extra to the official 1988-releases.
Total playing time 65:03.
Songs:
When the Lie's so Big
Planet of the Baritone Women
Any Kind of Pain
Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
The Untouchables
Promiscuous
Why Don't you Like Me?
Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Filthy Habits
Cruisin' for Burgers
Mr. Green Genes
Zomby Woof
Jezebel Boy
Florentine Pogen
---
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=
II. On tape:
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=
# Arlington, Texas, 11-3-1973 - 90 mins
Band: Ponty, B. & T. Fowler, I. & R. Underwood, Duke, Humphrey
Good sound quality; recommended.
Songs:
A: RDNZL
Exercise #4/Dog Breath/Uncle Meat
Fifty-fifty
Audience participation jam/Imaginary diseases of the future
B: Inca Roads
Montana
G. Duke solo/instrumental jam
Mr. Green Genes
King Kong
---
# "Hofstra & Elsewhere", late 1973 - 90 mins
The title is just mine. In fact, this is a recommendation;
`Roxy & Elsewhere' is my favorite Zappa-album.
Songs:
A: Preamble/Cosmik Debris
Preamble/Montana
Dupree's Paradise with Breast Lecture by a young genius
FZ says something like `Live at Hofstra College' when the guy is
introduced on stage.
B: Preamble/Inca Roads
Pygmy Twylyte/Cheepnis
Preamble/Be Bop Tango
There's a tape interruption during this tune; the last part is probably
from a different performance. FZ says something about Waterloo, Canada.
Hence my title.
+ filler:
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy (place & date unknown)
---
# Nifty/Ein Monster in der Musikhalle - 90 mins
Recommended, especially `Nifty'.
A: Nifty
Side 1 recorded N.Jersey late 1973
R. Underwood, Duke, B. & T. Fowler, Humphrey, Thompson, N.M. Brock
Songs:
Pygmy Twylyte (`fast' version, with sort of `Dummy Up' thing)
Dupree's Paradise/Be Bop Tango theme
Dog Breath
Uncle Meat.
Side 2 recorded Sydney, july 8 1973
I. & R. Underwood, Ponty, Duke, B. & T. Fowler, Humphrey, Sal Marquez
Songs:
Father O'Blivion (YCDTOSA #6)
Yellow Snow
Nanook rubs it
St.Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast
Penguin in Bondage
T'Mershi Duween (also on Piquantique)
B: Ein Monster in der Musikhalle
Vienna, Austria, sept 11 1974 (band as on Helsinki Concert)
Songs:
Token of my Extreme
Dupree's Paradise
Pygmy Twylyte
Room Service (Vienna version)
Note: I'm the Slime is not on this tape.
---
---
[see Teenage Maltshop]
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# Rotterdam, may 1980 - 90 mins
Very good sound quality; from radio-broadcast.
Band: Willis, Mars, Logeman, Barrow, White
Songs:
A: Chunga's Revenge, Keep it Greasy, Outside Now, City of Tiny Lites,
Teenage Wind, Bamboozled by Love, Pick me I'm Clean, Society Pages,
I'm a Beautiful Guy, Beauty knows no Pain, Charlie's Mouth.
B: Cosmik Debris, You didn't try to Call me, Love of my Life,
You are what you is, Easy Meat, Joe's Garage, Why does it hurt?,
Dancin' Fool, Bobby Brown, Ms. Pinky, Drafted, Illinois Enema Bandit.
Note: Tape ends during guitar solo of last track.
---
# Sunrise, Fla, 18-4-1980, 1st show - 90 mins
Songs:
A: Watermelon, Teenage Wind, Harder than your Husband, Bamboozled by Love,
Pick me I'm clean, Society Pages, I'm a beautiful guy, Beauty knows no
pain, Charlie's Mouth, Any Downers, Conehead.
B: Easy Meat, Mudd Club, The Meek, Heavenly Bank Account, Suicide Chump,
Jumbo go away, If only she woulda, Drafted, Joe's Garage, Why does it
hurt when I pee?
---
# Paris?, 1980 - 45 mins
Songs:
You didn't try to call me, Ain't got no Heart, Love of my Life, You are
what you is, Easy Meat, Mudd Club, The Meek, Heavenly Bank Account,
Suicide Chump, Jumbo go away.
---
# Oslo, Norway. Skedsmohallen 27-4-1988 - 2 x 90 min (I & II)
Good sound quality, excellent show. The secret word that night was
`sausage'. `Fornebu' is the name of Oslo's airport btw.
Songs:
I (90 mins)
A: Stinkfoot
Ain't got no Heart
Love of my Life
Packard Goose (with Stravinsky/Bartok classical piece)
Alien Orifice
Sharleena
Let's make the Water medley
Oh No/Lumpy Gravy Theme.
B: Advance Romance
Bobby Brown
Keep it Greasy
Torture part 1 (sausage version)/Bonanza
Cowboy Burt
Torture part 2 (with solo by Walt Fowler)
Texas Motel Medley (Sausage Motel).
---
II (90 mins)
A: City of Tiny Lites
Pound for a Brown
Make a Sex Noise
Stairway (to sausage)
Bolero
Rhymin' Man (world premiere).
B: Sofa No.1 (Ich bin hier und du bist mein Sausage)
Andy
Inca Roads
Strictly Genteel.
+ filler from Troy, NY, 6-11-1976:
Wind up working in a gas station
Tryin' to grow a chin
Torture never stops.
---
# Chicago, Auditorium Theatre, 3-3-1988 - 90 min (I) + 45 min (II)
Sunrise, Fla, 18-4-1980 - 45 min
Sound quality of the Chicago '88 show is not as good as Oslo '88,
but it's certainly worth having this one.
Songs:
I (90 mins)
A: The Black Page
We're turning again/Alien Orifice
Any Kind of Pain,
Why don't you like me? (exactly the same as on `Broadway')
Texas Motel Medley
When the Lie's so big
Jesus Thinks you're a Jerk (part missing).
B: Sofa No.1 - end of first part
Stolen Moments/Murder by Numbers (yes, the remarkable Sting-appearance)
Ain't got no Heart
Love of my Life
City of Tiny Lites
Pound for a Brown
Stairway to Heaven.
---
II (90 mins)
A: Stairway (again, from the beginning)
Whippin' Post
I am the Walrus
Catholic Girls
Crew Slut
Strictly Genteel.
B: Sunrise, Fla. 18-4-1980, 2nd show, 2nd part:
You didn't try to call me
Ain't got no Heart
Lucille
Outside Now
Easy Meat
Mudd Club
The Meek
Heavenly Bank Account
Dancin' Fool
Bobby Brown.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AUDIO-ONLY MATERIAL
~Title: Realistic Dream
Label: Excellent Stereo / Tangooo Records 820 507 (yes, three o's)
2 LPs (Printed in Holland, though that may only refer to the cover).
Side 1: 24:57
chunga's revenge / montana / easy meat / you are what you is /
mudd club / the meek shall inherit nothing
Side 2: 26:02
dumb all over / heavenly bank account / drowning witch / envelopes
Side 3: 25:04
we're turning again / alien orifice / disco boy / teenage wind /
truckdriver's divorce / blue light
Side 4: 27:05
tell me you love me / stricktly genteel / approximate / cosmic debris /
whipping post / bobby brown / no no cherrie
No band listing, no date or venue. The band are introduced as:
Ray White, Tommy Mars, Thomas Nordegg, Chad Wackerman,
Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, and Steve Vai.
>From memory (haven't listened to the whole thing for a long while),
it appears to be a single concert. Audience recording, stereo, good
quality (little audience noise, only slightly "boxy" sound after the
first track).
The album set is continuous; the end of each side overlaps the beginning
of the next by thirty seconds or so.
Side 2, Envelopes is followed by Flakes (not listed on the cover).
Side 4: there is a break after "Tell me you Love Me"; "Stricktly Genteel"
and following comprise the encore.
Frank mentions waiting for Billy Carter to show at the hotel, and later
talks about sending ex-presidents to visit Sweden; checking against the
personnel listings on the "Guitar" CD, I guess that the recording was
from Sweden in June or July '82. It's definitely outside the USA.
Robbert Heederik
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| Maintained by Vladimir Sovetov (so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su) |
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Release Notes
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Version 2.0 introduces new format of the the document. Now it has two parts.
The first is terse and easy to browse Quick Reference Table. Only obviouse
facts and undisputable details are there.
The second is a personal Views and Opinions. You may believe or not, agree
or have doubts. But still it helps.
Anyway, you always may send your comments, suggestions, corrections to
Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>.
He likes to update the stuff 'coze it warms him up in his snowy Siberia
wasteland :-)
- Arf she said
Quick Reference Table
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Reference Signs Meaning:
= - minor changes or no differerence at all;
=! - basically =, but some pieces were remixed;
=+ - basically = and added new numbers;
=- - basically =, but some of old stuff was removed;
! - a lot of stuff remixed;
( remixed or added tracks
d - drums,
b - bass,
v - vocal)
!! - absolutely new mix.
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1.Freak Out! | Feb-66 | 2LP | CD | = |
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2.Absolutely Free | Apr-67 | LP | CD | =+2 |
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3.Lumpy Gravy | Dec-67 | LP | CD# | =! |
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4.We're Only In It For The Money | Sep-68 | LP | CD# | !!db |
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5.Crusing With Ruben And The Jets | Nov-68 | LP | CD | !db |
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6.Motheromania | Apr-69 | LP | | |
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7.Uncle Meat | Mar-69 | 2LP | 2CD | =+1+2~~|
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8.Hot Rats | Oct-69 | LP | CD | ! |
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9.Burnt Weeny Sandwich | Feb-70 | LP | CD | = |
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10.Weasels Ripped My Flesh | Aug-70 | LP | CD | = |
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11.Chunga's Revenge | Oct-70 | LP | CD | = |
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12.Fillmore East, June 1971 | Aug-71 | LP | CD | =-1 |
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13.200 Motels | Oct-71 | 2LP | ##| |
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14.Just Another Band From LA | Mar-72 | LP | CD | = |
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15.Waka/Yawaka | Jul-72 | LP | CD | = |
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16.The Grand Wazoo | Nov-72 | LP | | = |
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17.Over-Nite Sensation | Sep-73 | LP | CD' | = |
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18.Apostrophe(') | Mar-74 | LP | CD' | = |
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19.Roxy & Elsewhere | Jul-74 | 2LP | CD | = |
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20.One Size Fits All | Jun-75 | LP | CD | = |
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21.Bongo Fury ( with Capt. Beefheart )| Oct-75 | LP | CD | = |
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22.Zoot Allures | Oct-76 | LP | CD | = |
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23.Zappa In New York | Mar-78 | 2LP | 2CD | =!+5 |
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24.Studio Tan | Sep-78 | LP | CD | = |
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25.Sleep Dirt | Jan-79 | LP | CD | !vd |
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26.Sheik Yerbouti | Mar-79 | 2LP | CD | =! |
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27.Orchestral Favorites | May-79 | LP | CD | = |
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28.Joe's Garage Act I | Sep-79 | LP | | |
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29.Joe's Garage Act II & III | Nov-79 | 2LP | | |
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Joe's Garage Act I,II & III | Jun-87 | 3LP | 2CD | = |
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30.Tinseltown Rebellion | May-81 | 2LP | CD | = |
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31.Shut Up N' Play Yer Guitar | May-81 | LP | 2CD" | = |
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32.Shut Up N' Play Yer Gt. Some More | May-81 | LP | 2CD" | = |
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33.Return Of The Son Of Shut Yp N' ...| May-81 | LP | 2CD" | = |
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34.You Are What You Is | Sep-81 | 2LP | CD | =! |
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35.Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A...| May-82 | LP | CD | = |
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36.Man From Utopia | Mar-83 | LP | CD | =+1 |
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37.Baby Snakes | Mar-83 | LP | CD | = |
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38.London Symphony Orchestra Vol.I | Jun-83 | LP | CD | = |
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39.The Perfect Stranger | Aug-84 | LP | CD | = |
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40.Them or Us | Oct-84 | 2LP | CD | = |
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41.Thing-Fish | Nov-84 | 3LP | 2CD | = |
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42.Francesco Zappa ( Not FZ music ) | Nov-84 | LP | CD | = |
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43.The Old Masters Box I | Apr-85 | 7LP@ | | |
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44.FZ Meets the Mothers of Prevention | Nov-85 | LP | CD | =+2 |
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45.Does Humor Belong In Music | Jan-86 | LP | CD | = |
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46.The Old Masters Box II | Nov-86 | 9LP@@ | | |
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47.Jazz From Hell | Nov-86 | LP | CD | = |
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48.London Symphony Orchestra Vol.II | Jun-87 | LP | CD | = |
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49.The Old Masters Box III | Dec-87 | 9LP@@@| | |
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You Can't Do It On Stage... Sample | Apr-88 | 2LP | | |
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50.Guitar | Apr-88 | 2LP | 2CD | =+12 |
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51.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.I | May-88 | | 2CD | |
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52.Broadway The Hard Way | Oct-88 | LP | CD | =+4 |
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53.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.II | Oct-88 | | 2CD | |
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54.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.III| Nov-89 | | 2CD | |
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55.The Best Band You Never Heard... | Apr-91 | | 2CD | |
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56.Make A Jazz Noise Here | Jun-91 | | 2CD | |
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57.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.IV | Jun-91 | | 2CD | |
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58.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.V | Jul-92 | | 2CD | |
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59.You Can't Do It On Stage... Vol.VI | Nov-92 | | 2CD | |
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62.Playground Psychotics | Nov-92 | | 2CD | |
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61.Ahead Of Their Time | Mar-93 | | CD | |
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62.The Yellow Shark | Nov-93 | | CD | |
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63.Civilization Phase III | Oct-94 | | 2CD | |
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Notes:
# - on one CD
## - there are exist rare German pirat 2CD
' - on one CD
" - on one 2CD
@ - set of five first releases (1-5) plus Mystery Disc 1
( urealised material of 60th era )
@@ - set of 70th releases (7-12,14) plus Mystery Disc 2
( live material )
@@@ - set of 70th releases (15-22)
~~ - also two excerpts ( mostly dialogues ) from Uncle Meat movie
Views and Opinions
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From: Tom....@20.mechanic.fidonet.org (Tom Press)
CD's have extremely good sound quality. But I would never think of giving
up any of my Zappa vinyl's.
FREAK OUT
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Better than the Vinyl album - particularly the digital treatment of the
vocals and guitars. "MONSTER MAGNET" has been re-mixed slightly. "BRAIN
POLICE" has a longer outro and segues into "..ELSES SHOULDER"
Some digital reverb has been added to some songs without "mushing" them
up too much.
From: "Brian J. Bernstein" <BJBER...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Brain Police - On the lp, the lines "What would you do if the label comes
offffff >shehhheshhhshhh!!!< (crazy mind melting sound effect)" the sound
effect is very loud/prominent/etc.. on the CD it was softened considerably
From: Remco Takken <S060...@let.rug.nl>
You didn't try to call me. On vinyl this song last about 10 seconds longer
and has a real ending, whereas the cd has a fadeout.
ABSOLUTELY FREE
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Two bonus tracks (BIG LEG EMMA & WHY DONT YA DO ME RIGHT). The mix is
the same as the vinyl with a bit more digital reverb.
LUMPY GRAVY
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From: je...@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Joerg Zeyer)
The bass and drum tracks of the CD version of LUMPY GRAVY do not sound
like the ones of WOIIFTM, which obviously are rerecorded. So it seems to me
me that the bass 'n' drum tracks of the CD version of LUMPY GRAVY are the
original ones.
I may be wrong since I never had heard the vinyl version of LUMPY GRAVY.
See also
WOIFTM comments From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Completely different to the album. All the songs have been re-mixed and
new bass & drum tracks have been added. Some songs are sped up too. If you
are used to the original vinyl album and love it - DON'T BUY IT.
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
On one CD with Lumpy Gravy. CD version has bass and drum tracks rerecorded,
and worst of all, "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" is sped up so that it
sounds like the chipmunk version. The missing/backward verses that had been censored in various ways on the album have been
restored to "Other People" and "Harry, You're a Beast."
From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Unlistenable. Even after not hearing the vinyl version for several years,
the CD version is just so shockingly WRONG. Stay away. Invest in a mint
copy of the vinyl and make a digital recording of it.
I believe the entire album is noticably (and annoyingly) sped up. Two of
my all time favorite songs: Mother People and Absolutely Free were rendered
unlistenable.
From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Ditto for Hot Rats and Ruben and the Jets.
From: spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Pat Buzby)
I first bought this on CD, and have never heard the LP. It sounds fine to
me.
From: mcen...@world.std.com (Brendan McEnaney)
Going back to WOIIFTM for a minute, I just now conducted another thrilling
test right here in my headphones by first playing the original (tape of a
near pristine vinyl) followed immediatly by the dreaded CD. I wish somebody
would pay me to conduct tests like this for a full time job. These are two
great products to help fulfull your home entertainment needs. One of them is,
unfortunatly currently unavailable.
I don't care if I'm the only shmuck on the planet who feels this way but I
*really* like *both* of these versions. For the last 80 minutes I just sat
with the headphones on and didn't do anything but listen and let the music
from both either push my buttons or not.
It had been a couple of years since I'd listened to the vinyl and I really
had a blast listening to it. I especially enjoyed hearing the original bass
and drum tracks again after hearing the other version a few times. I half
expected to join the forces that oppose the evil new release when I started
it up immediatly after the original was over and so sat back and listened
very attentivly for things to bum me out...
CRUISING WITH THE RUBEN AND THE JETS
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From: je...@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Joerg Zeyer)
It is well known that the CD version of CRUISIN WITH RUBEN AND THE JETS
(along with WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY) is a remixed version of the
original vinyl version and the drums and bass parts are rerecorded and
sounding really bad and misplaced.
But as far as I can hear it there seem to be three exceptions: On STUFF UP
THE CRACKS, the bass AND the drums sound as if they were the original
recording (moreover, I believe I can hear TWO drummers). And on ANYTHING and
NO NO NO the bass seems to be rerecorded while the drums sound as if they
were the original recordings.
From: Chris Ullsperger <ulls...@mendel.berkeley.edu>
The Reuben and the Jets CD has also had its bass and drum tracks overdubbed
and, like WOIFTM, has basically been ruined. Otherwise, it's the same. Where
is the Sonic Solution guy to take care of those old masters????
From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
I'd read somewhere (The Real Frank Zappa Book?) that "Stuff Up the Cracks"
was put onto CD from a two-track mix as the original master was nowhere to
be found.
UNCLE MEAT
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From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Sound quality is the same. The CD contains some excerpts from the making
of Uncle Meat, which is quite a lot of material. Also a new song, "Tengo
na Minchia Tanta."
HOT RATS
--------
From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
PEACHES sounds better. WILLIE THE PIMP 's intro is mixed differently. MY
GREEN GENES suffers the most - the drums are lost in a wash of cymbals.
LITTLE UMBRELLAS sounds better. GUMBO is about 5 minutes longer - good mix.
CAMEL sounds better. Some additional tracks (recorded during the original
sessions) have been mixed back in. The sound quality is better than the
vinyl for the obviious reasons, but this IS an example of CD's bringing out
the limitations of analog tape, particularly when the tape is nearly 25
years old!!
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
The intro to The Gumbo Variations is longer on the CD. The CD has much
less dynamic range than the vinyl. This may not be noticeable unless you
have really good speakers.
From: spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Pat Buzby)
I don't know about that. The CD completely blows away the vinyl for me :
it's like the difference between black-and-white and color TV.
From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Some folks complain about Hot Rats, but I love that CD.Sure it's a question
of taste, but the people who have problems with particular releases do have
valid concerns that should not simply be dismissed because Frank did it and
Frank is an infallible god.
From: sw...@Virginia.EDU (Sten Winfield Johnson)
Great sound, but noticeably remixed, bringing in unheard elements from the
original sessions. At times, the additions are welcome (a longer intro on
"Gumbo Variations"), but sometimes intrusive (piano vamping during "Little
Umbrellas")
From: mcen...@world.std.com (Brendan McEnaney)
One more thing... I've also seen people post that Hot Rats is another one
on the shit list. That was the first CD purchase I made when I first bought
a deck. It had just been released (inspiring me to buy the deck in the
first place) and was a limited edition gold disk. That sucker sounds
fucking G R E A T !
BURNT WEENY SANDWICH
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Much better sound quality than the vinyl album.
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH
-----------------------
From: obr...@imagen.com (Doug Obrecht)
I just picked up Weasels Ripped My Flesh in CD (I had the vinyl) in a
used bin. "Weasels..." is still my favorite title for a FZ album and has
the BEST album cover art (IMO).
An extra 3 minutes was added to "Didja Get Any Onya?" "Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" has been remixed a bit.The song
"Weasels Ripped My Flesh" is still 2:08 of feedback and noise. Oh well.
There are no speedups or added instruments as far as I can determine.
"RZZZZZ!"
From: sw...@Virginia.EDU (Sten Winfield Johnson)
This album is altered for the CD release. The opening track is extended
and segues into "Directly from my Heart", which is annoying. Other tampering
exists also, but I have difficulty being specific.
From: Remco Takken <S060...@let.rug.nl>
Not only does Directly from my heart to you segue into the next song, it's
also 3 seconds shorter than on vinyl.
CHUNGA'S REVENGE
----------------
From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality.
From: "Brian J. Bernstein" <BJBER...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Tell me you love me's 'melody guitar' is slightly mixed different on the
CD... it's level is reduced?
FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971
------------------------
From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
This album was badly recorded to begin with. The CD makes that all the more
apparent. Vocals have been treated and improved. Willie the pimp part one
and two are now 'AS ONE' , but it now fades out.
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
The second half of "Willie the Pimp," which opened the second side of the
LP, is missing on the CD. Other than that, no difference.
200 MOTELS
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From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
As far as I know, 200 Motels has never been released on CD. I don't think
Zappa ever gained ownership of that soundtrack from United Artists/MCA, as
was the case with all his work on Verve and the Warner Brothers material.
200 Motels had been issued cassette, though. It was apparently released
some years ago as part of MCA's classic soundtracks series. That seems a
bit ironic. Classic? Not by general standards, though probably in the
view of many readers of this group.
From: s042...@let.rug.nl (R. Bartelink)
Indeed, it hasn't been released on CD, because Frank didn't have the
rights. I doubt if it ever will appear on cd, since it isn't one of uncle
Franky's biggest "commercial successes". The LP isn't very good produced
btw. When played on a not even so very high volume level, you can here
some "pre-echoes" (is this a REAL word, well you know what I mean) from
the master tape. The louder parts, especially in a high pitch, are even
distorted. Let's say it's just a must-have-thing.
From: ep...@Virginia.EDU (Erik Paine Brady)
United Artists has the rights to the soundtrack, since it is a film.
No legal cd copies exist, but I know there are copies out there (in Germany,
at least). It's a double cd and I'm not sure if it's taken from the
masters or not (don't know how it could be) but the sound is great.
From: Michael W. Cook <mic...@delphi.com>
Yeah, 200 Motels is DAMN rare. And unfortunately, you will probably never
see it on CD. It was released on a label <Liberty, I believe> and went
belly up. Legal rights were probably never settled. Real shame because
there are some great notes on that one.
From: Wolfgang Schauff <wo...@magiccom.netz.sub.de>
Unfortunately this CD is not in stock anymore and will not be in stock
in the near future. All I have is the trackinformation. No further info
availbale. It is no official release.
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CAT.NO.: FZ005-CD FRANK ZAPPA * 200 MOTELS
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DISC1 1. SEMI-FRAUDULENT/DIRECT FROM HOLLYWODD OVERTURE [1:59]
42:13 2. MYSTERY ROACH [2:33]
3. DANCE OF THE ROCK'N'ROLL INTERVIEWERS [0:48]
4. THIS TOWN IS A SEALED TUNA SANDWICH (PROLOGUE) [0:56]
.........
17. MYSTERIOSO [0:48]
18. SHOVE IT RIGHT IN [2:32]
19. LUCY'S SEDUCTION OF A BORED VIOLINIST & POSTLUDE [4:00]
DISC2 1. I'M STEALING THE TOWELS [2:14]
44:39 2. DENTAL HYGIENE DILEMMA [5:12]
3. DOES THIS KIND OF LIFE LOOK INTERESTING TO YOU [3:00]
................
13. THE GIRL'S DREAM [0:55]
14. LITTLE GREEN SCRATCHY SWEATERS & COURDUROY PONCE [1:01]
15. STRICTLY GENTLE (THE FINALE) 11:09]
JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A.
--------------------------
From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality.
WAKA/JAWAKA
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality.
See also
Grand Wazoo comments From: spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU
GRAND WAZOO
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix as original album. Sound quality better too. The track order is
different - " The Grand Wazoo" precedes "Calvin" .
From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
Interesting. This is not so in the States. I have both the vinyl and CD
versions of Grand Wazoo, and "Calvin" and "The Grand Wazoo" are tracks
#1 and #2, respectively, on both.
From: spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Pat Buzby)
I do know that Grand Wazoo is missing the musician photos from the original
album, and that Waka/Jawaka is missing the FZ photos.
Boo!
OVER-NITE SENSATION
-------------------
From: so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su (Vladimir Sovetov)
On the same CD as an APOSTROPHE
APOSTROPHE
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Better than the vinyl album, although The Excentrifugal Force has been
re-mixed - the horn part is missing just before the vocal comes in.
From: "Brian J. Bernstein" <BJBER...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Excentrifugal Forz - the intro guitar melody is 'stronger' or more
prominent on the LP than on the CD
From: je...@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Joerg Zeyer)
By the way, you have to be careful when talking bout the CD versions of
Zappa's records: in some cases there exist different versions on CD, since
some appeared on the label RYKODISC and in a different mix on the label
ZAPPA RECORDS/BARKING PUMPKIN.
For instance, APOSTROPHE/OVERNITE SENSATION appeared on the RYKO label,
and it was the same mix as on vinyl. It also appeared on ZAPPA RECORDS
some years later and this was a ``remastered'' version.
From: jlro...@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Lee Robinson)
Is it just me or is the sound quality of the Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation
disc substandard? Is is just because it is mastered at a lower volume than
other discs (i.e. MAJNH)? I noticed this through having my disc changer
shuffle a 6-pack of Zappa, and this disc suffered noticably.
Anyone else bugged by this? How does the LP version sound? Any other
re-releases with the same "problem"?
From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
Yes, the sound volume of my A/OS Ryko disc is also noticeably lower than
volume of my other CDs. Freak Out, Chunga, Zoot etc. The sound volume of
(') LP ( I still have one ) seems to be as good as of my OSFA and WRMF LP.
From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
My pristine vinyl copy of 'Apostrophe' sounds brighter than the CD. As
an aside, there is a little 'skritttch' just before the wind-noise that
introduces 'Huskies'. I always expect to hear that little aberration when-
ever I play the CD. Of course, it isn't there. My brain has been imprinted.
ROXY AND ELSEWHERE
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality
ONE SIZE FITS ALL
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From: so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su (Vladimir Sovetov)
No one ever reported anything horrible. So let's suppose that OSFA is
OSFA in either of it's incarnations. Really Chump Hare Rama ain't no good
to try remixing :-)))
BONGO FURY
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality
ZOOT ALLURES
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Same mix. Good sound quality
From: spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Pat Buzby)
Zoot Allures is the one case I know of where the CD is inferior to the LP.
It's a subjective difference, but I noticed a certain boxy quality to the CD
sound that I never noticed on the album. Also, the last scream on "Torture
Never Stops" is obnoxiously placed at the introduction to the next track.
FRANK ZAPPA IN NEW YORK
-----------------------
From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
CD version of Zappa in New York contains about 45 minutes more music,
distributet over five new songs and one extended version.
The new songs are 'Cruisin' for burgers', 'Punky's Whips','I'm the Slime',
'Pound for a Brown', and 'The Torture never stops'.
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
The CD is much longer, containing more cuts and longer existing cuts, such
as "Titties and Beer."
From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
The CD is much better than LP ( even double as it happened to be :-).
And really worth buying.
From: Remco Takken <S060...@let.rug.nl>
I have to investigate this one more thoroughly, but I already know that
the song 'Honey don't you want a man like me' is a different version of the
vinyl version. You can really hear how tight Zappa's band played when it
played the songs straight: the differences are extremely subtle.
STUDIO TAN
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Has anyone noticed the 'strange' edit in the CD version of Greggary
Peccary? There's a bit missing!! Maybe a couple of seconds of music has
been edited out compared to the original. Its the percussion bit after Zappa
says "where they keep the government buldings" Why was this done?
From: pola...@gold.tc.umn.edu (Daniel J Polanski-1)
I haven't heard the original vinyl for years but I'd swear the CD sounds
a lot different from what I remember. Perhaps he re-did on his synclavier.
SLEEP DIRT
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From: Chris Ullsperger <ulls...@mendel.berkeley.edu>
The Sleep Dirt CD contains Thana Harris' vocal tracks on the Hunchentoot
numbers (Flambay, Spider of Destiny, Time is Money) and represents an
important "restoration" in my opinion. Essential for continuity.
Too bad that musical will never see the light.
From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@bank.kemerovo.su>
But you should listen to it three or four times to stop thinking that
Thana Harris voice just spoiled 15 minutes of excellent music.
So be patient :-)
From: Richard K Fox <fo...@cis.ohio-state.edu>
The CD also has drum tracks overdubbed by Chud Wackerman on the songs
which previously did not have drum tracks.
From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
However, as far as I understand it, Sleep Dirt was one of the albums
released by Warner Brothers while Frank had them in court for "aromatic
fiscal practices" (i.e. shoddy accounting, overruns, etc.) and as such
Zappa had very little to say about that release. Other albums in this
category are Studio Tan and Orchestral Favorites. So what we hear on
Sleep Dirt is probably much closer to what Zappa had in mind for the
material to begin with.
From: spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
Actually, this is true of almost all of the FZ CD reissues, but people
who've had the LPs for years tend to have a hard time accepting this sort of
change.
SHEIK YERBOUTI
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
I'm So Cute is shorter by about a minute - the synth noise that was at the
end has been edited out. Sheik yerbouti Tango is a couple of minutes longer.
Mix and sound quality is great.
From: aj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David Watson)
"The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" extended to about four minutes, while most of
the ending of "I'm So Cute" is lopped off (FUCK!!). Quality almost as good
as the vinyl.
From: j...@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (jeffrey.j.rocca)
I have both an EMI CD and a Barking Pumpkin CD of _Sheik Yerbouti_. The EMI
CD is a digital master of the LP. The music content on the EMI CD has not
been altered, as was done with the Barking Pumpkin CD.
From: men...@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Menard Isabelle)
The EMI CD is exactly like the album. I would even predict that they release
the vinyl version of a album unlike Bob Stone and FZ who remix about all
first five albums. I am a long time fan of the first five (Freak, Absolutely,
Were only, Ruben and Uncle) and when the CD version came out (as well as
the FZ Box I) I was very sad that they did not keep what was so wonderfull
about those album: they sound "old". But they should!!! It's like listening
to a coloured film of the 1920-1930's.
It's not real and the charm of it is lost in a certain way. It is just
another interpretation of the same song but the original will always be very
important to FZ fans.
From: Rob Sweet <sw...@ucs.usc.edu>
The song "Bobby Brown" is renamed "Bobby Brown Goes Down" on the CD release.
JOE'S GARAGE
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From: ais...@news.salford.ac.uk (Neil)
Great Mix. Much better sound quality, particularly the bottom end.
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
No discernable difference in sound quality or content. The art on the
booklet is changed, and there are two song title changes. "Toad-o Line" has
become "On the Bus," and "Wet T-Shirt Night" has become "Fembot in a Wet
T-Shirt." I'd like to know how these changed, because I think the original
titles are better.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS
-------------------
From: Chris Ullsperger <ulls...@mendel.berkeley.edu>
On the You Are What You Is CD, the guitar solo has been deleted
substantially because (according to one explanation) there is a change in
pitch or key during the album flip (you'll remember that one side ends with
the solo fade-out and the next side begins with a cut back in--that's where
the key change is--, and quickly segues into Heavenly Bank Account).
From: n...@unirsvl.rsvl.unisys.com (Neil Schlegel)
I recently picked up the 'You are what you is" CD, and have noticed
an annoying irregular volume on many of the vocal tracks (I hear something
similar to dropouts in old cassettes) . It is very noticable (to me) in
'Charlie's enormous mouth', 'Any downers' and 'Jumbo go away'.
From: k...@er3.rutgers.edu (Uncle Meat)
I got the Cd a few years ago and wondered if my speaker wires were loose!!
Certain tracks fade in and out, left and right with no rhyme or reason. I
returned the Cd to the record store and got a different copy, only to find
the same thing happening on the new one. I gave up and bought the album.
From: bh...@harris.com (Brian Hyde)
I have seen several posts about this subject here. Aparently, some of
the YAWYI CDs are fine, yet others exhibit the strange audio problems
that you described. I have a Rykodisc release which is fine. I bought
it about two and a half years ago. The problem may occur only on a
certain manufacturing lot of the CD's.
My YAWYI CD: - Rykodisc Catalog Number: RCD 40165
- Has "MADE IN USA BY PDO", "818 PUMPKIN", and
"RCD40165 01!" inscribed on the track side of the CD
- label side of the CD is black with white lettering
except for a light blue "RYKO" on it
Hopefully we can figure this out. . .
From: sjo...@plains.NoDak.edu (Bjorn Sjolli)
OK, here goes: My CD is excellent.
- EMI # CDP 7 90075 2
- Has "MASTERED BY NIMBUS" inscribed.
- Silver color with black lettering.
- Made in U.K.
MAN FROM UTOPIA
---------------
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
The CD contains an extra song, the name of which escapes me right now but
it's doo-wop, and "Sex" is longer, which suits me fine.
What doesn't suit me is that the sound quality of the CD stinks on ice.
The bass is booming without being loud. When I played it, I thought my
speakers had been blown. However, the vinyl played just fine.
From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Plus a completely different song order."Sex" had an extra verse, but some
parts in the chorus were unnecessarily hit with a pitch bender. It sounds
stupid, he should have left that one alone.
The other songs sound fine to me and I have the vinyl.
From: mike....@labb.com (Mike Bitts)
One thing I did not see mentioned is the different (new?) recording of
Moggio on the import (England) 'Man From Utopia' CD. The drum sounds are
from the Them or Us/Mothers of Prevention period, and I'm almost certain
that the bass was re-recorded. I haven't heard the Barking Pumpkin version
of the CD. If you have any info regarding this, I sure would appreciate
hearing from you.
From: lew...@physics.isu.edu (Jim Lewandowski)
I know this subject has been discussed before but I haven't seen any
mention of MFU and how it was terribly altered in the process of being
remixed for CD. Though I'm now becoming more accustomed to the sound I'll
never get over losing the guitar in "Moggio". Although "Luigi .." was a
nice addition.
From: "Scott Shupe" <SSH...@alesis1.usa.com>
I have a cd with _man from utopia_ AND _ship arriving too late_ on a single
cd. it sounds identical, content wise, to the album(s) except for Moggio.
now i'm sensitive to this anyway because Moggio might be my favorite zappa
song, but it is radically remixed. there is a strange reverb throughout
and the guitar part sounds different. the guitar part mixed up a little on
the cd, i'm not sure if it's a different part or just a different mix. i'm
told there are separate cd releases for both these albums. maybe those are
the ones your readers had reviewed [ in this FAQ].
The Man From Upopia/Ship Arriving too late to save a Drowning Witch
CDP 7 90074 2.
Here is the wierd part, MFU (1983) is first , tracks 1-10 then SATLTSADW
(1982), tracks 11-16. no extra tracks.
It says EMI and also has the Barking Pumpkin label.
THING-FISH
----------
From: Joerg Holle <ho...@i10s12.ira.uka.de>
I'm absolutely not sure (since I can't compare my vinyl with the cd version
at the moment), but I *think* that the background-vocals (of Harry) on the
Track "He's so gay" on the 84'er Album "Thing Fish" are NOT on the vinyl
version. When I first listened to the CD these vocals sounded so strange/new
that I was sure that they were added. But of course I may be wrong (and you
should check this info (perhaps via alt.fan.f-z) before adding it to
vinyl_cd_differences_faq ...). If so, I heartly apologize for this wrong
information (and wonder what happened to my ears ...) !!!
THE PERFECT STRANGER
--------------------
From: j...@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (jeffrey.j.rocca)
I have both an EMI CD and a Barking Pumpkin CD of _The Perfect Stranger_.
The music content is identical on the CDs, but the sound quality of the
Barking Pumpkin CD is far superior.
FZ MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION
----------------------------------
From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
CD contains all of the songs of the differnt 'european' and 'american'
versions of the LP.
This means 'Porn Wars' (american version of LP)
'I don't even care' (european v)
'H.R. 2911' (europ)
'One man one vote' (europ)
From: "Ottis R." <BO...@UNB.CA>
'H.R. 2911' does not appear on the RYKO release of FZMtMoP CD.
From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
I heard that it was incorporated into Porn Wars.
JAZZ FROM HELL
--------------
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
It's been a while since I heard the LP, but I think there is no
difference.
GUITAR
------
From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
12 extra guitar solos on the double CD
BROADWAY THE HARD WAY
---------------------
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
The CD contains many more songs than the vinyl but is missing the short
Confinement Loaf intro to "Dickie's Such an Asshole."
From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Frank exhorts the audience to register to vote during the intermission
on the vinyl version. I don't think this is on the CD...
From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Yes, 'tis, but the "intermission" is in the wrong place. The exhortation
to vote is at the very end of the CD.
I have no joke. I just like typing "exhortation."
_____________________________________________________________________
Robbert Heederik
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Introduction to ver.2.6
Privet! This FAQ part was originaly conceived as a helpful guide
for novices anf foreigners. But step by step ( comments by comments
in fact :-) as it grew and happily put on weight due to good will and
zeal of FZ fans over the world many compatriots of Mr. Zappa also begun
to feel that it's a useful pile of bytes well suitable for the hard
drives of their home silicon pets.
So it goes and goes and goes.
And there are real chance that we'll end up some day with something
worth to bestow upon next generations and generations of hungry freaks.
- Hey! Bob! Look that's my grandy been wa...@yawaka.mudshark.com
once explained that those mysterious Baby Snakes was nothing more and
nothing less than just tiny zircon-encrusted thing between our sister
Mary legs! Woow!
So you go right way, comrades, - as they used to bark on Communist's Party
Congress of my glorious and warmed by FZ secret words for nights and days
youth!
HOTCHA!
Technical details
From this version on the first digit of a version number is some absurd
sign that just help me to keep track of structural revision of this
document. The next numbers is for all of you and is in fact the number of
albums being commented below, so
ver. 2.6
Is second edition of six albums strong N&C. Also to make your life
easy I decided to put the list of this albums at the head of the doc.
The meaning of chinagraphy +/=/! in this list is very simple and I hope
not so hard to understand :-)))
= ...... no chages since last issue
+ ...... interesting additions
! ...... brand new item
That's almost all for today. As always any suggestion, corrections,
additions will be gratefully accepted by
Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
ALBUMS LIST
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1. Uncle Meat ................... !
2. Burnt Weeny Sandwich ......... +
3. Weasels Ripped My Flesh ...... =
4. Chunga's Revenge ............. +
5. Fillmore East, June 1971 ..... =
6. 200 Motels ................... +
7. Over-nite Sensation .......... +
8. Apostrophe ................... +
9. One Size Fits All ............ =
10. Bongo Fury ................... =
11. Zoot Allures ................. +
12. Broadway The Hard Way ........ +
UNCLE MEAT
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dialogues
Joined International Transcribing Effort
of :-)
Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
Dave Winsor <WIN...@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
A little bit of Italian
Francesco Gentile <gent...@sci.uniroma1.it>
The Voice Of Cheese
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cheese: Hello, teenage America,
My name is Suzy Creemcheese,
I'm Suzy Creemcheese because
I've never wron fake eyelashes
in my whole life
And I never made it on surfing set
And I never made it on beatnik set
And I couldn't cut the groupie set either
And...Um
Actually I'm really fucked up in Europe.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# Actually, *I* really fucked up in Europe.
# Makes sense that way.
( Hrrrrrrrrrr )
Now that I've done it all over and
Nobody else will accept me
I've come home to my Mothers
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# In accordance with book exerpt below the voice of Cheese seems to belong
# to Pamela Zarubica
#
# From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
# from "No Commercial Potential" about Suzy Creamcheese
#
# "By the latter part of 1967, success seemed imminent. Zappa was in the
# forefront of the musical explosion, though he was not getting that much
# media exposure because radio stations refused to play his music over the
# air. At this time the Garrick closed. He took a brief respite and toured
# Europe. During June, Pamela Zarubica had returned from Europe. Frank had
# married Gail in the meantime. Gail was expecting, and at first Frank wanted
# Pam to stay with Gail to help her take care of the baby that was soon to be
# born. 'Frank called me and said that there was a great desire to see Suzy
# Creamcheese because the people in Europe couldn't imagine what kind of a
# chick to associate with the picture they had seen of these guys' she recalls.
# 'He said "I'm going to Europe and they want Suzy Creamcheese, you come and
# stay with Gail," and I said "Come and stay with Gail? I am Suzy Creamcheese
# and I'm going with you because if you take some asshole who doesn't know how
# to talk to the press [on the Mothers first promotional tour for *Freak Out*,
# Frank used another girl named Suzy Creamcheese who talked to promotional men
# at MGM throughout the country] that doesn't know how to talk to people,
# you're never going to talk to anybody, period."'
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Primer *mi carucha* ( Chevy'39)
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# Primer: To apply primer paint, a dull gray undercoat applied before
# painting an automobile. "Primer" derives from the verb "to prime" (meaning
# to prepare) the surface prior to painting. Young men with little money often
# applied primer to prevent rust on used automobiles, while saving enough
# money to buy the paint to finish the job. Eventually, "primer gray" became
# a style itself within the Chicano subculture.
#
# mi carucha: Spanish. Literally, "my carriage". "My car" of course.
#
# Chevy '39: A 1939 Chevrolet. A favorite model for modification by "hot rod"
# enthusiasts of the 1950's. Chevrolets were particularly favored by
# Mexican-American youth.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# "My car". Carrucha (correctly spelled with two Rs) means 'pulley' in
# standard Spanish, but 'car' in Chicano slang.
Going to El Monte Legion Stadium
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# Probably not to any organized sporting event. More likely to hang out with
# other young automobile enthusiasts in the empty parking lot.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# It's nowhere now, but it used to be in El Monte, California, east of Los
# Angeles. Frank Zappa and Ray Collins wrote a song called "Memories of El
# Monte", which reminisces about the dances that were held there.
# It was recorded by the Penguins (of "Earth Angel" fame) in 1963. I don't
# know when they tore down the stadium, but the song certainly suggests that
# the dances were no longer being held as of 1963. A photograph of one of
# these dances shows that they were racially integrated, with blacks, whites,
# and hispanics plainly visible in the crowd.
#
#CC
# From: jge...@inter.nl.net (Jos Geluk)
# On the bootleg 'No commercial potential' Zappa says 'Welcome to El Monte
# Legion Stadium'. Was he actually performing there at that moment or was it
# just a form of conceptual continuity?
#
# from alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ (8/12) Bootlegs info - Part 1
# currently maintained by sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# version 2.2 (last change 7-4-94)
#
# KNOWN BOOTLEGS 1969:
# "Poot Face Boogie" (1) - Live and studio 68-69.
# "Vitamin Deficiency" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie" (and "Safe
# Muffinz", see 1971)
# "No Commercial Potential" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie"
# (and "Safe Muffinz", see 1971)
# ..............................................................
#
# Safe Muffinz (partial)
#
# Date: mid-1971
# Loc: El Monte Legion Stadium
# Length: ~45 min
# Catalog: takrl 1929
# X-Ref: Zappalog #212
#
# Musicians: FZ, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar,
# Jim Pons, Ian Underwood
#
# 1. Call Any Vegetable
# 2. The Air
# 3. Dog Breath
# .........................................................
Pick up on my *weesa* ( she is so divine)
^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# Diminutive for "Louisa".
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Huiza (pronounced weesa) is Chicano slang for 'girl'.
Helps me stealing hub caps
^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Hub cabs cover the center of a car wheel. You must pop them off in order
# to undo the bolts and change the tire. The end of the axle is called the
# "hub" so "hub cap" is really a self-explanatory term.
# During the 60's and 70's, these were very fancy - ornate with much chrome
# and they were often stolen. You used to hear talk about stealing hub caps
# a lot back then. These days, I guess they are more mundane and you don't
# hear about them being stolen as much.
Wasted all the time
Fuzzy Dice
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# (Heh-heh. We're getting deep into Mexican-American culture here, aren't
# we?). A pair of oversized dice (as in gambling) made of a hairy fabric,
# tied together with a short string and usually suspended from the interior
# rear-view mirror as a good luck token. These are for appearance only,
# and never actually used for anything.
Louie Louie
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cheese: The first thing that attracted me to the Mothers music
Was the fact that they played for twenty minutes
Everybody was hissing, and booing, and falling of the dance floor
And Elmer was yelling at them to get
Off the stage and turn down they're amplifiers
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Once again the piece appeared to be kind of Pamela Zarubica recollection
#
# From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
# Text taken from the notorious 1972 poor-excuse-for-a-book "No Commercial
# Potential" by David Walley.
# "She first saw Frank Zappa while she and Julia were waiting to get into the
# Trip. The guest guitarist came in from the back. 'He used to wear this big
# fur coat that looked like it was made out of dead cat....I thought he looked
# like Omar Sharif. I always called him Omar. He played a tune with the Grass
# Roots.' After that, she saw him around with Vito and Carl Franzoni. <Note:
# Carl is the original Hungry Freak. Vito had the first crash pad for freaks
# and was the connecting force amongst LA freakdom> Finally Frank opened at
# the Trip. 'I sat there through the first set while they were playing Brown
# Shoes Don't Make It, and I was thinking to myself that I was a creep because
# my shoes were brown and then I remembered they were moccasins so I was okay
# again. They played Help I'm A Rock for twenty minutes and everyone went
# *Ugh*....I loved it. He came over after the set and said, 'I'm glad you
# could make it' and I said, 'So am I.''
FZ: Ah! I know perfect thing to accompany this man's trumpet,
None other than the mighty majestic Albert Hall pipe organ
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# It will be nice if anyone in possession of Torchum or something helpful
# like it would try to figure out the date of the event. I believe it's circa
# 1968
Louie Louie
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ep...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Roche)
# A neat book by Dave Marsh is called 'Louie,Louie: The History & Mythology
# of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song; Includeing the Full Details of
# Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's
# F.B.I., and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere,
# the Actual Dirty Lyrics.' Also includes Zappa explaining Louie, Louie as a
# stock module, Hendrix, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Stooges, et al.
# A nice documentaion of pop history.
#
# From: JSUL...@cclink.fhcrc.org
# And let's not forget maybe 4 seconds [of Louie Louie] on "Welcome to the
# US" on The Yellow Shark.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Not to mention the whole basis of "Plastic People". It also pops up in
# "Dupree's Paradise" on YCDTOSA Volume Two, and various other places.
# Richard Berry is in the list of influences on Freak Out. Society Pages ran
# a story on "Louie Louie" in FZ's music.
Our Bizarre Relationship
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FZ: Bizarre
Cheese: Bizarre
No one could never understand our bizarre relationship,
Because I was your intelectual fridged housekeeper
Especially when you would be going to bed with one chic at night
And I'd wake in the mornin' and find another one there screamin at me
Asking me what the fuck this chic doin' in your bed
And I'd walk in and you weren't with the same one you were in
night before
Oh, I'll never forget that as long as I live
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# I believe it's once again Zarubica's telling early Mothers days story.
# But what seems to be strange is Frank supposed enormous sex exctravagant
# activity. I used to think he never really had a time for this shit:-). Am I
# wrong?
That house had your shit all over
And we had cats, we had [flies, fleas] we had lot of crabs
That we proceeded to give to everyone in Laurel Canyon
except Elmer and Phil,
^^^^^ ^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# OK! Elmer seems to be Elmer Valentine. Whisky-a-Go-Go owner. But who is
# Phil? Spector? Any evidence?
The Uncle Meat Variations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FUZZY DICE
I got'em
At the Pep Boys... at the BOYYYYYYYYYYS
^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# The Pep Boys is a retail chain that sells fuzzy dice and other automotive
# parts. The founders' names are Manny, Moe, and Jack.
# The Dickies did a song called "Manny, Moe, and Jack" that also mentions
# fuzzy dice.
#
# From: lspr...@cass.ma02.bull.com (Lindley Sprague)
# Pep Boys was (maybe still is?) a chain of Auto Parts stores. The sign
# featured cartoon faces of the the Boys: Manny, Joe, and Jack.
Fuzzy Dice & bongos
*Brodie knob & spinners*
^^^^^^
# From: lspr...@cass.ma02.bull.com (Lindley Sprague)
# Brodie made "hot rod" type auto parts, like replacement knobs for your
# stick shift. I think a "spinner" is a knob that you attached to your
# steering wheel so you could steer with one hand.
Chromium plated
Ha Ha Ha
Electric Aunt Jemima
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Electric Aunt Jemima
^^^^^^^^^^^
Goddess of Love
Khaki Maple Buckwheats
Frizzle on the stove
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# That's what printed in my German songbook.
# Aunt Jemima: das amerikanische Gegenstuck zu Dr. Oetker. Das Wahrzeichen
# der Marke Aunt Jamima ist eine pausbackige Negerkochin.
#
# From: richts@frege (Joern Richts)
# The English translation is:
# "Aunt Jemima: the american counterpart of Dr. Oetker. The emblem of the
# brand Aunt Jemima is a chubby-cheeked negro cook."
# Dr. Oetker is a german food brand, famous for its baking ingredients. I
# think this isn't very helpful for non-Germans but now at least I know what
# Aunt Jemima.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Aunt Jemima (a division of the Quaker Oats Company) makes pancake mix
# and syrup. They may make other products, but pancakes and syrup are what
# they're known for. I believe the name was already part of American folklore
# before Quaker Oats used it commercially, but I'd have to check on this.
# The phrase "Khaki maple buckwheats" certainly suggests pancakes. Maple
# syrup is the traditional accompaniment for pancakes, though most commercial
# syrups contain cheaper syrups (e.g. corn syrup). Buckwheat is a grain from
# which pancakes are sometimes made.
# Khaki is a dull yellowish brown (etymologically, 'dust-colored') or cloth
# of this color used to make pants (i.e. trousers). I guess pancakes are
# more-or-less this color.
#
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Her testy stuff could be used not only by naughty freaks, but also by
# decent american secret agents in time of great danger. Look
#
# Billy the Mountain. Just Another Band From L.A.
#
# ...And he pulled down his blue denim policeman-type pants, and he spread
# even amounts of Aunt Jemima maple syrup over the inside of his legs!...
#
# From: la...@primenet.com (Bill Lantz)
# Electric Aunt Jemima was a name Frank used for one of his guitar amps. He
# always was good at naming stuff.
Queen of my heart
Please hear my plea
Electric Aunt Jemima
Cook a bunch for me
Brownies in the basin
^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# The crucial ingredient is chocolate.
Monza by the street light
^^^^^
# From: Righ...@crmail.crd.lord.com
# Monza - Another make of automobile.
Ian Underwood Whips It Out
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ian: My name is Ian Underwood
And I am straight member of the group
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# I think the interpretation would be rather literal. Ian, with his music
# degree, is not a freak, and considers himself to be the "straight"
# (conservative) member of the band. I doubt that the other meaning of
# "straight" (erect) "member" (penis) was intended by Ian when he spoke the
# line, but it was immediately exploited by FZ as he dropped in the "Wowie
# Zowie" comment.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Three related meanings, in no particular order of importance:
# straight: 1) heterosexual
# 2) Not on drugs
# 3) Normal
# I believe 2 was implied (perhaps 3). I always found it amusing since I
# knew that Frank insisted that all members of his bands be drug free. That
# may not have been the case with the early mothers.
( Wowie Zowie)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# And if we believe in written word it must be our sweet Pamela again.
# Here liners note for Freak Out! song You Didn't Try To Call Me...
# that
# ... was written to describe the situation in which Pamela Zarubica
# found herself last spring ( Wowie Zowie is what she says when she's
# not grouchy ... )
And I said I like your music,
I'd like to come down to play with you.
Two days later I came up to the recording session
And Frank Zappa was sitting at the control room
I walk up and said
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# I believe it was We're Only In It... recording session.
Mr. Green Genes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# From _The Real FZ Book_
# Because I recorded a song called "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the
# Hot Rats album in 1969, people have belived for years that the character
# with the name on the Captain Kangaroo TV show ... was my "real" Dad.
#
#CC
# Seems to be directly related to the Absolutely Free _The Duke of Prunes_
# suite
# From what appears to be AF liners note
# "The Duke of Prunes is surrealistic love songs. Euphemistic sexual imagery
# popular in country blues tunes, ..., is transmuted in this popular piece
# from the basic '- - - me, suck me, till my eyes roll back, baby' to 'prune
# me, cheese me, go-kart...' or something like that"
Eat your greens
Don't forget your beans & celery
Don't forget to bring
Your fake I.D.
"If We'd All Been Living in California"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- There's some months when you're not going to work as much as other
months. There's some months when you're going to make a lot of
money and if you average it out, you do make more than two hundred
dollars a month.
- Expenses are sure high to.
If we'd all been living in California,
it would have been different.
- If we'd all been living in California,
we wouldn't have worked at all.
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Surly the place was NYC
# From _The Real FZ Book_, p. 90
#
# In 1966 and '67, the L.A.P.D. and the Sheriff's Department went to war
# with the freaks in Hollywood...
# The places where they used to eat ... were under constant surveillance.
# The city government threatened to take away Elmer ( Whisky-a-Go-Go )
# Valentine's liquor license if he didn't stop booking long-haired acts
# into his club. There was no place left to work in Hollywood
The Air
~~~~~~~
I got busted
Coming through customs
With a suitcase
Full of tapes
It was special
Tape recording
And they grabbed me
While I was boarding
Then they hit me
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Seems to be a fantasie or very obscure recollection of Studio Z episod
And they beat me
And they told me
They don't like me
And I crashed
In my Nash
^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Nash was an automobile manufacturer some time ago. My father's first car
# was a Nash, and I think it was old then (late forties/early fifties).
#
# From: Righ...@crmail.crd.lord.com
# In my Nash - Nash is a reference to another defunct automobile company. I
# knew a fellow with a Nash when I was in high school. The last of the
# American automakers to go out of business was Studebaker.
Cruising For Burgers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cruising for burgers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In daddy's new car
My phony freedom card
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Brings to me
Instantly
ECSTASY
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# It still is today [favorite South Californian pastime], among a certain age
# group. Teenagers old enough to drive (over 16 years of age), but not old
# enough to drink legally (possibly 18 years of age back then, 21 now) cruise
# around aimlessly, looking for entertainment of any sort. A fake ID card
# (forged, borrowed, or stolen identification which indicates that the holder
# is old enough to enter an establishment which serves alcohol, or to purchase
# alcohol) would provide an alternative to the endless cruising.
# That is the "phony freedom card".
# "Cruising for burgers" is itself a double-entendre. While teenage life in
# the automobile often centers around meeting friends at various drive-in
# hamburger places, it also centers around sex. "Cruising for burgers"
# literally means driving from one hamburger place to another, but it could
# also be interpreted as prowling for females. The fake ID card would enable
# the purchase of alcohol, which would greatly increase the probability of
# sexual encounters during the evening's excursions.
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# The man who sung this piece ( and obviously wrote/imrovised lyrics ) was
# Massimo Bassoli. Below a little introduction and translation attempt
#
# From: Francesco Gentile <gent...@sci.uniroma1.it>
# Massimo Bassoli is an Italian rock journalist. He is the editor of the rock
# magazine "TUTTIFRUTTI" published monthly, and before that he was the editor
# of another magazine called "ROCKSTAR".Both magazines are a kind of fashion
# thing mainly devoted to the USA and UK majors' music with some Italian stuff
# certainly not the best to my taste. He also wrote a book about FZ, published
# in 1982, called "ZAPPA (E' PIU' DURO DI TUO MARITO)" (in English: "Zappa (
# harder than your husband)").
# I don't know exactly why but it seems that this guy was in a sort of
# connection with FZ.
Tengo(1) na minchia(2) tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi'(3) | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Devi usare un pollo, | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN,
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia(4) | LOOK THAT HE/SHE(4) IS EATING IT
E mentre se la sta a pappa' | AND WHILE HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Chiedimi che cosa fa | ASK ME WHAT IS HE/SHE DOING
Se la sta a succhia' | HE/SHE IS SUCKIN' IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia | I'VE GOT A DICK,
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Devi usare ... | YOU MUST ...
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia da tastar | I'VE GOT A DICK TO BE TOUCHED
Come on baby
Come on baby, suck my fire!
Oh yeah
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Mentre se la sta a pappa' | WHILE HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Chiedimi che cosa fa | ASK ME WHAT IS HE/SHE DOING
E' chiaro! se la sta a succhia' | IT'S CLEAR! HE/SHE IS SUCKIN' IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Se la sta a pappa' | AND HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Darling, darling, darling
Look at your sister
Do something like that, thanks
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Devi usarlo per misurar | YOU MUST USE IT TO MEASURE
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Cosi' me la potrai succhiar | SO THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SUCK ME IT
Ooh, you both suckin' stereo
Jesus
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia, | I'VE GOT A DICK,
Tengo na minchia tanta | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK
Translator's Notes
------------------
(1) "tengo" is dialectal (Naples dialect mainly), it means "I HAVE".
(2) "minchia" is one the infinite dialectal synonymous of penis. This word
is born in Sicily but now is used in all Italy.
(3) "accussi'" another dialectal word mainly used in the Naples area. Means
"THAT MUCH" and it should be followed, in the great Italian
tradition, with a gesture aimed to show how big is the thing
you are talking about.
(4) The Italian "guarda che se la mangia" is ambiguous. The gender of the one
is eating can be left unknown so in the following I wrote HE/SHE.
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# Italian teacher lecture kindly translated once again by
Francesco Gentile <gent...@sci.uniroma1.it>
And now dear friends
we are going to translate.
this is my left hand.
Repeat after me
Questa e' la mia mano destra | THIS IS MY RIGHT HAND
Look out |
Guardalo(1) che mangia | LOOK AT HIM EATING
E mentre sta mangiando ... | AND WHILE HE IS EATING ...
Parlami mentre mangi | SPEAK TO ME WHILE YOU EAT
E chiedimi cosa sta facendo | AND ASK ME WHAT IS HE DOING
Cosa sta facendo? | WHAT IS HE DOING?
Sta mangiando! | HE IS EATING!
Adesso chiedimi cosa sta facendo | NOW ASK ME WHAT IS HE DOING
Sta mangiando! | HE IS EATING!
Ma non lo posso fare, | BUT I CAN'T DO IT,
Me ne devo andare | I MUST GO
Devo tornare | I MUST GO BACK
Era un senatore a 37 anni | HE WAS A 37 YEARS OLD SENATOR
And this is my last single
Translator's Notes
------------------
(1) This is the only time the text refer to the masculine gender.
So I decided to use "HE" for the rest of the excerpt even if in the
remainder the gender is unknown (and the meaning of the text is
unknown too!). See also note 4 to TNMT.
Sometimes in this excerpt you can hear a voice repeating after MB
while eating. Exhilarating! Specially when he try to repeat "37 anni".
#CC
# From: la...@primenet.com (Bill Lantz)
# Remember Roy Estradas' recitation of this from the Baby Snakes movie?
# (10/31/77 NYC Palladium) Conceptual Project-Object Continuity.
BURNT WEENY SANDWICH
====================
# From: Playboy, April, 1993
#
# PLAYBOY: The titles of your records and songs are art statements, too.
# ZAPPA: Well, you have to call them something, so why not call them
# something amusing?
# PLAYBOY: For example, Burnt Weeny Sandwich?
# ZAPPA: I still eat burnt weeny sandwiches. It's one of the great
# things in life. At least it's a great lunch. You take a Hebrew
# National, put it on a fork, burn it on the stove, wrap two pieces
# of bread around it, squirt some mustard on it, eat it and you're
# back to work.
WPLJ
~~~~
The W is the white, the P is the port,
the L is the lemon, the J is the juice.
White port and Lemon Juice ..."
# From: cant...@ssd.intel.com (Jay Cantrell)
# WPLJ=WhitePort&LemonJuice, the original California cooler.
# A co-worker was singing the last Thursday.
#
# From: From: sa...@pitt.edu (Alan Saul)
# I quoted this last time WPLJ came up, but here it is again.
# From Roy Porter's autobiography, "There and Back", 1991,
# Bayou Press, Wheatley, Oxford, p. 79:
#
# I didn't start dropping "bennies" until I came to Los Angeles in 1944. By
# that time pot was passe for me because I had never liked the feeling it
# gave me anyway. Pot (marijuana) made me self-conscious and a bit paranoid.
# It afforded no relaxation at all, especially while playing my instrument.
# Pot was good to sit and dig sounds with. Benzedrine was sold in two forms,
# pills and the inhalers. It was legal to buy the inhalers over the counter,
# but you were supposed to have a prescription for the pills. The pills were
# used legally, mainly by airline pilots, bus drivers, etc. - anyone who had
# to stay alert and awake in their occupation. The inhaler was a different
# story; anyone could purchase them. The benzedrine was inside the inhaler,
# saturated in an orange-coloured paper strip. At that time we were drinking
# Molotov Cocktails, which is white port wine mixed with lemon juice. Man, we
# would get four or five quarts of white port, buy some inhalers, break them
# open, put the strips in each bottle of wine, put the wine next to a heater
# or heat, and let it sit and dissolve for a few days. When you drink that
# shit, man it will blow your mind, but we would be feeling mellow being
# loaded for days without any ZZZ's. Cisco knew exactly how long to let it
# set and dissolve, just like a moonshiner.
#
# Not recommended, folks, just for historical value.
#
# From: pcr...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Crane)
# I think they mean White Porter Lemon Juice--a mixture of wine and lemon
# juice like the song says--sounds nasty, but you might want to have it with
# a Burnt Weeny Sandwich.
#
# From: pal...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (palmer richard allen)
# Close: White Port and Lemon Juice.
# See (hear) the original WPLJ by the Four Deuces, (Music City 790) 1955.
# Legend has it that the tune began as a jingle the group did for a local
# merchant (I think a juice company, but it's been years since I heard the
# story. The point was to sell the juice, or the port, by plugging the combo:
# "white port and lemon juice, ooh what they do to you!")
# Anyway, the jingle was played on the local radio and got so much
# response that someone talked the group into working it up into a full
# song. It is a classic!
#
# From: to...@freeport.uwasa.fi (Tommi Uschanov)
# The full song was a hit and was only after that adopted into a wine
# ad jingle, according to notes to Vol. 1 of the two-volume _Music City
# Records_ anthology on the Swedish Earth Angel label (the label is Swedish,
# not Earth Angel, named for the Penguins classic!). The wine company was
# Swiss Colony, BTW. Zappa must have been very familiar with the original
# in his youth - it was a massive hit on the West Coast, and Music City
# was based in Berkeley.
# Spanish rap transcribed and translated by
# r.goe...@frw.ruu.nl (Roland Goetgeluk) girlfriend :-)
# corrected by
# ja...@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney) it seems on his own :-)
#
Por que no consigues tu, | Why don't you reach your,
tu carnal, | your buddy,
que los compres some wine, | to buy some wine,
esa, undele, | eh, come on,
pinchi vato, puto, .... , | damn dude, faggot
dalgambre (?), |
esta ven......... (?)) |
Dile, por que no merece, | Say it to him, why isn't it worth it,
dale mucho vino, | give him much more wine,
mas suave, mas suave, | cooler, cooler,
mas lindo que la chingada, | more fuckin' beautiful what the fuck,
hombre, undele pinchi vato, hombre, | man, come on damn dude, man
Tu carnal, tu carnal ese tu, | Your buddy, your buddy, eh, you,
tu sabes, toda movida, toda movida, | You know, all groove, all groove,
esa, tu sabes como es, pinchi vino, | eh, you know how it is, fuckin' wine,
puta, undele pinchi vato, undele | faggot, c'mon damn dude, c'mon
hombre (?) | man
Por que no hombre, | Why not man,
te digo que si hombre | I tell you yes, man,
te digo, chingawese(?), | I tell you, we get tight,
esta meco, ponemos mas mecos | this meco (?), we put more mecos (?)
que la chingada, .. (?) ai ai vato. | what the fuck, ai ai fuckin' dude
# carnal = buddy, blood brother, not 'lustfulness'
# pinche = damn or fucking, an expletive preceeding any noun
# literally pinche means cook's helper.
# vato = dude
# puto = fairy, faggot
# cabron = lit. male goat = mother fucker
# mas suave, mas lindo que la chingada = cooler, more fucking beutiful
# suave means soft,
# but is slang for cool.
# la movida = the groove
#
# From : ja...@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
# He's basically begging some guy to get his friend to buy some
# wine. He's saying "Your friend, your friend, you know the groove, you
# know how it is, fucking faggot, c'mon."
Overture To A Holiday In Berlin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# This beautiful music later reappeared with sort of senseless words
# on 200 motels album as a song titled Would You Like A Snack
#
# Howard: La La La La
# Mark: Would you like a snack?
#
# Mmmmmmmmmmmm :-)))))))
#
# Also exist ( on the FREAKS & MOTHERFU*#@%! bootleg for example ) another
# version of the lyrics dealing with real sojourn in Berlin
#
# From: ck7...@albnyvms.bitnet (C. Gordon Keeble (gordo))
#
# This probably needs corrections..
#
# Holiday in Berlin
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#
# Look at all the Germans.
# La la la la la la
# Watch them follow orders.
# La la la la la la
# See them think they're doing
# something groovy in the street.
#
# See the student leader.
# La la la la la la
# He's a rebel prophet.
# La la la la la la
# He's fucked up, he's still a
# Nazi like his mom and dad.
#
# Played for a night in Berlin. That afternoon we
# set up our shit and rehearsed.
# Half a dozen phony student rebels in the hall,
# came to see if I could find a way to help them all.
#
# "What is your desire?"
# La la la la la la
# "Help us start a fire."
# La la la la la la
# In the Allied center,
# 'round the corner, down the street.
#
# And then, we began to play.
# A bunch of punks arose from the crowd.
# Student rebels, their flags upraised,
# began to chant "Ho Chi Minh"
# "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh" Threw tomatoes!
#
# And the next thing knew, we were under seige.
#
#
# From: Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
# The story behind that song is, when the mothers had a concert in Berlin
# 1968 (I think it was their first concert in germany), right on top of the
# student movement, the student wanted him to support their political ideas
# (which were pretty communistic), and he refused. So they throw tomatoes
# and stuff at him ("Don't throw stuff on the stage") and Frank said he'll
# never play in Berlin again. But Fritz Rau, a german concert promoter,
# talked him into come back again. "He said, if you don't like what these
# people were doing, you should come back and tell them"
# ( FZ, quoted from memmory from an interview he gave here in 1988).
# A real nice place to raise your kids up. :-)
Little House I Used To Live In
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@adb.gu.se (Ulf Sundin)
# On _Burnt Weeny Sandwich_ after _Little House I Used To Live In_ Zappa
# announces that they will try to perform _Brown Shoes..._ (if the audience
# keep quiet) but it sound like an empty promise.
# It's not an easy piece to perform live...
#
# From: "Peter de B. Harrington" <Har...@helios.phy.ohiou.edu>
# I have a copy of BSDMI by the 1968 band from a show (in London?). So it was
# probably indeed performed, but I guess Zappa thought Valerie would fit
# nicely with WPLJ to finish off the album.
#
# From: Pat Buzby <spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu>
# I would have guessed this before too, but..no. Recently I got a tape from
# Bologna in August '73 (in the same period as Piquantique, from BTB 1), in
# which the encore is "Brown Shoes," sung entirely by FZ and George Duke.
# This was quite a surprise.
Valarie
~~~~~~~
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH
=======================
lyrics from famous :-)
German Songbook
provided by
Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
special thanks to
Yury July <ju...@july.techno.ru>
# A little bit of apropos :-)
#
# From: sun...@adb.gu.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Does anybody know why the original cover to the album Weasels Ripped My
# Flesh_ was changed. The original picture a metal doll (chrome?) caught in a
# mouse trap. This was sometimes in the 70's changed to the man shaving
# himself with a weasel.
# I was reminded of the original cover when I found two fresh copies of it
# in a second hand shop in Gotherburg for 500 SEK each (that's about $70)
#
# From: mi...@cico.com (Michael Heth)
# From 1984 to about 1988 I was very good friends with John Williams who
# worked for Zappa for about 15 years. John stated to me that the original
# cover as envisioned by him was the image as painted by Neon Parks with only
# the word "Rzzzz" in the sound balloon. The record company execs had a fit
# claiming that they could not put out the album without some identification
# as to the band etc. John "went to the mat" for his concept and was assured
# that it would appear as he intended. Then the execs screwed him by adding
# the other word balloons, "The Mothers of Invention" and "Weasels Ripped My
# Flesh". John went ballistic and seemed to alienate some "big wigs" (nee
# dickheads) at the record company. They proceeded to screw him whenever
# possible, such as the photo credit for "Chunga's Revenge". John took the
# photo of Frank on the cover but they switched the credits so it reads that
# he took the photo on the back (can you tell that Frank is yawning, not
# screaming as it looks at first glance?). Although I remember John saying
# that the WRMF cover was his idea and that he commissioned Neon Park to
# paint it, I may be wrong about that and do not have a way of contacting him
# to confirm my memory.
# Any other "cover art" was put on by the local arm of the record company.
# The original was the Neon Park painting.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# May be other cover art was just for European version? My original Bizarre
# WRMF ( Printed in Holland ) also has on front cover green background metal
# doll in mouse trap.
Did You Get Any Onya
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# The title of this tune is used by some folks as a response to someone
# else's particularly nasty-sounding belch, as if they're concerned you
# might've spewed something on yourself in the process: "Didja get any onya?".
ALTO SOLO
...............
MONOLOGUE:
Years ago in Tshermany when I wos a very small boy, zey was a lot of
peoples stending around on ze corners asking quest-shens: "Vy are you
stending on ze corner eck-ting ze way you do, looking ze way you look!
Vy do you look zat way!", they ask me end I vanted to say: I don't know,
I'm just stending here waiting in ze evening, and it's nice outside...
( Rest obscured by pseudo-operatic voices )
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# was then Samir :-)))
# The MONOLOGUE is by Lowell George, guitarist for Zappa at that time
# and later for Little Feat. Frank has said that George had a wonderful
# German accent. Another example may be found on "German Lunch" off
# YCDTOSA-5, CD 1.
NYAAH NYAAH NYAAH NYAAH
NYAAH NYAAH NYAAH NYAAH
Get A Little
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(COUGHING)
... hot and everybody workin'on her
So I figured I'd
Rip off her
Drawers and
Get a little -
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# Sounds like "Get A Little" is about getting a little pussy or some sex.
# "Drawers" = underpants, panties.
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Michael_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Michael Gushulak)
# Eric Dolphy was a jazz multi-instrumentalist (alto sax, flute, and bass
# clarinet) who recorded in the late '50s and early '60s (he died in 1964 at
# the age of 36). He was noted for being the first to use the bass clarinet
# as a solo instrument, and played with Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman
# among others. He is listed in the liner notes of "Freak Out!" as one of
# the people who "contributed materially in many ways to make [the Mothers']
# music what it is."
#
# From: sa...@pitt.edu (Alan Saul)
# Somebody should compile documentation on everybody in the Freak Out list,
# as FZ suggested. This one happens to be my hero, so I thought I'd add to
# Michael's comments by noting that Eric was born and raised in LA, his
# father was a car dealer, and the Dolphys were about the nicest people in
# the world. Frank probably knew of Eric from way back, since Eric had fairly
# regular gigs in LA until 1958 when he joined Chico Hamilton's chamber
# ensemble.
# Zappa's composition named above is a parody of the fact that vast
# quantities of tributes came out after Eric's death.
# Vladimir Simosko wrote the definitive biography/discography, available now
# from Da Capo Press. A Dutch filmmaker named Hans Hylkema made a documentary
# about Eric in 1992. It is now available on Rhapsody 9028. The point of view
# is quite Eurocentric, but it does spend a bit of time at the Dolphy's house
# in LA. A guy named Joe O'Con bought the house after the Dolphys died and
# maintained it as a museum/community center until it was destroyed in the
# riots in 1992. He still runs the Eric Dolphy Memorial Foundation, so the
# concept continues.
# Musically, there isn't a lot of overlap between Zappa and Dolphy. Dolphy
# is noted for the large intervals he used, playing some form of the changes
# typically but the sevenths and thirteenths more than the tonics and
# dominants. He often kept the rhythmic structure simple in order to provide
# a basis from which to take harmonic leaps (although there are wonderful
# examples of his rhythmic complexity). Zappa instead tends toward
# polyrhythmic compositions with little harmonic complexity, often writing
# chromatic or serial structures (of course there are counterexamples here
# too, I'm generalizing). Dolphy was highly trained, unlike Zappa, and was a
# virtuoso on each of his instruments. Like Zappa, though, he was thought of
# as some kind of crazed radical revolutionary, in spite of their obvious
# musicianship. The other tie between them is probably their love of Varese.
# Eric performed Density 22.5 (I forget the actual density at the moment
# actually) many times.
#
# From: to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# ED was a health nut who avoided even alcohol. Diabetes brought about his
# death.
# His music has been a major influence on the likes of Charles Mingus, John
# Coltrane, and countless others. Musicians from the "old school", such as
# swing/bop trumpeter Roy Eldridge, have been amazed by ED's musical ear.
# I doubt FZ ever wished to make fun of ED; FZ has spoken highly of,
# performed music clearly influenced by, and/or played with many musicians of
# the jazz "avant-garde" of the 60's, such as pianist Cecil Taylor, multi-reed
# player Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and saxophonists Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler.
# The melody of "ED Memorial BBQ" suggests that FZ had listened carefully to
# improvisations by ED.
#
# From: jmi...@terra.colostate.edu (Jeff Miller)
# Bzzt. Judging by FZ's style, the Eric Dolphy *Memorial* Barbeque is a
# toast to a great avant garde composer and musician.
#
# From: Pat Buzby <spb...@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU>
# First of all, Zappa appreciated Dolphy's music (he even included him on
# the list of inspiring people in "Freak Out!"). Secondly, the tune "Eric
# Dolphy Memorial Barbeque" really doesn't have much to do with Dolphy's
# music at all, as far as I can tell, being a fan of both Dolphy and Zappa.
# Although there is a sax solo on the Best Band version which is very
# Dolphyesque. So no, I don't think Zappa was making fun of Dolphy with this
# piece. (Another reason just popped into mind : it's not a very funny
# composition.)
#
# From: km9...@phoebe.albany.edu (MADIGAN KEVIN M)
# One of my favorite Eric Dolphy stories is when he was voted "Sax man of
# the year" or some such by a musician oriented magazine in 60 or 61 or
# thereabouts. His response was something along the lines of "Does this mean
# I'll start getting some decent gigs?" It appears that then ,as now, those
# actually playing things worth hearing didn't get much commercial reward.
#
# From: s060...@let.rug.nl (R. Takken)
# About the Title EDMB:
# The first (or at least one of the first) posthumous Eric Dolphy albums (on
# Prestige) was called: Eric Dolphy's Memorial Album.
#
#CC
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# Please see the note to "Oh No"
Oh No
~~~~~
# From: stu...@apollo.HP.COM (stuart)
# Here are FZ's words, attached to one of his more memorable melodies,
# written in response to John Lennon & Yoko Ono late 60's deliberately
# innocent approach to the sorry state of word affairs then ( .. and now).
# ( Get your hands on a copy "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" to hear this in
# all its grandeur, with Ray Collins' 'swell vocals'. )
Oh no
I don't believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
You say love is all we need
You say
With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate
I think you're probably
Out to lunch
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# "Out to lunch" is the name of a groundbreaking Eric Dolphy album.
#
# From: rick...@aol.com (Rick Hall)
# "Out To Lunch" = Out Of Your Mind
# IMHO the reference comes from shops, often in rural areas, where the owner
# closes his shop to get lunch, being the only employee. Thus "Out To Lunch"
# == "Out Of Buisness"(temporarilly) So when someone make an inane
# statement, ref. song referred to in song, it is as if the person making
# the statement has put an "Out To Lunch" sign up, "This Person Not
# Working"/"Not Thinking"
# A good American slang dictionary is probably a necessity to grok Zappa's
# lyrics.
And in your dreams
You can see yourself
As a prophet
Saving the world
The words from your lips ...
I just believe you're
Such a fool
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Get your hands on copy of Roxy too. 'Coze you find there another version
# of this song named Son of Orange County. And another person trying to
# fool FZ with the words. This time it seems to be Richard Nixon brought into
# the world ( as suggested my Songbook footnote ) in Orange County CA.
# I'M NOT A CROOK!
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#:-)))))))
# From: ar...@sun.lclark.edu (Matthew Arndt)
# An argument that the title track from Weasels Ripped My Flesh could be
# considered a song, and therefore a very bad song, is that next to it's
# listing in the CD booklet, it says "(Zappa)", which would indicate that he
# actually WROTE it.
#
# From: da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com (David Thomas)
# It's not just a song that he *wrote*, it's ART. The CD booklet and the
# title and the text next to it that says "(Zappa)" are the picture frame.
# But, if you prefer to think of it as just a song, then consider it a
# stylized vacuum cleaner solo.
CHUNGA'S REVENGE
================
Lyrics was originaly
transcribed by
C. Gordon Keeble [gordo] (ck7...@csc.albany.edu)
Transylvanian Boogie
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Transylvanian Boogie is great. Combines a truly "non-rock" guitar
# improvisation with a really mean guitar sound.
#
Road Ladies
~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Road Ladies: OK, musically this is rather traditional blues.
# The lyrics are amusing the first times, however.
#
Don't it ever get lonesome? {yeah! . . . sure gets lonesome}
Don't it ever get sad when you go out on the road?
{oh, there was one time in Minneapolis.. when I thought I
had the clap for sure}
Don't it ever get lonesome? [whoa-ho!] {lonesome ain't the word}
Don't it ever get sad when you go out on a thirty day tour?
# From: Colin Gateley <qf...@insane.apana.org.au>
# these quotes {} are Mark Volman...
# the other voice is probably Howard Kaylan and I can't work out
# what he is saying. It may be simply appropriate blues response
# mumbling.
When the P.A. system eats it,
^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# P.A. System is short for Public Address system. Before the days of
# good amps, mixers and monitors, bands used relatively crude set-
# ups for amplification. FZ complains about the P.A. system the
# Mothers used during the '68 European tour in the "Ahead of Their
# Time" CD booklet.
#
# From: line...@delphi.com
# About the time this album was put out, the trend in arena shows was to
# have an enormous and POWERFUL public address system (P.A. system), most of
# which were rented from sound and light companies. Not all such companies
# were reliable. Powerful amplification was EXTREMELY expensive in those days
# and many of the "fly by night" sound contractors would show up with a huge
# buch of plywood cabinets made to look like working speakers and rack panels
# filled with a few good power amps and a lot of broken stuff with the red
# lights wired up so they would look good.
# Frank was apparently referencing those performances where the rented
# sound equipment sounds like shit ("Eats It" in American slang) and as every
# road musician can attest to; not every performance goes entirely as rehearsed
# (as in:"And the band plays some of the most terrible-est shit you ('ve) ever
# known")
#
# From: "Ottis R." <BO...@UNB.CA>
# The sense is right, but I think that "Eats it" refers to the point
# at which the Public Address system actually breaks down, as in what
# happens to you when you get a bad burrito and some rancid beer and
# Eat It.
#
# From: nat...@coos.dartmouth.edu (Mark A. Natola)
# Well, I grew up in the Boston area, and "Eats it" basicly means IT SUCKS!
# So, if you apply that meaning to the song, FZ is saying the PA system sucks,
# and the band is playing like shit. Just my 2 cents.
Don't you better get a shot from the doctor for what the
Road Ladie do to you
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Means: get an injection agains the clap or whatever the Road Ladies give
# you. (This was written before AIDS came up.)
#
# From: line...@delphi.com
# Referencing, of course, getting an injection of penicillin from the doctor
# to cure the strain of venereal disease you picked up while boffin' groupies
# after the show.
# HEY anybody out there old enough to remember when sex didn't KILL YOU?
Twenty Small Cigars
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# This is a really great ultra-cool jazz, in the same
# vein as "It must be a camel" from Hot Rats.
# The only problem is that it's too short.
#
The Nancy & Mary Music
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# A fun jam, including a vocal drum solo by George Duke.
#
Tell Me You Love Me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Nothing very special, but it became a Flo & Eddie Classic.
#
Would You Go All the Way?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# A funny Flo & Eddie Song
Remember Freddie and Joe
The night you went to the show. (a monster movie)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# There are a few lines from FZ intro to Roxy _Cheepnis_
#
# Cheepnis... lemme tell you something: do you like monster movies, anybody?
# (YEEAAH!) I love monster monster movies. I simply adore monster movies. And
# the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheapness, in case of monster
# movie, has nothing to do with the budget of the film -- althought it helps
# -- but true cheapness is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to
# the jaw of the giant spider...
The monster came out; everybody shout.
People all around you, screamin at the monster --
the monster from the USO.
^^^^
# From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# United Service Organization. This is a partially federal, partially
# voluntary organization whose job it is to boost the morale of troops in the
# United States armed forces. The USO typically puts on shows (Bob Hope
# used to do one a year), maintains coffeehouses, puts on dances, provides
# counseling, etc. The song is a reference to the suspicion that female
# volunteers for the USO occasionally perform morale-boosting services of a
# more personal nature.
#
# From: Colin Gateley <qf...@insane.apana.org.au>
# United Service Organisation...I think they're the ones
# who provide "entertainment" for American troops...
# So - the monster is in the movie provided by this
# recreation-for-government-authorised-killers organisation.
Chunga's Revenge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Improvisation over a rather simple riff, but the
# wha-wha sax of Ian Underwood is really good.
The Clap
~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Offers some percussive relief after the hot title track,
# and FZ at the drums.
Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# This is really funny, including an
# Elvis inpersination and trombone by George Duke.
Hi and howdy doody.
I'm a union man; you can call me Rudy.
Any you boys not paid up on your cards? [huh?]
^^^^^
# From: to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# ... I think, as in, "Have you been paying your union dues?"
# (you get this AFM -- American Federation of Musicians -- card in the US).
to check and see
no wrong been done
that's one good reason
I carry a gun.
I hope the bulge
^^^^
# From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# I envision Rudy as wearing a dark suit concealing a pistol in a
# shoulder holster.
#
# From: val...@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Peter Valerio)
# Sounds to me like Frank is taking a common, everyday experience like
# concealing firearms and trying to make our inner children giggle and
# think about our (and in the case of the women, their) willies.
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# as in the bulge a gun makes in a wise guy's jacket. Plus it's kind of a play
# on the bulge that most rock stars are more concerned about.
#
Sharleena
~~~~~~~~~
# From: sun...@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Never really cared for this one, in any of the any released versions.
#
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>#
# Why did he keep recording it? I guess he found songs like that fun
# to listen to as well as play, and Sharleena is certainly a good
# vehicle for highlighting Flo & Eddie's talents and is a logical
# extension of the Ruben & Jets/Valarie greasy teen age love
# song themes. He honestly LOVED stuff like that. For instance
# when I saw the Mothers in 1971, the final encore was a very
# slow, very straight version of the Shep & the Limelighters doo-wop
# classic "Daddy's Home".
# Back to the topic, I find the version of Sharleena on Playground
# Psychotics to be lots of fun to sing along with in the car.
# That "Sharleena-leena doodledooledoodledoodledoodledoo" stuff makes
# me want to sing every time.
FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971
========================
lyrics from _Plastic People_ songbook
were retyped for your pleasure by
Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
# Just Fillmore Rap To Start With
#
# From: pve...@vmark.com (Philippe Vezina)
# Yes, John and Yoko did appear with Frank and the Mothers at the same show
# that the Fillmore 71 album was recorded.They performed a song called
# 'Scumbag' which was basically all three of them screaming SCUMBAG at the
# top of their lungs.
# The John and Yoko album "Sometime in New York City" which came out in 1972,
# is a 2 record set. The first album is studio cuts and the second album is
# live. If you can grab an original or fairly old copy like mine, you will see
# when you pull out the sleeve for album number 2, that it is the ZAPPA
# Fillmore 71 album cover. The sleeve is an exact replica of the Zappa album
# cover, except John Lennon scribbled all over it and wrote down other stuff
# instead of what Frank had wrote "obviously John wrote the correct songs
# from that album". Also if you open up the album jacket, you'll see a nice
# picture of Zappa (with guitar) and John and Yoko onstage at that Fillmore
# show.
#
# From: j...@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (jeffrey.j.rocca)
# Yes, John and Yoko jammed with the Mothers at the Fillmore East. But it is
# not captured on the _Fillmore East, June 1971_ album. Two different mixes
# of the jam can be heard, one on John and Yoko's _Sometime in New York City_,
# the other on Zappa'a _Playground Psychotics_.
#
The Mud Shark
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mud Sh-sh-shark
THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON!
My mind drifts back to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport
where the members of the Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home movie they
made at the Edgewater Inn with a Mud Shark. I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the
Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!...
#
# From: ssh...@alesis1.usa.com
# I don't know if there is a dance or not, but the mud shark
# is about a band ( i think vanilla fudge, really) who caught
# a fish at the edgewater inn in seatlle, and procedded to
# plook some groupie with it. i think this is described in
# the real fz book. the story was told to a member other than
# frank, but supposedly the groupie person enjoyed it
# vigorously, identified with it strenuously, got up, dressed
# herself, and then thanked the band persons very much for
# doing this to her, and left.
# The interview with the guy at the edgewater, on playground
# psychotics, obviously took place after frank heard the
# story. frank seems to be hinting at what a person could do
# with a fish that they had caught the whole time. i also
# remember flo and eddie referring to the "Dance that would be
# sweeping the nation" (and the nation needs a good sweeping).
#
# From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Catherine M Leonard)
# I have a recording of Frank describing the Mudshark Dance to the audience.
# You open your legs, clasp your hands together & s q u a t ! To do it in
# 4/4 time, step left, step right, squat, rest. All the time you should have
# your hands together down by the knees. I'll have to check for the date, etc.
#
# From: rich.g...@suzys.altcit.eskimo.com (Rich Gregory)
# I have a bootleg where FZ coaches the audience on how to
# do this dance. He's got 'em all lined up standing, no, squatting in their
# seats w/ their hands between their legs. One hand between the legs to the
# person behind you, the other hand to the person in front of you (who's hand
# is between his leg back to you). The idea is to sort of duck walk & in
# unison with the music SQUAT at the appropriate time with everyone else.
#
# From: line...@delphi.com
# Now that you mention it, I do remember Phlo & Eddie and several other
# bandmembers attempting this maneuver while Frank narrated from the side.
# It was a nice break from Nixon, Vietnam and Kent State. It was just plain
# idiotic looking! I REALLY wish I had a video tape of that show! Zappa
# showed us all that you could still have fun while surrounded by a world full
# of "plastic people".
#
#CCC
# From: ra...@ark.btbg.sub.de (Ralf W. Stephan)
# Well, Frank says on 'Bebop Tango'(Roxy) that the BT will 'sweep/t(?)
# the ocean, right after the Mudshark did'.
#
# From: cant...@ssd.intel.com (Jay Cantrell)
# Also, on PlaygroundPsychotics, Frank interviews the desk
# manager at the Mudshark Hotel....Well, since my baby left me,
# I've found a new place to dwell, It makes a sort of Puget Sound...
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Okay: well I get off bein' juked
^^^^^^^
With a baby octopus
An spewed upon with cream corn! AAH... UNH!
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# I suspect something should be added to definition from my
# Dict. of American slang
# juke - v.i. To tour outside bars, usu. with one of the opposite sex;
#
# From: Martin Piazzola <piaz...@scf.usc.edu>
# juked - banged, porked, "penetrated"
#
# From: jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (John Michael Martz)
# Yes--it means to penetrate carnally (at least the way I've heard it used).
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# To get off (American slang) - to enjoy, to orgasm, to begin to feel
# the effect of certain drugs. Juked is not common slang, but may be
# derivative of Jukebox, a coin operated machine that plays music.
An' my girlfriend, she digs it
With a hot YOOHOO bottle
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Yoo-Hoo is an american (very american) soft drink. Non-carbonated and
# chocolate-flavored. It has a very high chemical content, but it's quite
# tasty. I haven't had one in years.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# YOOHOO is a dairy based chocolate beverage popular in New York
While somebody's screamin':
CORKS 'N' SAFETIES
PIGS 'N' DONKEYS
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# I thought it was Cords 'n' Safeties, potentially referring to Bondage Gear
# Remember: The "groupie routine" was performed every night and it was
# always different. Stage #1 has a variant of it, as do many other Bootlegs.
# The routine incorporated many random elements and evolved over time. On
# Stage 1 it was just Cords 'n' Safeties over and over again.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Pigs and donkeys are supposedly favored animals for bestial acts.
You two chicks sound real far aout and groovy
Ever been to a Holiday Inn?
Mna-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa...
Magic Fingers in the Bed (Picture it!)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# Anyone who's spent a lot of time in cheezy motels (the Mothers
# sure did!) will recognize all three of the items:
# -"Magic Fingers" is a type of coin-operated bed-vibrator. You put 25
# cents in the meter and the bedsprings & mattress vibrate for a
# set amount of time. I tried it once but it made me nauseous. FZ goes
# into more detail in the song "MAGIC FINGERS" from 200 MOTELS:
# "...Open up your pocketbook
# Pull another quarter out
# Drop it in the meter..."
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# This was supposed to be some sort of Massage, thus the name. This relates
# directly to the song "Magic Fingers" from 200 Motels (maybe Chunga's). Live
# version on Stage 5 or 6.
Wall-mounted TV screen:
Coffee-Host plugged into the bathroom wall
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# "COFFEE-HOST" is a primitive do-it-yourself coffee maker. It
# consists of a heating coil and a carafe that looks like it hasn't
# been washed out since it was installed. It often came with a
# couple of packets of instant coffee. You plug it in,boil your water,
# pour in the coffe crystals and VOILA! a perfectly VILE brew.
# Generally, the best place to plug it in was the bathroom since at
# least there was a counter close to the electrical outlet. I'm
# convinced that COFFEE HOST was responsible for all those burn marks
# on the FORMICA counters in the bathrooms.
Formica's really keen!
^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# "FORMICA" is a durable laminated plastic substance generally used
# in countertops and some cheezy furniture. It comes in thousands of
# colors and designs. A similar version of it was known as "ARBORITE".
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# I'll assume the first is some sort of coffee maker; Formica is the
# stuff that kitchen and bathroom countertops are made out of. It
# frequently looks something like bad marble, or is of a color found
# naturally nowhere on Earth
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Formica is a tradename for a cheap melamine laminate used in
# countertops.
Funny you should mention it:
Our new single just made the charts this week
With a bullet! With a bullet!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# A song that was rocketing to the top of the Billboard charts
# was highlited by a "bullett" in the margin of the chart. I bet
# HAPPY TOGETHER had a bullet.
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# Billboard used to put a bullet next to a charted record that had moved up
# some measurable amount from its position on the previous week's chart. (Some
# phallic significance just might be intended here.)
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# In Billboard's ,Top 40 list, songs that are climbing the charts rapidly
# are marked with a bullet, which is really just a large dot. This indicates
# that you're *really* hot shit.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Rolling Stone magazine lists a chart of the top 40 or so songs in sales.
# They put a black dot, called a bullet, next to songs rapidly rising in
# popularity.
Bwana Dik
~~~~~~~~~
I've got the thing you need
I am endowed beyound your wildest
Clearasil-spattered fantasies, oh oh oh..
^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# Over-the-counter pimple medicine (or zit cream). I used it when I was
# a pimply teen even though it seemed useless.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Clearasil is a brand of acne (pimple) medication cream. Poetic metaphor
# for the teenage groupie.
Girls from all over the world
Love to write my name on the toilet walls
At the Whisky a Go Go
For I am Bwana Dik
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# I think I read somewhere (interview? Real FZ BOOK?) that BWANA DIK
# was the title bestowed on the member (no pun intended) of the band or
# crew who had the best success with groupies. It literally means
# something like "BOSS DICK".
#
# From: jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (John Michael Martz)
# Yes, "Bwana" is a word used by b-movie natives when talking to the "boss
# white man" or the "BIG man." Bwana has come to mean anything big.
# Hence, we are talking about an exceptionally well-endowed man.
#
# From: Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
# Check out "The real Frank Zappa Book" for Franks explanation of "Bwana Dik"
# (In that chapter where he explains it to the court, I think.)
#
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# In 200 motels movie Howie Kaylan also boasted about being real Bwana
# Dik monster. And Aynsley "Binoculars" Dunbar too.
Latex Solar Beef
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Acetylene Nirvana
Hemorrhoids
Talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoids, Baby
# Is it usual surrealist stuff or is there some sense behind it?
Iridescent naugahyde python gleaming
^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# Naugahyde is the fabric equivalent of Formica. It's a sort of vinyl,
# fake-leather fabric. It's what we call "wipe-clean" and, like
# Formica, comes in many colours, many of which do not appear in
# nature.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Fake leather. It is to leather what Formica is to marble.
#
# From: bo...@lynx.navo.navy.mil (Martin H. Booda)
# Suede-like polyester fabric often associated with bean-bag seats.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Naugahyde is a tradename for a soft plastic used in furnature. There
# used to be absurd commercials on the TV about the mythical Naugabeast
# the plastic came from.
#
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# _Absolutely Free_
# Brown Shoes Don't Make It
#
# Every desire is hidden away, in a drawer, in a desk, by a
# Naugahyde chair on a rug where they they walk and drool
#
# _Joe's Garage_
# Stick It Out
#
# Sy Borg: Touch the chrome. Feel the chrome
# See the screeming. Hot black steaming
# Iridescent naugahyde python screaming
# Steam Roller!
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The bit about Heal the Chrome is a knock off of Tommy that is only on the
# Joes Garage version.
Steam roller
All groupies must bow down
In the sacred presence of
The Latex Solar Beef
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (John Michael Martz)
# Well, I'm not sure if these terms have some type of meaning together
# (such as a brand name), but latex is a synthetic rubber material (if I
# remember correctly).
#
# From: s060...@let.rug.nl (R. Takken)
# Latex is the french word for condom, after the particular type of rubber
# it's been made of. There's a french comic advocating safe sex called 'Les
# aventures du latex'. So, imagine a 'Condomed Solar Beef'...
Do you Like My New Car?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-"Come across.."
- All that's true, and sometimes I even dig it with a Doctor Brown's Cream Soda...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
or a CEL-RAY!... but! we are *not* groupies! No matter what you think...
^^^^^^^
# From: e...@cs.brown.edu (Ethan Malasky)
# Dr. Brown's is yet another brand name. The Company is still around,
# and still makes Cel-Ray soda (it's not _that_ bad). Soda trivia (my
# source is long since forgotten): When soda first started being
# flavored, they were all vegetable-flavored. The drug-laced artificial
# flavors didnt' come until later. Cel-Ray is out last link to a past
# where vegetable-flavored sodas really were all the rage.
# I think the point in the song is that he's SO deviant that not only
# does he like it with mainstream Cream Soda, but he even digs
# Cel-Ray. Yum.
#
# From: Martin Piazzola <piaz...@scf.usc.edu>
# Dr. Brown's Cream soda - I assume the bottle has a shape to her liking
# Celery, you know, long vegetable...
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Carbonated soft drinks that used to be found only in the New York area.
# Now imagine a soda with the taste of celery (sort of), and you've got the
# basic concept of Cel-ray.
#
# From: bo...@lynx.navo.navy.mil (Martin H. Booda)
# Dr. Brown's is a carbonated beverage line which originated in NY at the turn
# of the century and, like the french phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck
# ornament, is currently in resurgence. Creme Soda and Cel-ray are two of the
# most popular flavors. I recommend them.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)#
# Not really that exciting at all. Dr. Browns makes soda's (soft drinks).
# Cream is one of the most popular (Basically Vanilla). Root Beer and Black
# Cherry. They also have (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) Celery flavored soda,
# brand named Cel-Ray. It tastes just like what you would expect celery
# soday to taste like.
#
# From: re...@watson.ibm.com (Diane Reese)
# Cel-Ray is indeed celery-flavored soda; it's made with celery seed,
# however, and has that edge to its taste. I personally think there is
# almost nothing as thirst-quenching as a heavily iced glass of Cel-Ray on
# a hot afternoon. It's still available; it's the most, um, "esoteric" of
# the Dr. Brown's line.
-"You see, there seems to be some kind of a communication problem, honey...
because I... I am a lonely guy from outta town, y'know an'... an'
I want some ACTION... what I'm talkin' about is, I wanna... a-a-steaming...
succulent... ever-widening, gooey, drippy, runny kind of a hole with a...
with... how shall I put this... what say we hop in the trunk of your
Gremlin AN' GET OUR ROCKS OFF..."
^^^^^^^^
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# I think it's just a joke because it was such a cruddy little AMC vehicle
# with a very small hatch in the back. Probably just a funny thought that
# anyone would try to make it in such a confined (not to mention unromantic)
# space.
#
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# There's absolutely NOTHING exciting about having a Gremlin, which I
# guess is the point. It's a cheap pseudo-sporty AMC car that I
# think came with a hatchback. It's just the kind of thing a
# suburban groupie wanna-be would have her father buy for her (along
# with a COLOR-NOTE ORGAN, ha ha) .
#
# From: Martin Piazzola <piaz...@scf.usc.edu>
# The Gremlin is a rather silly-looking car from the early 70's... Little
# box, usually came in green or some other loud color.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# It was a real cheap, cheesy American Motors product. It had no trunk.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The AMC Gremlin was a very funny looking car. You RARELY see them on the
# road anymore. Europeans probably wouldn't find them funny, as it looks
# kind of like a pregnant Citroen. Nothing exciting at all, they were very
# mundane cars in the 70's although perhaps they were semi-chic in 71.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Gremlin was an unfortunate name for an auto. A gremlin is a evil
# spirit or sprite that makes mechanical things break down. It was an
# early hatch back design, making it possible to literally jump in
# the trunk.
- Ooooh! Anything for you, my most seductive, seclusive... pop star of a man...
picture this if you can: bead jobs! knotted nylons! bamboo canes!
three unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fighting in
the dressing-room of the Fillmore East! Why, 'n enchilada wrapped with
^^^^^^^^^
pickle sauce shook up and down in between a donkey's legs until
# From: Martin Piazzola <piaz...@scf.usc.edu>
# enchilada - "inch - ill - la - da" like a burrito but usually covered in
# sauce.
#
# From: bo...@lynx.navo.navy.mil (Martin H. Booda)
# Tortilla with goodies wrapped inside. Try one with a Creme Soda.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# That's "One enchilada" - it goes with "3 unreleased recordings.."
# Yes, it's mexican food. Something encased in a corn torilla and usually
# baked and covered in some kind of sauce.
#
# From: r...@cx1gpx.lord.com (Robin F. Righettini)
# Yes en-chill-ah-da is a phallic cylinder wrapped in a tortilla,
# and covered in cheese and sauce. A good one is pretty tasty and filling.
(all sing "Happy Together")
# From: e...@cs.brown.edu (Ethan Malasky)
# As far as I know this was truly a hit single. Unless memory fails, The
# Turtles are the one-hit wonder associated with this song. (oh no. Now
# I've offended all the die-hard Turtles Fans out there. Both of them.)
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# `They must be the writers of the tune. It most certainly hit the charts
# with a bullet. From the "Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock":
#
# The Turtles:
# ...
# The Turtles weren't content, however, and were about to break up; but first
# they released "Happy Together", which proved to be their biggest hit,
# and one of 1967's Top Ten records."
#
# The entry also notes that Jim Pons was in the Turtles, and followed
# Volman & Kaylan to the Mothers and later to Flo & Eddie.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Not sure who the songwriters were, but it was a BIG hit. It was made
# famous by the Turtles, aka Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman who joined Frank's
# band to do more outrageous things. The only reason they sing this song is
# out of self-mockery.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# This song ( in accordance with vin...@ee.tut.fi< Vinksu Chandrasekhar>)
# is officially credited to Bonner/Gordon .
Robbert Heederik
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200 MOTELS
==========
lyrics was originaly transcribed by
gordo <CK7...@ALBNYVMS.BITNET>
corrected and reorganized with the help of
_Plastic People. Corrected Version_
songbook by
Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
special thanks to
Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
M - Mark Vollmam,
H - Howard Kaylan,
Jm - Jimmy Carl Black
Jf - Jeff Simmons
T - Theodor Bikel
Ch - Chorus
Sp - Female Soprano
Tr - Male Tenore
GC - Good Concience
BC - Bad Concience
Evr - Everybody :-)
Semi-fraudulent/Direct-from-Hollywood Overture
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
T: Ladies and gentlemen!
Ch: 200 motels
T: 200 motels.. Life on the road.
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# It seems that an explanation of Mr. Rance Muhammitz heavy german accent
# can be found on various bootleg tracks of Flo'n'Eddie era. Here goes the
# prince of boots... The Swiss Cheese :-)
#
# From: Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
#
# And addressed them formaly
# With the little song in Deutsch
# Because that is the way he talks whenever it's heavy business
#
# Take it away God
#
# Gib zu mir
# Etwas Fußbodenbelag
# Unter diesem fetten, fließenden Sofa
#
# So if we remember that Rance Muhammitz is just one of the Devil's many names
# we must admit that accordingly to FZ model of Heaven and Hell the mother
# tongue of the angels should be deutsch! Ich bin Maroon !!!!!!!
Mystery Roach
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: How long? How long?
Till that MYSTERY ROACH be arrivin' soon
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ya-ooo Ya-ooo Ya-ooo Ya-ooo
# The Concise Oxford Dictionary
#
# roach 1. n. small freshwater fish allied to carp
# 2. n. coackroach
# 3. (sl.) marijuanna cigarette-butt
# So the question arised. Who is approachin' soon? The freshwater mudshark?
# Or stinky dope butt for Jeff Simmons? Or are there any kind of little
# home pets ( see 2 ) in USA motels?
Mystery, mystery, mystery, mystery,
mystery, mystery, mystery, mystery, roach!
Tuna Fish Promenade
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ch: All the people in the Sandwich Town
think the place is great.
What if part of it's crumbling down?
Most of them prob'ly won't be 'round ...
H: They'll either be dead..
M: or moved to San Francisco.
H: ( Where everybody thinks they're Heavy Business.
But it's just a Tuna Sandwich from another catering service. )
# from _The Real FZ Book_
# "San Francisco in the mid-sixties was very chauvinistic, and ethnocentric.
# To the Friscoids' way of thinking, everything that came from THEIR town
# was REALLY IMPORTANT ART, and anything from anyplace else ( espesially L.A.)
# was dogshit. Rolling Stone magazine helped to promote this fiction,
# nationwide."
The Sealed Tuna Bolero
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H:
from a matron in La Habre
^^^^^^^^
# From: "Charles H. Ulrich" <CUL...@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU>
# La Habra, a city in Orange Country, California, just north of Fullerton.
with a blown-out crack who dies to suck the fringe off Jimmy Carl Black.
^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# 'Crack' in this case refers to 'Vagina'
Lonesome Cowboy Burt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: He's LONESOME COWBOY BURT.
Don'tcha get his feelings hurt.
Jm: Come on in this place
an' I'll buy you a taste.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# I will buy you a drink
You can sit on my face.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# I will perform cunnilingus on you
Where's my waitress?
OPAL, YOU HOT LITTLE BITCH!
^^^^^
# From: Valdimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# That not very common in english spoken world girl's name is appeared to be
# directly from Frank Lancaster boyhood.
#
# From: mdr...@cix.compulink.co.uk (Martyn Dryden)
# Transcribed from BBC Television tribute movie interview, Dec 18, 1993
# FZ:
# I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music
# in the house. This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and
# Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in
# some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would
# dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to
# them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to Three
# Hours Past Midnight by Johnny Guitar Watson, for most of my junior and
# senior years.
#
#CC
# From: Valdimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su:-)))))
# It's interesting to note that in the movie, Devil aka Rance Muhammitz
# also don't mind to be called Opal Hot Little Bitch. He appeared behind
# Lonesome Cowboy of the group Jimmy Carl Black right after his final Opal cry,
# and tryed to sale Mr.Black bottle of beer for his eternal soul. Not long
# ago he offered very similar deal - cheesburger for soul to Mr.Jeff Simmons.
# No one agreed. It seems that poor bastard played low. The real market price
# of 20 century soul was correctly estimated later ( see _Titties and Beer_
# from FZ in New York )
Would You Like a Snack?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: Went on the road
for a month touring.
#CC
# From: Valdimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su:-)
# Of course it's BWS's Holiday in Berlin with rascal vocal of two clowns.
# See also BWS N&C.
Shove It Right In
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: She chooses all the clothes
she'll wear tonight to dance in.
(She dances, she prances, she dances, she prances)
The places that she goes
are filled with guys from groups,
yeah-yeah-yeah
Waiting for a chance to break her pants in.
PROVOCATIVE SQUATS!
Gum me on m'lunga
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@bank.kemerovo.su )
# The line is from corrected by FZ copy of Plastic People Songbook, so no
# reason to talk about thickness of an earwax :-)))
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# I always heard this line as "Will help me up the ladder"--i.e., achieve
# higher groupie status. But if it's this way in the printed lyrics, then I
# dunno. Maybe it's from the same language as "Krega Bondolo"???
Dental Hygeine Dilemma
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jf: Man! This stuff is great! It's just as if Donovan himself had appeared
^^^^^^^
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# Donovan Leitch, of "Atlantis" fame. His daughter, Iona Skye Leitch (who
# I believe now goes by just "Iona Skye") is a fairly well-known movie actor
# in the US. She was in "The River's Edge" a few years back.
#
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# He was a peace and love version of Bob Dylan. Major hits in 67-68, appeared
# at the Bath festival in 1970 and bored everybody shitless.
#
#CC
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# "Remember Donovona, the guy with the brocate coat? He used to sing to you
# about atlantis.."
# (From: "The Blue Light", "Tinseltown Repellion")
Jf: In this group, all I ever get to do is play Zappa's comedy music.
_He_ eats!
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@bank.kemerovo.su )
# HE SUCKS! ( See Chunga's Revenge N&C _Road Ladies_ )
Ahmet Ertegun used this towel as a bathmat six weeks ago at a rancid
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# The founder of Atlantic Records and a big wheel in the music business
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# One of the Ertegun brothers, who founded Atlantic Records, which put
# out some great jazz and R&B in the '50s & '60s. The other brother's name
# is Nesushi . I believe they are of Arab descent. Ahmet Zappa was named
# for Ahmet Ertegun.
motel in Orlando, Florida, with the highest mildew rating of any
commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United
States, naturally excluding tropical possessions. It's still damp. What
an aroma! This is the best I ever got off! What can I say about this
elixir? Try it on steaks! Cleans nylons! Small craft warnings! It's
^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@bank.kemerovo.su )
# In the movie this infamous liqiud is a content of a bottle labeled
#
# -----------------------
# | SHMERTZ |
# | |
# | Golden Rot Gut |
# | BEER |
# -----------------------
#
# From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# I think it was a corruption of German/Yiddish "Schmerz," which means ache
# or pain.
#
# once again From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@bank.kemerovo.su :-)
# May be I am wrong but in Russian Shmert' is Death. The Russian comes to my
# mind just because of three cyrillic characthers on the front of unforgetable
# Rance cap .
# O|O A K is a Russian spelling of the word FUCK.
M&H: What can I say about this elixir?
M: Jeff has gone out there on that stuff!
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# In the movie Flo'n'Eddie part of _Dental Hygeine Dilemma_ existed
# as separate piece. And can be heard ( while multicoloured Jeff very
# unnaturly simulating drug induced madness ) right before Teodor Bikel
# final _Strictly Genteel_ benediction :-).
#
BC: He should have never have used the elixir and only stuck to the incense.
Oh, Atlantis.
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# This was the title of an album by Donovan, referred to above. I think
# Donovan is used throughout the album to define a plastic, definitely
# non-hip musician type. There is no doubt that he started out well, but
# became the sort of 'pop' star so often produecd in Britian who mimics
# American styles, not too well, and with little substance. Cliff Richard is
# another example of this. You can always tell, they sing with American accents
# even if they've never been further West than Uxbridge.
M: That was Billy the Mountain, dressed up like Donovan, fading out on the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
wall-mounted TV screen. Jeff _is_ flipping out. Road fatigue! We've got
M: Howard, that was Studebacher Hoch, dressed up like Jim Pons, giving
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# The mysterious creatures from _Just Another Band From L.A._. The last one
# some folks say ( despite being dressed like Jim Pons ) looks like Zubin
# Mehta :-)))
# BTW, many people think that the last is not Hoch
# From: Bruce Lowenthal (lowenth...@tandem.com)
# A "Studebaker Hawk" is a type of car that went out of production around
# 1960. Studebaker was one of the oldest US companies and manufactured
# Conastoga wagons which were used to cross the plains in the mid 1800's.
# While Studebaker made what many thought were "funky" cars the Hawk seemed
# pretty "snazzy" and perhaps FZ. In any case it is pretty clear that
# "Studebaker Hawk" was named after the car.
#
# OK, but it still wasn't named , it's a pun, because in mentioned above
# corrected by FZ Plastic People Songbook _Studbaker Hawk_ of the original
# transcribing rewrited by Frank own hand on _Studebacher Hoch_.
Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BC: Does this kind of life look interesting to you? Night after night, dinners
with Herb Cohen. Thrill-packed, fun-filled evenings on the French Riviera
at the MIDEM convention.
^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# I don't know what it stands for but I believe it's kinda pop music festival
# for guys like Herb Cohen to sell some Hot Meats, Hot Zits and Hot Ritz.
#
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# Exactly. It is the music business equivalent of the Cannes film festival.
A big tie, the whole bit. Watch Mutt eat, and Leon
^^^^ ^^^^^
# From: gordo <CK7...@ALBNYVMS.BITNET>
# On pages 67-8 of _The Real Frank Zappa Book_, I just noticed this:
#
# "Eventually they became joint managers of our band, with a contract
# negotiated 'on behalf of the group' by Herb's brother, an attorney named
# Martin (Mutt) Cohen."
# So maybe it is "Mutt" and maybe that has something to do with it.
# Who's Leon????
feed the geese. One thousand green business cards, with your name and the
wrong address. Plus six royalty statements, inspected and customized by
ran toon tan han toon frammet and Dee.
^^^
#CC
# Who's she. It should be cleared out. 'Coze she also mentioned later ( and
# along with Cohen on _Bongo Fury_ Caroline Hard-Core Ecstasy
#
# It might seems strange for Herb and Dee
# Caroline Hard-Core Ecstasy
with tickets on Air Rangoon.
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: Ooo-ooo, do you like my new car?
Ooo-ooo, do you like my new car?
She left her place after midnight,
she drove to the club.
You know that her and her partner,
came here lookin' for love.
They want a guy from a group
That's got a thing in a charts
If your dick is a monster
If your dick is a monster
If your dick is a monster
They will give him their hearts.
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# The Easy Teenage New York version of this Hard Centerville stuff can be
# found on Fillmore East, June 1971 album ( see _Bwana Dik_ and _Do You Like
# My New Car_ )
FAM-BAM-YAK-A-TA-TAHHH!
Penis Dimension
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M: Yes! and isn't it the truth? And if you're a guy, one night you're
at a party and you're trying to be cool, I mean, you aren't even wearing
any underwear your being so cool, and somebody hits on you one night,
and looks you up and down and he says uh,
H: "Eight inches or less?"
M: Well let me tell you, brother, that's the time when you got to turn
around and look that son of a bitch right between the eyes. And you got
to tell him these words:
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# In the movie this did not seque into philosophical _What Will This Evenig..._.
# Instead of this very mundane face of Ringo Starr aka Larry The Dwarf
# appeared on the screen to inform us all ( sorry for earwax :-)
# I stuff three pairs of socks and a [ball? bottle? ?] down in front of
# my pants
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
M&H: WHAT WILL THIS EVENING
BRING ME THIS MORNING?
A succulent fat one!
A mod little flat one,
maybe a hot one (to give me the clap!)
^^^^^
maybe a freak who gets off with a strap.
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# On Chunga's Revenge this hot one was from Minneapolis ( see Road Ladies ),
# on Joe's Garage roman catholic pussy christened Carmenita Scarfone
# ( Catholic Girls ) :-)))))))))))
#
# From: Bruce Lowenthal (lowenth...@tandem.com)
# No, No [it's not just VD]. There's a danger of missing some CCC with this
# error. Since the mid 16th century, the clap has been specific in English to
# gonorrhoea (the final o is missing in standard US spelling), the disease
# caused by the bacterium _Neisseria gonorrhoeae_. The clap is not to be
# confused with syphilis (the pox, the French pox, the Spanish pox etc).
# Conceptual continuity comes in a number of levels with the clap. First
# there's the delightful percussion piece (remember FZ started with drums)
# on Chunga's Revenge. Second, note that _N gonorrhoeae_ is a spherical
# bacterium, ie a coccus shape, hence called the gonococcus. And its
# symptoms include a burning sensation on urinating. It can also spread and
# infect the testes: ie 'Why does it hurt when I pee' on Joe's Garage
# referring to the 'gono-co-co coccus' that makes 'my balls feel like a
# pair of maracas'. Third, since World War I there has been a triad of
# 'crabs, cooties and the clap' (US and others soldiers did the vectoring
# around the world) which obviously continued in the groupie world that FZ
# got into in the late '60s. One of his biog's reports (from Pamela Z, I
# think) that FZ caught crabs (ie pubic lice). Who knows about the other
# two, but there are several references to cooties (body lice in general)
# in addition to the clap.
A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sp: Why don't you strap on this here bunch of cardboard boxes daddy-o?
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# In the movie there was really cardboard boxes with nun suit painted on
# them. And Ruth Underwood really lured some guy ( I don't know who acted as
# Penis Replica Vacuum Cleaner operator :-( to strap on.
# But the real question - can anyone explain the idea behind this nun
# paraphernalia in the movie. What did all this Keith Moon provocative squats
# mean?
Sp: Pink gums. Stumpy gray teeth.
Ch: Dental floss.
Sp: Gets me hot. Want to watch a dental hygiene movie?
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Later after this well done dental hygien propoganda stuff :-). Frank
# decided to make money on this ignited by his music desire to chew forever:-)
# See Over_Nite Sensation's Dental Floss tycoon song _Montana_ :-)))))
Magic Fingers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
H: HOLD IT, HOLD IT, HOLD IT, HOLD IT!
Well, there are a lot of reasons why I'd drag a girl such as yourself
back to this plastic hotel room ... and rip you off for spare change
to run a ...to run a vibrating machine attached to this queen-size,
bulk-purchase, kapok-infested, do-not-remove-tag-under-penalty-of-law
type bed and, and make you take off all your little clothes ... until
you are nearly stark raving nude. ( save for your chrome-with-heavy-
duty-leather-thong Peace Medallion) and make you assume a series of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# Yes, very common indeed [ for Vietnam era]. As illustrated on the steel
# helmet in the 'Apocalypse Now' movie posters. However it predated Vietnam,
# originally being the symbol used by the British Campaign for Nuclear
# Disarmament.
marginally erotic poses involving a plastic chair and an old guitar
strap while I did a wee-wee in your hair ... and beat you with a pair
^^^^^^^
# From: ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# It means that he intends to urinate on her head. The term is both a noun
# and a verb, and as a noun means both urine and the organ which delivers
# it :-)
# From: ck7...@albnyvms.bitnet (C. Gordon Keeble (gordo))
# "did a wee-wee" Childrens phrase for urinated. Wee-wee is sometimes used
# as a synonym for dick too.
Dew on the Newts We Got
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ch: Dew on the newts we got. Newt money dew.
It's a payment on the rental for the dewy little newts we got.
We got 'em dewy. Left 'em in the yard all night,
though they didn't get uptight.
The little vixens, the saucy little vixens, [? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?].
^^^^^ ^^^^^^
I know that they did not, did not,
I know that they did not dash off into the night.
# It seems that in BTHW _What Kind of Girl_ this word is a synonym of
# a whore
# This unfortunate little vixen wouldn't let just ANYBODY
# Spoo over her lap
# Is it so here too?
The Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tr: The girl wants to fix him some broth.
Sp: Tinselcock!
Ch: Tinselcock!
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Charles H. Ulrich" <CUL...@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU>
# Tinsel is long, narrow, strips of foil used to decorate Christmas trees.
# It is also known as "icicles".
#
# From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# I'd heard from Janet Ferguson Hof about the making of 200 Motels. Janet
# was the blond groupie in the movie. There was a little car shaped like a
# penis and covered with foil that was to be used in a scene which was never
# shot. Ringo Starr put the little car in his backyard.
Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courderoy Ponce
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sp: Broth reminds me of nuns.
Ch: ( Nuns... Nuns...)
Sp: I see them smashing with rulers
disciplining munchkin cretins.
Tortured munchkins, tortured munchkins
I wish irish catholic victims.
# From: David Thomas <da...@parsifal.micro.ti.com>
# This all seems to relate to the harsh discipline and repressed
# sexuality of Catholic parochial schools. These schools mainly
# turn out good little Catholics, but when they fail, they sometimes
# fail spectacularly, producing twisted personalities like FZ and
# George Carlin.]
Strictly Genteel (the finale)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
T: This, as you might have guessed, is the end of the movie. The entire cast
is assembled here at the Centerville Recreational Facility to bid farewell
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Early in the movie the placed was called by Larry the Dwarf
# The Reorientational Facility ( erected to bring about the final solution to
# the orchestra question ), the lecture goes like this:
#
# Hello there... When you go on tour with musical group it's possible that
# any town [can? be? seen?] like this, whatever it's large or small or busy or
# nothing happend in it. The reason for this is quit simple. A musician if you
# consider the normal pattern of modern civilized life is on the outside of
# the road. He doesn't build things, he doesn' work regular hours like a
# decent God-fearing citizens and the life he leads in many ways seems useless
# and irrelevant to those of us who prefered a quiet evening in front of the
# television and a bottle of beer .
# Amazing as it might seems to some of us musician's basical physical needs
# are just like [of?] real people. Many of them study for years, learnig to
# play the violin, for instance, only to be rewarded with humdrum job in the
# forth row of the symphonic string section. That's why the goverment have
# constructed at great expanse this experimental reorientation facility to
# find the way perhaps to retrain this useless musicians [???] fiddles and
# horns the reasons to exist in modern world, a chance of happy and more
# productive life, some [send?] to the militry, some [????] and some disappear in
# the middle of the night on the special training assigned to them.
#
# So it seems that when time comes for Joe's Garage the main idea was ten
# years old.
Ch: Help everybody, so they all get some action,
some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction.
M&H: Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book,
the girl in the pig book, and the one with the horse.
#CC
# From: wi...@physics.att.com (David Windt)
#
# In the (instrumental) MAJNH version of this song, when they get to the end
# of this verse, right after the word "horse", Walt Fowler plays that little
# trumpet diddy that they play at the racetrack, you know, when they announce
# "The horses are on the track..."
M&H: The Swedish apparatus with a hood and a bludgeon
with a microwave oven. "Honey, how do it [?feel?]"
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Accordingly to the Keith Moon, dressed up like Nun in the movie,
# this is special means to make your cock monstrous enough.
OVERNITE SENSATION
==================
lyrics from CD booklet
Camarillo Brillo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She had that
Camarillo brillo
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: mccl...@agcs.com (John McCluer)
# There is a place in California called Camarillo. There used to be
# some sort of a mental hospital there. Charlie Parker once was
# committed there, and he wrote a tune called "Relaxin' At Camarillo".
# Brillo is the brand name for a sort of steel wool pad (i.e., curly
# steel fibers). White people with curly hair are often called
# 'Brillo-head' in the USA (or, at least, I have called them that- but
# I'm pretty crude).
# I have always imagined that Camarillo Brillo referred to the wild, curly
# hair that the woman had; looking like she had just escaped from a mental
# hospital.
#
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# As I know, Camarillo is a place where mentally disordered people are kept in.
# Brillo (you know the Andy Warhol pictore of Brillo Boxes?) is something to
# clean with. Metal wool pads, I think.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Camarillo is (I think) a town.
# More likely this is a play on Amarillo, the Spanish word for Yellow.
# Brillo is a brand name for a steel-wool type soap pad for washing dishes.
# "Flamin out along her head" helps us to realize that he is metaphorically
# desribing this woman's brittle, wiry, blond hair.
Flamin' out along her head,
I mean her Mendocino bean-o
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Mendocino is a town in southern california. Beans are popular food, but
# bean (or beano) can also refer to a hat or one's head. I believe the
# opening verse describes her head in all it's glory. (right where some bugs
# had made it red).
# Please don't try to read deep meaning into these words, a lot of it is
# nonsense.
She ruled the Toads
of the Short Forest
^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# One of the instrumental songs on Weasels Ripped My Flesh is called Toads
# of the Short Forest. I'm not sure where there are other references to this.
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The doll with a pin is a reference to voodoo. In this black macickal
# practice of the caribbean, often a doll is made that represents a human
# being (I think it is necessary to have a piece of the persons hair or
# clothing). Sticking pins into this doll would supposedly cause great pain
# to befall the person. There's no doubt that Frank was referring to this
# among all her other witchcraft type mumbo jumbo.
And so she wandered
Trough the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
^^^^^^^^
# From: mccl...@agcs.com (John McCluer)
# In the '70's quadraphonic (four-channel) Stereo was supposed to be
# the next big thing. It never caught on.
#
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Quadrophonic. (Left, right, back, forth.. :-) )
#
# From: jmi...@terra.colostate.edu (Jeff Miller)
# For awhile in the '70s it was the "in thing" to have a quadraphonic (4
# speaker) stereo system. This was poorly implemented, and until wasn't until
# the recent advent of Surround sound systems that four speaker ("four-way")
# stereos were respected.
#
# From: v...@dorado.hit.bme.hu (Varga Gyorgy)
# I think the four-way stereo has nothing to do with quadro systems.
# Actually there are 3-way systems, in which you have 3 speakers on the
# two sides, one for the lower, one for the middle and one for the higher
# frequencies. So in a 4-way system there are 4 speakers on each side.
(Is that a real poncho...I mean
Is that a Mexican poncho
or is that a Sears poncho?
Hmmm...no foolin' ...)
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# This rancid poncho of dubious origin Camarillo-Brillo-Magic-Mama
# ( been un-concho no doubt :-) bequeathed generously to APOSTROPHE
# Cosmic-Debris-Mistery Man ( who later in his turn been un-concho :-)
# OBAGANZA! Does Humour Belong In Music? joined the navy.
#
Dirty Love
~~~~~~~~~~
Give me
Your dirty love
Just like your mama
Make her fuzzy poodle do
^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Shit there's way more than that. Check out Babette from YCDTOSA 1.
# The "poodle" rap from many live performances. I forget exactly which Stage
# Volume has a version of this.
# "The woo-man looked at the poodle with lust in her heart"
# And that's phydeaux.
# Little known cc: during the guitar solo for "Nanook rubs it" you can hear
# a very faint voice calling "here phydeaux" twice.
I'll ignore your cheap aroma
And your little-bo-peep diploma
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Little-bo-peep is a nursery rhyme. She had some sheep.
# Frank is down playing the education of the person he wishes to make
# "dirty-love" to.
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@bank.kemerovo.su )
# Funny, but that glorious Phydeaux of (') here just one year before
# appeared only as a humble little Frenchie.
#
# From: Chris J. Ullsperger <ulls...@mendel.berkeley.edu>
# Don't forget:
# (Not a speck of cereal!)
# and
# (Nothin' but the best for my puppy!)
# and, in the fadeout something like
# (cute little dog! furry little head!)
#
# The first lines refer, I think, to dog food commercials. The "not a speck
# of cereal" line implies a bowl licked perfectly clean, or describes a
# brand of dog food that is pure meat.
# I guess you can pick and choose from those options. The image in my mind,
# of course, is that the poodle is going to town on the twat of the mother
# of the woman to whom the song is being sung.
#
# From: Jack Fleming <JackF...@aol.com>
# "Not a speck of cereal" is a phrase from dog food advertising, meaning that
# it is all meat. Cereal (derived from grains) is often added during the
# manufacturing of dog food to reduce the cost. I have never heard this
# phrase used to mean "a bowl licked clean".
#
# From: s042...@let.rug.nl (R. Bartelink)
# and, in the fadeout something like
# (cute little dog! furry little head!)
# No no, it's:
# Little paws sticking up!
# Little curly hairs!
#
Zomby Woof
~~~~~~~~~~
Reety-awrighty, he da ZOMBY WOOF
^^^^^
# From: mccl...@agcs.com (John McCluer)
# Sort of hipster lingo for All-Right!
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Pure nonsense. Allreety, allrighty. Some people do actually say
# "allrighty". I have to suppress a giggle every time they do.
# But recall the song Cleetus Awreetus Awrightus from Grand Wazoo (or is it
# Waka Jawaka?)
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Grand Wazoo.
Reety-awrighty, he da ZOMBY WOOF
^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Wolf. This would make it a Werewolf.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Woof is the sound that a dog makes. Zomby Woof is about a Zomby/WereWolf.
I got a great big pointed fang
Which is my Zomby Toof
My right foot is bigger than my other one is
#CC
# Form: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# For relation of resulting physical unsteadiness to mental disorder and
# instability check Dancing Fool of Sheik Yerbouti :-)))
#
# From: s042...@let.rug.nl (R. Bartelink)
# Could this possibly have something to do with Frank himself? As we all know,
# when he fell off the stage in 1971, and spent some time in a wheelchair, his
# legs turned out to be not evenly long. (One of my legs is shorter than the
# other and both of my feet 's too long... this is the more obvious one. Why,
# in case with the Zomby Woof, his right FOOT is bigger than the other one is
# the tricky bit. Maybe just because it sounds better (toof, foot, hoof,
# woof ???).
# Who do tell?
I am about as evil as a Boogie Man can be!
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# I think it's one of those guys our parents wanted us to be afraid of. In
# germany, it was "Der Schwarze Mann" (The Black Man, pretty racistic, huh?).
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Boogie Man is a classic spooky thing from Childhood. No one is sure
# exactly what one is or how it originated. Could be a Monster, could be a
# murderer.
# The recently made a pathetic horror film called The Boogie Man, but it
# was just stupid.
Dinah-Moe Humm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I couldn't say where she's coming' from,
But I just met a lady named Dinah-Moe Humm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Play on words:
# Dynamo is an electric generator. When working they make a humming sound.
# Dinah is a woman's name.
# Dinah Moe Humm is a reference to Dinah's Moaning and Humming when she has
# an orgasm.
Got her legs in the air
An' asked if she had any cooties on there
(Whaddya mean cooties! No cooties on me!)
^^^^^^^
# From: je...@MicroUnity.com (Jerry Kreuscher)
#
# An earlier use of the term in American English was for the body lice
# common to soldiers in the trenches in France during The Great War.
# There used to be, perhaps there still is, a fraternal order of WWI
# veterans who called themselves "Cooties".
#
# From: hac...@storm.cs.orst.edu (Dianne Hackborn)
# Maybe this is a purely American phenomenon, but I assume it's a reference
# to that grade-school playground scourge which Members Of The Opposite Sex
# always seemed to have.
# You know, "Mary's got cooties, ewwwwww!! Watch out, she'll touch you and
# give them to you!!!"
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# Cooties. The mythical insect that terrorizes small North American children.
# "I don't want to sit by her, she has cooties!"
# "Nya nya, you have cooties!"
# Of course, the line in Dyna-Moe Humm alludes to other little bugs...
#
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# I recall a toddler's game in the 1960's (maybe it's still around) called
# "Cootie". The object was to accumulate the pieces to assemble a large,
# plastic insect, resembling an ant. I don't know if the term preceded the
# game or vice-versa. I assume it was the former, thus "cootie" has been
# used for a long time to refer to any non-specific bug.
Kiss my aura...Dora...
^^^^ ^^^^^
M-M-M...it's real angora
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Angora might refer to wool, but more likely to marijuana or hashish.
#
# From: Jack Fleming <JackF...@aol.com>
# Angora is a special kind of wool (I can't remember if it comes from sheep
# or llamas). It is very soft and expensive. During the sixties, Angora
# sweaters were status symbols among females.
#
MMM, sure...listen
D'you think I could interest you
In a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Please, don't confuse this gentle tool with heavy duty gear for pickin'
# up full-blown Dental Floss of _Montana_ :-))
Montana
~~~~~~~
I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# .... - threads of floss silk etc. used to clean between teeth.
# The Oxford Concise Dict. of Current English
An' it'd be on top (that's why I'M movin' to Montana)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon (yes I am)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# On the somewhere mentioned video "A Token Of His Extreme", Zappa adds
# "I wonder what that means" to this line... :-)
#
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# In English, it's called a "spoonerism" when you mix up consonants in a
# group of words, either consiously or unconsciously.
#
# From: mani...@aol.com (ManiaMan)
# The "mennil" is a Bald-headed John way of saying Dental.
# The "toss flycoon" is a "Spoonerised" version of Floss Tycoon. A
# spoonerism is group of words whose initial consonants have been
# transposed.
# In the book, Frank Zappa - A Visual Documentary by Miles. Omnibus
# Press ISBN 0-7119-3099-6
# Zappa is quoted on page 60 concerning the writing of Montana.
# " Sometimes I show the lyrics to my wife,or after a while I'll get
# her to read them to me so I can see what the sounds are like, because
# part of the texts are put together phonetically as well as what the
# information is supposed to be. I change the lyrics all the time. A
# lot of them get changed by accident. Somebody will read them wrong
# and it'll sound so funny I'll leave it wrong.
# (Zappa:1974)
# This sounds to me like a reference to "mennil-toss flykune"
Get a cuppa cawfee
N' give my foot a push...
Just me 'n the pymgy pony
Over the Dennil Floss Bush
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Dental! Like Teeth.
# Frank is implying that it grows on bushes. This is surrealism.
APOSTROPHE(')
=============
lyrics was originaly
transcribed by
Rich Kulawiec (r...@ecn.purdue.edu)
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
#
# The opening songs/medley are a dream. "Dreamed I was an eskimo"
# Frank dreams he is Nanook of the north who goes out against his mother's
# wishes, yet heeds her plea to "watch out where the huskies go and don't you
# eat that yellow snow". He encounters an evil fur trapper who is attacking
# his favorite baby seal and does battle with him. He actually picks up the
# deadly yellow snow and rubs it in the fur trapper's eyes. The blindness
# can only be cured at the parish of St. Alphonso, which is actually a
# pancake breakfast (This is a dream, remember?). This leads into a tune
# about Father O'blivion, presumably leader of this flock of devotees to St.
# Alphonso and pancakes.
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
#
# "NANOOK OF THE NORTH" (1922, silent, B&W, documentary by
# Robert J. Flaherty)
# This early documentary about Eskimo life in the Hudson's Bay region
# of Northern Quebec provided one of the first glimpses of Eskimo life
# available for mass consumption.(Remember, there was no TV then).
# Because of the film, the name NANOOK became the archetypal name used
# when referring to an Eskimo. (They are now called INUIT)
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# The other day my co-worker ( not FZ fan but real fur-trapper :-)
# whome I tricked to hear ' ( I've just named his host husky :-)))
# explained me why the snow is so yellow there. 'Cose they all he said
# grining knowingly piss on it day and night folks and dogs. Heh.
Nanook Rubs It
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow
crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous
circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Fantastic creature first brought to the light in FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971
#
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# I believe the mudshark story is based in fact: (from memory, so please
# correct me). Members of Led Zeppelin were fishing from a hotel
# balcony in Seattle. One of them caught a mudshark, a very ugly fish,
# and proceeded to perform unspeakable acts involving the mudshark and
# a female groupie. Hence, a legend is born.....
#
# From: sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# It was the Vanilla Fudge, (remember them) who had taken part in
# the infamous Mudshark rituals at the Edgewater Inn in Seattle Washington.
# Supposedly they even made a film of this event, and Frank may have viewed
# the film. He thought it was such a bizarre event in rock and roll folklore
# (it's so perverted) that he wrote a nice song about it.
#
# From: fm...@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Oliver Klimek)
# "Nanook" was also released on "Baby Snakes". The lyrics are included. There
# it says: "...destined to take the place of the mudshark in _rheumatology_"
# This sounds ok if you think of the treatment of rheumatism with bathes in
# specially prepared mud.
Great Googly Moogly!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fm...@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Oliver Klimek)
# Same as "Muthermarynjozuf"
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# It's quite common, in the U.S. anyway, for churches to serve
# pancake breakfasts as fund-raisers. I believe that's the connection.
As she abused the sausage pattie
^^^^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# A "Pattie" is a flat, disc-shaped object, generally food. Something
# like a flat hockey puck. A "sausage pattie" is sausage meat
# pressed into pattie shape and fried.
#
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# A "patty" of ground sausage (meat), resembling a hamburger.
#
# From: bh...@harris.com (Brian Hyde)
# Sausage patties are a breakfast food in the USA. A sausage
# roll is cut into disk-shaped pieces and fried in a skillet.
# (Not recommended for a low-cholesterol diet!) :)
Father O'Blivion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dominus vobiscum
Et cum spiritu tuo
# From: fr...@etecnw.com (Frank Mathew x 7271)
# simply means "The Lord be with you, and with your spirit" as statement
# and reply. It's an oft-repeated part of the Roman Catholic Mass in Latin,
# sort of a farewell at the end. Any Catholic from FZ's era would have this
# permanently embedded in his or her memory.
Cosmik Debris
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# There are an amazing similarity of details ( see below ) in FZ depiction of
# the Mystery Man and the Magic Mama from Camarillo Brillo OVERNITE song.
# I guess it's nothing else but Frank's conceptual continuity.
# Here
But he told me right then when the top popped open
There was nothin' his box won't do
With the oil of Aphrodite, and the dust of the Grand Wazoo
# In Camarillo Brillo it goes like that
#
# She ruled the Toads
# of the Short Forest
# Here
#
And I said "Look here brother-who you
Jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
#
# In Camarillo Brillo it goes like that
#
#
# (Is that a real poncho...I mean
# Is that a Mexican poncho
# or is that a Sears poncho?
# Hmmm...no foolin' ...)
OM SHANTI
^^^^^^^
# From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# The word is ``shanti'' and means peace (in Sanskrit, I think).
Excentrifugal Forz
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Excentrifugal Forz is pure nonsense. The lyrics are a nice surreal cut at
# the english language, but they don't really make any sense.
There's always corla plankton
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: bsm...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Brian Smith")
# I've always associated Corla Plankton, for some odd reason, with Eric
# Clapton. Maybe I'm just plain wrong, but I would think there might be a
# connection when you consider that Z is playing with Jack Bruce and there
# are references to Z being able to play the blues with CP.
And then I'll call pup tentacle
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# A play on the term "pup tent", which is a small military-type tent.
Uncle Remus
~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Uncle Remus is the only song that's really about anything. It's basically
# an anthem for the early 70's negro. It expresses a resigned frustration.
# Basically, just trying to get your fair share yet having to deal with such
# injustices as being hosed down (presumably during riots.) The only way
# they can get back at white society is to go to "Beverly Hills, just before
# dawn and knock the little jokeys off the rich people's lawns." It was (and
# may still be) common for rich people to have a ceramic negro jockey on
# their lawn. Gnomes are also common.
I can't wait til mah 'fro is full grown
^^^^^
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# An "Afro" (or "'fro") was a huge head of hair, popular among African-
# Americans in the 1970s.
#
# From: ha...@dweezil.music.mcgill.ca (Hank Knox)
# Short for 'afro'; what you get if you're black and you let your hair grow
# out. Check out any number of movies from the '70s (Superfly, stuff like
# that) to get an idea what a 'fro looks like. If you're as old as me, think
# back on that wretched TV show, 'The Mod Squad'; one of those guys had a 'fro.
# (Or how about that Buddy Miles album cover, with Buddy's 'fro glowing in a
# sort of electric aroma?)
#
I'll just through in my doo-rag at home
^^^^^^
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# A "doo-rag" is, well, a rag for your hair-do.
# It's usually a bandana tied around one's skull. Sam Kinison often
# wore a doo-rag.
#
# From: ha...@dweezil.music.mcgill.ca (Hank Knox)
# It's probably 'throw'... And someone else can flesh out the 'doo-rag'
# reference; my guess it has to something to do with the process of
# straightening out naturally kinky hair into some kind of straight,
# kind-of-white-person's hair-do.
#
# From: bjber...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Brian J. Bernstein)
# No, a doo-rag (or however you care to spell it) is basically some kind of
# cloth or such used to cover / hold together / manage? your hair.. Many
# people when trying to grow their hair out will wear one of these.. I wore a
# bandanna for several months while growing my hair out..
# btw.. I think it's "I'll just throw away my doo-rag at home..."
#
# From: gcr...@sage.cc.purdue.edu (DeLoach)
# I always thought a doo-rag was like a bandana wrapped on yer head (as in
# hairdo-rag). I come from a very sanitized upbringing however and all
# my cultural input is from TV...(so it must be true).
I'll take a drive to
Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
And knock the little jockeys
Off the rich peoples lawn
# From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# Lawn jockeys (which are usually cast iron, not ceramic) still exist, but
# they've all been whitewashed.
Stink-Foot
~~~~~~~~~~
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Stink Foot is about the evil condition of bromodrosis and it's assorted
# difficulties. It has a talking dog in it who waxes philosophical.
*(Here Fido, Fido, mpt, mpt, mpt, come here little puppy
^^^^^^^^^^^
Bring the slippers
Arf, arf, arf
(C-R-A-S-H)
Huhm, HAH, HAH, HAH...hmhmhm)*
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# "Fido", as it's usually spelled, is a traditional (American) name for a
# dog. Many of Frank's poodles have been named Fido (those poodles being
# figurative poodles, not flesh-and-blood poodles). I guess he felt "Phydeux"
# was a more regal spelling.....
#
# From: sro...@wv.mentorg.com (Sam Rouse)
# I think Phydeaux was the name of Frank's tour bus(es) for a number of years.
# The first time I saw him (Portland OR Paramount, probably sometime in 1976)
# the tour bus behind the hall was painted to look just like a Greyhound bus,
# but the word "Greyhound" that normally occupies the entire side of the bus
# was replaced with "Phydeaux" (same lettering style), and the sleek greyhound
# logo picture was replaced with a dorky-looking, crosseyed dog saying "Arf!".
# I don't know whether Phydeaux 3 refers to the third incarnation of the bus,
# or the third in the fleet that may have been in existence by the time of JG.
# Tour busses I've seen at subsequent tours didn't have the FZ graphics, but
# I guess the name stuck.
#
#CC
# From: ep...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Roche)
# In the cityscape on the back cover of the Absolutely Free lp is a sign
# showing a dog collar and the caption 'BUY A FYDO fits swell'.
#
# From: cba...@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
#
# Date: Thu, 26 May 94 18:48:21 GMT
# Wooooo, it's me again. I found this in last Sunday's Observer newspaper.
# All spelling mistakes are mine.
#
# Martin Wroe reports on a 20-year study to determine the greatest artist of
# the century - of course it's Frank Zappa
#
# THE POLITICS OF POODLE ROCK
#
# .................................
# Zappa briefly owned a poodle and said: "Poodles give continuity to my
# albums, it's like brown in Rembrandt." Mr Watson, who began the book
# 20-years ago as an English student at Cambridge, takes him at his word.
#
# .................................
# In fact Mr Watson had been "doing this" since studying Plato's The Phaedo
# and started to feel he was going mad. Many of the allusions and ideas his
# professor expounded from the canon of great literature, seemed to ring true
# in the work of Zappa: "Inexplicable coincidences kept happening, although my
# lecturer had never heard of Zappa." For example, Zappa had made an entire
# record called Phaedo.
#
# "Fido is also the common name we give to dogs, which also means
#`'I believe' in Latin" adds Mr Watson.
This is the dog talkin' now
"What is your, conceptual continuity?"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: cle...@westminster.ac.uk (Ross Clement)
# "Conceptual continuity" as far as I know it refers to the way in which
# something (e.g. a TV program) remains consistent throughout episodes/releases/
# whatever. E.g. if The Enterprise's engines act some way in one episode of
# Star Trek, they should also work that way in following episodes.
"Well I told 'em right then", Fido said
"It should be easy to see
"The crux of the biscuit
is the apostrophe"
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# People discussed at length the significance of "apostrophe" and the "crux
# of the biscuit". It seems obvious, but no one mentioned that the monologue
# by phydeaux goes something like:
#
# It isn't, and it doesn't }\
# I won't and it don't } - What do all these words have in common?
# ...
# It even ain't }/
#
# I told him no no no
# He told me yes yes yes
#
# I do it all the time
# Ain't this boogie a mess?
#
# The answer my friend should be easy to see
# The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe
The poodle bites, the poodle chews it
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Here we are. Good and obvious example of FZ CCC :-)))
# This lines of Fido identical to the Frenchie's from
# OVERNITE _Dirty Love_.
ONE SIZE FITS ALL
=================
lyrics from LP cover
and
the excerpt from _Filmore East_ Bwana Dik
from
j...@paris.cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Just a little bit of OSFA rap :-)))))
#
# Two of most respected members of a.f.f.-z. community
# s042...@let.rug.nl (R. Bartelink)
# and
# rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# testified one day under the oath that there are exist strong and
# undisputed evidences that the guy mentioned among 'those who play this'
# as
# Bloodshot Rollin' Red - harmonica when present
# was in fact our dear old buddy Captain Beefheart.
Inca Roads
~~~~~~~~~~~
Did a booger-bear
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# I believe "Inca Roads" refers to the ancient ruins in South America
# that many people speculate were landing sites for aliens (booger
# bears) from outer space. Thus, these were spaces made by the Indians
# (first to the bill, carving up the hills), for Chester's things to
# land.....
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The "Booger-Bear award" was presented nightly to the member of the band or
# crew who managed to score with the ugliest groupie. Perellis won it
# frequently. That's the same Perellis with a "fondness for certain members
# of the canine species"
#
# From: aa...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David Millman)
# Have you ever noticed that the lyrics to Inca Roads start off fantastically,
# but that then Frank seemed to lose it and trailed off into guacamole,
# armadillo, and booger-bear?
# Frank noticed this, and that's why the vocals in the song become incoherent
# at the beginning of the bad part, around the 'indians first on the bill'
# bit.
Guacamole Queen
^^^^^^^^^
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The Guacamole Queen was a taco stand of sorts. It's folkloric significance
# will have to be left to the more knowledgable participants of this forum.
At the Armadillo in Austin Texas, her aura
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Recordings prior to their show at the Armadillo in Austin Texas do not
# contain the lyric:
# Did a Booger-Bear come from out there just land on Perellis
# Guacamole Queen, Guacamole Queen
# At the Armadillo in Austin Texas.
Can't Afford No Shoes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Went to buy some cheap detergent
Some emergent nation got my load
^^^^^^
# From: db...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# "Emergent nation" -- a third world country emerging onto the world
# scene, economically or militarily. I can't explain the connection to
# a trip to the market for some detergent....
#
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" <TO...@UMS1.Lan.McGill.CA>
# I have always taken those two lines to depict the following
# simple scene:
# While at the laundromat, our hero goes to the back of the premises to
# buy some cheap detergent from the detergent-dispensing machine after
# stowing his laundry in an empty washer. While he's busy pumping
# coins into the detergent dispenser, a disdvantaged member of an
# emerging third-world country deftly steals the clothes. End of scene.
Evelyn, A Modified Dog
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A cusious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)"
#CC
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Is there somebody in the piano? (See Lumpy Gravy, Civilization Phase III)
# Evelyn seems to think so:
#
# "Evelyn [...]
# Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
# In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
# And other highly ambient domains..."
Florentine Pogen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#from a.f.f-z FAQ 1/8
#
# From: lis...@sics.se (Bjorn Lisper)
# "Pogens" is an anglified spelling of the Swedish bakery "Pagens"
# (where the "a" has a ring on top). "Pagens" is south Swedish dialect
# and means "the boy's" (cookies, say). In Sweden, Pagens makes all
# sorts of cookies, bread etc. It turns out that these Florentine
# Pogens being sold in California are a type of cookie that Pagens
# sells in Sweden, but under a different name. So Pagens seems to have
# some business in California as well.
She was a debutante daisy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# A debutante is basically a young rich girl. Daisy is a flower but it is
# also expresses naivete'
With color-note organ
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# Just a type of electronic organ (the type that you can play, not some
# sort of prosthetic device). The name comes from the technique used to
# create the different pitches.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# This is a really good one. In the 70's there was a bit of a market for
# electric home-organs (pianos! get your mind out of the gutter). In order
# to aid small children in learning how to play, the keys (notes) were
# colored and the instructional scores were colored correspondingly.
# These two lines just express that she was somewhat of an airhead with no
# real talents other than being rich. Look at how she handles car problems
# later in the song.
#
# From: mpc@mbsmm (Mark Clements)
# A color-note organ is one in which the various notes of the scale
# are represented by different colors. Above each key on the organ,
# the corresponding color is painted, so a musically inept person can
# just press the colored key corresponding to the colored note in the
# music.
She didnt't wanna stay home
An'watch the pestele go mortar
Later she speakes
On how Perellis might court her.
# CCC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Interesting to note that this wasn't something new to the band
# FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971
# Bwana Dik
# ----------
# My God, Madge... you voluptuous New York City slit...
# Why did'nt you tell me before?
# It was so hard to tell with your little blousey-poo on,
# but.. now that I see you... I would have helped...
# I didn't know you were so obviously.. PREGNANT...
Chester's go-rilla
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# This was writen in album liner notes
# Chester Thompson -drums; gorilla victim
#
# From: ca...@brahms.udel.edu (Catherine M Leonard)
# but signed Glenn
# Chester was attacked by a roadie in a gorilla suit at the end of
# Florentine Pogen during the taping of the KCET-TV show. This event may
# actually be in reference to something that happened to him for real.
# Booger Bears? Gorilla Groupies? One can only guess....
#
# From: johns...@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
# I thought it was the latter: an editorial comment about someone he spent
# one night with.
San Ber'dino
~~~~~~~~~~~~
She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# A Winnebago is a brand name for a type of motor home or recreational
# vehicle (RV), a sort of small home on wheels that is not uncommon in the
# USA. I don't know if they still make Winnebagos...
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# A winnebago is the most popular brand of mobile home.
# There are two kinds - those with their own engine and those that are
# hooked up to a pick up truck (a trailer). There is a bizarre type of
# community called a trailer park where many of these trailers are
# semipermanently set up as small cheap housing.
#
# From: "Ottis R." <BO...@UNB.CA>
# Often referred to in some mythologies as "twister-bait".
#
# From: mpc@mbsmm (Mark Clements)
# Winnebago is a company that makes mobile-homes, usually purchased by
# retired folks who then travel the country in search of geriatric
# adventure. Mobile homes are also put up on blocks (making them
# decidedly non-mobile) and used as permanent housing by many people in
# the lower economic strata.
She's in love with the boy
From the rodeo
who pulls the rope on the chute
^^^^^
when they let those suckers go
# From: JOHNS...@delphi.com
# The chute is the narrow fenced in exit, sort of an airlock so the critter
# (wild horse, bull) is moved from main coral into chute and is pressed tight
# front and back (by the fence doors) and side to side, so that the idiot
# cowpoke can get on the critter's back, then someone pulls the rope opening
#up the front gate and the suckers are let go into the main arena.
His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato
#CCC
# From Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# This _Call Any Vegetable_ guy was later many times mentioned by
# Capt. Beefheart in BONGO FURY _Advanced Romance_ song
Well there's forty-four men
Stashed away in tank "C"
An' there's only one shower
But it don't apply to Bobby
# From: JOHNS...@delphi.com
# The lines before are important: He got slobberin' drunk at the Palomino
# They give him thirty days in San Ber'dino
# This is a song about being in jail, specifically the San Bernardino County
# Jail (San B is the "county seat" of the county where Lancaster, California.
# When Zappa was arrested on porno charges and pleaded guilty to this
# entrapment, he was given six months with all but 10 days suspended. He
# served the 10 days in San B jail. He was in *TANK C*
# While awaiting trial he was in Lancaster City Jail which had been
# comfortable with pancakes every morning. In contrast San B was appalling
# (most of this is quoted from Poodle Play book which quotes from the Real FZ
# book): one shower for 44 men, cockroaches in the food, 140 degrees of heat,
# lights left on all night,"They got some dark green air and you can choke all
# day.
# Bobby with the potato head was echoed later in the closing lines of Advance
# Romance (Bongo Fury) and of course in the ppotatoe headed Mammy Nuns
# of Thingfish. Thus the potatoe head is developed as a sympbol of the
# government inflicting citizens with incarceration and experimentation (if
# you believe that Thingfish is a story of how the US Government caused AIDS
# to control undesireables).
# Back to the general meaning Of Tank. There is the obvious tank as in fish
# tank, a vessel for water. Gas tank Water tank. All wet places. In the most
# benign jail sense tank is a place for drunks to go overnight to sober up:
# The Drunk Tank. It is low security and holds alot just like a fish tank. In
# fact the word tank is a verb also. To tank up means to fill up a tank. Tank
# up on gasoline. Tank up (on bier). But to "get tanked" means to get drunk.
# But tank is a dry hot place also. Of course the military armored vehicle,
# roasting its occupants is a tank. In WWII, the small metal boxes for
# solitary confinement and baking in the sun were "the tank." So the "Tank"
# also refers to the entire jail or prison or in the extreme specific meaning
# (the exact opposite of a wet, open, crowded jail, it can refer to the most
# secure, solitary confinement cell.
# In the song, Bobby gets drunk (at the Palomino, the name of a type of horse,
# but here most likely referring to a bar/tavern/pub in Lancaster) and is
# sentenced to 30 days in the drunk tank, with 44 other men. There's only one
# shower but it don't apply to Bobby suggests that because of his stupid love
# for "her" he does not participate in the shower games (drop the soap) of the
# male inmates (i.e. anal sex).
# The joke of the song is that after getting out of jail Bobby and his girl
# stay in the town in a trailer park- in a metal mobile house parked in the
# hot desert sun. So he's still in jail and still has a potato head.
Sofa #2
~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# This is Flo'n'Eddie epoch song. And it was performed as early as
# 1970. In those ancient days Sofa was part #1 of the long story ( more
# than 20 minutes on Swiss Cheese bootleg ) about Genesis. FZ version
# of world creation of course. The part #2 ( depictin' 7th day of Creation
# it seems :-) was Stick It Out later innocently incorporated into Joe's
# Garage.
# Below is a transcription from
# You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, volume I.
# Track: Once Upon A Time, recorded December 10, 1971, Rainbow Theater,
# London, England.
# which really helps to dig the meaning not only of the song's language
# but also of one tiny but cool maroon detail on the front cover of OSFA
# LP/CD :-)).
#
# From: ha...@jasper.music.mcgill.ca (Hank Knox)
# "Way back a long time ago, when the universe consisted of nothing more
# elaborate than Mark Volman trying to convince each and every member of this
# extremely hip audience here tonight that he was nothing more, nothing less
# than a fat, maroonisch sofa suspended in the midst of a great emptiness,
# a light shined down from heaven... And there he was, ladies and gentleman,
# the Good Lord. And he took a look at the sofa, and he said to himself,
# 'Quite an attractive sofa... This sofa could be commercial, with a few more
# margharitas in the right company... However, I digress... What this sofa
# needs', said the Big G, 'is a bit of flooring underneath of it.' And so,
# in order to make this construction project possible, he summoned the
# assistance of the celestial corps of engineers. And, by means of a cute
# little song in the German language, which is the way he talks whenever it's
# heavy business, the Good Lord went something like this (take it away, Jim
# Pons):
# Gib zu mir, etc..."
#
# For an explanation of other OSFA front cover tokens is very helpful
# Swiss Cheese version with long and proud name
#
# Give Me Some Floor Covering Under This Fat Floating Sofa
#
# From: j...@paris.cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
#
# Ein Licht scheint vom Himmel herab (Means: A light shines down from Heaven.
# Kometen und alle rasenden Trümmer Comets and all rushing wreckages
# Dunkle Gase und tiefgefrorene ?????? Dark gas and deep-frozen ???
# Zittern bei der Ankunft des Herren Are trembling at the arrival
# of the Lord )
#
# A light shines down from Heaven
# A dense ecumenical patina
# At the right hand of God big sofa
# The Lord put aside his huge cigar
#
# And concidered it was time now
# to entertain himself
I am the author of all tucks & damask piping
I am The Chrome Dinette
I am The Chrome Dinette
# From: rick...@aol.com (Rick Hall)
# Chrom-dinett = Chrome Dinette (Set) a post-war-50's table and chair set
# for meals. A dinette, usually an alcove off the kitchen, or a space carved
# out of a kitchen, or a 'small' dining room, would hold, usually, a Dinette
# Set, it could also be used as the kitchen table, my mom did. The times and
# fashions what they were, there was lots of chrome, legs and molding around
# the table.
BONGO FURY
==========
all lyrics except marked by *
from
Johannes Labisch <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
* from
ck7...@csc.albany.edu (C. Gordon Keeble [gordo])
** from
Rob Sweet (sw...@skat.usc.edu)
Debra Kadabra
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
shit-ass Charlotte, aint that a bitch?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David=Lane%HQ%Rati...@Vines1.ratsys.com
# There's at least one other instance of this in the Beefheart world.
# In the "Blue Collar" theme song, the line "Foremen always wanna fight" was
# originally (only available on bootlegs) something like
# "Shit-ass foreman always wanna fight". I'd guess it was a local
# colloquialism where little Donnie was raised up.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su )
# And Frankie too 'coze this song although been performed by CB is credited
# nevertheless to FZ.
Debra Kadabra, haw that's rich.
June, a rancho granny,
Shook her wrinkled fanny
^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# fanny = heinie = behind = rear end = ass = buttocks ...
#
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Webster says:
# fan-ny \'fan-e^-\ pl fannies
# [perh. fr. Fanny, nickname of Frances] (1928) :BUTTOCKS
Witch goddess, witch goddess of Lankershim Boulevard.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: nude...@aol.com (NudeAdGuy)
# Lankershim is a long diagonal street that cuts through beautiful downtown
# Burbank and comes to a stop near Universal Studios. I got lost on it during
# my Honeymoon in 1981. I did find a great Pakistani restaurant and the
# chamber of commerce there, though.
#
# From: sa...@pitt.edu (Alan Saul)
# Lankershim Blvd. is the main drag in North Hollywood (that, incidentally,
# has little to do with Hollywood, which is perhaps, what, 10 miles away I'd
# guess). There were a lot of clubs on or just off Lankershim in N. Hollywood
# and it was generally a reasonably hip place to be for some people.
Cover my entire bodice, with Avon Cologna.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Avon ladies used to go (maybe they still do) door to door selling
# cosmetics.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Avon is a famous door-door cosmetics sales outfit. Periodically
# suburbanites would be paid a solicitation visit from the "Avon Lady"
#
#CC: This corrupted pronounciation of Cologne (perfume for men) features
# prominently in Thing Fish.
#
# From: mdr...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden")
# "Don's mother, who sold Avon products door-to-door, had all this stuff from
# Avon stashed at the house, which everybody used. Y'know, it was free beauty
# aids. Don, being neurotic, and a bit of a narcissist, was quite prone to
# dumping any kind of beauty aid that he could find on to his body. He made
# the unfortunate mistake of taking some Avon cologne and putting it in his
# hair, one day, which made it start falling out. He also put some kind
# of Avon cream on his face, which made him break out in this giant rash. His
# face looked like an alligator. He was losing a great deal of status at the
# high school, and he moved out of our little desert community, Lancaster,
# where he went to school, and moved down to East LA to stay with his aunt
# for a while while he got his chops back together."
# -- FZ quoted in Society Pages, No 7, September 1991
# -- re-quoted in The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
# by Ben Watson, Quartet Books 1994.
and maybe watch the rubber tongue, when it comes out
from the puffed, and flabulent Mexican rubbergoods mask.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: lar...@ssd.intel.com (Larry Huntley)
# Probably related to "blobulent" (from "The Radio is Broken"); it's a
# Zappa-word. I figure it means lumpy, rubbery, cheesy-looking.
#
# From: ap...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Gillies)
# flabulent Mexican Rebel Goose mask"
# -a clin d'oeil at Trout Mask, see also Mexican Art History
Next time they show the Brnokka
^^^^^^^^
# From: line...@delphi.com
# I think he is saying "Binaca", a concentrated breath-freshening fluid
# in a tiny bottle. Hey, it's Beefheart...it doesn't have to make sense to us!
#
Give me bas relief!
^^^^
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Yep, it's a pun. Bas-relief is a type of decorative molding or sculpture.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# An artistic style. I believe it is a basically two dimensional raised
# sculpture. In other words basically flat, but the objects are raised from
# the two dimensional surface to give a wee bit of depth.
Learn the pachuco hop, and let me twirl you!
^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# I think it is a mexican american word that's kind of like "dude". "Pachuco
# hop" is obviuosly some sort of dance.
#
# From: lar...@ssd.intel.com (Larry Huntley)
# Slight historical note:
# "Pachuco" was a term used to refer to male persons of the Mexican-American
# persuasion. It was used a lot in So. Calif. in the 50's and 60's. I don't
# know how widespread the usage was. Another reference to the Pachuco Hop
# is on "Crusin' with Reuben and The Jets."
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su )
# The song name is _Jelly Roll Gum Drop_
# Got my eyes on you
# The way you do the bop
# Like a spinnig top
# The Pachuco Hop
# -from _Plastic People Songbuch_
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I coulda swore her hair was made of rayon
She wore a Milton Bradley Crayon
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# I know "Milton Bradley~ as a company, making indoor games. (I don't know
# any favorite game by them.) Maybe they were also doing cosmetica???
#
# From: lar...@ssd.intel.com (Larry Huntley)
# They also make colored wax crayons. The best-known US crayon manufacturer,
# Binney & Smith, makers of "Crayola" crayons, probably didn't meter out.
# There's also a phenomenon of large inflatable crayons that are given away
# as prizes at state fairs, carnivals, etc. No idea which is meant in this
# verse.
#
# From: tom.br...@dscmail.com (Tom Brunetti)
# The phrase probably refers to wearing too much makeup.
#
# From: to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# A popular piece of clothing was (is?) a T-shirt that featured a giant
# picture of the business end of a crayon, complete with "Crayola" or
# "Milton-Bradley" (or whatever, I'm not sure) label. Maybe these go back
# to the time of this song?
I had a Roger Daltrey cape on
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# It was notable for its sheer pretensiousness.
#
# From: tom.br...@dscmail.com (Tom Brunetti)
# CAPE: garment that drapes over the shoulders.
# In the early Who days the cape was Daltrys trade mark. Look at it like the
# line in Joes Garage
# "we had matching suits and Beatle Boots "
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <-- their early trademark
# In other words if you wore Beatle Boots, you were in the "IN" crowd.
# Probably the cape held the same meaning.
Then she gave a pair of shoes to me...
Plastic leather, 14 Triple D
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# 14 Triple D is fucking HUGE. I didn't know there was triple D, there is
# triple E and that is the widest possible shoe size. The Widths are
# basically AAA AA A B C D E EE EEE. There are men's sizes and women's
# sizes. 14 is large for either of them. I doubt women's even go up to 14.
* Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top ( Captain Beefheart )
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sam with the showing scalp flat top,
particular about the point it made.
Sam was a BASKET CASE!
# From: line...@delphi.com
# The picture of "Sam" I have in my head is that of a paraplegic (no legs)
# ex-marine with a military crew-cut sitting on a wooden dolly with rubber
# castors (an image from some old movie I saw once). He leads a bitter and
# solitary life on the second floor of a tenement slum and his only contact
# with the world is the view from the fire escape. He is also quite insane.
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is merely just a note about
Performance to our quota
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Quota would be referring to the amount of stuff they are expecting to sell.
Well, we've all come out to show dem,
And the Elks have helped us
^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The Elks are an organization. These clubs are always involved in community
# activities.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# The Bevevolent Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) is a lodge, a club of
# sorts, where overweight balding middle-aged American men drink , smoke
# cigars, use secret handshakes and initiations, be patriotic, then drive
# home in their Lincolns.
Little Poofter-Cloth Appointments
Little Pofter's Froth Anointments
Little hoods, little goods
Little doo-dads from the woods
^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Doo-dads: gizmos, bric-a-brack, widgets.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Just a term which basically means "things". The subtlety of meaning is
# "small" or even "useless" things.
Yes, a special beer for sports
(and paper cups that hold two quarts)
^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# He's referring to a big festival so they will be selling beer in disposable
# paper cups, but REALLY big ones so everyone can get drunk. (It's the
# American way, dont you know).
This is Buy-Cent-Any-All Salute (HYULK!)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Pun on Bicentennial (two hundred year anniversary).
Two hundred years have gone ka-poot!
Ah but we have been astute!
Signed: Anon. - Wyo. Galoot!
^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Galoot is an archaic term for a big dummy.
#
#CC: Thing Fish: Galoot Calogna
#
# From: lar...@ssd.intel.com (Larry Huntley)
# ga-loot [origin unknown] slang (1866): FELLOW: esp. one that is
# strange or foolish.
# See Warner Brothers cartoons starring Yosemite Sam for further usage
# examples.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Galoot: slang for an old man; a codger.
Cucamonga
~~~~~~~~~
Out in Cucamonga
Many years ago
Near a Holy Roller Church
There was once a place
Where me and a couple of friends
Began practicing for the time
We might go
On TV
# From: Colin Gateley <qf...@insane.apana.org.au>
# In 'The Real FZ Book' he writes about moving into Studio Z in Cucamonga.
# Motorhead Sherwood also lived there. "North, up Archibald, were an
# electrician's shop, a hardware store and the recording studio. Across the
# street was a Holy Roller church . . . " p.42.
All we ever really knew:
That it was crazy (Nanook, no-no)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su )
#CC
# Our young brave Don't_it_the_yellow_snow boy once again. HOTCHA!
Advance Romance
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I can't stand it no more
Told me she loved me
I believed what she said
Took me for a sucker, boy
All corn-fed
^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Corn-fed basically means "fat". Refers to pigs and cows who are fattened
# for the kill on corn, but often used in reference to people.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# In terms of pigs and cattle, corn-fed indicates that they weren't fattened
# for slaughter with just any old feed, but with corn. It's more expensive,
# but you get a fatter, tastier pig. As a slang term, it indicates someone
# who's fat, dumb and happy.
She took George's watch
Like they always do
(It was a Timex, too!)
^^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# They were very popular at that time.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# They were semi-valuable when they first came out.
Potato-head Bobby
^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su )
#CC
# He got slabbering drank at Palomino and they gave him thirty days
# in San Ber'dino.
was a friend of mine
Open three of his eyes
In the food stamp line
Open four of his eyes
In the food stamp line
Open five of his eyes
In the food stamp line
Open six of his eyes
In the food stamp line
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Food Stamps is a welfare type program for feeding the poor.
# In England: Dole Queue.
#
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Food stamps are an American invention; rather than give our poor people
# actual money, we give 'em vouchers that we call food stamps that they can
# buy food with, and not much else.
She had frenched his fry
^^^^^^^^
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# French fries. Fried potato sticks
# (You can see them forming the word "Thing Fish" on the cover of "Thing
# Fish".)
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# In america we call them French Fries. The French call them pommes frites,
# the Belgians call them just frites, The Dutch patat frites?, The English
# call them Chips. Each nation claims to have invented them, but in the U.S.
# we credit the French. No one knows why.
#
# From: Colin Gateley <qf...@insane.apana.org.au>
# I always took this to be a poetic reference to The Blow Job....
# and, sure enough - my Concise Oxford backs me up on this -
# "French . . . (sl.) fellatio".
** The Man With the Woman Head ( Captain Beefheart )
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Are you with me on this people?
A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow dacs.
^^^^^
# From: ap...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (William Moon)
# I think I've got it, trivia hounds. I once saw Captain Beefheart on
# Letterman. This was in the early years of the show - he sang Ashtray Heart
# - and he remarked that he had spent some time working at Kinney Shoes as a
# salesman. Kinney shoes. Where they sell a popular old fashioned type of
# men's shoes - big clunky jobs that my dad wears called DACKS!
Muffin Man
~~~~~~~~~~
The Muffin Man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the Utility Muffin
Research Kitchen...
Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an intimate quantity of
dried muffin remnants and brushing his scapular aside procceds to dump these
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#a.f.f.-z. FAQ p.1
# From: za...@bnr.ca (Ron Zajac)
# Here's what it is; two little cloth & paper icons of Mary, Jesus
# and/or some Saints bound by two thin ribbons (about 2.5' long):
#
# +---+ +---+
# | |===================================| |
# | | | |
# | |===================================| |
# +---+ +---+
#
# You drape the ribbons over your shoulders (over your t-shirt, under
# your over-shirt) so one icon sits on your breastbone, another in the
# middle of your back. I forget what sacrament the issuing of this
# thing is associated with; perhaps Confirmation. There were all kinds
# of associated cool legends that the kids passed around; that if you
# wore it when you died, you'd go straight to Heaven; that there was
# once a soldier who cussed/swore/drank/etc--but he Wore His Scapular,
# and bragged between swigs and pelvic thrusts that he'd go to heaven
# because he always wore his scapular. Well, he died during combat and
# they miraculously found the scapular 50' away from where he died.
# WHAT do you THINK of THAT?!??!
#
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov ( so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su )
# It seems that Muffin Man is a direct relative or may be Father O'Blivion
# himself busy with scientificaly conceived and approved Saint Alfonzo's
# Pancake:-) In other words religion and cheap flour-based fried stuff were
# inseparable for FZ. And mean rancind oil stink of charity muffin or
# pancake from Joe The Lost Soul amend making. Amen.
He turns to us and speaks:
"SOME PEOPLE LIKE CUPCAKES BETTER. I FOR ONE CARE LESS FOR THEM!"
# From: Colin Gateley <qf...@insane.apana.org.au>
# It's difficult to explain: like trying to explain why a joke is funny
# and succeeding in only confusing your victim.
# "I FOR ONE CARE LESS FOR THEM!" - sounds portentious, pretentious,
# rhythmically amusing, silly, a lot of emphasis for such a seemingly
# trivial matter...
Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing
anointment utensil he poots forths a quarter-ounce green rosette
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# It's not a wall ornament object. Rosette means a small Rose. When you
# squirt out a small (quarter-ounce) dollop of icing onto a cake or muffin it
# makes a little rose like pattern. This is what the muffin man is doing
# with green icing.
Robbert Heederik
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ZOOT ALLURES
============
Lyrics was originaly
transcribed by
C. Gordon Keeble [gordo] (ck7...@csc.albany.edu)
Special thanks to
Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Interesting thing to note about the album title.
# In France they say _Zut Alors_ when mean _Goddamned_.
# So it seems that the only language Frank have no time to abuse
# is Russian. Ne zappelos', tovarischee :-(
#
# From: U00...@vm.uci.kun.nl (Jan van Kemenade)
# The explanation that was given a while ago for the 'Zoot Allures'
# title (from the french : Zut Alors) is confirmed by what FZ says
# on the boot Titties & Beer (Zoot Allures live in Paris) :
# 'And now from our almost french title album Zoot Allures ..'
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This here song might offend you some.
If it does, it's because you're dumb.
That's the way it is where I come from.
If you been there too, let me see your thumb.
Let me see your thumb. [Let me see your thumb]
Let me see your thumb. [Let me see your thumb]
Show me your thumb if your really dumb.
# From: har...@helios.phy.ohiou.edu (Peter B. Harrington)
# The thumb reference explains an obvious way to identify anyone who makes
# a living working on automobiles. Automechanics typically have black
# grease under the finger and thumb nails. In addtion, the thumb has a
# tendency to take some abuse in this occupation, and after a while will
# have a hammered on appearance. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be proud.
#
# From: jsu...@moose.uvm.edu (Jane P. Suder)
# Speaking from personal experience? I think the grease thing is not
# exactly right, although they do have dem greeeesy fingerz.... but the
# hammered thumb thing might be it.....
#
# From: line...@delphi.com
# As a general rule, the thumbs and fingers of mechanics are noticably
# scarred and calloused from working with cast iron and stamped steel. A
# seemingly permanent black stain from the carbon in grease and oil is also
# common in that line of work. In addition, mechanics are seldom regarded
# as members of the intellectual elite, so the stigma of a black, scarred
# thumb could translate to "destined for a lifetime of failure and
# mediocrity". i.e. "Wind up working in a gas station"...
#
# From: wi...@netcom.com (William D. Sterling)
# I recall, back in the 50's the big joke on the playground was to say:
# Look up (victim looks up)
# Look down (victim looks down)
# See my thumb? (victim nods "yes")
# You're dumb. (end of joke).
Hey now, better make a decision.
Be a moron, and keep your position.
You oughta know now, all your education,
won't help you no-how.
^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# I believe it's "no-how" a colloquialism for "not at all"
Many da camper wants to buy some white. [Wind up workin' in a gas station]
# From: sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# The most mysterious line in the song was clarified for me on this
# newsgroup sometime back. It's Frank doing a pseudo-German accent saying:
#
# "Manny de camper wants to buy some white."
#
# Apparently a reference to white gas, something nearly every camper needs.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# It refers to white gas, which is something like propane that an RV would
# require. This is verified in the interview that the editors of Society
# Pages conducted with FZ.
#
# From: Jack Fleming <JackF...@aol.com>
# White gas is a fuel used in camp stoves & lanterns. It is basically pure
# gasoline (no poisonous additives like lead). Coleman was the
# manufacturer of gas stoves & lanterns.
The Torture Never Stops
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov (so...@bank.kemerovo.su)
# Interesting to note that this very, very long song :-) was first time
# performed in April 11, 1975 at Claremont College, California FZ concert
# by Don Van Vliet ( aka Captain Beefheart ) under the name
# Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him a Pepsi?
Wonderful Wino
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Give me a five dollar bill, and an overcoat too.
A five dollar bill, and an overcoat too,
a five dollar bill, and a Florscheim shoe.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Famous U.S. shoemaker.
#
# From: Rob Sweet ( sw...@skat.usc.edu )
# "Florcshiem" is a shoe manufacturer and retailer. Kinda like Kinney's.
#
# From: <AU...@ASUACAD.BITNET>
# Florsheim is a brand of mens shoes that have been around for 75
# years and they are of a pretty conservative fashion. When working in a
# Florsheim retailer most of our customers were Business men/Frumpy old guy
# types. A dirty overcoat and a worn out old Florsheim shoe would probably
# make perfect "Wino-wear". Then again I could be wrong, hope this helps.
Disco Boy
~~~~~~~~~
Disco boy, do the bump every night, 'til the disco girl
who's really right, gonna fall for your line,
and feed you a box full of chicken delight.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Chicken Delight was a fried chicken fast foodery, similar to Kentucky
# Fried. I can't explain it, but the above lyrical excerpt really captures
# the 70's.
#
A disco drink, a disco wink,
you never go duty that's what you think.
You never go duty that's what you think.
You never go duty that's what you think.
Duty. Go duty!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# You never go doody. Children's slang for shit. I always thought that
# lyric was on the stupid side.
#
# From: Greg...@LFGMS.logica.com (Martin Gregorie)
# Slang round here used to say 'A girl like that don't shit' if she was
# really a cracker. Maybe this explains the 'never go doody' reference?
#
# From: C. Gordon Keeble [gordo] (ck7...@csc.albany.edu)
# Yeah, it's something like saying "You think your shit don't stink."
BROADWAY THE HARD WAY
=====================
lyrics mostly :-) from
CD booklet
special thanks to
Yury July <ju...@july.techno.ru>
# A few words to begin with
#
# From: TERH...@KUB.NL (Greggery Peccary)
# Broadway means that the kind of material that we play is not necessarily
# rock, but some of it is theatrical, and the hard way means going to Madrid
# and play in a place with mud, or the hall we played in Gent (Belgium),
# where you couldn't hear anything, now that's the hard way.
#
# This is what Frank said in answer to a similar question [ Does anyone know
# why Zappa's '88 tour was called Broadway the Hard Way? ]. Not exactly these
# words, but, well, almost. I typed it from memory.
Elvis Has Just Left The Building
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
#:-)
# Yes indeedy. [ Is it Kenealy who parodying Presley vocal here and in
# Rhymin' Man?]
He gave away Cadillacs once in a while;
Had sex in his underpants,
Yes, he had style!
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Elvis Presley was famous for being very generous to certain people. He
# did give away cars and other expensive presents. Dunno about sex in his
# underpants, though.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# I wouldn't be surprised if he did all of these things. Elvis grew up to be
# a very quirky, reclusive super-star.
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# He was too shy to remove his white cotton briefs.
Bell-bottom jump-suits?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's them in a pile,
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Bell-bottoms are pants which are very wide at the bottom of the legs.
# Presley used to wear these when he was performing on stage towards the
# end of his life.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# A jump suit is a one piece outfit. The name comes from parachuting.
# Bell bottoms were popular in the 70's and had the end of the leg flared out
# resembling a bell. Some of Elvis' most memorable costumes were
# Bell-bottomed jump-suits (the white one with all the glitter on the
# oversized collar).
So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
^^^^^^^^
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Just an ugly fat pig. I think someone once did a cartoon which made
# Presley's face like a pig.
So take down the foil
From his hotel retreat,
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# In some hot places in North America, like Las Vegas, people put aluminum
# foil in the windows to keep the sun out.
#
# From: rick...@aol.com (Rick Hall)
# Howard Hughes had the walls of the rooms of his residences covered in
# aluminum foil. (Because he was NUTS!) Either Elvis did something similar
# or its a HH reference.
#
# From: ma...@ksgrsch.harvard.edu (Mark Parisi)
# Elvis did the same thing, primarily because he slept during the daytime,
# and wanted complete darkness in his suite. His advance men always made sure
# the windows were done before Elvis arrived.
Elvis has just left the building --
Those are his footprints, right there
Elvis has just left the building --
To climb up that heavenly stair
He's up there with Jesus, in a big purple chair
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Seems to be a piece from well-known God's livin' room fat maroonish OSFA
# suite.
#
# From: mdr...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden")
# Zappa owned a big purple chair, in which he sat while being interviewed for
# the recently televised BBC2/A&E documentary, to name but one. Whether it's
# double-knit or not, I couldn't determine.
Planet Of The Baritone Women
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They keep it as low
As they possibly can,
And sometimes they walk
Like an E-GYP-TIAN
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah-ha-ha-ha-hah!
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# "Walk Like an Egyptian" was a hit for the Bangles (an all-female group)
# sometime in the 1980s.
#
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# I suppose Zappa is parodying them. Also (this is far-fetched) in SLEEP DIRT
# (CD/ALBUM) we have a piece entitled "Regyptian Strut," which is nothing like
# "Walk like an Egyptian".
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# "Walk like an Egyptian" very silly and thus very popular.
Any Kind Of Pain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She has moves up now;
She's come a long way --
They give her bunches
Of words she can say!
When she's in a bold mood,
"Confinement Loaf" sounds good --
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: mar...@cs.bu.edu (Michael Martak)
# CNN ran a story on that, as FZ said on the album.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# On the LP, not on the CD, FZ himself explained the meaning of C.L. in
# introduction to DICKIE'S SUCH AN ASSHOLE
#
# From: do...@lion.dgt.co.il (Doron Zifrony)
# For those of you without the introduction that explains what "confinement
# loaf" is, there it is:
#
# Confinement loaf is apparently a bean by-product that is beeing
# administered to problematic prisoners. A ration of a troubled prisoner is
# a slice of confinement loaf and a glass of water. Apparently, this seems
# to mellow them down.
#
# After introducing the Confinement Loaf, FZ asks: How long will it be
# before confinement loaf will find its way to US high schools?
#
# From: la...@Milori.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (Darrell Laham)
# From the previous explanation from Ike W., it sounds to me like C-loaf
# was used as an afterthought, probably only for 1 or a couple of shows.
# So what originally sounded good to our heroine when in a bold mood?
#
# From: to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# On a bootleg also named "Broadway the Hard Way" (not the official release),
# the lyric, "sodomy", is sung here. However, it's accented in a way that
# still has a "fill in the blank" flavor to it, so maybe this lyric changed
# alot.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# On another bootleg, it's "tunafish". Again, this sounds like an
# instance of lyric mutation. What does it say in the tour book?
#
# From: pe...@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# In actual fact, confinement loaf does not contain drugs but is merely
# exceptionally bland and boring. It is also served without utensils. It
# was proposed that it be served to unruly inmates as a punishment, but this
# ran into constitutional problems. Apparently, food that doesn't taste very
# good is considered either cruel or unusual.
# I am STILL looking for the recipe for confinement loaf which appeared in
# the local paper back in the 80's.
Dickie's Such An Asshole
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(The San Clemente Magnetic Deviation)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# San Clemente is where Nixon lived during his retirement. Not sure what he
# means (if he means anything) by Magnetic Deviation
# It's just a tagline for this updated version of the song which was
# originally performed during or shortly after Nixon's term in office.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# For original Dec.73 sound check YCDIOSA Vol.3
One 'n one is eleven!
Two 'n two is twenty-two!
Won't somebody kindly tell me,
What's the government is tryin' t' do...
Dickie's just to tricky
^^^^^^^
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Late Richard Nixon of course. Richard Milhous Nixon. And about his wicked
# soul along with the Agnus's(sp?) too being up his sleeve boasted Terry the
# Devil before rough Motorcicle Man on Zappa In NY _Titties and Beer_ number.
For a chump like me to use
You take that sub-committee seriously, boy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Sub-committee is a unit of congress. The smallest working unit, where
# presumably everything get's done. The Watergate investigation was
# performed by a sub-committee. (The PMRC "porn wars" hearings were also a
# sub-committee in session). Committees listen to the reports of
# sub-committees and vote and argue, and Congress itself listens to the
# reports of committees and votes and argues. Recipe for partisan gridlock.
Just might be some confinement loaf all up under your bed
^^^^^^^^^^^
# See comments to ANY KIND OF PAIN
Have a guy in Virginia
^^^^^^^^
with the [????] soup for you
GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER
etc.
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# Virginia is the home of the CIA, the NSA (National Security Agency) and the
# FBI. Each of these "spy" groups may be represented in the above line. Also,
# Virginia was to show up in THING FISH as a, "top secret Gubmint laboratory
# underneath Virginia."
Let me tell about this right now
Let me tell about this right here
Make this perfectly clear
Let me tell about this right here
You know you put me in office
For you musta wanna me in office
I've did you no harm
I used to have twenty five tapes
Now I've only got ten
Don't remember what happened to the rest
[ May be gave them to the friends?]
Have a couple of Bebe Rebozo
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: bo...@lynx.navo.navy.mil (Martin H. Booda)
# Bebe was the good friend and former business partner of a certain Richard
# Milhous Nixon.
#
# From: det...@aol.com (Detboy)
# Bebe Rebozo was deeply involved in the american watergate scandal of the
# early 70's, although his exact role eludes me at the moment. I seem to
# remember that he did some of his nigbiz on a boat in some harbor.
#
# From: p.pr...@mail.utexas.edu (Paul Previte)
# Bebe Rebozo was a close personal friend of the late Mr. Nixon. When
# Trickey Dick's world was falling apart Mr. Rebozo provided a Florida
# sanctuary from the shame he may or may not have deserved.
Have a couple of Pat Boone
^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Pat Boone was a clean-cut white popular singer of the 1950s. At that time,
# many whites did not listen to music played by blacks. Boone redid several
# Little Richard songs and had hits with them. I seem to recall Little Richard
# saying that he wrote the chorus of "Tutti Frutti" specifically to be
# difficult for Pat Boone to sing.
#
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Pat Boone was an American teenage idol of the 1950's. He is probably the
# cleanest guy you could ever see! I think he is now involved with some
# religious ministry.
#
#CC
# Well, wonders never cease ... I found the excerpt from Ample Annie's
# autobiography where she tells about working with Frank... Here it is:
#
# Zappa decided that he first wanted me to do publicity for his new
# album, "Thing-Fish." In it, he had a song about a rubber doll. He'd heard
# about Slutty Suzy and Sluts Are Us in my act, and thought that Suzy and I
# would fit right into his plans. As part of the promotion, he was producing
# a celebrity layout for HustIer magazine. That was fine with me as long as I
# didn't have to do any acrobatic shots. It took three of the wildest days of
# photography I'd ever gone through. I was paid $2,000 a day. The magazine
# got twenty-one pages out of it. As usual, I was underpaid given the
# results.
# ............
# The set, like Zappa, was bizarre. They must have spent thousands of
# dollars on it. There was a house with phony snow and dozens of pink
# flamingos in front of it. In the background, there was a huge poster of Pat
# Boone with his penis hanging out. Someone had found a Polaroid and sold it
# to Larry Flynt, HustIer's publisher. Since he couldn't use it anywhere
# else, he used it here. Don't ask what the significance of any of this was.
# I was just doing my job.
I just wanna lie about one thing right now
The gangster stepped right up,
^^^^^^^^^^^^
'N kissed him on the lips good-bye
Made him a cocksucker by proxy, yes he did,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Not sure who exactly is referred to but a close friend of nixon's who was a
# gangster (and called a cocksucker here) kissed nixon on the lips, therefore
# making Nixon a "cocksucker by proxy" proxy=substitute.
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# A proxy is someone who does something in your place; in some instances
# you might be able to vote by proxy, that is, give someone the right to
# cast your ballot for you. Cocksucker by proxy means that you didn't do
# the deed, but someone else did it for you, on your behalf.
An' he didn't even bat an eye!
The man in the White House -- oooh!
He's got a conscience black as sin!
There's just one thing I wanna know --
How'd that asshole ever manage to get in?
Now let's bring the Republican Party up to date
# Karl Oberlander <ko...@austin.asc.slb.com>
# Easy there dude, what makes you think all FZ fans or even FZ himself would
# want to continue the downward spiral of liberalism and socialism. He
# looked pretty much like a man who made an upper level living to me.
# There are conservative Republican FZ fans out here like moi!
# Thats because I started appreciating FZ back in the mid-60s and my
# opinion of him and his work have not changed a bit since. Maybe it
# is because he and I shared a less than politically correct membership in
# the "white European male descendant" club.
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# Frank distinguished between two different types of Republicans--the
# low-tax, pro-business type (assuming they're sincere, which I seriously
# doubt) and the religious nutzo type. He didn't mind the former and even
# identified with them at times since he was after all running a business
# that had to turn a profit. But I think we all know what he thought of the
# latter.
# He was also not fond of Republican or Democrat presidents' tencencies to
# attack third-world countries for fun and profit, nor the complicity of the
# US media in promoting these adventures.
# I'd advise any FZ fans of similar inclination to check out the writings of
# Noam Chomsky for a view of US foreign affairs that is quite similar to
# Frank's, though expressed with far fewer entertaining colloquialisms. (He's
# just as ironic, though, in his own way.)
When The Lie's So Big
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When the lie's so big
As in Robertson's case,
^^^^^^^^^
(That sinister face
Behind all the Jesus hurrah)
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Pat Robertson. Frank had a special place in his heart for this guy. "Case"
# here means "as in the example of pat Robertson"
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Robertson is a TV Evangelist who had close involvement with the most
# unsavory, religious right-wing fascist element of the Republican party.
# This was written during his '88 presidential bid. Robertson way outdid
# himself during the '92 campaign when he said that the ERA (Equal Rights
# Amendment) was not about Equal Rights for Women, it was about a movement
# which encourages women to divorce their husbands, kill their children,
# practice witchcraft and become lesbians.
# Yes he really said that.
# It's a large part of the reason why Clinton won the election. The
# Republican party had sold too much of its platform to this extremist
# element.
Criminal saints
With a 'Heavenly Mission" -
A nation enraptured
By pure superstition
(Do you believe in Invisible Army?)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Seems to be something from Pat agitprop:-) arsenal.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# You got it. Apocalyptic visions from his TV show.
Rhymin' Man
~~~~~~~~~~~~
They say when Doctor King got shot,
Jesse hatched an evil plot,
Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood,
'N rubbed his shirt like playin' with mud
Looked around for all the press
'N said: "Check me out, my name is Jess!
I'll be known from towns 'n farms --
Doctor King died in my arms!"
# From: "Michael Zielesny" <mi...@miles.westfalen.de>
# PLAYBOY: You've also used your songs to level political attacks. You wrote
# Rhymin' Man about Jesse Jackson. What made you so angry?
#
# ZAPPA: An article raised some questions about whether or not Martin Luther
# King actuallyy died in Jesse's arms. There were reports that Jackson
# dipped his hands into King's blood or even used chicken blood and
# rubbed it on his shirt, which we wore for a few days afterward as he
# met the media. So I did this song about the idea of communicating
# through nursery rhymes, as Jackson is prone to do. It rubs me the
# wrong way. I'm not saying that all of Jesse's ideas are bad;
# I agree with some of them. But I'm not confident that Jesse Jackson
# would be the person I would look to to implement any of them. I don't
# want to see any religious people in public office because they're
# working for another boss.
#
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# I have an interview from 88 (SFB, Radiostation in Berlin).
# (This is quoted from memory..)
# Q: Do you think Jesse Jackson is the right man for president?
# FZ: No, I don't thin Jesse Jackson is the right man. I thin Mario Quomo
# is the right man.
# Q: Who is Muriel Como?
# FZ: Quomo.
A few years later, legend says,
Rhymin' man made a run for Prez
Farrakhan made him a clown,
^^^^^^^^^
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Louis Farrakhan is a very popular (infamous) preacher within the Nation of
# Islam, a modern Islamic Extremist organization of American black.
# Farrakhan is well known for his public racism and anti-semitism. He has a
# fairly large following, but he is very divisive. A black running for
# public office in anything other than an all-black community is committing
# political suicide by associating himself with Farrakhan in any way.
Over there near Hymie-Town
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# Jesse once referred to New York City as Hymie-Town. This is a slur on
# Jewish people.
#
Said he was a diplomat --
Hobbin' an-a-knobbin' with Arafat
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# The actual verb is "hobnob", meaning "to associate on very friendly terms".
# Normally, one would say "Hobnobbing with Arafat", but of course that doesn't
# scan.
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# It's a Zappafied way of saying "hobnobbing", as in "with the Goblin Girl".
Horse manure!
That's for sure!
You been cheatin' --
We kept score!
Are you "this"?
Or are you "that"?
Oh, you naughty
Democrat!
# From: Bartosz Blacha <ba...@CMU.EDU>
# I remember seeing a quote of FZ going something like, "Republicans are
# the worst of what's possible... and Democrats is just a bunch of guys
# trying very hard to be Republicans." Well, that makes sense: both
# parties are just trying to make us into a nation of check-mailing
# braindead slaves, only Republicans are less willing to admit it...
#
# From: ive...@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# He wasn't too keen on Lyndon Johnson, thanks to LBJ's involvement in U.S.
# atrocities in Vietnam. I don't remember his saying much about Carter. He
# ended up endorsing Clinton fairly late in the 1992 campaign. He said
# something like Bush and Quayle were such monstrosities that he'd endorse
# Clinton and Gore despite his disagreements with Tipper--or at least that's
# the way it was reported in the media.
# BTW, I read in at least one interview that he was briefly excited by the
# Perot candicacy in 1992 but was disillusioned pretty quickly once he
# figured out that Ross wasn't playing with a full deck.
#
# From: sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# For a good look at BOTH parties via Zappa, check out "Hot Plate Heaven At
# The Green Hotel"
# And don't forget how Frank "skewered" the Gores during the Porn Wars.
# They made up though. He and Tipper were actually on very good terms before
# Zappa's departure. Before the election, he said he would much rather have
# the Clinton/Gore team elected, than to have four more years of "those
# cowboys" (Reagan/Bush/Quayle, etc.).
#
# From: j...@zirconium.mcc.com (Joe Newman)
# Could you provide some evidence for this? What constitutes "very good
# terms"? The last comment I saw from Zappa on the buoffant-encrusted turd
# from Tennessee was on the Today show interview around Summer '93. After
# conceding that he had received a nice letter from the Gores when his
# condition became public, he went on to sneer at the notion of Tipper in a
# rock group. He hardly seemed to be in the mood for a love-fest.
# ... reaching the conclusion that two lying sacks of shit are preferable to
# two lying, fascist sacks of shit hardly seems like a ringing endorsement.
# You make it sound like Zappa wanted to hang out and party with these
# assholes.
#
# From: sw...@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# "Very good terms" may seem like an over - exaggeration, but considering
# the terms they HAD been on (during the Porn Wars), I can feel justified in
# saying they were on "much better terms".
Promiscuous
~~~~~~~~~~~
The Surgeon General, Doctor Koop
^^^^^^^^^^^
S'posed to give you all the poop
# From: "Michael Zielesny" <mi...@miles.westfalen.de>
# PLAYBOY: You also assailed former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in a song.
#
# ZAPPA: HBO ran something like "Dr. Koop Answers Your Questions About
# AIDS." On it, I saw him explain how AIDS got from the green monkey
# to the human population. He speculated about a native who wanted to
# eat a green monkey, who skinned it, cut his finger and some of the
# green monkey's blood got into his blood. The next thing you know,
# you have this blood-to-blood transmission of the disease. I mean,
# this is awful fucking thin. It's right up there with Grimm's Fairy
# Tales. And Koop was such a cartoon character with that uniform and
# everything. Before Ronald Reagan, when did you ever see a surgeon
# general dressed up like the guy in the Katzenjammer Kids?
But when he's with P.M.R.C.
^^^^^^^^
The poop he's scoopin'
Amazes me
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# "...by mid-1985, a Washington, D.C.-based antirock committee called the
# Parents Music Resource Center was gathering steam. The PMRC was formed to
# combat what it deemed "blatant explicit lyric content" in rock records.
# Among the PMRC's founder was Tipper Gore, wife of Tennessee Senator Albert
# Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Georgei Packwood,
# and Nancy Thurmond, wife of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. These
# women's spouses are relevant information because it was their political
# clout that that was at least partially responsible for the group's ability
# to get a September 19 Senate Commerce Committee hearing scheduled on
# deleterious effects of rock music on its listeners.
# .......
# The ultimate goal of the PMRC was to institute a rating system that would
# alert parents to what the committee heard as offensive material.
# At the Senate hearing, an unlikely trio of pop stars - Frank Zappa, John
# Denver, and Dee Snider (lead singer of Twisted Sisters) - testified against
# any such rating system."
# Rock of Ages. The Rolling Stones History of Rock and Roll.
# p.619
#CC
# The voices of mentioned Senate hearing participants are an essential part
# of Porn Wars on Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention album.
#
# From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# There is also a chapter in "The Real Frank Zappa Book" about Dr. Koop and
# the "Porn Wars".
C-Span showed him, all dressed up
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# A cable [TV channel] (costs extra $$) network that is dedicated to
# washington news.
#
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# C-Span is a TV channel that shows debates in Congress.
In his phoney Doctor God get-up
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# A pseudo-military uniform with epaulets. "What is he, the admiral of
# health?"--Frank Zappa
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# He wore a very gaudy admiral's uniform - white with big gold epaulets and
# lots of decorations. Supposedly it is the proper uniform for the Surgeon
# General, however before Koop no Surgeon General was ever a public figure.
He looked in the camera and fixed his specs
'N gave a little lecture
'Bout anal sex
The A.M.A. has just got caught
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# American Medical Associaion. Basically the doctor's lobby (political
# voice).
For doin' stuff it shouldn't ought
Surgeon General? What's the deal?
Is your epidemic real?
Are you leaving something out?
Something we can't talk about?
A little green monkey over there
Kills a million people?
# See Playboy Interview excerpt above
The Untouchables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Monologue by Ike Willis
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# Others around here have covered most of the references on BTHW except for
# "The Untouchables", where Ike Willis goes off on most of the American
# political figures over the band vamping on the Nelson Riddle theme.
# Basically, Willis is talking about the Ronald Reagan presidency (which was
# ending in 1988) and the Iran-Contra affair, where government officials sold
# weapons to Iran in order to raise money to finanace the rebel war in
# Nicarauga. After this whole scheme occurred, they lied to Congress about
# it....
Rico! Youngblood! Wake up!
^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# I believe these were two of Elliot Ness's assistants on "The Untouchables",
# a 1960s TV show about real-life government agents battling Al Capone during
# Prohibition.
#
# From: rick...@aol.com (Rick Hall)
# Rico & Youngblood were 2 of Elliot Ness' agents from the original TV show
# "The Untouchables", as was Nelson Riddle's music
ADMIRAL POINDEXTER!
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# One of the main figures in the Iran-Contra affair, Oliver North's boss.
# Lied in front of a Congressional investigative panel and would have served
# a felony conviction if it wasn't for the pardon from George Bush.
Get back on Felix The Cat where you belong!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Yes it is [cartoon character], and one of the characters on the show was
# a geeky guy named Poindexter. For anyone growing up in America, the primary
# association of the name Poindexter is with Felix the Cat.
OLIVER NORTH!
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# The most famous player in the Iran-Contra affair. North took thousands of
# government documents detailing the transactions, shredded them, and then
# stood in front of Congress and defended his actions. Convicted of several
# felonies, but the charges were dropped when he appealed on the argument that
# his conviction was obtained by using his testimony in Congress (they can't
# do that). He is now [mid-1994] running for the United States Senate from
# his home state of Virginia, but nearly all Republican strongmen (including
# Ronald Reagan) are not supporting him.
BILL CASEY!
You're dead!
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# Director of the CIA during the Iran-Contra affair. Died in a hospital
# during the investigation by Congress, and then became the big scapegoat.
# Nearly everything that North and company didn't want to take responsibility
# for, they blamed on Casey, and the corpse didn't have much to say in
# response.
BUSH!
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# Vice-President under Ronald Reagan. Claimed to know nothing about the
# Iran-Contra deal, but most people didn't (and still don't) believe him.
# After all, this man's rise through government started with the CIA, and the
# intelligence business is his specialty. He probably not only knows, but
# busted his butt to hide it.
DEAVER! NOFZIGER!
# From: pdhe...@aud.alcatel.com (Paul D. Herzog)
# Michael Deaver & ? Nofzinger - White House assistants during the Ronald
# Reagan presidency, served jail time for felonies they committed trying to
# cover up the Iran-Contra affair.
You're crooks! Book 'em Dan-o!
^^^^^
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# This is a reference to Danny Williams, who was the second lead character
# on the TV cop show Hawaii Five-O. At the end of many episodes, his boss,
# Steve McGarrett would say "Book 'em, Danno", meaning "Charge them with
# such-and-such offense". This reference also appears in Thing-Fish and
# Ship Too Late albums.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Danno was a supporting character on Hawaii Five-O, another old TV
# show. "Book 'em, Danno" was the catch-phrase used by star Jack Lord to
# end episodes, " 'em" (i.e. "them") referring to the criminals who
# have just been caught.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# From the program Hawaii Five-O. Danno was the sidekick and many programs
# ended with the hero (forgot his name) saying "Book-em Danno, murder one"
#CC
# You Are What You Is/Thing Fish - "Book 'em Danno - mammy one"
# Obviously though, it's the wrong show.
#
# From: che...@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina)
# Dan-o was a character from "Hawaii-five-O" which was one of the longest
# (if not the longest) TV series in US history.
Dan-o? How'd he get in the show?
Get outta here!
REAGAN!
You're asleep! Wake up!
The country's in a mess!
You're history anyway, buddy --
You're meat -- you're trough!
You're vapor -- you're baloney without the mayo!
^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Yes, mayonnaise.
You're outta here, buddy --
In fact, it's Robin Leach!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Robin Leach is the host of the TV show Lives of the Rich and Famous.
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Nothing bad, he's just an annoying celebrity with a very recognizable voice
# that's easy to imitate/parody.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Ike has (intentionally or otherwise) slipped into an impersonation of Robin
# Leach's voice.
Hey, fellas -- take me to the bridge!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Classic James Brown call to his band.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# A standard request by the singer/speaker for the band to play the bridge
# of the song.
I want it now!
Why Don't You Like Me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I hate my mother
I hate my father
I hate my sister
And Germaine is a negro!
A NEGRO! A NEGRO!
A NEGRO! A NEGRO!
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Just a song about Michael Jackson. Hope you're not related to him in
# any particular way :-)
Bacon Fat
~~~~~~~~~
While I was down in W.D.C.
Certain folks were not glad to see me
I just tried to get out the vote
But some little weasel must 'a dropped 'em a note
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# A weasel is a type of animal, a rodent with sharp teeth. Calling someone
# a weasel is like calling someone a rat, and you mean that they might not
# be trustworthy; like a used car salesman.
It said:
"Check out the politics
Practiced by this oaf
And if they ain't just right
Feed him Confinement Loaf."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# See Any Kind of Pain comments
Stolen Moments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trumpet solo by Walt Fowler
# From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# ["Stolen Moments"] is an Oliver Nelson tune, one of ten or twelve FZ picked
# out on a Castaway's Choice radio program first broadcast in 1988 on NPR.
# Frank cited it as one of the few jazz tunes that had appeal for him over the
# years. It has a nice trumpet solo.
#
# From: Michael Bell <MB...@mail.utexas.edu>
# Stolen Moments is pretty much a jazz standard. I am sure its been recorded
# dozens of times. I used to play it in my high school jazz band.
#
# From: gdne...@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (gregory david newton)
# I don't know if it's the _original_ version but you'll find it along with
# five other great Nelson tunes on "Blues and the Abstract Truth" on MCA
# Impulse. The album was originally released in the early 1960s; it features
# a great band that included Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, and Bill Evans among
# others. I have it on CD from '86 (mediocre remastering job is a bit
# disappointing). It should be fairly easy to find at any music emporium
# with a decent or better jazz selection.
#
# From: mad...@birkhoff.math.nwu.edu (Kevin M. Madigan)
# There is an album by Eddie Lockjaw Davis titled Stolen Moments, which has
# an excellent cover of the title track, featuring, among others, Eric Dolphy.
Murder By Numbers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Performance by Sting
# From: Pat Buzby <spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu>
# This was the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, March 3, 1988. Just in case
# there are any severe Stingheads reading.
#
# From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# Oh yes, and Mr. Sting does step up to the microphone for "Murder by
# Numbers" saying he wrote that tune, not Beelzebub.
Jezebel Boy
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sometimes that nasty D.A.
^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# District Attorney
Another day,
Another sausage --
Jezebel Boy
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# "Jezebel - n. shameless or profiligate woman; woman who puts garish colour
# on her face. [ ~, wife of Ahab (1 Kgs. 16, 19, 21)]"
# The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English
Outside Now
~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# See Joe's Garage Notes & Comments. Yet to be compiled :-)
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Republicans is fine,
If you're a multi-millionaire
Democrats is fair,
If all you own is what you wear
# See comments to Dickie's Such An Asshole and Rhymin' Man
Pass me the dog food.
What Kind Of Girl?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What's a girl like you
Doin' in a Motel like this?
"I left my place after midnight,
When I first got the call...
The escort service I work for
Said you wanted it ALL!"
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su>
# Fillmore East, June 1971.
# What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# What's a girl like this
# Doin' in a place like this?
#
# I left my place after midnight
# And I came to this hall
# Me and my girlfrien, we came here
# Lookin' to ball
# And so on...
This unfortunate little vixen wouldn't let just ANYBODY
Spoo all over her lap --
# From: Vladimir Sovetov <so...@kpbank.kemerovo.su:->>>
# Aber bekleer nicht das Sofa, Sofa?-))) Don't get no jizz upon that sofa,
# sofa?-)))))))))))
#
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Same idea. Perhaps a reference to Swag's claim that he just put the tip
# in. He may have pulled out to spoo in her lap. One of the '88 shows had
# excessive "secret wordism" surrounding the phrase "just the tip"
# Was it in Best Bend you never heard? I forget - in any case there was
# "Lonesome Cowboy Jim" You only get the tip of him" or something close.
#
# from _The Real FZ book_
# ... Ike had used the word 'spoo' - roughly the equivalent of jizz - in a
# conversation. I don't know where it came from, or if he made it up.
# p.170 ( Poseidon Press, 1989 )
She wants an ignorant Cracker TV Evangelist
Who's reciting all that crapp...
# From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
# Jimmy Swaggart is an American televangelist, one of those yutzes who
# claims to be saving your soul as he picks your pocket. He was caught
# with his pants down, fondling himself, in a cheap hotel, with a cheap
# hooker.
# I saw FZ in Boston the night that all this was exposed (so to speak).
# Frank couldn't have been happier. At the show after the Boston one, in
# Providence, he started doing a *lot* of Swaggart related material, twisting
# the World Famous Beatles Medley into a Swaggart lampoon.
# Some of this stuff ended up on "The Best Band You Never Heard".
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's an ugly little weasel 'bout three-foot nine
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# See comments to Bacon Fat
Face puffed up from cryin' 'n lyin'
'Cause her sweet little hubby's
Suckin' prong part time
(In the name of The Lord)
Did he really choose Tammy to do His Work?
^^^^^
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# Tammy is the wife of Jim Bakker (sp?) a television evangelist, who went
# to jail for embezzling church members' funds. Tammy was famous for
# wearing this really horrible mascara.
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# Jimmy Bakker's wife, Tammy Faye Bakker.
Robertson says that he's The One
Oh sure he is,
Now, what if Jimbo's slightly gay,
^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Jimbo is Jim Bakker. A classic deep south nickname.
Perhaps it's their idea
Of an Affirmative Action Plan
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# ...A liberal government scheme to tip the balance back in order to give
# minorities and the underpriviliged a fair chance. It manifests itself in
# terms of quotas where a company or school would be forced to hire/admit a
# percentage of certain groups. They are controversial, they don't work and
# often result in qualified applicants being rejected in favor of
# underqualified ones.
To give White Trash a 'special break';
^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, they took those Jeezo-bucks and ran
# From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# This is the tie in. It's their affirmative action for "White Trash" (a
# racist term), who tend to really get the short end of any real "Affirmative
# Action Plans", which assume that simply because you are white you are
# privileged, which is certainly not the case.
Conviced they are 'The Chosen Ones' --
And all their parents carry guns,
And hold them cards in the N.R.A.
^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# National Rifle Association. They are the most vocal opponents of any
# proposed gun control legislation.
(With their fingers on the triggers
When they kneel and pray)
Imagine if you will
Claims to be a MAN OF GOD;
Currenty seeking the United States Presidency,
Hoping we will all follow him into --
The Twilight Zone
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Mr_Gi...@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# The Twilight Zone was a famous TV show during the 1960's which dwelt on
# supernatural events. It was remade with new episodes several years later.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich <cul...@pomona.edu>
# Another old TV show (CBS, 1959-1964). It's the mysterious place (between
# sleep and waking? between reality and illusion?) where spooky and horrible
# things happen. You wouldn't want to go there.
#
# From: ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# A great TV show made in the 1950's and 1960's. It was science fiction
# of a sort, and each episode (30 minutes) featured a completely different
# story; there were no repeating characters. The stories were always
# about something strange and inexplicable that not happen on our planet,
# except in... the Twilight Zone.
______________________________________________________________
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part14
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This document is meant to provide information about other artists and
projects that Zappa had worked with, with an emphasis on the
Bizarre/Straight label releases. This is NOT a document or discography
for solo projects that Zappa personnel have worked on, (e.g. King
Crimson, Whitesnake, Missing Persons, etc.). As a general rule, if
Frank played, produced, or wrote the music, then it's fair game.
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(from All_Music Guide's gopher server)
Jeff Simmons
Album : Lucille Has Messed up My Mind
Artist : Jeff Simmons
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1970 (release)
AMG ID : R000049386
--------- Album Releases ---------
1969 LP Reprise 6391
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
John Kehlior - Drums
Jeff Simmons - k/g/v
Craig Tarwater - Guitar
Ian Underwood - Sax
Ron Woods - Drums, Percussion
Frank Zappa - Guitar
Album : Naked Angels Soundtrack
Artist : Jeff Simmons
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1971 (release)
AMG ID : R000049385
--------- Album Releases ---------
1969 LP Straight 1056
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Jeff Simmons - k/g/v
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Wild Man Fischer
All-Music Guide Biography
A mentally disturbed street singer discovered by Frank Zappa. He
recorded a double album for Zappa's Bizarre label, some of it with
Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, the rest of it solo, giving full
vent to nonmetrical original material. He recorded again for the
Rhino label in 1977. An acquired taste to be sure, Fischer may
surface again. ~ Cub Koda
---------- Related Artists -----------
Zappa, Frank
Birthdate & Place : 1945 Los Angeles, CA
AMG Artist ID # : P000004253
Chronological Album List |Date| Label | Number |R S T|Rating
--------------------------------+----+----------+--------+-----+------
Nothing Scary |1984|Rhino |022 |R | OK
Pronounced Normal |1981|Rhino |021 | S |
Wildmania |1978|Rhino |001 | S |
Evening with Wild Man Fischer, |1968|Bizarre |6332 |R S T|+ Good
All-Music Guide Album Details (Alphabetical Order)
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Evening with Wild Man Fischer, An
Artist : Wild Man Fischer
Rating : Good (First Pick)
Genre : Rock
Date : 1968 (release)
AMG ID : R000007265
--------- Album Releases ---------
1970 LP Bizarre 6332
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
Fischer (aka Larry) proves to be the epitome of the bizarre. Includes
the classics "Merry-Go-Round" and "The Taster." For those who lust for
the unique. ~ David Szatmary
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Rodney Bingenheimer
Larry Fischer - Vocal
Kim Fowley
G T O's
Artie Tripp - Percussion
Frank Zappa - Percussion
-------- Album Tracks --------
Merry Go Round
New Kind Of Songs For Sale
I'm Not Shy Anymore
Are You From Clovis
Madness Of Ecstacy, The
Which Way Did The Freaks Go
I'm Working For The F B N
Leaves Are Falling, The
85 Times
Cops & Robbers
Monkeys Verses Donkeys
Start Life Over Again
Mope, The
Life Brand New
Who Did It Johnny
Think Of Me When Your Clothes
Taggy Lee
Rhonda
I Looked Around You
Jennifer Jones
Taster, The
Story Of The Taster
Rocket Rock, The
Explanation & Dialog
Dream Girl
Explanation
Serrano Beach
Success Will Not Make Me Happy
Wild Man On The Strip Again
Why Am I Normal
Wild Man Fischer Story
Balling Isn't Everything
Ugly Beautiful Girl
Larry & His Guitar
Circle
Larry Under Pressure
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Nothing Scary
Artist : Wild Man Fischer
Rating : OK
Genre : Rock
Date : 1984 (release)
AMG ID : R000007266
--------- Album Releases ---------
LP Rhino RNLP-022
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
Fischer's most recent effort shows he hasn't changed. ~ David Szatmary
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Pronounced Normal
Artist : Wild Man Fischer
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1981 (release)
AMG ID : R000037577
--------- Album Releases ---------
LP Rhino RNLP-021
1981 LP Rhino 021
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Larry Fischer - Vocal
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Wildmania
Artist : Wild Man Fischer
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1978 (release)
AMG ID : R000037576
--------- Album Releases ---------
LP Rhino RNLP-001
1977 LP Rhino 001
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Don Buchanan - Guitar
Stuart Deal - Bass
Larry Fischer - Vocal
Leonard Samartino - Guitar, Vocal
Sandra Samartino - Vocal
Joe Stoddard - Drums
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GTO's
The GTO's were a "groupie group" made up of young women familiar to
musicians in the Los Angeles area. Most prominent among them was Miss
Pamela who, as Pamela Des Barres, wrote the kiss-and-tell memoir I'M
WITH THE BAND. ~ William Ruhlmann
---------- Related Artists -----------
Zappa, Frank
De Bras, Pamela
---------- Roots & Influences ----------
Zappa, Frank
AMG Artist ID # : P000004411
Chronological Album List |Date| Label | Number |R S T|Rating
--------------------------------+----+----------+--------+-----+------
Permanent Damage |1969|Straight |1059 | S T| OK
Permanent Damage |1969|Bizarre |73397 |R | BestA
All-Music Guide Album Details (Alphabetical Order)
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Permanent Damage
Artist : The G.T.O.'s
Rating : Best-of-Artist
Genre : Rock
Time : 24:01 min
Date : 1969 (release)
AMG ID : R000008714 (album inprint)
--------- Album Releases ---------
CD Bizarre R2-73397
CS Bizarre R4-73397
1970 LP Reprise RS-6390
CD Bizarre 70354
1969 LP Straight 1059
CD Rhino 70354
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
G.T.O.'s (Girls Together Outrageously) Zany, off-the-wall release by
a group featuring the notorious Pamela Des Barres. Includes "I'm in
Love with the Ooo-Ooo Man," "Miss Pamela and Miss Sparky Discuss
Stuffed Bras and Some of Their Early Gym Class Experiences," and other
oddities. Produced by Frank Zappa. ~ Roundup Newsletter
Frank Zappa produced this combination of light pop songs and involved
discussions of the ups and downs of groupie life. It's a sort of
musical comedy documentary on record and, without doubt, unique. ~
William Ruhlmann
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Permanent Damage
Artist : Girls Together Outrageously
Rating : OK
Genre : Rock
Date : 1969 (release)
AMG ID : R000038946
--------- Album Releases ---------
1969 LP Straight 1059
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Jeff Beck - Guitar
Jimmy Carl Black - Drums
Craig Doerge - Keyboards
Roy Estrada - Bass
Nicky Hopkins - Keyboards
Miss Christine - Vocal
Miss Cinderella - Vocal
Miss Mercy - Vocal
Miss Pamela - Vocal
Miss Sandra - Vocal
Don Preston - Synthesizer
Rod Stewart - Vocal
Ian Underwood - Keyboards
Frank Zappa - Tambourine
-------- Album Tracks --------
Eureka Springs Garbage Lady
Stuffed Bras
Who's Jim Sox?
Kansas & The B T O's
Captains Fat Theresa Shoes
Wouldn't It Be Sad
Do Me In Once & I'll Be Sad
Moche Monster Review
T V Lives
Rodney
I Have A Paintbrush
Dialogue
Orginal G T O's, The
Ghost Chained To The Past
Love On A Eleven Year Old
Dialogue
I'm In Love With The 000 Man
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Album : King Kong - Ponty Plays Zappa
Artist : Jean Luc Ponty
Rating : Good
Charts : Down Beat #5
Genre : Jazz
Date : Mar 14, 1969-15 (recording)
AMG ID : R000145730
--------- Album Releases ---------
World Pacific ST 20172
World Pacific 20172
Pacific Jazz ST-20172
1969 Pacific Jazz ST 20172
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
George Duke - Piano
Gene Estes - Vibraphone, Percussion
Buell Neidlinger - Bass
Jean Luc Ponty - Violin
Artie Tripp - Drums
Ian Underwood - Sax (tenor)
Gerald Wilson - Conductor
Frank Zappa - Arranger, Conductor
~~From: Martin Bellenberg
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JEAN-LUC PONTY: KING KONG (1 LP)
===========================================================================
Side 1:
1 King Kong (4:54)
2 Idiot Bastard Son (4:00)
3 Twenty Small Cigars (5:35)
4 How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That (7:14)
Side 2:
1 Music for Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra (19:20)
2 America Drinks And Goes Home (2:39)
Composed and arranged by FZ (except 1.4 composed by Jean-Luc Ponty)
Produced by Richard Bock
personnel:
on 1.1
JLP -- Electric Violin & Baritone Violectra
George Duke -- Electric Piano
Gene Estes -- Vibes & Percussion
Buell Neidlinger -- Bass
Arthur D. Tripp, III -- Drums
Ian Underwood -- Tenor Sax
on 1.2, 1.3, 2.2
JLP -- Electric Violin & Baritone Violectra
George Duke -- Electric Piano
Wilton Felder -- Fender Bass
John Guerin -- Drums
Ernie Watts -- Alto & Tenor Sax
on 1.4
JLP -- Electric Violin
FZ -- Guitar
George Duke -- Electric Piano
Wilton Felder -- Fender Bass
John Guerin -- Drums
Ernie Watts -- Tenor Sax
on 2.1
Ian Underwood -- conductor
JLP -- Electric Violin
George Duke -- Piano & Electric Piano
Donald Christlieb -- Bassoon
Gene Cipriano -- Oboe & English Horn
Vincent DeRosa -- French Horn & Descant
Arthur Maebe -- French Horn & Tuben
Jonathan Meyer -- Flute
Harold Bemko -- Cello
Buell Neidlinger -- Bass
Milton Thomas -- Viola
Arthur D. Tripp, III -- Drums
P:1970 Liberty Records, London (UK) No. LBS 83375
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Flint
Artist : Flint
Genre : Rock
Style : Popular
AMG Artist ID # : P000017577
Chronological Album List |Date| Label | Number |R S T|Rating
--------------------------------+----+----------+--------+-----+------
Flint |1979|CBS |35574 | S |
All-Music Guide Album Details (Alphabetical Order)
----------------------- All-Music Guide Album ------------------------
Album : Flint
Artist : Flint
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1979 (release)
AMG ID : R000037768
--------- Album Releases ---------
1979 LP CBS 35574
1978 LP Columbia JC-35574
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Don Brewer - Drums, Vocal
Billy Elworthy - Guitar, Vocal
Craig Frost - Keyboards
Mel Schacher - b/g/v
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Captain Beefheart
------- AMG Album Reviews -------
Possibly the weirdest rock album ever. A beauty. ~ Dan Heilman
This stands as Captain Beefheart's undisputed masterpiece, a
triumphant display of naked genius. The Magic Band at the time was the
classic lineup: Zoot Horn Rollo (glass finger guitar), Antennae Jimmy
Semens (steel-appendage guitar), Beefheart (bass clarinet, tenor sax,
soprano sax, vocals), the Mascara Snake (bass clarinet, vocals), and
Rockette Morton (bass, narration). Contrary to many misinformed
critics' perceptions, the songs--far from being haphazard,
drug-induced free jams recorded in audio verite--were, in fact, just
the opposite. Beefheart, exerting a degree of control worthy of a
music conservatory tyrant, wrote out every note, every drum rhythm,
etc., and demanded that every piece be played back, strictly as
written, by the members of the Magic Band. Over 20 years later, this
album is still ahead of its time, exciting the auditory nerves of
adventurous listeners everywhere. ~ Randy Richardson, Roundup
Newsletter.
Originally released and produced by Frank Zappa as a double album on
his Bizarre/Straight label, TROUT MASK REPLICA is the definitive
Captain Beefheart album. To some, it is just plain weird, perhaps even
anti-music. To others, it is blues with a warp or rock & roll at the
absolute cutting edge. Deeply rooted in blues and jazz, the Captain
taught each member of the Magic Band their extremely complex
individual parts over the course of a year. Playful and challenging at
the same time, rhythmically kinetic, poetically beautiful, it is an
absolute masterpiece. ~ Rob Bowman
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Captain Beefheart - g/v/hrc
Mark Boston - Bass, Guitar
John French - Drums
Jerry Handley - Bass
Bill Harkleroad - Guitar
Mascara Snake - Clarinet
Douglas Moon - Guitar
Jim Semens - Guitar
-------- Album Tracks --------
Frownland
Dust Blows Forward, The
Dachau Blues
Ella Guru
Hair Pie
Bake
Moonlight In Vermont
Pachuco Cadaver
Bills Corpse
Sweet Sweet Bulbs
Neon Meate Dream Of Octafish
China Pig
My Human Gets Me Blues
Dali's Car
Hair Pie
Bake
Pena
Well
When Big Joan Sets Up
Fallin' Ditch
Sugar & Spikes
Ant Man Bee
Orange Claw Hammer
Wild Life
She's Too Much For My Mirror
Hobo Chang Ba
Blimb, The
Steal Softly Thru Snow
Old Fart At Play
Veteran's Day Poppy
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L. Shankar
Album : Touch Me There
Artist : Lakshiminaraya Shankar
Rating : not rated yet
Genre : Rock
Date : 1977 (approx.)
AMG ID : R000147257
--------- Album Releases ---------
CD Barking Pumpkin D2-74243
Zappa Srz-1-1602
1979 LP Zappa 1602
CD Barking Pumpkin D2-74243
------- Album Personnel/Sidemen -------
Vicky Blumenthal - Vocal
Jack Emblow - Accordian
James Lascelles - Keyboards
Jenny Lautrec - Vocal
Dave Marquee - Bass
Phil Palmer - Guitar
Simon Phillips - Drums
Lakshmi Shankar - Vocal
Frank Zappa - Vocal
~~From: rob...@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
The personnel listing for Shankar's album Touch Me There
failed to include Ike Willis who, along with FZ, did the
vocals on "Dead Girls of London".
============================================================================
~~From: j...@mozart.att.com (Jeff Rocca)
Ruben and the Jets "For Real"
Mercury (SRM 1-659) 1973
Produced by Frank Zappa
Business and Burritos by Herb Cohen
Album Design by Cal Schenkel
Personnel:
Ruben Guevara - vocals and tambourine
Tony Duran - lead and slide guitar, vocals
Robert "Frog" Camarena - rhythm guitar and vocals
Johnny Martinez - bass and vocals, organ and falsetto
Robert "Buffalo" Roberts - tenor sax
Bill Wild - bass, sings second tenor
Bob Zamora - drums
Jim Sherwood - baritone sax and tambourine
Side 1:
1. If I could only be your love again (*)
2. Dedicated to the one I love
3. Show me the way to your heart
4. Sparkie
5. Wedding Bells
Side 2:
1. Almost grown
2. Charlena
3. Mah Man Flash (+)
4. Santa Kari (+)
5. Spider Woman
6. All Nite Long
(*) written and arranged by Frank Zappa
(+) written by Ruben Guevara; arranged by Frank Zappa and Ruben Guevara
_________________________________________________________________
CHRONOLOGY OF ZAPPA LABELS
~From: "G.D. Pratt" and "Brian Rost" (ro...@aqua.enet.dec.com)
Partial Answer #6:-
In 1968, Frank Zappa started two labels. One was Bizarre, which was
distributed by Reprise, and the other was Straight which had
independent distribution. Some of the last few Zappa albums on Verve
also carried a Bizarre logo.
Bizarre was used only for Zappa/Mothers product, with five
exceptions: Sandy Hurvltz (later known as Essra Mohawk; one album on
Verve/Bizarre), Wild Man Fischer (first LP was on Bizarre), Lord
Buckley and Lenny Bruce (one LP each on Bizarre/Reprise) and the
sampler ``Zapped''.
Straight was used for all other artists: Beefheart, Tim Buckley,
Alice Cooper, Jeff Simmons, etc. Around 1970, Straight ran into
money troubles due to being unable to get product into stores as an
indie and Warners/Reprise offered to take over distribution.
Starting with albums like Cooper's ``Easy Action'' and Beefheart's
``Lick My Decals'', they appeared with either a Straight/Warners or
Straight/Reprise logo. Cooper's ``Love It To Death'' arrived with a
Straight logo on the cover but a normal Warner Bros label on the LP.
Cooper, Beefheart and Buckley were the only artists left from the
label by '71, and they were turned over to the mother labels.
Warners continued to use the pink Straight labels on the records
themselves and the black liner sleeve for awhile, but by the mid
'70s, the few albums still in print (notably ``Trout Mask
Replica''), had been given regular Warners/Reprise stock numbers,
labels and sleeves. In 1973, both labels were shut down and Zappa
started the Warner-distributed DiscReet.
About five years ago, Enigma bought rights to the Straight catalog,
and began CD reissues. That's why the first two Coopers and ``Lick
My Decals'' are on Enigma while the remainder of the Cooper and
Beefheart catalogs are still on Warners.
_________________________________________________________________
Lenny Bruce
~From: line...@delphi.com
According to the liner notes on "Zapped" Lenny Bruce had one album
entitled "The Berkley Concert" released on the Bizarre/Straight
label, so apparently Frank got the chance to repay the influence.
-LINETRAMP-
_________________________________________________________________
Lord Buckley
~From: david...@canrem.com (David Scurr)
I have a copy of the Lord Buckley cd "a most immaculately hip
aristocrat", also on the Straight label. I'll send along some
information for you presently.
_________________________________________________________________
Tom Waits
~From: dunc...@ix.wcc.govt.nz:
I ran across a couple of Tom Waits CDs a while ago called "The Early
Years" volumes 1 & 2. They seemed to be re-releases of old stuff,
but the dates on them are earlier than anything in any Tom Waits
discographies I'd seen.
They were both on the Bizarre label (which is why I'm posting this
here) so I was wondering, did Frank sign Waits to Bizarre, have him
record some stuff, and then never release it, or what?
~From: spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Pat Buzby):
I can't answer the whole question, but it's possible that Waits may
have been signed to Bizarre by Herb Cohen, rather than Zappa. A few
of the Straight/Bizarre artists, like Tim Buckley, were people with
no FZ connection who happened to be among Cohen's clients. Wonder
what FZ thought of Buckley's music...
~From: mal...@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes):
Yup, Herb signed the young Waits before he had any other releases
and he toured opening for Zappa & the Mothers, back around 1971, I
think. I thought the Early Years sessions might have been related
but didn't realize they were on Bizzare. I don't think any of the
material was released at the time and it just got shelved until the
cd release a year or two ago. I think Waits wouldv'e been around
18-19 at the time...
_________________________________________________________________
Tim Buckley
~From: ep...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Roche):
The late Tim Buckley was apparently managed by Herb Cohen at some
point (source: Society Pages). The one time I saw him perform was
when he opened for FZ's Grand Wazoo band at NYC's Felt Forum in the
early 70s.
There are also some connections in the liner notes of Buckley lps:
'Lorca' (1970)
Executive Producer - Herb Cohen
Engineer/Producer - Dick Kunc
'Star Sailor' (1970)
Executive Producer - Herb Cohen
trumpet, flugelhorn - Buzz Gardner
alto flute, tenor sax - Bunk Gardner.
I'm not sure, but I think Buckley's last LP 'Sinfonia' was released
on FZ's Discreet label.
_________________________________________________________________
~From: jjg...@crl.com (John Gluck)
Ken Walter (k...@clarisii.claris.com) wrote:
: Does anyone have the Jefferson Airplane box set, called something like
: "Jefferson Airplane Love You"?
Yes.
: I don't own a copy, and don't really want to.
It's really good!
but on the box
: I noticed a previously unreleased track on it from the late sixties
: titled "Would You Like a Snack?" I believe the composer credits are
: Slick and Zappa. There is also a track on _200 Motels_ of course,
: with the same name, with Zappa credited as sole composer.
: I was wondering if anyone has heard this track and also if Zappa
: was involved as more than composer. I read somewhere that he was
: originally supposed to produce some Airplane album, maybe this is
: all that survived.
Here's all the info from the pamphlet.
Would You Like A Snack
Frank Zappa/Grace Slick
Produced by Al Schmitt
Engineered by Mark Linett & Pat Ierci
Recorded June 5, 1968 at RCA Studios, Hollywood, CA (Incidentally,
the Airplane were in the middle of recording tracks for _Crown of
Creation_ at this time, in this studio, with the same producer
(different engineer) WPA3-0864, 61110-2/4 Frank Zappa Music, Co,
Inc. (BMI) The staff was
Grace Slick: Vocals, keyboard
Frank Zappa: Leader
Arthur Tripp III: Drums, Percussion
Ian Underwood: Piano, woodwinds
Donald Preston: Keyboards
and a xylophone by either Art Tripp or Ruth Komanoff
This is one of those songs that's difficult to replicate exactly,
but I think it is the same song that is on _200 Motels_ now that you
mention it. I don't own _200 Motels_ anymore (what a shame), so I
can't confirm it
Robbert Heederik
Archive-name: zappa-faq/part15
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This is a FAQ about the 1988 tour. It includes four parts:
NOTES
FREQUENCY OF SONGS PLAYED
SONGS LEARNED
SET LISTS
Hope this helps. and of course, corrections and/or additions will be gladly
accepted.
NOTES
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Note 1
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>Here's a question that I don't think I've ever seen an answer to, but
>maybe I just missed it. Did the '88 band ever play the "Beatles Medley"
>without the Swaggart lyrics?
No. Those songs were all Swaggart-as-written
There are versions of both Norwegian Wood and Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds with normal Beatles lyrics and which are played independently
(no medley here). My tape is labelled The Royal Oak Theatre, Detroit,
Michigan Feb. 27, 1988, but I couldn't tell you if that's correct.
I wasn't there.
There are Swaggart versions of songs on TBBYNHIYL that were performed
"straight" at many of the shows. I prefer the non-swag '88 version
of Torture Never Stops/Lonesome Cowboy Burt.
Another '88 obscurity: TBBYNHIYL has a version of Heavy Duty Judy
that is a nice instrumental, however there is a version from one of
the US shows where Frank reads Ed Meese transcripts. Presumably from
his trial/indictment/hearing or whatever. The Version dubbed "Heavy
Duty Ed Meese" is really good and I'm surprised Frank didn't release
that one.
---------------
Note 2
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>>I never heard of "It Ain't Necessarily So"
>It is the Gershwin tune from "Porgy And Bess," combined with the
>blues standard "St. James Infirmiary" to make "It Ain't Necessarily The St. James
>Infirmiary", the last track on the CD. That performance was from '82,
>though - interesting to see that this survived in FZ's repertoire.
Allow me to elaborate:
The '88 band performed It Ain't Necessarily So at the Feb 10th, Warner
Theater, Washington D.C., early show, with NPR's Daniel Shore singing
lead! The band also played a little bit of Oh Danny Boy as Mr. Shore
made his way onto the stage. Following this, they played
a small portion of Summertime, followed by the Royal March From Aida.
A truly unique concert.
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Note 3:
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>> Has anybody transcribed the Beatles medley that Frank and band
>> did at some shows during the 1988 tour?
>I think I've got them around here somewhere. I'll go look now!
Couldn't find it. Had to do it over. (disk/drive problems lately)
>From the Rochester War Memorial, Rochester, NY, March 11, 1988.
[The Texas Motel Medley]
Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jim... once had a girl, or should we say, she once had he.
She... showed him her room, isn't it swell, Texas Motel.
She asked him to stay and she told him to sit anywhere.
So Jim looked around and he noticed there wasn't a prayer.
Jim... took off his rug, biding his time, pounding his pud.
He... prayed until two, and then she said, "How 'bout some head?"
She said she was booked in the morning with Falwell and Pat.
Jim told her he wasn't, and dribbled some spoo in her lap.
And... when he awoke, he was alone, she'd honed his cone.
So... he let her fly, isn't it swell, Texas Motel
But then, suddenly...
Louisiana Hooker with Herpes (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Picture yourself with a whore in New Orleans,
with big purple welts, all over her bod.
Somebody calls and you answer quite slowly.
It's the board from assembly, oh go
Ignorant crackers like you've never seen, groveling under your bed.
Look for the girl with the spoo in her lap, and she's gone!
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Owwww!
We saw her go down to a room by the airport,
where Jimmy gets off watching pornography.
Everyone smiles as we tread through his horseshit,
that grows so incredibly high.
Newspaper writers appear at his door, waiting to take Jim away.
He climbs in the back with his head up his ass, and he's gone!
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
[everybody!] Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Owwww!
Picture yourself on your own TV station,
with brain-dead supporters with tears in their eyes.
Suddenly someone is there at commercial,
the girl with the pee-hole surprise.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
[c'mon now!] Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Owwww! Ow!
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Owwww! Ow!
The Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's nothing to get hung about.
Please leave your cash on the table.
Weeping looks better with eyes closed...
While I'm confessing all my sins.
[Oh, please forgive me. Oh, I've sinned!]
It's getting hard to plook someone, but it all works out.
It's all pornography to Jim.
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
We might go to hell.
But we'll have lots of company.
Falwell and Pat and that weasel.
No one knows who's in my dream...
[Bud McFarlane, ladies & gentlemen]
I mean it must be high or low. (I think)
[freshly indicted] I mean, I can't you know, tune in, but it's all right.
[He can plea bargain this one]
That is, I think it's not too bad.
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's just some jizz from Jimmy-boy.
How 'bout some hay for the donkey?
No one knows, sometimes think it's me...
[Ed Meese, ladies & gentlemen] But you know, I know when it's a dream.
[I think]
I think I know, I mean, I guess, but it's all wrong.
[Wait a minute, that's right]
That is, I think I disagree. [Uhh...]
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's just some old pornography.
Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
[Jimmy-boy!] Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
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Note 4:
-----------
The accepted story as to why Ray White didn't tour with
FZ in 1988 is that they had started rehearsals when Ray had a phone
call that his house had been burgled. He went off to check it out
and didn't return. In the interim, enter Mike Keneally, who was told
that if Ray didn't re-appear, he could have the job in the tour band.
And the rest is history. Ray got in touch with Ike shortly after the
tour started. Better late than never, I guess.
Actually, in an interview with Frank, I read that the reason that Ray wasn't
in the group was because he was religious and took offense at some of
Zappa's music.
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Note 5a:
-------------
I heard a rumor that this medley was first performed in Detroit during
the 88 tour. Chicago was supposed to be the premiere of the Swaggart
lyrics. Try to find the Detroit tapes to confirm.
I was at the show at the Royal Oak Theatre in late February, 1988.
I do remember clearly the Beatles medley. I was just coming off my
stint as a Beatleologist at the time, so I was still intrigued by
how they approached it (I probably wouldn't be now).
I also remember that when they did "Promiscuous", Frank had said that
it was written two days before at a hotel (I seem to remember he said
Chicago). The song was new enough for Ike to be reading the lyrics
from what appeared to be a loose-leaf sheet of paper.
The other main thing I remember about that show was that it is
the last concert I've ever seen that had three encores. In fact,
the gap between encores two and three was long enough to empty out
at least half the crowd.
God, I miss him.
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Note 5b:
-------------
Yeah, me too. I had for some reason mostly ignored FZ through the first
half of the 80s, though I did go to a show at Saratoga in 1984. (I think)
Someone dressed as an I-don't-know-what came out on stage with a giant
sieve filled with white powder and was offering it to the band during
Cocaine Decisions.
Luckily, I regained my interest by 88, and managed to hit all of the Feb.
shows except Washington, Pittsburgh and Detroit. In March I did Rochester
NY on through Allentown, PA, and then Syracuse.
WOW that was fun!! <sigh>
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Note 6:
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TBD
FREQUENCY OF SONGS PLAYED
=========================
The following list is the song list from the '88 tour. The number indicates
the number of times that the song was performed. This information was
taken from a booklet that was attached to the CD, Broadway the Hard Way, that
I bought in Japan. It was noted that the frequency of songs may not
be completely accurate, since the set lists were lost from the performances
in Spain. The last column is the CD on which the song appears. There were some
songs in the CD that were not on the booklet. These are probably the
"spontaneously composed" songs like Yuppies, Star Wars, Fire and Chains, and
others known by different names like "F-Sharp", etc.
JN Make a Jazz Noise Here
BB The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
BW Broadway the Hard Way
S4 Stage 4
S6 Stage 6
Song Frequency Album
=================================================
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus 22
Advance Romance 11 JN
Ain't Got No Heart 18
Alien Orifice 12 JN
America The Beautiful 1
Andy 15 BB
Any Kind Of Pain 36 BW
Approximate 1
Bacon Fat 4 BW
Bamboozled By Love 11
Bartok Piano Concerto #3 ? JN
Big Swifty 11 JN
Black Napkins 10 JN
Black Page 30 JN
Bobby Brown 7
Bolero 15 BB
Catholic Girls 5 S6
Chana In The Bushwop 3
Chungas Revenge 1
City Of Tiny Lights 26 JN
Cosmic Debris 6 BB
Crew Slut 9 S6
Crusing For Burgers 6 JN
Dancin' Fool 4
Dangerous Kitchen 1
Dickie's Such An Asshole 18 BW
Disco Boy 9
Do You Like My New Car 1
Donau Waltzes 1
Dupree's Paradise 2 JN
Easy Meat 1
Eat That Question 9 JN
Elvis Has Just Left The Building 4 BW
Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque 3 BB
F-Sharp 1 (WDC-probably Yuppies/Fire & Chains)
Filthy Habits 2? S4
Find Her Finer 10 BB
Fire And Chains 1? JN
Florentine Pogen 10 BB
Godfather's Theme 1 BB
Harry, You're A Beast 20 JN
Heavy Duty Judy 9 BB
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 1 S6
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel 17 BW
I Am The Walrus 26
I Left My Heart In San Franscisco 21 BB
Illinois Enama Bandit 21
Inca Roads 25 BB
It Ain't Necessarily So 1
Jesus Thinks Your're A Jerk 37 BW
Jezebel Boy 1 BW
Joe's Garage 12
Johnny Darling 1
Keep It Greasy 5
King Kong 11 JN
Let's Make The Water Turn Black 20 JN
Let's Move To Cleveland 5 BB
Lonesome Cowboy Burt 22 BB,S6
Love Of My Life 16
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up 8
Make a Sex Noise 1? S6
Marquesons Chicken 2
Mary Lou/Utopia 1
Montana 17
More Trouble Every Day 13 BB
Mr. Green Genes 7 BB
Murder By Numbers 1 BW
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 9
No No Cherry 2
Oh No 20 JN
Orange County Lumber Truck 20 JN
Outside Now 5 BW
Packard Goose (Medley:Strav/Bartok) 28 JN
Panty Rap 1
Peaches And Regalia 19
Penguin In Bondage 15 BB
Pick Me I'm Clean 1
Planet Of The Baritone Women 20 BW
Promiscuous 1 BW
Purple Haze 1 BB
Return Of Ring Of Fire 1 BB?
Rhymin' Man 2 BW
Ring Of Fire 1 BB
Royal March From Aida 1
Royal March From LeHistore' DeSoldat 1 JN
Sharleena 12
Sinister Footwear 4 JN
Sofa 32 BB
Son Of Ring Of Fire 1 BB?
Stainless The Maiden 1
Stairway to Heaven 39 BB
Star Wars Don't Work 1 JN
Stevie's Spanking 1 JN
Stick Together 8
Stinkfoot 16 JN
Stolen Moments 5 BW
Strictly Genteel 10 JN
Summertime 1
Sunshine Of Your Love 1 BB
T'mershi Duween 1 JN
Take Me Out to the Ballgame 1? S4
Teenage Wind 9
Texas Motel Medley 24
The Closer You Are 3
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 4
The Torture Never Stops 22 BB
The Untouchables 7 BW
Theme From Bonanza ? BB
Theme From Lumpy Gravy 20 JN
Thirteen 1
Tinseltown Rebellion 2
Truck Driver Divorce 5
Uncle Remus 3
Walkuneritt 1
Watermelon In Easter Hay 8
We're Turning Again 13 S6
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are 1 BW
What's New In Baltimore 14
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 1 BB
When The Lie's So Big 33 BW
When Yuppies Go To Hell ? JN
Whippin' Post 15
Who Need The Peace Corps 21 BB
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 12
Why Don't You Like Me 9 BW
Willie The Pimp 9
Yo' Cats 2
You Are What You Is 1
Zomby Woof 3 BB
Zoot Allures 5 BB
SONGS LEARNED
=============
The following songs are those that the '88 band knew, but never
played in concert, so the booklet sez.
America Drinks
Billy The Mountain
Blue Light
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Brown Moses
Bwana Dik
Call Any Vegetable
Camarillo Brillo
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Chicago
Chump
Clowns On Velvet
Cocaine Decisions
Concentration Moon
Daddy, Daddy. Daddy
Deathless Horsie
Dinah Moe Hum
Divan
Do You Like My New Car?
Dog Breathe
Dumb All Over
Eddie Are You Kidding?
Goblin Girl
Green Rosetta
Heavenly Bank Account
How Can I Be Such A Fool
Hungry Freaks Daddy
Jones Crusher
Lemme Take You To The Beach
Magdalena
Magic Fingers
Mom & Dad
Monde
Ms. Pinky
Mud Shark
Mudd Club
No Not Now
Penis Dimension
Road Ladies
Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink
San Ber'dino
Status Back Baby
Take You're Clothes Off When You Dance
Teenage Prostitute
Tell Me You Love Me
The Air
The Evil Prince
The Idoit Bastard Son
Trying To Grow A Chin
Uncle Bernie's Farm
What's The Ugliest Part Of You're Body
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
Wino Man
Would You Go All The Way
You Didn't Try To Call Me
SET LISTS
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'88 Tour set list for February 8, 9, 10 (Washington D.C.)
2/8/88
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The Black Page No. 2
Dickie's Such An Asshole
When the Lie's So Big
Planet of the Baritone Woman
Any Kind of Pain
Jesus Think's You're a Jerk
Sofa
City of Tiny Lights
A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
Cosmik Debris
intermission
Who Needs the Peace Corps?
We're Turning Again
The Torture Never Stops / Lonesome Cowboy Burt
King Kong
Stairway to Heaven
Packard Goose / Stravinsky-Royal March & Bartok
I am the Walrus
Strictly Genteel
The Illinois Enema Bandit
2/9/88
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Stink Foot
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
Dickie's Such an Asshole
When the Lie's So Big
Planet of the Baritone Woman
Any Kind of Pain
Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
Sofa
Florentine Pogen
Andy
Inca Roads
intermission
Black Napkins
Montana
City of Tiny Lights
A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
I Ain't Got No Heart
Love of My Life
Bamboozled by Love
Peaches En Regalia
Catholic Girls
Crew Slut
The Illinois Enema Bandit
2/10/88
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It Ain't Necessarily So
Royal March from Aida
Peaches En Regalia
Dickie's Such an Asshole
When the Lie's So Big
Planet of the Baritone Woman
Any Kind of Pain
Jesus Think's You're a Jerk
Sofa
Let's Make the Water Turn Black
Harry, You're a Beast (instrumental)
F-Sharp
Oh No
Son of Orange County
excerpt from Lumpy Gravy
intermission
Sinister Footwear
Bacon Fat
Stolen Moments
What's New in Baltimore
Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Trouble Every Day
Penquin in Bondage
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
Whipping Post
I Am the Walrus
Stairway to Heaven
Strictly Genteel
Date unknown
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My younger brother works for Mr. Thoroughgood and they happened
2B following Frank into some arena during that last tour and my brother
happened to find a list of the songs on tap for that night's dining and
dancing pleasure. I just thought about it with all the post about
that tour so I dug out the paper- obviously written in FZ handwriting
with all comments included.
1 Chunga*(Fuzz)
2 Packard
3 Andy* (Fuzz)
4 Inca* (D1)
5 Lucille
6 Swifty *(Fuzz/???looks like Jobys)
7 Penguin *(Fuzz)
8 Green Hotel* (Fuzz)
9 Lies
10 Jesus
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11 Judy * (Fuzz)
12 Find her finer
13 Orange County * (Fuzz)
14 Norwegian Wood
15 Lucy
16 Strawberry
17 Sofa
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18 Whippin' Post*(Fuzz)
19 Walrus
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20 Peaches * (D1)
21 Stairway * (Fuzz)
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22 America * (Fuzz)
There you have it from some stage somewhere a night of Frank. Most of the
songs are obvious to true Frankophiles, my only question is what song America
is? My guess would be America Drinks and Goes Home. Anybody remember this
show and know what it was? I'm just glad my bro' checked out the paper he
found in the room.
5/17/88 Barcelona Spain
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Frank speaking spanish
Black Page
Packard Goose
Sharleena
Bambozled BY Love
Black Napkins
When The Lies So Big
Planet Baritone Women
-commercial
Any Kind of Pain (first minute or so is cut)
Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
Sofa #1
Find Her Finder
Big Swifty
Aint Got No Art
Love of my Life
Torture Never Stops prt 1
Lonesome Cowboy Burt
Torture Never Stops prt 2
-encore
Bolero
Watermellon in Easterhay
Whipping Post
I am the Walrus
Illinois Enema Bandit
FZ takes solos on: Sharleena, Bambooxled, Blk Napkins
Big Swifty, Torture, Watermellow, Illinois
Dennis Driscoll
RH>I believed what she said
RH>Took me for a sucker, boy
RH>All corn-fed
RH>^^^^^^^^
RH># From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
RH># Corn-fed basically means "fat". Refers to pigs and cows who are fattened
RH># for the kill on corn, but often used in reference to people.
RH>#
RH># From: j...@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
RH># In terms of pigs and cattle, corn-fed indicates that they weren't fattene
RH># for slaughter with just any old feed, but with corn. It's more expensive,
RH># but you get a fatter, tastier pig. As a slang term, it indicates someone
RH># who's fat, dumb and happy.
Corn fed, as far as I know, just means from the Mid-West, the corn belt.
RH>She took George's watch
RH>Like they always do
RH>(It was a Timex, too!)
RH>^^^^^
RH># From: j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
RH># They were very popular at that time.
RH>#
RH># From: fn...@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
RH># They were semi-valuable when they first came out.
They were always cheap watches, and know for being cheap. I got robbed
of one on the subway once, as the train was pulling out I stuck my head
up to the window and yelled to the robber, "It's a Timex,asshole!" , I
saw him look at it and then throw it on the ground, it wasn't even worth
stealing!
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