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Frank Zappa - (1968-04-20) - Fillmore East, NYC, NY Late Show

2011-11-21T17:33:00.001-02:00

Filmore East - Rapidshare
Filmore East - Deposit Files

Frank Zappa
Fillmore East, NYC, NY Late show
April 20th 1968

available tapes according FZshows:
20-Apr 1968, Fillmore East, NYC, NY
Late show: 90 min, Aud, C+
Jam (incl Blue Moon, I'm In The Mood For Love, q: Rite Of Spring), Absolutely Free, Duke Of Prunes, jam, You Didn't Try To Call Me, Petroushka, Bristol Stomp, Baby Love, Big Leg Emma, Mellow Lounge Music (including Easter Parade), Hungry Freaks Daddy, King Kong, Hawaiian Music (including Hawaiian Eye), Shotgun (q: Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More), Holiday In Berlin, Cruising For Burgers (q: Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More)

This copy: 78.08 min, Aud, C+
Source: audience unknown lineage

== The Mothers Of Invention Dec 1967 - Nov 1968 ==
FZ, Ray Collins (quit before the European tour in September), Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Arthur Dyer Tripp III, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood.

Set list:

01 Tuning [2:29]
02 Jam (incl.Blue Moon, I'm In The Mood For Love, q: Rite Of Spring) [5:02]
03 Absolutely Free [0:50]
04 Duke Of Prunes [1:07]
05 Amnesia Vivace [3:57]
06 Jam - contd. [14:24]
07 You Didn't Try To Call Me [2:35]
08 Petroushka [0:44]
09 Bristol Stomp [0:36]
10 Baby Love [0:56]
11 Big Leg Emma [2:22]
12 Mellow Lounge Music (including Easter Parade) [4:09]
13 Hungry Freaks Daddy [4:05]
14 King Kong [17:48]
15 Hawaiian Music (including Hawaiian Eye) [4:47]
16 Shotgun (q: Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More) [1:28]
17 Holiday In Berlin [7:45]
18 Cruising For Burgers (q: Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More) [3:04]

Frank Zappa - (1981.10.30) - Palladium, New York, NY

2011-11-20T18:06:00.000-02:00

Palladium

FromFZ Shows:
1981 10 30 - Palladium, New York, NY

119:03 Aud, (average B+, but some A- parts and some B parts)
> The B parts are in beginings of sides, all 3 sides beginings get a lower sound but slowly became better
(there is overlapp parts between sides, so the lower sound parts arrived during songs
-->14 Sinister Footwear
-->24 Joe's Garage

FZ, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin.
Special Guest: Artis The Spoonman

Set list:

01 Intro-Band Installation
02 Treacherous Cretins
03 Introduction
04 Montana
05 Easy Meat
06 Society Pages
07 I'm A Beautiful Guy
08 Beauty Knows No Pain
09 Charlie's Enormous Mouth
10 Fine Girl
11 Teenage Wind
12 Harder Than Your Husband (Fzmoi69 version from 0:03 to 0:10)
13 Bamboozled By Love
14 Sinister Footwear (s1-s2 pasting at 3:02, lower sound after pasting)
15 Stevie's Spanking
16 Cocaine Decisions
17 Nig Biz
18 Doreen (Fzmoi69 version from 0:01 to 0:22)
19 Goblin Girl
20 The Black Page
21 Tryin' To Grow A Chin
22 Strictly Genteel
23 Crow Noise-Preamble (a cut with fades at 7sec, present in tape)
24 Joe's Garage (s2-s3 pasting at 1:57, lower sound after pasting)
25 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
26 Crow Noise-Preamble (Fzmoi69 version from 0:02 to 0:28)
27 Spoonman Whips It Out*
28 Whipping Post
29 Crow Noise-Preamble (a cut at 0:05)
30 Cosmik Debris
31 Watermelon In Easter Hay

Frank Zappa - (1987 12 23) - Los Angeles, CA Rehearsal

2011-11-19T12:54:00.000-02:00

Disc 1 | Disc 2

1987 12 23 Los Angeles, CA Rehearsal Without F.Z. SBD 1st 92.27 (db-pbuzby)

Disc 1

01 Jezebel Boy
02 When The Lie's So Big (-> Planet Of The Baritone Women)
03 What's New In Baltimore
04 Moggio
05 I Ain't Got No Heart
06 Heavy Duty Judy
07 Filthy Habits
08 Pound For A Brown
09 Disco Boy (-> Pound For A Brown)
10 Big Swifty
11 Who Needs The Peace Corps (-> I Left My Heart In San Francisco)
12 Let's Move To Cleveland
13 Dancin' Fool
14 RDNZL
15 Strictly Genteel (cut near end)

Disc 2

01 Andy
02 Inca Roads
03 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
04 Stick Together
05 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
06 Willie The Pimp
07 Montana
08 Easy Meat
09 Peaches En Regalia
10 Sofa
11 Black Napkins
12 Black Page #2

Frank Zappa - (1979-03-19) Parc du Penfield, Brest - France

2011-11-18T23:11:00.001-02:00

Disc 1 | Disc 2

Frank Zappa
19-Mar 1979, Parc du Penfield, Brest, France

102 min, SBD, A-

Disc 1

Persona Non Grata (q: Mystery Rehearsal Piece) ,
Dead Girls Of London (interrupted),
Ain't Got No Heart,
Brown Shoes Don't Make It,
Cosmik Debris,
Tryin' To Grow A Chin,
City Of Tiny Lights/Filthy Habits,
Dancin' Fool,

Disc 2

Easy Meat,
Jumbo Go Away,
Andy, Inca Roads,
Florentine Pogen,
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?,
Peaches En Regalia,
Montana,
Dirty Love

Frank Zappa - (1979-02-12) - UMIMOI Live at Apollo Theater - Manchester, UK

2011-09-12T00:29:00.000-03:00

UMIMOI Disc 1

UMIMOI Disc 2

Frank Zappa - United Mothers In Manchester Of Invention

Live at Apollo Theater - Manchester, UK 12. February 1979

Disc 1

01 Intro
02 Persona Non Grata 1
03 Persona Non Grata 2
04 Dead Girls Of London
05 Ain't Got No Heart
06 Brown Shoes Don't Make It
07 Cosmik Debris
08 Tryin' To Grow A Chin
09 City Of Tiny Lights
10 Dancin' Fool
11 Easy Meat
12 Jumbo Go Away
13 Andy
14 Inca Roads
15 Florentin Pogen
16 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
17 Keep It Greasey

Disc 2

18 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
19 For The Young Sophisticate
20 Wet T-Shirt Nite
21 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
22 Peaches En Regalia
23 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow / Nanook Rubs It / St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast / Father O'Blivion / Rollo --> fades out
24 Strictly Genteel
25 Montana
26 Pound For A Brown (incl. Mystery Rehearsal Piece) --> fades out
27 Black Napkins guitar solo (1975/76 tour)
28 Jam (Baltimore, 3-May 1975)
29 Yellow Snow Suite (Sydney 24-June 1973, with Father O'Blivion first)

Infos, taken from the cover:

Tracks 1/12 Disc: 1 and 1/9 Disc: 2 are recorded in Apollo Theatre, Manchester, England on 12. February 1979
Tracks 10/12 takes from 1976 unreleased Album "Impossible Album"

ZAPPA FAN TRUST 2005

STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION OF 600 COPIES
YOUR COPY NO: 392

Frank Zappa - (1977-12-31) Pauley Pavillion, University of Californa, Los Angeles, CA

2011-09-10T22:07:00.000-03:00

Pauley Pavillion Disc 1

Pauley Pavillion Disc 2

Wax Flags (2 LP / 2 CD)
Punky's Whips Shown on Stage (2 CD)
Martian Love Secrets (2 LP)

Pauley Pavillion, University of Californa, Los Angeles, 31-Dec-1977
Also issued on CD as Punky's Whips Shown on Stage (Tuff Bites TB 94.1004).
Re-issued as Martian Love Secrets (FZ 500) ("Martian Love Secrets" was the working title of the Sheik Yerbouti album).
Length: ~90 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: Ruthless Rhymes FZ500 / Raring Records Rarities

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann, Terry Bozio and Roy Estrada

1. Instrumental [mislisted as "Envelopes"]
2. Is This Guy Kidding or What? / I Have Been in You
3. Flakes [the last part only, listed as "Tom Snyder vs the Red Spiders from NBC]
4. Flakes [the last part continues] / Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
5. Wild Love (part 1) [listed as "Stinky Finger"]
6. Wild Love (part 2) [listed as "Fancy Stinky Part 1"]

7. Wild Love (part 3) [listed as "Fancy Stinky Part 2"]
8. Punky's Whips

9. "Stink-Foot" Solo
10. The Black Page #2
11. Jones Crusher [listed as "Deadly Jaws"]
12. Disco Boy
13. Dinah-Moe Humm
14. Bobby Brown

15. Conehead [different, instrumental version]
16. Camarillo Brillo
17. Muffin Man
18. San Ber'dino
19. Black Napkins
20. Auld Lang Syne

This show was around 3 hours long, so this is edited down. The sound is not too good, audience-recorded in a boomy hall, with some instruments not always audible, but the performance is good. The track list on the cover is not at all correct (the above is much better).

Track 1 is listed as "Envelopes" but is really a jam, probably a solo section from "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus".
Track 2 is "I Have Been in You" with an intro like the one on Stage #6, "Is This Guy Kidding or What".
Track 3 is just the end part, with Adrian Belew's e-bow solo.
Track 4 has 30 more seconds of "Flakes".
"Wild Love", including improvisations, is split up over three tracks, listed as "Stinky Finger" and "Fancy Stinky Parts 1-2". At 01:21 in track 6, a wild solo section ensues, with Tommy Mars and Peter Wolf doing keyboard improvisations. Then the first 01:57 of track 7 is Adrian Belew on guitar, 01:58-08:23 a "Yo' Mama" type Zappa solo, and the remaining 08:24-09:09 the last part of "Wild Love".
Track 15 is a different, instrumental "Conehead" (and may belong last on vinyl side 3 instead).
Some Wax Flags issues have a cheap black & white cover, others a deluxe tan & white (and there was a yellow vinyl run of 100 numbered copies). Punky's Whips Shown on Stage is packaged in a 4-way slick cardboard gatefold with a caricature of Zappa as Uncle Sam both on the cover and inside (differing in colour schemes), some tracking errors and vinyl surface noise at the beginning and end of each reproduced vinyl side. It is a German edition, passing it self off as Luxembourgian.

A variant cover of Wax Flags has been reported. It has a live picture of Zappa with a microphone, a picture of Zappa holding a picture of himself playing guitar while "shooting the finger". The vinyl is multi-coloured, and the label of one disc has a drawing of a gargoyle with two heads in front of a tombstone with "Verzyl" inscribed on it, while the other label has what "appears to be a Chinese-style drawing of a warrior with a spear and a sword attacking a serpent in front of a pyramid". (This cover and these labels don't list any tracks at all.)

A reader's account of Wax Flags:

I have a copy of Wax Flags from Germany. Two black-vinyl LPs. The label, which doesn't list the tracks, has an image from (or at least a rip-off from) an old National Lampoon cover, "Buy this magazine, or we'll shoot this dog": it's a photo of a dog with a gun to its head. The label identifies this as "An Original First Pressing"/"Made in Germany".

The two disks are in a single, plain white sleve. Inside is a folded, blue sheet with the track listings, personnel, etc., and a B&W (actually, it's printed in green ink) photo of Zappa aiming the fret-end of a guitar toward the camera. This "label" was apparently printed in Denmark.

Comment from http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/bootlegs/concert_boots1976-1980.html#waxflags

Frank Zappa - (1974-11-06) - Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pa

2011-09-08T19:07:00.000-03:00

Syria Mosque

Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pa.
November, 6, 1974

Part of a batch of tapes obtained from former Zappa road manager Dick Barber.

01 Tush Tush Tush
02 Stinkfoot
03 Inca Roads
04 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
05 Nanook Rubs It
06 St. Alphonzo's Breakfast
07 Father O'Blivion
08 Cosmik Debris
09 Florentine Pogen
10 I'm Not Satisfied

Frank Zappa - Gtr,vcls
Napoleon Murphy Brock - Sax,flute,vcls
George Duke - Kbds,vcls
Ruth Underwood - Percussion
Chester Thompson - Drums
Tom Fowler - Bass

Frank Zappa - (1968-10-20) - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011-09-07T10:38:00.000-03:00

Concertgebouw

Instrumental Bootleg of Frank Zappa Concert at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands in October 20, 1968.

Tracklist
1.intro, Jam (incl. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes) (06:35)
2.Help I'm A Rock Transylvania Boogie drum duet (13:01)
3.Dog Breath (12:30)
4.The String Quartet (09:45)
5.Gas Mask (19:29)
6.The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (10:43)

Total time: 01:12:03

Frank Zappa official discography, UPDATED

2011-09-07T09:42:00.000-03:00

Official Discography

Frank Zappa - (1968) - Transparency

2011-09-06T17:29:00.001-03:00

Transparency

Issued in the UK as a sampler by Polydor when they took over the distribution of the Verve catalogue from EMI and reissued the Verve albums.
This was the first LP to include Big Leg Emma and Why Don't You Do Me Right?.
Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Concentration Moon, Absolutely Free, and Let's Make The Water Turn Black are the "heavily edited" versions.
Excerpt From Lumpy Gravy is a unique edit.

Frank Zappa & Mothers Of Invention, The* – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
Label:Verve Records
Catalog#:2352 057
Format:Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Country:UK
Released:1975
Genre:Electronic, Rock

01. Why Don’t You Do Me right
02. Who Needs The Peace Corps
03. Concentration Moon
04. Mom And Dad
05. Bow Tie Daddy
06. Harry You’re A Beast
07. What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body
08. Absolutely Free
09. Cheap Thrills
10. Excerpt From Lumpy Gravy
11. Wowie Zowie
12. Flower Punk
13. Later That Night
14. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
15. Lonely Little Girl
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17. What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body (reprise)
18. America Drinks
19. Status Back Baby
20. Uncle Bernie’s Farm
21. Son Of Suzy Creamcheese
22. Big Leg Emma

Frank Zappa - (1984-10-02) - The Perpetual Hard-On

2011-09-05T16:14:00.001-03:00

The Perpetual Hard-On D1

The Perpetual Hard-On D2

Zappa - "The Perpetual Hard-On" (2 LP)

Recorded in Böblingen (Stuttgart, Germani), 02-Oct-1984

*** LIMITED EDITION - Number of copies printed unknown ***

Play time ~102 min
Label: MA 1015/1016 ("Perpetual Records"?)

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Alan Zavod and Bobby Martin

SONG LIST:

1. Zoot Allures
2. Bamboozled by Love
3. Tinseltown Rebellion
4. More Trouble Every Day
5. Penguin in Bondage
6. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
7. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
8. In France
9. I'm the Slime
10. Be in My Video

11. Nite Owl [Tony Allen]
12. Montana
13. Easy Meat
14. Cocaine Decisions
15. Nig Biz
16. Sharleena
17. Dinah-Moe Humm
18. Cosmik Debris
19. Stink-Foot
20. He's So Gay
21. Bobby Brown
22. Joe's Garage
23. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

Frank Zappa - (1973-08-21) - Stockholm In Bondage Opopoppa Concert

2011-09-04T14:21:00.002-03:00

Opopoppa

Soliden, Skansen

Stockholm

Sweden

1973 08 21

Length: 75.34

01 Intro (Claes "Clabbe" af Geijerstam) [1.49]*

02 Cosmik Debris [8.01]*

03 Eric Dolphy Memorial BBQ* [0.56]*

04 Kung Fu [1.08]*

05 Penguin In Bondage [4.06]*

06 RDNZL [4.31]*

07 Montana [8.38]

08 Dupree's Paradise [23.44]

09 Preamble to Farther O'Blivion [0.55]

10 Farther O'Blivion (incl. Join The March And Eat My Starch) [21.41]

The Band

Tom Fowler

Bruce Fowler

Jean-Luc Ponty

Ian Underwood

George Duke

Ruth Underwood

Ralph Humphrey

Frank Zappa - (1969)- The Artisan Acetate

2011-09-02T15:46:00.003-03:00

Artisan Acetate

"Arranged, compiled, edited and produced by Frank Zappa, this acetate of original live recordings, engineered by Dick Kunc, was  recorded between October 1968 and May 1969, and mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders in Hollywood, CA., in mid 1969. It contains unique original recordings of the Mothers of Invention performing “Wipe Out”, “East L.A.”, “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”, “Kung Fu”, “Igor’s Boogie”, “Passacaglia”, “Copenhagen Night Music”, “Help, I’m A Rock”, “Chocolate Halvah”, “Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask”, “The Cookie Jar Lecture” and “It Must Be Your Breath”. This acetate, known officially as The Artisan RS 6406 Test Pressing (acetate), was ripped by it’s owner and generously donated"

This album is not a bootleg. It was sourced from the original acetate vinyl disc by the collector who purchased it in auction for £12000. It comes as a set of twelve flac files, each numbered and named correctly. The download also contains scanned images of the labels for both sides of the acetate disc.

Detailed Track Information

1. Wipe Out

Acetate label attribution: “Shrine Auditorium”

Time – 3:04

Official releases – Unreleased.

Source – There is no record of FZ playing the Shrine Auditorium prior to 23 February 1974. An informed guess: 6-7 December 1968, The Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles CA.

2. East L.A.

Acetate label attribution: “Columbia University”

Time – 4:59

Official releases – Unreleased extended edit. Redacted edits of this track were released as You Call That Music? on the YCDTOSA Sampler LP (the first 3:04 only of this track) and on YCDTOSA 4 (the first 4:07 only).

Source – 14 February 1969, Columbia University.

3. Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Acetate label attribution: “The Ballroom”

Time – 4:09

Official releases – The first 2:58 of this track was performed at The Ballroom, Stratford CT (not Hartford as stated by FZ in his OM 2 Mystery Disc LP liner notes), and released as Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit on the OM 2 Mystery Disc LP and Mystery Disc CD. The next 1:09 was performed at Thee Image, Miami Beach FL., and released as the last 1:09 of Right There on YCDTOSA 5 (this segment begins with the final drum hit prior to the applause, and ends with FZ’s spoken “Thank you”). The last 0:02 is the end of the applause from the Miami performance; on YCDTOSA this applause is cut short with a cross-fade into Where Is Johnny Velvet? This edit of two disparate live performances explains why Bunk Gardner’s ‘Peggy tape’ does not appear in the acetate mix; in Stratford the tape was not played, and in Miami the tape, if played, had already finished. The complete YCDTOSA track Right There begins with a 0:31 segment of Miami live performance not heard on the acetate; a crossfade from live take into Criteria Studios material, which includes the ‘Peggy tape’, can be heard from 0:31 (the beginning of a studio segment of Estrada vocal) to 0:37 (the fadeout of the live horns); the Miami live tape resumes at 4:00 with a hard splice to the final drum hit before the audience applause; a consummate example of FZ’s razor-blade wizardry. This same edit can also be heard as Variations On A Theme From Run Home Slow on the cassette-sourced Columbia YSA 6477 Test Pressing.

Source – First 2:58, 16 February 1969, The Ballroom, Stratford CT; last 1:11, 7 February 1969, Thee Image, Miami Beach FL.

4. Kung Fu

Acetate label attribution: “Phil Wenz”

Time – 2:16

Official releases – The first 1:45 was released as 5:05 to 6:50 of Didja Get Any Onya? on the extended Ryko Weasels Ripped My Flesh CD. The last 0:32 is unreleased. This track can also be heard, at a slower running speed, on The Columbia Test Pressing, and on Apocrypha, where it runs at the Columbia Test Pressing speed (thus revealing its original source) but omits FZ’s stage announcement. The Weasels LP and CD edits both end with a 0:01 instrumental flourish; this is clearly a post-production addition to the basic track, as it does not appear on this raw live take.

Source – 2 March 1969, Philadelphia Arena.

5. Igor’s Boogie

Acetate label attribution: “Phil Wenz”

Time – 1:28

Official releases – An unreleased, unedited continuation from the last track. This track can also be heard as the first section of a much longer track of the same name on The Columbia Test Pressing, with a time of 1:32 due to slower running speed. The complete Columbia Test Pressing track continues with material from 25 October 1968, The Royal Festival Hall, London; this material is also heard on Ahead Of Their Time under the title King Kong (test pressing 1:32-1:51, CD 2:52-3:10). At 1:51 the test pressing omits a section heard on the CD (3:10-4:02). The next 2:51 is heard on both versions (test pressing 1:51-4:02, CD 4:02-6:49). The last 2:15 of the test pressing (4:42-6:57) is a unique, unreleased collage of studio and live material — though the ‘live’ material may well have been recorded live in the studio. Studio overdubs begin to dominate the mix beginning with the overdubbed ‘snorks’ from 5:03-5:10; from 5:40 to the end the track consists entirely of studio collage. This track alone makes The Columbia Test Pressing worth the price of admission.

Source – An unedited continuation of 2 March 1969, Philadelphia Arena.

6. Passacaglia

Acetate label name: “Passalaglia”

Acetate label attribution: “Phil Wenz”

Time – 3:11

Official releases – Unreleased — but material from this track can be heard as the background to the FZ radio promo 1969 Hot Rats LP spot 2 ("Frank Zappa took a heavy trip recently ..."). This performance contains themes from King Kong.

Source – Probably from the same concert as Tracks 4 and 5 — the venue acoustics are a dead match.

7. Copenhagen Night Music

This track was recorded in mono.

Time – 3:00

Official releases – Unreleased.

Source – 3 October 1968, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen

8. Help, I’m A Rock

Time – 3:46

Official releases – This track was thoroughly re-constructed for Ahead Of Their Time in an alternate edit with added digital reverb, creating the illusion of an alternate take. The first 0:20 of the test pressing is unreleased. The next 1:20 is also heard under the same title on Ahead Of Their Time (0:00-1:20). There is an audible splice at 1:20 of the CD, shortly after the word “Mayor;” the next 0:11 is heard on the test pressing but not on the CD. The next 0:09 is heard on both versions. There is an audible splice on the test pressing at 5:27; the CD version concludes with a short section (1:29-1:38) not heard on the test pressing. The test pressing continues after the edit with a long section not heard on the CD. The next section is also heard as King Kong (7:29-7:55) on Ahead Of Their Time. A brief section of the test pressing is edited out of the CD at 7:55. The final section is heard on both versions. The sound quality of this dry test pressing mix is exceptional, probably surpassing the reverb-heavy mix heard on Ahead Of Their Time.

Source – 25 October 1968, The Royal Festival Hall, London.

9. Chocolate Halvah

Time – 3:33

Official releases – The first 0:03 and the last 0:07 are unreleased; the bulk of the track was released on YCDTOSA 5.

Source – 7 February 1969, Thee Image, Miami Beach FL.

10. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask

Time – 3:35

Official releases – Released on the original and Old Masters Weasels Ripped My Flesh LPs, without the extra material added to the extended Ryko CD. This test pressing version does include the studio-overdubbed ‘snorks’ heard on the Weasels LP (at 3:11) and CD (at 3:25).

Source – 25 October 1968, The Royal Festival Hall, London

11. The Cookie Jar Lecture

Time – 3:11

Official releases – The test pressing features a unique redacted edit of Tiny Sick Tears on YCDTOSA 4, with three lines of lyrics edited out (0:08-0:20 of the CD) and a redacted ending, omitting the last 1:10 (3:20-4:30) of the CD edit. At the end we hear the same radio power switch and laughter that ends The Orange County Lumber Truck on Weasels Ripped My Flesh, which then segues, like Weasels, into the album-ending Weasels title track (here titled It Must Be Your Breath). The radio power switch sound is in fact the same as the sound on the original Weasels LP; digital reverb added to the CD and Old Masters LP causes reverb from the musical portion of Orange County Lumber Truck to overlap the radio switch, and thus alter its sound; the original LP mix is a better basis for comparison.

Source – 13 February 1969, The Factory, The Bronx, New York City.

12. It Must Be Your Breath

Time – 2:04

Official releases – Released as the title track on Weasels Ripped My Flesh.

Source – 30 May 1969, Birmingham Town Hall.

Font: Hal's Progressive Rock Blog:Frank Zappa-The Artisan Acetate (1969)

Frank Zappa - (2001) - The Sheik's Rehearsals

2011-08-31T13:36:00.002-03:00

The Sheik's Rehearsals

Rehearsals in Culver City 16-Aug-1978

Sound quality: Soundboard B

Label: The Swingin' Pig TSP-CD-260-1

1. Dancin' Fool

2. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?

3. Keep It Greasy

4. Village of the Sun

5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

6. City of Tiny Lites

7. Baby Snakes

8. Sofa

9. Packard Goose

10. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus

11. Watermelon in Easter Hay

12. Dinah-Moe Humm

13. Black Napkins

14. I Have Been in You

Tracks 1-10 & 13 are rehearsals from Culver City 16-Aug-1978. Tracks 11-13 live in Neunkirchen am Brand 25-feb-1978.

And note that nothing on this bootleg is actually recording sessions nor rehearsals for Sheik Yerbouti. The rehearsals are for the tour after the "SY tour".

Frank Zappa - (1988.04.18) - Wembley Arena, London England

2011-08-29T21:20:00.000-03:00

Wembley Arena

Zappabase: Normalshow: 132 min, Aud, A-

This copy: 128 min. AUD A-

tracklist

01 - The Black Page No2

02 - Packard Goose Medley

03 - Mr Green Genes

04 - Florentine Pogen

05 - Andy

06 - Inca Roads

07 - Disco Boy

08 - Teenage Wind

09 - City Of Tiny Lights

10 - I Aint Got No Heart

11 - Lets Move To Cleveland

12 - Bamboozled By Love

13 - Big Swifty

14 - Who Needs The Peace Corps

15 - Peaches En Regalia

16 - Stairway To Heaven

17 - Bolero

18 - I Am The Walrus

19 - Illinois Enema Bandit

20 - Strictly Genteel

Band:

Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowl

Frank Zappa - (1987) - Oldies But Goldies Live Over 20 years old

2011-08-20T14:38:00.000-03:00

Goldies

1. Intro (00:55)

2. Freak Out Medley (06:55)

3. Fifties Medley (05:09)

4. King Kong (22:10)

5. Uncle Meat Big Medley ["The Uncle Meat Variations"/"Oh, in the Sky"/

"Let's Make the Water Turn Black"/"Harry, You're a Beast", "Oh No"/

"The Orange County Lumber Truck"] (24:40) [parts officially released on Ahead of Their Time]

Tracks 1-4 are the 1967 recording, and track 5 is live at

the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1968.

("Oh, in the Sky", included in the "Uncle Meat Big Medley", is a Ruben-esque tune

sung by Roy Estrada.) Parts of track 5 have been officially released as tracks 16-20

of Ahead of Their Time. (There are some edits on the official album.)

http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/bootlegs/concert_boots1967-1970.html#oldiesbutgoldies

Frank Zappa - Demo's [1986]

2011-08-08T19:18:00.000-03:00

Demos

This recording is a digital enhanced copy of the Frank Zappa vinyl bootlegrecord DEMOS. Label: Space Magic

Below is the details.

Taken from: the zappa patio - http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85821131/

Demos (2 LP / 2 CD)

* Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show)

* Munich 31-Mar-1979

* Various live

* From the unreleased Crush All Boxes

* From Them or Us

* From The Sleep Dirt CD

Length: 80:33

Sound quality: Various

Label: Space Magic (LP), RAS 8611 (CD)

* Santa Monica 1981 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Lisa Popeil and Nicholas Slonimsky

* Munich 1979 musicians: Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Arthur Barrow and Warren Cuccurullo

1. Teenage Prostitute [02:26]

2. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus / Nicholas Slonimsky Whips It Out [04:53]

3. Lisa's Life Story [05:37] [full-length version of the Stage #6 edit]

4. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes [06:04]

5. Doreen [02:19]

6. Easy Meat [08:42]

7. Stick It Out [01:15]

8. Truck-Driver Divorce [07:04]

9. The Deathless Horsie [10:23]

10. Outside Now Again & Again [10:50]

11. Flambay [extended version] [05:01]

12. Planet of My Dreams [Them Or Us version] [01:34]

13. Spider of Destiny [extended version] [03:07]

14. Time Is Money [not listed] [Sleep Dirt CD version] [02:51]

15. Truck-Driver Divorce [01:36]

16. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [Frank/Ahmet Zappa] [02:05]

17. In France [03:53]

(Side 4 is listed all wrong on the cover; the above should be correct.)

* Side 1 is live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show).

* Track 3 appears on Stage #6, edited down to 03:06, but here it's unedited: 05:36.

* Track 4 is the same recording as on Apocrypha (Santa Monica, 11-Dec-1981, early show). Someone throws food on stage; Zappa stops the song and makes him eat it.

* Tracks 5-6 are from Crush All Boxes (an unreleased album planned before Tinsel-Town Rebellion), but "Doreen" fades out earlier here and is not complete (02:47 vs 02:15).

* Tracks 7-8 & 16 are live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984, with George Duke guesting on "Truck-Driver Divorce".

* Side 3 is live in Munich 31-Mar-1979.

* Track 10 is an "Outside Now" solo from Munich 31-Mar-1979, similar to "Outside Now (Original Solo)" on Guitar; it also appears on Lectures where it's called "Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar Again".

* Tracks 11 & 13 are the Sleep Dirt CD mixes, but longer edits: "Flambay" is 10 seconds longer here (a bass ending), and "Spider of Destiny" 20 seconds longer (the Sleep Dirt version is edited in the middle and end).

* Track 14 is from the Sleep Dirt CD.

* Track 15 is a part of a live 1981 version (about one and a half minute of the head).

* Track 16 is a 1981 studio version (the same recording as on Apocrypha).

* Track 17 is live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984, with George Duke and Johnny "Guitar" Watson guesting. It has a unique intro, but is available with better sound quality on All You Need Is Glove.

Frank Zappa - (1977-02-03) - Titties and Beer - Zoot Allures Live in Paris

2011-08-02T13:54:00.000-03:00

Titties and Beer

Titties & Beer (Zoot Allures Live in Paris) (LP)

Pavillon de Paris, 03-Feb-1977

Issued both on Smilin' Ears Records and as HFQ 177 (these things were printed on the actual labels) with nearly identical covers - the only detail that's different is the colour of the text on the front cover. It says "ZAPPA" and "Titties and Beer", and the Smilin' Ears version has all that printed in red, while the HFQ 177 version has "ZAPPA" and "and" in black, "Titties" in red and "Beer" in yellow. The print on the respective labels is set in the same font.

Some copies may have only one of the titles Titties & Beer and Zoot Allures Live in Paris. The confirmed copies certainly have both: Titties & Beer on one side of the cover and Zoot Allures Live in Paris on the other. These copies have Titties & Beer on the spine.

Length: ~90 min / ~45 min

Sound quality: Audience B

Label: Smilin' Ears Records 7702 / HFQ 177

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Eddie Jobson, Patrick O'Hearn and Terry Bozzio

1. The Illinois Enema Bandit [only the last part]

2. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

3. Tryin' to Grow a Chin

4. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes

5. Dong Work for Yuda [not listed, a capella version]

6. Manx Needs Women [not listed]

7. Titties & Beer [listed on side one instead]

8. Le Serviette Noir ["Black Napkins"]

One front cover variant has a black & white photo of Zappa sitting down. Another shot from the same photo session was used on a Kyoto bootleg called Black Napkins. "Titties & Beer" had extra lyrics on this tour, which were never released officially.

Do not see also: Zoot Allures Live

Comment from http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/bootlegs/concert_boots1976-1980.html#tittiesandbeer

Burt Ward - The Boy Wonder Sessions (bootleg vinyl)

2011-07-31T11:37:00.000-03:00

The Boy Wonder

Arranged and Conducted By Frank Zappa!

DADDYKIN HAD THIS TO SAY WHEN HE SHARED THIS LP:

"Hi. In November 1966, at the height of Batmania, Burt "Robin" Ward recorded and released a single for MGM Records called "Boy Wonder I Love You." It features Burt reading "fan letters" over the musical backing of...The Mothers of Invention! Yes, that's right. Frank Zappa even wrote and arranged the song, as well as conducting what would come to be known as The Boy Wonder Sessions. The great Tom Wilson (Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home") was the producer. The single has become quite a collector's item for both Batman and Zappa collectors. In recent years, the rest of the sessions have surfaced, giving us demos, an unreleased second single, and Zappa's instrumental backing tracks for proposed but unfinished songs with Burt.

Here are the sessions, kicking off with the single. A pic of the original record label is in the folder. Enjoy!

TRACK LISTING:

01. BOY WONDER I LOVE YOU,

02. ORANGE COLOURED SKY,

03. THE COMEDIAN (BACKING TRACK #1),

04. BOY WONDER I LOVE YOU (DEMO),

05. ORANGE COLOURED SKY (DEMO),

06. TEENAGE BILL OF RIGHTS,

07. TEARS COME FROM LOVING YOU (BACKING TRACK),

08. I LOVE (BACKING TRACK),

09. THE COMEDIAN (BACKING TRACK #2),

10. VARIOUS FALSE STARTS"

Frank Zappa - (1988.04.18) - Wembley Arena, London England

2011-07-28T15:38:00.000-03:00

Wembley Arena

Zappabase: Normalshow: 132 min, Aud, A-

This copy: 128 min. AUD A-

tracklist

01 - The Black Page No2

02 - Packard Goose Medley

03 - Mr Green Genes

04 - Florentine Pogen

05 - Andy

06 - Inca Roads

07 - Disco Boy

08 - Teenage Wind

09 - City Of Tiny Lights

10 - I Aint Got No Heart

11 - Lets Move To Cleveland

12 - Bamboozled By Love

13 - Big Swifty

14 - Who Needs The Peace Corps

15 - Peaches En Regalia

16 - Stairway To Heaven

17 - Bolero

18 - I Am The Walrus

19 - Illinois Enema Bandit

20 - Strictly Genteel

Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick.

Frank Zappa - (1982) - Good Grief

2011-07-26T20:59:00.000-03:00

Good Grief

This recording is a digital enhanced copy of the Frank Zappa vinyl bootlegrecord GOOD GRIEF. Label: Flashback-8810 (cover) / Flashback Q-8810 (label)

Below is the details.

Taken from: the zappa patio - http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85821131/

Good Grief!

* Various live 1978-1982

* Studio out-take of "Fine Girl"

Also issued as Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen

Length: 39:21

Sound quality: various

Label: Flashback-8810 (cover) / Flashback Q-8810 (label)

Musicians: Various - Ahmet guests on "Frogs with Dirty Little Lips" and Lisa Popeil sings "The Dangerous Kitchen"

1. Lock Jaw Rap [00:41]

2. Hail Caesar [06:40]

3. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson] / Johnny Darling [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] [not listed] [03:25]

4. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [03:31]

5. Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen ["The Dangerous Kitchen"] [06:23]

6. Fine Girl [03:19]

7. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? [01:35]

8. We're Turning Again [05:39]

9. Heavy Duty Judy [with vocals] [04:39]

10. What's New in Baltimore? [03:29]

* Track 1 has Zappa talking to the audience for about 40 seconds, in London 19-Jun-1982 (first show). In a discussion on alt.fan.frank-zappa in March 2000 about "the dumbest or most embarassing thing Zappa said on stage", it was one of two things that came up. It goes like this:

"You know, as I look out here tonight, I see all these people and wonder what kind of people actually come to a show like this, and I know! Usually it's a bunch of guys who think that maybe it's cool to come here, and then they bring these girls along that wouldn't be caught dead in a place like this, listening to this shitty kind of music, and they sit there and grit their fucking teeth for two hours, and then maybe later they give the guy a blowjob. Well let me tell you something; all you guys that brought girls like this to this kind of a concert, I hope you do get blown by those lock-jawed little bitches that you brought in here."

(The other thing that came up was the imfamous "women's movement" from Saratoga 1-Sep-1984, on Kreega Bondola.)

* Track 2 is live in London 28-Feb-1978.

* Tracks 3-4 are live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show); track 4 also appears as a "bonus track" on Welcome to the Mudd Club, where part of Zappa's spoken intro has been edited out. Apparently, this was the first live performance with Ahmet, Frank's son (noted on the cover).

* Track 5 is live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (second show).

* Track 6 is yet another different mix of the Tinsel-Town Rebellion recording; the unreleased Crush All Boxes album had another mix

* Track 7 is live 1980.

* Track 8 is an unknown 1982 or 1982 live version identified as "the Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1982", but there was no such show.

* Track 9 is a soundboard recording from the second show in Pittsburgh 13-Nov-1980 (the same recording as on Apocrypha). It has "vocals", in the sense that Ike and Ray sing "Heavy Duty Judy" in the very beginning over the riff.

* Track 10 is live in Cologne 21-May-1982.

Sound quality graded as A on track 5, B on track 6 and C on all other tracks. Track 6 is an incredibly good performance, also circulated on grade A soundboard tapes.

Frank Zappa - 1986 - Resolver + Brutality

2011-07-25T20:02:00.000-03:00

Resolver + Brutality

This is an audio cassette containing 58 minutes of synclavier music.

1.Resolver ED. 19:57
2.Big Sequence 15:54
3.Brutality 4:22
4.Bondage 3:31
5.Oral Sex At Gunpoint 5:18
6.Bondage (Maniac Mix) 4:11
7.Oral Sex At Gunpoint (Maniac Mix) 1:49
8.Brutality (Maniac Mix) 2:34

This cassette is from about the same era as Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (1985). From this album the track H.R. 2911 is the closest to the music presented on Resolver + Brutality. We believe the cassette can be dated to 1986.

The tracks can be grouped into Resolver (1,2) and Brutality (3-8). First two tracks are pure instrumental opuses. Next tracks includes also voice samples. The Brutality group of tracks is directly related to the 1985 Senate PMRC hearings.

The cassette is TDK SA-X 90 (the label is from SA 60). Tracks 1.-4. are on side A, tracks 5.-8. on side B. The quality of the cassette is very good. It is probably a master clone directly recorded by Zappa in his studio.

Frank Zappa - (1974-11-15) - Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo NY

2011-07-24T12:27:00.000-03:00

Buffalo

D1 | D2

Frank Zappa - Memorial Auditorium,

Buffalo NY, November 15, 1974

Disc 1 (256kbps, 106MB)

1. Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme)

2. Stinkfoot

3. RDNZL

4. Village Of The Sun

5. Echidna's Arf

6. Don't You Ever Wash

7. Penguin In Bondage

8. T'Mershi Duween

9. Dog Breath Variations

10. Uncle Meat

11. Building A Girl

Disc 2 (46MB)

1. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

2. Nanook Rubs It

3. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast

4. Father O'Blivion

5. Tush Tush Outro

6. Camarillo Brillo

7. More Trouble Every Day

Frank Zappa - (1977-09-30) - Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI

2011-07-23T08:18:00.000-03:00

Cobo Hall

30-Sep 1977, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI

72 min, Aud, A-

01 Flakes intro

02 Peaches En Regalia

03 The Torture Never Stops

04 Tryin' To Grow A Chin

05 City Of Tiny Lights

06 Pound For A Brown

07 Conehead

08 Flakes

09 Big Leg Emma (tf, end missing)

10 Envelopes (beginning missing)

11 Disco Boy (cuts after 15 secs)

12 Punky's Whips (last part only)

13 Dinah-Moe Humm

14 Camarillo Brillo

15 Black Napkins

Frank Zappa - (1980-10-17) - Live at the Convention Center Arena, Dallas, TX

2011-07-19T13:34:00.003-03:00

Convention Center

63 min, SBD, A+

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01. Chunga's Revenge,

02. I Don't Wanna Get Drafted,

03. Cosmik Debris,

04. Keep It Greasey,

05. Tinseltown Rebellion,

06. Outside Now,

07. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?,

08. Pick Me I'm Clean,

09. City Of Tiny Lights (incl. She's Not There),

10. Easy Meat,

11. Ain't Got No Heart,

12. The Torture Never Stops

Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Steve Vai, Ray White, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Tommy Mars, Bob Harris.