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Civic Center
Baltimore, MD
May 11th 1980

available tapes according FZshows 7.1:
1980 05 11 - Civic Center, Baltimore, MD
105 min, Aud, B+/B

This copy: 108.30 min, AUD MC, A-

00 Knick Knack Tape ~ Crowd noise 1:12
01 Chunga's Revenge 8:29 °°° Drew51 source micro patch around 3:15
02 Keep It Greasey 3:04
03 Outside Now 7:45
04 City Of Tiny Lights 6:54
05 Society Pages 2:30 °°° tf/Drew51 source patch {1:24-2:23}
06 I'm A Beautiful Guy 2:00
07 Beauty Knows No Pain 3:19
08 Charlie's Enormous Mouth 3:54
09 Pick Me I'm Clean 8:06
10 Cosmik Debris 4:21 °°° tf/Drew51 source patch {0:41-1:09}
11 You Didn't Try To Call Me 3:46
12 I Ain't Got No Heart 2:06
13 Love Of My Life 2:06
14 Easy Meat 11:16
15 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 2:37
16 Joe's Garage 2:26
17 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 3:09
18 encore break 1:57 °°° cuts in, no music missing
19 Dancin' Fool 3:23
20 Get The Big Cones Out (YAWYI false start) 1:08
21 You Are What You Is 4:05
22 encore break#2 (introducing John Smothers) 2:00 °°° cuts in, no music missing
23 Dong Work For Yuda 2:17
24 Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up 4:12
25 encore break#3 0:47 °°° cuts in, Drew51 source patch {0:00-0:43}
26 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 2:21
27 The Illinois Enema Bandit 7:05

Total Time (Patched version) 108.30 min

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I was at this show. FZ read the lyrics of TDK from a notebook.

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Festival Présences
Salle Olivier Messiaen
Radio France
Paris, France
November 13, 14 and 15, 2009

Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France
Peter Eötvös (direction)

01 Dupree's Paradise (Zappa) 9:45
02 The Perfect Stranger (Zappa) 14:39
03 The Black Page (Zappa) 10:10
04 The Black Page (Zappa) 2:37
05 Romantic Medley [Penis Dimension > Dirty Love > Teen-Age Prostitute] (Zappa) (transcription : Walter Boudreau) 12:43

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... while waiting for Philly '76

Frank Zappa - 1976 10 31 Late Show - The Felt Forum - New York City, NY

This copy: 132.10 min, AUD MC, A/A-

01 Crowd~Purple Lagoon Intro [4:58]
02 Stinkfoot [7:36]
03 Poodle Lecture [5:13]
04 Dirty Love [5:11]
05 Pound For A Brown [6:07]
06 Drum Solo [2:43]
07 Wind Up Workin In A Gas Station [2:34]
08 Tryin To Grow A Chin [3:55]
09 The Torture Never Stops [13:29] °°° tf/Yojimbo source patch {7:04-7:21}
10 City Of Tiny Lights [8:37]
11 You Didnt Try To Call Me [6:22]
12 Manx Needs Women [1:43]
13 Titties n Beer [6:33]
14 Black Napkins [17:48] °°° tf/Yojimbo source patch {15:50-16:21}
15 Advance Romance [12:13]
16 Purple Lagoon Outro and crowd noise (encore break) [1:34]
17 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are ? [4:55]
18 Dinah Moe Humm [8:15]
19 Purple Lagoon Outro#2 [1:07]
20 encore break#2 [1:22] °°° cuts in, no music missing
21 Camarillo Brillo [3:48]
22 Muffin Man [5:06]
23 Purple Lagoon Outro#3 [0:49]

Total Time 132.10 min

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How about this excellent MIXTAPE ?

http://mix.killuglyradio.com/

Part 1 of a 3 part series, online and to listen to only for a limited time, so enjoy it whilst it lasts !

This one is specifically about the 1973-1974 group (The Roxy & Elsewhere Period so to speak...), so that's just about everyone's favorite FZ period me thinks

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Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

This is a nice collection ! Maybe Vaya Con Dios from Basel would have been a better ending.

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... while waiting for Philly '76:

Frank Zappa - 1976 10 24 (E) - Boston Music Hall, - Boston, MA

According To FZ Shows:

1976 10 24 (E) - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA
105 min, Aud, A/A-
110 min, Aud, B+

This Copy - 101.34, AUD 2nd (Remastered), A+

The Band:

FZ, Ray White, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Eddie Jobson, Bianca Thornton

Set List:

01 The Purple Lagoon [5.10]
02 Stink-Foot [5.26]
03 The Poodle Lecture [3.53]
04 Dirty Love [3.45]
05 Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station [2.22]
06 Tryin' To Grow A Chin [4.00]
07 The Torture Never Stops (q: Mystery Song #2) [11.35]
08 City Of Tiny Lights [7.46] *** Cut @ 0.01
09 You Didn't Try To Call Me [7.16]
10 Manx Needs Women [1.45]
11 Titties 'N Beer [5.56]
12 Black Napkins [17.05] *** Cut @ 3.34
13 Advance Romance (q: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida) [12.21] *** Flaw @ 0.00
14 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [4.01]
15 Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink [2.13]
16 Dinah-Moe Humm [6.25]
17 The Purple Lagoon [0.35] *** Fades Out

Total Time - 101.34 Minutes.

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Just this week I've listened to two '73 shows.

Kent State
sound: rather murky but bearable in context
highspots: slow Pygymy Twylyte, Yellow Snow with Kin Vassy vocals, Big Swifty with long Marquez/Underwood solos

Princeton
sound: clairty OK but wobbles from mono to stereo for much of the tape
highspots: fast Pygmy Twylyte w. amusing monolog; Yellow Snow with Kin Vassy and string of solos on the boogie-beat part; post-Yellow Snow cadenzas from Sal, Bruce & JLP; 9-minute FZ solo on Dupree that's actually worth hearing

To hell with "forbidden fruit", this is the crucial point to be made here: Never standing a chance of penetrating the closed circle-elite that is the FZ audio trading network, I would never have had the opportunity to hear these gigs - which, let's face it, musically speaking, piss all over a great many of FZ's officially released live albums - if it were not for the much-missed Friday Boots on Kill Ugly Radio.

Are you getting my drift? A big f**k you (with a stick of dynamite) to Gail and all her supporters.

The Grandmothers Of Invention - Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 8 1981
Recorded and broadcasted by VPRO Radio

Set list:

01 Moderator 0:29
02 Uncle Meat 2:03
03 Mother People 10:33
04 Interviews Part 1 1:39
05 Big Leg Emma 3:36
06 Trail Of Tears 4:47
07 Peaches En Regalia 2:07
08 Silicone Hump 1:01
09 Oh No 1:37
10 The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue 0:59
11 Twenty Small Cigars 1:30
12 Moon Unit Part 1 15:06 (tape flip with short fade out)
13 Moon Unit Part 2 4:11 (beginning with short fade in)
14 Interviews Part 2 1:42
15 Who Are The Brain Police? 5:13

Total time: 56.33 min

Line up:

Don Preston - keyboards, lead vocals
Jimmy Carl Black - drums, lead vocals
Bunk Gardner - sax
Tom Fowler - bass
Walt Fowler - keyboards, trumpet
Tony Duran - guitar

Fritz: Nice one. I had been at a Grandmothers concert in the early 80's, but I couldn't remember the year since there's no hint on the ticket stub. Now I know it must had been 1981. Here's the stub:

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Lather Era Outtakes 62.31

01 NYC Backstage Dialogue
NYC Halloween '77 run (parts in Baby Snakes film/YCDTOSA 3)

02 Dong Work For Yuda
London February '77 (on Remington Electric Razor and other boots)

03 NYC Backstage Dialogue II
NYC Halloween '77 (part in Baby Snakes film)

04 Punky's Whips
NYC Halloween '77 (Baby Snakes soundtrack/includes intro from 10-30-77 not in
Baby Snakes film or soundtrack)

05 Village Of The Sun (fragment)
unknown/circa November '73

06 Any Downers
unknown/circa October '75

07 Cruising For Burgers
NYC 12/29/76 (ZINY CD - alternate mix without guitar overdubs)

08 She Painted Up Her Face
L.A. 8/7/71

09 The Living Garbage Truck (fragment)
Vancouver 10/19/70 (Playground Psychotics)

10 Grout I
mostly on Lather

11 Revenge Of The Knick Knack People
Lather bonus track/different edit (includes part from Dancin' Fool on SY)

12 Outside Now Demo
unknown circa 78/includes Terry Bozzio's drum track from Rubber Shirt (SY)

13 Grout II
includes excerpts from 2/3/76 drum solo and 9/18/75 improvisations/parts on
Lather/SUNPYG/YCDTOSA 3

14 A Little Green Rosetta (tf splice at 0:03)
on Lather

15 Roy's Ms. Pinky Rap
unknown circa March 1976/first second on SUNPYG/last second on YAWYI

16 Basement Music I
longer edit on The Lost Episodes

17 Grout III
parts on Lather/TR

18 Basement Music II
on Quadiophiliac/Baby Snakes movie

19 Grout IV
parts on Lather/SUNPYG

Bonus:

20 Revenge Of The Knick Knack People (True Speed)
track 11 slowed down an octave

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This one's truly mesmerizing. I wished they'd include it on a 'Joe's Garage 30th' album and release it properly --

Listened to this again ... Love the tempo they play this at... makes it all that more special. Great stuff.

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Them Or Us outtakesThis version: 26.34 min, A

1- WE'RE TURNING AGAIN
Basic track: 1981 12 11 (E) Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

Ike Willis on Thingfish vocals. Different mix than on Have I Offended Someone and FZ Meets The Mothers of Prevention. Instead of ending cold, it segues into "Alien Orifice", as on FZMOTP.

2- ALIEN ORIFICE
Basic track: Unknown location c. September 1981-July, 1982
FZ solo: Unknown 1982 show
Tommy Mars solo: 1981 12 10 (E) Community Theater, Berkeley, CA

Same version as on FZMOTP, but slightly different mix.

3- NIG BIZ
1982 07 14 Stadio Communale La Favorita, Palermo, Italy

Same version as on YCDTOSA3, but different mix and edit, keeping just FZ's solo. The ending is not from Palermo and segues into the next track.

4- LISA'S LIFE STORY
1981 12 11 (E) Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
1981 12 11 (L) Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

Longer edit than on YCDTOSA6, containing a longer segment of "The Dangerous Kitchen" from the late show. Please note that Chad's part has already been overdubbed, and it's not the same as on the SBD tape.

5- WHIPPIN' POST
Body of the song: 1981 12 11 (L) Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
1981 12 12 (L) Fox Theatre, San Diego, CA
or
1982 06 11 (E) Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
FZ solo: 1982 06 11 (E) Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany

Some disagreement here. Pat says that the whole song is from Frankfurt, but I do think that the body of the song is the same as Them Or Us, just differently mixed. Either way, the guitar solo is without any doubt from Frankfurt, and it's different than the album version.

6- THE REVENGE OF THE KNICK KNACK PEOPLE

7- WON TON ON
UMRK, c. 1982-1984

This track was in another part of the tape, but as Mark Pinske said in an interview that they started to work on "Won Ton On" before "Ya Hozna", we have decided to include it here. This version, which is incomplete, is different both from Thing-Fish and True Glove. Just like on True Glove, it doesn't have any TF voices on it and it does have Johnny Guitar Watson's commentary, but just like on Thing Fish the falsetto backward vocals fade in at the beginning instead of starting together with all the rest. Also, Watson's commentary is placed in differently than on True Glove.

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Deutschlandhalle
Berlin, Germany
1978 09 07

current FZshows entry:
1978 09 07 - Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
110 min, Aud, B+

This copy: 112.40 min, AUD MC, A/A-
Setlist:

01 Läther Grout (through PA, incl. Revenge Of The Knick Knack People), crowd, tuning [3:23]
02 The Purple Lagoon Intro (incl. Instant Soundcheck, q: Bowling On Charen riff) [5:52]
03 Dancin' Fool [3:35]
04 Easy Meat [6:03]
05 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [4:21]
06 Keep It Greasey [3:38]
07 Village Of The Sun [6:50]
08 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [4:00]
09 City Of Tiny Lights [8:15] °°° tf/cut at 6:15
10 A Pound For A Brown [8:52]
11 The Deathless Horsie* (q: Mystery Tune) [9:38]
12 Bobby Brown [3:16]
13 Conehead* [5:42]
14 Improvisations* (incl. Hail Caesar, Mo's Vacation, q:Bowling On Charen riff) [10:03]
15 Flakes [5:03] °°° tf/cut at 2:00
16 Magic Fingers [2:35]
17 Yellow Snow Suite [13:31]
18 encore break [0:43] °°° cuts in, no music missing
19 Bamboozled By Love [7:12]

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I was at the early show on this date at the Paramount. It was my first, and sadly, my only Frank concert. 22 years to nearly the same date later I saw Dweezil in the same venue I saw Dweezil perform his first of many stops in Seattle with the ZPZ band.

Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI
Early show
1980 11 26 - November 26th 1980

~~ from Master Audience tape ~~

available tapes according FZshows:
1980 11 26 - Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI
Early show
110 min, Aud, B/B-
Chunga's Revenge, Panty Rap, Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Cosmik Debris, Keep It Greasey, The Blue Light, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Pick Me I'm Clean, Dead Girls Of London, Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?, City Of Tiny Lights (incl. She's Not There), I Ain't Got No Heart, The Torture Never Stops / Heavy Duty Judy, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes, I'm So Cute, Andy, Joe's Garage, Dancin' Fool, Bobby Brown, Ms Pinky

This copy: 109.02 min, Aud MC, A-/B+

Source: Master audience tape (normal bias)
Location: Balcony right of center
Equipment: Sony Stereo slim line w/ condencers
Lineage:
master Cassettes > Sony TC-WE825S cassette deck > Gina20 > Sound Forge 7.0 (record/edits) > FLAC Level 8 > wav > Soundforge 9: tracking, inserting patches from fills source >
flac TLH lvl7 w/SBA (626 MB)

Taped By: Michael Mycek - mimymu
Transferred By: Drew51
Edited By: flambay

Fills from 1st gen alternate source
Source: First generation audience tape
Lineage: 1st gen Cassettes > Sony TC-WE825S cassette deck
> Gina20 > Sound Forge 7.0 (record/edits) > FLAC Level 8
> Soundforge 9: extracting fills, speed correction, patching with main source

Taped By: unknown
supplied by: Pat
Transferred By: Drew51
Edited By: flambay

Line Up: FZ, Ike Willis, Steve Vai, Ray White,
Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Tommy Mars, Bob Harris #2.

Set list:
01 Crowd~Tuning (incl. It Ain't Necessarily So) 1:48 °°° Pat 1st gen patch {1:11-1:22}
02 Chunga's Revenge 6:35
03 Panty Rap 3:37
04 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 2:11
05 Cosmik Debris 3:52
06 Keep It Greasey 3:04
07 The Blue Light 4:42
08 Tinsel Town Rebellion 4:50
09 Pick Me I'm Clean 9:29
10 Dead Girls Of London 3:10
11 Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? 1:38
12 City Of Tiny Lights (incl. She's Not There) 9:55
°°° tf/cut at 1:45 , Pat 1st gen patch {1:28-1:49}
13 I Ain't Got No Heart 1:59
14 The Torture Never Stops 17:45
15 Heavy Duty Judy 5:00
16 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 3:31
17 I'm So Cute 1:33
18 Andy 8:22
19 encore break (incl. Sweet Leilani) 1:26 °°° Pat 1st gen patch {0:00-0:36}
20 Joe's Garage 2:13
21 Dancin' Fool 5:44
22 Bobby Brown 2:51
23 Ms Pinky 3:36

Total time 109.02 min

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Frank Zappa
Case Center, Boston University
Boston, MA
1981 11 07 Late

~~ Unknown generation Soundboard fragment, hitherto uncirculated ~~

This version: 45.12 min, SBD, A-

Set list:

First part of show (tracks 01-11) not included here --> only available in AUD source seed.

12 Bamboozled By Love [0:19] °°° most of song missing, fades in at end
13 Sinister Footwear [6:09]
14 Stevie's Spanking [7:53]
15 Cocaine Decisions [3:37]
16 Nig Biz [4:52]
17 Goblin Girl [2:26]
18 Black Page #2 [9:43]
19 encore break [0:44] °°° cuts in, no music missing
20 Joe's Garage [2:31]
21 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [2:50]
22 encore break #2 [1:08] °°° cuts in, no music missing
23 Love Of My Life [2:55] °°° switch to AUD MC source at 1:34

Great stuff

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Frank Zappa
Palladium
New York City, NY
1978 10 27, late show

This version: 126:56 min, Aud, A-

Setlist:
01 crowd noise~Revenge Of The Knick Knack People
02 Persona Non Grata
03 band intros
04 Dancin' Fool
05 Easy Meat
06 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
07 Keep It Greasey
08 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
09 City Of Tiny Lights
10 Pound For A Brown (x-fade to fill source @ 3:09-3:11, back to main source @ 3:17-3:19)
11 Thirteen (w/ Shankar)
12 Suicide Chump
13 Improvisations In Q (w/ Shankar)
14 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (x-fade to fill source @ 3:11-3:13, back to main source @ 3:21-3:24. Micro-patch from SH-Drew51 @ 5:18-5:19)
15 Magic Fingers
16 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
17 Nanook Rubs It
18 St Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
19 Father O'Blivion
20 Rollo
21 Yo' Mama (x-fade to fill source @ 8:06-8:09, back to main source @ 8:14-8:16)
22 Strictly Genteel

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Frank Zappa
London, England
Rehearsals
??-Feb 1979
This copy: 90.07 min, stage, B+

Tracklist:

01 Saddle Bags 3:57
02 Spider Of Destiny 3:00
03 Packard Goose 22:05
04 Saddle Bags/Easy Meat take1 17:03
05 Saddle Bags/Easy Meat take2 4:09
06 Saddle Bags/Easy Meat take3 18:12
07 Saddle Bags/Easy Meat take4 12:17
08 Jumbo Go Away 9:24

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The instrumental acetate demo version of Lumpy Gravy.

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Majestic Performing Arts Center
San Antonio, Texas
10th December 1984

Video footage

Video Track: NTSC MPEG-2, 720 × 480, 16:9, 29.97 fps, 7.00 Mbps, lower field first
Audio Track: SBD PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps

Disc I - 65:45

Teenage Wind
Truck Driver Divorce
City Of Tiny Lites
You Are What You Is
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Advance Romance
Stick Together
In France
Drowning Witch
Black Page
Bamboozled By Love

Disc II - 51:51

Brown Moses
The Evil Prince
Let's Move To Cleveland
Encore I
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Willie The Pimp
Montana
Cosmik Debris
Encore II
The Illinois Enema Bandit

Notes: The original footage looked dull, washed out, lined and was a long way from the action as the camera was set at the back of the hall. I ran a few color corrections, tests and stuff and decided that because there was such an empty space above and below in the 4:3 format, that I may as well color correct, edit and resize it for a widescreen presentation.
This gave me the chance to convert the audio to WAV, normalize and perform some tidying fades. Unknown generation.

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Frank Zappa
1975 11 22 Ljubljana YU
This version: 55:39 min, FM, B-

Setlist:
01 introduction (fades in Mr UMRK source, cross-fade to Bengofury source @ 0:07)
02 Stink Foot
03 The Poodle Lecture
04 Dirty Love
05 Black Napkins
06 Advance Romance (MrUMRK patches @ 3:46-3:55, 4:04-4:59 & 6:14-6:28)
07 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
08 The Illinois Enema Bandit
09 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
10 Lonely Little Girl
11 drum solo

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is it any good?
I'm from croatia, zagreb, which is like 2 hours from ljubljana, and since there isn't recording of zagreb's show, this is the closest I will found out 'bout atmosphere on stage around those days...

OT:
1984 07 21 - Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA
95 min, SBD, A-

Treacherous Cretins, Montana, Easy Meat, Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy, Advance Romance, He's So Gay, Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasey, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Carol You Fool, Chana In De Bushwop, Let's Move To Cleveland, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Oh No (glove version), Trouble Every Day (olympics version), Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Jungle Boogie (improvisational stuff, on request), The Closer You Are, No No Cherry

good show, Oh No is a highlight for me

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Yep, it's pretty good. The Black Napkins version from this show was even released on FZ Plays The Music Of FZ.

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I understand Dweezil mentioned the idea of releasing the whole show.