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Royce Hall, UCLA Los Angeles
1975-09-17-18

Nice venue ! Could be also an Italian cloister.

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nov-06-65, longshoreman's hall, fisherman's wharf, san francisco

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Public Auditorium, Cleveland
1978-10-01

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Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge
1978-10-xx



I wonder what Cal did at the Harvard Square Theater ?

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Grande Ballroom, Detroit
1968-04-28

Material delivered by Milton Bradley the Michigander:



Grande Ballroom before

http://www.thegrandeballroom.com/Grande1940s.html

and after

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Skedsmohallen, Lillestrom
1988-04-27

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Eisstadion Friedrichspark, Mannheim
1980-06-25





Europe's first ice machine in Friedrichspark (1959).

From wiki:

Eisstadion am Friedrichspark is an indoor sporting arena located in Mannheim, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,200. It was the home arena of Adler Mannheim ice hockey team prior to the SAP Arena opening in 2005.

It was build in 1938 and had a long history of hockey games. The greatest event was the match against Duesseldorfer EG in the 1990s when the DEG was still the big player in German hockey. The stadium was then filled with over 10,500 people.



Entrance

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I was at this show!

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Florida Gymnasium, University of Florida, Gainesville
1980-04-19

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Olympia am Wasserturm, Essen
1968-09-28 a.m.

This is an unlisted show.

There were some reports in several local medias recently because of the 40th jubilee of the Essener Songtage. The show at the Grugahalle in Essen from 09-28 is well known. But I didn't know that the Mothers played the same date a few hours ago in the night/morning as well.

The one hour event took place at a former cinema named Olympia am Wasserturm. Don't know whether the building still exists. But the Wasserturm (water tower) is still there.



Source 1 (a report from a guy who attended the show):

Am Freitag 27 Sept. gab es um 23.30 in einem ausgeräumten alten Kinosaal eine Mixed Media Show. was immer das auch sein sollte ein zu dieser zeit sehr populärer bildender Künstler Ferdinand Kriwet war mit dabei und es sollte irre Lichtshows Tanz, Musik, Lesung usw geben. das ganze entwickelte sich nicht so richtig und es gab Unruhe und von den Monitoren auf denen Texte und Bilder liefen ging zu Bruch und eigentlich wollte ich schon gehen als ich mitbekam wie ein wild aussehender Typ meinete Frank Zappa würde gleich noch auftreten. Der Typ war Tuli Kupferberg von den Fugs deren ersten Auftritt wir leider nicht gesehen hatten.
Tatsächlich, auf einmal begannen Roadies Verstärker und Lautsprecherboxen auf die Bühne zu rollen und wenig später standen die Mothers und Zappa auf der Bühne und begannen mit einer rund einstündigen Show.
Ich war hin und weg, zwar kannte ich schon zwei Zappa LPs, mein Freund war leidenschaftlicher Plattensammler, doch was da Live rüberkam war einfach der H A M M E R !
Nach einer Stunde war es dann vorbei und ich fand mich irgendwann draussen wieder. Meinen Kumpel hatte ich verloren und ich hatte auch keine Eile zum Schlafplatz zu kommen. Ich hing also noch vor dem Kino rum als dort aus einer Tür ein Musiker der Mothers trat. Ich wollte ihn schon gerne ansprechen hatte aber einen riesen Bammel wegen meinem schlechten Englisch.Traute mich dann doch und das war auch gut so.

Source 2 (a report from a Songtage's account manager) :

Zu den spektakulären Veranstaltungen gehört auch die Multimedia-Show des Düsseldorfer Künstlers Ferdinand Kriwet, die allerdings durch einen holzlattenschwingenden Rainer Langhans von der Berliner Kommune I (der hat in Essen Uschi Obermaier kennen gelernt und befindet sich vermutlich im Hormonstau) rüde gestoppt wird. Aber auch viele andere

Besucher im damaligen Olympia-Kino wollen keine Sprachkunst mehr, sondern den angekündigten ersten Auftritt der Mothers of Invention in Deutschland erleben.

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In celebration of the 40th jubilee of the Essener Songtage here's some extra stuff:



The programme.



The Mothers with concert promoter Fritz Rau (on the left), who brought the Mothers the first time to Germany.

Some pice from FZ in Essen:







A new book about the event. The banner on the pic says: Amis out of Vietnam.

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Most of the big teenage acts took part at the Grugahalle the same evening. Have posted it already.

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Damn it, Fritz! How are we stupid fuckin' monolingual yanks supposed to read this?!!!

BTW: this is the only thing that I like about this forum. Keep up the great work!

Really cool pic...WOW! FZ in leather!

excellent fritz, another great scarf pic & the fisheyed shot is very cool...


now about that program...

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Who's the girl ?
She looks cute


...and no, I don't mean the one on the left with the mustache

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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...''

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smooches,
» Phy³

>.)))°>
..^^

Hey, Phydeaux_3, the image procedure in this forum is limited it doesn't parse some urls properly. In this case it's the question mark it can't handle. But, this picture doesn't seem to need the variable, so if you delete everything after jpg it works.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

very cool program, never seen before, thanks

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Carl-Diem-Halle, Würzburg
1988-04-22

I suppose I've posted this before the last forum crash already.





The hall was renamed later, because there was an open controversy whether Carl Diem was a Nazi.

Diem was the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games in Berlin and created the tradition of the Olympic torch relay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Diem



The hall's name is S'Oliver Arena now:

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6th November, 1977 - Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Peaches En Regalia, The Torture Never Stops, Tryin' To Grow A Chin, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Bobby Brown, Conehead, Flakes, Big Leg Emma, Envelopes, Disco Boy, I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth, Wild Love, (q: Louie Louie), Dinah-Moe Humm (q: Day Tripper), Camarillo Brillo, Muffin Man





nice venue!

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''minimart - it's basically a scaled-down supermarket, fits inside a petrol station. sells pies, antifreeze..''

Théatre de la Ville, Paris
1984-01-09

Pierre Boulez' Ensemble InterContemporain performed:

Dupree's Paradise, Naval Aviation In Art ?, and The Perfect Stranger.



IRCAM (Studio), Paris
1984-01-10&11

Recording sessions with the Ensemble for the album The Perfect Stranger.

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Village Recorders (Studio B), Los Angeles
1979-04-11

Start of recording Joe's Garage Acts I, II, & III.

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Swing Auditorium, San Bernadino
1980-04-05

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