Road Tapes, Venue #3

May 27th 2016

Tracks

Tyrone Start The Tape…
King Kong
Wonderful Wino
Concentration Moon
Mom & Dad
The Air
Dog Breath
Mother People
You Didn’t Try To Call Me
Agon - Interlude
Call Any Vegetable
King Kong / Igor’s Boogie
It Can’t Happen Here
Sharleena
The 23rd “Mondellos”
Justine
Pound For A Brown
Sleeping In A Jar
Sharleena
“A Piece Of Contemporary Music”
The Return Of The Hunchback Duke
Cruising For Burgers
Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
Harry, You’re A Beast
Oh No/Orange County Lumber Truck
Call Any Vegetable
Mondello’s Revenge
The Clap (Chunga’s Revenge)

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Official Release #103

Catalog Number: VR 2016-1

Performed/Arranged/Conducted by Frank Zappa

Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN

July 5, 1970

Players:

Frank Zappa: Guitar, Vocals

Mark Volman: Vocal, Tambourine

Howard Kaylan: Vocal

Ian Underwood: Electric Piano, Organ, Alto Sax

George Duke: Electric Piano, Organ, Vocal Drum Imitations

Jeff Simmons: Bass, Vocal

Aynsley Dunbar: Drums

FRANK ZAPPA & The Mothers – 5 July 1970

Venue #3 – Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN

Here we have another installment in the Road Tapes series! Venue #3 is special because it represents some of the only complete shows found in the vault of the 1970 Mothers Of Invention. The master tapes are in excellent shape and were recorded live to stereo 2-track Reel-to Reel. One unfortunate problem, outside of some occasional azimuth adjustments, was dealing with reel one. The master tape was re-used and material was recorded over with the live performance. Unfortunately whenever there is a quiet passage, or the signal to tape isn’t loud enough, the old audio is audible… and backwards! Thankfully this is only heard during the first 35 minutes or so of the entire program. This explains the constant shift in stereo image, as we had to literally delete the left channel and process the right channel in “Stereo”. (Thanks to Craig Parker Adams) Due to the historical relevance of these tapes, we decided it was worth it to release it warts and all. We hope you enjoy the effort! Of course, Frank used sections of “King Kong” and “The Clap” to construct the piece “The Nancy & Mary Music” found on the 1970 album “Chunga’s Revenge”. Now, with the release of the full concerts, you have the opportunity to hear those performances as they happened that night, unedited and raw.

To basically quote FZ in the liner notes to You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore, we hope you enjoy Road Tapes, Venue 3 and will find time to hear the entire series.

- Joe Travers, Vaultmeister

2-Track Stereo 7-inch Reel-to-Reel Analog Tape (Scotch 203 @ 7 1/2 ips)

Recording Engineer: Bruce Margolis

Transferred at 192K 24B .WAV using FZ’s Ampex ATR-102 Tape Machine, July 2015

Converters: Focusrite Rednet

Original Recordings Produced by Frank Zappa

Produced for release by Ahmet Zappa & Joe Travers

Vaultmeisterment & Audio Transfers by Joe Travers

Mastered by John Polito, Audio Mechanics 2016

Concept by Gail Zappa

Layout & Space Time Continuum by Keith Lawler for Vaulternative Records

Photography by Diva Zappa / Original Art by Joseph Carter

Production Manager: Melanie Starks

Thanks to: Holland Greco, Kurt Morgan, Craig Parker Adams (for “Stereoisation”), Richard Landers

“Agon” written by Igor Stravinsky. Published by BOOSEY AND HAWKES INC. (ASCAP).

“Justine” written by Don Harris & Dewey Steven Terry. Published by SONY/ATV SONGS LLC (BMI).

“Caravan” written by Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol. Published by EMI MILLS MUSIC INC/SONY ATV HARMONY (ASCAP).

“Linda Lu” written by Ray Sharpe. Published by GREGMARK MUSIC INC (BMI).