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I know there was already a thread about FZ concert tapes you're listening to right now, which is buried somewhere. This is a new one.

1988 03 05 Music Hall, Cleveland, OH USA
90 min, Aud, A

Let's Move To Cleveland,
Packard Goose Medley,
King Kong,
I Am The Walrus,
Andy,
Inca Roads,
Peaches En Regalia,
Stairway To Heaven,
Sharleena,
The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley,
The Illinois Enema Bandit

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This aud from Cleveland sounds very clean and damn good. Haven't seen it at Zappateers yet.

What's up ? Are you turned into a soundboard A-+++-pussy ?

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I think he's satirizing someone.

You mean HIM ? Now I see.

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1980 04 20 (L) Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA

01 Chunga's Revenge (cuts in during solo)
02 Intros
03 Keep It Greasey
04 Outside Now (source change at 2:07 with a few seconds missing)
05 City Of Tiny Lights
06 Pound For A Brown
07 Cosmik Debris
08 You Didn't Try To Call Me
09 I Ain't Got No Heart (tf splice at 0:46, no music missing)
10 Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
11 Zoot Allures (cut at 3:06)
12 Teenage Wind
13 Harder Than Your Husband
14 Bamboozled By Love
15 Pick Me I'm Clean
16 Easy Meat (cut at end)
17 Encore Break
18 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
19 The Illinois Enema Bandit (switch to Yojimbo source at 1:40)
20 Nite Owl (Yojimbo source)

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7-Dec 1975, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
137 min, Aud, B+
w/ Eddie Jobson

Lineage: Audience->1st gen reel->CDR->EAC->SoundForge (boosting levels, speed correction, editing, re-tracking, inserting fill)->FLAC Frontend

01 Naval Aviation In Art?
02 Blues Intro
03 Stinkfoot
04 Poodle Lecture
05 Dirty Love
06 How Could I Be Such A Fool?
07 I Ain't Got No Heart
08 I'm Not Satisfied
09 Black Napkins
10 Advance Romance (diff. source ~6:29-6:39)
11 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
12 The Illinois Enema Bandit
13 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
14 Lonely Little Girl
15 Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
16 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
17 Chunga's Revenge
18 Zoot Allures
19 Filthy Habits
20 Camarillo Brillo
21 Muffin Man
22 I'm The Slime
23 San Ber'dino

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1988 05 01 Stockholm SE 146.28 SBD MC (TOGFIADO-Yojimbo-MrU-Fl-unicrayon)

Yojimbo Lineage: Audience->(?)->CDR->EAC->SoundForge (patching in fills)->FLAC Frontend

SBD Lineage: Master Reel->HD->flac->data CD->HD->Edited in Sound Studio->fLAC(xAct)->You

Procured by TOGFIADO
Picked up by StatusBaby
Transferred by MrUMRK
Speed counseling by Flambay
Editing by unicrayon

Secret words Dragonmaster & Fernando

01 Tuning
02 Heavy Duty Judy
03 Packard Goose Medley
04 Any Kind Of Pain
05 More Trouble Every Day
06 Penguin In Bondage
07 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
08 Cosmik Debris
09 Inca Roads (tf AUD source 1'41.859-2'25.301)
09 Advance Romance
10 Bobby Brown
11 Keep It Greasey
12 The Torture Never Stops Medley (AUD source replaced damage 6'42.510-19'35.377)
13 Big Swifty w/ Mats & Morgan (incl. T'Mershi Duween) (tf AUD source 7'01.247-7'58.811)
14 Joe's Garage
15 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (applause patched AUD source 2'43.386-2'52.615)
16 Peaches En Regalia
17 Stairway To Heaven (applause & Dweezil intro patched AUD source 8'50.057-9'34.616)
18 Whippin' Post w/ Dweezil
19 I Am The Walrus
20 Loops Jam w/ Dweezil (AUD source 5'26.910-5'51.915)
21 Sofa (AUD source)

Seeded on the 15th anniversary of FZ's passing.
http://www.zappateers.com 2008 12 04

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15-May 1970, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - w/ The L.A Philharmonic (*)

Retracked reseed, original seeder: davmar77, thank you very much.



According to FZShows:
98 min, Aud, B
My Boyfriend's Back, I'm Gonna Bust His Head, Tiny Sick Tears, Agon, Call Any Vegetable (including Integrales), Blowing Discordant Sounds*, 200 Motels* (including themes from Pound For A Brown, Oh No, Envelopes, Little House I Used To Live In, Tuna Sandwich, Redneck Eats, World's Greatest Sinner, Holiday In Berlin/Inca Roads theme, Strictly Genteel, Duke Of Prunes, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Pound For A Brown, Oh No, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue), King Kong* (incl. Integrales), Plastic People, Oh No/Orange County Lumber Truck (incl. My Linda Lu)

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Original seeder lineage information:
AUD MASTER REEL > REEL > REEL > M-AUDIO TRANSIT > COOL EDIT > CD WAVE EDITOR > FLAC

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Edited (retracking and a few flaws fixing) with cooledit and shntool by av.
No audio modifications.
Last file of original seed is from another show. It's NOT contained here.



Program:

01 intro 2:24
02 My Boyfriend's Back - I'm Gonna Bust His Head 2:45
03 Tiny Sick Tears 6:16
04 Agon 0:48
05 Call Any Vegetables - Integrales 10:36
06 Blowing Discordant Sounds - tuning - [!] 2:10
07 intro to 200 Motels Suite 1:44
08 200 Motels Suite I - A Pound For A Brown (rock band version) 4:46
09 200 Motels Suite II - assorted themes for orchestra I 13:53 *
10 200 Motels Suite III - assorted themes for orchestra and rock band - [!] 7:33 **
11 200 Motels Suite IV - Who Needs The Peace Corps - Dukes Of Prunes (rock band version) 7:33
12 200 Motels Suite V - assorted themes for orchestra II 10:32 ***
13 200 Motels Suite VI - suite finale - [!] 4:55 ****
14 audience and intro to King Kong 4:06
15 King Kong 6:48
16 intro to encore 1:03
17 Plastic People 1:46
18 Oh No - Orange County Lumber Truck (incl. Linda Lu) 9:04

Total time 98:45.32


Notes

[!] = Cut during the track, music is missing.
A part for those noted in file names, another cut (with no music missing) is after the end of King Kong.

* "assorted themes for orchestra I" includes themes from: A Pound For A Brown, Oh No, Envelopes, Little House I Used To Live In, Bogus Pomp, World's Greatest Sinner and more.
** "assorted themes for orchestra and rock band" includes themes from: Holiday In Berlin, Inca Roads, Strictly Genteel, Duke Of Prunes and more.
*** "assorted themes for orchestra II" includes themes from: A Pound For A Brown, What's the Name Of Your Group, Bogus Pomp and more.
**** "suite finale" includes themes from: Oh No, A Pound For A Brown, The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue and more.

Detailed information on the themes contained in the 200 Motels Suite here:
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/songs/200_Motels.html

Sept 2005

Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
December 17, 1984
Late show

Line Up: The 1984 Band
FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Alan Zavod, Bobby Martin

Set list:
01 Intro 2:04
02 Zoot Allures 6:14
03 City Of Tiny Lights 7:19
04 You Are What You Is 4:03
05 Mudd Club (q: William Tell Overture) 3:19
06 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 3:13
07 Drowning Witch [parts on YCDTOSA3] 10:40
08 The Black Page 5:17
09 Brown Moses 2:58
10 He`s So Gay 2:33
11 Bobby Brown [YCDTOSA3] 2:45
12 Keep It Greasey (q: William Tell Overture) [parts on YCDTOSA3] 3:32
13 Tinsel Town Rebellion 4:27
14 Trouble Every Day (q: Echidna's Arf) 5:13
15 Penguin In Bondage (q: William Tell Overture, Surrey With The Fringe On Top The Deathless Horsie, Pop Goes The Weasel) 6:50
16 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel (q: Third Man Theme, Inca Roads)[incl. For Giuseppe Franco, TRF] 6:42
17 Let's Move To Cleveland [incl. Light Is All That Matters, TRF] 19:43
18 Little Girl Of Mine 1:42
19 The Closer You Are 2:04
20 Johnny Darling 0:54
21 No No Cherry 1:26
22 Cosmik Debris [parts on YCDTOSA3] 5:32
23 Stick Together 3:45
24 Whipping Post 7:28

Total time 119.57 min

1980 09 24 UMRK Rehearsals
5 min, B+
(UMRK or Zappa warehouse building now called Joe's Garage, or ... so i put LA in the file titles)

01 Nite Owl
02 Stinkfoot

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1980 09 27 UMRK Rehearsal
45 min, B+

01 The Blue Light (4:42)
02 The Radio Is Broken (incl. Twenty-One) (22:48)
03 The Torture Never Stops (q: The Birth Of Blues, We're Turning Again) (9:37)
04 Tuning (1:28)
05 Cruising For Burgers (0:30)
06 Muffin Man (4:25)
07 Doreen (2:28)

Muzikizzebest

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Haha, these rehearsals are pretty funny. Fortunately I got another one:

1980 09 20 Rehearsals
45 min, B+

01 Tinsel Town Rebellion (music = We're Turning Again) (6:27)
02 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes (19:08) (a cut at 16:24)
03 I'm So Cute (5:42) (a cut at 0:25)
04 You Didn't Try To Call Me (a cut at the end) (0:43)
05 Flakes (a cut at 1:21 & at end) (5:32)
06 I Have Been In You (5:27) (a cut at 4:07 ? a quote about Chicago from 3:55 to the cut ???) (a cut at the end)
07 Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? (2:04)
08 Peaches En Regalia (1:15)

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I found this one today and it's awesome. Parts of this show were used on Roxy, so you know there's good quality tapes in the vault. I'd love for this to be officially released.

* Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA, 08-May-1974

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jeff Simmons, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson, Ralph Humphrey, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Don Preston, George Duke and Bruce & Walt Fowler

Length: 120:42
Sound quality: Soundboard A-

1. Tune Up & Intro
2. Cosmik Debris
3. Pygmy Twylyte
4. Idiot Bastard Son / Cheepnis
5. Inca Roads [12:23; partial]
6. Montana [partial]
7. Cocktail Lounge Music
8. Dupree's Paradise [including Varèse's "Octandre", "Blue Moon" [?], Wagner's "Lohengrin", and the "Can't Afford No Shoes" riff]

9. Dupree's Paradise [last part; mislisted as "It Can't Happen Here"]
10. It Can't Happen Here [not listed] / Hungry Freaks, Daddy / You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
11. How Could I Be Such a Fool? / Wowie Zowie / Let's Make the Water Turn Black / Harry, You're a Beast / The Orange County Lumber Truck ["Orange Country Lumber Truck" not listed]
12. Oh No [also listed: "Son of Orange County"]
13. Son of Orange County [not listed]
14. More Trouble Every Day
15. Camarillo Brillo

* Track 7: a slow jazz boogie introduced by Zappa as "Cocktail Lounge Music". It quotes Wagner's "Die Valkyries".
* Track 11: "The Orange County Lumber Truck" fades out and back in.

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1969 08 08 - Carousel Theatre, Framingham, MA

This recording is believed to be the correct complete circulating recording of this date and place. It's possible that tracks 3 and 4 are from a different date and place.

01. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus (Sleeping In A Jar, 2 Guitar solos) >
02. Bacon Fat
03. Big Leg Emma
04. (in progress)King Kong(cuts)

45:33.20 minutes

The Mothers Of Invention:
FZ--guitar, vocals
Don Preston--keyboards, electronics
Ian Underwood--keyboards, alto sax
Motorhead--baritone sax
Bunk Gardner--tenor sax
Buzz Gardner--trumpet
Roy Estrada--bass, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black--drums
Art Tripp--drums, percussion
It is possible that Lowell George rejoined the band for this short US tour.

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Frank Zappa
and The Mothers Of Invention
14-Jun 1969 (Early Show)

Fillmore East
New York City, NY

Setlist:

01 intro [5:21]
02 Bacon Fat [3:53]
03 preamble [2:33]
04 Electric Bassoon Concerto (incl. parts of Little House I Used To Live In, Weasel Chamber Music and Music For Low Budget Orchestra) [16:13] °°° cut at 0:17
05 King Kong [10:56]
06 Encore Intro [1:26] °°° cuts in
07 Uncle Meat [3:46]

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The Mothers Of Invention:
french tv program "Forum Musiques" Oct. 23 1968
TV Studio, Paris, France
B&W
8m35s

A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
Sleeping In A Jar
Octandre (Varèse)

FZ--guitar
Don Preston keyboards
Motorhead Sherwood tambourine
Roy Estrada--bass vocals
Jimmy Carl Black drums
Arthur Dyer Tripp III drums
Ian Underwood clarinet
Bunk Gardner soprano sax

vidéo:NTSC
4:3
Standard (5073 kbps)
720 x 480 (CCIR-601 D1)
Source: Secam TV Broadcast > Secam VHS >TMPGEnc> NTSC DVD

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Leroy Theatre
Pawtucket, RI
23 October 1977

Early show

missing beginning songs:

Intro
Peaches En Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
City Of Tiny Lights
A Pound For A Brown
Bobby Brown

CD1
01 Conehead (spliced)
02 Flakes
03 Big Leg Emma
04 Envelopes
05 Disco Boy
06 I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
07 Wild Love
08 Titties 'n Beer (spliced)
09 The Black Page
10 Jones Crusher
11 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
12 Punky's Whips

CD2
01 E: Camarillo Brillo
02 Muffin Man

AUD transferred from master. Sound quality is excellent. Despite the missing tracks, the show is awesome too!

Nakamichi 550 Tape Recorder
Two Nakamichi CM-300 Microphones
Maxell cassettes

A totally cool A++ soundboard that nobody has.

12-Oct 1984, Bussoladomani, Viareggio, Italy
Lineage SBD: Very low ("probably 2nd") gen SBD tape->CDR->EAC->SoundForge (level adjustment, speed correction, editing, re-tracking)->FLAC Frontend

Lineage Aud: 1st gen Aud tape->HD->SoundForge (level adjustment, speed correction, tracking)->FLAC Frontend

Another "probably 2nd gen" that I see no reason to question - my source here knows what he's talking about.
This is a relatively bad sounding board, but I don't think we'll find a better copy than this. I've added the last three songs from the audience recording.

01 intro
02 Heavy Duty Judy
03 Teenage Wind
04 Truck Driver Divorce
05 Daddy Daddy Daddy
06 More Trouble Every Day
07 Penguin In Bondage
08 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
09 Alien Orifice
10 Goblin Girl
11 The Black Page
12 I'm The Slime
13 Be In My Video
14 Drowning Witch
15 Ride My Face To Chicago
16 The Evil Prince
17 Let's Move To Cleveland
18 Camarillo Brillo
19 Muffin Man
20 Joe's Garage

From audience tape:
21 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
22 Bobby Brown
23 Whippin' Post

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Frank Zappa
Culver City CA rehearsals
Unknown location
1978 12 XX

tape #3 (of 3 tapes labeled as "Late 1978 Rehearsals")

Contains lots of unreleased material as such,
or unusual combinations of released songs.

This copy: 84.46 min, Studio, B/B+

Line Up:
FZ, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Warren Cucurullo,
Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf.

Track list:

01 Bobby Brown 1:21
02 Yellow Snow Suite (fragments from Yellow Snow, Nanook, St.Alphonzo) 4:16
03 Peaches En Regalia 0:36
04 Easy Meat 31:29
05 Jumbo Go Away 3:43
06 Andy 5:38
07 Inca Roads 6:53
08 Strictly Genteel 3:42
09 Village Of The Sun (solo vamp) 1:03
10 Thirteen (incl. Saddle Bags/Wet T-Shirt riff) 2:54
11 Saddle Bags (incl. add.'Deathless Horsie figures' --> tape #2) 22:06

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Hahahaha ! Thanks, that made me laugh SOOOO hard. Good one.

Moby Gym, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
1980 12 02

According To FZ Shows:

1980 12 02 - Moby Gym, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
120 min, Aud, A-B+
65 min, SBD, A

This Copy: 120.59 Mins, AUD MC, A

01 Chunga's Revenge (q: Mystery Song #4) [6.36] *** Cut @ 2.20 (Music Missing)
02 Panty Rap [2.48]
03 You Are What You Is [3.50]
04 Love Of My Life [2.14]
05 Flakes [4.32]
06 Magic Fingers [2.20]
07 The Blue Light [4.55]
08 Tinseltown Rebellion [4.39]
09 Pick Me I'm Clean [8.11]
10 The Dangerous Kitchen (With Landini Cadences) [3.13]
11 City Of Tiny Lights (q: Sunshine Of Your Love, It Ain't Necessarily So, incl. Royal March from Aida, Carmen) [10.42] *** Tape Flip Yojimbo/Flambay Source Patch 3.21-3.46
12 I Ain't Got No Heart [1.58]
13 The Torture Never Stops (q: Mystery Song #5) [17.26]
14 Heavy Duty Judy [5.33]
15 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes [3.39]
16 I'm So Cute [1.39]
17 Andy (q: A-Hunting We Will Go, incl. Lohengrin) [9.30] *** Tape Flip @ End (Music Missing)
18 Encore Break (q: 1812 Overture) [2.03]
19 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow [2.18]
20 Stick It Out [4.43]
21 Encore Break #2 [2.33]
22 Bobby Brown [2.46]
23 Ms Pinky [2.20]
24 The Illinois Enema Bandit [10.33]

Total Time (Patched version) 120.59

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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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