Frank Zappa: the 75th anniversary album by album thread

Worms From Hell is a personal fave.

 

...don’t have this one. It’s on the shortlist of Zappa I need to get still.

 

Until recently, I only had the three track vinyl version, and I really dig it. Just picked up the lenticular CD version and am excited to check it out - when time permits.

 

Don't forget..... this forum was up and running when THIS was released!
You should find a link for it, so we can see what we all said about it, when it came out.

 

...search engine comes up with zero, zilch, nada, but nothing for Feeding The Monkies....

 

Check out this thread dedicated to Feeding the Monkies....
New ZAPPA! All Synclavier !

 

...there it is! Thank you


So what’s next? Carnegie Hall ?

 

Carnegie Hall, Oct. 11, 1971
(Released Nov. 2011, Vaulternative Records)




Disc 1

THE PERSUASIONS SHOW

1. ‘I Just Can’t Work No Longer’
2. ‘Working All The Live Long Day/Chain Gang’
3. ‘Medley #1′
4. ‘Pieces Of A Man’
5. ‘Buffalo Soldier’
6. ‘Medley #2′
7. ‘Medley #3′

FZ SHOW 1
8. ‘Hello (To Foh)/Ready?!’
9. ‘Call Any Vegetable’
10. ‘Anyway The Wind Blows’
11. ‘Magdalena’
12. ‘Dog Breath’

Disc 2

FZ SHOW 1

1. ‘Peaches En Regalia’
2. ‘Tears Began To Fall’
3. ‘Shove It Right In’
4. ‘King Kong’
5. ‘200 Motels Finale’
6. ‘Who Are The Brain Police?’

Disc 3

FZ SHOW 2

1. ‘Auspicious Occasion’
2. ‘Divan Persist Of: Once Upon A Time’
3. ‘Sofa #1′
4. ‘Magic Pig’
5. ‘Stick It Out’
6. ‘Divan Ends Here’
7. ‘Pound For A Brown’
8. ‘Sleeping In A Jar’
9. ‘Wonderful Wino’
10. ‘Sharleena 1979′
11. ‘Cruising For Burgers’

Disc 4

FZ SHOW 2

1. ‘Billy The Mountain’
2. ‘Billy The Mountain’
3. ‘Billy The Mountain’
4. ‘The $600 Mud Shark Prelude’
5. ‘The Mud Shark’

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“This is Such an Auspicious Occasion"
According to New York promoter Ron Delsener's Carnegie Hall liner note, Zappa and his '71 Mothers – keyboard players Don Preston and Ian Underwood (the latter also on alto sax), ex-John Mayall drummer Aynsley Dunbar and three former Turtles, bassist Jim Pons and singer-jesters Mark "Flo" Volman and Howard "Eddie" Kaylan – only got through the backstage door because Delsener told the venue's booking manager that the boss Mother "was a very accomplished classical musician." Which was true, although the only strings in this band were on Zappa's guitar.

The complete 7:30 and 11 p.m. shows in this box were recorded by the leader in mono with a single microphone and concealed tape machine (probably to avoid union hassles). The fidelity is remarkably clear and full-bodied, even with the inevitable room echo. This is also a rare chance to hear the "Flo and Eddie" Mothers' full range of operatic lunacy and underrated small-combo instrumental drive. An LP-sized dose, Fillmore East – June 1971, had been issued shortly before these concerts; another, 1972's Just Another Band from L.A., had just been taped.

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http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/frank-zappa-carnegie-hall.265398

 

A must-buy because of the following numbers:

*King Kong: wonderful performance and solos by Don, Ian, Aynsley and Frank. Essential.
*200 Motels Finale: very good performance that segues right into...
*Who Are The Brain Police: the hard rock version, with powerful vocal work by Flo & Eddie and an intense solo by Frank.
*Billy The Mountain: the only official complete performance, solos and all. The "one hen, two ducks..." section is remarkable. I prefer the LA performance, but this is one is great anyway. Another essential item in the menu.

With the above songs you already have almost 90 minutes of top-notch Flo & Eddie-era Mothers. Not bad. Fortunately, the rest is generally fine, the Divan suite being the main exception: a complete waste of time (20+ minutes, to be more precise). The Persuasions set is nice, but I hardly ever listen to it.

The sound quality, as the description in the post above says, is really good given the way it was recorded. Clean, undistorted sound (Frank made fake stereo mixes of instrumental excerpts of this show, and they can be found on Finer Moments).

 

He had originally planned to release Just Another Band From L.A. as a double album, with "Billy The Mountain" split over two sides and the instrumental parts from Carnegie Hall filling it out. When he dropped that idea, he put together Finer Moments but ended up shelving that too. The JABFLA double album also would have had the pseudo stereo mixes.

 

Other than watching 200 Motels years ago, I've never gotten 'round to the Flo & Eddie era....and given the catchup I've been playing (paying) the past year ~ especially this past winter! ~ with the Project/Object and other vault releases, I can't go smorgasbording at this juncture.

If you could recommend ONE Flo & Eddie to start with, which would it be? Carnegie, perhaps? STIPULATION ~ strongly leaning toward the inclusion of Don Preston, so I guess that rules out Road Tapes #3. Thanks in advance!

 

Chunga’s Revenge

 

Chunga’s is a favorite of mine. I’d probably say Just Another Band From LA though, as a nice intro. Road Tapes 3 isn’t the best sound quality especially in the vocal dept. I’d save that for later.

 

Is the mono mix available on cd?

 

sadly, no

 

I don't get the joke, funny or not. Yes, it has a crazy strange title. What am I missing?

 

Any facts on this bizarre bit of "Flo & Eddie" syncronized dictation??
Was it THIERS?...or, did Frank teach them that?

 

Thanks for the response and answer to my question. Why do you figure the mono mix was not included on the big MOFO set? I seems like kind of an obvious thing to include on a set like that. Anyway, I did find a nice sounding vinyl rip "available" that I am enjoying now. The internet is a wonderful thing!

 

Road Tapes, Venue #1 (Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver B.C., 25 August 1968.)



Released Oct. 31, 2012 (Vaulternative Records)

Disc one

1. "The Importance of an Earnest Attempt (By Hand)" – 3:44
2. "Help, I'm a Rock/Transylvania Boogie" – 9:30
3. "Flopsmash Musics" – 4:50
4. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 3:59
5. "The Orange County Lumber Truck" – 20:57
6. "The Rewards of a Career in Music" – 3:29

Disc two

1. "Trouble Every Day" – 5:08
2. "Shortly: Suite Exists of Holiday in Berlin Full Blown" – 9:29
3. "Pound for a Brown" – 3:13
4. "Sleeping in a Jar" – 3:23
5. "Oh, in the Sky" – 2:42
6. "Octandre" – 7:40 (Varèse)
7. "King Kong" – 10:17

• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
• Bunk Gardner – woodwinds, voice
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone sax, tambourine, harmonica
• Don Preston – keyboards
• Ian Underwood – keyboards, woodwinds
• Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals
• Art Tripp III – drums, percussion

Original Hoffman Threads Upon Release (below)

Zappa - Road Tapes

FRANK ZAPPA -Road Tapes Track list WOO-HOO!*

 

..and, it's BUNK. with the future 'conceptual continuity'!

 

The only Road Tapes I don't have (yet). I remember listening to it and thinking "it's ok", and that's all.

 

This was my morning commute soundtrack this morning Love it, myself.

 

Not sure if this has gotten a mention in Hoffmanland yet, but I just discovered this podcast yesterday: Discography: Frank Zappa: Episode 1 – Freak Out! to Fillmore East

It's a weekly podcast that's doing a run-down of the entire official discography. It's a lot of fun. I marathoned the first two episodes at work today. Is this you hosting, @marc with a c ?

 

Google "The Tibetan Memory Trick" and amongst other esoteric examples of ephemera you'll find this from Flo and Eddie's "Illegal, Immoral And Fattening" album...

 

If anyone is interested, Sheik Yerbouti is this week's Weakest Link game.................

Poll--The Weakest Link: Frank Zappa SHEIK YERBOUTI, Round 1