Frank Zappa

FRANK ZAPPA

* APOCRYPHA

miscellaneous dates 4CD(r) 8.5-9.5 miscellaneous sources

A compilation of Zappa's music spanning 30 years. This was a very popular 4 CD set (released by the now defunct Great Dane label). Some really interesting gems are on this set, dating back as early as the late fifties!
For more detailed information, download an (MsWord) document here (in the style of the booklets in ´You Can't Do that On Stage Anymore´ (YCDTOSA))

Tracks
CD 1:
lost in a whirlpool / do it in c / any way the wind blows / fountain of love / deseri / story of electricity / metal man has hornet wings / i was a teenage malt shop / whiskey gone behind the / mondo hollywood / sandwich song / how could i be such a fool / agency man / randomonium / lumpy gravy dialogue outtake / in memoriam: hieronymous bosch / in the sky / remington electric razor / directly from my heart to you / twinkle tits
CD 2:
magic fingers / studebaker hoch / interview / rdnzl / inca roads / t'mershi duween / stinkfoot / down / 58:60 purple lagoon / st. alphonso's breakfast / black napkins / heidelberg / squirm / dong work / :33 moe's vacation / black page
CD 3:
suicide chump / nite owl / heavy duty judy / pick me i'm clean / teenage wind / harder than your / 45 bamboozled by love / falling in love is a stupid habit / this is my story / whippin' post / clowns on velvet / frogs with dirty little lips / in france / broken hearts are for assholes / texas medley / i'm the walrus / america the beautiful
CD 4:
world's greatest sinner / gypsy airs / some ballet music / the jelly / revenge of the knick knack people / spontaneous minimalist composition / sinister footwear / black page no.1 / while you were art #1

* MOTHER'S UNIVERSE

miscellaneous dates 4CD(r) 8.5-9.5 Miscellaneous source

A re-issue of the bootlegs: Demos, Poot Face Boogie, A Token of His Extreme, Rustic Protrusion, Remington Electric Razor and Pygmy Pony.
All put together in a nice long box 4 CD set.!
This set contains a variety of Zappa goodies. Most notably the great dutch `Sofa´ version ( 'Geef mij wat vloerbedekking onder deze vette zwevende sofa').

Tracks
Disc 1:
Bootleg: Demos
- Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show): Teenage Prostitute / A Pound for a Brown on the Bus / Nicholas Slonimsky Whips It Out / Lisa's Life Story / Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
- Studio: Doreen / Easy Meat
- Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984 Stick It Out / Truck-Driver Divorce
- Munich 31-Mar-1979 The Deathless Horsie / Outside Now Again & Again
- Studio Flambay [sleep dirt sessions] / Planet of My Dreams [Them Or Us version] / Spider of Destiny [Sleep Dirt session] / Time Is Money [Sleep Dirt CD version]
- 1981 live: Truck-Driver Divorce
- 1981 studio: Frogs with Dirty Little Lips (w / Ahmet Zappa)
- Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984: In France

Disc 2:
Bootleg: `Poot Face Booogie´ (Ahoy, Rotterdam, 27-Nov-1971)
Peaches en Regalia / Tears Began to Fall / She Painted up Her Face / Half a Dozen Provocative Squats / Shove it Right In / Who Are the Brain Police? / My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama / Interview / Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague / Once Upon a Time / Sofa / Stick It Out / Divan / The Factory: Lightning-Rod Man

Bootleg: ´A Token of His Extreme´ (pt.1) : KCET-TV studio, Culver City, Los Angeles, 6 / 7-Aug-1974 : Dog Breath / Uncle Meat / Florentine Pogen / Oh No / Son of Orange County / Pygmy Twylyte

Disc 3:
Bootleg: ´A Token of His Extreme´ (pt.2) KCET-TV studio, Culver City, Los Angeles, 6 / 7-Aug-1974 : More Trouble Every Day / Stinkfoot / Inca Roads / Honey Honey / Pygmy Twylyte / Outro - A Token of My Extreme

Bootleg: ´Remington Electric Razor´
- Passaic, New Jersey - November 8, 1974: Freak Me Out, Frank (same as on YCDTOSA #1)
- Munich 31-Mar-1979 (early show). Jumbo, Go Away [05:33]
- Poughkeepsie, New York, 21-Sep-1978 : Moe's Vacation / The Black Page #2
- unknown concert in February 1977: Dong Work for Yuda [a capella version]
- Tricky Dicky [05:49] ["Dickie's Such an Asshole"]
- Santa Monica on 11-Dec-1980: Nite Owl
- My Name is Fritz (excerpt from "German Lunch" as on YCDTOSA #5, this contains some additional material.)
- Interview ["What's the Name of Your Group?", out-take from 200 Motels]
- Stoneybrook on 15-Oct-1978: I Can't Get Me No Satisfaction
- Remington Electric Razor (a late 1960s commercial for Remington electric razors with Linda Rondstad)

Bootleg: ´Rustic Protrusion´ (pt.1)
Shop Talk [also known as "We Are the Mothers"] ["Mothers at KPFK" on Mystery Disc] / Sounds Like This [also known as "This Is What We Sound Like"] / Right There ["Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit" on Mystery Disc plus a bit of "Right There" on YCDTOSA #5] / The Jelly [last part of the CD version of "Didja Get Any Onya?" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh - plus a little extra] / Igor's Boogie [including parts of "King Kong" on Ahead of Their Time]

Disc 4:
Bootleg: ´Rustic Protrusion´ (pt.2)
Lost in a Whirlpool [The Lost Episodes version] / Do It in C ["Ronnie Sings"] [The Lost Episodes version] / The Story of Kenny & Ronnie [listed? included?] / also on The Lost Episodes] / Booger Freaks of America / Any Way the Wind Blows [The Lost Episodes version] / Fountain of Love [The Lost Episodes version] / Opus 5 / Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance [The Lost Episodes version] / Hey Nelda

Bootleg: ´Pygmy Pony´ (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 24-Feb-1973 )
RDNZL / Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat / Fifty-Fifty / Inca Roads / The Nancy & Mary Music Part 1 / The Nancy & Mary Music Part 2 / The Nancy & Mary Music Part 3 / Montana

* AMSTERDAM (68)

20oct68 CD(r) 8.5 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Early performance of Zappa and the Mothers Last track end abruptly (as if it ran out of tape)

Tracks:
Jam (incl Smoke Gets In Your Eyes) / Help I'm A Rock / Transylvania Boogie / drum duet / Dog Breath / The String Quartet / Gas Mask / Orange County Lumber Truck Medley ( (cuts)

* FREAKS & MOTHERFU*#@%! (70)

1970 CD 9 Filmore East or West

Date and location is fiercely debatable . Also issued legally as part of the "Beat the Boots" set and as "Freaks & Mother*#@%! "

Tracks:
Happy Together / Wino Man / Concentration Moon / Paladin Routine / Call Any Vegetable / Little House I Used to Live in / Mud shark Variations / Holiday in Berlin / Instrumental / Cruisin' for Burgers

* VPRO'S PIKNIK (70)

16jul70 TAPE(1gen) 9.5 TV Show

Live performance of Mr. Zappa for VPRO television. The show is preluded by an interview (with dutch overdubs).
This show was broadcast only once (in 1970) until 26nov97 when the VPRO decided to re-broadcast part of this show on radio. This tape is an off-air recording from the latter.

Tracks:
Interview / Wonderful Whino / Concentration Man / Mom And Dad / The Air / Dog breath / We Are The Other People / You Didn't Try To Call Me / Call Any Vegetable / King Kong

* PARIS (71 or 70)

14jan71 (15dec70) TAPE(?gen) 9 Palais Gaumont, Paris

Good show but I think it's incomplete since Side 2 cuts out pretty abrupt. During 'Call Any Vegetable' there are some cuts and drops of sounds.
I'm not sure about the date. I've seen 14jan71 but also 15dec70 as being the date for this show.
I also had some problems figuring out the track listing, but I think it's pretty accurate.

Tracks: (Best guess)
Side 1:
Call Any Vegetable -> Muffins -> Call Any Vegetable / The Sensini Bros / Penis Dimension (incl. Bwana Dick variation) / Sharleena
Side 2:
Dog Breath / Other People / You Didn't Try To Call Me / King Kong (violin solo, drum solo) / Brain Police

* MUDSHARK (73)

29jun73 CD 8 Festival Hall, Melbourne

Incomplete show and in wrong order. Still. nice performance!

Tracks:
Mudshark / Father Oblivion / Exercise Four / Dog Breath Variation / Montana

* THE EYES OF OSAKA (76) / LET'S DRINK SOME BEAR AND HEAR FRANK ZAPPA (76)

3feb76 / 14feb76 1.5TAPE(?gen) 9 Osaka, Japan / Munich, Germany

I believe this is the complete show. Very good performance!
Side 4 is the last part from the Munich concert a few days later (from the bootleg "Let's drink some beer and hear Frank Zappa")

Tracks:
Side 1:
Intro / Stinkfoot / Dirty Love / Filthy Habits / How Could I Be Such A Fool / I Ain't Got No Heart / I'm Not Satisfied / Black Napkins
Side 2:
Advance Romance / Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me / The Illinois Enema Bandit / Wind Up Working In A Gas Station / Trying To Grow A Chin / The Torture Never Stops
Side 3:
Chunga's Revenge / Drum Solo / Zoot Allures / Ship Ahoy / I'm The Slime / San Ber'dino
Side 4:
Filler: Munich, 14feb76: Chinga's Revenge / Drum Solo / Zoot Allures / Ship Ahoy / Dinah-Moe Hum / I'm The Slime / San Bern'dino

* DETROIT (76)

19nov76 TAPE(5gen) 9 Detroit

I doubt if this is a complete show, but it does contain a hilarious part on poodles! Great playing and good sound.
'City Of Tiny Lights' cuts over tape sides.
'Rudy The Union Man' features Flo And Eddie and Ralph Amstrong.

Tracks:
Side 1:
Stinkfoot / Dirty Love / Wind Up Working In A Gas Station / The Torture Never Stops / City Of Tiny Lights
Side 2:
City Of Tiny Lights / Titties And Beer / Black Napkins / Rudy The Union Man

* STREAMFLASH CONSERVATIVE (78 / 84)

1978 / 1984 CD(r) 8.5 New York / Stockholm

Combination of tracks from two shows, six years apart. (The cover wrongly states "1978, NYC and San Francisco")

Tracks:
- Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, 21sep78 : Prelude To Bobby Brown / Bobby Brown / Conehead / Moe's Vacation / I Have Been In You / Little House I Used To Live In / Tell Me You Love Me / Yo Mama
- Isstadion, Stockholm 14sep84: Heavy Duty Judy / Presentation / City Of Tiny Lights / You Are What You Is / Mudd Club

* ERBEBEN IN MUNICH (80)

2,3jul80 CD(r) 9.5 Munich, Frankfurt,Ge

Recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast. Most tracks are from 3jul80 at the Olympia halle in München, but at least one of the songs is from the Frankfurt show at the Festhalle the previous night. (2jul80). Sine this was for an American broadcast, certain words were edited out of the "offensive" lyric type songs !
Filler are an outtake from Lather and a non identified version of Bolero.

Tracks:
Chinga's Revenge / Mud Club / The Meek Shal Inherit Nothg / Joe's Garage / Golden Arches / Cosmic Debris / Keep It Greasy / Pick Me I'm Clean / The Illinois Enema Bandit / You Didn't Try To Call Me / No heart / Love Of My Life / City Of Tiny Lights
Bonus: Dead Girls Of London (Lather outtake) / Bolero

* ROTTERDAM (80)

24may80 2CD(r) 9.5 Ahoy, Rotterdam

Complete show from a radio broadcast. This one ws also released as the bootlegs "Personality" and "Rotterdam 1980".

Tracks:
CD 1:
Chunga´s Revenge / Keep It Greasy / Outside Now / City Of Tiny lights / Teenage Wind / Bamboozled By Love / Pick Me I'm Clean / Society Pages / I'm A Beautiful Guy / Beauty Knows No Pain / Charlie's Enormous Mouth / Cosmic Debris / You didn't Try To Call Me-Ain´t Got No Heart / Love Of My Live
CD 2:
You Are what You Is / Easy Meat / Joe's Garage / Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? / Dancing Fool / Bobby Brown / Ms. Pinky / Drafted Again / The Illinois Enema Bandit

* CHICAGO (84)

18aug84 1.5TAPE(?gen) 8.5 Chicago

Nice show. 'Ride My Face To Chicago' and 'The Illinois Enema Bandit' I found very appropriate for this city to play :-)

Tracks:
Side 1:
Zoot Allures / Penguin In Bondage / Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel / City Of Tiny Lights / You Are What You Is / Mudd Club / The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing / Dumb all Over
Side 2:
He's So Gay / Bobby Brown / Keep It Greasy / Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me / Carol You Fool / Chana In De Bushwop / Let's Move To Cleveland / Cosmic Debris / Sharleena
Side 3:
Ride My Face To Chicago / The Illinois Enema Bandit

* ROTTERDAM (84)

16sep84 2CD 8 Ahoy hall, Rotterdam

Nice (complete) show which I happen to have attend. The band keeps joking around with ' smurf' throughout the show. Sound and editing could have been better, ´Let´s Move To Cleveland´ features some great guitar solo!

Tracks:
CD 1:
Chunga´s Revenge / Teenage Wind / Truck Driver Divorce / More Trouble Every Day / Penguin In Bondage / Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel / Cocaine Decisions / Nig Biz / Sharleena / He's So Gay / Bobby Brown / Keep It Greasy
CD 2:
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me / Carol You Fool / Chana In The Bushwap / Let's Move To Cleveland / The Closer You Are / Johnny Darling / No No Cherry / Cosmic Debris / Dinah Moe hum / Whipping Post

* CHICAGO (88)

3mar88 1.5TAPE(?gen) 8 The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Tracks:
Side 1:
The Black Page / We're Turning Again / Any Kind Of Pain / Why Don't You Like? / Bacon Fat / Texas Motel / Lucy With Herpes / Just Keep Stroking That Sausage / When The Lie's So Big / Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk (cuts)
Side 2:
Sofa #2 / Stolen Moment / Murder By Numbers / -?- / Love Of My Life / City Of Tiny Lights / Stairway To Heaven
Side 3:
Whipping Post / I Am The Walrus / Catholic Girls / Crew Slut / Strictly Genteel

* ILLINOIS ENEMA Vol.1 (88)

3mar88 2CD(R) 95 The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Hilarious show where Zappa ridicules the TV-preachers in the US by singing some different lyrics to well know Beatles songs. Especially Jimmy Swaggert has it coming.
As a guest artist Mr. Sting makes an appearance doing 'Murder By Numbers'. This can also be found on the official release 'Broadway the Hard Way'.
This 2 CD set was released as a co-production of Jim Shoes & The Barking Dogs and HARVESTED records.

Tracks:
CD 1:
Announcements / The Black Page, pt.2 / Band introductions / We're Turning Again / Alien Orifice / Any Kind Of Pain / Why Don't You Like Me / Norwegian Wood / Louisiana Hooker with Herpes / Texas Motel / When The Lie Is So Big / Jesus thinks You're A Jerk / Sofa
CD 2:
Announcements / Stolen Moments / Murder By Numbers / Stolen Moments / Ain't Got No Heart / Love Of My Life / City Of Tiny Light / A Pound For A Brown / Stairway To Heaven / Announcements / Whipping Post / I Am The Walrus / False Start / Catholic Girls / Crew Slut / Strictly Genteel

* ILLINOIS ENEMA Vol.2 (88)

4mar88 2CD(R) 95 The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Second show in Chicago. Zappa continues where he left off the night before!
Also a co-production of Jim Shoes & The Barking Dogs and HARVESTED records.

Tracks:
CD 1:
Announcements / Stinkfoot / band introductions / When The Lie Is So Big / Planet Of The Baritone Women / Any Kind Of Pain / What's New In Baltimore / Stick Together / My Guitar Want To Kill Your Mama / Willie The Pimp / Montana / Inca Roads
CD 2:
Announcements / Zoot Allures / Norwegian Jam / Louisiana hooker With Herpes / Texas Motel / What Kind Of Girl / Louisiana Hooker Reprise / Peaches And Regalia / The Torture Never Stops / Theme From Bonanza / Lonesome Cowboy Burt / The Torture Never Stops, pt.2 / Announcements / Yo Cats / Packard Goose / Royal March / Piano Concerto / Packard Goose, pt.2 / Announcements / Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk / The legend Of the Illinois Enema Bandit

* ROTTERDAM (88)

4may88 1.5TAPE(?gen) 8.5 Ahoy hal, Rotterdam

The very last show Zappa played in The Netherlands, which I had the privilege of attending.
'The Torture never stops' features some ridicule of Rednecks and Cowboys. The encore ´Whipping Post´ is missing.

Tracks:
Side 1:
Stinkfoot / Dicky's Such An Asshole / When The Lie's So Big / Planet Of The Baritone Women / Any Kind Of Pain / Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk / Mr. Green / Florentine Pogin (cuts)
Side 2:
Florentine Pogin (cont) / Punky / Inca Roads / Eat That Question / Black Napkins / Sharleena / Dupree's Paradise / Merqu Sais Chicken (cuts)
Side 3:
City Of Tiny Lights / Pound For A Brown / The Torture Never Stops / Keep It Greasy / Cruisin For Burgers / Sofa / Crew Slut

* THE YELLOW SHARK SUITE (92)

17sep92 TAPE(1gen) 10 Alter Oper, Frankfurt

Live FM broadcast (from dutch radio) of one of the last performances (as a conductor) of FZ. This broadcast is different from the commercially available recording. There are some DJ's talking (in between the music, not during) but of course it is in dutch :-) .

* CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY (98)

19jan98 3TAPE(1gen) 10 Radio show

A 4-hour radio special focussing on concepts in FZ music which re-occur. The occasion was a new release of 200 motels on CD, from which a lot of music is played. Further more mostly tracks from FZ's 'serious' albums (Sleep dirt, Yellow Shark, Civilization Phase III etc.)
The comments are in dutch but there are also some interviews with Flo and Eddy (not overdubbed).
Please note: All music is from commercially available records, but is is a nice overview.