
Tracklist
- 1-1 The Downtown Talent ScoutZappa 4:01
- 1-2 Charles IvesZappa 4:33
- 1-3 Here Lies LoveMartin, Dobard 2:45
- 1-4 Piano/Drum DuetZappa 1:57
- 1-5 Mozart Ballet - Piano Sonata In B FlatMozart 4:05
- 1-6 Chocolate HalvahZappa, George, Estrada 3:25
- 1-7 JCB & Kansas On The Bus #1Barber, Kunc, Black, Canzus 1:04
- 1-8 Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme 1:17
- 1-9 The Little March 1:21
- 1-10 Right ThereZappa, Estrada 5:07
- 1-11 Where Is Johnny Velvet? 0:52
- 1-12 Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke 1:44
- 1-13 Trouble Every Day 4:07
- 1-14 Proto-Minimalism 1:40
- 1-15 JCB & Kansas On The Bus #2Barber, Kunc, Black, Canzus 1:11
- 1-16 My Head?Mothers 1:22
- 1-17 Meow 1:24
- 1-18 Baked-Bean BoogieZappa 3:27
- 1-19 Where’s Our Equipment? 2:29
- 1-20 FZ/JCB Drum DuetZappa 4:27
- 1-21 No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve 4:45
- 1-22 A Game Of CardsTripp, Zappa, Underwood, Sherwood 0:46
- 1-23 Underground Freak-Out MusicZappa 3:52
- 1-24 German LunchMothers 6:43
- 1-25 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your MamaZappa 2:12
- Dedicated To The 1982 Band
- 2-1 Easy MeatZappa 7:39
- 2-2 The Dead Girls Of LondonShankar, Zappa 2:29
- 2-3 Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?Zappa 1:45
- 2-4 What’s New In Baltimore?Zappa 5:04
- 2-5 MoggioZappa 2:29
- 2-6 Dancin’ FoolZappa 3:13
- 2-7 RDNZLZappa 7:59
- 2-8 Advance RomanceZappa 7:01
- 2-9 City Of Tiny LitesZappa 10:38
- 2-10 A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)Zappa 8:39
- 2-11 DoreenZappa 1:59
- 2-12 The Black Page #2Zappa 9:52
- 2-13 Geneva Farewell 1:38
Musicians
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Frank ZappaArranged By, Producer, Compiled By, Edited By, Lead Guitar, Vocals, Liner Notes, Remix, Engineer (UMRK), Words By, Music By, Guitar, Arranged By (Uncredited), Conductor, Voice, Effects (Fx), Drums (First Drum Solo), Guitar (Second Guitar Solo), Recorded By (Sony Cassette), Performer (Comedian)
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Scott ThunesBass
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Chad WackermanDrums
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Steve VaiElectric Guitar (Stunt Guitar)
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Ray WhiteGuitar, Vocals
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Bobby MartinKeyboards, Saxophone, Vocals
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Tommy MarsKeyboards, Vocals
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Ed MannPercussion
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Roy EstradaBass, Vocals, Voice (Asthmatic Laughter), Vocals (Swami Vocal 2), Words By, Vocals (Lunatic Vocals), Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Performer (Comedian)
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Jimmy Carl BlackDrums, Voice, Words By, Vocals, Performer (Party Animal), Drums (Rhythm Drums), Performer (Comedian)
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Elliot IngberRhythm Guitar
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Ray CollinsTambourine, Vocals
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Ian UnderwoodAlto Saxophone, Clarinet, Electric Piano (RMI Electric Piano), Piano (Acoustic Piano Solo), Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Words By, Performer (Comedian)
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Motorhead SherwoodBaritone Saxophone, Performer (Victim Of Evil Experiments), Vocals, Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Words By, Performer (Comedian)
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Art TrippDrums, Vocals, Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Drums (Second Drum Solo), Words By, Performer (Comedian)
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Lowell GeorgeGuitar, Lead Vocals, Guiro, Vocals (Swami Vocal 1), Words By, Effects (Fx), Vocals, Guitar (First Guitar Solo), Performer (Comedian - Main Customs Officer)
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Don PrestonKeyboards, Electronics, Noises (Injured Chicken Noises), Tape, Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Piano, Performer (Comedian)
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Dick KuncRecorded By (Scully Console), Recorded By (UHER Portable), Voice, Words By, Recorded By, Recorded By (At Criteria), Recorded By (Scully)
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Bunk GardnerTenor Saxophone, Tape (Documentary Recordist, Past Performance Recordings), Vocals, Performer (Party Animal), Voice, Performer (Comedian)
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Buzz GardnerTrumpet (Solo), Trumpet, Performer (Comedian)
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Kansas J. CanzusPerformer (Ballet - Biological Masterpiece), Voice, Words By
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Noel ReddingPerformer (Ballet - Dance Stylings)
- Dick BarberPerformer (Snorks - Rubber Chicken Strangulation), Voice, Words By
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Billy MundiDrums
Also credited
Also credited. Written-By: Que Martin, Ray Dobard. Music By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Shankar. Words By: The Mothers. Engineer (Remix Engineer UMRK): Bob Stone, Spencer Chrislu. Remix: Bob Stone. Engineer (UMRK): Bob Stone. Engineer: Bob Stone. Recorded By: Mark Pinske, Wally Heider. Recorded By (Ampex Portable): John Judnich. Recorded By (Scully Console): Stephen W. Desper.
Release notes
Issued in fat-box double jewel case. 16-page insert booklet (black and white, except for back and front cover) contains recording info and liner notes by Frank Zappa. A second 16-page booklet (full-color), titled “The Frank Zappa Collection” was also inserted, containing his catalog of available releases.
Marketed and distributed by ‘Music For Nations’ under exclusive licence from Barking Pumpkin Records.
No SID Mastering or mould codes on this issue.
Track 1-1: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1965, The Fillmore West, San Francisco, Calif.; Mono analogue tape on an Ampex portable.
Remix facility; Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.
Track 1-2: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
(An overdub of “The Blimp” was made to this tape by FZ whilst working at - resulting in “The Blimp (Mousetrap Replica)” with “Charles Ives” backing, to be found on
Track 1-3: Published by Gation Music.
(A cover of The Four Deuces B-Side of “WPLJ”)
Tracks 1-2 & 1-3: Recorded 1969, Columbia University, NYC. ; On a 2-track analogue Scully console. Remix at UMRK.
Track 1-4 & 1-18: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at The Ark, Boston, Mass. ; On 4-track analogue Scully console. Remix at UMRK.
Track 1-5: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 6th June 1969 at The Albert Hall, London. 4-track analogue - Remote EMI Recorders, engineer “Unknown”. Remix facility UMRK.
(Performing musicians and guests to stage did a vaudevillian ballet “extravaganza” routine in this work, together with spilling the entrails of a rubber chicken to accompaniment of Underwood’s sonata).
Track 1-6 & 1-21: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at Thee Image, Miami, Florida. ; On 2-track analogue Scully console. Remix at UMRK.
Tracks 1-7 & 1-15: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 in a Greyhound bus interior (driven by “Jake”). Recorded on 2-track analogue UHER portable. Remix at UMRK.
Tracks 1-8 & 1-9: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at Columbia University, NYC. 2-track analogue Scully. Remix at UMRK.
(Originally themes by FZ for a December 1965 USA ‘Western’ movie entitled “Run Home Slow”)
Tracks 1-10 & 1-24: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 8-track analogue at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida. (Gardner’s stage recordings are mixed with studio work on 1-10).
Tracks 1-11, 1-12: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Track 1-13: Published by Frank Zappa Music. BMI
Tracks 1-11, 1-12 & 1-13 Recorded 13th Feb 1969 at The Factory, The Bronx, NY. (Other work from this performance is on YCDTOSA Vol. 4).
Track 1-14 & 1-20: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969, Columbia University, NYC. 2-track analogue Scully console.
Track 1-16: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood, California, during a photo-session on Art Tripp’s birthday. 2-track analogue Scully console. Remix at UMRK.
(This was Sunset Sound Recorders, renamed Sunset Sound in 1982)
Track 1-17: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1968 at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Hollywood, California. 8-track analogue Heider Remote Truck. Remix at UMRK.
Track 1-19: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1967 at the Falkoner Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Recorded onto Nagra Mono analogue portable by unknown Danish journalist. Remix at UMRK.
Track 1-22: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded in dressing room, Providence, Rhode Island on Mono Sony cassette.
Track 1-23: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at Thee Image, Miami, Florida. ; On 2-track analogue. EMI Recorders remote. Remix at UMRK.
Track 1-25: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Recorded 1969 at A & R Studios, NYC. 8-track analogue (engineer unknown). Remix at UMRK.
Tracks 2-1 to 2-13: Published by Munchkin Music. ASCAP
Track 2-2: Published as well by Ganesh Music. BMI
Disc 2 is dedicated to the 1982 Band of Summer 1982, touring in Geneva Switzerland (“About Half of the Material”), Munich, Balzano [Bolzano, Italy] & Frankfurt.
Recorded analog with 24-track with UMRK Mobile. Remix at UMRK.
Liner notes ©1992. All rights reserved.
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