Frank Zappa · 1969
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The Ark
Boston
MA


Thee Image Club
Miami
FL

My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Those Lonely Lonely Nights Frank ridicules heckler The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley Toads of the Short Forest All Night Long Bacon Fat Gregorian Chant Little House I Used To Live In Interlude Pachuko Hop Behind The Sun

Fillmore East (Late Show)
New York
NY

Introduction Charles Ives A Pound For A Brown On The Bus Sleeping In A Jar More Sleep Improv Do The Twist With Motorhead Improv Valarie

Fillmore East
New York
NY

Early Show: Warm-Up Charles Ives Lonely Lonely Nights Bacon Fat Uncle Meat Drum Duet Right There Begin the Beguine Are You Upset? > Improvisations Run Home Slow Little March Right There King Kong Octandre
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Vocals Jimmy Carl Black - Drums, Vocals, Indian Of The Group Roy Estrada - Bass, Vocals Bunk Gardner - Saxophone, Trumpet, Flute Lowell George - Guitar, Vocals Don Preston - Bass Jim “motorhead” Sherwood - Baritone Saxophone, Vocals Arthur Dyer Tripp III - Percussion Ian Underwood - Keyboards, Woodwinds

WBIA-FM NYC New School Lecture
New York
NY

German youth activist story comments about Ruben And The Jets How Could I Be Such A Fool? (MOI) station ID how important are the lyrics Lumpy Gravy (excerpt) Freak Out / Bizzare / Sgt. Pepper / composition Gurvitz album Freak Out vs. Ruben An The Jets writing music / parody why did you get into the music biz will oldies come back / Deserie Spangles / Moonglows / construction of How Could I Be Such A Fool ? film / plumber composer FZ's Father story college / NCP / Ronny and Kenny story Let's Make The Water Turn Black (MOI) The Idiot Bastard Son (MOI) entertainment / hand signals getting into record biz Eric Clapton / Beatles / Dr. John The Fugs / Stravinsky / drugs apparent contradictions / TV access parents - children / democracy artistic immortality Modal Be Bop outro
Carmen Moore's Popular Music Class

The Rockpile
Toronto
ON

Early Show - an almost all instrumental show. Begins w/ Frank saying "Go ahead and open the curtain" Late Show - an almost all instrumental show. Begins w/ My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (instrumental) > and then they jam from tune to tune. One of the best M.O.I. performances I have ever heard! This is NOT the 2/23/1969 show.

Rockpile
Toronto
ON

Intro, Bacon Fat, Lonely Lonely Nights, Corrido Rock, Pachuko Hop, Unknown R&B Instrumental, The String Quartet, Charles Ives, WPLJ, In The Sky, All Night Long
(tuneup / greeting) Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (Let's Make The Water Turn Black / Mom & Dad / Harry, You're A Beast / Lumpy Gravy Theme) (fade cut) (Frank talks to the audience) groovy vibes / sit on the floor all night and listen to Rock and Roll Music The String Quartet (A Pound For A Brown On The Bus / Sleeping In A Jar) Igor's Boogie / Little Do-Wop (genetic experiment with rubber playthings, electricity and special chemicals) Call Any Vegetable (Revised Edition) (preparation) Return Of The Son Of Call Any Vegetable Redneck Eats Stone City / Trouble Every Day (fade cut)

Rockpile (late show)
Toronto
ON

Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, instrumental, The String Quartet, Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-wop, Call Any Vegetable, Piano-Drum Duet, Stone City, Trouble Every Day
a.k.a May 1969 and 23-Feb 1969, Convocation Hall, Toronto

The Ballroom
Stratford
CT

Jam (incl. "The Jelly"), Orange County Lumber Truck Medley
often listed as 02/??/1968

Thee Image
Miami
FL

My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (instrumental) Lonely Lonely Nights Orange County Lumber Truck Medley Toads Of The Short Forest Part 2 (Weasels version) All Night Long Bacon Fat Gregorian Chant Little House I Used To Live In Interlude Pachuko Hop Behind The Sun
Date is 3/15 or 16/68. Source - http://members.shaw.ca/fz-pomd/giglist/index.html

Convocation Hall
Toronto
ON

The String Quartet, Cruising For Burgers, FZ demonstrates hand signals and conducts the audience, Lohengrin, Trouble Every Day, Hungry Freaks Daddy, Lonely Lonely Nights, Little House I Used To Live In, Aybe Sea, Son Of Mr. Green Genes

Hartford Ballroom
Hartford
CT

Jam, Right There/Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit The Jelly Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-wop tape collage? Jam (King Kong vamp)

Queens College
New York
NY

Drum soundcheck/improvisations/tune-up, Bacon Fat, Uncle Meat, Eye Of Agamotto, Hungry Freaks Daddy, Redneck Eats, improvisations, The Jelly, improvisations, Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-wop, Redneck Eats reprise, King Kong (q: My Favorite Things, Nature Boy), Lonely Lonely Nights, Valerie, The String Quartet

Burnt Weeny Sandwich
KQED TV
CA

Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme Unidentified Percussion Piece Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus) Snork Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague Unidentified Percussion & Snorks Piece Prelude To King Kong God Bless America The Dog Breath Variations
Created by Frank Zappa. Something of a high-speed home movie, Burnt Weeny Sandwich features the original Mothers of Invention, along with Captain Beefheart. Antics of the Mothers of Invention are further accelerated by heavily processed film footage. Zappa is seen performing music from the "Uncle Meat" LP. This work was completed about 10 years before MTV went on the air.

Ford Auditorium
Detroit
MI

Improvisations, Hungry Freaks Daddy, The String Quartet, King Kong, Octandres, The Jelly, Redneck Eats, Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-wop, A Little Mozart, Valarie, Lonely Lonely Nights, Bacon Fat, Wipe Out, Bacon Fat, MOI Seven-In-One Special (7 songs at the same time, incl Louie Louie, Call Any Vegetable ?????), Trouble Every Day, Cruising For Burgers

Lawrence University Chapel
Appleton
WI

Some Ballet Music Uncle Meat Eye Of Agamotto [24:03] My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Clap & Vomit (audience participation) [10:38] The Jelly Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue Hungry Freaks Daddy [14:17] Return Of The Son Of The Hunchback Duke Aybe Sea Transylvania Boogie/Help I'm A Rock King Kong Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-Wop [31:37]

The Rockpile
Toronto
ON

Early Show: Prelude, Boogie In G, My Music, Dog Breath In The Year Of The Plague, Drums, Run Home Slow, Gas Mask, Little March, Sqweezit, Teddy Bears' Picnic, Lohengrin, Begin The Beguine
Late Show: My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Charles Ives, Jam, Some Ballet Music, Uncle Meat, Drums, Eye Of Agamotto, Jam, Lonely Lonely Nights, Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, instrumental, A Pound For A Brown, Sleeping In A Jar, Igor's Boogie/Little Doo-wop, Dom DeWild's electro-genetic experiment, Call Any Vegetable, Redneck Eats, Stone City, Trouble Every Day

Rockpile
Toronto
ON

My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Charles Ives Jam Some Ballet Music Uncle Meat Drum Duet Eye Of Agamotto Jam Lonely Lonely Nights Orange County Lumber Truck Medley Instrumental A Pound For A Brown Preamble A Pound For A Brown Sleeping In A Jar Igor's Boogie > Little Doo-Wop Dom Dewild's Electro-Genetic Experiment Call Any Vegetable Redneck Eats Stone City Trouble Every Day

Town Hall
Birmingham
UK

Improvisation Improvisation Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up Redneck Eats Sunshine Of Your Love The Orange County Lumber Truck medley Improvisation FZ preamble Bacon Fat FZ preamble Status Back Baby FZ preamble Oh, In The Sky FZ preamble Uncle Meat Some Ballet Music Redneck Eats Mozart Ballet Boogie in G (incl. Dog Breath) Encore break & FZ polling the audience Wipe Out (incl. Beguin The Beguine)
Numerous flaws

Guild Hall
Portsmouth
England

Pound For A Brown story, String Quartet, Transylvania Boogie

Royal Albert Hall
London
England

Uncle Meat, drum duet, Some Ballet Music, improvisation, Big Leg Emma, The String Quartet, improvisation, Interlude, Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra, Little Chamber Music I Used To Play, Mozart Ballet, improvisation, Louie Louie, Little House I Used to Live In, Transylvania Boogie, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, drum duet, Charles Ives, Cruising For Burgers, Brown Shoes Don't Make It

Fillmore East
New York
NY

intro Music For Low Budget Orchestra tuning & preamble to Valarie Valarie preamble to King Kong King Kong Uncle Meat Drum Duet Some Ballet Music audience screaming for encore

Fillmore East
New York
NY

intro Bacon Fat preamble Music For Low Budget Orchestra (incl. "Drums") King Kong intro to encore Uncle Meat

Mile High Stadium
Denver
CO

Hungry Freaks Daddy, Downtown Talent Scout (long version, called "The Heat's Out Every Night"), The String Quartet, Some Ballet Music, FZ conducts the audience, backstage interview w/ Bunk and Roy

Festival Field
Newport
RI

Igor's Boogie Improvisations Louie Louie Sunshine Of Your Love More Improvisations Some Ballet Music Story Of Pound For A Brown Pound For A Brown Sleeping In A Jar
Newport Jazz Festival

The Ark
Boston
MA

Big Leg Emma Some Ballet Music Status Back Baby Valarie My Guitar Uncle Meat > King Kong

Central Park
New York
NY

Jazz Rock Heavily Influenced By Al Kooper (Flute Solo) Help I'm A Rock/Transylvania Boogie Baby Love Big Leg Emma Shortly (Holiday In Berlin) Oh No/Orange County Lumber Truck
Also circulating as Montreal, Aug 1969 Schaefer Music Festival

Lagz FZ Archives Volume 6
Various
Various

August 3, 1969 Atlantic City Pop Festival 8mm (1st or 2nd gen) 1974 Apostrophe? Promo Ad Cal Schenkel's Reel (Unknown Gen) October 31, 1986 People Are Talking (Partial) KYW (master) February 19, 1988 Everyone That is except frank zappa Massachusettes league of women voters (1st gen) October 21, 1991 Your Vote TLC (Master)

Ravinia Outdoor Music Center
Highland Park
IL

Piano/Drum Duet, Passacaglia/Louie Louie/Sunshine Of Your Love, Orange County Lumber Truck medley (q: King Kong)
6-Aug 1969, Ravinia Outdoor Music Center, Highland Park, IL 27 min, Aud, C-

Carousel Theatre
Framingham
MA

The Legend Of The Golden Arches Sleeping In A Jar Jam Bacon Fat Big Leg Emma King Kong Jam

Warrensville Heights Music Festival
Warrensville
OH

Drum Solo, Some Ballet Music, Right There, FZ explains program music, String Quartet, Jam, In The Sky, Jam (incl. Chunga's Revenge chords)

Warrensville Heights (private interview)
Warrensville
OH

concert halls school / draft / composing Tom Wilson / Dick Kunk TV / drugs / violence religion Trout Mask story / NCP Mothermaina story Stravinsky / old masters / Ray Collins obscene / LSE / school music evaluation / music newspapers album packaging / FZ movie scores Wild Man Fischer story / NCP concert last night / audiences / parenting Varese / jazz / plaster casters R & B records / film editing Mothermaina story / GTO's / pop festivals musical exposure / Lumpy Gravy story Muddy Waters / names inside cover of Freak Out Beatles / Rolling Stones / reviews / set list / Trout Mask Wild Man Fischer story TV appearances in Europe

Actuel Festival
Amougies
Belgium

unknown title (w/Ashley Dunbar's Retaliation) Interstellar Overdrive (w/Pink Floyd) If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (w/Caravan) unknown title (w/Blossom Toes) unknown title (w/Sam Apple Pie)
When Big Joan Sets Up (w/Captain Beefheart)
Frank hosted the festival and sat in with some of the performers. This documents some of those performances. They occured between 10/24 and 10/27/69.

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Various Interviews (1969-1971)
Various
Various

1969 UK Radio Trout Mask interview with FZ - CB 1. interview 1970-06-18 VPRO-TV Uddel Holland 2. old Mothers / 200 Motels / Turtles 1970 German TV Lieder Liches 3. new Mothers 1971-12-04 Montreux Switzerland private interview 4. how the new group functions 5. loss of equipment / quotations 6. compositional style 7. personnel changes / trade publications / work success 8. rock blues influence 9. poster / dirty language / social commentary 10. driven to write a song / irony parody 11. wish everyone well in German 12. underground / Freak / Woodstock 13. Bootlegs / quality 14. 9 record set / Lumpy Gravy reissue 15. trends 1971-12-04 Montreux Casino Switzerland 16. FZ calming crowd during fire UK Radio Mystery Interview 17. interview
1971-08-27 Radio Seattle WA Edgewater Inn interview with FZ - Mark Volman - Jim Pons 1. intro 2. fishing from the windows 3. 200 Motels / new Mothers / Time mag quote 4. business / JCB / Freak Out 5. next releases /censorship 6. Mothers audience / album sales / venues 7. Mark answers some questions / groupies 8. FZ introduces Jim Pons / Mothers fans / Turtle fans 9. bootleg / 200 Motels / bass player story 10. advertising / how much of show is planned / old Mothers 11. new material 12. conducting 13. all albums linked together / Freak Out / whispering on WOIIFTM 14. Beefheart lyrics phone recording story / tour

Weasel Music acetate
unknown
unknown

Albert Hall Spoken Introduction Chamber Music Piece 1 Mozart Ballet Some Zany MOI Bullshit Chamber Music Piece 2
THE STORY OF THE ACQUISITION: A firsthand account from my source ... So I get a call from the widow of the great artist, Neon Park. She says, "I've been going through Marty's stuff (Neon's real name was Marty) and I have a lot of records of his. I was talking to (mutual friend) Betzy and she said you like records. Do you want them?" and, being the vinyl hound I am, I said, "You bet! I'll take 'em all sight unseen." She said, "Okay, I'll go pull the can back in from the street." She had had them all in a trash can waiting for the Sanitation Engineers to pick them up. Now I know Neon worked for many years doing album art for Warner Brothers (best known for Zappa's WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH and his string of covers for LITTLE FEAT) and was on their mailing list for new releases. Upon going through the LPs from the trash bin I found the usual assortment of product, some good, some not to my liking. But then... In an envelope addressed to Mr. Frank Zappa at his Laurel Canyon address, I found three studio acetate test recordings: a early ELO LP, a copy of Jean-Luc Ponty's Zappa tribute LP, KING KONG, and a curious disc labeled "The Weasel Music". Suspecting that this might indeed BE SOMETHING, I cautiously played it once. It seemed to be a live recording of the Mothers goofing around on stage doing what I guessed to be a mock-ballet. While light pseudo-classical piano arpeggios play (Ian Underwood?) you can hear the shuffling of feet and various antics while the crowd respond with laughter and amusement. I would imagine that it was mostly a visual presentation as opposed to an essential Zappa musical composition. I kept this relic in good condition, still in its original envelope and cardboards. I lent it to my new friend and Zappaphile, Krel, when I moved to Little Rock. He has played it only twice, recording it both times. So there you go.

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