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Venue
City
State
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Set 1
Set 2
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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.
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.