A Little Nostalgia For The Old Folks….

  • Side #1, tracks 1-2: 1970 11 02 - KPPC, Pasadena, CA, "The Johnny Otis Show"
  • Side #1, track 3: 1972 12 02 - Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO (Early Show)
    Frank Zappa, Tony Duran, Dave Parlato, Jim Gordon, Bruce Fowler, Malcolm McNabb, Tom Malone, Earle Dumler, Glenn Ferris, Gary Barone
  • Side #2, track 1: 1969 05 24 - Rockpile, Toronto, Canada (Early Show)
    Frank Zappa, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner
  • Side #2, track 2: 1976 03 04 - Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany (Soundcheck)
    Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis, Terry Bozzio

Label: Hoffman Records

Released: 2010

Number of Copies: 255

splash vinyl: 65, 50/50 split vinyl: 30,

red, gold, blue, green vinyl: 40 copies each

 

 

 

Side #1

  1. Frankie & Shuggie Improvisation
  2. Leave Me Alone
  3. KC Blues

 

Side #2

  1. Boogie In G
  2. Blues Jam

A Token Of His Extreme

 

 

 

Label: Mudshark Records

Released: 1981

Number of Copies:

black vinyl: 2000

green vinyl: 500

 

1974 08 27 KCET-TV Studio, Los Angeles

 

TV Studio show from which originates most of The Dub Room Special! DVD and The Dub Room Special! CD

 

Side #1

  1. Dog Breath / Uncle Meat
  2. Florentine Pogen
  3. Oh No / Son of Orange County
  4. Pygmy Twylyte

 

Side #2

  1. More Trouble Every Day
  2. Stinkfoot
  3. Inca Roads
  4. Honey Honey
  5. Pygmy Twylyte
  6. Outro - A Token Of My Extreme

A Token Of My Extreme

Original Release

   

Re-release

Label: ZX

Released: 1981

Number of Copies: 100

 

Label: Zapped

Re-released: 2019

Promo Sheets in different colors

Number of Copies: 

blue, clear, green, red, white vinyl:

50 numbered copies each

 

Featured as record 6 of the History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

 

1975 04 11 Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College, Claremont, CA (Late Show) (listed as 1974)

Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bruce Fowler

 

Side #1

  1. A Token Of My Extreme
  2. Stink Foot
  3. Sleeping In A Jar
  4. Poofters Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
 

Side #2

  1. Abra Kadabra   
  2. Chester's Gorilla             
  3. Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him A Pepsi?

A Very Stony Evening

Label: Rubber Dubber

Released: 2010

Number of Copies: 200

Promo (black vinyl): 15

  

  • Side #1: 1978 10 15 - State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
    (Late show)
  • Side #2: 1978 10 15 - State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
    (after Late Show)

Side #1

  1. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
    (Monster Version) 

 

Side #2

  1. After Show Backstage Jam

 

Frank Zappa, Patrick O'Hearn, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf 

Absolutely Zappa

Title written on Insert Cover

   

Title not written on Cover

Label: Musikerinitiative RE

Released: 1981

Number of Copies: Insert with title on Front Cover: 50,

Insert without title on Cover: 10 numbered

 

  • Side #1, tracks 1-5 & Side #2, tracks 2-6: 1978 09 08 - Circus Krone, München, Germany
    Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf
  • Side #1, track 6 & Side #2, track 1: 1970 06 18 - VPRO TV, Uddel, Netherlands
    Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar
  • Title not written on b/w Insert Frontcover: “Please note that only 10 copies of this collector´s item were pressed and sold only at the Record Fair in Aachen, Germany 3/14/1982”
  • Title not written on b/w Insert Backcover: “Charles Bukowski proudly presents: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention Absolutely Zappa at the circus live Circus Krone Munich July 1st, 1978”

Side #1

  1. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
    (listed as “Intro”)
  2. Baby Snakes
  3. Dancing Fool
  4. Easy Meat
  5. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
  6. Mother People (listed as “Other People”)

Side #2

  1. Wino Man
  2. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
  3. Seal Call Fusion Music
    '(listed as “…fusions”)
  4. Bobby Brown
  5. I'm On Duty
  6. Conehead

All You Need Is Glove

 

Label: Ingsoc

Released: 1986

  • Side #1, track 1: 1984 07 22 - Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA
  • Side #1, tracks 2-4, Side #2, Side #3, tracks 1-3: 1984 09 01 - Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga, NY
  • Side #3, tracks 4-5 & Side #4, tracks 1-3: 1984 07 21 - Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA
  • Side #3, track 6: unknown 1984 live
  • Side #4, track 4: 1981 11 17 - The Ritz, New York, NY
  • Side #4, track 5: 1981 12 11 - Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

1981: FZ, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin

1984: FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Allan Zavod, Bobby Martin, Napoleon Murphy Brock

Side #1

  1. In France
  2. Truck Driver Divorce
  3. Cocaine Decisions
  4. Sharleena

 

Side #3

  1. He's So Gay
  2. Keep It Greasey
  3. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
  4. Oh No
  5. More Trouble Every Day
  6. Penguin in Bondage

Side #2

  1. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
  2. Advance Romance
  3. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
  4. Teenage Wind

 

Side #4

  1. Dumb All Over
  2. Stick It Out
  3. Chunga's Revenge
  4. Clowns On Velvet
  5. Frogs With Dirty Little Lips

American Pageant

 

Label: Duchesse

Released: 1989

ZAIKS label (Detail)

XPA Label (Detail)

GEMA label (Detail)

  • Side #1, track 1: from “We're Only In It for the Money” (non-censored version)
  • Side #1, tracks 2-3: from “Freak Out!”
  • Side #1, track 4 and Side #2, tracks 4-5: from “Absolutely Free”
  • Side #1, tracks 5-6: “Mothermania” versions
  • Side #2, track 1: from “We're Only In It for the Money” (censored version)
  • Side #2, tracks 2-3: from “Freak Out!” (original vinyl mix)
  • Side #2, track 6: vinyl version from “Absolutely Free”

Side #1

  1. Absolutely Free
  2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  3. It Can't Happen Here
  4. Duke Of Prunes
  5. Call Any Vegetable
  6. The Idiot Bastard Son

Side #2

  1. Mother People
  2. Who Are The Brain Police?
  3. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
  4. Plastic People
  5. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
  6. America Drinks & Goes Home

And Fuck You Too

 

Label: Audrey Records

Released: 2019

Number of Copies: 200

Side #1

  1. Baby Ray And The Ferns - How's Your Bird
  2. Baby Ray And The Ferns - The World's Greatest Sinner
  3. The Heartbreakers - Everytime I See You 
  4. The Heartbreakers - Cradle Rock
  5. Ned And Nelda - Hey Nelda
  6. Ned And Nelda - Surf Along

 

Side #2

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention:

  1. How Could I Be Such A Fool
  2. Help I'm A Rock
    3rd Mov.: It Can't Happen Here)
  3. Trouble Comin' Every Day
  4. Who Are The Brain Police?
  5. Why Don't You Do Me Right
  6. Big Leg Emma
  7. Lonely Little Girl
  8. Mother People

Anyway The Wind Blows - Frank In Paris

First Release on Dark Red or Cream Vinyl

    

Red Marbled / Brown and Black Vinyl Cover

   

Label:

Rondo Lette (Europe)

Raven Records (USA)

Released: 1982

black vinyl (Original)

black vinyl

red marbled vinyl

red marbled and pale violet vinyl

red marbled and cream vinyl

 

First released on coloured vinyl (dark red or cream, also known as brown) with a deluxe colour cover. Later re-issued on black vinyl with black front and red back cover. 

 

Two other covers were also used, as well as "marbled" vinyl, which may be the same as the dark red, cream or brown.

 

1979 02 24 - Nouvel Hippodrome, Paris, France

 

Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Warren Cucurullo, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf

Side #1

  1. Watermelon In Easter Hay
  2. Dead Girls Of London
  3. Ain't Got No Heart
    (listed as “Ain´t Go No Hearts”)
  4. Brown Shoes Don't Make
  5. Cosmik Debris

 

Side #3

  1. Andy
  2. Inca Roads
  3. Florentine Pogen
  4. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
  5. Keep It Greasey

Side #2

  1. Tryin' To Grow A Chin
  2. City Of Tiny Lights
  3. Dancin' Fool
  4. Easy Meat
  5. Jumbo, Go Away

 

Side #4

  1. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  2. Another Cheap Aroma
  3. Wet T-Shirt Night
  4. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
  5. Titties And Beer   

Appleton Album

Black Vinyl Cover

   

Green Vinyl Cover

Label: Angry Taxman Records

Released: 1986

Number of Copies:

black vinyl: 120

green vinyl: 80

 

Side #1 & Side #2, tracks 1-2:

1969 05 23 - Lawrence University Chapel, Appleton, WI
Frank Zappa, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner

 

Side #2, track 3:

1974 09 14 - Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany

Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson

 

Side #1

  1. Some Ballet Music
  2. Uncle Meat Variations
  3. Eye Of Agamotto

 

Side #2

  1. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
  2. Clap & Vomit (audience participation)
  3. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue

Appleton Album Volume Two

Black Vinyl Cover

   

Dark Red Marbled Vinyl Cover

Label: Angry Taxman Records

Released: 1987

Number of Copies:

black vinyl : 120

dark red marbled vinyl: 80

 

1969 05 23 - Lawrence University Chapel, Appleton, WI

Frank Zappa, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner

 

Side #1

  1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  2. The Duke
    (Little House I Used To Live In Medley)
  3. Help, I'm A Rock

 

Side #2

  1. King Kong
  2. Interview
    (‘All you need is love’: TV Program)

Are You Ready For A Good Time Tonight?

Blue Vinyl Cover

   

Green Vinyl Cover

   

White Vinyl Cover

   

Clear Vinyl Cover

   

Red Vinyl Cover

 

Label: Zapped

Released: 2019

Promo Sheets in different colors

Number of Copies: blue, clear, green, red, white vinyl: 50 numbered copies each

 

1978 02 25 - Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany

Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf

Side #1

  1. Intro
  2. Dancin´ Fool
  3. Peaches en Regalia
  4. Torture Never Stops
  5. Tryin´ To Grow A Chin

 

Side #3

  1. German Boutique Girl Rap
  2. I Have Been In You
  3. Flakes
  4. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes

Side #2

  1. City Of Tiny Lights
  2. Baby Snakes
  3. Pound For A Brown

 

Side #4

  1. King Kong
  2. White Person
  3. Wild Love
  4. Yo Mama