Piquantique - Stockholm 1973

Label: Aids Of Spades

Released: 1984

 

1973 08 21 - Solliden, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Frank Zappa, Jean Luc Ponty, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler

Side #1

  1. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue / Kung Fu
  2. Redunzl
  3. Dupree's Paradise
  4. T'Mershi Duween

Side #2

  1. Farther Oblivion
    (listed as “Father O´blivion”) 

Poot Face Booogie

Cover Version #1

Cover Version #2

Label: The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label (TAKRL)

Released: 1974

 

  • The printed track list doesn't exactly look like the below; this is corrected and more detailed
  • There were issues with black & white paper inserts as well as others in colour covers with various colour inserts
  • Side #1, tracks 5-6 are the 1969 single versions
  • Side #2, track 4: 1966 recording of Lowell George & the Factory, produced by and featuring Frank Zappa
     
  • 1971 11 27 - The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands + Bonus Tracks
    Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jim Pons, Aynsley Dunbar, Don Preston, Ian Underwood

Side #1

  1. Peaches en Regalia
  2. Tears Began To Fall
  3. She Painted Up Her Face / Half A Dozen Provocative Squats / Shove It Right In
  4. Who Are The Brain Police?
  5. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama / Interview
  6. Dog Breath / In The Year Of The Plague

Side #2

  1. Once Upon a Time / Sofa
  2. Stick It Out
  3. Divan / Interview
  4. The Factory: Lightning-Rod Man

Poughkeepsie Volume One

Label: Parachute Recording Company

Released: 2020

 

1978 09 21 - Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

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

Side #1

  1. The Deathless Horsie
  2. Dancin' Fool
  3. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?

 

Side #2

  1. Easy Meat
  2. Keep It Greasey
  3. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  4. City Of Tiny Lights

Side #3

  1. Pound For A Brown
  2. Village Of The Sun
  3. Bobby Brown

 

Side #4

  1. Conehead
  2. Mo's Vacation
  3. The Black Page
  4. That Guy Kidding Or What?

Poughkeepsie Volume Two

Label: Parachute Recording Company

Released: 2020

 

1978 09 21 - Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

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

Side #1

  1. I Have Been In You
  2. Flakes
  3. Magic Fingers
  4. Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

 

Side #2

  1. Nanook Rubs It
  2. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
  3. Father O'Blivion
  4. Rollo

Side #3

  1. Little House I Used To Live In
  2. Tell Me You Love Me

 

Side #4

  1. Yo Mama
  2. Black Napkins

Project-Object

Label: Mudshark

Released: 1980

Number of Copies: 3200

 

1978 09 21 - Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

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

  • Side #1, track 1: Some kind of piano/keyboard solo from “A Pound for a Brown on the Bus”, some of which is probably composed by Peter Wolf
  • Side #1, track 4: The early stages of “Mo & Herb's Vacation”, a shorter version for drums, bass and marimba (exquisite!)
  • Side #1, track 5: Has a long intro like the one on Stage #6, “Is This Guy Kidding or What”
  • Side #2, track 1: The orchestrated intro from “Little House I Used to Live in” followed by a vocal improvisation by Tommy Mars, a bit of a drum solo and a fade-out

Side #1

  1. Instrumental
    (listed as “Prelude To Bobby Brown”)
  2. Bobby Brown
  3. Conehead
  4. Moe's Vacation
  5. I Have Been In You

Side #2

  1. Little House I Used To Live In
  2. Tell Me You Love Me
  3. Yo' Mama

Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975

Label: Keyhole

Released: 2014

 

1975 04 26 - Providence College,

Providence, RI

 

Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio,

Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke,

Bruce Fowler

Side #1

  1. Improvisations
  2. Camarillo Brillo
  3. Muffin Man
  4. Stinkfoot
  5. I'm Not Satisfied

 

Side #2

  1. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
  2. Velvet Sunrise 

 

Side #3

  1. A Pound For A Brown
  2. The Torture Never Stops

Side #4

  1. Montana
  2. Improvisations (incl. Chariot, Moon Trek)
  3. Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top

 

Side #5

  1. Penguin In Bondage
  2. Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
  3. Echidna's Arf
  4. Drum Solo

 

Side #6

  1. Advance Romance
  2. Encore Applause
  3. Willie The Pimp

Provocative Squats

Yellow Insert Cover 

B/W Insert Cover 

Label: Trademark Of Quality

Released: unknown

 

This is a re-issue of “200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & The LA Philharmonic / Hot Rats At The Olympic”

 

  • 1970 03 07 - Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
    Frank Zappa, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar, Don "Sugar Cane" Harris, Max Bennett

Side #1

  1. Sharleena
  2. Twinkle Tits
  3. Directly From My Heart To You

 

Side #2

  1. Chunga´s Revenge (listed as
    “The Clap”, on the original exclusively, not on the re-issues)

Side #3

  1. 200 Motels

 

Side #4

  1. 200 Motels

Puttin' On The Ritz - The Classic N.Y.C. Broadcast 1981

Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl

Released: 2014

Deluxe Edition, white vinyl w/rainbow splatter

 

1981 11 17 - The Ritz, New York, NY

 

Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin

Side #1

  1. Treacherous Cretins
  2. Montana
  3. Easy Meat
  4. You Are What You Is
  5. Mudd Club
  6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

 

Side #2

  1. Dumb All Over
  2. Heavenly Bank Account
  3. Suicide Chump

 

Side #3

  1. Jumbo, Go Away
  2. Envelopes
  3. Drowning Witch

 

Side #4

  1. What's New In Baltimore
  2. Moggio
  3. Bamboozled By Love
  4. Sinister Footwear

Side #5

  1. Stevie's Spanking
  2. Cocaine Decisions
  3. Nig Biz
  4. Doreen
  5. Goblin Girl

 

Side #6

  1. Black Page #2
  2. Tryin' To Grow A Chin
  3. Strictly Genteel

 

Side #7

  1. Clowns On Velvet
  2. Ride Like The Wind
  3. Zoot Allures

Side #8

  1. This Is My Story
  2. Whipping Post
  3. Watermelon In Easter Hay

   

Puttin' On The Ritz - The Classic N.Y.C. Broadcast 1981 Volume 1 & 2

Vol. 1 Cover

Vol. 2 Cover

Vol. 1 has the records 1 & 2 from the box above, Vol. 2 the records 3 & 4, released: 2015

Puttin' On The Ritz 1981

Label: Cult Legends

Released: 2019

 

1981 11 17 - The Ritz, New York, NY

 

Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin

Side #1

  1. Strictly Genteel
  2. Jumbo, Go Away
  3. Cocaine Decisions
  4. Ride Like The Wind
  5. Envelopes

Side #2

  1. Suicide Chump
  2. You Are What You Is
  3. Nig Biz
  4. Heavenly Bank Account 
  5. Clowns On Velvet

Pygmy Pony

White Neutral Label Cover

Spindizzie Label Cover

Label: Spindizzie/Flat Records

Released: 1979

 

  • 1973 02 24 - Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC
    Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler

Side #1

  1. Redunzel
  2. Dog Breath (listed) / Uncle Meat
    (not listed)
  3. Fifty-Fifty
  4. Inca Roads (listed as Son of the Clap)

Side #2

  1. The Nancy & Mary Music Part One
  2. The Nancy & Mary Music Part Two
  3. The Nancy & Mary Music Part Three
  4. Montana