King Kong - (1970) - Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa - Colaboratios

King Kong

1. King Kong 4:54
2. Idiot Bastard Son 4:00
3. Twenty Small Cigars 5:35
4. How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That (Jean-Luc Ponty) 7:14
5. Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra 19:20
6. America Drinks And Goes Home 2:39

More information in: http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/related/King_Kong.html

Frank Zappa - (1968-11-08) - the string quartet (California State College, Fullerton)

string

    * California State College, Fullerton, 08-Nov-1968

    * Also issued as The String Quartet (on clear/sunburst vinyl and CD by Flashback Records)

    * Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots II set

    * Parts also issued on the "Strong Willie Shape"

    Sound quality: B

    Label: Frank's Records PC 1101/1102, Copenhagen 1985

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Arthur Dyer Tripp III and special guests Larry "Wild Man" Fischer and Don Cherry (?)

    1. Feet Light Up

    2. Bacon Fat [Andre Williams / Brown]

    3. [wait]

    4. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus

    5. Sleeping in a Jar

    6. The Wild Man Fischer Story [Fischer]

    7. I'm the Meany [Fischer]

    8. Valarie [Clarence Lewis / Bobby Robinson] [partial]

    9. King Kong

Track 1 is a spoken intro: Zappa tells the audience not to trip on the wires lest their "feet light up". Track 3 consists of silence, soundcheck and an introduction of the next track. Tracks 4-5 are listed as parts of "The String Quartet", an early number that was later split up into the two individual pieces. Tracks 6-7 are solo performances from Wild Man Fischer ("I'm the Meany" is about the Beatles). Track 8 is just a tiny bit of "Valarie". A better "Valarie" can be found on The Ark, also in Beat the Boots. Colour covers. Pressed on both red and blue vinyl. The back cover credits "Kutekkie Remote Control. Produced by Rod'n Nodny".

In the late 80s, one of the old Mothers tried to sell the tape of this show to collectors and/or bootleggers for a "fantasy price" so high that nobody was interested. Soon afterwards, that tape was rendered worthless when an identical tape leaked out from somewhere else and someone made this bootleg from it.

(In the '60s, Zappa was planning to release a real album called Our Man in Nirvana; you can read a bit about that in the Weirdo Discography. The title, of course, is a play on Graham Greene's book title Our Man in Havana. Our Man in Nirvana also inspired another bootleg title - Our Man in Italy.)

Frank Zappa - (1984-09-01) - Kreega Bondola (Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, NY)

Kreega

Bondola

Kreega Bondola (2 CD)

Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York, 1-Sep-1984 

Length: ~120 min

Sound quality: Soundboard A-

Label: Triangle Records PYCD 078-2

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Alan Zavod and Bobby Martin

01. Heavy Duty Judy (03:05)

02. "Introduction Band" (00:49)

03. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (06:29)

04. Advance Romance (07:23)

05. I'm the Slime (04:32)

06. Be in My Video (03:22)

07. What's New in Baltimore? (02:51)

08. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (03:09)

09. Ride my face to Chicago (03:18)

10. Teenage Wind (02:42)

11. Truck-Driver Divorce (05:37)

12. Cocaine Decisions (02:51) [listed as "Cocaine Decision"]

13. Nig Biz (05:49)

14. Sharleena (08:02)

15. Keep It Greasey (03:27)

16. Honey, Don't You Want ["a Man Like Me?"] (03:59)

17. Carol, You Fool (04:03)

18. Chana in de Bushwop (04:01) [Frank/Diva Zappa]

19. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"] (14:40)

20. Intro (01:04)

21. He's So Gay (02:30)

22. Bobby Brown (02:34)

23. Crew Slut (06:33)

24. On Women (01:20)

25. Camarillo Brillo (03:28)

26. Muffin Man (02:31)

27. The Illinois Enema Bandit (09:26)

This is one of the best 1984 shows, in its entirety, with very good sound. (Some copies have been reported to list disc one as disc two, and vice

versa.) Track 20 is about "voodo mar-juh-rene underpants" and track 24 about "the Women's Movement" - in a discussion on alt.fan.frank-zappa

in March 2000 about "the dumbest or most embarassing thing Zappa said on stage", this talk on "the Women's Movement" was one of two things

that came up. JWB describes it like this:

Before the encore, somebody passes a note onstage. It has a bunch of fan-esque compliments and then it says something like "the only

thing about you that sucks is your attitude towards women" ... and then it says something about the Raggedy Ann doll and how he

should make it do some things to men who are just as dumb as the women he makes fun of, rather than sexual things. 

Then Zappa replies out of the blue, in a condescending voice, with something like, "Let me tell you about women's movements. The

only good women's movement is the one where I'm inside of them and they're holding onto the bedpost and their eyes are rolled up in

the back of their head. What do you think about that?"

Frank Zappa - (1980-07-02) - Live in Frankfurt

part 1 | part 2 | part 3

2-Jul 1980, Festhalle, Frankfurt, West Germany 
115 min, Aud, B+/B 


Frank Zappa's 1980 Spring & Summer Tour Band: 
Arthur Barrow - bass 
David Logeman - drums 
Tommy Mars - keyboards 
Ray White - guitar, vocals 
Ike Willis - guitar, vocals 
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals 


Songlist:


01 Audience
02 Chunga's Revenge (incl. Move Back 'N Sit Down, incl. Introduction)
03 Keep It Greasey
04 Pick Me I'm Clean
05 City Of Tiny Lights
06 Pound For A Brown
07 Cosmik Debris
08 You Didn't Try To Call Me
09 Ain't Got No Heart
10 Love Of My Life
11 You Are What You Is
12 Easy Meat
13 Mudd Club
14 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
15 Joe's Garage
16 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
17 Audience
18 Dancin' Fool
19 Bobby Brown
20 Ms Pinky (incl. Sing Along) 
21 Audience
22 Stick It Out ("A tender delicate song of love in two languages.")
23 Preamble to In France
24 In France (unreleased pre version/tune from In Cars)
25 Audience
26 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
27 The Illinois Enema Bandit
  

Frank Zappa - (1980-06-21) - Patinoire des Vernets, Geneve, Switzerland

Patinoire

Frank Zappa

June 21, 1980

Patinoire des Vernets

Geneva

Switzerland

112 min.

Disc 01

01 Chunga's Revenge 06:25

02 Keep It Greasey 03:06

03 Outside Now 08:31

04 City Of Tiny Lights 09:56

05 A Pound For A Brown 14:34

06 Cosmik Debris 04:10

07 You Didn't Try To Call Me 03:40

08 Ain't Got No Heart 02:02

09 Love Of My Life 01:56

10 You Are What You Is 03:22

11 fade-out 00:27 **

Disc 02

12 fade-in 00:26 **

13 Easy Meat 11:49

14 Mudd Club 02:57

15 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 03:08

16 Joe's Garage 02:23

17 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 02:26

18 Applause 01:40 *

19 1st Encore 00:35

20 Dancin' Fool 03:21

21 Bobby Brown 02:38

22 Miss Pinky 03:29

23 2nd Encore 00:41

24 Stick It Out 04:01

25 Applause 01:26 *

26 3rd Encore 00:44

27 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 02:35

28 The Illinois Enema Bandit 09:44

Frank Zappa - vocals, lead guitar

Ike Willis - rhythm guitar, vocals

Ray White - rhythm guitar, vocals

Arthur Barrow - bass, vocals

David Logeman - drums

Tommy Mars - keybboards

Frank Zappa - (1978-09-05) - Folkets Park, Malm, Sweden

Folkets Park

From FZShows:

5-Sep 1978, Folkets Park, Malmö, Sweden 

114 min, Aud, A/A- 

01 crowd noise

02 The Purple Lagoon

03 Dancin' Fool

04 Easy Meat

05 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me

06 Keep It Greasey

07 Village Of The Sun

08 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

09 City Of Tiny Lights

10 Pound For A Brown

11 Bobby Brown

12 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee preamble

13 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee

14 Conehead

15 Flakes

16 Magic Fingers

17 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

20 Nanook Rubs It

21 St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast

22 Father O'Blivion

23 Rollo.flac

24 Bamboozled By Love

25 Sy Borg

26 Little House I Used To Live In

27 Tell Me You Love Me

28 Dinah-Moe Humm

Frank Zappa- (1968-10-03) - Tivoli Gardens, Denmark

Tivoli Gardens

Frank Zappa

Tivoli Gardens, K?benhavn, Denmark

October 3,1968

45 min, SBD, A-

01 Absolutely Free (incl There's A Small Hotel, Rockabye Baby)~Teddy Bears' March ??? cut @ 0:39.030

02 In The Sky [

03 ] The String Quartet

04 Sleeping In A Jar

05 Improvisations

06 King Kong

The MOI:

Jimmy Carl Black - drums, vocals

Ray Collins - vocals

Roy Estrada - bass, vocals

Bunk Gardner - woodwinds

Sandy Hurvitz (Uncle Meat) - vocals

Euclid James Sherwood (Motorhead) - baritone saxophone

Arthur Dyer Tripp III - drums

Ian Underwood - woodwinds, keyboards

Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals

* Don Cherry - trumpet, flute, Guest (Copenhagen)

Frank Zappa - (1977-09-23) - Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Assembly

Hall

1977 09 23 Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois, Champaign, IL 

01 Knick-Knack - Tuning

02 Intros

03 Peaches En Regalia

04 The Torture Never Stops

05 Tryin' To Grow A Chin (glitch at start)

06 City Of Tiny Lights

07 Pound For A Brown

08 Preamble

09 Flakes (cuts at end)

10 Big Leg Emma (cuts in)

11 Envelopes

12 Drum Solo

13 Disco Boy

14 I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth

15 Wild Love

16 Titties & Beer

17 Preamble

18 Black Page #2

19 Jones Crusher

20 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes

21 Punky's Whips (cuts during intro)

22 Dinah Moe Humm (cuts in/cuts & tape problems until 0:18)

23 Preamble

24 Illinois Enema Bandit

Frank Zappa - 1991 (single)

Single

Single with Zappa's version of "Stairways To Heaven" and "Bolero"

Frank Zappa & Jean Luc Ponty - (1973-06-29) - Live at Festival Hall, Melbourne

Festival Hall

Ultra-Modern Stringbean (LP/CD)

Mudshark (CD)

Live in Melbourne (CD)

Tiny Nightmares (2 LP)

Festival Hall, Melbourne, 29-Jun-1973

Featured as record 1 (dark blue label) of The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (re-issued on CD)

Re-issued as one version of Tiny Nightmares by Impossible Recordworks (IMP 1.13)

Re-issued with Zurkon Music as another version of Tiny Nightmares (2 LP) by Beacon Island Records, Australia (2S726)

Also issued on CD as Mudshark by Three Cool Cats (TCC 049)

Also issued on CD in Germany as Live in Melbourne (Q 10002), with the bar code Q 10002

Length: ~45 min

Sound quality: Audience B+

LP label: ZX 3651

CD label: RXZ Records 301

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey and Sal Marquez

1. Uncle Meat (Main Theme) / Uncle Meat Variations ["Excercise 4"?]

2. Dog Breath

3. Uncle Meat (Main Theme)

4. Montana 

5. Fifty-Fifty [instrumental version, not listed]

6. Mudshark

7. Farther Oblivion [listed as "Father O'Blivion"]

The track list on the album is quite wrong; the above should be correct. Track 7 is NOT "Father O'Blivion" but "Farther Oblivion", an officially unreleased number including themes from "Cucamonga" and "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as well as the entire "Be-Bop Tango" theme. The Mudshark and Live in Melbourne CDs have another sequencing: they flip the vinyl sides around (and get the track order 6-7-1-2-3-4-5), and the cover track list on Live in Melbourne is half wrong. The Mudshark and Tiny Nightmares covers have five superimposed pictures of Zappa playing guitar (the same picture has also been used on the Shogun Records boots Brest and Thigh); Live in Melbourne has Zappa in funny glasses, making a face.