Concert Bootlegs List
1981-1991

These are bootlegs with material from only one or two shows or from the same band. Bootlegs with material from several different concerts and from different bands are dealt with in the Live Compilations section (widespread use of "bonus" and "filler" tracks makes the line hard to draw). The order is as chronologic as possible. Here are some links back to 1967-1970, 1971-1975 and 1976-1980. There are also several bootleg boxes from the 1988 tour: The Godfather Meets the Untouchables, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage, Broadway the Hard Way in USA and Broadway the Hard Way in Europe.

1981 Tour

1982 Tour

1984 Tour

1988 Tour

1991

Halloween (LP)
Heavenly Bank Account (2 LP)

  • The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981 (early show)
  • Unidentified 1981 live date (side 1 of Heavenly Bank Account)

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

Halloween
Live in New York

Length: ~60 min
Sound quality: Soundboard A-
Halloween label: KEF Records 1-8269 (Switzerland)
Palladium, New York, 31 October 1981 label: Wind Records VAL02, Sheffield, Yorkshire

1. You Are What You Is
2. The Mudd Club
3. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
4. Dumb All Over [Stage #1 version, plus one extra guitar solo]
5. Heavenly Bank Account [Stage #1 version]
6. Suicide Chump [Stage #1 version, minus the solos]
7. Jumbo, Go Away
8. We're Turning Again [part 1]

9. We're Turning Again [part 2]
10. Alien Orifice [Stage #6 version, plus longer solo]
11. Teenage Prostitute
12. Flakes
13. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
14. Montana
15. Whippin' Post [Allman]

Tracks 4-6 appear on Stage #1: "Dumb All Over" has a guitar solo here that was edited out from the Stage #1 version and "Suicide Chump" has no solos here but several on Stage #1. Track 10 appears on Stage #6, where the solo has been shortened. Deluxe black & white cover. 150 copies. The Palladium, New York, 31 October 1981 picture disc has a photo of Zappa around 1980 wearing a red T-shirt. Live in New York pretends to be from December 31 instead of October 31. It has a black & white picture from circa 1981, printed on a blue and white cover with concentric circles.

Heavenly Bank Account

This is basically the same recording as Halloween, but with another 1981 recording thrown in as filler.

Length: ~90 min?
Sound quality: Soundboard A- (sides 2-4)
Label: Pilot/PRC Inc.

1. Strictly Genteel [possible Stage #6 source] / Introductions
2. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
3. The Man from Utopia [Donald & Doris Woods]
4. In France

5. You Are What You Is
6. The Mudd Club
7. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
8. Dumb All Over [Stage #1 version]
9. Heavenly Bank Account [Stage #1 version]

10. Suicide Chump [Stage #1 version]
11. Jumbo, Go Away
12. We're Turning Again [part 1]
13. We're Turning Again [part 2]
14. Alien Orifice [Stage #6 version]

15. Teenage Prostitute
16. Flakes
17. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
18. Montana
19. Whippin' Post [Allman]

Side 1 is an unidentified 1981 live recording. According to some sources, track 1 is one source of the Stage #6 version, in which case the recording should be very easy to identify (the Stage #6 version is assembled from the two Palladium shows on 31-Oct-1981). Sides 2-4 are the same recording as the Halloween bootleg, and tracks 8-10 appear on Stage #1: "Dumb All Over" has a guitar solo here that was edited out from the Stage #1 version and "Suicide Chump" has no solos here but several on Stage #1. Track 14 appears on Stage #6, where the solo has been shortened. Deluxe black & white cover. 150 copies.

Nasty Rats (LP / 2 CD)
Palladium, New York, 31 October 1981 (Picture LP)
Live in New York (LP)
A Petulant Frenzy (CD)

  • The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981 (late show)

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

Nasty Rats LP

Length: 28:59 + 30:39
Sound quality: "OK to fine"
Label: Laughing Clown Records Limited LC 48042 (stereo)

1. Black Napkins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Society Pages
5. I'm a Beautiful Guy
6. Beauty Knows No Pain
7. Charlie's Enormous Mouth
8. Fine Girl
9. Teenage Wind
10. Harder Than Your Husband

11. Nasty Rats ["Sinister Footwear, Second Movement"]
12. Hairbrush ["Stevie's Spanking", DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
13. Cocaine Decisions [different edit of the DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
14. Make a Business ["Nig Biz", DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
15. The Torture Never Stops

Tracks 12-14 have been officially released on the DUB ROOM SPECIAL video, track 13 in a slightly edited version.

Released in 1983. The front cover has a cartoon drawing on yellow background of Zappa in an orgy situatuion. No artist is credited. The package includes a fold-out poster of the same drawing on orange paper. The cover also lies: "The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Composed, Performed and Produced by Frank Zappa". Claims to be marketed by Laughing Clown Records Limited, 48 Wardour Street, London; manufactured and distributed by Deadand Productions Limited; and printed by James Uptan Limited, England. 500 numbered copies.

Nasty Rats Double CD

Label: Massive Attack Discs 990017/18

1. Black Napkins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Society Pages
5. I'm a Beautiful Guy
6. Beauty Knows No Pain
7. Charlie's Enourmous Mouth
8. Fine Girl
10. Teenage Wind
11. Harder Than Your Husband
12. Nasty Rats [either "Bamboozled by Love" or part of the second movement of "Sinister Footwear"]
13. Sinister Footwear [second movement]
14. Stevie's Spanking
15. Cocaine Decisons
16. Nig Biz
17. I Want You Tonight ["Doreen"]
18. Goblin Girl
19. The Torture Never Stops

This double-CD version is much longer than the LP. It also includes radio announcements. Released late in 1999.

Palladium, New York, 31 October 1981 (Picture LP)

The Palladium, New York, 31 October 1981 picture disc is from the same concert, but in worse sound quality. It's also a bit different:

1. Black Napkins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Society Pages
5. I'm a Beautiful Guy
6. Beauty Knows No Pain
7. Charlie's Enormous Mouth

8. Nasty Rats ["Sinister Footwear, Second Movement"]
9. Hairbrush ["Stevie's Spanking", DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
10. Cocaine Decisions [different edit of the DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
11. Make a Business ["Nig Biz", DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
12. Doreen
13. Goblin Girl
14. Zoot Allures

Tracks 1-11 are also on Nasty Rats, where "Nig Biz" fades out; it's complete here. "Zoot Allures" wasn't played that night; instead, "The Black Page #2" followed "Goblin Girl". Whether track 14 is "The Black Page #2" or another night's "Zoot Allures" is not known. 

Live in New York

Label: Juke Box Records, London (more likely to be from Italy)

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

1. Black Napkins (06:51)
2. Montana (03:47)
3. Easy Meat (06:49)
4. I'm a Beautiful Guy (01:41)
5. Beauty Knows No Pain (02:21)

6. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement (06:54)
7. Stevie's Spanking (06:00)
8. Cocaine Decisions (03:35)
9. Nig Biz (05:13)
10. Doreen (02:06)
11. Goblin Girl (01:49)
12. The Black Page #2 (03:48)

Some or all copies on clear vinyl. Black-on-yellow cover; quite ugly, with artist, title, date (given as "12/31/1981") and label on front, and glamour shot of Zappa with electric guitar on back. 

A Petulant Frenzy (CD)

Label Number: Moustache Magic Music (MMM-04-35)
Year of Release: 2004
Show Location - Date: Palladium, NYC - 10/31/81 (late)
Time: 60:42

1. Black Napkins
2. Montana
3. I’m A Beautiful Guy
4. Beauty Knows No Pain
5. Charlie’s Enormous Mouth
6. Fine Girl
7. Teenage Wind
8. Harder Than Your Husband
9. Bamboozled By Love
10. Cocaine Decisions
11. Nig Biz
12. Doreen
13. Goblin Girls
14. The Black Page #2
15. Trying To Grow A Chin
16. Strictly Genteel

 

Dump All Over (LP)

  • The Palladium, New York, 01-Nov-1981

Matrix: FZ-1983-2 A/B

1.You Are What You Is
2. Mudd Club
3. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
4. Dumb All Over
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. Suicide Chump
7. Jumbo, Go Away
8. We're Turning Again

9. Envelopes
10. Teenage Prostitute
11. Flakes
12. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
13. Montana
14. Whippin' Post [Allman]

200 copies were made on yellow vinyl, and 100 on green. The above track list is printed on the cover, has not yet been confirmed, but looks sort of credible.

Assault on New York - The Toxic Shock Trilogy (3-LP box)
Drowning Witch (Toxic Shock Part I) (LP)
Standing Room Only ... Arf! (Toxic Shock Part II) (LP)
Clownz on Velvet (Toxic Shock Part III) (LP)

  • The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981 (late show)
  • The Ritz, New York, 17-Nov-1981

Issued as a 3-LP box and three separate records (Standing Room Only ... Arf! issued in two variant covers - some subtitled plainly "Standing Room Only"). Drowning Witch re-issued with 'Tis the Season to be Jelly as Thigh.

Length: 3x~45 min?
Sound quality: FM radio A-
Label: Magpie Records MGP 3001-3003

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman and special guest Al DiMeola

1. Bamboozled by Love
2. Stevie's Spanking [DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
3. Cocaine Decisions [different edit of the DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]
4. Nig Biz [DUB ROOM SPECIAL version]

5. Drowning Witch [listed as "The Drowning Witch"]
6. What's New in Baltimore? [not listed]
7. Moggio [not listed]

8. Easy Meat
9. The Mudd Club
10. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
11. Dumb All Over [part 1, not listed]

12. Dumb All Over [part 2, not listed]
13. Heavenly Bank Account
14. Suicide Chump
15. Jumbo, Go Away

16. "While I Tune My Guitar"
17. Zoot Allures
18. Clownz on Velvet [with Al DiMeola]

19 Strictly Genteel
20. This is My Story [Forrest/Levy]
21. Whipping Post [Allman] [reggae version]
22. Watermelon in Easter Hay

According to the cover, side 1 is from the Palladium, and sides 2-6 are from the Ritz. (When Guitar Player Magazine conducted a poll in the early 1990s, the Ritz concert was voted "BEST CONCERT BY ANYONE, ANYWHERE, EVER".) A more comprehensive Ritz concert issue was Zappa in New York 81.

  • Tracks 2-4 have been officially released on the DUB ROOM SPECIAL video, with track 3 slightly edited. Between tracks 1-2 on this album you can hear the beginning and end of the second movement of "Sinister Footwear", which was played but edited out, and after track 4 you can hear the start of "Doreen".
  • The entire first guitar solo in "Drowning Witch" on Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch is taken from this recording, but this is a different, edited version.
  • Tracks 11 and 12 are not listed on the album cover, which instead lists track 10 as being split over the side break, but the listing above is correct.
  • Track 20 was originally recorded by Gene & Eunice, with Johnny's Combo (Johnny was Johnny Otis, inspiration for Zappa's moustache) on the Alladin label (3282) on 17-Feb-1955, and peaked at #8 on the R&B chart on 21-May-1955.
  • Tracks 20-21 also appear on Apocrypha.
  • Track 16 is a short solo by Tommy Mars, while Zappa tunes his guitar.
  • Special guest Al DiMeola plays a solo on "Clownz on Velvet". (Zappa didn't play with him, because they couldn't hook up enough guitars.) Some people refuse to believe that it's the real Al DiMeola, but it is.

Drowning Witch (Toxic Shock Part I) has a yellow xerox paper glued to a white cardboard cover. It is simply a pretty ugly drawing of Zappa, backed by the letters ZAPPA, plus title, track list, venues and dates. The record labels say "Magpie Records & Ozz-Good Productions present: THE RAMBLERS".

Many of the boxes included a bonus 7" single containing:

Side 1. Envelopes [17-Nov-1981]
Side 2. Black Napkins [31-Oct-1981]

Also, the 3 LPs have been issued in one single sleeve with a xerox insert. The insert has pictures of the three album covers and an overview of the set (written by a non-bootlegger).

(There is a bootleg called Frankie Boy - Toxic Shock Part IV, but that has nothing to do with this series, except maybe that the bootleggers behind them are the same.)

Zappa in New York 81 (2 CD)

  • The Ritz, New York, 17-Nov-1981 (When Guitar Player Magazine conducted a poll in the early 1990s, the Ritz concert was voted "BEST CONCERT BY ANYONE, ANYWHERE, EVER".)

Length: 76:57+74:19
Sound quality: Soundboard A- (partly A & B+)
Label: FZ17111981-1/2

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, drum roadie Brian Peters and special guest Al DiMeola.

Correct track list on back cover:

1. Treacherous Cretins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. You Are What You Is
5. Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
7. Dumb All Over
8. Heavenly Bank Account
9. Suicide Chump
10. Jumbo, Go Away
11. Envelopes
12. Drowning Witch [source change in mid-track]
13. What's New in Baltimore?
14. Moggio
15. Bamboozled by Love
16. Sinister Footwear [2nd Movement]

17. Stevie's Spanking [partial]
18. Cocaine Decisions
19. Nig Biz [cut to better source in mid-track]
20. Doreen [very short]
21. Goblin Girl
22. The Black Page #2
23. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
24. Strictly Genteel [partial]
25. Clownz on Velvet
26. Ride Like the Wind [Cristopher Cross]
27. Zoot Allures [50 seconds from other source in mid-track]
28. This Is My Story [Forrest/Levy]
29. Whippin' Post
30. Watermelon in Easter Hay

Tracks 12-14 and parts of 25-26 also appear on Drowning Witch (Toxic Shock Part I). Tracks 28-29 also appear on Apocrypha (same edits).

  • Track 1 is played behind the band introduction. If the whole piece was played, this is the end part of it.
  • At the beginning of track 22 Zappa's voice says something like "Hi, this is Frank Zappa at 92.7 FM ... at the [LIR Garden City?] ... is the radio station".' A short "Smoke on the Water" theme appears in the solo.
  • Disc two starts at the line "Then she did exclaim"; the first bit of "Stevie's Spanking" is missing.
  • A bit of the beginning of "Strictly Genteel" is missing.
  • "Clownz on Velvet" and "Ride Like the Wind" features Al DiMeola. (Zappa didn't play with him, because they couldn't hook up enough guitars.) "Ride Like the Wind" is a cover, sung by the drum roadie, Brian Peters. This track includes what has elsewhere been called "While I Tune My Guitar", a Tommy Mars solo-ette. Zappa says that Cris Cross (Cristopher Cross, not Kriss Kross the rapping grade-school kids with their clothes on backwards :) was supposed to join them on stage but "couldn't make it tonight"; hence the roadie gets to sing the song as he knows the words.
  • "This Is My Story" was originally recorded by Gene & Eunice, with Johnny's Combo (Johnny was Johnny Otis, inspiration for Zappa's moustache) on the Alladin label (3282), 17-Feb-1955, and peaked at #8 on the R&B chart 21-May-1955.
  • The end of the last track on disc two cuts to a radio station announcer.

Released in 2001. The concert is patched together from two or more sources. A good job, though bars are missing in places. There are more such source cuts than indicated above.

Front cover copies from the official Zappa in New York album, with the city photo replaced with a picture of Zappa crouching on stage, presumably addressing the audience. After the original "in New York", the bootleggers have Photoshopped an "81" in the same colour. In places we read "Live at Ritz, NYC, 11/17/1981".

From Adam:

By the way, the Zappa in NY '81 bootleg comes from WLIR-FM, which broadcast the concert in near-entirety. "Treacherous Cretins" is only seconds long before he talks to the audience, and other songs are hastily edited. The show was taped at The Ritz, then on 11th Street in Greenwich Village. Throughout, Zappa apologized for the "conditions," meaning the fact that we had to stand for the entire set. That's why he dropped the phoney encore game and told the audience to just pretend they walked off and came back.

Uptown in Chicago Part 1 (CD)

  • Uptown Theatre, Chicago, November 27th, 1981 (early show)

Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: RXZ CD 346a

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

1. Treacherous Cretins
2. Intro
3. Cosmik Debris
4. You Are What You is
5. Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
7. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
8. The Dangerous Kitchen
9. The Blue Light
10. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement
11. Stevie's Spanking
12. Cocaine Decisions
13. Nig Biz
14. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
15. Alien Orifice

Part 2 of this bootleg is as of yet unknown, but the pieces played in the rest of the show were "Teenage Prostitute", "Flakes", "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes", "Yo' Mama", "Joe's Garage", "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?", "The Closer You Are" [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson], "Johnny Darling" [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] and "City of Tiny Lights" (plus some "outros"). The second show has been bootlegged as Beauty Knows No Pain.

Beauty Knows No Pain (CDR)

Uptown Theatre, Chicago, November 27th, 1981 (late show)?

Sound quality: Audience B+

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

This track list has been confirmed:

1. Zoot Allures
2. Montana
3. I'm a Beautiful Guy
4. Beauty Knows No Pain
5. Charlie's Enormous Mouth
6. Fine Girl
7. Teenage Wind
8. Harder Than Your Husband
9. Bamboozled by Love
10. Cocaine Decisions
11. Nig Biz
12. Doreen
13. Goblin Girl
14. The Black Page #2
15. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
16. Strictly Genteel

Before we got that one, we used to have this one:

1. Zoot Allures
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Fine Girl
5. Teenage Wind
6. Harder Than Your Husband
7. Bamboozled by Love
8. King Kong
9. Sharleena
10. Drowning Witch
11. What's New In Baltimore?
12. Moggio
13. Dumb All Over
14. Goblin Girl
15. The Black Page #2
16. Strictly Genteel

This one matches what was played at the concert; the confirmed one does not - in fact it doesn't match any concert, so the record has to be put together from different concerts. If you stay tuned, maybe we'll have this darkness dispelled in a year or two.

Realistic Dream (2 LP)

  • Isstadion, Stockholm, 7-May-1982

Length: ~100 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: Tangooo Records 820 507 (82-05-07 - the recording date!)

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

1. Instrumental [falsely listed as "Chunga's Revenge"]
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. You Are What You Is
5. The Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

7. Dumb All Over
8. Heavenly Bank Account
9. Drowning Witch
10. Envelopes
11. Flakes [not listed]

12. We're Turning Again
13. Alien Orifice
14. Disco Boy
15. Teenage Wind
16. Truck Driver Divorce
17. The Blue Light [edit]

18. Tell Me You Love Me [edit]
19. Strictly Genteel
20. Approximate
21. Cosmik Debris
22. Whippin' Post [Allman]
23. Bobby Brown
24. No No Cherry [Caesar/Gray]

Good audience recording. Sides overlap by some thirty seconds. Track 1 is partial (first part missing), and tracks 17 and 18 have edits in them. Zappa mentions waiting for Jimmy Carter to show at the hotel, and later talks about sending ex-presidents to visit Sweden. Thomas Nordegg (Zappa's gopher employee) is introduced with the band. On this tour, he was videotaping almost every show and a lot of backstage footage.

The cover has no band, date or venue info. It does have a slightly green-tinted picture of young Frank in "university hat" (from the same period as the back cover photo on Ruben & the Jets)  on a simple blue background. 400 copies made. The label logo seems to be a human being drawn with some body parts resized to reflect the number of sensory receptors on them: hands, feet, lips are all very large.

Informants: "U", Jon Naurin

What's New in Berlin? (CD)
Ship Arriving too Late for Stevie's Spanking in Berlin (CD)

  • Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 12-May-1982

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

What's New in Berlin?

Length: 79:53
Label: HW021 (cover) / Regency REG.001 (disc)

1. (00:00) Black Napkins
2. (06:40) Dancin' Fool
3. (10:02) RDNZL
4. (19:02) Advance Romance
5. (25:07) We're Turning Again
6. (29:55) Alien Orifice
7. (33:50) Drowning Witch [cut]
8. (36:55) Dead Girls of London [Zappa/Shankar]
9. (39:36) Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
10. (41:22) What's New in Baltimore?
11. (46:46) Möggio [not listed]
12. (49:04) Tinsel-Town Rebellion [including 31 seconds of "Approximate"]
13. (53:31) Sinister Footwear, Second Movement
14. (62:59) Stevie's Spanking
15. (70:36) Cocaine Decisions
16. (74:19) Nig Biz [listed as "Nigger Biznis"]
17. (79:26) Disco Boy [fade end] [listed as "Disco Bar"]

The CD has only one track, 79 minutes and 53 seconds long. From 51:45 to 52:16, the "Tinsel-Town Rebellion" lyrics are sung to an "Approximate" backing. "Drowning Witch" is cut right before the guitar solo (rats!) and "Disco Boy" starts to fade out slowly very very early.

Limited, numbered 500-copy edition. Front cover shows a close-up of Zappa with microphone; back cover has an upper-body shot of Zappa with microphone and guitar.

Ship arriving Too Late for Stevie's Spanking in Berlin

Label: FZ BE 07

  1. Black Napkins (06:40)
  2. Dancing Fool (03:34)
  3. RDNZL (08:47)
  4. Advance Romance (06:05)
  5. We’re Turning Again (04:48)
  6. Alien Orifice (03:55)
  7. Drowning Witch (03:05) 
  8. Dead Girls of London (02:41) [Zappa/Shankar]
  9. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? (01:50)
  10. What's New in Baltimore? (07:38)
  11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion (04:26)
  12. Sinistwer Footwear [second movement] (09:28)
  13. Stevies Spanking (07:37)
  14. Cocaine Decisions (03:45)
  15. Nig Biz (05:05)

The cover uses the Ship Arriving too Late to Save a Drowning Witch illustration, with photos of Zappa and Vai (?) in the ship and hat fields, respectively. 

Charlie's Favourite (2 LP)
Pink Elephants Never Cry (But They Sure Screw Like Hell) (2 LP)

  • The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 15-May-1982
  • Abridged to Pink Elephants Never Cry (But They Sure Screw Like Hell) on Panic Records / Pink Moustache

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

Charlie's Favourite

Length: 115 min
Sound quality: OK for the first three sides
Label: SLEEV 22

1. Zoot Allures / Introductions
2. Sofa #1
3. RDNZL
4. Advance Romance

5. We're Turning Again
6. Alien Orifice
7. Harder Than Your Husband
8. Bamboozled by Love
9. Young & Monde [1982 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]

10. Tinsel-Town Rebellion [interrupted]
11. Approximate
12. Cosmik Debris
13. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement
14. Stevie's Spanking
15. Cocaine Decisions
16. Nig Biz [partial]

17. Disco Boy
18. Teenage Wind
19. Truck-Driver Divorce
20. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
21. No No Cherry [Caesar/Gray]
22. Strictly Genteel

"Tinsel-Town Rebellion" is interrupted as people throw stuff onto the stage, but resumed and finished. "Nig Biz" is cut at 03:20 because the vinyl side ended there. The cover (in black & white, printed on light blue paper) has a crowd of faceless people, with minimal info. There is no track listing anywhere. The labels has STEMRA on them. It is identified as a "Graham Bedford Production" and dedicated to "our friend Charlie". It is British.

Pink Elephants Never Cry (But They Sure Screw Like Hell)

Sound quality: worse than Charlie's Favourite
Label: Panic Records / Pink Moustache

1. Zoot Allures / Introductions
2. Sofa #1
3. RDNZL

4. Advance Romance
5. We're Turning Again
6. Alien Orifice
7. Harder Than Your Husband

8. Bamboozled by Love
9. Young & Monde [1982 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
10. Tinsel-Town Rebellion [interrupted]
11. Approximate
12. Cosmik Debris [part 2]

13. Cosmik Debris [part 2]
14. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement [listed as "Wild Love Improvisations"]
15. Stevie's Spanking

("Tinsel-Town Rebellion" is interrupted as people throw stuff onto the stage, but resumed and finished.)

As an Am (LP)

  • Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981
  • Sporthalle, Cologne, 21-May-1982

Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots set.

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: Discreep

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

1. That Makes Me Mad [interview]
2. Young & Monde [1982 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
3. Sharleena
4. Black Napkins
5. The Black Page #2
6. The Torture Never Stops

  • Side 1 is live in Cologne 21-May-1982.
  • Side 2 is live in New York 31-Oct-1981.

Track 1, "That Makes Me Mad", is an interview segment that goes like this:

ZAPPA: ...You know it is not as a matter of fact the bootleg problem as it applies to the work that I do is very much out of control, and so the FBI is working on it for us. And we supply them with examples of all the various things that we've found that've been bootlegged. And they've been checkin' up on ... tryin' to find out where the things are coming from. Because as far as my material goes it's a very big business.

INTERVIEWER: Really.

ZAPPA: I don't think that it's the work of just a couple of individual guys who went out and made a record for fun. It's some, one or two people who are releasing vast quantities of material. Last year twelve bootlegs, in the last year!

INTERVIEWER: Phew ...

ZAPPA: And one of them has all the songs on the next album that's coming out in September, they've already got the stuff recorded live in concert before I can even release it on a record, and that makes me mad.

The cover is black & white,  with Zappa's face pasted onto some sheet music. The vinyl boot was a 500-copy numbered edition with an 8-page booklet; the Beat the Boots version was made from copy #483. The title is a bit funny: the way most German speakers (in, say, Cologne) would prounounce it, it would sound exactly like most German speakers pronouncing the English "S&M".

Dweezil Has Messed My Mind Up (2 LP)

  • Stadthalle, Vienna, 28-Jun-1982

Length: ~45 min
Label: "Bizarre" RS2806

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman and Dweezil Zappa (Thomas Nordegg?)

1. Strictly Genteel
2. Doreen
3. The Black Page #2
4. Cocaine Decisions
5. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
6. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
7. Cosmik Debris
8. Video Guitar Solo [with Thomas Nordegg]
9. The King Kong Variations
10. Drowning Witch
11. Bobby Brown
12. Sofa
13. Stevie's Spanking [with Dweezil]

Track 8 is mysterious. Thomas Nordegg was employed by Zappa as a gopher, and he also videotaped concerts on the 1982 tour. Track 13 has Steve Vai and Dweezil duking it out. The album was issued in 555 copies on coloured vinyl. The liner notes say: "Promotion Use Only rec. engeneer: Willy 'the pimp' Forster; mixing engineer: Maxwell Smart, foto: G. Cramp; coverart and coordination: Aaron 'klick' Lichtblau; produced by limited production for bizare rec.", sic.

Underground Record (2 LP)
Bolzano Part I (picture LP)
Bolzano Part II (picture LP)

  • Campo Communale, Bolzano, 3-Jul-1982
  • Record 1 also issued as Bolzano Part I (picture disc; 400 copies made)
  • Record 2 also issued as Bolzano Part II (picture disc; 350 copies made)

Length: ~90 min
Sound quality: "Recording levels too high, but OK"
Label: Loonar Tunes / ALM Ltd (AUS 1983)

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

1. Born to Suck [early title of "The Mammy Anthem"]
2. You Are What You Is
3. The Mudd Club
4. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
5. Drowning Witch [one source for the Stage #3 version]
6. Envelopes
7. Dancin' Fool
8. RDNZL
9. The Black Page #2 [including "Them or Us" on Them or Us]
10. City of Tiny Lites
11. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
12. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
13. Mary Lou [Obie Jesse]
14. Strictly Genteel
15. The Illinois Enema Bandit

Parts of track 5 ended up on Stage #3. The solo on track 9 became the title track on Them or Us. Some tracks were used on Stage #5, disc 2. Underground Record was pressed in 450 copies, and it seems that some of those were picture discs as well.

Parco Redecesio, Milan, July 6, 1982 (2 CD/CD-R)

  • Parco Redecesio, Milano, 07-Jul-1982 (!)

Label: LZCD 043 (non-CD-R)

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

Sound quality: "excellent audience"

1. Zoot Allures
2. You Are What You Is
3. Mudd Club
4. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
5. Joe's Garage
6. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
7. Marqueson's Chicken
8. Fine Girl [Stage #1 version]
9. Zomby Woof [Stage #1 version]
10. King Kong (including "It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary" on Guitar [Zappa/Gershwin/Gershwin/Heyward/Primrose])
11. Sharleena

12. Doreen
13. Goblin Girl / The Black Page#2 (including "Do Not Try This At Home" on Guitar)
14. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
15. Stevie's Spanking
16. Tell Me You Love Me
17. Sofa #2
18. No, No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
19. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou [Donald & Doris Woods / Obie Jesse]
20. Volare [Domenico Modugno]
21. Bobby Brown
22. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson]
23. The Illinois Enema Bandit

This is the concert depicted on the Man from Utopia cover - with mosquitos everywhere and the crowd throwing syringes at the band. (Zappa gave the date as July 6, but it's really July 7.) The CD-R discs have colour-copied stickers on them, and came in two separate plastic sleeves with inlays with pictures from Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar and Guitar. The LZ double CD has a "different cover".

Volare (LP)

  • Sporthalle, Cologne, 21-May-1982
  • Parco Redecesio, Milan, 07-Jul-1982

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B+ (Cologne)
Label: FZ 22

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

1. Volare [Domenico Modugno]
2. Zoot Allures [including "When No One Was No One" on Guitar] / Introduction
3. Sofa #1
4. Fine Girl
5. Easy Meat [part 1]

6. Easy Meat [part 2]
7. Dead Girls of London [Zappa/Shankar]
8. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
9. What's New in Baltimore?
10. Moggio

"Volare" is live in Milano 07-Jul-1982 - the Man from Utopia cover concert. All other tracks are live in Cologne, 21-May-1982.

This version of "Zoot Allures" gave us the solo "When No One Was No One" on Guitar. "Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously" is introduced and explained in a kind of funny way. A European bootleg with deluxe colour cover.

Autographe '82 (LP)

  • Italy, ??-Jul-1982

Length: ~45 min
Label: PLC Records

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

1. Intro [the end of "The Mammy Anthem"]
2. Bamboozled by Love
3. Young & Monde [1982 title of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
4. Tinsel-Town Rebellion / Approximate

5. Drowning Witch / The Black Page #2
6. Tell Me You Love Me
7. Stevie's Spanking
8. Sofa #1

Track 5 here has been mentioned with the word "end" after it. Significance unknown. Deluxe black & white cover. A numbered 1000 copies.

Striptease (LP)
Encores (LP)

  • Various live 1982

Re-issued as Encores (A Zapped Production 001) in 300 numbered copies on yellow vinyl.

Label: PV Records

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

1. Bobby Brown
2. Sofa
3. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
4. Mary Lou [Obie Jesse]
5. Stevie's Spanking
6. Whippin' Post [Allman]
7. Cocaine Decisions
8. Nig Biz
9. Strictly Genteel
10. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson]
11. King Kong

  • Tracks 1-6 & 11 are live in Munich 26-Jun-1982.
  • Tracks 7-9 are live in Berlin 12-May-1982.
  • Track 10 is live in Milano 7-Jul-1982.

Issued on yellow vinyl in a 50-copy limited edition.

All You Need Is Glove (2 LP)
Z: All You Need Is Glove (CD)

  • Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York, 1-Sep-1984
  • Palace Theater, Hollywood, July 1984
  • New York and Santa Monica 1981 bonus tracks

Sound quality: All soundboard, but some kind of tinny, and with way too much Alan Zavod in the mix
Length: ~80 min
Label: Ignsoc HR 2911 (LP) / Raven Records RR013 (CD)

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Chad Wackerman, Scott Thunes, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bobby Martin and Alan Zavod - and Napoleon Murphy Brock on the Hollywood tracks, and special guests Johnny "Guitar" Watson and George Duke on "In France"

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

5. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
6. Advance Romance
7. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
8. Teenage Wind

9. He's So Gay
10. Keep It Greasey
11. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
12. Oh No
13. More Trouble Every Day
14. Penguin in Bondage

15. Dumb All Over [not on the CD]
16. Stick It Out [not on the CD]
17. Chunga's Revenge [not on the CD]
18. Clownz on Velvet [partial; not on the CD]
19. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [with over-dubs; not on the CD]

  • Track 1 is live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984, with Johnny "Guitar" Watson and George Duke - a soundboard A+ recording. Apocrypha has a version of the same performance, but from a different source tape, and it sounds miserable. It also has a minute or so of "banter" before the song starts.
  • Track two may be live at Saratoga on September 1 (see Kreega Bondola and Big Mother Is Watching You).
  • Tracks 12-13 & 15-17 are live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 21-Jul-1984. Tracks 12-13 are the same as on Live in Hollywood.
  • Track 14 is an unknown 1984 live.
  • Tracks 3-11 (and maybe 2) are live at Saratoga on September 1 (see Kreega Bondola and Big Mother Is Watching You).
  • Track 18 is live in New York 17-Nov-1981; it is only the last two minutes of the song (see Clownz on Velvet).
  • Track 19 is live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981, but with sound-effect studio overdubs absent from audience recordings. The back cover says that "Clownz on Velvet" has over-dubs too, which seems to be nonsense.

From ZappaLVR:

It has several of these snippets from the PMRC hearings, some of which are rather artfully connected to the concert material, but in "Penguin in Bondage" there's a rather annoying splice of one right in the middle of the song ... Snippets include "Today's rock artists are describing sexual practice in terms more graphic than ever before" right before "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstacy", some comment from Paula Hawkins played backwards after "Sharleena", and an exclamation of "Porn Rock!" right after the line "... not to leave the straps too loose!" in "Penguin in Bondage." There are others, but you get the idea.

There seem to be two variant LP covers. One has a pink background, a picture of Zappa as a leprechaun, a music staff with a Z on it, and the subtitle "Aspects of the 1984 Tour, etc" in a cheesy flowered border. The other has a canary yellow background, a caricature of Zappa (may be the same leprechaun picture) and the subtitle "A Sampling from the '84 Tour". The back cover on both variants is identical to the back of Them or Us, except that a blow-up blond nymph replica has taken Frank's place. The disc labels (at least on the former variant) are sunburst and credit "Mario Fuente and His Multi-Racial Band". (Mario Fuente is also credited on the back cover, as producer and arranger.)

This bootleg is American made. The CD is subtitled "Aspects of the 1984 Tour, etc" and seems to adhere to the latter artwork variant.

Live in Hollywood

  • Palace Theater, Hollywood, 21-Jul-1984

Label: AMT Productions 493040

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Chad Wackerman, Scott Thunes, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bobby Martin, Alan Zavod & Napoleon Murphy Brock

1. Montana (03:42)
2. Easy Meat (06:23)
3. Carolina Hard-Core Extasy (06:06)
4. Advance Romance (06:57)
5. He's So Gay (02:30)
6. Bobby Brown (02:41)
7. Keep It Greasey (03:32)
8. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me? (03:54)
9. Carol, You Fool (03:22)
10. Kreegah Bondola (12:29) [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion (04:28)
12. Oh No (01:36)
13. Trouble Every Day (05:00)
14. Zappa Contacts Audience (02:15)
15. Improvisation (03:23)
16. The Closer You Are (02:12) [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson]

Tracks 12-13 can also be found on All You Need is Glove, and track 13 starts in the middle of "Oh No". Track 14 has Zappa talking to the audience, and track 15 is an improvisation requested by a fan. The cover shows a drawing of Zappa in a toilet (the drawing is in the toilet).

Big Mother Is Watching You (LP / CD-R)

  • Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York, 1-Sep-1984
  • Cuyahoga Falls / Cleveland, 12-Aug-1984
  • Palace Theater, Hollywood, 21-Jul-1984

Re-issued on CD-R by Conehead Records (CHR-001), in a terrible version.

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Chad Wackerman, Scott Thunes, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bobby Martin and Alan Zavod, and Napoleon Murphy Brock on the Hollywood tracks

Vinyl Version

Length: 21:35+22:30
Sound quality: Soundboard A- (not very good)
Label: Ignsoc / MOI Records ROOM-101

1. Ride My Face to Chicago (03:08)
2. I'm the Slime (04:19)
3. Be in My Video (03:12)
4. He's So Gay (02:21)
5. Cock-Sucker's Ball (01:04) [trad. / the Clovers / Zappa]
6. WPLJ (01:37) [Dobard/McDaniels]
7. What's New in Baltimore? (02:42) [vocal version]
8. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel (03:13)

9. Carol, You Fool (03:50)
10. Chana in de Bushwop (03:50) [Frank/Diva Zappa]
11. Kreegah Bondola (14:50) [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]

The cover is a rip-off of the official album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention. Instead of the "Warning/Guarantee" sticker, there is a "PMRC Warning"sticker that reads:

"This album contains material which we deem unfit for exposure to humans and unborn foetus. The PMRC Rating Key is as follows: 'X' identify songs with sexually explicit lyrics. 'D/A' songs deal with drugs or alcohol. 'O' indicates occult references. 'V' signifies themes of violence. This album's ratings appear below.

X V O D/A

It is the opinion of this committee that hearing the type of trash contained herein is liable to subject the listener to warts, blindness, hair growth on the palms of the hands, and eventually lead to complete moral ruin and eternal damnation. Amen."

"Ride My Face to Chicago", "Cock-Sucker's Ball" and "He's So Gay" have an X rating, "Carol, You Fool" a V rating, "Chana in de Bushwop" an O rating and WPLJ a D/A rating. The word ballon on the back contains the infamous quote (from Senator Paula Hawkins) "I'd be interested to see what toys your kids ever had!".

According to the liner notes, the album was produced by Winston Smith and engineered by Casey Jones, with "consumable sustenance" from "Brown Rice" and guidance by Emmanuel Goldstein. "Studio" is listed as "None", and Neumann Lathe is credited with disc mastering. In the band listing, Frank Zappa is identified as Big Mother. Other than that, the liner notes speak for themselves: "This album was recorded live on the North-American leg of the 1984 tour of Oceania. The tracks presented here were recorded in Saratoga, Hollywood, and on of those cities that starts with the letter C located in the god-forsaken state of Ohio. All selections composed by Big Mother except 'WPLJ' which was written jointly by the four deuces. This is a cardboard jacket. Special thanks to George Orwell for suggesting the album title. For information, call 411. Remember, you too can parody anything. Art direction & design I.P. Daley & Mike Hunt for Artsy-Fartsy Motel, Inc. Public relations Edith Da Virge, Snakestroke Concern. (212) 807-8123. Ministry of Information Records Manufactured & Distributed By Ingsoc. War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. God Is Power. Two and Two Make Five. Warning: Thoughtcrime Is a Violation of Applicable Laws. Printed In U.S.A. Room-101", sic.

CD-R Version

Length: ~45 minutes
Sound quality: Soundboard A- (not very good)
Label: Conehead Records CHR-001

The CD-R version is totally terrible, because they used a CD-burner (or software) that automatically put gaps between the tracks. From Patrick Neve:

Boy, the quality on CD bootlegs sure has become variable since the advent of consumer-priced CD-Rs. This is a CD-R version of the Big Mother Is Watching You boot, released on Conehead Records, CHR-001 (and hopefully their last). The cover is different from the LP ... it's a computer print-out of Frank's face, adapted from Apostrophe ('). Actually it looks more like the Zappa face T-shirts that Barfko are currently selling. The sound is pretty crappy, but I think that was the case with the vinyl, and I haven't had a chance to A/B them yet. I'm also unsure as to the source, if this was taken directly from the vinyl boot or from tapes. But the thing that really sucks about this release is a two second gap between every track. That really kills it, especially when the songs are supposed to segue. Talk about sloppy production! What a waste of money. Beware.

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

1. Heavy Duty Judy (03:05)
2. "Introduction Band" (00:49)
3. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (06:29)
4. Advance Romance (07:23)
5. I'm the Slime (04:32)
6. Be in My Video (03:22)
7. What's New in Baltimore? (02:51)
8. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (03:09)
9. 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?"

(The other thing that came up was the "Lock Jaw Rap" from Good Grief!/Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen (London 19-Jun-1982, early show).)

Bits of this show also appear on Big Mother Is Watching You and Z: All You Need Is Glove.

At Loreley (2 LP?)
What's New in Loreley? (CD)

  • Loreley-Freilichtbuhne, St Goarshausen, Germany, 09-Sep-1984
  • Concert also issued on CD as What's New in Loreley? [sic] (Phantas Music FZLO 16)

Label: Bullshit Records / Muffin Man Productions

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

1. Chunga's Revenge
2. City of Tiny Lites
3. You Are What You Is
4. Teenage Wind
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
6. Penguin in Bondage
7. Dirty Love
8. Sharleena
9. Camarillo Brillo
10. The Illinois Enema Bandit
11. Dancin' Fool
12. Whippin' Post [Allman]

This performance is quite special in that the "Whippin' Post" solo section is in waltz mode. 200 copies were made on multi-coloured vinyl, and 200 on clear and white. The cover has a photo collage, in colour.

What's New in Loreley?

Label: Phantas Music FZLO 16

1. Chunga's Revenge (05:52)
2. City of Tiny Lights (07:20)
3. You Are What You Is / Mudd Club [partial] (04:06)
4. Teen-Age Wind (02:37)
5. Truck Driver Divorce (05:39)
6. Ride My Face to Chicago (03:58)
7. Trouble Every Day / Penguin in Bondage (08:49)
8. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel (06:47)
9. I'm the Slime (04:40)
10. Sharleena Part 1 (05:41)
11. Sharleena Part 2 (01:22)
12. Camarillo Brillo Part 1 (02:25)
13. Camarillo Brillo Part 2 / Muffin Man (05:07)
14. Cosmic Debris (05:06)
15. Dancin' Fool (03:49)
16. Whippin' Post (04:29)

The beginning of "Mudd Club" can be heard during the fade-out of track 3; "Penguin in Bondage" starts at 04:08 into track 7, and "Muffin Man" at 01:26 into track 13. The cover is identical as the front and back cover of the Carousel LP (a girl with tambourine in a red Jaguar with a man (not Zappa) with Zappa's face pasted on; a musical instrument hovers in the sky above them), but with the Loreley track list. The "booklet" spread has two 1984 colour pictures of Zappa playing his strat.

Carousel (2 LP)

  • Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 11-Sep-1984

Length: "102:07, not 79:22!"
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: Tangooo Records 1984-1109 (1984-11-09 - the recording date!)

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

1. Zoot Allures
2. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
3. More Trouble Every Day
4. Penguin in Bondage
5. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel

6. Teenage Wind
7. Truck-Driver Divorce
8. He's So Gay
9. Bobby Brown
10. Keep It Greasey
11. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
12. Goblin Girl

13. The Black Page #2
14. Carol, You Fool
15. Chana in de Bushwop [Frank/Diva Zappa]
16. Let's Move to Cleveland

17. Joe's Garage
18. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
19. Sharleena
20. The Illinois Enema Bandit

This was recorded on 11-Sep-1984, but the cover says 09-Nov-1984; they mixed up the date and month. The cover furthermore depicts a girl with tambourine in a red Jaguar with a man (not Zappa) with Zappa's face pasted on. A musical instrument hovers in the sky above them. (What's New in Loreley? used the same cover pictures.) The label logo seems to be a human being drawn with some body parts resized to reflect the number of sensory receptors on them: hands, feet, lips are all very large.

Fits Your 34B, No Matter Which 43B You Are. (2 LP / CD)
Ride My Face to Chicago (CD)

  • Isstadion, Stockholm 14-Sep-1984

CD version re-issued as Ride My Face to Chicago

Length: 79:22
Sound quality: Audience B

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

There has been a lot of speculation about whether this recording is from Stockholm 14-Sep-1984 or Oslo 13-Sep-1984, but it's finally been pinned down to Stockholm. From Mesial Man:

I was just looking thru the bootleg list, and I noticed that there was some confusion about where Fits Your 34B, No Matter Which 43B You Are was recorded. It is from the Stockholm concert September 14 1984. I was there.

And indeed, there are some Swedish references:

  • "The Mudd Club" contains the Swedish name Bengt Melin (who is he?);
  • "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Cosmik Debris" contain "Fernando", which was the title of a song by the Swedish group ABBA;
  • A Swedish newspaper appears on the vinyl cover.

Secret word: "spoo".

LP version

Label: Tangooo Records ZS 141-98409 (14-1984-09 - recording date!)

1. Heavy Duty Judy
2. Presentation
3. City of Tiny Lites
4. You Are What You Is
5. The Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

7. Ride My Face to Chicago
8. Sharleena
9. Joe's Garage
10. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
12. Cocaine Decisions

13. Nig Biz
14. He's so Gay
15. Bobby Brown
16. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]

17. Dinah-Moe Humm
18. Cosmik Debris
19. Penguin in Bondage
20. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
21. Whippin' Post [Allman] [listed as "Tied to the Whipping Post"]

The vinyl was originally released in 1985. The cover shows a man reading a Swedish paper, next to a sign that reads "SUPERBURGARE" ("super burgers" in Swedish). All in all, Stockholm is the most likely candidate.

Fits Your 34B, No Matter Which 43B You Are. CD
Ride My Face to Chicago

Label: "Smile" MRDAT FZ 009 (900-copy CD run with deluxe box) / MRDAT 001 (CD without deluxe box - the box has MRDAT 001 on it, but the disc still says FZ 009)

1. Heavy Duty Judy
2. Presentation [listed as "Presentation (Carol, You're a Fool)", but it isn't "Carol, You Fool"]
3. City of Tiny Lights
4. You Are What You Is
5. Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
7. Ride My Face to Chicago
8. Sharleena
9. Joe's Garage
10. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
11. He's So Gay
12. Bobby Brown
13. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
14. Dinah-Moe Humm
15. Penguin in Bondage
16. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel [listed as "The Green Hotel"]
17. Whippin' Post [Allman] [listed as "Tied to the Whipping Post"]

The CD version has been released in a numbered 900-copy boxed edition (FZ 009) containing a sticker and a calendar of 1992, mostly with 1988 tour pictures. The box is LP-sized and looks very hand-made. (Perhaps the vinyl edition was also a numbered 900-copy run.) A subsequent issue, in regular jewel boxes, had MRDAT 001 on the cover, but FZ 009 discs. That cover is a picture of Zappa playing guitar (from the actual Stockholm concert on the record - unusally astute!), with a small insert at the top left of FZ's head from the "Barbie" sessions. The back of the single sheet and a bonus sticker has another picture of FZ singing into a microphone with panties on his head. These editions were both on the anonymous "smile" label, characterised by an acid-style smiling face. (The latter cover reads "live in north europe 14 sep 84").

Re-released as Ride My Face to Chicago - cover with seven pictures including Zappa on the toilet, Zappa giving both fingers and Zappa's "handsome lecture pose".

Zapped Again! (2 LP)
Live Ahoy! (2 LP)
Frankie Goes to Rotterdam (LP)

  • Ahoy Hall, Rotterdam, 16-Sep-1984

Zapped Again and Live Ahoy! are identical; Frankie Goes to Rotterdam is another bootleg from the same concert.

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

Zapped Again
Live Ahoy!

Length: ~100 min
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: FZ 0279 / Sound Board Inc.

1. Chunga's Revenge / Introductions
2. Teenage Wind
3. Truck-Driver Divorce
4. More Trouble Every Day
5. Penguin in Bondage
6. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel

7. Cocaine Decisions
8. Nig Biz
9. Sharleena
10. He's so Gay
11. Bobby Brown
12. Keep it Greasey
13. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?

14. Carol, You Fool
15. Chana in de Bushwop [Frank/Diva Zappa]
16. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]

17. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson] / Johnny Darling [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] / No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
18. Cosmik Debris
19. Dinah-Moe Humm
20. Whippin' Post [Allman]

No track listing at all on the (colour) cover.

Frankie Goes to Rotterdam

Length: 21:16+20:27
Label: Prime Cut Records PCR 003, Paris, France
Matrix number: E 194

1. Chunga's Revenge
2. Teenage Wind
3. Truck-Driver Divorce
4. More Trouble Every Day
5. Penguin in Bondage
6. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel [listed as "Green Motel"]

7. Cocaïne [sic] Decisions
8. Nig Biz [listed as "Nigger Bizznizz"]
9. Sharleena

The above track list is straight from the cover, but matches what was played at the concert. It's 1 500-copy edition, hand-numbered in blue ink. The back cover says that "This is part 1 of the Frank Zappa Concert, 16-9-84. Part 2 will be out soon" (what part 2 became is presently not known). The back cover also apologises "for the inferior sound on the first two songs. All other songs are recorded in full stereo, perfect quality." The disc labels have the label name as "Easeon", the number Stemra E 194, and "SEITE 1" and "SEITE 2" in German. A matrix number of E 194 is hand-engraved. The vinyl is black, and each side has been banded into 3 visible tracks. There was a pop group in the '80s called "Frankie Goes to Hollywood".

Snake Hips Etcetera (2 LP)
Do the Hip Shake (LP)

  • Hammersmith Odeon, London, 24-Sep-1984 (second show)

Sound quality: "good to fine"
Label: "Reprise" Records MS 2094 (?); CP14-815, STA 246, 375-4, 375-4/2

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

The cover track list is not completely clear. This should be correct:

1. Rowland Hyamms Rap
2. Chunga's Revenge
3. Teenage Wind
4. Truck-Driver Divorce
5. Tinseltown Rebellion
6. Trouble Every Day (Part 1)

7. Trouble Every Day (Part 2)
8. Penguin in Bondage
9. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
10. That Evil Prince [listed as "Excerpt from Zappa's Broadway Show"]
11. Ride My Face To Chicago
12. He's So Gay
13. Bobby Brown

14. Keep It Greasey
15. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
16. Carol, You Fool
17. Chana in de Bushwop [Frank/Diva Zappa]
18. Let's Move to Cleveland

19. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson]
20. Johnny Darling [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] [not listed]
21. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
22. Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
23. Sharleena
24. Whippin' Post [Allman]

This is a prime example of the secret-word tomfoolery of 1984: "Rowland Hyamms" is inserted all over. He was an "English publicity person" that Zappa hired to promote his concerts in Britain. He had worked for big-league artists like David Bowie and the Rolling Stones, but Zappa is very disappointed and wants his money back. Among other things, he took some reporters to a brothel (the "Chana in de Bushwop" chorus gradually mutates into "Rowland in the whorehouse").

One front cover (perhaps there are others) is a mosaic photo of Zappa with a bunch of 100-dollar bills, a red rose, a white scarf and a black high hat in front of him. On the back cover are printed a track list and the numbers:

CP14-815 [this first number is "framed"]
STA 246
375-4
375-4/2

Two different labels have been reported: plain white unprinted, and Reprise Records MS2094 labels - orange (sides 1-2), yellow (side 3) and green (side 4), complete with track lists and the Reprise steamboat logo. The record was released in 1984.

Do the Hip Shake

Label: The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label (TAKRL)

Made in 100 copies. The cover photo is from the same session as the Appleton Album cover photo, with Zappa in a juggler's hat. Some tracks are mislisted and/or Rowland-listed on the cover:

  • Track 4 is listed as "Drug Drivers Divorse"
  • Track 7 is not listed
  • Track 10 is listed as "Thingfish"
  • Track 16 is listed as "California Hotel"
  • Track 17 is listed as "Charda In The Bushwa"
  • Track 18 is listed as "Rowland In The Warehouse and Instrumental"
  • Track 19 and 20 are listed as "Rowland You Fool"
  • Track 21 is listed as "Cerry Pie"
  • Track 22 is listed as "Rowland Take Your Teeth Out"

Frankie Goes to Düsseldorf (2 LP)
Spick & Span (LP)
Dortmund [!] 1984 (LP)
Wet T-Shirt Nite (LP)
Instructional Wanking (LP)

  • Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, 28-Sep-1984

Also abridged to the single LPs Spick & Span (matrix number 01A/B), Dortmund 1984 (Cheat & Fraud Records 01), Wet T-Shirt Nite (200 copies, made in Italy) and Instructional Wanking.

(When Zappa played "Bobby Brown" at this show, the crowd was divided into two parts: one half was cheering, and one half was booing, under the impression that the song was too mainstream. Fortunately for Zappa, his microphone went crazy and he soon became quite inaudible. After some confusion, he was making gestures and jumping around, and Ike Willis took over. By the time the stage crew brought Zappa another microphone, the band had won over the entire crowd.)

Frankie Goes to Düsseldorf

Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: Hollywood Records 2/008
Matrix: ZA DU 84 A-C

1. Zoot Allures
2. Teenage Wind
3. Truck-Driver Divorce
4. City of Tiny Lites

5. You Are What You Is
6. Mudd Club
7. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
8. Theme from Thing-Fish ["The Evil Prince"?]

9. More Trouble Every Day
10. Penguin in Bondage
11. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
12. He's So Gay
13. Bobby Brown

14. Keep It Greasey
15. I'm the Slime
16. Let's Move to Cleveland

Front cover has a picture of Zappa on stage, tinted pinkish red, on a purple background. (1984!) The back cover has another stage photo in the same colour. The vinyl is black, the labels are blank - yellow on the first disc and blue on the second. There was a pop group in the '80s called "Frankie Goes to Hollywood".

Spick & Span
Dortmund 1984
Wet T-Shirt Nite
Instructional Wanking

Sound quality: Audience B+
Dortmund 1984 label: Cheat & Fraud Records 01
Spick & Span matrix: 01A/B
Instructional Wanking matrix: 01-A/B

1. Zoot Allures
2. Teenage Wind
3. Truck Driver Divorce
4. City of Tiny Lites
5. You Are What You Is
X. The Evil Prince [?]

6. More Trouble Every Day
7. Penguin in Bondage [mislisted as "Shriek Hotel" on Instructional Wanking]
8. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel [mislisted as "Cosmik Brewster" on Instructional Wanking]
9. He's So Gay
10. Bobby Brown
11. Keep It Greasey
12. I'm the Slime
13. Let's Move to Cleveland [listed as "Kreegah Bondola", its 1984 name, on Wet T-Shirt Nite]

"Track X" last on side 1, "The Evil Prince" is not listed on Spick & Span or Dortmund 1984, but it is listed on Wet T-Shirt Nite, and Instructional Wanking lists it as "Theme from Thing-Fish". Whether or not it's actually on the records is not known for sure.

Spick & Span is allegedly limited to 200 copies. Green vinyl. Wet T-Shirt Nite was made in Italy, in 200 copies, on white vinyl. Instructional Wanking was made in 100 copies.

The Perpetual Hard-On (2 LP)

  • Böblingen (near Stuttgart), 02-Oct-1984

Length: ~102 min
Label: MA 1015/1016 ("Perpetual Records"?)

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

1. Zoot Allures
2. Bamboozled by Love
3. Tinseltown Rebellion
4. More Trouble Every Day
5. Penguin in Bondage
6. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel

7. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
8. In France
9. I'm the Slime
10. Be in My Video
11. Nite Owl [Tony Allen]
12. Montana

13. Easy Meat
14. Cocaine Decisions
15. Nig Biz
16. Sharleena

17. Dinah-Moe Humm
18. Cosmik Debris
19. Stink-Foot
20. He's So Gay
21. Bobby Brown
22. Joe's Garage
23. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

The title is kind of funny - Captain Beefheart once accused Zappa of having a "nose-to-the-grindstone, erection-at-all-times" working ethic.

Dead Girls of Munich Part 1

  • Circus Krone, Munich, 03-Oct-1984

Sound quality: "Moderate to OK" / "badder than bad" / "like someone stood 500 meters away and recorded the show" / "recorded under water"
Label: WE Records WE-1836

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

1. Intro (00:55)
2. Heavy Duty Judy (03:25)
3. Drowning Witch (04:40)
4. Solo Torture (04:00) [?]
5. Ride My Face to Chicago (03:20)
6. City of Tiny Lights (06:24)
7. You Are What You Is (03:55)
8. Medley on Pills (05:55) [?]
9. Dumb All Over (05:25)
10. In France (04:23)
11. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (02:55)

Tracks 4 and 8 are unknown. This is supposed to be the Circus Krone concert from October 3, so "Solo Torture" is a "Drowning Witch" solo and "Medely on Pills" is "Mudd Club" and "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing". (Some say Napeoleon Murphy Brock is introduced - he was only with the 1984 band for a brief while in July - others say he is not.) Part 2 is not known.

The front cover photo is taken from page 80 in Dominique Chevalier's book Viva! Zappa. The back cover photo is taken from page 101 - also used on Frank's Place.

Nice Concert, Nice People

  • Theatre de Verdure, Nice (geddit?) 07-Oct-1984

Length: ~47 min
Label: Florentine Records

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

1. Chunga's Revenge
2. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
3. The Black Page #2
4. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
5. Little Girl of Mine [Levy/Cox]
6. The Closer You Are [Lewis/Robinson]
7. Johnny Darling [Statton/Statton]
8. No No Cherry [Ceasar/Gray (modified to "Too Much Lobster")]

9. Cosmik Debris [modified to "Lobster Debris"]
10. I'm The Slime
11. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
12. Teenage Wind
13. Goblin Girl
14. The Illinois Enema Bandit

Some songs have lyrical mutations here, including the secret word for the evening: "lobster".

Milwaukee State Fair 8-Oct-1984 Part 1

  • Milwaukee State Fair, 08-Oct-1984

Label: RXZ Records RXZ CD 347a

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

1. Introduction
2. You Are What You Is
3. Mudd Club
4. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
5. Dumb All Over
6. Goblin Girl
7. The Black Page #2
8. He's So gay
9. Bobby Brown
10. Keep It Greasy
11. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
12. Trouble Every day ["overdub with cut in guitar"]
13. Penguin in Bondage ["cut in guitar solo"]
14. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
15. Joe's Garage
16. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
17. Camarillo Brillo
18. Muffin Man
19. Cosmik Debris
20. Whippin' Post [Allman]

Dropping Dildos (2 LP)
The Broccoli Shower (LP)
Kiss My Volcano (LP)
Kiss My Broccoli

  • Bismarck Theater, Chicago, 23-Nov-1984 (early show)

Dropping Dildos is a double-LP issue of the 23-Nov-1984 Chicago show, and The Broccoli Shower and Kiss My Volcano are two single-LP issues of the first and second parts of the same show. The two single LPs together cover more of the show than the double LP does.

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

General Notes on Tracks and Concert

Many of these recordings were used on Stage #3:

  • "In France" and "Bamboozled by Love" are complete recordings of the Stage #3 versions, which are edited (on "In France" on Stage #3, the harmonica is edited down and the guitar solo edited out, and on "Bamboozled by Love" the guitar solo is edited down a bit)
  • "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "Carol, You Fool" and "Chana in de Bushwop" are the same versions as on Stage #3
  • "Advance Romance" is one of at least two sources for the Stage #3 version: The first 01:02 on Stage #3 are from here, as well as everything after 02:31 (but the beginning of the guitar solo is edited out on Stage #3)

From U:

OK, here's the deal. This is the concert where Zappa takes over Alan Zavod's "Volcano" solo on "Chana in de Bushwop" ("Hey, Nice Volcano!" on Stage #3). Then they play "Let's Move to Cleveland", and where they would normally sing "kreeg-ah bundola" or "let's move to Cleveland", they sing "kiss my volcano" instead.

Secret word: "Broccoli". What follows are track lists and other details on the individual bootlegs.

Dropping Dildos

Sound quality: soundboard
Label: Toasted Records TRW 1948

1. Truck-Driver Divorce
2. In France [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]
3. He's So Gay
4. Bobby Brown
5. Keep It Greasey
6. The Black Page #2 (Part 1) [not listed]

7. The Black Page #2 (Part 2) [listed as "Instrumental Jam" - some jamming :)]
8. Cock-Sucker's Ball [trad. / the Clovers / Zappa]
9. WPLJ [Dobard/McDaniels] [listed as "Lemon Juice"]
10. Sharleena [listed as "Send My Baby Home"]
11. Bamboozled by Love [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]

12. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [Stage #3 version; listed as "Lucille"]
13. Advance Romance [one source of the Stage #3 version; not listed]
14. Carol, You Fool [Stage #3 version]
15. Chana in de Bushwop [Frank/Diva Zappa] [Stage #3 version; listed as "Chana"]
16. Let's Move to Cleveland (Part 1) [not listed]

17. Let's Move to Cleveland (Part 2) [listed as "Kiss My Volcano"; including the "GOA" solo on the Guitar album]
15. Teen-Age Wind

The cover shows Zappa with a Gibson guitar. The picture was used on a 1980 (!) tour poster, and can be seen on page 122 in Dominique Chevalier's book Viva! Zappa (The same picture is on the FZ008 Crush All Boxes bootleg CD cover). It says: "Manufactured by Finestkind Records and Tapes (PTY) LTD, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia". It also says they have copyrighted the material and the manufacture (of course, not true, not legal). The whole thing looks remarkably similar to Kiss My Volcano and The Broccoli Shower, but these records have extra material.

The Broccoli Shower

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: soundboard
Label: zz-110

1. Truck-Driver Divorce
2. Intro
3. In France [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]
4. He's So Gay
5. Bobby Brown
6. Keep It Greasey
7. The Black Page #2
8. Cock-Sucker's Ball [trad. / the Clovers / Zappa]
9. WPLJ [Dobard/McDaniels]
10. Sharleena
11. Bamboozled by Love [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]

Some copies are on violet vinyl, and some on red. The cover is black & white, with Zappa holding a microphone and with his strat. The back cover says that "part two of this amazing show is already released! Kiss My Volcano".

Previously, I listed a track 12: Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [Stage #3 version], but this has been confirmed not to be on the record.

Kiss My Volcano

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: soundboard
Label: zz-111

1. Advance Romance [one source of the Stage #3 version]
2. Carol, You Fool [Stage #3 version]
3. Chana in de Bushwop [? - IF it's included, it's the Stage #3 version] [Frank/Diva Zappa]
4. Let's Move to Cleveland (Part 1) [listed as "Kiss My Volcano Part 1"]

5. Let's Move to Cleveland (Part 2) [listed as "Kiss My Volcano Part 2"]
6. Camarillo Brillo / Muffin Man
7. Cosmik Debris
8. Dinah-Moe Humm
9. Whipping Post [Allman]

("Chana in de Bushwop" was played between "Carol, You Fool" and "Let's Move to Cleveland" at this concert, and it is on the Dropping Dildos bootleg, but it's not included in any submitted tracklist for Kiss My Volcano.)

The vinyl is blue. The front cover is purplish and white, with a picture of Zappa with a baton, talking into a microphone. The back cover lists the 1984 band along with mixing engineer Davey Moire, says "ultimate soundboard stereo recording" and that "the other part of this fantastic show will be released soon under the title The Broccoli Shower. Isn't that amazing?". Obviously, Kiss My Volcano is the second part and The Broccoli Shower the first part, but they were released in reverse order.

Kiss My Broccoli (2 CD)

1. Teen-Age Wind
2. Truck-Driver Divorce
3. In France [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]
4. He's So Gay
5. Bobby Brown
6. Keep It Greasey
7. The Black Page #2
8. Cock-Sucker's Ball [trad. / the Clovers / Zappa]
9. WPLJ [Dobard/McDaniels]
10. Sharleena
11. Bamboozled by Love [unedited version of the Stage #3 performance]
12. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [Stage #3 version]
13. Advance Romance [one source of the Stage #3 version; not listed]
14. Carol, You Fool [Stage #3 version]
15. Chana in de Bushwop [Stage #3 version] [Frank/Diva Zappa]
16. Let's Move to Cleveland [including the "GOA" solo on the Guitar album]
17. Camarillo Brillo
18. Muffin Man
19. Cosmik Debris
20. Dinah-Moe Humm
21. Wipping Post [Allman]

Frank's Place (2 LP)

  • Various live 1984

Sound quality: "OK to very good audience" (with track 14 "very good soundboard")
Label: Showtime Records 001

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Alan Zavod and Bobby Martin, and Napoleon Murphy Brock on the July material

1. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
2. Willie the Pimp
3. Montana
4. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
5. Dumb All Over
6. Music to Change Video Tape by

7. Drowning Witch
8. The Black Page #2
9. Brown Moses
10. Solo from Let's Move to Cleveland

11. The Evil Prince
12. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
13. King Kong
14. Heavy Duty Judy
15. Don't Be a Lawyer [1984 version of "Tell Me You Love Me"]
16. Stick Together

17. Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
18. Little Girl of Mine [Levy/Cox]
19. The Closer You Are [Lewis/Robinson]
20. Johnny Darling [Statton/Statton]
21. No No Cherry [Ceasar/Gray]
22. Sharleena
23. Crew Slut
24. Outside Now

  • Track 1-4 are live in Seattle, 17-Dec-1984 (early show).
  • Track 5-6 are live at the Pier, New York, 25-Aug-1984.
  • Track 7-9 & 16 are live in Seattle, 17-Dec-1984 (late show).
  • Track 10 is live in Kansas City, 08-Dec-1984 (late show).
  • Tracks 11-13 & 24 are live at the Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1984 (early show).
  • Track 14 is live in Saratoga 01-Sep-1984 (See Kreega Bondola).
  • Track 15 is live in Berkley 27-Jul-1984.
  • Track 17-22 are live at the Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1984 (late show).
  • Track 23 is live at the Pier, New York, 26-Aug-1984.

The front cover photo can be seen on page 80 in Dominique Chevalier's book Viva! Zappa. The back cover photo is on page 101. The front cover has this text: "Special thanks to the Cleftones, Channels, and the Feathers whose great original vewrsions [sic] of 'Little Girl Of Mine, The Closer You Are, and Johnny Darlin' inspired Frank to cover them." The LP labels are dark maroon with generic print.

The Best Band on Broadway the Hard Way US Tour (2 CD)
Frank Zappa's Best Band (2 CD)
St Patrick's Day (2 CD)

Concert issued on The Best Band on Broadway the Hard Way US Tour (with bonus tracks) and as Frank Zappa's Best Band, also known as St Patrick's Day.

  • Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, 17-Mar-1988
  • Civic Center, Providence, 16-Mar-1988
  • Landmark Theater, Syracuse, 21-Mar-1988

Label: FZ BI 05/06 (The Best Band on Broadway the Hard Way US Tour)
Label: Iguana Records IGCD 005/006 (Frank Zappa's Best Band)
Sound quality: very good

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

The Best Band on Broadway the Hard Way US Tour has the following track list:

1. The Black Page (New Age Version) Incl. Band Introduction (09:36)
2. Dickie's Such an Ashole (06:15)
3. Stick Together (01:58)
4. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your mama (03:31)
5. Willie the Pimp (02:11)
6. Montana (04:00)
7. City of Tiny Lites (09:49)
8. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus Incl. Make a Sex Noise (18:10)
9. When The Lie's So Big (00:33)
10. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk (07:19)
11. Florentine Pogen (08:17)

12. Andy (05:31)
13. Inca Roads (10:24)
14. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (03:06)
15. Let's Move to Cleveland (07:40)
16. When Irish Eyes are Smiling (00:47)
17. Theme from the Godfather II (00:28) [Nino Rota]
18. Who Needs The Peace Corps ? (03:08)
19. I Left My Heart in San Francisco (01:12) [George Corey Jr & Douglas Cross]
20. Stairway to Heaven (10:10) [Page/Plant]
21. Norwegian Jim (02:57) ["Norwegian Wood", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
22. Lousiana Hooker With Herpes (03:23) ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
23. Texas Motel (03:08) ["Strawberry Fields Forever", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
24. Sofa (03:06)
25. The Illinois Enema Bandit (07:12)
26. The Texas Medley: Norwegian Jim / Lousiana Hooker With Herpes / The Texas Motel (08:56) ["Norwegian Wood"/"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"/"Strawberry Fields Forever", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
27. I Am the Walrus (03:43) [Lennon/McCartney]
28. America the Beautiful (03:12) [Katherine Lee Bates / "Materna" Samuel A Ward]

  • Tracks 1-25 live in Binghamton, 17-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 26-27 live in Providence, 16-Mar-1988.
  • Track 28 live in Syracuse, 21-Mar-1988.

Tracks 21-23 and 26 are two instances of the "Texas Medley": three Beatles songs with new words (by Zappa) to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. The cover is "very similar to The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life with another photo in the middle of the front of the 1988 band on stage".

Frank Zappa's Best Band (also known as St Patrick's Day) has tracks 1-10 on disc one and tracks 11-25 on disc two - all from Binghampton. The cover says "Frank Zappa's Best Band Live at the Broome County Veterans Arena, Binghampton, NY March 17 1988"; the spine says "St Patrick's Day". The front cover has a picture of Zappa in a pink sweater, playing a Stratocaster. Back cover has track list and black & white picture of Zappa's head with a marine cap and a mike. An "inside cover" has a list of musicians and "Notes, Aspects, Lyric Mutations, etc." The inlay lists OSA/BIEM.

Broadway the Hard Way (3 LP)
Stairway to Berlin (3 LP)

  • West Berlin, 12-Apr-1988

Issued on the triple LPs Broadway the Hard Way (nothing to do with the official album) and Stairway to Berlin. There is also a different, single-LP boot called Broadway the Hard Way.

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

Broadway the Hard Way

Length: 116 minutes
Sound quality: Audience B+ ("decent recording")
Label: Guilty / Diamond Sound / Bullshit Records

1. Intro (00:56)
2. The Black Page (07:20)
3. Happy Birthday [?] (02:00)
4. Packard Goose (06:37)
5. Any Kind of Pain [listed as "Wouldn't You Baby?"] (05:22)
6. Planet of the Baritone Women [not listed]
7. Bolero [Ravel] (02:43)
8. Bolero Improvisation (05:33)
9. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney] (03:33)
10. I Ain't Got No Heart (02:00)

11. Andy
12. Beatles Songs Intro (01:24)
13. Norwegian Wood [Lennon/McCartney] (02:28)
14. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds [Lennon/McCartney] (03:30)
15. Strawberry Fields Forever [Lennon/McCartney] (03:17)
16. The Torture Never Stops / Lonesome Cowboy Burt [medley] (16.55)
17. City of Tiny Lites (05:45)
18. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus [listed as "Instrumental"] (06:05)

19. Drum Solo (01:52)
20. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant] (08:10)
21. [blank space] (00:40)
22. Bobby Brown (02:35)
23. Whippin' Post [Allman] (06:23)
24. [blank space] (01:15)
25. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (02:45)
26. [blank space] (00:45)
27. Strictly Genteel [listed as "Instrumental"] (06:00)

This was available at least as early as October 1988. The front cover reproduces the colour photo from the front cover of the 1988 tour booklet; there is no back cover, and a black & white insert reproduces a photo of Zappa conducting with a Winston in hand, also from the tour booklet. Tracks 21, 24 and 26 are mysterious blank spaces, with track times meticulously listed on the cover. Disc 1 is labelled "GUILTY", "Side-5" and "Side-6"; disc 2 "Bullshit Records, München", "Setie-E" and "Seite-F"; and disc 3 "Diamond Sound", "Seite-A" and "Seite-B".

Stairway to Berlin

Length: 116 minutes
Sound quality: Audience B+ ("decent recording")
Matrix: FZB-88 A/B/C/D/E/F

1. Band Intro ["The Black Page" ending]
2. Packard Goose [incorporating the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto]
3. Any Kind of Pain
4. Planet of the Baritone Women
5. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue

6. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney]
7. I Ain't Got No Heart
8. Andy
9. Inca Roads [part 1]

10. Inca Roads [part 2]
11. Bolero [Ravel]
12. The Beatles Medley [Lennon/McCartney]: Norweigian Wood / Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / Strawberry Fields Forever
13. The Torture Never Stops [part 1]
14. Theme from "Bonanza" [Evans/Livingstone]

15. Lonesome Cowboy Burt
16. The Torture Never Stops [part 2]
17. City of Tiny Lites

18. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus)
19. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant]

20. Bobby Brown
21. Whippin' Post [Allman]
22. Joe's Garage
23. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
24. Strictly Genteel

As you can see, there are minor differences in what is basically two issues of the same material.

Broadway the Hard Way (LP)

  • Sporthalle, Cologne, 14-Apr-1988

There is also a different, triple-LP boot called Broadway the Hard Way.

Length: 37:37
Sound quality: Audience B-
Label: Zinc Alloy UR-2 STUPID
Matrix number: PR 3-A / PR 3-B

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. The Black Page [07:56]
2. Inca Roads [10:51]

3. When the Lie's So Big [03:26]
4. Planet of the Baritone Women [02:42]
5. Any Kind of Pain [05:37]
6. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk [07:05]

The cover picture is taken at Broadway / 7th Avenue. The back cover has title, venue and date stencilled on. The vinyl is black, the labels are white. Made in 1988.

Zappaskance (2 LP)
Zappenstance (2 LP)

  • Brighton Conference Centre, 16-Apr-1988

Possibly issued both as Zappenstance and Zappaskance.

Label: Tropo/Toasted Records TRW 1950, made in Sydney / The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label, TAKRL (listed on the labels)
Sound quality, from Overcooked:

I heard parts of Zappenstance at a new/used recorded music store. It isn't well known since it isn't worth knowing. The audience is clear and the band is muddy. This is the kind of album that besmirches the artists' reputations. I love all of the official '88 releases and would certainly look forward to buying more, but it would be more fun to watch a new design US $50 bill being burnt to nothingness than owning this. It may have been an excellent concert, but you would never know from that album.

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. Stink-Foot
2. Packard Goose
3. Alien Orifice
4. Disco Boy
5. Teen-Age Wind

6. Bamboozled by Love
7. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
8. Harry, You're a Beast
9. Oh No
10. Theme from Lumpy Gravy
11. The Dessicated Theme
12. I am the Walrus

13. Zoot Allures
14. When the Lie's So Big
15. The Planet of the Baritone Women
16. Any Kind of Pain
17. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk

18. City of Tiny Lites
19. Texas Motel #1 ["Norwegian Wood", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
20. Louisiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
21. Texas Motel #2 ["Strawberry Fields Forever", Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
22. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant]

Track 11, listed as "The Dessicated Theme" (Zappa called it "Dessicated" or "The Dessicated Number") was an instrumental piece the 1988 band played. Some of this piece (another recording) can be heard in "When Yuppies Go to Hell" on Make a Jazz Noise Here.

Tracks 19-21 are a Beatles medley with the words changed to make fun of the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart - the reason tracks 19 and 21 are both called "Texas Motel" is that the new words both have "Texas Motel" where the original title used to be:

She
Showed him his room,
Isn't it swell,
Texas Motel?		 She
Showed me her room,
Isn't it good,
Norwegian Wood?
   
Let me take you down,
'Cause we're goin' to
Texas Motel ...		 Let me take you down,
'Cause I'm going to
Strawberry Fields ...

It has a red lever cover with a 1950s-style Christmas photo with a baby holding a Zappa album. The back cover has a 1988 picture of Zappa.

Norwegian Rhapsody Volume 1 (2 LP) (CD & MC?)
Norwegian Rhapsody Volume 2 (CD)
Norwegian Rhapsody (2-CD Box)

  • Skedsmohallen, Oslo, Norway, 27-Apr-1988

The entire production run of Volume 2 seems to have been confiscated by the police. However, RXZ Records put out a 2-CD box later with both volumes.

Sound quality: audience A-
Label: Todeskuss / Ultraschall / "Barking Pumpkin"/PAX Records
Catalogue numbers on the LP cover: LP 20789-8, MC 120789-8, CD 220789-8 (maybe there were a cassette and a CD)
Another number that's also on the LP cover: 4002583105819
Matrix: ZP1/ZP2/ZP3/ZP4
CD box label: RXZ Records 311-312/A

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman, plus "Gunn Janne" - credited on the back cover as "guest vocalist on the audience participation time"

1. Stink-Foot (08:15)
2. I Ain't Got No Heart (01:55)
3. Love of My Life (02:15)
4. Packard Goose (02:29) [incorporating the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto]
5. Alien Orifice (09:25)

6. Sharleena (07:20)
7. Let's Make the Water Turn Black / Harry, You're a Beast / The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy (10:20)
8. Advance Romance (06:40)

9. Bobby Brown (02:15)
10. Keep It Greasey (03:25)
11. The Torture Never Stops [including "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" and "Theme from BONANZA" (by Ray Evans / Jay Livingston)] (19:15)

12. The Texas Motel Medley (09:30) ["Norwegian Jim" (02:30), "Louisiana Hooker with Herpes" (03:45), and "Texas Motel" (03:15) - "Norwegian Wood", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", by Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]
13. City of Tiny Lites (06:40)
14. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (09:48) [including "Make a Sex Noise"]

  • Track 1 has a spoken intro where Zappa announces the "audience participation time", which is "Make a Sex Noise", included in track 14, and a band introduction outro. 
  • Track 9 is slightly edited: the first nine seconds have been cut out - a bad edit, because what was cut out was the band singing "ooh, Fornebu-uuu" (in the manner of "ooh, we sure do" on Stage #6). On the record, the track instead begins with "Hey there, people, I'm Bobby Brown". (Fornebu, a Norwegian airport, was a secret word that night.)
  • Track 13 is heavily edited: some one and a half minutes have been edited out - the end of the guitar solo and the beginning of the last verse, after the solo.
  • Track 14 ends with the first few bars of "Stairway to Heaven".

The front cover is dark blue/lilac with the title set in white, and Zappa's face in blue and pink. The back cover has a black & white negative picture of Zappa's face, and it too has the title in white, on a blue background, plus a track list that is almost correct. It also lists the musicians, location and date, secret words ("schauschesch" (bodyguard John Smothers' pronunciation of "sausage") and "Fornebu" (an Oslo airport)) plus, in an attempt to masquerade as an official album, the following information:

For mail order and info write to
BARFKO_SWILL
Box 5418
North Hollywood
U.S.A.

ZAPPA HOTLINE:
U.S.A.: 18187867546
U.K.: 017342434

Frank Zappa - producer
Bob Stone - engineer
Harry Andronis - engineer
Dwayne Taylor - road manager
Bob Rice - synclavier
Bernie Grundman - mastering
UMRK - remote studio

LP 20789-8
MC 120789-8
CD 220789-8

4002583105819

Composed and produced by Frank Zappa, exept "The Texas Motel Medley" words by F.Z., music by Lennon/McCartney.
All compositions published worldwide by Munchkin Music ASCAP.
(C)+(P) 1990 Barking Pumpkin / PAX Records.
All rights reserved.

It's a very professional cover, made to look like a legal release. The labels, though, paint a different picture: They're black and blue and say "TODESKUSS", plus:

All rights reserved by ULTRASCHALL
(P)+(C) by ULTRASCHALL REC. Deutscland
6000 Frankfurt/M. - Pötchengasse 51 [there is no Pötchengasse in Frankfurt]
Made in Germany 1988

According to a German bootleg dealer, a Volume 2 was made but the entire production run was confiscated by the police. However, RXZ Records later made a 2-CD box of both volumes. The track listfor Volume 2 is as of yet unknown, but if it includes the rest of the Oslo show, it would have:

  • Stairway to Heaven
  • Bolero
  • Rhymin' Man (world premiere - what a stange place to premiere a song about Jesse Jackson)
  • Sofa
  • Andy
  • Inca Roads
  • Strictly Genteel

Informants: Andreas Kerschgens, "U"

Raffle
Olé, Marqueson

  • Barcelona, 17-May-1988
  • Fuerth, 26-May-1988 (bonus tracks on Olé, Marqueson)

Raffle and Olé, Marqueson are parts 1 and 2 of the Barcelona concert, which was shown on Spanish TV (except the last encore, "Strictly Genteel") and is circulated on video. Both CDs are numbered 500-copy editions.

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

Raffle

Sound quality: "very acceptable", but with "some very bad drop-outs"
Label: FZ-K-0196

1. Spanish Intro / The Black Page
2. Band Introduction
3. Packard Goose [incorporating the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto]
4. Sharleena
5. Bamboozled by Love
6. Black Napkins
7. When the Lie's So Big
8. Planet of the Baritone Women

9. Any Kind of Pain (01:06)

10. Any Kind of Pain [continued]
11. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
12. Sofa
13. Find Her Finer
14. Big Swifty
15. I Ain't Got No Heart

The track list reflects the fact that the CD is really divided into three tracks. A 15th title, "Time", is listed on the cover but the CD ends after "I Ain't Got No Heart".

In the TV broadcast, there was a commercial break after "Planet of the Baritone Women", and part of "Any Kind of Pain" was never shown. Track 9 here is the missing part of "Any Kind of Pain" taken from another concert (not identified, but in better sound, so it is presumably not an alternative, unused Barcelona source). It's a good edit. After "I Ain't Got No Heart" there was another break; perhaps this has something to do with the mysterious "Time" listed on the cover as a very last track.

"Raffle" was the secret word that night, along with "prostitute" and "hooker": it seems that the touring party had had some kind of raffle where the winner would get a particular dancing girl or hooker. Monitor engineer Marque "Marqueson" McCoy won, but didn't get the girl.

The front cover shows Zappa playing guitar (not from Barcelona); back cover is a band publicity shot; both are taken from the 1988 tour book (the front from page 2, bottom left, the back from page 3, top right). The secret word is listed on the cover. Very very similar pictures were used on the back and front covers of Olé, Marqueson, respectively.

Olé, Marqueson

Sound quality: "very acceptable"

1. Love of My Life [partial]
2. The Torture Never Stops Part 1 / Lonesome Cowboy Burt / The Torture Never Stops Part 2
3. Bolero [Ravel]
4. Watermelon in Easter Hay
5. Whippin' Post [Allman]
6. I'm the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney]
7. The Illinois Enema Bandit
8. Stick Together
9. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
10.  Willie the Pimp / Ride of the Walkuere [?] [Wagner?]
11. Purple Haze [Hendrix]
12. Montana
13. You Are What You Is
14. Marqueson's Chicken

  • Tracks 1-7 live in Barcelona
  • Tracks 8-14 live in Fuerth
  • Tracks 9-11 also appear on the Scherade Part 1 bootleg

"Love of My Life" fades in after a commercial break; the first 45 seconds are missing. (This one has "Is this part 2 of Raffle? Oh no ... it is Olé, Marqueson" on the back cover.)

The front cover is a band publicity shot, the back cover shows Zappa playing guitar (not from Barcelona). Very very similar but not identical pictures were used on the front and back covers of Raffle, respectively. The disc has "Frank" and "Zappa" printed all over it; in the middle it says "FZ 75 FRANK ZAPPA 1975".

The Untouchables (2 LP / CD / 2-CD Set)

  • Various American live 1988

Also issued as part of the box The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage.

Length: 65:03 min
Label: Showtime O02 (LP) / Raven Records RR 005 (single CD) / RXZ Records 325A-326A (2-CD set)

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. When the Lie's So Big (03:30)
2. Planet of the Baritone Women (02:58)
3. Any Kind of Pain (06:24)
4. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk (08:54)
5. The Untouchables (02:22) [?]
6. Promiscuous (02:44)

7. Why Don't You Like Me? (02:40)
8. Who Needs the Peace Corps? (03:10)
9. Filthy Habits (03:42)
10. Cruisin' for Burgers (08:30)
11. Mr. Green Genes (04:15)
12. Zomby Woof (05:49)

13. Jezebel Boy (02:33)
14. Florentine Pogen (07:36)
15. Andy [vinyl only]
16. Inca Roads [vinyl only]

17. The Texas Medley [Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]: Norweigian Jim ["Norweigian Wood"] / Louisiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"] / Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever"] [vinyl only]
18. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney - vinyl only]
19. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant - vinyl only]
20. America the Beautiful [Katherine Lee Bates / "Materna" Samuel A Ward - vinyl only]

According to my sources, the CD contains tracks 1-14, whereas the four vinyl sides contain tracks 1-6, 7-12, 13-16 and 17-20, respectively..

  • Tracks 1-3, 8, 10 and 19 are live in Hartford 16-Feb-1988.
  • Track 4 is live in Washington 8-Feb-1988.
  • Tracks 5 and 20 are live in Burlington 12-Mar-1988.
  • Track 6 is live in Detroit 26-Feb-1988.
  • Track 7 is live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
  • Track 9 is live in Providence 16-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 11-12 and 14-16 are live in Allentown 19-Mar-1988.
  • Track 13 is live in Philadelphia 13-Feb-1988.
  • Tracks 17-18 are live in Springfield 13-Mar-1988.

LP front cover photo: Zappa tipping his hat to the camera. Back cover photo: Zappa in a robe, witch hat and lady's glasses holding a basket of fruit and dentures - the same picture was used on the back of the Berlin - Deutschlandhalle 15.2.78 Part 1 booklet.

Frankie's Greatest Hits - Live 1988 (LP)

  • Various live 1988

Also issued as part of the box The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage.

Length: 24:05+24:13
Sound quality: Acceptable audience
Label: Showtime Records 005

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. Stink-Foot
2. Montana
3. Bobby Brown
4. Joe's Garage
5. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

6. Dancin' Fool
7. Cosmik Debris
8. Whippin' Post [Allman]
9. The Illinois Enema Bandit

  • Tracks 1-2 are live in Philadelphia, on 13-Feb-1988 and 12-Feb-1988, respectively.
  • Track 3 is live in Burlington 12-Mar-1988.
  • Track 4-5 & 9 are live in Springfield, 13-Mar-1988.
  • Track 6 is live in Albany, 2-Feb-1988.
  • Track 7 is live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
  • Track 8 is live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988.

The cover is a white sleeve with a xeroxed insert. One small picture of Frank sitting on a stool onstage and a bigger picture of Frank pointing with a cigarette, probably during an interview. The songs are listed to the left. The bottom part says "Copyright Showtime Records 1990. Made in USA. All Rights Reserved. Showtime 005. Limited edition of 500 copies." The disc label is red and rather cheep-looking; the vinyl itself is nice and thick.

For some reason, this bootleg has been confused with Europe, Backstage & the Mystery Side, a lot. It was believed that there were two versions of Frankie's Greatest Hits, and that one of them was identical to Europe, Backstage & the Mystery Side. Probably, some poor fellow found the wrong disc in a Frankie's Greatest Hits cover, where it had ended up by mistake, and that's how it all started.

Scherade Part 1 (2 LP)
Scherade Part 2 (2 LP)

  • Various German live 1988 (part 1)
  • Various live 1988 (part 2)

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

Part 1

Label: "Barking Pumpkin" / PAX-Records Zappa 13, LP20789-6 (on the cover); RAL 0283 (on the label)

1. The Black Page
2. Advance Romance
3. Any Kind of Pain
4. Heavy Duty Judy

5. Rhymin' Man
6. Elvis Has Just Left the Building [with the Broadway the Hard Way intro]
7. What's New in Baltimore?
8. Find Her Finer
9. Filthy Habits

10. My Guitar
11. Willie the Pimp / Ride of the Walkuere [?] [Wagner?]
12. Purple Haze [Hendrix]
13. Chad's Solo Attempt [end part of "A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus)"]
14. Dessicated [listed as "Magic Synclavier"; one source of "When Yuppies Go to Hell" on Make a Jazz Noise Here]
15. Packard Goose [incorporating the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bártok's third piano concerto]

16. Bolero [Ravel]
17. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney]
18. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant]

  • Tracks 1-3 are live in Bremen 24-Apr-1988.
  • Track 4 is live in Offenbach 13-Apr-1988.
  • Side 2 is live in Stuttgart 24-May-1988.
  • Tracks 10-12 are live in Fürth 26-May-1988 (same as on the Olé, Marqueson CD).
  • Tracks 13-17 are live in Cologne 14-Apr-1988.
  • Track 17 is live in Hamburg 06-May-1988.

The intro to "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" (first ten seconds) on Broadway the Hard Way is from the recording on this bootleg.

Track 14, "Dessicated", is a number Zappa used to perform live with the 1988 band: on Make a Jazz Noise Here, the first 03:03 of "When Yuppies Go to Hell" are from "Dessicated" performances and the rest from "Pound for a Brown" performances. The first 01:32 are from a soundcheck performance of "Dessicated", and 01:32-03:03 are from the Scherade performance. However, the version on Scherade is not complete: it's 02:16 long with a fade end, and only the last 46 seconds actually overlap with the Make a Jazz Noise Here track. Confused? Read it again.

Part 2

Length: 23:43 + 19:54 + 20:27 + 22:02
Sound quality: "OK to fine"
Label: "Barking Pumpkin" Records LP 20789-7

1. Stink-Foot
2. Sharleena
3. Marqueson's Chicken
4. Who Needs the Peace Corps?

5. Cruisin' for Burgers
6. Montana
7. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk

8. The Torture Never Stops [including "Lonesome Cowboy Burt"] (Cologne 14.04.1988)
9. Alien Orifice

10. Ring of Fire
11. Peaches en Regalia
12. The Texas Medley [Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]: Norweigian Jim ["Norweigian Wood"] / Louisiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"] / Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever"]
13. Strictly Genteel

  • Track 2 is live in Stuttgart 24-May-1988.
  • Track 3 is live in Fürth 26-May-1988.
  • Track 6 is live in Bremen 24-Apr-1988.
  • Track 8 is live in Cologne 14-Apr-1988.
  • Track 11 is live in Mannheim 25-May-1988.
  • Track 12 is live in Berlin 12-Apr-1988.
  • Track 13 is live in Dortmund 05-May-1988.
  • All other tracks (1, 4-5, 7 & 9-10) are unknown 1988 live.

Released in 1989 on black vinyl with white labels.

The Godfather in Full Metal Jacket (2 LP / CD / 2-CD Set)

  • Various live 1988

Also issued as part of the box The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage.

LP label: Showtime Records FZ-FMJ
Single CD label: Raven Records RR 006
2-CD set label: RXZ Records RXZ CD 327A-328A

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. What's New in Baltimore?
2. Keep it Greasey
3. Teenage Wind
4. Truck-Driver Divorce
5. We're Turning Again
6. Alien Orifice

7. Zoot Allures
8. I Ain't Got No Heart
9. Love of My Life
10. Advance Romance [one source of the Make a Jazz Noise Here version]
11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion [not listed]
12. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

13. City of Tiny Lites
14. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus) [vinyl only]

15. More Trouble Every Day [vinyl only]
16. Penguin in Bondage [vinyl only]
17. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel [vinyl only]
18. Yo Cats [vinyl only]
19. Bamboozled by Love [vinyl only]

  • Tracks 1 & 15-17 are live in Hartford 16-Feb-1988.
  • Track 2 is live in Birmingham 20-Apr-1988.
  • Tracks 3-4 & 13-14 are live in Springfield 13-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 5-10 are live in Burlington 12-Mar-1988.
  • Track 11 is live in Poughkeepsie 23-Feb-1988.
  • Track 12 is live in Providence 16-Mar-1988.
  • Track 18 is live in Boston 20-Feb-1988.
  • Track 19 is live in New York 6-Feb-1988.

The LP version has tracks 1-19, and the CD version has tracks 1-13. The 0:08-02:12 part of "Advance Romance" on Make a Jazz Noise Here is from this recording.

The LP cover has a big picture of Zappa making eyebrows in his president suit, two band publicity shots (one of which appears on the Olé, Marqueson cover) and three guitar-solo pictures (one of which is on the back cover of Olé, Marqueson, and one of which is on the cover of Raffle. The back cover has the band publicity photo that is on the back cover of Raffle, and a guitar neck and BORN TO KILL hat/helmet, next to the names Scott and Chad. (The BORN TO KILL hat/helmet is associated with the film FULL METAL JACKET; perhaps it is used here to illustrate the theory that Scott Thunes and Chad Wackerman didn't get along very well.) The producers thank "Big L and the inimitable Danish".

My Gypsy Friend ("limited edition" CD-R :)

  • Taban, Budapest, 30-Jun-1991

Length: 25:28
Label: Stink Foot Disc SFD CD 010

Musicians: The band of Gynla Babos, Frank Zappa and Gabor Demsky

1. Introduction (00:48)
2. One of a Kind (10:54)
3. Glare Gipsys (13:46)

Recorded on an open-air stage near Budapest in June 1991, at a concert to celebrate the exodus of Soviet troops from Hungary (as seen on the TV documentary Zappa Pest).

Track 1 has Zappa's aquaintance Gabor Demsky, mayor of Budapest, introducing him, and tracks 2-3 have Zappa jamming on guitar with the Gypsy band of Gynla Babos. These were Zappa's last live guitar solos. There's a later studio solo on Everything Is Healing Nicely ("Strat Vindaloo").

The boot itself is a preposterous limited edition CD-R. The reported copy was #2 out of a total 100.

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