Best To Boots V.

KC Blues - 2-12-1972 Kansas City


Rollo
Duke Of Prunes
Montana
Little Dots
Cosmik Debris
KC Blues
Farther Oblivion
America Drinks

FZ, Tony Duran, Dave Parlato, Jim Gordon, Bruce Fowler, Malcolm McNabb, Tom Malone, Earle Dumler, Glenn Ferris, Gary Barone

The Avalon Allstars

2003-01-25 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco

carpenter
take your clothes off
what's the ugliest part of your body
summer jam
watermelon in easter hay
cosmik debris
dark star
chamelion
advanced romance
that's what love
hey joe
i'm the slime

Melvin Seals, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ike Willis, Tal Morris, Dennis Smith, Stephen Hund, Jerry Brown

Best To Boots IV.

Pygmy Pony - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 24-Feb-1973

1. RDNZL
2. Dog Breath Variations
3. Fifty-Fifty
4. Inca Roads
5. The Nancy & Mary Music Part 1
6. The Nancy & Mary Music Part 2
7. The Nancy & Mary Music Part 3
8. Montana

FZ, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler & Ralph Humphrey

Best To Boots III.

Pachuko Hop 1969-02-23 Toronto

Intro
Bacon Fat
Lonely Lonely Nights
Corrido Rock
Pachuko Hop
Behind The Sun
The String Quartet (q: Petrushka)
Charles Ives (q: Rite Of Spring)
WPLJ
In The Sky
All Night Long

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

Best to Boots II.

The Eyes Of Osaka - 1976-02-03

Disc 01 - Disc 02

Disc 1

01. Intro
02. Stinkfoot
03. Dirty Love
04. Filthy Habits
05. How Could I Be Such A Fool
06. I Ain't Got No Heart
07. I'm Not Satisfied
08. Black Napkins
09. Advance Romance

Disc 2

01. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me
02. The Illinois Enema Bandit
03. Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
04. Tryin' To Grow A Chin
05. The Torture Never Stops
06. Chungas Revenge - Drum Solo
07. Zoot Allures
08. Ship Ahoy
09. I'm The Slime
10. San' Berdino

FZ, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis, Terry Bozzio

Roundhouse - Zappa Plays Zappa

The Gumbo Variations
Yellow Snow Suite
Cosmik Debris (vocals and 2nd solo: FZ, 1st solo: DZ)
Excentrifugal Forz
Apostrophe
Uncle Remus
Stinkfoot
Inca Roads (solo: FZ)
Dumb All Over (vocals: FZ, bass: Scott Thunes)
Montana (vocals and solo: FZ, bass: Scott Thunes)
Pick Me I’m Clean (bass: Scott Thunes)
RDNZL
Wino Man (vocals and solo: Jeff Simmons, solo 2nd part: DZ)
Cruising for Burgers
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Baby Snakes
Disco Bridge
Valley Girl (vocals: Moon, dance: Mathilda, bass: Scott Thunes)
Muffin Man

Roundhouse

London Contemporary Orchestra: 
Yellow Shark

London Sinfonietta and special guests
Zappa: Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra
Boulez: Memoriale
Varese: Octandre
The Adventures of Greggery Peccary 

Best To Boots I.

1967 09 30 Koncerthuset Stockholm



introYou Didn't Try To Call Me
Petrushka
Bristol Stomp
Baby Love
Big Leg Emma
No Matter What You Do (incl. Tchaikovsky's 6th)
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog
Gee
King Kong
It Can't Happen Here

FZ, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood

Hot Rats Band #4

1970 07 25 - Riviera Festival, Valbonne, France

Tuning
Jam1
King Kong
Jam2
Jam3


FZ, Jean-Luc Ponty, Alby Cullaz, Aldo Romano

Wiesbaden, January 1977

1977 01 30 - Rhein-Main-Halle, Wiesbaden, Germany
Early Show - 95 min, Aud, A/A-



The Purple Lagoon
Peaches En Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
Big Leg Emma
City Of Tiny Lights
A Pound For A Brown
Jones Crusher
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Dong Work For Yuda
Manx Needs Women
Titties 'n Beer
Black Napkins
Dinah-Moe Humm
I'm The Slime


FZ, Ray White, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Eddie Jobson.

See a review of this show here!

Arlington 1973

1973 03 11 - Texas Hall Auditorium, Arlington, TX

part 01 - part 02

Intros
RDNZL
Exercise 4
Dog Breath Variations
Uncle Meat
Fifty-Fifty
Deviations
Inca Roads
Montana
George Duke solo improvisations
Son ofMr Green Genes
King Kong
Chunga's Revenge
Son Of Mr Green Genes Reprise

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

Philadelphia ´76

1976 10 29 - Spectrum Theater, Philadelphia, PA

part 01 - part 02

The Purple Lagoon
Stinkfoot
The Poodle Lecture
Dirty Love
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lights (incl. The Sanzini Brothers Piramid Trick)
You Didn't Try To Call Me
Manx Needs Women
Titties 'n Beer
Black Napkins
Advance Romance
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink
Would You Go All The Way?
Daddy Daddy Daddy
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
Dinah-Moe Humm
The Purple Lagoon
Stranded In The Jungle
Find Her Finer
Camarillo Brillo
Muffin Man
The Purple Lagoon

FZ, Ray White, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Eddie Jobson, Bianca Thornton

Magic Fingers

Framingham 69

1969 08 08 Framingham


The Legend Of The Golden Arches (A Pound For A Brown)
Sleeping In A Jar
Improvisation
Bacon Fat
Big Leg Emma
Improvisation Around “King Kong”

FZ, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner

Vancouver, October 1975

1975 10 01 - War Memorial Gymnasium, Vancouver, Canada
115 min, Aud, B+

Blues
Apostrophe
intros (Duke Of Prunes vamp)
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
The Illinois Enema Bandit
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
Lonely Little Girl
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
Chunga's Revenge
Swallow My Pride
Any Downers (incl Canadian Customs Routine)
T'Mershi Duween
Zoot Allures
Sleep Dirt
Black Napkins
Advance Romance
I'm The Slime

FZ, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis, Terry Bozzio

*

"No one would mistake this for a first-class FZ band, but they had a lot of energy on this night, and that, combined with a good setlist, makes this show as enjoyable an experience as you're likely to find on most tapelists. Get it." - See Pat Buzby's review of this very show.

The Mother People at the Fillmore West

1970 11 05 - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
65 min, SBD, A

(This recording is only available for streaming at Concert Vault.)

Paladin Routine
Call Any Vegetable
The Sanzini Brothers
A Pound For A Brown (q: Inca Roads)
Sleeping In A Jar
Porko The Magnificent (incl. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head)
Sharleena
The Air
Dog Breath
Mother People
You Didn't Try To Call Me
King Kong
Easy Meat

FZ, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar.

Hot Rats Band

1970 02 08, Sports Arena, San Diego

Blues Jam
King Kong
Chunga's Revenge
A Pound For A Brown
Sleeping In A Jar

FZ, Max Bennett, Ed Greene, Ian Underwood

The Last Mothers

05-07-1969 Newport Jazz Festival Field


intro
Igor's Boogie
improvisation (incl. Octandre)
Louie Louie / Passacaglia
Sunshine Of Your Love / Passacaglia
improvisation (incl. Gumbo Variations)
Some Ballet Music
story of Pound For A Brown
String Quartet

FZ, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner

Comic Book Extravaganza, 1972

1972 09 23 - Felt Forum, New York, NY
95 min, Aud, A-/B+

"Besides the carefully rehearsed, very complicated written musicm there was a mixture od free form and boogie thrown in. We never knew what was going to happen. There was the great "comic book" number at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden where we all interspersed dialogue read from assorted comic books found backstage with improvised music." (Malcolm McNab in the Wazoo liner notes)

intro,
Lohengrin,
Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo),
Approximate (with audience participation + Comic Book Extravaganza),
Dog Meat,
Big Swifty,
Penis Dimension,
Variant Processional March

FZ, Tony Duran, Jerry Kessler, Dave Parlato, Jim Gordon, Tom Raney, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Malcolm McNabb, Tom Malone, Earle Dumler, Glenn Ferris, Sal Marquez, Ken Shroyer, Mike Altschul, Joanne McNabb, Jay Migliori, Ray Reed, Charles Owens.

Could This Be ... Joe's Garage Acts IV & V Live? (2 LP)

(Mostly) Fox Theater, Atlanta, 20-Apr-1980, Early Show
115 min, Aud, B+

Watermelon In Easter Hay
Teenage Wind
Harder Than Your Husband
Bamboozled By Love
Pick Me I'm Clean
Society Pages
I'm A Beautiful Guy
Beauty Knows No Pain
Charlie's Enormous Mouth
Any Downers?
Conehead
Easy Meat
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Heavenly Bank Account
Suicide Chump
Jumbo Go Away
If Only She Woulda
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
Joe's Garage
(Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
Dancin' Fool
Bobby Brown
Love Of My Life)

Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Tommy Mars, Arthur Barrow, Ray White and David Logeman

Not a whole show - see details at Zappa Patio.