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

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.

Frankie and Shankie in Berlin

1978 09 07 - Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
110 min, Aud, B+
With L. Shankar (*).

The Purple Lagoon
Dancin' Fool
Easy Meat
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Keep It Greasey
Village Of The Sun
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
City Of Tiny Lights
A Pound For A Brown
The Deathless Horsie* (q: Mystery Tune)
Bobby Brown
Conehead* (incl. Mo's Vacation*)
Flakes
Magic Fingers
Yellow Snow Suite
Bamboozled By Love (corrupted - sorry)

Opinion by Globual here.

FZ, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf.

Stairway To Berlin

1988 04 12 - Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany

140 min, Aud, B+

part 1 - part 2

The Black Page
Packard Goose Medley
Any Kind Of Pain
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Eric Dolphy Memorial
I Am The Walrus
I Ain't Got No Heart
Andy
Inca Roads
Bolero
Texas Motel Medley
The Torture Never Stops
City Of Tiny Lights
A Pound For A Brown
Stairway To Heaven
Bobby Brown
Whipping Post
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
Strictly Genteel

*

notes:
- some pictures from a trip to Berlin, to this very show: 1 2 3
- this is a different version of a show already posted here.
- review by Jon Naurin.

The Shortest Concert Ever, 1982

6-Jun 1982, Rhein Neckar Stadion, Mannheim, West Germany

10 min, Aud, B-
Entire show - it was stopped due to heavy rain.



Sofa
Montana
Easy Meat

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

*

- Review by Pat Buzby;
- The Unlucky 1982 Concerts (3 shows in FLAC, at Qualitybootz)

The Last Show Of The Tour, Winter '78

1978 02 28 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, England
105 min, Aud, A-






part 1 - part 2


Intro
Dancin' Fool [basic track on SY]
Peaches En Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
City Of Tiny Lights
Baby Snakes [basic track on SY]
A Pound For A Brown
I Have Been In You
Flakes
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
King Kong
Wild Love [basic track on SY]
Yo' Mama [parts as basic track on SY]
Disco Boy



FZ, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf.


*


Review by Pat Buzby here.
The Audition For A Hand Shake - Adrian Belew remembers

1982 - Kiel, Germany

1982-05-23, Ostseehalle Kiel, West Germany; 75 min, Aud, B+

part 1 - part 2

Tune Up
Zoot Allures
Sofa
Montana
Easy Meat
Dead Girls Of London
Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
What's New In Baltimore?
Moggio
Joe's Garage
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? I
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? II
Doreen
Goblin Girl
Black Page #2
Cocaine Decisions
Nig Biz
Disco Boy
Teenage Wind
King Kong (q: I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth)

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

Bang Your Head in Los Angeles

1984 07 21 - Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA
95 min, SBD, A-

part 1 - part 2

Treacherous Cretins
Montana
Easy Meat
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
Advance Romance
He's So Gay
Bobby Brown
Keep It Greasey
Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Carol You Fool
Chana In De Bushwop
Let's Move To Cleveland
Tinsel Town Rebellion
Oh No
Trouble Every Day
Penguin In Bondage
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel

Jungle Boogie (improvisational stuff, on request)
The Closer You Are
No No Cherry

*

It seems that Sean Gaffney did not like this show.

But I surely did! :-)

Might It Be The Most Powerful Show Ever Played And Recorded By FZ & Associates?

1981 11 21 - Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois, Champaign (a.k.a. Urbana), IL
130 min, Aud, B+

part 1 - part 2

Sinister Footwear pt. 2 *
A Pound For A Brown *
Drowning Witch * *
What's New In Baltimore? [parts on FZMTMOP] *
Moggio
We're Turning Again
Alien Orifice *
Teenage Prostitute
Sinister Footwear pt. 1
Envelopes
Stevie's Spanking *

Cocaine Decisions
Nig Biz *
King Kong *
Sharleena *
Cosmik Debris
Doreen
Goblin Girl
The Black Page *

Strictly Genteel
The Illinois Enema Bandit *
Brahms's Lullaby

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

* songs that have an FZ-solo in them.

Passaic Again: 1975 04 19 (Late)

1975 04 19 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Late Show

110 min, Aud, B+/B
25 min, Aud, B+
The better sounding tape has the last three songs only.


(links from Germany - thnx!)

Improvisations
Debra Kadabra
Florentine Pogen
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
Echidna's Arf
improvisations (q: Debra Kadabra)
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? (incl. Louie Louie)
Advance Romance
The Orange Claw Hammer
improvisations (incl. Uncle Meat, q: Debra Kadabra)
A Token Of My Extreme
The Torture Never Stops
Willie The Pimp

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

Waka/Jawaka in Passaic, 1972

1972 10 31 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
Late show
105 min, Aud, B+/B

intros
I'm Not Satisfied
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
Little Dots
Rollo
Cosmik Debris
Imaginary Diseases
Farther Oblivion
Montana
America Drinks
Waka/Jawaka

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

All about the Petit Wazoo tour here!