Frank Zappa - 1973-11-18 - Waterloo, ON, Canada (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
University Of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
1973 11 18

~~ Unknown generation SBD ~~

Current FZshows entry:
1973 11 18 - University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
80 min, SBD, A
soundcheck intro, Be-Bop Tango, T'Mershi Duween, I'm The Slime, Big Swifty, Pygmy Twylyte, The Idiot Bastard Son, Cheepnis, Montana, improvisations, Dupree's Paradise (q: Echidna's Arf, T'Mershi Duween, incl. Nowhere riff)

This copy: 81.30 min, SBD, A/A-

Lineage: SBD> ?> CDR> wav (CEP, corrected track splitting)> flac> Soundforge 10 > WAV (speed corrected, edited, balance between channels adjusted) > FLAC

Taped by: unknown
Transferred by: unknown
First seeded by: BengoFury
Speed corrected by: Galeans (under Flambay's indication)
Edited by: Galeans

Frank Zappa
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Tom Fowler
George Duke
Ruth Underwood
Bruce Fowler
Ralph Humphrey
Chester Thompson

01 Band Introductions [03:29]
02 Be-Bop Tango [17:40]
03 T'Mershi Duween [01:49]
04 I'm The Slime [03:43]
05 Big Swifty [08:50]
06 Preamble & tuning [00:53]
07 Pygmy Twylyte [03:51]
08 The Idiot Bastard Son [02:15] °°° tape flip 0:35, music missing
09 Cheepnis [03:36]
10 Preamble & tuning [01:35]
11 Montana [07:28]
12 Dupree's Paradise [26:22] °°° cuts out, music missing

This is an excellent show which came into circulation quite recently. Previously, all that we had was a fragment of "Be-Bop Tango" included in the famous Un-concert WLIR/WXRT radio broadcast. In 2002 (I think) the first 80 minutes of the show finally surfaced, from a stereo SBD source nonetheless, giving us a chance to finally enjoy after all of those years an excellent sounding version of one of the best shows of the tour. The lineage is a bit patchy, but it's all that is known at the moment so, until a tape source surfaces (if proven superior, of course), this will have to do. However, it is great sounding, lossless and stereo, so you can't complain too much. The old seed needed retracking, SBE fixing, corrected file names, balance between channels adjusted and, mostly important, slight speed correction, so we did!

If I had to choose highlights, they'd be "Big Swifty", "Montana" (in which George Duke gets a solo spot because of technical problems in FZ's amp) and "Dupree's Paradise", but truth is that the show sounds excellent as a whole and it's a delight from start to finish. Technical problems aside, the band is at its peak and FZ does some very funny remarks here and there. An essential show for the Zappa fan!