Frank Zappa - 1978-09-09 - Knebworth Park, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Frank Zappa 
Oh God, Not Another Boring Old Knebworth Festival 
Knebworth Park, England 
1978-09-09 

Source: Soundboard Cassette (1st gen) 
Transfer: Cassette > Technics RS-TR212 > Audacity > wav 24/96 
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 4 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced > 
iZotope RX 4 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > TLH Flac 16 

Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals 
Ed Mann - percussion, vocals 
Peter Wolf - keyboards 
Denny Walley - guitar, vocals 
Ike Willis - guitar, vocals 
Tommy Mars - keyboards, vocals 
Arthur Barrow - bass, vocals 
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums, seal call 

01 Knick Knack Intro 
02 The Deathless Horsie 
03 Dancin' Fool 
04 Easy Meat 
05 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? 
06 Keep It Greasey 
07 Village Of The Sun 
08 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 
09 City Of Tiny Lights 
10 A Pound For A Brown 
11 Bobby Brown 
12 Conehead 
13 Flakes 
14 Magic Fingers 
15 Yellow Snow Suite 
16 Encore Preamble 
17 Bamboozled By Love 

All of "Knick Knack Intro" 
The first 40.76 seconds of "The Deathless Horsie" 
1:48 - 2:46.37 of "A Pound For A Brown" 

Patch source; Aud (WIU2B-walk-fl) seeded to Zappateers December 2007. Speed and level adjustments have been made.

Frank Zappa - 1978-09-08 - Munich, DE (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Frank Zappa "We Don't Mess Around" - A "soooooo professional" video restoration project

Lineage:
German Satellite TV August, 1996 (BR3) >Super VHS(HiFi) > Philips dvdrecorder > DVD > Zappateers
Data DVD > Demuxed > Various Filters > Re-encoded > Authored

Audio Lineage:
VHS > DAT (WAV) > Flac > Me > AIFF

Video:
MPEG-2, 720x528, 25fps, 4:3 PAL, 8000kbps

Audio:
LPCM, 48000Hz, 1536kbps (mono)

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

01 - Pound for a Brown
02 - Baby Snakes
03 - Deathless Horsie
04 - Dancin' Fool
05 - Easy Meat
06 - Honey Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
07 - Keep It Greasey
08 - Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
09 - Sofa #2
10 - Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music
11 - Bobby Brown
12 - Conehead
13 - Dead Air/I'm On Duty
14 - St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
15 - Father Oblivion
16 - Rollo
17 - Bamboozled Outro

58 mins

Notes by the uploader/trader:
A 6 day restoration project ...
For those who like details ... I Took the original video seeded here a couple of years back and split it into video stream and audio. Took jazzfromhell's uncompressed DAT WAV and matched it up against the original AC3 audio. Resampled to 48 KHz, normalized the resulting file to 0db and saved it to WAV.
Took the elementary video stream, resized it to fit the screen, made a couple of minor repairs, then ran several filters. De-interlaced with a 1 pix vertical smooth and a light sharpening. Adjusted individual channel levels to keep the color matched as close as possible to the original while darkening the black and lightening the white. I added a light grain removal to take out some edge artifacts and flat surface graininess. Anyway, 36 hours of rendering later, I had a new single pass VBR mpeg at maximum setting and I re-authored the DVD with the best audio possible.

Some of you might not like the light edge texturing that has replaced the compression artifacts, but it's the price that had to be paid for working on a compressed mpeg rather than a clean uncompressed copy ... The loss of the blue line on the left and VHS crackling across the bottom is an improvement, but I'm going to post a few comparative screen grabs so you can decide whether it's worth the download.

Frank Zappa - 1978-09-05 - Malmoe, SE (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

5-Sep 1978, Folkets Park, Malmö, Sweden 
114 min, Aud, A/A- 
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, Pound For A Brown, Bobby Brown, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (world premiere), Conehead, Flakes, Magic Fingers, Yellow Snow Suite, Bamboozled By Love, Sy Borg, Little House I Used To Live In, Tell Me You Love Me, Dinah-Moe Humm 

Lineage: Aud master->HD (noise reduction, unknown software)->CDR->EAC->Sound Forge (editing, tracking, EQ and patching from old source)->FLAC Frontend 

This is a recently surfaced recording. I was contacted by the taper himself, who wanted me to make sure it came into circulation as quickly as possible, to avoid bootlegging. It's a fantastic audience recording, NR'ed by the taper himself. I asked for a raw copy, but he assured me that "this is as good as it gets". It does indeed sound awesome, despite that NR feeling we all know and have mixed feelings about. 
I have patched in a small segment of Pound For A Brown from my old tape, while the second tape flip in Bamboozled is hardly worth any extra effort. 

01 crowd noise 
02 The Purple Lagoon 
03 Dancin' Fool 
04 Easy Meat 
05 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 
06 Keep It Greasey 
07 Village Of The Sun 
08 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 
09 City Of Tiny Lights 
10 Pound For A Brown 
11 Bobby Brown 
12 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee preamble 
13 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 
14 Conehead 
15 Flakes 
16 Magic Fingers 
17 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 
20 Nanook Rubs It 
21 St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast 
22 Father O'Blivion 
23 Rollo.flac 
24 Bamboozled By Love 
25 Sy Borg 
26 Little House I Used To Live In 
27 Tell Me You Love Me
28 Dinah-Moe Humm

Frank Zappa - 1978-09-03 - Saarbrucken, DE (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

FRANK ZAPPA
September 3, 1978
Ludwigsparkstadion
Saarbrücken, Germany

SOUND QUALITY: A- Soundboard
TOTAL LENGTH: 76:26

MAIN SOURCE: "Saarbrücken 1978" LP
LABEL: Muffin' Man Productions
MATRIX: ZAPSA-A/B/C/D
TRANSFER: Sony PS-LX350H w/ AT-440MLa > Kenwood KR-A5060 > Edirol R-09HR (24/96)
SPEED CORRECTION by Flambay
EDITED IN COOLEDIT PRO 2.0
16/44 DOWNSAMPLED WITH SWITCH v4.09
TRANSFER & EDIT by JWB (April 2011)

FILL SOURCE: TDK SA90 (Unknown Gen)
TRANSFER: A/D nakamichi/UA-5 USB > wav Audition 3
TRANSFER by walk (April 2011)
SPEED CORRECTION, EQ & EDITING by JWB

PATCHED by JWB on April 14, 2011
INDEXED with CDWave
ENCODED with Trader's Little Helper

01 Purple Lagoon Intro *M-walk fill (0:00-2:08)*
02 Dancin' Fool
03 Easy Meat
04 Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me
05 Keep It Greasy
06 Village Of The Sun
07 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
08 City Of Tiny Lites
09 Pound For A Brown
10 Bobby Brown *intro cut*
11 Conehead *tape flip @ 2:04*
12 Flakes 
13 Magic Fingers
14 Yellow Snow Suite
15 Bamboozled By Love *M-walk fill (6:47-end)*

Frank Zappa - 1973-09-02 - Wetzikon, CH (AUD/FLAC)

(audience FLAC)

"WILLIAM TELL EDITION" 071

Mehrweckhalle

Recorded by; "Judge Free"

Recorded on; AGFA Fe Master Cassettes>Phillips Deck(Mono)>second generation EL3302

Recording provided by; "William Tell"

Uploaded by; "Lucifer Burns"

AGFA Fe Master Cassettes>Nakamichi 682 ZX Cassette Tape deck(normal eq/no noise reduction)>Sony CDR-W66 Standalone CD Burner w/"super bitmapping on">CDR

Lineage
CDR>Plexwriter Premium II CD-Transport>iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo with iTunes 9.2.1 into WAW>DVDR>WAV>TLH>FLAC

Frank Zappa- Guitar/Vocals
Jean Luc Ponty- Violin
George Duke- Keyboards/Synth/Organ/Clavinet/Grand Piano/Vocals
Tom Fowler- Bass
Ralph Humphrey-Drums/Tympani/Gong
Ruth Underwood- Percussion
Ian Underwood- Bass Clarinet/Flute/Synth
Bruce Fowler- Trombone

Disc 1 Tape 1 Side A
01. Tune Up
02. Band Members Introduced
03. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue/Kung Fu
04. Penguin In Bondage
05. Dog Meat/Rdnzl
06. Inca Roads
07. Comsik Debris

Disc 2 Tape 1 Side B & Tape 2 Side A
01. Cosmik Debris (Cont.)
02. Improvisation
03. Montana/Dupree'S Paradise
04. Brown Shoes Don'T Make It
05. Brown Shoes Don'T Make It (Cont.)
06. Join The March And Eat My Starch
07. Farther Oblivion

Frank Zappa - 1984-09-01 - Saratoga, NY (SBD/FLAC) "Kreega Bondola"

(Soundboard FLAC)

lineage
SBD?> silver boot> CDR> Flac Frontend Level 6> FLAC

Kreega Bondola
September 1, 1984
Saratoga Performing Arts Centre
Saratoga, NY

CD1
01. Heavy Duty Judy
02. Intro
03. Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy
04. Advance Romance
05. I'm the Slime
06. Be in My Video
07. What's New in Baltimore
08. Lucille HAs Messed My Mind Up
09. Ride my Face to Chicago
10. Teenage Wind
11. Truckdriver Divorce
12. Cocaine Decisions
13. Nig Biz
14. Sharleena

CD2
01. Keep it Greasey
02. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
03. Carol, You Fool
04. Chana in de Bushwop
05. Let's Move to Cleveland (Kreega Bondola)
06. Frank Plays With Panties
07. He's so Gay
08. Bobby Brown Goes Down
09. Crew Slut
10. On Women
11. Camarillo Brillo
12. Muffin Man
13. Illinois Enema Bandit

notes
The show is great and the sound quality is quite good, A/A-. There are some warbles.

Frank Zappa - 1974-08-27 - Los Angeles, CA (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

A Token of his Extreme
KCET TV, Los Angeles
72:40

DVD NTSC (720x480)
video:
DVD "VOB" format
MPEG-2 Program Stream << { 1 vid, 1 aud, 1 other }
6700 kbs
704 x 480

audio:
AC3
0xbd[0x80]:48000Hz 256 kb/s total (2 chnls)

01. Dog Meat 4:01
02. Montana 6:04
03. George Freak Out 5:43
04. Florentine Pogen 10:01
05. Stinkfoot 4:16
06. Pygmy Twylyte 8:38
07. Room Service 8:40
08. Inca Roads 9:51
09. Oh No 1:39
10. Son of Orange County 5:29
11. Trouble Every Day 7:16
12. A Token of my Extreme 1:22

Frank Zappa - 1973-08-21 - Stockholm, SWE (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Soliden, Skansen

FZ - Guitar/Vocals
Jean-Luc Ponty - Violin
George Duke - Keyboards/Vocals
Ian Underwood - Alto Sax/Woodwinds
Bruce Fowler - Trombone
Ruth Underwood - Marimba/Percussion
Tom Fowler - Bass
Ralph Humphrey - Drums

01 Cosmik Debris
02 Eric Dolphy Memorial BBQ
03 Kung Fu
04 Penguin In Bondage
05 RDNZL
06 Montana
07 Dupree's Paradise
08 Join The March And Eat My Strach
09 Farther O'Blivion

Quality: A+ Mono Soundboard
Length: 74 minutes

Remastering consisted of EQ & Limiting
Various Pops, Clicks & Dropouts Removed
Corrected To True Mono
Transition from FM to VHS smoothed over

Source: FM > ANAM > WAV (Tracks 1-5)
PRE-BROADCAST VHS > WAV (Tracks 6-9)

FM Recording & Transfer by Bengofury
VHS Provided by RDNZL
VHS Transfer by Unicrayon
Original Torrent by Unicrayon
Remastered by JWB - March 2010

Frank Zappa - 1973-08-21 - Stockholm, SWE (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

'Stockholm In Bondage'
Soliden, Skansen
Stockholm
Sweden
1973 08 21

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

D1 - Opopoppa Warm-Up (20.33)

01 - Intro
02 - Cosmik Debris
03 - Penguin In Bondage
04 - Kung Fu
05 - RDNZL

Audio: FM Master LPCM
Video:
Cosmik Debris - Broadcast Master VHS (tordmullet)
Penguin, Kung Fu, RDNZL - Unknown Gen (BengoFury)
Fill Lineage: Musicbyran Broadcast > VHS > DV > Editing > DVD
Video: 720 × 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 7.50 Mbps
Audio: PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps

===================================

D2 - Opopoppa Special (58.49)

01 - Intro
02 - Montana
03 - Dupree's Paradise
04 - Farther Oblivion
05 - Outro

Audio: Pre Broadcast Master LPCM (RDNZL)
Video: Pre Broadcast Master (RDNZL)
Lineage: Betacam > VHS > DV > Editing > DVD
Video: 720 × 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 7.50 Mbps
Audio: PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps

Three years ago, RDNZL gave me the Pre Broadcast VHS to upgrade our current broadcast source.
We decided to wait to see if another source for the Penguin, Kung Fu, RDNZL section could be found. It wasn't. However, I was able to replace the audio for the whole warm-up section with an uncompressed mono FM audio broadcast from BengoFury and a fresh transfer of Cosmik from the Musicbyran broadcast from tordmullet Smile. The Opopoppa Special is now complete with the Studio intro and outro and because of the fresh transfer, now comes with uncompressed mono audio.

Frank Zappa - 1973-08-18 - Copenhagen, DK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Frank Zappa 
KB Hallen, København, Denmark 
August 18th 1973 

An essential 1973 show, with three world premiere live performances of: 
Kung Fu, Village Of The Sun and Echidna's Arf (full piece) 
plus the 1973 premiere of Brown Shoes Don't Make It. 
Enjoy !! 

available tapes according FZshows 7.1: 
1973 08 18 - KB Hallen, København, Denmark 
125 min, Aud, B 
soundcheck intro, improvisations, Dupree's Paradise, Cosmik Debris, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Kung Fu, Penguin In Bondage, Dog Meat, RDNZL, Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Village Of The Sun, Echidna's Arf, Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Montana, Farther Oblivion, Mr Green Genes, King Kong, Chunga's Revenge, Mr Green Genes 

This copy: 124.23 min, Aud, B+/B 

Source: Unknown generation audience tape 
Lineage: Maxell XLII Cassette>Sony TC-WE8258 cassette deck>Gina20>Sound Forge 7.0 (record/edits)>FLAC Level 8>wav> 
Soundforge 5: speed correction, volume level & phase offset adjustments, editing,tracking > flac FFE lvl7 w/SBA (772 MB) 

Taped By: unknown 
Contributed by: Virgil Proudfoot 
Transferred By: Drew51 
Edited By: flambay 

The MOI: 
George Duke - keyboards, vocals 
Tom Fowler - bass 
Bruce Fowler - trombone 
Ralph Humphrey - drums 
Jean Luc Ponty - violin 
Ian Underwood - alto saxophone, synthesizer (played alto saxophone for the whole duration of this line-up. He played synthesizer before Sal Marquez joined and after he left) 
Ruth Underwood - percussion 
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals 

01 Intro 5:36 
02 Dupree's Paradise (George Duke prelude) 8:28 
03 Dupree's Paradise (Main Theme & solos) 12:33 
04 Cosmik Debris 11:19 
05 Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue 1:04 
06 Kung Fu (world premiere) 1:03 
07 Penguin In Bondage 3:51 
08 Dog Meat 6:52 
09 RDNZL 5:58 
10 Brown Shoes Don't Make It 8:11 
11 Village Of The Sun (world premiere) 4:14 
12 Echidna's Arf (world premiere) 4:03 
13 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? 10:55 
14 Montana 7:52 
15 Farther Oblivion 16:11 
16 encore break 1:37 
17 Son Of Mr Green Genes 2:54 
18 King Kong 5:22 
19 Chunga's Revenge (incl.Mr.Green Genes reprise) 5:54 

total time 124.08 min 

Notes: 
this show was on 60 minute tapes, with generous overlap material around each tape flip. No cuts in music found, probably only during applause breaks. 

Credits: 
Thanks to the unknown taper. 
Thanks to Virgil Proudfoot for donating tape to the Master's Team collection. 
And thanks to all contributors and discussion participants 
around this show's various sample seeds. 

Frank Zappa - 1984-08-12 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

12-Aug 1984, 

Blossom Garden Music Center, 

Cuyahaga Falls, OH

90 min, SBD, A-

lineage

SB>? >cassette>wav (CEP, track splitted)>flac (frontend with SBE correction) (591 MB)

== Frank Zappa's Band Jul - Dec 1984 ==

FZ, 

Ike Willis, 

Ray White, 

Scott Thunes, 

Chad Wackerman, 

Alan Zavod,

Bobby Martin, 

Napoleon Murphy Brock (Jul. 17 - Aug 1)

01 - Zoot Allures

02 - City Of Tiny Lights

03 - You Are What You Is

04 - Mudd Club

05 - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

06 - Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy

07 - Advance Romance

08 - He's So Gay

09 - Bobby Brown

10 - Keep It Greasey (cut, first 1:25 only)

11 - More Trouble Every Day

12 - Penguin In Bondage

13 - Hot Plate Heaven

14 - Joe's Garage

15 - Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

16 - Camarillo Brillo

17 - Muffin Man

18 - Cosmik Debris

19 - Whippin' Post

A BengoFury tape rip (suggested CD split point is after Keep It Greasey)

Frank Zappa - 1984-08-11 - Madison, WI (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Recording (Analog414, 1984 08 11):

Field Equipment:
Tape: TDK Super Avilyn L-750 Beta
Deck: Sony PCM-F1 Digital Audio Processor/Sony SL-2000 Video beta
Mics: AKG 460-B w/ ck1 capsules
Location: Dead center first row balcony mics on the ledge

Sony PCM-F1 Digital Audio Processor/Sony SL-2000 Video beta (digital MC beta video tape) ->
Fuji FR Metal 90 Cassettes (1st Gen)
------
Transfer (Drew51, October 2010):
Nakamichi CR-7A cassette deck -> Tascam US-122L -> Sound Forge Pro 10.0 (record/edits) -> FLAC Level 8
------
Remastering (JWB, August 2017):
-> Phase correction
-> Speed correction
-> Editing of overlap
-> Patched with alternate recording
-> Level/balance changes in first song
------
-> TLH: Audio files checked for SBEs (Pittylabelle, 2017 08 19)
------

Fills: from Steve Litin's AUD MC, A
Master Cassette -> CDR(2) -> AIFF -> Peak (-30cts) -> Sound Studio (patches & track splits) ->
xACT (align SBE, Flac level 5)

Location of fills:
Track 01 - more intro {00:00-00:29}
Track 13 - digital tape change? {04:58-05:08}
Track 22 - more encore break {00:00-00:13}

01 Intro [01:18] °°° more intro {00:00-00:29}
02 Heavy Duty Judy [05:40]
03 Tinseltown Rebellion [04:19]
04 More Trouble Every Day [05:18]
05 Penguin In Bondage [04:58]
06 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [05:22]
07 Advance Romance [07:50]
08 Cocaine Decisions [02:51]
09 Nig Biz [06:36]
10 Outside Now [06:59]
11 Be In My Video [03:15]
12 Montana [03:38]
13 Easy Meat [09:10] °°° digital tape change? {04:58-05:08}
14 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy [08:32]
15 Carol You Fool [03:40]
16 Chana In De Bushwop [03:53]
17 Let's Move To Cleveland [13:51]
18 Encore Break 1 [00:40]
19 Dinah Moe-Humm [03:20]
20 Dancin' Fool [03:55]
21 Sharleena [07:40]
22 Encore Break 2 [00:45] °°° more encore break {00:00-00:13}
23 The Illinois Enema Bandit [09:53]

Total time: 123.23 min

Frank Zappa - 1969-08-10 - Warrensville Heights, OH (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Another Don Preston stage recording. 

Musicarnival 
Warrensville Heights, OH 
1969 08 10 

~~ From 4th gen stage recording ~~ 

Here's an alternate version of the walk-Kristoftof version. I call it an upgrade, but maybe not everyone will agree - this 4th gen has a lot of clarity, but also a harsh treble, which some might find too hard on the ear. I think it can be balanced to some degree with EQ, without losing too much detail. 

FZShows entry: 

1969 08 10 - Musicarnival, Warrensville Heights, OH 
55 min, Stage?, B+ 
Drum Solo, Some Ballet Music, Right There, FZ explains program music, String Quartet, Improvisations (q: Funiculì Funiculà, King Kong), In The Sky, More Improvisations (q: Wedding Dress Song, Petrushka, incl. Chunga's Revenge chords) 

This version: 54:31 min, Stage, B+ 

Lineage: Stage recording > Reel-to-reel tape (4th gen) > CDR (standalone burner) > EAC > SoundForge 10.0 (minor level adjustments, editing, tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (flac level 7)

Taped by: Don Preston 
Transferred by: LC 
Edited by: Yojimbo 

01 Drum Duet (1:42) (cuts in) 
02 Some Ballet Music (5:50) 
03 Right There (1:29) 
04 FZ explains program music (cut @ 0:34) (0:37) 
05 Pound For A Brown (5:35) 
06 Sleeping In A Jar (15:18) 
07 Improvisations (cut @ 1:16) (14:00) 
08 In The Sky (2:29) 
09 More Improvisations (7:26) 

Note: I'm guessing the jam after the cut in track 07 is from King Kong, with the head of the song missing. However, I've chosen to lump it together with the foregoing vocal improvisations into one track.

Frank Zappa - 1984-08-10 - West Allis, WI (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Frank Zappa 
State Fairgrounds, 
West Allis, WI (Milwaukee area) 

1984 08 10 - Show 

~~ from TDK-frank2441 unknown gen SBD copy ~~ 

Contributed by frank2441 via TDK. 

Best sounding (slightly NRed above 18 kHz) but incomplete copy (missing Joe's Garage). 

Fills included from 2 alternate copies of the same SBD source 
(diff. dubline, raw, inferior sound quality): 
BengoFury unknown gen & Bob M-doctorzap 1st gen 

Despite its slight NRed nature (frequency drop above 18-19 kHz) 
we have discussed in Samples and decided to present this copy here in FZ Shows for now, 
rather than one of the other two copies, more lossless appearing but inferior sounding. 
If and when a superior sounding lossless copy of this SBD source turns up 
we'll be happy to have this version replaced by a new FZ Shows upload. 

Current FZshows entry: 
1984 08 10 - State Fairgrounds, West Allis (a.k.a. Milwaukee), WI 
Soundcheck 
25 min, Aud, B 
Charlie's Enormous Mouth, Any Downers?, Conehead, Rock Lobster, The Black Page, Crew Slut 
Show 
75 min, SBD, A 
City Of Tiny Lights, You Are What You Is, Mudd Club, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Dumb All Over, Goblin Girl, The Black Page, He's So Gay, 
Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasey, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, 
Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Camarillo Brillo, Muffin Man, Cosmik Debris, Whipping Post 

This copy: 77.20 min, SBD, A/A- (patches: A-/B+) 

Original lineage unknown. 

tape ? CD-R ? > flac (TDK-frank2441) > 
Soundforge 10: merge all tracks, speed correction, minor phase ofset adjustments, re-tracking, 
patching in fills > flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (497 MB) 

taped by: unknown 
transferred by: unknown 
obtained by frank2441 from: unknown 
edited by frank2441, flambay 

Fills to tracks & portions missing in frank2441 copy 
included from 2 inferior sounding copies of the same source: 

1) STG > BengoFury (start of tape & Joe's Garage) - harsher sound (A-/B+) 
previous FZ Shows seed: 
1984 08 10 Milwaukee, WI SBD 73.58 (Bengo) unknown gen - reseeded 2005-10-12 by Huck 
Lineage: 
cassette>wav (CEP, track splitting, some EQ)>flac (499MB) 
A BengoFury tape rip 

2) BobM-doctorzap 1st gen (Hot Plate Heaven & end of tape) - duller sound (A-/B+) 
Samples: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=28781 
taped by: unknown 
contributed by: Bob M 
transferred by: doctorzap 
edited by: flambay 

Frank Zappa's Band, July - December 1984: 

FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Allan Zavod, 
Bobby Martin, Napoleon Murphy Brock (July 17 - August 1) 

01 City Of Tiny Lites [2:17] °°° fades in, start of show missing, BengoFury copy patch {0:00-0:04} 
02 You Are What You Is [3:48] 
03 Mudd Club [2:51] 
04 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [3:06] 
05 Dumb All Over [4:35] °°° tf cut at 3:54 (FZ solo missing) 
06 Goblin Girl [2:13] 
07 Black Page #2 [5:21] 
08 He's So Gay [2:23] 
09 Bobby Brown [2:41] 
10 Keep It Greasey [3:23] 
11 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [4:00] 
12 More Trouble Every Day [4:23] 
13 Penguin In Bondage [4:28] °°° tf cut at 2:56 (parts of FZ solo missing) 
14 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [5:17] °°° cuts at 1:09 and 1:20 ; Bob M copy patch {1:09-1:20} 
15 Joe's Garage [2:21] °°° entire track from BengoFury copy 
16 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [2:49] 
17 encore break [1:09] °°° cuts in, no music missing 
18 Camarillo Brillo [3:26] 
19 Muffin Man [4:22] 
20 Cosmik Debris [4:27] 
21 Whipping Post [8:03] °°° Bob M copy patch {7:10-end} 

Total time (incl. patches) 77.20 min 

Notes: 
No further patches available to parts from this show left missing as noted in tracklist. 
No alternate source recording known to exist. 

Credits: 
Thanks to the unknown taper 
and to the unknown contributor of this "frank2441" copy. 
Thanks to all original contributors of the alternate copies material (fills): 
BengoFury, Huck, Bob M, doctorzap 

Frank Zappa - 1984-07-22 - Los Angeles, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Palace Theater

92 min, SBD, A+ (1st gen)

Guest appearances by George Duke (*), Johnny Guitar Watson (**) and Aynsley Dunbar/Denny Walley/Bruce
Fowler (***).

01. Intro
02. Black Page #2
03. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
04. Dumb All Over
05. The Evil Prince
06. Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
07. Advance Romance
08. He's So Gay
09. Bobby Brown
10. Keep It Greasey
11. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
12. Carol You Fool
13. Dangerous Kitchen
14. Chana In The Bushwop
15. Let's Move To Cleveland
16. Why Don't You Like Me?
17. Stick It Out
18. Truck Driver Divorce*
19. Jam*
20. In France*/**
21. Chunga's Revenge***

Frank Zappa - 1984-07-21 - Hollywood, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Palace

Lineage:
low gen SBD > Gina20 > SF > WAV > FLAC.

FZ-guitar, vocals
Ike Willis, Ray White-vocals, guitar
Bobby Martin-vocals, keyboards, saxophone
Allan Zavod-keyboards
Scott Thunes-bass
Chad Wackerman-drums
Napoleon Murphy Brock-special guest

CD1
01.Treacherous Cretins
02.Montana
03.Easy Meat
04.Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
05.Advance Romance
06.He's So Gay
07.Bobby Brown
08.Keep It Greasey
09.Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
10.Carol You Fool
11.Chana In De Bushwop
12.Let's Move To Cleveland

CD2
01.Tinseltown Rebellion
02.Oh No/
03.Son Of Orange County/
04.More Trouble Every Day
05.Penguin In Bondage
06.Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
07.Jungle Boogie (improvisational stuff, on request)
08.The Closer You Are/Johnny Darling
09.No No Cherry(fades Out)

Frank Zappa - 1974-07-17 - Phoenix, AZ (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Celebrity Theatre

Lineage:

SBD > Unknown Gen Maxell XLII 90min tape > Kenwood KX-W8020 Cassette Deck > Sound Blaster Awe32 PC Soundcard > Recorded To WAV With Cool Edit Pro > mailed across the Mason-Dixon line to ZP > Wavelab (speed correction as per flambay) > CDWAV (tracks split, saved as FLAC level 8 ) > foobar2000 (tags + ReplayGain)

Additional lineage for RDNZL: GoldWave (patched with flambay's assistance) > foobar2000 (tags + ReplayGain)

Additional lineage for Dupree's Paradise: GoldWave (patched without flambay's assistance, look what I did all by myself Mommy) > foobar2000 (tags + ReplayGain)

Taped by: N/A

Transferred by: jaypfunk

Speed corrected by: flambay

Edited by: Zappa Penguin

(RDNZL patch transferred by BengoFury, edited by flambay, cut-and-pasted by ZP)

(Dupree's Paradise patch transferred by WIU2B, mailed by LudzNL, cut-and-pasted by ZP)

The MOI:

Napolean Murphy Brock - saxophone, flute, vocals

George Duke - keyboards, synthesizer, vocals

Tom Fowler - bass

Chester Thompson - drums, vocals

Ruth Underwood - percussion

Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals

01. intro (soundcheck and tuning)

02. RDNZL (mystery wonder-gap at 0:37-38, patched with BF version, no music missing)

03. Village of the Sun

04. Echidna's Arf (of You)

05. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

06. Cosmik Debris

07. Dupree's Paradise (tape flip at 7:54 - patched with WIU2B-LudzNL version from 7:54 - 8:12, part of monologue still missing)

08. Camarillo Brillo

09. T'Mershi Duween

10. Dog Breath

11. Uncle Meat

12. tuning

13. Road Ladies

Notes:

RDNZL patch is cross-faded, Dupree's isn't. A non-cross-faded version of RDNZL is available in the bonus folder, as well as the original Dupree's Paradise fill material.

Speed correction info:

intro -> tuning: +60 cts

Road Ladies: +55 cts

Notes:

Like most of the shows from the first American leg of this tour (and the third American leg of 1974), this is a very loose, relaxed show, with plenty of quotes in Dupree's Paradise. Despite the hissiness of this tape, it's clearly the best of four tapes sampled 

Frank Zappa - 1969-07-08 - Boston, MA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

This is a new remastered version of one of the best early Mothers bootlegs, if not THE best. The performance, choice of repertoire and overall sound quality are exceptional. This one is a no-brainer for anyone even slightly interested in live Mothers Of Invention.

Circulating copies of this show are off by 40 samples causing the stereo image to smear and lean to the right. Fixing this did a world of good and centered and stabilized the stereo image. While I was at it, I fixed the muddy EQ which really brought the recording to life. Nothing else was done to enhance the sound. The copy of the show used here is said to be a 4th gen copy but I think it sounds better than that, possibly 2nd or 3rd gen with some reel gens in there, but who knows. At some point, the channels were horribly misaligned and it has circulated this way for a long time.

This version of the show is unedited and has several more minutes of material and the correct sequencing compared to the original boot LP and "Beat The Boots" versions.

FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
The Ark {Remastered Edition}

01 Intro [1:58]
02 Big Leg Emma [4:19]
03 Some Ballet Music [8:09]
04 Status Back Baby [6:27]
05 Valarie [4:01]
06 My Guitar [13:30]
07 Uncle Meat [3:28]
08 Drum Duet [2:05]
09 King Kong [18:23]

TOTAL TIME: 62:24

QUALITY: A+ Stereo Soundboard

Recorded July 8, 1969 @ The Ark, Boston MA by Steven Waldman

Tape from the collection of Jeff Allan
Analog to Digital transfer by Drew 51
Pitch Correction by Taurus - February 2007
Phase Correction, EQ & Edit by JWB - December 2014

Frank Zappa - 1971-07-05 - Montreal, Quebec (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Frank Zappa
1971 July 05
Montreal Quebec CA CHOM Radio (CKGM-FM)

Source: B+
Lineage: FM> mic? > cass[JVC GI-90] > A/D Technics RS673 [az adj~Dolby out/Bias low/EQ 120us/EQ out/bias nominal/output
8~MAudio USB > SF8 vol adj only > flac front end
Taped by: N/A
Transferred by: MrUMRK
Transfer eng assist:SP
Edited: MrUMRK
File Size: 229MB (FLAC)

Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals
Aynsley Dunbar - drums
Bob Harris - keyboards
Jim Pons - bass, vocals
Ian underwood - keyboards , saxophone
Howard Kaylan - vocals
Mark volman - vocals, guitar

01 Daddy's Home]
02 The Polka ~ drum solo
03 Mudshark
04 Magdalena
05 CKGM station ad by Frank
06 jam (inc,Pirate Jenny~Nikki Hoi etc)
05 Daddy Daddy Daddy
06 She Painted Up Her Face
07 band intro ~Mark Volman
08 Oh Baby Don't Drop It
09 Happy Together ~ Penis Dimension
10 outro Frank ~ return of Polka
11 CHOM 

abbreviations:
tf = tapeflip
[ = cut at the end
] = cut at the beginning
~ = fading in/out or connects two or more tracks played like one (medley)
-IC = incomplete
& = added from dif source, complete or partly

credits:
thanks to OSFA for this tape, Number 032 of more than 500
thanks to SP for invaluable assistance on tape transferral

final notes for reference:
061017....transferral date

Sound adjustments: (NOTE: always minimal) [see attached jpgs]
lgst peak: 16.291/16.314 adj 15.7
repair Glitches to: Threshold slope -15.0 dB Sensitivity 30
Pitch shift -70 cents

Frank Zappa - 1980-07-03 - Munich, DE (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Frank Zappa

1980-07-03

Olympiahalle

Munich, Germany

King Biscuit Flower Hour Broacast

Frank Zappa

Ike Willis

Ray White

Arthur Barrow

David Logeman

Tommy Mars

01. Chunga's Revenge

02. Mudd Club

03. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

04. Joe's Garage

05. Pound For A Brown

06. Cosmik Debris

07. Keep It Greasey

08. Pick Me I'm Clean

09. Illinois Enema Bandit

10. You Didn't Try To Call Me (YCDTOSA 1)

11. Ain't Got No Heart

12. Love Of My Life

13. City Of Tiny Lights

'Erdbeben in München' Recorded Live at Olympiahalle,

Munich (1980-07-03) and Festhalle, Frankfurt (1980-07-02)