Frank Zappa - 1980 - US-Citiies - Fall Tour (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

1980 - Oct.-Dec.
US Cities

Fall Tour 1980

FZ - guitar, vocals
Ike Willis - guitar, vocals
Ray White - guitar, vocals
Steve Vai - guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars - keyboards, vocals
Bob Harris - keyboards, trumpet, vocals
Arthur Barrow - bass, keyboards, vocals
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums

DISC 01
01 Intro (12/3 Salt Lake City #2)
02 Black Napkins (12/3 Salt Lake City #2)
03 Panty Rap (12/3 Salt Lake City #2)
04 Tell Me You Love Me (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
05 Cosmik Debris (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
06 Keep It Greasy (10/31 New York City)
07 Outside Now (10/31 New York City)
08 Dead Girls Of London (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
09 Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
10 City Of Tiny Lites (12/2 Fort Collins)
11 Mudd Club (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
12 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (12/3 Salt Lake City #1)
13 Love Of My Life (12/2 Fort Collins)
14 Flakes (12/2 Fort Collins)
15 Magic Fingers (12/2 Fort Collins)
16 The Blue Light (12/2 Fort Collins)
17 Tinseltown Rebellion (12/2 Fort Collins)
18 Pick Me I’m Clean (12/3 Salt Lake City #2)

DISC 02
01 You Didn't Try To Call Me (10/13 Phoenix #1)
02 Easy Meat (10/17 Dallas)
03 Ain’t Got No Heart (10/17 Dallas)
04 The Torture Never Stops (12/11 Santa Monica #2)
05 Heavy Duty Judy (12/11 Santa Monica #2)
06 Jumbo Go Away (11/13 Pittsburgh #2)
07 If Only She Woulda (11/13 Pittsburgh #2)
08 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (10/17 Dallas)
09 Doreen (10/31 New York City)
10 Goblin Girl (10/31 New York City)
11 Encore Break (10/31 New York City)
12 Stick It Out (10/31 New York City)
13 Watermelon In Easter Hay (10/31 New York City)

This collection was lovingly compiled from several painfully fragmentary soundboard tapes. I thought it would be fun to present the highlights of these tapes as a coherent setlist. Vinnie makes this band, as far as I'm concerned, and I kept his performances in mind when picking the versions to include. Sound quality was also a factor and it ranges from good to excellent. Some of these tapes seem to have been made while someone was fiddling around with multi-tracks, so there are anomalies in the mix here and there, but nothing too distracting. Remastering consisted of EQ, limiting & sometimes some compression to smooth out the mix. Only the Dallas tracks suffer from excessive noise reduction (unfortunately applied by the original surfacer). None of the performances on this set have been officially released. All in all, it's a nice companion to the official releases "Tinseltown Rebellion" and "Buffalo".