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Audience 9.5 - Easily one of the best, if not the best, audience recording of the US leg of the 1988 Tour. If you have to pick one, I would always point to this one for that reason but also because it is a great show and features a special guest or two (Adam West and son Dweezil), but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Frank Zappa 25-Mar 1988, Nassau Colisseum, Uniondale, NY Frank Zappa's Band: Paul Carman - alto saxophone Walt Fowler - trumpet Bruce Fowler - trombone Mike Keneally - guitar, keyboards, vocals Ed Mann - percussion Robert Martin (Bobby) - keyboards, vocals Kurt McGettrick - baritone saxophone Scott Thunes - bass Chad Wackerman - drums Ike Willis - guitar, vocals Albert Wing - tenor saxophone Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals Eric Buxton - monologue, Guest Brother A. West (Brother A. West) - monologue, Guest Dweezil Zappa - guitar, Guest w/ Dweezil Setlist: disc 1 01 -Black Page #2 02 -Ain't Got No Heart 03 -Love Of My Life 04 -Inca Roads 05 -Sharleena 06 -Who Needs The Peace Corps 07 -Dickie's Such An Asshole 08 -When The Lie's So Big 09 -Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 10 -Sofa 11 -Packard Goose Medley 12 -The Torture Never Stops Medley I Disc 2 13 -Theme From Bonanza - Lonesome Cowboy Burt 14 -The Torture Never Stops Medley II 15 -City Of Tiny Lights 16 -A Pound For A Brown 17 -Brother A. West 18 -Texas Motel Medley 19 -Peaches En Regalia 20 -Stairway To Heaven (w/Dweezil) 21 -I Am The Walrus 22 -Whipping Post 23 -Bolero 24 -America The Beautiful Notes: First Time played: Brother A West Last Time played: Brother A West America The Beautiful (Samuel A. Ward, Katherine Lee Bates) -
Soundboard 9.5 - Early show from 4-29-80. It is also included in the "Philly Special" (4CD), which is the Early and Late Show. -
Soundboard 9.5 - Late show from 4-29-80. It is also included in the "Philly Special" (4CD), which is the Early and Late Show. -
Audience 8.8 - Feb 13, 1988 -
Audience 8.5 - Feb 14, 1988 -
Audience 8.8 -
Soundboard 9.0 - Some piano trouble apparently began this show, and there’s some hissiness (not that bad) to contend with in the quieter parts. Still, a lot of fun. -
Audience 8.8 - A good, strong, very clear recording with accompanying audience members who are REALLY getting into it. I found it fun, not annoying at all, because mostly they are quiet while the music plays. The music is great too, and strong performances by everyone. Stick It In / Stick It Out Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria February 3, 1978 Stick It In: 1. Introduction ["The Purple Lagoon" vamp] [01:30] 2. Dancin' Fool [03:29] 3. Peaches en Regalia [02:24] 4. The Torture Never Stops [11:17] 5. Tryin' to Grow a Chin [03:27] 6. City of Tiny Lites [06:46] 7. Baby Snakes [01:55] 8. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus [08:53] 9. I Have Been in You [05:47] 10. Flakes [00:19] [part 1] Stick It Out: 1. Flakes [ 03:58] 2. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes [ 03:39] 3. Wild Love [ 13:53] 4. Yo' Mama [ 09:15] 5. Titties & Beer [ 05:47] 6. The Black Page #2 [ 02:41] 7. Jones Crusher [ 02:49] 8. Little House I used To Live In [ 03:11] -
Soundboard 9.4 - Crisp, with incredible detail on drums, A very tight punchy sound that is quite exhilarating. Wonderful! -
Audience 7.8 -
Audience 8.9 - A sort of mid-rangey tape without any kind of high end to speak of but because it is clean and warm, it is perfect to season to taste. It’s a recording that begs for personalization, because it is actually quite good, and could benefit from just minor EQ here and there. I like this one! -
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1980 Volume 1 Disc One Tracks 1-19 26-Mar 1980, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 1. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 2. -intros- Nanook Rubs It vamp 3. -Teenage Wind 4. -Harder Than Your Husband 5. -Bamboozled by Love 6. -Pick Me I'm Clean 7. -Society Pages 8. -I'm A Beautiful Guy 9. -Beauty Knows No Pain 10. -Charlie's Enormous Mouth 11. -Any Downers? 12. -Conehead 13. -Easy Meat 14. -Mudd Club 15. -The Meek 16. -Heavenly Bank Account 17. -Suicide Chump 18. -Jumbo Go Away 19. -If Only She Woulda Disc Two (Tracks 1-3 Vancouver cont'd) Tracks 4-16 Fieldhouse Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 04-22-1980 01. -I Don't Want To Get Drafted 02. -Joe's Garage 03. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 04. -Crowd noise 05. -Chunga's Revenge 06. -Keep it Greasey 07. -Outside Now 08. -City of Tiny Lights 09. -A Pound for a Brown 10. -encore break 11. -Dancin' Fool 12. -Bobby Brown 13. -Black Napkins 14. -encore break 15. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 16. -The Illinois Enema Bandit Disc Three Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany 06 08 1980 01. -Chunga's Revenge 02. -Keep It Greasey 03. -Outside Now 04. -City Of Tiny Lites 05. -A Pound For A Brown 06. -Cosmik Debris 07. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 08. -I Ain't Got No Heart 09. -Love Of My Life 10. -You Are What You Is 11. -Easy Meat 12. -Mudd Club 13. -The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 14. -Heavenly Bank Account Disc Four Tracks 1-13 Dortmund cont'd, Tracks 14-16 Nantes 01. -Suicide Chump 02. -Jumbo Go Away 03. -If Only She Woulda 04. -I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 05. -Joe's Garage 06. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 07. -encore break (Zugabe !!...) 08. -Dancin' Fool 09. -Bobby Brown 10. -Ms. Pinky 11. -encore break #2 (Zugabe !!...) 12. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 13. -The Illinois Enema Bandit (incl. Return Of The Son of Zugabe !!...) 14. -Chunga's Revenge 15. -Keep It Greasey 16. -Outside Now Disc Five Tracks 1-12 06 14 1980 - Palais de la Beaujoire, Nantes, France Tracks 13-14 Geneva 01. -City Of Tiny Lights 02. -Pound For A Brown 03. -Cosmik Debris 04. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 05. -Ain't Got No Heart 06. -Love of My Life 07. -You Are What You Is 08. -Easy Meat 09. -Mudd Club 10. -The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 11. -Joe's Garage 12. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 13. -Chunga's Revenge 14. -Keep It Greasey Disc Six 06 21 1980, Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva, Switzerland 01 -Outside Now 02 -City Of Tiny Lights 03 -A Pound For A Brown 04. -Cosmik Debris 05. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 06. -Ain't Got No Heart 07. -Love Of My Life 08. -You Are What You Is 09. -fade-out 10. -fade-in 11. -Easy Meat 12. -Mudd Club 13. -The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 14. -Joe's Garage 15. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee Disc Seven Tracks 1-11 Geneva Cont'd Tracks 12-23 Johnson Gymasium, UNM Albuquerque, NM 1980 10 12 01. -Applause 02. -1st Encore 03. -Dancin' Fool 04. -Bobby Brown 05. -Miss Pinky 06. -2nd Encore 07. -Stick It Out 08. -Applause 09. -3rd Encore 10. -I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 11. -The Illinois Enema Bandit 12. -Crowd Noise 13. -Chunga's Revenge 14. -Tell Me You Love Me 15. -Cosmik Debris 16. -Keep It Greasey 17. -Tinseltown Rebellion 18 -Tune Up Meltdown 19. -Drowning Witch 20. -Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 21. -Pick Me I'm Clean 22. -Dead Girls Of London 23. -Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously Disc Eight Tracks 1-20 Albuquerque cont'd 01. -City Of Tiny Lights 02. -The Dangerous Kitchen 03. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 04. -I Ain't Got No Heart 05. -The Torture Never Stops 06. -Flakes 07. -Magic Fingers 08. -Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 09. -I'm So Cute 10. -The Blue Light 11. -Encore Break ~ JCB Introduction 12. -Harder Than Your Husband 13. -Bamboozled By Love 14. -Encore Break #2 15. -Joe's Garage 16. -Dancin' Fool 17. -Encore Break #3 18. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 19. -Stick It Out Disc Nine Track 1 Albuquerque cont'd Tracks 2-12, 11 10 1980 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH 01. -The Illinois Enema Bandit 02. -Flakes 03. -Magic Fingers 04. -Stick It Out 05. -Cosmik Debris 06. -Keep It Greasey 07. -Tinseltown Rebellion 08. -Dead Girls Of London 09. -Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously 10. -City Of Tiny Lights 11. -I Ain't Got No Heart 12. -The Torture Never Stops (w/Heavy Duty Judy) 13. -Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 14. -I'm So Cute Disc 10 Tracks 1-7 06 11 1980 Palais des Sports, Paris, France Tracks 8-11, RPI Fieldhouse, Troy, NY 04 26 1980 Tracks 12-15 06 26 1980 Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany 01. -Cosmik Debris 02. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 03. -I Ain't Got No Heart 04. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 05. -The Illinois Enema Bandit 06. -Stick It Out 07. -Nite Owl 08. -Fountain Of Love -Rite Of Spring 09. -Love Of My Life 10. -Filthy Habits 11. -Chatter 12. -Ms Pinky 13. -Stick It Out 14. -I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 15. -The Illinois Enema Bandit -
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Frank Zappa 1980 Can Vol. 2 Disc 1 Deutschlandhalle Berlin, Germany May 26th 1980 01. -Audience, Tuning 02. -Chunga's Revenge - band intro 03. -Keep It Greasey 04. -Outside Now 05. -City Of Tiny Lites 06. -Pound For A Brown 07. -Teenage Wind 08. -Bamboozled By Love 09. -Pick Me I'm Clean 10. -Society Pages 11. -I'm A Beautiful Guy 12. -Beauty Knows No Pain 13. -Charlie's Enormous Mouth Disc 2 Berlin, Germany May 26th 1980 Cont'd 14. -Cosmik Debris 15. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 16. -I Ain't Got No Heart 17. -Love Of My Life 18. -You Are What You Is 19. -Easy Meat 20. -Joe's Garage 21. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 22. -encore break 23. -Dancin' Fool 24. -Bobby Brown 25. -Black Napkins 26. -encore break #2 27. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 28. -The Illinois Enema Bandit Disc 3 Stadthalle, Bremen, West Germany May 27th 1980 00. -Crowd Noise ("Hinsetzen !!...") 01. -Chunga's Revenge 02. -Keep It Greasey 03. -Outside Now 04. -City Of Tiny Lights 05. -Pound For A Brown 06. -Teenage Wind 07. -Bamboozled By Love 08. -Pick Me I'm Clean 09. -Society Pages 10. -I'm A Beautiful Guy 11. -Beauty Knows No Pain 12. -Charlie's Enormous Mouth 13. -Cosmik Debris Disc 4 14. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 15. -Ain't Got Not Heart 16. -Love Of My Life 17. -You Are What You Is 18. -Easy Meat 19. -Joe's Garage 20. -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 21. -Dancin' Fool 22. -Bobby Brown 23. -Ms. Pinky 24. -I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 25. -The Illinois Enema Bandit Disc 5 Stanley Theater Pittsburgh, PA 1980 11 13 - Early Show 01 Chunga's Revenge 02 Intro Rap 03 Tell Me You Love Me 04 Cosmik Debris 05 Keep It Greasey 06 Tinsel Town Rebellion 07 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 08 Pick Me I'm Clean 09 Heavy Duty Judy 10 Dead Girls Of London 11 Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously 12 City Of Tiny Lites 13 I Ain't Got No Heart 14 The Torture Never Stops Disc 6 Tracks 15-20 Pittsburgh, PA Cont'd 15. -Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 16. -I'm So Cute 17. -Andy 18. -encore break (Heavy Duty Judy) 19. -Joe's Garage 20. -Dancin' Fool 1980 06 11 Palais des Sports Paris, France 21. -Cosmik Debris 22. -You Didn't Try To Call Me 23. -I Ain't Got No Heart 24. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 25. -The Illinois Enema Bandit 26. -Stick It Out 27. -Nite Owl Disc 7 Civic Arena Bowl, St Paul, MN. 1980 11 18 01. -St. Paul Tune Up 02. -Chunga's Revenge 03. -Panty Rap 04. -You Are What You Is 05. -Love Of My Life 06. -Flakes 07. -Magic Fingers 08. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 09. -The Blue Light 10. -Tinseltown Rebellion 11. -Pick Me I'm Clean 12. -Dead Girls Of London 13. -Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously 14. -City Of Tiny Lites Disc 8 St. Paul Cont'd 15. -Ain't Got No Pants 16. -The Torture Never Stops 17. -Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 18. -I'm So Cute 19. -Andy 20. -Republic Airlines 21. -Joe's Garage 22. -Dancin' Fool 23. -Tell Me You Love Me 24. -Save The Animal Behaviour 25. -Bobby Brown 26. -Ms. Pinky 27. -The Illinois Enema Bandit Disc 9 Fort Collins, CO. 02-12-1980 01. -Chunga's Revenge 02. -Panty Rap 03. -You Are What You Is 04. -Love Of My Life 05. -Flakes 06. -Magic Fingers 07. -The Blue Light 08. -Tinseltown Rebellion 09. -Pick Me I'm Clean 10. -The Dangerous Kitchen 11. -City Of Tiny Lites 12. -Ain't Got No Heart Disc 10 Fort Collins Cont'd 13. -The Torture Never Stops 14. -Heavy Duty Judy 15. -Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 16. -I'm So Cute 17. -Andy 18. -Encore Break #1 19. -Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 20. -Stick It Out 21. -Encore Break #2 22. -Bobby Brown 23. -Ms. Pinky 24. -The Illinois Enema Bandit 25. -Audience -
BBC Sessions...As expected, excellent pro sound! -
Audience 9.0 and Audience 8.6 - The Fillmore West show is a revelation. This has been floating around mislabeled as Winterland 69, and in horrible quality. This is the actual venue, and comes from the original master and sounds incredible! The Boston show is also real nice sounding, with an immediate sound, with some minor tape artifacts present. A great two-fer here, vintage ’69. Free never sounded so good! -
Audience 9.0 - Rated very high for the excellent mid range punch where the guitar tone is magical. -
Audience 8.6 - A very clear, surprisingly so, open air recording made with what sounds like really decent gear. Every now and then the volume fluctuates but it sounds to me like they are fiddling with the levels, it usually gets back up to proper levels after a second or two and it’s not on every song. -
Audience 8.3 - This is your standard “decent” sounding 70’s audience tape. It does not offer a wide dynamic range, although it is pretty clear and you hear every instrument and vocals above all of it in good clarity (important when it comes to Free where vocals are a huge component). Nothing about this tape offends the ears sonically speaking. It could be argued by this time Free was sounding maybe a little tired, but that is subjective. FREE New York May 6, 1972 Live In New York '72 1. Be My Friend 2. Travellin' Man 3. Hold On 4. Little Bit Of Love 5. Heavy Load 6. Mr. Big - false start 7. Mr. Big 8. All Right Now 9. Crossroads 10. The Hunter 11. Fire And Water Paul Rodgers - vocals Paul Kossoff - guitar Andy Fraser - bass Simon Kirke - drums -
Audience 8.4 - This is a great remaster here, this is a full point and a half better than you’ve heard before. -
Audience 9.1 - I am always surprised when I hear such good recordings from this time period and then I remember that mics and P.A.’s and acoustics were all relative to the capture in that if the combinations were good, the result would also be good. This recording presents excellent separation of instruments with great live sound mix of the instruments, so much so that Free convinces you they could have soldiered on as a stadium act rather than dismantle and reform as Bad Company. Either way, I’ll enjoy what we have left of this venerable band in the form of live tapes like this. FREE Santa Monica Civic Center Santa Monica January 22nd 1971 Disc 1 1 -Intro - Tune up 2 -Be My Friend 3 -The Stealer 4 -Woman 5 -Ride On Pony 6 -Don't Say You Love Me 7 -All Right Now 8 -Fire And Water Disc 2 9 -Heavy Load 10 -The Highway Song 11 -KUSC DJ Elliot Mass - My Brother Jake 12 -Soon I'll Be Gone 13 -I'm A Mover 14 -Mr. Big with bass solo 15 -The Hunter 16 -Rock Me Baby THE BAND Paul Rodgers lead vocals keyboards Paul Kossoff guitar Andy Fraser bass Simon Kirke drums -
Audience 8.5 -
CD 1 - FM Radio Broadcast 8.8 - A bit of tape hiss is present but this is a great great show! Lovely performance and decent sound. CD 2 - Audience 7.9 - A tape that went from a dismal 7.2 rating to a very decent 7.9 thanks to some painstaking mastering and restoration work. It was unbelievably hissy but that was mostly removed without sacrificing anything. Comparison was made and the results speak for themselves. -
Bracknell - Audience 8.8 - A touch of tape saturation but it’s so clear and loud and energetic you won’t hardly notice. Excellent! ~ Coatham - Audience 8.7 ~ Tampa - Soundboard 8.9 -
Audience 8.6 - A great job by taper to get center mic placement and not too distant from the stage. Good presence, good atmosphere, good tight show. -
Audience 7.8 and Audience 6.9 - The second gig is for historical reference as the sound is not great. -
FM Radio Broadcast 9.2 -
Soundboard 9.7 - A deft touch is what it took to make such a pleasant mix. Everything is where it should be, and the overall sound is something you might find on officially released records. Top shelf. -
Soundboard 8.8 - This is a soundboard that is not without flaws, not serious flaws, but indeed somewhat noticeable ones. So, it’s one of those mixes where guitar sounds at times amazing, up front, and gloriously loud…and at others it seems like it was ran through an on-board processor of some kind and ends up more compressed and lower in the mix. Rock The Nation is cut at the tail end of Ronnie’s solo, and the drum intro for I Got The Fire begins, so that was a little bit of a jarring edit that could have been smoother. Overall this is a tape, and show, that will sit nicely in the collection seeing as how there are so few Gamma sdbrds, or live tapes at all.Gamma Phoenix Theater Petaluma,CA 30-Nov-1980 01 Ready For Action 6:08 02 Thunder and Lightning 5:39 03 Razor King 11:59 04 Rock the Nation 3:47 05 I Got the Fire 3:56 06 Four Horsemen 7:11 07 No Tears 12:32 Davey Pattison: Vocals Ronnie Montrose: Guitars Jim Alcivar: Keyboards Glenn Letsch: Bass Denny Carmassi: Drums
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Pro recording 9.5 - Sizzling hot everything is expertly mixed! -
Pro Radio Broadcast 9.5 -
Audience 8.9 - Fantastic! -
Audience 9.4 - Superb capture! There’s nothing I would change about this tape, it’s got a wonderful electric vibe and strong depth that leaves you wanting more. A great testament to the song craft of Gary Wright. Gary Wright Boston Music Hall Boston, MA USA 11 October 1975 01 -Love Is Alive 02 -Blind Feeling 03 -Dream Weaver 04 -Can't Find The Judge 05 -Kyle 06 -I Know A Place 07 -keyboard solo 08 -drum solo 09 -instrumental 10 -Are You Weepin'