Audience 9.3 - This recording sparkles, a very pro effort made by the tapers who apparently had excellent seats on the first row of the balcony center stage. Frank Zappa Oscar Mayer Theatre Madison, WI, USA 1984 08 11 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) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setlist: Disc 1 01 Intro 02 Heavy Duty Judy 03 Tinseltown Rebellion 04 More Trouble Every Day 05 Penguin In Bondage 06 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel 07 Advance Romance 08 Cocaine Decisions 09 Nig Biz 10 Outside Now 11 Be In My Video 12 Montana 13 Easy Meat Disc 2 14 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy 15 Carol You Fool 16 Chana In De Bushwop 17 Let's Move To Cleveland 18 Encore Break 1 19 Dinah Moe-Humm 20 Dancin' Fool 21 Sharleena 22 Encore Break 2 23 The Illinois Enema Bandit Total time: 123.23 min

Audience 9.0 - This is yet another outstanding sonic treat for those who, like me, are revisiting the last major tour Frank would undertake in his career. Lots of great playing, even though he maybe wore out a little deep into the tour, he really shines on this one. Recommended! Frank Zappa London UK, Wembley Arena 04-19-1988 Line Up: FZ, Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick. tracklist: Disc 1 01 -Stinkfoot 02 -Band introduction 03 -Dickie's Such An Asshole 04 -When The Lie's So Big 05 -Planet Of The Baritone Women 06 -Any Kind Of Pain 07 -Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 08 -Cruisin' For Burgers 09 -Outside Now 10 -Orange County Lumber Truck Medley 11 -Intermission 12 -Texas Motel Medley Disc 2 13 -The Torture Never Stops Medley 14 -Stick Together 15 -My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 16 -Willie The Pimp 17 -Montana 18 -Stairway To Heaven 19 -London audience#1 20 -Joe's Garage 21 -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 22 -London audience#2 23 -Chunga's Revenge w/ Dweezil 24 -Bolero

Audience 8.4 - A very rare treat, to hear a complete “Preservation” era show. There’s really not a lot of 1973 recording around. This one sounds just fine, while not venturing too far in either direction dynamically, and some lack of clarity down low in the spectrum…but the upper mids and highs seem fine. It’s a good recording that could use your own EQ flavoring to round it into shape. I am happy to have this as I have not heard many, if any, ’73 tapes as good as this. THE KINKS Boston Music Hall Boston, MA April 1st 1973 THE BAND Ray Davies vocal guitar Dave Davies lead guitar vocal Mick Avory drums John Dalton bass John Gosling keyboards Laurie Brown trumpet John Beecham trombone tuba Alan Holmes saxophone clarine SETLIST 1 -Intro 2 -Victoria 3 -Acute Schizophernia Paranoid Blues 4 -Until The End Of The Day 5 -Medley (The Last Time I Saw You/Little Queenie/Shakin All Over/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On, Etc) 6 -Maybe Because I'm A Londoner 7 -Lola 8 -Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 9 -Celluloid Heroes 10 -Here Comes Yet Another Day 11 -Picture Book 12 -People Take Pictures Of Each Other 13 -Alcohol 14 -Skin and Bones - Dry Bones 15 -Good Golly Miss Molly 16 -You Really Got Me 17 -All The Day And All Of The Night 18 -Thank You - Announcements

Audience 8.6 - A kind of bumpy ride at times, being immersed in the middle of a rowdy audience, but the music comes through surprisingly well for such a massive cataclysm it must have been! It’s kind of fun, it’s a time capsule, and as long as I can hear the music in a clear way, even if it is not “hi-fi”, it’s fine by me. This is a low gen tape and clear enough for its purpose, but yeah, you are in the middle of the action quite literally. ROLLING STONES Cobo Arena Detroit MI. July 27th, 1975 THE BAND Mick Jagger lead vocals harmonica Keith Richards guitar lead and backing vocals Charlie Watts drums Ronnie Wood guitar backing vocals Bill Wyman bass guitar Billy Preston keyboards backing vocals Ollie E. Brown percussion backing vocals Disc 1 1 -Honky Tonk Women 2 -All Down The Line 3 -If You Can't Rock Me 4 -Get Off Of My Cloud 5 -Star Star 6 -Gimme Shelter 7 -Ain't Too Proud To Beg 8 -You Gotta Move 9 -You Can't Always Get What You Want 10 -Happy 11 -Tumbling Dice 12 -It's Only Rock'n'roll Disc 2 13 -Fingerprint File 14 -Wild Horses 15 -That's Life 16 -Outta Space 17 -Brown Sugar 18 -Midnight Rambler 19 -Rip This Joint 20 -Street Fighting Man 21 -Jumping Jack Flash 22 -Thank you, Goodnight

CD1 FM Broadcast 8.8 A little hiss present, and a little “compression” but a good tight sound nonetheless. The Miami 78 is Audience 8.3 With some big hall boom in the kick drum. CD 2 Audience 8.5 Thin in some places, but opens wider as it goes along. Taper possibly moves closer, and sound improves. CD 3 Audience 8.6 A loud, boisterous, beer soaked rock and roll affair with sound quality that I would describe as clear but missing some mid-band punch. It’s nice to have a chronological history sometimes, you get to hear a band just gain more and more confidence (not as if this band ever lacked any). This band’s sound and style really was custom made for these years but after that it dropped off the map. Too bad really, it’s a good time rock and roll music and transcends time. Rockpile Anthology 77-80 Disc 1 Amsterdam, Holland February 14, 1977 01. -Intro 02. -I Hear You Knocking 03. -Down, Down, Down 04. -Back to School Days 05. -Let's Talk About Us 06. -Ju Ju Man 07. -The Promised Land 08. -Annie Is Back/I Need Love 09. -I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) 10. -Heart Of The City 11. -DJ Outro Jai-Alai Fronton Miami, FL May 14, 1978 12. So It Goes 13. Fool Too Long 14. I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) 15. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass 16. Down, Down, Down 17. They Call It Rock 18. Ju Ju Man Disc 2 San Diego State University San Diego, CA. August 14, 1979 1 -Down Down Down 2 -So It Goes 3 -Switchbox Susan 4 -Crawling from the Wreckage 5 -Trouble Boys 6 -Girls Talk 7 -Let It Rock 8 -Cruel to Be Kind 9 -Singin' The Blues 10 -Sweet Little Lisa 11 -So Fine 12 -They Call It Rock 13 -Ju Ju Man 14 -Goodnight Disc 3 Unknown Venue Varberg, Sweden February 22, 1980 01. Sweet Little Lisa 02. So It Goes 03. I Knew the Bride 04. Queen of Hearts 05. You'll Never Get Me Up In One Of Those 06. Switchboard Susan 07. Three Time Loser 08. Trouble Boys 09. Cruel to Be Kind 10. Girls Talk 11. Crawling From the Wreckage 12. Singing the Blues 13. Cracking Up 14. Promised Land 15. I Hear You Knocking 16. They Called It Rock 17. Ju Ju Man 18. Let's Talk About Us

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)

Audience 8.7 - Every audience tape has a certain unique “timbre” to it, a quality hard to define – it encompasses distance from source, surrounding ambience, equalization, harmonics, and more. So, this recording is what I would call “very good” but different than other 88 Euro Zappa tapes in timbre. I find this one leaning too far in upper mid band and treble, not irritatingly, but wanted more bottom end. My ears were telling me that is what it wanted…yours may not it is all very subjective. It’s a good recording though. Frank Zappa 19880425 Copenhagen, Denmark Falkoner Theater Set 1: 01. Heavy Duty Judy 03:49 02. band introductions 02:04 03. Packard Goose > 07:41 04. Alien Orifice > 04:19 05. When The Lie's So Big > 03:42 06. Planet Of The Baritone Women > 02:45 07. Any Kind Of Pain > 06:13 08. Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk > 07:30 09. Texas Motel Medley > 09:10 10. Sofa 02:57 01. Torture Never Stops Medley > 19:49 Set 2: 02. Find Her Finer > 02:44 03. Big Swifty > 16:23 04. Bamboozled By Love 06:23 05. Bolero 05:28 06. Peaches En Regalia > 02:58 07. Stairway To Heaven 09:07 Encore: 08. Mr. Green Genes > 03:58 09. Florentine Pogen > 06:40 10. Andy 05:38 11. Inca Roads 09:32 ________ 02:18:49

Audience 8.8 - I like these kinds of audience recordings where the taper is kind of close to the speakers yet the sound does not distort. It makes for a very realistic and intense sound, closer to what it would have been like in person, rather than the soundboard feed which is not representative of the sound that came out of the PA system. Also, I like the Jean-Luc Ponty period, the jazzy workouts were sometimes incredibly intense and not necessarily traditionally jazzy, but progressively jazzy. This is one such gig. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention Palasport Bologna, Italy 1973 08 30 Line-up: FZ, George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ian Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ruth Underwood, Ralph Humphrey Set list: 01 opening 02 Dupree's Paradise 03 band intros 04 Cosmik Debris 05 preamble 06 Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue 07 Kung Fu 08 Penguin In Bondage 09 Dog Meat 10 RDNZL 11 Farther Oblivion 12 encore preamble 13 Brown Shoes Don't Make It