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A one hour selection of unreleased gems from various Zappa bands between 1969 and 1978 and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1984.
These cuts include unreleased studio acetates and live recordings made via the mixing soundboard and by audience members on their own recording equipment.
Fans of the Sheik Yerbouti album will be drooling to Torture as it features the full-length, utterly monstrous Rat Tomago solo.
There's a slight dip in sound quality during the audience recording of the violin/guitar duel between Zappa and Shankar on Watermelon. But this is such an incredible musical event it's worth hearing even if the audio is less than perfect.
Some orchestral wonderment rounds everything off, from a radio broadcast of A Zappa Affair, 1984, which featured various FZ orchestra compositions set to choreography by life-sized puppets.
My other Zappa mix is easily my most listened to mix, so presumably there's an audience on here for this sort of stuff - Merry Christmas!
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Very sophisticated if you think about it
Dig it far out I'm flashing man who could imagine
Im a new member and certainly appreciating Frank ... 👍👍
Enjoy!
do you have the specific dates of the performances ? i am more of a "whole concert" person than i am a mix tape kind of person, but it i sounds amazing.
Hello mate - yes I do, but it would take me a while to go into my collection again and pin them all down. I've put the locations and years on so you can pretty easily track down the actual concerts using this site:
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/chronology/
If you're not a member at www.Zappateers.com I recommend it. You can then DL full concerts.
This is great thanks!
No, thank YOU for listening. Glad you liked it.
Try this: https://www.mixcloud.com/Nigel_Rampant/the-frank-don-show/
Thank you!!!
A pleasure mate! No, honestly, it WAS a pleasure. Always a pleasure to submerge oneself into Zappa!
This, all of this is why I love Zappa's music. I am so glad I found it. Thank you.
Cool. So glad you like it. This is some of the best unreleased stuff I'm aware of. But of course, there's acres, continents of unreleased FZ out there.
You might want to try my other FZ mix https://www.mixcloud.com/Nigel_Rampant/the-frank-don-show/
Sound is so clean. Love it!
Glad you like it. Try my other FZ mix https://www.mixcloud.com/Nigel_Rampant/the-frank-don-show/
This had made my freakin' day!!
Cool. Glad to be of service!
Zappa ~ So glad you existed ~ My life wouldn't be the same...
Ditto! There'll never be another like him...