It’s coming in
now. Should make a good companion for this one I downloaded last night. I did a
search and didn’t find that we had ever had a vine for “November,
17, 1981, The Ritz, NYC”.
I did find where Chris requested it in 2003 however. So if this hasn’t
gone around I’ll send it and “Amougies(Belgium)”
together.
Jim
L
FRANK ZAPPA
November, 17, 1981,
The Ritz, NYC
Master Cassette
recorded from WLIR >NAK BX-300>WAV (SB Audigy)>CD-R>EAC>Flac
Front end> Make
Torrent
This is the complete
show I compiled from flacs received from BengoFury. The only things I did were
to name the files, replace the incomplete tracks with complete ones, and patch
in the last part of the last track.
It boggles my mind
that this particular show has never been selected for a listening session.
Great sound, awesome guitar, good set, tight band, and Al DiMeola shredding
over a world premier and a Chris Cross cover sung by the drum roadie. This show
easily makes my top 10.
Enjoy!!!
Disc 1
01. Treacherous
Cretins (fades in)
02. Montana
03. Easy Meat
04. You Are What You
Is
05. Mudd Clubb
06. The Meek Shall
Inherit Nothing
07. Dumb All Over
08. Heavenly Bank
Account
09. Suicide Chump
10. Jumbo Go Away
11. Envelopes
12. Drowning Witch
13. What's New In Baltimore
14. Moggio
15. Bamboozled By Love
16. Sinister Footwear
Disc 2
17. Stevie's Spanking
18. Cocaine Decisions
19. Nig Biz (fades
out)
20. Doreen
21. Goblin Girl (fades
in)
22. Black Page #2 (q:
Smoke on the Water)
23. Tryin' To Grow A
Chin
24. Strictly Genteel
25. Al DiMeola Intro
26. Clownz On Velvet*
(world premier)
27. Ride Like The
Wind**
28. Zoot Allures
29. This Is My Story
(fades in)
30. Whippin Post
(Reggae Post)
31. Watermelon In
Easter Hay
With Al DiMeola on
guitar (*)
With Al DiMeola on
guitar and Brian Peters on vocals (**)
from dimeadozen.org: (if someone here has an account and gets
this,
maybe they can set up a vine for those of us who
are not on DaD).
that is, IF it is for real......
thanks........GC/TB
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Frank Zappa
Amougies (Belgium), Actuel Festival
24 to 27 October 1969
source: audience recording
This is an amazing find that I'm sure will delight
fans of Frank
Zappa and the bands concerned alike. A little
background : the Actuel
festival was organized by the publication of the
same name (who,
under different editorship, went on to become a
prime mover of the
French counterculture in the early to mid-70s) in
collaboration with
the fledgling BYG label. It was originally going
to take place in or
near Paris, but French authorities forbid it and
the marquee was
eventually set up a few miles outside the French
border, on Belgian
soil. It took place over 5 nights, entertaining an
audience of 15-
20,000 to a unique mixture of progressive pop,
free jazz and
contemporary music.
Frank Zappa was present at the festival (well, the
first four days,
it seems) in a twofold capacity. First, as Captain
Beefheart's road
manager; secondly, as M.C., assisting Pierre
Lattes, a famous
radio/TV presenter at the time (and the pop music
editor for Actuel
magazine). The latter task proved problematic
given FZ's very limited
mastery of French, the prevailing language among
the audience, who
themselves didn't seem to understand much English.
Instead, FZ
relinquished his M.C. job for one of occasional
guest guitarist.
As far as I know, with the exception of FZ's
performance with Captain
Beefheart, this collects all of his jams with
participating bands. A
couple of films, directed by Jerome Laperrousaz
and Jean-Noel Roy,
came out in 1970 but were instantly banned because
of objections from
various bands (most notably Pink Floyd) whose
permission hadn't been
properly secured. Zappa's performance with
Beefheart is included in
one of them, and since the audio of the film
(unlike the film itself)
is in circulation, possibly in better sound than I
could provide, I
decided not to include it.
The whereabouts of the master tapes for the
festival, if any exist,
are unknown. What recordings are circulating are
either the
soundtrack of the film, or taken from radio
broadcasts (on
Luxemburg's RTL and Belgium's RTBF). The source used
here is an
audience recording made by a young French member
of the audience
using a now antiquated amateur tape recorder. The
original tapes have
been newly transferred, but even so, the sound
quality is rather
poor. Still, it seems to be the only source
available at this time,
so that will have to do for now.
Most legendary, of course, is Frank Zappa's jam
with Pink Floyd on a
very extended "Interstellar Overdrive".
Apparently, despite the
wealth of Pink Floyd bootlegs in circulation, no
one seems to have
their Amougies set, so this will probably delight
a lot of people.
Browing various PF-related websites, there even
seems to be a debate
on whether the jam ever took place. Well, here is
the final proof
that it did.
Now, the tracklist:
1. Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation: unknown title
(7:08)
[October 24]
Victor Brox (vocals, harmonica); John Moorshead
(guitar); Alex
(Erroneous) Dmochowski (bass); Aynsley Dunbar
(drums)
2. Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive (20:25)
[October 25]
David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ);
Roger Waters (bass);
Nick Mason (drums)
3. Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd
Do It All Over You
(7:55)
[October 26]
Pye Hastings (guitar & vocals); David Sinclair
(keyboards); Richard
Sinclair (bass & vocals); Richard Coughlan
(drums)
4. Blossom Toes: unknown title (26:10)
[October 26]
Brian Godding (guitar, vocals & keyboards);
Jim Cregan (guitar &
vocals); Brian Belshaw (bass & vocals); Kevin
Westlake (drums)
5. Sam Apple Pie: unknown title (6:04)
[October 27]
Sam Sampson (vocals & harmonica); Danny Barnes
(lead guitar); Andy
Johnson (slide guitar); Bob Renny (bass &
vocals); Lee Baxter Hayes
Jr (drums)
(Note: I understand FZ jammed with some of the
free jazz players.
Sadly the taper was into rock, not jazz, and
didn't bother recording
any of the jazz acts.)
I intend to seed some of the individual
performances in the near
future, so watch out. I must thank the taper, JJB,
for his permission
to seed these rare treasures, making them
available freely to all via
DaD in affinity with its non-profit philosophy.
For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you.
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