21 juni 2024
officiële release 128
3cd
disc 1:
1. Whisky Improvisation: Episode I
2. America Drinks & Goes Home
3. Help I'm A Rock/Transylvania Boogie
4. My Boyfriend's Back
5. Bust His Head
6. Tiny Sick Tears Jam
7. "The Purpose Of This Evening..."
8. Whisky Improvisation: Episode II
9. Status Back Baby
10. Memories of El Monte
11. Oh, In The Sky
12. Valerie
disc 2:
1. "Fun & Merriment"
2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
3. King Kong - Pt. 1
4. King Kong - Pt. 2
5. Octandre
6. Whisky Improvisation: Episode III
7. Meow
8. God Bless America
9. Presentation Of Wings
10. Plastic People
11. Della's Preamble
12. The Duke
13. The Duke - Take 2
14. Khaki Sack
disc 3:
1. The Whip
2. Whisky Chouflée
3. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
4. Brown Shoes Shuffle
5. The Whip (FZ Mix)
6. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (FZ Mono Mix)
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Frank Zappa: lead guitar,
percussion, vocals
Ray Collins: vocals, tambourine
Roy Estrada: bass, vocals
Dn Preston: keyboards
Ian Underwood: keyboards, woodwinds
Bunk Gardner: woodwinds
Motorhead Sherwood: barton sax, dancing
Jimmy Carl Black: drums
Arthur Dyer Tripp III: drums, percussion
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The
Duke-Take 2
America Drinks & Goes Home
On July 23, 1968, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of
Invention took over the Whisky a Go Go for an all-night
affair. FZ recorded the entire evening with the
possibility of an album project. Although bits were
released by Zappa over the years, a full live album never
happened & the tapes sat in the Vault for 55 years.
Now all three sets by The Mothers are being released with
brand new mixes in a 3-CD edition with liners by Joe
Travers, Pamela Des Barres, & an interview by Ahmet
Zappa with Alice Cooper.
Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers, this extensive
collection, 55-plus years in the making, compiles
everything The Mothers of Invention played across their
three sets that night. The album is complete and newly
remixed in 2023 from hi-res 24-bit/96kHz digital transfers
of the original 1” 8-track analog tapes by Craig Parker
Adams at Winslow CT Studios.
A Super Deluxe Edition box set will be released on both
5LP 180-gram black vinyl or 3CD, and feature a booklet
with many unseen photos from the night’s events, along
with copious liner notes by Vaultmeister Joe Travers, an
essay by Pamela Des Barres of the Zappa-signed group The
GTO’s who played that evening, and an interview by Ahmet
Zappa with the legendary Alice Cooper, whose own band made
a momentous splash at the Whisky that night as one of the
featured acts.
“It truly was a night of nights,” as Travers says in the
liners. “The Mothers performance wasn’t perfect, but very
good. Frank was in good spirits, the band played well, and
the sequence of songs did capture the group’s live
repertoire of the time.”
And in her writing, Pamela Des Barres implores you to
“listen to all of this album in its entirety and try to
envision the Whisky a Go Go that long ago night. It
happened in a space and time that will never come again,
so buckle up, baby, close your eyes, let your imagination
soar, and set your freak free.”
Twee dingen alvast:
Wat fijn dat dit concert 56 jaar na dato alsnog uitgebracht
wordt. Zappa had dat plan in 1968 al (zie poster op de
startpagina), maar - behalve op incidentele brokjes na - is
dat er nooit van gekomen. Jaren '60 Zappa is altijd goed en
dit concert zeker, Zappa maakte er iets speciaals van met
het oog op die mogelijke release.
Twee: wat een godsgruwelijk lelijke hoes alweer. Heeft dat
iets met de tijdgeest te maken? Zappa had dit nooit zo
uitgebracht. Kijk eens naar de aankondigingsposter in het
klein daaronder. Dat past al veel beter. Waarom moeten er
altijd mensen op de voorzijde? Wees een
creatief!Zappahoezenontwerper Cal Schenkel is het helemaal
met mij eens. Hij schreef op Facebook, "I thought this
was a bootleg because of the art: the graphics really
SUCK!"
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