• Entire original KSAN, CKGM, WLIR, CBCFM and King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Broadcasts
• Incredible performances from San Francisco, Montreal, New York and Vancouver
• Over 60 tracks, professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos
Showcasing the iconoclastic rock star's provocative comedy routines alongside typically complex music, these historical performances, broadcast on US radio, feature material from 200 Motels, older songs, jazz fusion, touches of Zappa's beloved doo-wop and much more, with plenty of ingenious musical flourishes and rabble-rousing audience interactions.
Joined by notable figures in Aynsley Dunbar, Terry Bozzio, Adrian Belew, Howard Kaylan and many others, this is a must for all Zappa fans.
TRACKS
Disc One - FILLMORE WEST, SAN FRANCISCO, 6TH NOVEMBER 1970, KSAN-FM
1. Intro And Chat - Improvisation
2. Have Gun Will Travel
3. Call Any Vegetable
4. The Sanzini Brothers
5. The Penis Dimension
6. The Sanzini Brothers (reprise) - Chat And Tuning
7. Jam
8. The Penis Dimension (reprise)
9. Mudshark (with Dr. John Parody)
10. Holiday In Berlin
11. Cruising For Burgers
12. Easy Meat
13. San Francisco Bullshit
14. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
15. Do You Like My New Car?
16. Happy Together
17. Who Are The Brain Police?
Disc Two - MONTREAL, QUEBEC, 5TH JULY 1971, CKGM-FM
1. Daddy's Home
2. The Polka / Drum Solo
3. Mudshark
4. Magdalena
5. Station ID By Frank
6. Jam (Including Pirate Jenny / Nikki Hoi)
7. Daddy Daddy Daddy
8. She Painted Up Her Face
9. Band Intro By Mark Volman
10. Oh Baby Don't Drop It
11. Happy Together - Penis Dimension
12. Outro By Frank - Polka reprise
13. CHOM
Disc Three - GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 31ST DECEMBER, 1973, WLIR-FM
Zappa's personally prepared mixed reel of live performances
1. Announcer's Introduction
2. Zappa's Introduction - aka Tango Chat (Wayne, NJ 11th November '73)
3. Pygmy Twylyte - Dummy Up (w/ Coffee) (NYC ‘73)
4. Be-Bop Tango Excerpt (NYC ‘73)
5. The Story Of Dupree's Paradise (NYC 22nd November '73)
6. Yellow Snow Suite (Sydney, Australia 24th June '73)
7. Guitar Event (Lowell, MA 30th November '73)
8. Bebop Tango Contest (Waterloo, Canada 18th November '73)
9. Announcer's Closing Remarks
Disc Four - WAR MEMORIAL GYM, VANCOUVER, 1ST OCTOBER 1975, CBC-FM
1. Blues Improvisation
2. Apostrophe
3. Duke Of Prunes
4. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me
5. The Illinois Enema Bandit
6. Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
7. Lonely Little Girl
8. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
9. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body
10. Chunga's Revenge (Part One)
Disc Five - WAR MEMORIAL GYM, VANCOUVER, 1ST OCTOBER 1975, CBC-CM
1. Chunga's Revenge (Part Two)
2. Talk
3. Swallow My Pride
4. Any Downers (Including Canadian Customs Rap)
5. T'mershi Duween
6. Zoot Allures
Disc Six - PALLADIUM, NEW YORK, 31ST OCTOBER 1977, KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR
1. Introduction
2. San Berdino
3. Tryin' To Grow A Chin
4. City Of Tiny Lights
5. Big Leg Emma
6. Audience Participation Time
7. Black Page #2
8. Jones Crusher
9. Camarillo Brillo
10. Black Napkins