Frank Zappa An Evening With FZ & Captain Beefheart 1975

[quote]This is a recording of a radio show on KWST radio, 1-Nov-1975, where Zappa and Beefheart played oldies and oddities. (There is a completely unsubstantiated rumour that this radio show was actually a broadcast of a Warner Brothers promo record with these songs on it, which has never been found, and never been confirmed to have existed.) Tracks 1, 3, 5, 10-12, 15, 19 & 20 have been officially released on Bongo Fury, The Lost Episodes, Mystery Disc and Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. As for the other tracks: * Track 2 was performed live in the studio; the Captain sings the song to a simple guitar backing * Track 4 is a very strange track, announced as a recording of a group called "The Smegmates" * Tracks 6-8 are CBS demos from 1965 - track 6 has been officially released (approximately) on the Mystery Disc. Track 8 may or may not include "Ned Has a Brainstorm". * Track 9 recorded at Studio Z, Cucamonga, 1964 * Track 13 is from 1964 (very informative, isn't it?) * Track 14 has been officially released (perhaps in a shorter edit) on the Mystery Disc (as "Original Mothers at the Broadside (Pomona)) it is the first live recording of the Mothers, from 1965 * Tracks 16-17 are from the first Mothers rehearsal in 1965; a small fragment of track 16 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc, as "Original Mothers Rehearsal" * Track 18 is a 1968 rehearsal * Track 21 is NOT directly from Bongo Fury, but a longer version from an acetate, clocking in at 07:55 instead of 04:31. What has been cut out on Bongo Fury is 39 seconds just before the guitar solo (a slide solo by Denny Walley), 2 minutes and 43 seconds just after the guitar solo (effectively a piano solo and one verse), and 2 seconds of the fade-out. It's a CD bonus track from another radio broadcast, on WPLR, New Haven, 18-Apr-1975, and it also appears on Chronicle and Bongo Fury El Paso TX. Adding to this very impressive cast of characters, the album retains some radio-station chatter from Zappa and the Captain. From Patrick Neve: I think the Mystery Disc tracks sound A LOT better [here] than ... on the Mystery Disc. The cover/"booklet" is a single sheet folded once; no staples. The front of it is a black & white image of a 1950s American suburban family of 12 gatherered around a TV set; the title is printed in colour. The back of it has a black & white photograph of Zappa and Captain Beefheart sitting at a table - the Captain is brushing his moustache and product-placing a Coca-Cola can on the table; Zappa is watching him, cigarette in hand, bemused (or slightly drunk). Back cover has a colour photograph of Zappa on stage playing his guitar. The inside picture is a black & white photo of Zappa on stage, with his guitar, but with one hand held high over his head; Captain Beefheart sits in a chair on stage, surrounded by some Mothers.[/quote] 1. Cucamonga [Bongo Fury version] 2. Orange Claw Hammer [Don van Vliet] 3. Debra Kadabra / Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy [Bongo Fury versions] 4. The Smegmates: Will You Drink My Water? 5. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Pachuco Cadaver [Don van Vliet] [Trout Mask Replica version] 6. I Was a Teenage Maltshop 7. Status Back Baby 8. Ned the Mumbler [may or may not include "Ned Has a Brainstorm"] 9. Toads of the Short Forest 10. Charva [The Lost Episodes version] 11. Speed-Freak Boogie [Mystery Disc version] 12. Metal Man Has Won His Wings [Don van Vliet / Zappa] [Mystery Disc version] 13. Instrumental 14. Louisiana Blues [McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield] 15. Instrumental ["Party Scene from Mondo Hollywood" - Mystery Disc version] 16. Studio Rehearsal ["Sandwich Song"] 17. How Could I Be Such a Fool? 18. Boogie for Berkeley 19. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Neon Meat Dream of a Octafish [Don van Vliet] [Trout Mask Replica version] 20. Muffin Man [Bongo Fury version] 21. 200 Years Old [extended version]

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hotwacks3493 (2008-06-22)

Such a great piece of Zappa history.Thanks for sharing this gem

tommcd (2009-06-26)

Thanks a lot for this. I have been a huge fan of FZ for over 30 years. Always happy to hear anything by FZ and Beefheart. Very cool.