another bass player? The Squirm lick), FZ tries out tonight's loops, Sofa, A Pound For A Brown, Crew Slut, Mendelsohn's Wedding March, The Black Page, Marqueson's Chicken, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Zoot Allures, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, Filthy Habits, Stinkfoot, The Untouchables, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Marqueson's Chicken, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Zoot Allures, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Big Swifty, The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Texas Motel Medley, Whipping Post, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Zoot Allures, Mr Green Genes, Any Kind Of Pain, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [TFZAAABB], Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue [parts on TBBYNHIYL], The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Sofa, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, The Black Page, The Untouchables, Packard Goose Medley, What's New In Baltimore?, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Any Kind Of Pain, Planet Of The Baritone Women, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, I Am The Walrus, The Torture Never Stops Medley, I Am The Walrus, Big Swifty (q: Bolero, Moggio), Keep It Greasey, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? G Spot Tornado, Strictly Genteel), Disco Boy, Teenage Wind,Truck Driver Divorce, Advance Romance (q: Never On Sunday), Guitar Loops (q: A Pound For A Brown, Truck Driver Divorce), You Are What You Is (q: Never On Sunday), Mudd Club (q: Never On Sunday, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing), I'm The Slime (q: Never On Sunday), Stinkfoot, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Meedley [incl. So that was a lot of fun for me and very challenging. After a huge, fast sigh of relief, I answered "I need another Diet Coke." I did almost no reading with Frank. That must be your BURP on the FZ recording. Frank said to a stage hand "get her a Coke!". 1988 04 26Olympen, Lund, Sweden120 min, Aud, A-From fastfattty, jazzfromhell MC, flambay, and The Evil Prince at http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t. It's the only other place to go after that. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The whole band was watching impatiently and Frank had me come right up to him and said "could you do that again into the sampler?". West". Sheik Yerbouti Tango riff; q: Girl From Ipanema), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, What's New In Baltimore?, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Inca Roads, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Happy Birthday To You, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, King Kong (q: I Love Lucy, Yankee Doodie, Entry Of The Gladiators, Girl From Ipanema), Stairway To Heaven (q: Yankee Doodle Boy), I Am The Walrus, Sofa, Cruising For Burgers, Crew Slut (q: T'Mershi Duween), Strictly Genteel (q: Batman), Stinkfoot, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Why Don't You Like Me? They play a little eight-bar figure that makes the transition between the body of the song and the guitar solo, that's not all that's required of them. Those samples kind of became the signature sounds of that tour. The Nassau Coliseum show features the first time the complete Beatles medley has been issued: Norwegian Wood > Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds > Strawberry Fields Forever.. [parts on TBBYNHIYL, incl. (?). So finally my burps were recorded into a sampler and they used it for the rest of the tour to make fun of the TV Evangelists at the time, and now you can hear it on the Zappa live Album called "the Best band you've NEVER heard in your life" []. Naturally the other Zappa fans who were somehow connected and lucky enough to be watching the masters sound check turned on me and all pointed at me. [Marque] Coy and Andronis had worked together in the '70s for Chris De Burgh, a superstar in Europe (if barely an opening act in the U.S.). Privacy Policy. The Torture Never Stops Pt. The following day, after months of painstaking rehearsal, Zappa would begin a series of concerts comprising an overview of his collected workmore than 50 albums' worth of some of the most challenging arrangements ever written for rock instrumentation, spanning nearly a quarter of a century. "Ok, he said, get her a DIET Coke, and make it snappy". I can just imagine me telling Frank 'Come on, man, let me sit in, I know how to play 'Muffin Man'. The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. in the back seat. Anyhow, the band used my burps on the rest of the tour, making fun of the TV Evangelist, but interrupting their "speeches" and bullshit with my obnoxious burps. It was the timing of the thing. I still want to go on the road and play because I'm playing with him, you know what I mean? Q: I liked the Frank Sinatra thing in 'Big Swifty' in Barcelona, 'Strangers in the Night'. The seeds of dissolution were sown during pre-tour rehearsals in L.A. Your e-mail address will not be published. This parody weds music from three Lennon-McCartney songs to lyrics that make fun of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became embroiled in a prostitution scandal only weeks before Zappa delivered this concert. So for that to be my first professional gig and for it to be such a whirlwind experience from literally 24 hours from being an unknown musician playing in bars in San Diego to being in Frank Zappa's band, it was . They hated each other's guts. Watermelon In Easter Hay, FZ tries out tonight's loops, Sleep Dirt, Sofa, Girl From Ipanema, Zoot Allures, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk (q: Old Rugged Cross) [parts on BTHW], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Voter Registration Rap / A Few Moments With Brother A. Broadway the Hard Way is a live album by American musician Frank Zappa recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. We gave him a cassette but he didn't listen to it. I wasn't really ever the guy to rely on for this blazing keyboard solo, but among other things, I could play the keyboards. 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Jam**), Sofa, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [most on MAJNH], Advance Romance, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty [parts on MAJNH], Texas Motel Medley, Peaches En Regalia, Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], Packard Goose Medley, Heavy Duty Judy [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Bolero [TBBYNHIYL], Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Stairway To Heaven, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), Stinkfoot [parts on MAJNH], Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Sharleena, Dupree's Paradise, Marqueson's Chicken, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, The Torture Never Stops, Keep It Greasey, Cruising For Burgers (q: Handsome Cabin Boy) [parts on MAJNH], Sofa (q: Billy The Mountain), Crew Slut, The Black Page, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Alien Orifice, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Bamboozled By Love, Zoot Allures, Cosmik Debris, Stolen Moments (q: Big Swifty), Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Cruising For Burgers, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Strictly Genteel, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Sharleena, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, I Ain't Got No Heart, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Stairway To Heaven, The Torture Never Stops Medley, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, Cosmik Debris, Inca Roads [solo on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (incl. West** (incl. I also loved the structure of his music. The Torture Never Stops Pt. Actually it was something that I didn't tell them to put on stage, but the alto sax player had it hanging off of his stand. Get the Frank Zappa Setlist of the concert at Rochester Community War Memorial, Rochester, NY, USA on March 11, 1988 from the 1988 US tour Tour and other Frank Zappa Setlists for free on setlist.fm! Everyone except me said no. I know there was some sort of fighting within the band and FZ called the whole tour off, but what did it all stem from? The songs that Frank Zappa performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the May 20, 1988 concert at Le Znith in Paris, le-de-France, France: The Black Page Packard Goose / Royal March From L'Histoire du Soldat / Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto no. IB: The samples you played on the 88 tourthe dog barks and bubblesdid you create them? E: It's not really anything that needs to be talked about. He checked out of this life earlya victim of cancer at age 52but before he did, he released some five dozen albums. M: No. So like in the middle of the '88 tour, I mean, I understood everybody's side, you know, and I just let Frank know that whatever happens, I'm still ready. However, the memory of "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" has stayed alive with the help of tapes and FZ's three official releases of material from the tour. Finally, during the European leg, Frank asked everyone in the band, separately, if they would consent to doing the remaining 10 or so weeks of the tour, which would have covered the West Coast and various points inward, if Scott was in the band. Because every night onstage, I was surrounded by daggers and completely lost my concentration. It was ridiculous with just one or two in the brass section. M: (laughter) Ja, of course. I got to the audition and Frank told me to play, "Cheapness." setlist.fm Add Setlist. That kind of pissed you off. He said, "That's not the answer. He resented the "ganging-up" taking place without anyone confronting him personally before calling a big old band meeting and bringing Frank into it. DS: So I'll have to see the movie to understand that. I had that job in 1978. West* [TBBYNHIYL], q: Dragnet, FZ conducts the audience / Ike demonstrates his artifacts / Approximate danced, The Closer You Are (a cappella), Montana, Why Don't You Like Me?, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Zoot Allures, Peaches En Regalia, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page (q: Yankee Doodle Boy), Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big (incl. He put the sheet music in front of me and I started playing it from memory, since I can't sight read. I thought for sure I was about to get my face ripped off and expelled from the Zappa sphere. Inca Roads 06. And then he patted me on the shoulder. That was the last time I worked for Frank. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and I haven't touched the guitar since we came off the road. I was always there for him when it came to music or anything else, that had been a code-phrase that was communicated since I began working with FrankI wrote him several letters to re-iterate that after 88, so he knew. The new album, to be released June 18, will also include two extras. M: Well, we talked for a long time actually. Lyric mutations and such. It's one of the things I've been interested in since the 27th Amendment passed in 1971. The rest of the time they're playing really complicated parts that are challenging to them, so that keeps 'em on their toes. Frank would change some lyrics around and we would follow. I mean I didn't have any problem with anybody. . With Frank spinning many plates including his home video business and his dabbling in foreign trade the job fell on bassist Scott Thunes. MI; Vienna; and Florence. That's what I felt . Here's the interview I was thinking of -- w/ guitarist Mike Keneally. It was Zappa's first tour in nearly three years, a major musical event, yet when asked why he was going on the road again, the outspoken musician explained, "It's an election year. Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. It was the band we I can play all the technical and demanding parts; that was no problem. The first 20 min are Aud, the rest is SBD. The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Marqueson's Chicken, Elvis Has Just Left The Building [parts on BTHW], Cruising For Burgers, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now [parts on BTHW], Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty*, Rhymin' Man, Sinister Footwear, City Of Tiny Lights, The Torture Never Stops Medley [incl. Last week [FZ] attended a performance by the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra of his composition, "The Perfect Stranger," which was composed for the 1984 album, "Boulez Conducts Zappa." The whole band watching, waiting, I thought he wanted to rip my face off verbally but no, when I got up there, he said "Can you do that again into the sampler?". Texas Motel Medley, Strictly Genteel, Bolero, Stairway To Heaven, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Sharleena, Bamboozled By Love, Black Napkins, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Bolero, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Let's Move To Cleveland [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Dupree's Paradise, Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Inca Roads, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Cruising For Burgers, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Loops, Bamboozled By Love, The Black Page [solo on MAJNH], Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Cosmik Debris, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits [parts on YCDTOSA4], Chana In De Bushwop (q: La Marseillaise), Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Easy Meat, King Kong (q: It Ain't Necessarily So, Summertime), Sharleena, Bamboozled By Love, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Elvis Has Just Left The Building, Loops, Sofa (q: April In Paris), The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, Dupree's Paradise, Inca Roads, Advance Romance, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty (q: April In Paris), I Ain't Got No Heart, Sharleena, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Bamboozled By Love, Loops, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, No known unofficial recording of this show. talented and intelligent. It's currently maintained by Oscar Bianco. Anyways, I let out a HUGE burp. At first I was so afraid that he was mad, I just didn't answer, red face and all. parts of When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Stairway To Heaven, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou (q: March Of The Cuckoos), The Untouchables, America The Beautiful, FZ guitar workout and loops (incl: Octandre, Big Swifty, Inca Roads, Carmen, A Pound For A Brown), various instruments soundcheck (q: Black Napkins, What's New In Baltimore, Packard Goose, Inca Roads, Any Kind Of Pain, Eat That Question), Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, Sofa, Stevie's Spanking, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Filthy Habits, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk Monologue (w/ Eric Buxton), (q: Money), The Black Page (q: Filthy Habits), Royal March from L'Histoire Du Soldat (incl. I don't have the chops of a Tommy Marsnot many people dobut I'm no slash; you don't get into Frank's band if you can't really play. . Best Instrumental Composition I was just getting started on this gig and I was like the new kid on the block basically, or one of the new kids on the block. I read an interview with one of the other band members on the internet recently. finest band that I was involved in with Frank. America the Beautiful, 2023 MusicFestNews | All Rights Reserved, Heatwave Music Festival 2023 Returns with GRiZ, Tisto, Kx5, Gryffin, LSDREAM, Loud Luxury and Malaa at the Helm, The Revivalists Plot Massive North American Summer Tour with The Head and The Heart, Band of Horses, Lineup Announced for the Earl Scruggs Music Festival. And I said, "No." It was an incredible band and we had the right combination When Lovin Spoonful Members Reunited for a Great Cause in L.A. 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The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Inca Roads, Sharleena, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big [FZFP], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk*** [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Happy Birthday To You, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops Medley, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, A Few Moments With Brother A. Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. Wins: Scott was pretty annoyed from that point on, and little acts of terrorism began to be perpetrated against him by anonymous disgruntled peoplesomeone got his laminated pass and scratched his face off, and on a big cake that had been provided for us by some promoter, which featured the names of all the band members, someone destroyed Scott's little cake section. Here was one of the world's foremost guitarists, who people pay large amounts of money to go see, and he's playing through these little crappy boxes. Sharleena 7. Who Needs the Peace Corps? Those guys just make those sounds anywaybut when I heard it, I summoned them to "speak into the mic please". Ed Mann was the one who really had the problem with Scott at first, and during the course of the tour the other guys in the band started to see things his way. I exhaled so strongly I almost fainted. Learn how your comment data is processed. Stinkfoot, Dickie's Such An Asshole, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Mr Green Genes [TBBYNHIYL], Florentine Pogen [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Andy, Inca Roads, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, T'Mershi Duween, Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits, You Are What You Is, Marqueson's Chicken (with Twenty-One vamp), Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post, Loops, Stinkfoot, What's New In Baltimore?, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, I Ain't Got No Heart, Let's Move To Cleveland, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits, Cosmik Debris, T'Mershi Duween [MAJNH], Dupree's Paradise [parts on MAJNH], Marqueson's Chicken [incl. Before the show Morgan and I discussed what we would do and so we just decided to play the jam that they were doing, sneak into 'T'Mershi Duween' and then get off the stage. '(loud laughter). Could you give us an idea what that means? Lohengrin, Carmen, 1812 Overture) [parts on MAJNH], Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage (q: Lohengrin), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel [solo on BTHW], Who Needs The Peace Corps? Zappa talks about it. [parts on BTHW], Texas Motel Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Stolen Moments [parts on BTHW], Murder By Numbers* [BTHW], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Catholic Girls [parts on YCDTOSA6], Crew Slut [parts on YCDTOSA6], Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, What's New In Baltimore?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, Inca Roads, Zoot Allures, Texas Motel Medley, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? Somewhere in the East Coast there was a band meeting where everyone told Frank of the problems they were having with Scott. We'd play just two songs, and then he'd get out of there. wanted to play with him because of the way he acted. Zappa 88: The Last U.S. Showis now available for pre-order before the June 18 release date through the Zappa Family Trust. Music and lyrics [ edit] For fans, of course, there is also an additional emotional dimension to the tour. I get this call back from Frank himself who basically said, "I heard you know how to play everything I've ever done. It just occurred when Frank was in a bad mood and Before the concert, I was so nervous my hands were shaking badly. But when the concert started, I felt this was cool and it was gonna go well. The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Why Don't You Like Me?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, presidential popularity poll, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, King Kong (incl. [] And that's what I let him know. Next, they traveled to Europe, where from April 9 to June 9 they played 41 more dates. and I spent a few years trying to figure that out, until I finally realized that the only logical thing for me to do is to place the majority of my heart and my musical attentions to my own music. 01. I did all that sound design. Another aspect of that tour was Ike and I would always be trying to guess where Frank was going to go with the lyrics tonight and a lot of times, we all hit it together and guessed the same thing at the same time. What really happened in 1988? . My uncle produced the 1973 Stockholm TV special that Zappa did, so he knew this guy. We played the US and Europe and then it was over. One Man, One Vote 14. I can't believe this was anything other than inertia. " Watch the clip at the head of the post. Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), one of the world's most gifted musicians, toured with 'his own band' 1 for the last time in 1988.
Q: I mean in '88, the band collapsed in a way . Called Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show, the album offers two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music . I could also play the Bartok. We Asked Him! We're going to record every concert and it looks as though there should be a live album called, Broadway The Hard Way, later this year. I called his office and told them that I sang, played keyboards and guitar, and knew he stuff; if he was interested he could give me a call. When Frank was off in the early part of the day doing interviews or whatever, it would be [bassist Scott] Thunes' job to rehearse the band. The audience didn't really know, but it was another example of the kind of thing that made me want to put the guitar down in the first place. Dot Stein, "Zappa Plays Zappa (And How! In 1988, I went on Zappa's "Broadway the Hardway" tour and never asked for a penny for massaging Frank and the rest of his giant band. Frank Zappa 's final U.S. concert a March 25th, 1988 gig at New York's Nassau Coliseum is the next archival release from the Zappa Trust and UMe . [Dave Dondorf] ended up with Frank Zappa by chance when a friend passed a rumor along that Frank needed a new technician for the '88 tour. Basically what they're being asked to do is not to play chords, or harmony parts behind guitar solos. According to The Crux of the Biscuit: By the 88 tour, Zappa would appoint band members to act as a rehearsal leader or Klonemeister to rehearse the rest of the band in his absence. MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | NOTES & COMMENTS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY. Sofa #1 13. A Cold Dark Matter, TRF], Stairway To Heaven, Texas Motel Medley, The Untouchables [parts on BTHW], Strictly Genteel, FZ guitar workout (incl. It will be available digitally or in a two-CD set. Make A Sex Noise), Stairway To Heaven (q: Hall Of The Mountain King), Bolero, Rhymin' Man (world premiere), Sofa, Andy, Inca Roads, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Sinister Footwear, Packard Goose Medley, Big Swifty, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Find Her Finer, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads (q: Florentine Pogen), Sofa (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Stairway To Heaven (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Partial audience video exists. Frank Zappa Happy Birthday, Chad! Scratch & Sniff, TRF], A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, City Of Tiny Lights, I Ain't Got No Heart, Let's Move To Cleveland, Bamboozled By Love, Big Swifty [parts on MAJNH], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Cruising For Burgers, Outside Now [parts on BTHW], The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [incl. I turned NEON RED and raised my hand sheepishly and said with a, squeaky, cracking voice "it was me". It was interesting because on the previous tours, being a multi-instrumentalist was really one of the reasons that Frank liked me in the band. I had never heard the Best Band . [parts on BTHW], Bacon Fat, Stolen Moments, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: T'Mershi Duween), Cosmik Debris, Packard Goose Medley, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Any Kind Of Pain, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Peaches En Regalia, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, The Black Page, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Bacon Fat, Stolen Moments (q: The Black Page), Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Whipping Post (q: Black Napkins), I Am The Walrus, Advance Romance, Stairway To Heaven, Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot (with Jimmy Swaggart rap)[parts on MAJNH], We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Inca Roads, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Big Swifty, Packard Goose Medley, Find Her Finer, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Why Don't You Like Me?, Outside Now, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Yo Cats, Catholic Girls, Crew Slut, Strictly Genteel, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Stinkfoot [parts on MAJNH], What's New In Baltimore?, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Packard Goose Medley, Let's Move To Cleveland, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Trouble Every Day [TBBYNHIYL], Penguin In Bondage (q: Jingle Bells) [TBBYNHIYL], Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, I Am The Walrus, Zomby Woof, Stairway To Heaven, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (q: Watermelon In Easter Hay), The Black Page, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Why Don't You Like Me? 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