Frank ZappaHammersmith Odeon

Label:

Vaulternative Records – VR 20101

Series:

Zappa Official Release – #89

Format:

3 x CD , Album

Country:

US

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Avantgarde

Tracklist

1-1 Convocation / The Purple Lagoon 2:18
1-2 Dancin' Fool 3:43
1-3 Peaches En Regalia 2:36
1-4 The Torture Never Stops 13:52
1-5 Tryin' To Grow A Chin 3:37
1-6 City Of Tiny Lites 7:01
1-7 Baby Snakes 1:54
1-8 Pound For A Brown 20:39
2-1 I Have Been In You 13:55
2-2 Flakes 6:39
2-3 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 3:54
2-4 Punky's Whips 10:26
2-5 Titties 'N Beer 4:49
2-6 Audience Participation 3:32
2-7 The Black Page #2 2:49
2-8 Jones Crusher 3:01
2-9 The Little House I Used To Live In 7:13
3-1 Dong Work For Yuda 2:56
3-2 Bobby Brown 4:54
3-3 Envelopes 2:16
3-4 Terry Firma
Composed ByMr. Bozzio*
4:10
3-5 Disco Boy 6:43
3-6 King Kong 10:10
3-7 Watermelon In Easter Hay [Prequel] 3:55
3-8 Dinah-Moe Humm 6:10
3-9 Camarillo Brillo 3:23
3-10 Muffin Man 6:18
3-11 Black Napkins 5:16
3-12 San Ber'dino 5:54

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright ©Zappa Family Trust
  • Copyright ©Munchkin Music
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Zappa Family Trust
  • Recorded AtHammersmith Odeon
  • Mixed AtThe Living Room (2)
  • Distributed ByUniversal Music Distribution

Credits

  • Art Direction, Concept By, Liner Notes [Text]Gail Zappa
  • Artwork [Cover Art]Paweł Ryżko
  • Artwork [The Liberated Toilet]Fu-Ding Cheng
  • Bass, VocalsPatrick O'Hearn
  • Composed ByFZ* (tracks: 1-1 to 3-3, 3-5 to 3-12)
  • Design [Design Renderment & Frosting]Michael Mesker
  • Drums, VocalsTerry Bozzio
  • Guitar, VocalsAdrian Belew
  • KeyboardsPeter Wolf (3)
  • Keyboards, VocalsTommy Mars
  • Lead Guitar, VocalsFrank Zappa
  • Liner NotesPeter Wolf (3)
  • Mixed ByFrank Filipetti
  • Other [Roundup For Roundhouse]Dave Gaylor
  • PercussionEd Mann
  • Photography By [FZ W/ Guitar]John Williams (30)
  • Producer [CD]Joe Travers
  • Product Manager [Production Management]Melanie Starks
  • Recorded By [Original Recordist]Peter Henderson
  • Research [Vaultmeisterment For UMRK]Joe Travers

Notes

Three hours of performances culled from live recordings from the series of 4 concerts played at Hammersmith Odeon in January and February 1978. Released in honor of FZ's 70th birthday and favorite holiday, Halloween.

Packaging: 6- Digipak + extra sleeve containing a fold-out booklet.

Music, Performance, Band & Recordings by Frank Zappa.
Audience de la London, England.

Mixed at The Living Room, NY, October 2010.
Recording trucks by Basing Street Mobile, 25-27 January & Manor Mobile, 28 February; 1978.

"The Liberated Toilet": pencil on paper, 20" × 30".

Special thanks to Peter Frampton.
Honorable mention to Charlie Boswell, AMD, & Eric Pallone, AGI.

All compositions copyrighted worldwide by the Zappa Family Trust dba Munchkin Music (Ascap).
Art © & ℗© MMX Zappa Family Trust.
Under exclusive licence to Universal Music Enterprises, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc, 2220 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution.
This is Zappa Family Archive Material In Living Ylem. This is Official Release #89.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 8 24302 01012 9
  • Barcode: 824302010129
  • Matrix / Runout (CD1): MOS1 A9 SPM VR 20101-2.1 TEXT ZAPPA.COM AG01
  • Matrix / Runout (CD2): MOS1 A9 SPM VR 20101-2.2 TEXT ZAPPA.COM AG02
  • Matrix / Runout (CD3): MOS1 A9 SPM VR 20101-2.3 TEXT ZAPPA.COM AG02

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Reviews

  • couchlock's avatar
    couchlock
    holy s**t, this is such an amazing zappa recording and for me one of the very best posthum releases.

    the recordings of that 78 tour were the raw material for sheik yerbouti, which is very songoriented and more radiofriendly than most of zappas albums to that point, but no sell out, i always loved it.

    but this i love even more, beside the sheik tracks there is s lot of freaky stuff going on, the introductions of "i have been in you" and "bobby brown" are very funny, zappa had a great sense of humor, which is a big part of the whole zappa cosmos.

    the band is on fire whole the time, very playful and everybody had to seem a lot of fun on stage, including the audience.

    a must have for every zappa fan, no doubt about it!

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