[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? 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. He put the sheet music in front of me and I started playing it from memory, since I can't sight read. 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? All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. I haven't touched the guitar since we came off the road. And I did not expect a response, as it was not necessary. 15. another bass player? 1988 European Tour (44) 1988 US tour (37) Halloween Run 1977 (6) Songs; Albums; Avg Setlist; Covers; With; Concert Map; Songs played by . Teenage Wind), Stairway To Heaven, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus (with improvisational coda), Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, 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, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops, Why Don't You Like Me, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus (q: Echidna's Arf), Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Chana In De Bushwop, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, 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, Catholic Girls, Crew Slut, Andy, Inca Roads, The Illinois Enema Bandit (q: Wooly Bully), Stinkfoot, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Bamboozled By Love, Peaches En Regalia, Heavy Duty Judy, We're Turning Again, Packard Goose Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Whipping Post*, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, 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 A Pound For A Brown, Cosmik Debris, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, The Torture Never Stops Medley (q: T'Mershi Duween), King Kong (q: Bolero, The Dangerous Kitchen, Happy Birthday To You, Frere Jacques, Harbor Lights),, Stairway To Heaven, Packard Goose Medley, I Am The Walrus, Strictly Genteel, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Stinkfoot, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], When The Lie's So Big [parts on BTHW], Planet Of The Baritone Women [parts on BTHW], Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Black Napkins, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights (q: Beer Barrel Polka), A Pound For A Brown (q: City Of Tiny Lights; incl. I would just talk to him and see what was up. to be used, you know? Also other data will not be shared with third person. Search Clear search text. ), Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, I Am The Walrus, Crew Slut (q: Smoke On The Water), The Black Page, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Eric Dolphy Memorial [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Let's Move To Cleveland, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Heavy Duty Judy, Why Don't You Like Me?, Any Kind Of Pain, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Texas Motel Medley, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Stinkfoot, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Bacon Fat [BTHW], Stolen Moments [parts on BTHW], When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Texas Motel Medley, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? 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 considered him my greatest influence. DS: Right. I guzzled down the Diet Coke, band, Frank and front row of amused Special guest (one of which was my girlfriend Jenny Jupiter) watched on, kind of impatiently. Engineer Bob Stone House Mix Harry Andronis Lightning Designer and Director Mike Keeling Monitor Mix Marque Coy Synclavier &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
. I call it, "Broadway The Hard Way." Later he sent us into the soundcheck and said 'just sit and wait and I'll come back later and tell you what's going to happen'. When he told me that, I said, "I'll gladly quit." Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. Your e-mail address will not be published. All Rights reserved. (referring to the absence of the rest of the Airplane band members). City of Tiny Lites 04. Emboldened on discovering that no house mixer had yet been hired, Harry told Coy to throw his name into the hat. EM: Yes. A major rock tour isn't the only New York activity to involve the peripatetic 47-year-old composer and performer. MG: Can you remember some of the things you talked to Frank about before and after the show? The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. A 5 min FM fragment has the Daniel Schorr performance. Ike did the Sam Kinnison Death Scream. In 'Whipping Post' that night, I changed the words around, something about Marqueson supposed to be having a hooker and it never happened, and he was all frustrated. Obviously they assumed that the result of this attempted hijack would be the hiring of a new bassist. After a huge, fast sigh of relief, I answered "I need another Diet Coke." document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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 . The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. . Packard Goose Pt. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is a double-disc live album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in 1991. We were lead to his dressing-room and we started talking. Rather than replace Thunes, Zappa cancelled almost three months of concerts and never toured again - claiming to have lost $400,000 in the process. http://www.cidanka.nl/keneally/stbp0397.htm, http://www.tunabase.com/setlists/1988/19880325.html, http://www.keneally.com/reallykeneally.html, http://www.amazon.com/Zappa-Hard-Wa1395248423&sr=1-1&keywords=zappa+the+hard+way, http://www.amazon.com/Zappa-Hard-Way-Andrew-Greenaway/dp/1908724005/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395248423&sr=1-1&keywords=zappa the hard way, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service, Royal March (Featuring the Long Island Ballet). 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" []. Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist) sick and he just said fuck it. Stairway to Heaven 08. "I got the call from the production manager, and I was gone," Dondorf recalls. I 20. 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? Jam [Bavarian Sunset, TRF]), Sofa (q: Lohengrin), The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Cosmik Debris, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, Trouble Every Day, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: Carmen), The Torture Never Stops Medley, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Bolero, Stairway To Heaven (q: Rhymin' Man, Hallelujah I'm A Bum), I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, No known unofficial recording of this show. . Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. Zappa helped form The Mothers Of Invention in 1965 and the band's 1966 double LP debut, Freak Out!, put FZ on the path to becoming one of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th . Inca Roads vamp), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Packard Goose Medley, Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Inca Roads, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Stinkfoot, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Big Swifty, The Untouchables [parts on BTHW], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Filthy Habits, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Texas Motel Medley, Sharleena, Whipping Post, The Black Page, Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q. 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. The new album, to be released June 18, will also include two extras. I could do a lot of different things. but it makes a difficult position for the guy who has to run the band. The real buzz, however, was about the five-man horn section, making this the largest band in Zappa history (excepting the brief Wazoo orchestra in 1972). . They hated each other's guts. Love of My Life 5. It was the most fun for me, for a number of reasons. It was his birthday that night and we did some unusual things. But as I saw it, all he cared about was the band knowing their stuff, and he wasn't trying to make friends in the process, which I respected, and we became good friends during this phase. TOP | MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | NOTES & COMMENTS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY, 1988Chronology Sources, Notes & Comments, John Swenson, "Frank ZappaA Misunderstood Man,", Joe Morgenstern, "Frank Zappa's Getting Out The Vote (! 1 + 5 von 1984 Nena Tote Hosen in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Wins: "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here" 2. On a musical level I loved the whole idea of concepts on albums, but Frank did it better than anybodyhe seemed to refine it so well. 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. Jesus Thinks Youre a Jerk 12. Gorgo, TRF], Big Swifty* (incl. It includes latter-period compositions as well as very early ones like I Aint Got No Heart, which first appeared onFreak Out!, the artists 1966 debut LP. So we would use it during the improvisations or during 'Norwegian Wood'. Zappa archivist Joe Traverswho co-produced the set with the artists son, Ahmetand drummer Chad Wackerman provide liner notes. Whipping Post, often used as the encore for shows on tours from 1981 through 1984, comes from Providence Civic Center on March 16, and Stairway to Heaven comes from the March 23 show at Towson Center in Towson MD. (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for example, begins, Picture yourself with a whore from New Orleans, with big purple welts all over her bod/Somebody calls and you answer quite slowly, its the board from Assembly o God). And with Steve Allen, he served as co-host of a benefit at the nightclub 4D for the Fundamentalists Anonymous Legal Task Force, an organization devoted to assisting disenchanted members of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL Club to get back their money. He took it very seriously and he was very 'pfff' (he imitates the noise of a whip) and anybody else didn't want to hear it so simple. [] That was one of the most wonderful things about that tour, that on any given night, whatever had happened that day on the news or the night before in the hotel or that day on the airplane could and probably would come out in the concert in some way. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 09. Pound for a Brown 05. Like all concerts on this 1988 tour, the Long Island one begins with Zappa telling his audience that they can register to vote right there at the show and imploring them to do so during intermission. I had never heard the Best Band . Could you tell us from your point of view something about the disaster . . E: Well, there was one program that I had and I knew when I would bring that program that I was tied into the Synclavier. RM: That was for the monitor mixer, Marqueson. [parts on BTHW], 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, The Torture Never Stops Medley [Lonesome Cowboy Burt on TBBYNHIYL], Packard Goose Medley, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Bamboozled By Love, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Andy, Inca Roads, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Packard Goose Medley, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (incl. With all of the time and money spent to prepare and promote the tour, not to mention the potential within the talented band and crew, now in 2021, its an even more historic loss considering FZ was to never tour again.. Ed Mann, interviewed by Andrew Greenaway, Albert Wing, interviewed by Fred Banta, February 17, 1998. Since that band was so great, but the problems were only Q: Now a question that every fan would like to ask. parts of Oh No, MAJNH], Texas Motel Medley (q: T'Mershi Duween), The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL, 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." Stevie's Spanking), q: Envelopes, Mr Green Genes (incl. We got in touch with him and he said Frank will probably want to stay in his hotel room and compose and he doesn't want to talk to his fans very much but I'll do my best. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. After 88, I felt that we knew each other and the truth beneath all of the difficulty, and so I let it go at thatand to fate regarding circumstance that may bring us together again. . That's what I felt . 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. I call it, "Broadway The Hard Way." Later he sent us into the soundcheck and said 'just sit and wait and I'll come back later and tell you what's going to happen'. When he told me that, I said, "I'll gladly quit." Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. Your e-mail address will not be published. All Rights reserved. (referring to the absence of the rest of the Airplane band members). City of Tiny Lites 04. Emboldened on discovering that no house mixer had yet been hired, Harry told Coy to throw his name into the hat. EM: Yes. A major rock tour isn't the only New York activity to involve the peripatetic 47-year-old composer and performer. MG: Can you remember some of the things you talked to Frank about before and after the show? The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. A 5 min FM fragment has the Daniel Schorr performance. Ike did the Sam Kinnison Death Scream. In 'Whipping Post' that night, I changed the words around, something about Marqueson supposed to be having a hooker and it never happened, and he was all frustrated. Obviously they assumed that the result of this attempted hijack would be the hiring of a new bassist. After a huge, fast sigh of relief, I answered "I need another Diet Coke." document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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 . The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. . Packard Goose Pt. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is a double-disc live album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in 1991. We were lead to his dressing-room and we started talking. Rather than replace Thunes, Zappa cancelled almost three months of concerts and never toured again - claiming to have lost $400,000 in the process. http://www.cidanka.nl/keneally/stbp0397.htm, http://www.tunabase.com/setlists/1988/19880325.html, http://www.keneally.com/reallykeneally.html, http://www.amazon.com/Zappa-Hard-Wa1395248423&sr=1-1&keywords=zappa+the+hard+way, http://www.amazon.com/Zappa-Hard-Way-Andrew-Greenaway/dp/1908724005/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395248423&sr=1-1&keywords=zappa the hard way, Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service, Royal March (Featuring the Long Island Ballet). 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" []. Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist) sick and he just said fuck it. Stairway to Heaven 08. "I got the call from the production manager, and I was gone," Dondorf recalls. I 20. 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? Jam [Bavarian Sunset, TRF]), Sofa (q: Lohengrin), The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Cosmik Debris, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, Trouble Every Day, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: Carmen), The Torture Never Stops Medley, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Bolero, Stairway To Heaven (q: Rhymin' Man, Hallelujah I'm A Bum), I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, No known unofficial recording of this show. . Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. Zappa helped form The Mothers Of Invention in 1965 and the band's 1966 double LP debut, Freak Out!, put FZ on the path to becoming one of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th . Inca Roads vamp), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Packard Goose Medley, Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Inca Roads, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Stinkfoot, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Big Swifty, The Untouchables [parts on BTHW], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Filthy Habits, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Texas Motel Medley, Sharleena, Whipping Post, The Black Page, Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q. 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. The new album, to be released June 18, will also include two extras. I could do a lot of different things. but it makes a difficult position for the guy who has to run the band. The real buzz, however, was about the five-man horn section, making this the largest band in Zappa history (excepting the brief Wazoo orchestra in 1972). . They hated each other's guts. Love of My Life 5. It was the most fun for me, for a number of reasons. It was his birthday that night and we did some unusual things. But as I saw it, all he cared about was the band knowing their stuff, and he wasn't trying to make friends in the process, which I respected, and we became good friends during this phase. TOP | MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | NOTES & COMMENTS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY, 1988Chronology Sources, Notes & Comments, John Swenson, "Frank ZappaA Misunderstood Man,", Joe Morgenstern, "Frank Zappa's Getting Out The Vote (! 1 + 5 von 1984 Nena Tote Hosen in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Wins: "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here" 2. On a musical level I loved the whole idea of concepts on albums, but Frank did it better than anybodyhe seemed to refine it so well. 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. Jesus Thinks Youre a Jerk 12. Gorgo, TRF], Big Swifty* (incl. It includes latter-period compositions as well as very early ones like I Aint Got No Heart, which first appeared onFreak Out!, the artists 1966 debut LP. So we would use it during the improvisations or during 'Norwegian Wood'. Zappa archivist Joe Traverswho co-produced the set with the artists son, Ahmetand drummer Chad Wackerman provide liner notes. Whipping Post, often used as the encore for shows on tours from 1981 through 1984, comes from Providence Civic Center on March 16, and Stairway to Heaven comes from the March 23 show at Towson Center in Towson MD. (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for example, begins, Picture yourself with a whore from New Orleans, with big purple welts all over her bod/Somebody calls and you answer quite slowly, its the board from Assembly o God). And with Steve Allen, he served as co-host of a benefit at the nightclub 4D for the Fundamentalists Anonymous Legal Task Force, an organization devoted to assisting disenchanted members of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL Club to get back their money. He took it very seriously and he was very 'pfff' (he imitates the noise of a whip) and anybody else didn't want to hear it so simple. [] That was one of the most wonderful things about that tour, that on any given night, whatever had happened that day on the news or the night before in the hotel or that day on the airplane could and probably would come out in the concert in some way. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 09. Pound for a Brown 05. Like all concerts on this 1988 tour, the Long Island one begins with Zappa telling his audience that they can register to vote right there at the show and imploring them to do so during intermission. I had never heard the Best Band . Could you tell us from your point of view something about the disaster . . E: Well, there was one program that I had and I knew when I would bring that program that I was tied into the Synclavier. RM: That was for the monitor mixer, Marqueson. [parts on BTHW], 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, The Torture Never Stops Medley [Lonesome Cowboy Burt on TBBYNHIYL], Packard Goose Medley, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Bamboozled By Love, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Andy, Inca Roads, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Packard Goose Medley, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (incl. With all of the time and money spent to prepare and promote the tour, not to mention the potential within the talented band and crew, now in 2021, its an even more historic loss considering FZ was to never tour again.. Ed Mann, interviewed by Andrew Greenaway, Albert Wing, interviewed by Fred Banta, February 17, 1998. Since that band was so great, but the problems were only Q: Now a question that every fan would like to ask. parts of Oh No, MAJNH], Texas Motel Medley (q: T'Mershi Duween), The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL, 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." Stevie's Spanking), q: Envelopes, Mr Green Genes (incl. We got in touch with him and he said Frank will probably want to stay in his hotel room and compose and he doesn't want to talk to his fans very much but I'll do my best. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. After 88, I felt that we knew each other and the truth beneath all of the difficulty, and so I let it go at thatand to fate regarding circumstance that may bring us together again. . That's what I felt . 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