M: But the thing was that we didn't actually ask if we could play with him. Fire And Chains) [parts on King Kong, MAJNH], What's New In Baltimore?, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Stairway To Heaven, Promiscuous [BTHW], The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?, Time Is On My Side, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Uncle Remus, Strictly Genteel, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever, Paperback Writer, Taxman, Within You Without You, Stinkfoot, Andy, Inca Roads, Uncle Remus, Outside Now, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Medley, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Norwegian Wood, King Kong (q: Whipping Post, Who Needs The Peace Corps? When Lovin Spoonful Members Reunited for a Great Cause in L.A. Roger Daltrey on Woodstock, Tommy: Career-Spanning Interview, The Jaggerz The Rapper: You Know What Hes After, Rickie Lee Jones Debut: Hipster Chic, Beyond Laurel Canyon, Leon Russell Signature Songs Gets Reissue: Listen, #1 Singles of 1970: A Bridge to a New Decade. If you think touring can be fun, think again! I made it clear, I wasn't "only in it for the money". Peaches En Regalia 07. Where else can you find a record from one artist that embraces doo-wop (Love of My Life), classical music (Stravinskys Royal March from LHistoire du Soldat, Ravels Bolero, and the theme from Bartoks Piano Concerto #3), and rock (Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven and the Allman Brothers Whipping Post)not to mention I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Theme from Bonanza, and a show-closing America the Beautiful? I do not think that Bogosian provided any burps, and he was the only other third party in FZ's sampler who made strange sounds that I am aware of . Then, at the end of the tour, this war broke out between the bass player and the drummer. Previously listed as 1988 02 12 Daniel sat in on the "Huddle" before the show; the Huddle occurs before every concert, that's when the whole band gets in a room with Frank and he goes over the setlist and discusses the segues from one song into the next, and any special-type information that needs to be mentioned regarding the festivities to come. I got to the audition and Frank told me to play, "Cheapness." I Left My Heart In San Francisco], What's New In Baltimore?, Inca Roads [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Ring Of Fire, Bolero, Bobby Brown, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Ring Of Fire, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, Advance Romance, Any Kind Of Pain, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Cosmik Debris, Cruising For Burgers, Keep It Greasey, Sofa, Bolero, Crew Slut, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Heavy Duty Judy, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Texas Motel Medley, Sofa, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty (q: My Sharona, The Radio Is Broken), Bamboozled By Love (q: When Yuppies Go To Hell), Bolero, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, The Black Page (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), 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 (q: Did You Ever See A Dream Walkin'? it has to be you, Dot! No musician alive or dead has ever been more versatile than Zappa, and this concert set proves it. Sure enough I belted out 4 amazing burps, and a couple tiny useless ones and he took them into the sampler (key board looking thing?) 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. . 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. Anyways, I let out a HUGE burp. Sometimes not, though. Called Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show, the album offers two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music . I don't believe it, so get your ass up here and prove it. '(loud laughter). 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? FZ: Well, sure, because there was a female security guard who was hired to be part of the staff at the place and Bob Rice who was basically hired as a roadie decided to use this enema that was dangling on stage as a prop. ", "Yeah, but in a twisted way," he said "I'm not running for anything. Meanwhile, he continued to issue new recordings. 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. When the Lies So Big 11. Also other data will not be shared with third person. and our Du bist, was du bist. . I could do a lot of different things. On a bad night, it was me versus the band. M: Ja, of course. setlist.fm Add Setlist. The Torture Never Stops Pt. We Asked Him! "I always liked Zappa since I was a kid. The seeds of dissolution were sown during pre-tour rehearsals in L.A. 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. I thought it was a dream actually. Frank Zappa Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, NY - Mar 21, 1988 Mar 21 1988 Frank Zappa Towson Center Arena, Towson, MD - Mar 23, 1988 Mar 23 1988 Mar 25, 1988 Frank Zappa Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - Mar 25, 1988 Mar 25 1988 Following concerts Frank Zappa Printemps de Bourges 1988 - Apr 9, 1988 Apr 09 1988 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. Alright I got one last [secret word] . He just felt that . We also ended up not doing any more three-hour soundchecks. Frank is so receptive to technical change, it's ridiculous. Why did Zappa say the 1988 band "self-destructed?". When Yuppies Go To Hell [parts on MAJNH]), Packard Goose Medley, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, Sofa, Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Stinkfoot, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Orange County Lumber Truck, When Yuppies Go To Hell, I Am The Walrus, Zoot Allures [TBBYNHIYL], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, City Of Tiny Lights [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" []. The show was originally billed to have a Jefferson Airplane reunion as the warm up, but only Jack and Jorma showed up. Bob went up there, took this thing and he was trying to impress this girl security guard. It will also be available as a four-LP 180-gram vinyl box, on black vinyl or as a limited-edition purple vinyl variant exclusively through the official Frank Zappa online store or uDiscover. But when the concert started, I felt this was cool and it was gonna go well. 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. . He was just starting to get He laughed and I got the job because he found someone who related to his music the way he did.". MG: (jokingly) What happened then? I get this call back from Frank himself who basically said, "I heard you know how to play everything I've ever done. SCENE: You haven't toured since 1984. 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. When it was announced there would be a 1988 tour, there was much excitement. 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. 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. 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 (! 1981. . in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Privacy Policy. Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. Love of My Life 5. "At first, I was enjoying playing the guitar again. A major rock tour isn't the only New York activity to involve the peripatetic 47-year-old composer and performer. Listen to Peaches en Regalia from Zappa 88. And then after the soundcheck, he said 'Well, it's okay, Frank wants to meet you'. 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. From the time that I was nine years old, Frank was my musical hero. [parts on BTHW], Bacon Fat, Stolen Moments, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Heavy Duty Judy, Zomby Woof, Chana In De Bushwop**, I Am The Walrus, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (q: Isn't It Romantic, Rhapsody In Blue), Jezebel Boy [BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Big Swifty (q: Laura), Advance Romance (q: Big Swifty, Isn't Romantic, Girl From Ipanema), The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post*, Strictly Genteel. I would just talk to him and see what was up. different day and Frank was in a different mood I'm sure that would II 03. It wasn't quite Zappa 's last live performance, but it did turn out to be his final concert in the United States. follow. Theme From The Bartok Piano Concert No. . Well, Frank can't sight read all that well either, and he's looking over my shoulder to see if I'm playing what's in front of me, but he can't really tell. Frank would say "go get the Doctor" or "hi Doctor Dot" and so it stuck. 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. finest band that I was involved in with Frank. had been dreaming of. For more information, please see our A warm introduction is given by Frank in Spanish (learned "parrot fashion) and the tight, well-seasoned band of the "Broadway The Hard Way" album kicks in with a mixture of fresh material and old favorites. 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. Zappa could shift between serious and silly as easily as he could segue from one musical genre to another. Inca Roads 6. 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. It's just a different way of looking at things. Fans across the country, especially in the South and out West, were anticipating the second U.S. leg. . I didn't exactly know how to play everything he'd done, but I'd heard it all so much that I could pretty much fake my way through it. It's like this: there is the band and there is the guy who runs the band and then Frank. We gave him a cassette but he didn't listen to it. 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. (referring to the absence of the rest of the Airplane band members). (incl. Inca Roads 06. 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. On this tour I'm also bringing my recording studio. I was named after her and so most called me Dot. In the band for the first (and last) time was Mike Keneally, stunt guitar, keyboards, vocals. Trance-Fusion, TRF], Pick Me I'm Clean, Bamboozled By Love, Sofa [TBBYNHIYL], q: Titties And Beer, Bobby Brown, Sharleena (q: Over There), Rhymin' Man, Elvis Has Just Left The Building [parts on BTHW], Bolero, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Star Wars Won't Work [MAJNH], Whipping Post, The Black Page, We're Turning Again [YCDTOSA6], Alien Orifice [parts on MAJNH], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Dupree's Paradise [parts on MAJNH], Easy Meat, Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Bamboozled By Love, Ring Of Fire, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven (incl. I did all that sound design. the band. Mystery Song #4), One Man One Vote (synclavier), Sofa, Bolero, Filthy Habits, King Kong, Sinister Footwear, The Black Page, Stainless The Maiden, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Panty Rap (incl. Whoever, whatever happens, you know, I'm on his side, totally. I call it, "Broadway The Hard Way." They have to brew. That's what I felt . When I drink Diet Coke, all hell breaks loose. So it doesn't sound like Zappa had a problem with him. of people. That was the 8. 01. It didn't really collapse. so . []. So we would use it during the improvisations or during 'Norwegian Wood'. At first I was so afraid that he was mad, I just didn't answer, red face and all. And that's what I'm doing with my music. parts of Lonesome Cowboy Nando, YCDTOSA6; incl. Then we did 1988 and that was when he could justify having a full horn section, because just one trombone is strange orchestration-wise, you know? Do you remember that? His playing style and his methods were etched in my brain. Packard Goose Pt. 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. And then in 1988 he went all the way and had five, which is the best. 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? E: Collapsed?? And then I'd look out into the audience and I'd look up at the lights, and I would just suddenly reflect on the fact that this was really happening. Next, they traveled to Europe, where from April 9 to June 9 they played 41 more dates. 3 Any Kind of Pain Dupree's Paradise Inca Roads Advance Romance Engineer Bob Stone House Mix Harry Andronis Lightning Designer and Director Mike Keeling Monitor Mix Marque Coy Synclavier 12" Bildscheibe. Panty Rap / The Black Page [parts on MAJNH], Dickie's Such An Asshole , When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women [parts on BTHW], Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, What's New In Baltimore?, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: Girl From Ipanema), Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Bamboozled By Love, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Uncle Remus, Catholic Girls [parts on YCDTOSA6], Crew Slut [parts on YCDTOSA6], Bobby Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Sofa, With Dweezil Zappa on guitar (*), introduction by Diva Zappa (**), Stinkfoot (incl. 3, MAJNH], Any Kind Of Pain, When The Lie's So Big, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, I Am The Walrus, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Texas Motel Medley, Sofa, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, The Illinois Enema Bandit, FZ guitar workout (incl. It was the worst possible combination of events for him. A 5 min FM fragment has the Daniel Schorr performance. 15. With Fabio Treves on harmonica (*). 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. (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). because I wanted to play like . &amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br />
. My uncle produced the 1973 Stockholm TV special that Zappa did, so he knew this guy. I could also play the Bartok. . They hated each other's guts. Finding Higgs' Boson, TRF], Peaches En Regalia [TFZAMBB], Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Sharleena, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Whipping Post, Stinkfoot, What's New In Baltimore?, Heavy Duty Judy, Find Her Finer [TBBYNHIYL], Big Swifty (incl. And the guy who runs the band teaches the rehearsals and all that stuff, and if it's not the right energy, it doesn't come across, it doesn't work somehow . Related: Our Album Rewind of the Mothers Were Only In it for the Money. . But once I was thrust into that position and there was so much work that had to be done, that had to take precedence. FZ: Oh, did you ever see that Cheech and Chong movie where they play these two Arab brothers? 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. Van Morrisons Moondance: Brand New Day, Doobie Brothers Expand Reunion Tour With Michael McDonald, Stephen Stills Live at Berkeley 1971 Album Due, With Guest David Crosby, Reboot: Nancy Sinatra Remembers Her Unlikely But Brilliant Collaborator, Lee Hazlewood, Neil Young Makes 1st Live Public Performance in Years, 10cc, Hermans Hermits Manager Writes Memoir, Im Into Something Good, Todd Rundgrens Something/Anything?: An Extravagant Opus, The Bands With Me: A Former Groupie Lays It All Down, Alice Coopers #1 Breakthrough: Billion Dollar Babies @50, Carly Simons Surprise Concert, Live at Grand Central: Review, Elvis on Tour, a New Box Set, Offers an In-Depth Look at a 1972 Concert Series, Marvin Gayes Greatest Hits Live in 76: Review, Radio Hits in February 1967: B-Sides Rule. FZ solo incl. When he told me that, I said, "I'll gladly quit." Scott himself was not warned beforehandthe first time he heard anything of the burgeoning anti- Scott movement was during this meeting. 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? 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.. Frank Zappa hadn't toured since 1984, when his seven-man band played 109 shows, 36 in the U.S., 32 in Europe, and another 41 back in the States, all from July through December. Your e-mail address will not be published. West. What made you decide to tour at this point in time? If it had been a There were parts of it that were real good, but there were also parts of it that weren't quite up to the normal Zappa standards. which is from Graz which is "hairpiece.". Song properties for this tour: The Closer You Are always includes Johnny Darling at the end; So there was a lot of material that we could have learnt. "I was third peon from the bottom, making sure everyone's anything worked. They said, No way. So, Frank canceled the rest of the tour and returned home to Los Angeles, never to tour again. . I knew what keyboards Bobby Martin used, so for me it was just a matter of telling Frank what sounds I wanted to play. )," Dr. Five is really big-sounding and you can do those big chords he writes. 1. At the end of the tour, Frank decided he wasn't going to play anymore, because the rest of the band had told him they wouldn't go out with me again. "He says, 'Anyone who has a coat like that must know something,' and he hired me," laughs Harry Andronis, house mixer for Frank Zappa since the 1988 Broadway the Hard Way tour. Walt Fowler vocalizes all the "Ooowww" stuffand then I modulated it with a pitch wheel. Florentine Pogen), The Black Page, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Find Her Finer, Sinister Footwear [parts on MAJNH], Stevie's Spanking [MAJNH], Any Kind Of Pain, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [incl. Those guys just make those sounds anywaybut when I heard it, I summoned them to "speak into the mic please". Jazz From Hell, Nominations: 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.. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and 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. 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