You can hear these burps on the live album/cds The Best band you've never heard in your life. 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 . Song properties for this tour: The Closer You Are always includes Johnny Darling at the end; He said, "That's not the answer. There was a little friction in the band between certain members, I mean I was not without friction, but I resolved most of my stuff before I got on the road with who ever I had a problem with. 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. They said, No way. So, Frank canceled the rest of the tour and returned home to Los Angeles, never to tour again. "I always liked Zappa since I was a kid. [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. Take Me Out To The Ball Game[YCDTOSA4]), Filthy Habits, Bolero, Elvis Has Just Left The Building, Sofa, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Cruising For Burgers, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty (q: Feelings, Four), Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Cosmik Debris, Inca Roads, Sharleena, Bamboozled By Love, Bolero, Crew Slut, The Closer You Are, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Whipping Post, The Black Page, Inca Roads, Advance Romance, Dupree's Paradise, Let's Move To Cleveland, Elvis Has Just Left The Building, Cosmik Debris, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, I Ain't Got No Heart, The Torture Never Stops Medley, The end of the show, from Texas Motel Medley on, is missing; possibly it was never taped: When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, West". After several displays of a complete lack of maturity on the part of the accusing musicians (culminating in someone scraping Scotts name off of a cake that was presented to the band by a promoter in Germany), Frank asked the offending players if they couldnt try to get along until the end of the summer leg of the tour. "In 1987, when I was living in San Diego, I heard that Frank was rehearsing a new band to do another tour, something he hadn't done since 1984. 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. Frank affectionately crowned me "Dr. 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 - 1988 Tour Kickoff at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY 1 view Feb 2, 2023 0 Dislike Palace Albany 500 subscribers Frank Zappa - 1988 Tour kickoff at the Palace Theatre. Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), one of the world's most gifted musicians, toured with 'his own band' 1 for the last time in 1988. For those interested in such things, when Morgan sat in with Zappa in 1988, Chad left the drum chair in such a way that Morgan was able to continue the drum beat without interruption. 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. II 19. 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.. He resented the "ganging-up" taking place without anyone confronting him personally before calling a big old band meeting and bringing Frank into it. It will be available digitally or in a two-CD set. Scott has a way of expressing dissatisfaction which is not particularly tactful. 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. I wasn't really ever the guy to rely on for this blazing keyboard solo, but among other things, I could play the keyboards. Do you remember that? Cookie Notice Yeah, I don't remember it ever being supposed to be Airplane. Let's just say I'm a booster for democracy.". [] Me and about 4 other Zappa freaks got to sit in the empty hall during sound check and during their [March 15, 1988] Portland Maine sound check, I accidentally let out one of my MONSTER BURPS. I would just talk to him and see what was up. 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. 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. Also returning from the 81 and 82 campaigns was Ed Mann, percussion, synclavier, vocals. But my reading is so slow that it always proved more efficient to learn things by ear Scott (Thunes, bassplayer and as "Clonemeister" in charge of teaching and rehearsing the band in '88 -aa) wrote me a chart for the piano accompaniment in the Bartok piecea fairly simple part but it took me hours to learn it. "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. (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). The Black Page (New Age Version) 03. 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 . He made himself TIL that Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante went to audition for Frank Zappa's 1988 touring band but left the rehearsal room before actually playing, saying later that " I wanted to be a rock star, do drugs and get girls, and that I wouldn't be able to do that if I was in Zappa's band." r/todayilearned 22 days ago u/therefore4 talented and intelligent. Lyric mutations and such. 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. 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. . 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. 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. The 1988 band had been documented in official releases Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, and Make a Jazz Noise Here, but this constitutes the first complete show from the group. We'd play just two songs, and then he'd get out of there. RM: That was for the monitor mixer, Marqueson. 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. It was the most fun for me, for a number of reasons. If it had been a Fans across the country, especially in the South and out West, were anticipating the second U.S. leg. I've only ever read the Real Frank Zappa Book (which is a ****in' riot!) [FZ] himself is a registered Democrat and a strong Dukakis supporter. 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?". It was the worst possible combination of events for him. . Witness Zappas Beatles medley, which makes its first official appearance on this album. . )," The Milwaukee Journal, November 6, 1988, Axel Wnsch, Aad Hoogesteger, Harald Hering and Achim Mnz, "Urban Leader: Ed Mann and Tommy Mars interviewed in Wuppertal 10.3.91,", Andrew Greenaway, "Where Were You In 1984!Interview With Ed Mann,", Dr. It seemed like the right thing to do, and I did want to get involved in the voter registration. I still want to go on the road and play because I'm playing with him, you know what I mean? Jorma said to the audience as they began to play "What's wrong with this picture?" &amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br />
. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. In the mean time I've managed to play with a lot of wonderful musicians who I respect greatly, but from the standpoint of my heart, once I did the Zappa thing there was no where else to go apart from just to try to create something new for myself to do. So there was a lot of material that we could have learnt. I know that's what I said, tooMann did. 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.. Rather than replace Thunes, Zappa cancelled almost three months of concerts and never toured again - claiming to have lost $400,000 in the process. Best heard in the song "A few moments with Brother A. so obnoxious that nobody wanted to be around him. 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. Inca Roads 06. He wanted to know about Zappsteetoot, and he asked us if we could play 'The Be-Bop Tango', 'Mo n Herb's Vacation' and 'Night School'. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. The only times that I would really just vibe on it and just completely get off on it beyond my wildest dreams was when we were on stage and Frank was taking a long solo that didn't require me to back him up and I would just be sitting there watching him play. "I got the call from the production manager, and I was gone," Dondorf recalls. '(loud laughter). 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. The 12-member band played 37 shows from February 2 to March 25 of 1988 on the first leg of the U.S. tour. 4 min read. Your data will be safe!Your e-mail address will not be published. Finally, he stops me and asks, "Are you sight reading this?" Privacy Policy. The seeds of dissolution were sown during pre-tour rehearsals in L.A. 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. Whipping Post 10. When it was announced there would be a 1988 tour, there was much excitement. I 20. 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? had been dreaming of. Before I joined Frank I was really more of a keyboard player, but I decided to work on my guitar playing, especially on his techniques and timings. Sofa #1 13. 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. Whatever Happened to Stephen Talbot, Leave It to Beavers Gilbert? With Fabio Treves on harmonica (*). Royal March From LHistoire Du Soldat 17. I like you, and I like what you doexcept for all the mistakes you've been making." )," Dr. DS: There are some good little musical inclusions that resulted from that too. I used a Stratocaster and a Telecaster, modified by Midget Sloatman, and a Roland JC77 amp that Steve used in 1982. [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. He laughed and I got the job because he found someone who related to his music the way he did.". Zappa could shift between serious and silly as easily as he could segue from one musical genre to another. 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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