to be used, you know? 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. During the rehearsals, Frank wasn't that involvedI mean he was but he was busy with a lot of other stuff. "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. This tour is one of the most memorable, musically and otherwise. 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: Theme From Bonanza, 01. 12" Bildscheibe. 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. Everyone except me said no. . They have to brew. I mean I straightened it out with everybody. We Are Doing Voter Registration Here 02. I am honored. ", "Yeah, but in a twisted way," he said "I'm not running for anything. In fact, I remember clearly expecting it to be Hot Tuna (and you're right it said Hot Tuna on the tix). Guest appearances by Mats berg on Keyboards (*), Morgan gren on drums (*), and Dweezil Zappa on guitar (**). have happened. I had never heard the Best Band . I thought it was a dream actually. Search Clear search text. Could you tell us from your point of view something about the disaster . [YCDTOSA6], Inca Roads, Stairway To Heaven, Texas Motel Medley, Bolero, The Illinois Enema Bandit. [parts on BTHW], The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, Why Don't You Like Me? For fans, of course, there is also an additional emotional dimension to the tour. 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. 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. Anyways, I let out a HUGE burp. 1 16. The Torture Never Stops Pt. it has to be you, Dot! Frank would say "go get the Doctor" or "hi Doctor Dot" and so it stuck. But my primary function as a keyboard player was that I have a feel, especially for the old RnB stuff that Frank loves so much. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. It was the worst possible combination of events for him. Engineer Bob Stone House Mix Harry Andronis Lightning Designer and Director Mike Keeling Monitor Mix Marque Coy Synclavier 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? Basically what they're being asked to do is not to play chords, or harmony parts behind guitar solos. I don't even think about it. . 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. Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), one of the world's most gifted musicians, toured with 'his own band' 1 for the last time in 1988. Lyric mutations and such. Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. 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. 1988 European Tour (44) 1988 US tour (37) Halloween Run 1977 (6) Songs; Albums; Avg Setlist; Covers; With; Concert Map; Songs played by . I have a mobile truck that goes on the road with me. Affiliate programs and the only downside was, "What do you do next?" It was the first time, or the only tour that I did, where we carried a full horn section, with great players, as all the players always were, but it was also the first time that I was the primary keyboard player. And Frank would switch the Synclavier to whatever program it was, but I could play it from the silicon mallets. <br />
It wasn't like the 1977 band or '78 or '79 band or even the 1982 band. It's currently maintained by Oscar Bianco. 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. The new album, to be released June 18, will also include two extras. He asked how long we had played together and stuff like that. Sharleena 7. Who Needs the Peace Corps? Previously listed as 1988 02 12 Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), one of the world's most gifted musicians, toured with 'his own band' 1 for the last time in 1988. On a good night, the ideas I had for guitar solos came out. He could not stand being in the same room with us. 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? Then, at the end of the tour, this war broke out between the bass player and the drummer. I Aint Got No Heart 04. I used my own Cry Baby wah-wah and some Korg modification deviced which all fit in one Korg master module. I know that's what I said, tooMann did. The heart was a pedal board that had hundreds of little relays, quarter-inch jacks, and little circuit boards wrapped up in duct tape just piled in there, nothing labelled, nothing documented. . The Closer You Are always includes Johnny Darling at the end; The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley = Let's Make The Water Turn Black / Harry, You're A Beast / The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy; Packard Goose Medley = Packard Goose / Royal March from L'Histoire Du Soldat / Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3; Texas Motel Medley = Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood) / Lousiana Hooker With Herpes (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) / Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields Forever); The Torture Never Stops Medley = The Torture Never Stops / Theme from Bonanza / The Torture Never Stops pt. . Packard Goose Pt. DS: Right. 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. II / Lonesome Cowboy Burt (or Jim) / The Torture Never Stops pt. another bass player? He said, "That's not the answer. Theme From the Bartok Piano Concerto #3 18. We don't do that. parts of Lonesome Cowboy Nando, YCDTOSA6; incl. because I wanted to play like . Usually Frank liked it. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and We told Frank that we played 'T'Mershi Duween', which was not released at that time, just on bootleg, and then he got really interested and he just said they were going to play 'Big Swifty' where everything could happen, and that they were going to have some audience participation, and that he thought it was a good idea to send us up on stage during the jam. It was the band we The Untouchables), I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Ride Of The Valkyries, Purple Haze / Loops, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, You Are What You Is, Marqueson's Chicken, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy [solo on TBBYNHIYL], Inca Roads, Advance Romance (q: Tarantella Calabrese), Bobby Brown, Stairway To Heaven (q: Twilight Zone, Carmen), Bolero, Zoot Allures, Packard Goose Medley, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Crew Slut, The Black Page, Inca Roads, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, You Are What You Is, Marqueson's Chicken, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Cruising For Burgers, Bamboozled By Love, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Sharleena, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Any Kind Of Pain, Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Pick Me I'm Clean, Cosmik Debris, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel (q: Inca Roads, Big Swifty), What's New In Baltimore?, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Bamboozled By Love, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Whipping Post, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Zoot Allures, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Filthy Habits, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, You Are What You Is, Marqueson's Chicken, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven (q: Big Swifty), Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, What's New In Baltimore?, Who Needs The Peace Corps? And so I just spent the last six weeks of the tour trying to wend my way through this garbage that was going on onstage. I guess his strange humor sort of struck me because I was a strange kid. different day and Frank was in a different mood I'm sure that would Have a look which song was played how often in 1988! Alright I got one last [secret word] . When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, 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. 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. . (?). At first, I was enjoying playing the guitar again. FZ: Yeah. (referring to the absence of the rest of the Airplane band members). 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. Saying 'It was 'not sufficient that he hated him, he turned everyone else against him' (para). Pink Floyd Sets Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set. I thought for sure I was about to get my face ripped off and expelled from the Zappa sphere. 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). I was named after her and so most called me Dot. When the Lies So Big 11. with Scott Thunes why didn't Frank fire him and continue with SCENE: You haven't toured since 1984. setlist.fm Add Setlist. Also available as pro-shot video. "I got the call from the production manager, and I was gone," Dondorf recalls. After a huge, fast sigh of relief, I answered "I need another Diet Coke." West". I know the 'nephew' burps from 1981 quite well as I was there for the recording; what I heard on the CD are not his. While right in the middle of this song, you know, and I think that is inexcusable and so I stopped the show and told him to apologize, and "Don't ever do it again.". Dickies Such an Asshole 10. And those moments, if I wasn't able to get a hold of myself, I could get a little out of control (laughs). . It was the timing of the thing. Scott Thunes, interviewed by Thomas Wictor. . 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. 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? T'Mershi Duween, q: Sleep Dirt, Echidna's Arf ), Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Whipping Post** (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), I Am The Walrus (incl. Everything else I said jibed with what you said regarding Mann. Gorgo, TRF], Big Swifty* (incl. Cookie Notice After Dinner Smoker, TRF], Bolero, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Top of page | FZShows index | Zappateers catalogue index | Zappateers forum & tracker, FZShows was created in 1996 by Jon Naurin. Your data will be safe!Your e-mail address will not be published. 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'. Packard Goose Pt. In April came a double album of guitar solos in the manner of the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar series, simply called Guitar, and the first in a series of double . 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