The Yellow Shark

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The Yellow Shark
The Yellow Shark
Released November 1993
See also:
EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely)

Players

Tracks

  1. Intro (01:44)
  2. Dog Breath Variations (02:06)
  3. Uncle Meat (03:24)
  4. Outrage At Valdez (03:27)
  5. Times Beach II (07:31)
  6. III Revisited (01:45)
  7. The Girl In The Magnesium Dress (04:33)
  8. Be-Bop Tango (03:43)
  9. Ruth Is Sleeping (05:56)
  10. None Of The Above (02:17)
  11. Pentagon Afternoon (02:28)
  12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccioni (03:02)
  13. Times Beach III (04:26)
  14. Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America, 1992 (02:49)
  15. Welcome To The United States (06:41)
  16. Pound For A Brown (02:13)
  17. Exercise #4 (01:37)
  18. Get Whitey (07:01)
  19. G-Spot Tornado (05:17)

Release Notes

Produced by Frank Zappa
Spencer Chrislu: recording engineer & CD mixer
Harry Andronis: concert audio engineer
Dave Dondorf: stage monitor engineer, technical cooordination
Todd Yvega: Synclavier assistant

Front cover photo: Fritz Brinckmann, HERZ
Art direction & design: Brian Johnson & Jesse di Franco for Command A Studios, Inc.
Original yellow shark created by Mark Beam

Liner Notes

Background Information

Frank Zappa rehearsing with Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt, September 1992
Frank Zappa rehearsing with Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt, September 1992

The CD was recorded at following concerts in September, 1992:
17-19: 92/09/17-19 Frankfurt, Germany, Alte Oper, Alte Oper Frankfurt
22, 23: 92/09/22-23 Berlin, Germany, Philharmonie, Philharmonie Berlin
26, 27: 92/09/26-28 Wien, Austria, Konzerthaus, Wiener Konzerthaus

Sept. 17: Track 14
Sept. 19: Track 1 and 15

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD)
EAN.UCC-13
(barcode)
Artwork Comment
62 1
Original
Stereo
1 CD Barking Pumpkin/Rhino
R2 71600
1993-11-02 0081227160029   US edition, Digipak?
1 CD Zappa
CDZAP 57
1993 5016583605728   UK edition, Digipak?
1 CS Zappa
TZAPPA 57
 ? 5016583605742?   UK edition.
1 CD Music For Nations/Intercord
IRSCD 970.757
1993 5016583605728   German edition, Digipak
1 CD Music Scene Incorporated
MSI 80071
      Japanese edition, Digipak?
1 CD Atlantic/Rhino
AM-CY656
1994-03-25 4988029065643   Japanese edition, Digipak.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 40560
1995-05-30 0014431056024   US edition, Digipak. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD 40560 01
1 CS Rykodisc
RAC 40560
1995-05-30 0014431056048?   US edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5100
1995-07-26 4988112406940   Japanese edition, Digipak?
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5235
1996-05-30 4988112408357   Japanese edition, Digipak = Rykodisc RCD 40560 repackaged with an obi strip and extra liner notes in Japanese
Unknown 1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5918
2007-09-05  ?   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve, included in the Zappa Box (Later Works) set.

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