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===The Rainbow Theatre Incident===
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From [[Frank Zappa - A Visual Documentary]] by [[Barry Miles]], recalling the last show (December 10th):
 
  
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[[The Rainbow Theatre]], London. The band played the first show, and returned to play an encore. Since they were in England, Frank chose to play The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand". A member of the audience ran up the side steps of the stage and pushed Zappa off the stage, ten feet into the orchestra pit, knocking him unconscious and breaking his leg. Members of the audience immediately seized the man, [[Trevor Charles Howell]], as he tried to get away. Zappa's roadies then taught him a few manners.
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==Players==
  
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Chaotic scenes ensued outside the Rainbow where the audience for the second concert were joined on the street by the audience from the first. Wild rumours that Frank had been killed flashed through the massive crowd, and for upwards of an hour no-one knew what was happening. Eventually the crowd dispersed, most of them none the wiser about the evening's dramatic events.
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* [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] - guitar, vocal
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* [[Flo & Eddie|Mark Volman]] - vocal
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* [[Flo & Eddie|Howard Kaylan]] - vocal
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* [[Jim Pons]] - bass, vocal
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* [[Don Preston]] - keyboards, electronics
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* [[Ian Underwood]] - keyboards, alto sax
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* [[Aynsley Dunbar]] - drums
  
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Police arrested Howell, a 24-year-old manual worker, and charged him with assault with malicious intent to commit bodily harm. Bail was set at £100. According to a member of the audience, Howell kept mumbling something about his woman being in love with Zappa.
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==Set List==
  
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(On December 20th) Trevor Howell appeared in court charged with "maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm" on Frank Zappa. Howell pleaded guilty and said "I did it because my girl friend said she loved Frank." He was sentenced to a year in jail.
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''This set list is sourced from an audience recording that was made that night. FZ also used parts of this show across three albums which are noted in brackets.''
  
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[[Category:On The Road]] [[Category:Tours]]
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* [[Zanti Serenade]] (edited version on Playground Psychotics)
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* [[Peaches En Regalia]]
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* [[Tears Began To Fall]]
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* [[Shove It Right In]]
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* Tuning Problems
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* [[Sofa]] (You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol.1)
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* [[A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)]]
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* [[Sleeping In A Jar]] (three short sections were used on Playground Psychotics)
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* [[Wino Man - With Dr. John Routine]] (Playground Psychotics)
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* [[Sharleena]] (Playground Psychotics)
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* [[Cruising For Burgers]] (Playground Psychotics)
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*[[King Kong]] (two sections used on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol.3)
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* ENCORE
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* [[I Want To Hold Your Hand]]
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FZ had the show recorded on an 8 track machine. The plan was to record all 4 shows at the Rainbow and other dates on the UK tour. According to FZ's notes on YCDTOSA Vol 3, the tape ran out before the [[Trevor Charles Howell]] incident. One member of the audience made a mono cassette recording of the show which though imperfect is very revealing. It reveals that the first half of the show was plagued with feedback and technical problems which noticeably improve after "Sofa." However, the person who made the cassette seemed to be conserving tape so there are seemingly random cuts throughout, but it is possible to patch together a near complete version of the show using that tape and all the sections FZ released. The audience tape also reveals what sections FZ chose to use. "[[Sleeping In A Jar]]" was heavily edited on "[[Playground Psychotics]]." He used the main theme first of all which actually occurs right near the end of the piece. He then jumps back to the beginning of the sequence for "Don't Eat There" which crossfades into a dialog tape. Then it cuts to "Brixton Still Life" which is FZ's solo from the same piece.
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"[[King Kong]]" opens with Kaylan or Volman saying "Remember what happened last time we played this?" followed by FZ muttering "I know"... a direct reference to the Montreux Casino disaster the week before (which FZ talks about to the audience earlier in the show.) Then follows a standard 1971 performance of the piece. FZ however chose to use two sections from this... a clever edit from a 1982 version into [[Ian Underwood]]s' sax solo. That goes straight into a solo by [[Aynsley Dunbar]] which FZ chopped out completely instead jumping to the very end of Dunbar's solo for the start of FZ's own solo... the last solo he was to play in 1971. 5 minutes into that solo, FZ then whacks it back to 1982. The audience tape unfortunately runs out just two bars after FZ's edit, so we are missing the conclusion of "King Kong" in any form. Presumably the ZFT vault has the complete piece but it seems the tape was not rolling to capture that all important encore. The band had been playing [[The Beatles]] "[[I Want To Hold Your Hand]]" on this tour and FZ recalls this was the encore in this show. Unfortunately, at some point, Trevor Charles Howell managed to get onto the stage, and pushed FZ off into the orchestra pit some 10 to 15 feet below, bringing the gig to a sudden dramatic end. That was the end of the 1971 European Tour as well as the Flo and Eddie era of The Mothers Of Invention.
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==See Also==
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===Articles and Interviews===
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*[[The Rainbow Theatre Incident]]
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*[[Fearless Frank tells what he'll lay on you at the Oval concert]]
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*[[Dialogue: Frank Zappa]]
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*[[Frank Zappa: a Mother Only a Face Could Love]]
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*[[Let's Talk Clothes]]
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*[[Zapparap: For Real!]]
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*[[The Perspective of Frank Zappa]]
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===Songs===
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*[[Dancin' Fool]]
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*[[Zomby Woof]]
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===Books===
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*[[Frank Zappa - A Visual Documentary]]<br>
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* ...
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[[Category:Biographical Trivia]]
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[[Category:Concerts]]
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[[Category:1971]]

Latest revision as of 10:50, 30 December 2021


Players

Set List

This set list is sourced from an audience recording that was made that night. FZ also used parts of this show across three albums which are noted in brackets.


FZ had the show recorded on an 8 track machine. The plan was to record all 4 shows at the Rainbow and other dates on the UK tour. According to FZ's notes on YCDTOSA Vol 3, the tape ran out before the Trevor Charles Howell incident. One member of the audience made a mono cassette recording of the show which though imperfect is very revealing. It reveals that the first half of the show was plagued with feedback and technical problems which noticeably improve after "Sofa." However, the person who made the cassette seemed to be conserving tape so there are seemingly random cuts throughout, but it is possible to patch together a near complete version of the show using that tape and all the sections FZ released. The audience tape also reveals what sections FZ chose to use. "Sleeping In A Jar" was heavily edited on "Playground Psychotics." He used the main theme first of all which actually occurs right near the end of the piece. He then jumps back to the beginning of the sequence for "Don't Eat There" which crossfades into a dialog tape. Then it cuts to "Brixton Still Life" which is FZ's solo from the same piece.

"King Kong" opens with Kaylan or Volman saying "Remember what happened last time we played this?" followed by FZ muttering "I know"... a direct reference to the Montreux Casino disaster the week before (which FZ talks about to the audience earlier in the show.) Then follows a standard 1971 performance of the piece. FZ however chose to use two sections from this... a clever edit from a 1982 version into Ian Underwoods' sax solo. That goes straight into a solo by Aynsley Dunbar which FZ chopped out completely instead jumping to the very end of Dunbar's solo for the start of FZ's own solo... the last solo he was to play in 1971. 5 minutes into that solo, FZ then whacks it back to 1982. The audience tape unfortunately runs out just two bars after FZ's edit, so we are missing the conclusion of "King Kong" in any form. Presumably the ZFT vault has the complete piece but it seems the tape was not rolling to capture that all important encore. The band had been playing The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on this tour and FZ recalls this was the encore in this show. Unfortunately, at some point, Trevor Charles Howell managed to get onto the stage, and pushed FZ off into the orchestra pit some 10 to 15 feet below, bringing the gig to a sudden dramatic end. That was the end of the 1971 European Tour as well as the Flo and Eddie era of The Mothers Of Invention.

See Also

Articles and Interviews

Songs

Books

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