FZ & The Mothers Of Invention (The Bootleg)

2 CD bootleg set.

Release Info

(P) 1993 Nota Blu, Made in Italy by OPTI.ME.S.

Recorded material overlaps with Swiss Cheese/Fire! and The Ark.

Tracks

CD 1

1. Intro (09:02)
2. Peaches En Regalia (03:28)
3. Tears Began To Fall (02:38)
4. She Painted Up Her Face (03:20)
5. Valarie (03:02)
6. Sharleena (12:28), also including Wonderful Wino and Cruising For Burgers
7. Anyway The Wind Blows (03:42)
8. My Guitar (08:55)

"Recorded live in Montreux, Switzerland, 4.12.1971 except 5 and 8 (Boston, 18.7.1968)."

CD 2

1. Call Any Vegetable (07:42)
2. Big Leg Emma (02:16)
3. Some Ballet Music (05:45)
4. Status Back Baby (02:43)
5. Magdalena · Dog Breath (08:30]]
6. Uncle Meat · King Kong (23:30)

"Recorded live in Boston, 18.7.1968 except 1 and 5 (Montreux, 4.12.1971)."

Actually, the Boston concert was on 8 July 1969!

Players

Montreux concert:
Frank Zappa: guitar, vocals
Don Preston: keyboards
Ian Underwood: keyboards, winds
Jim Pons: bass, vocals
Ansley Dunbar: drums
Mark Volman: vocals
Howard Kaylan: vocals

Boston concert:
Frank Zappa: guitar, vocals
Don Preston: keyboards
Roy Estrada: bass
Jim Sherwood: sax, flute, clarinet
Ian Underwood: keyboards, guitar
Bunk Gardner: sax
Jimmy Carl Black: drums
Arthur Dyer Tripp: drums