Audience Participation
Several concerts of Zappa made use of audience participation, which he often included on his albums and in videos too.
Contents
Audience members invited on stage to perform with the band
- Make A Sex Noise
- 88/03/17 Binghamton (longer version)
- 88/03/23 Towson MD US Towson according to CD-booklet in YCDTOSA 6 (date is questionable since St. Patrick's Day is March 17, so part of that track must be from March 23.)
- Sex Noise Competition ~ 88/04/27 Oslo Norway Skedsmohallen
Audience members invited on stage to dance
- Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church) ~ Roxy & Elsewhere
- Audience Participation", The Black Page #2 & Dance Contest ~ Baby Snakes (The Film)
- Dinah-Moe Humm ~ Baby Snakes (The Film)
- Dance Contest ~ Tinseltown Rebellion
- ...
Audience members asked to vote which song to play next
Audience members coupled with "lonely" audience members
Other performances
- Don't Eat The Yellow Snow ~ YCDTOSA 1 version, "Recite-a-Poem"
- ...
Notable audience participators
- Angel
- Eric Buxton
- Louis Cuneo
- David Ditkowich (see Dave & Al)
- Donna U Wanna
- Janet The Planet
- Sal Lombardo
- Al Malkin
- Angus O'Reilly
Quotes
"Well, audience participation depends on two things, well, more than two. First of all, it depends on the audience. You got the wrong kind of audience, you'll never get 'em to participate. The next important thing is where you're performing. If you are in a theater, it's a little bit easier to do it if there's a stage apron out in front where you can accommodate people, because if you're just playing on one of those kind of built-up stages, like you do in a coliseum or something like that, there's not enough dancing area, or if people come up there, they're gonna trip over the wires on the stage, and you'll be out of business." - Frank Zappa, They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1, Den Simms, Eric Buxton, Rob Samler, Society Pages, April 1990.
