Which Zappa disc are you currently spinning?

[bootzilla]

Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra, “Trouble Coming Every Day 2020” free download here.

Song Title: Trouble Coming Every Day

Composer: Frank Zappa
Recording by The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra with special guests
Roger Steen, Prairie Prince and Sandro Oliva

Roger Steen - Vocals, lead guitar and harmonica
Prairie Prince - Drums
Sandro Oliva - Closing guitar solo
Jimmy Thomas - Rhythm Guitar
Rupert Kettle - Lap Steel
Kevin Crosby - Bass
Mark Watson - Spoken Intro

Produced and Engineered by Kevin Crosby

[senna1a]

Thanks for sharing @bootzilla

I will check it out.

[senna1a]

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[bootzilla]

One track from the forthcoming “Halloween 81” six-CD box set is streaming on Tidal.

(I was at the October 29th and November 1st shows. No luck trying to get tickets for Halloween night.)

[wijber]

Both the 1 and 6cd version already completely pops up in Qobuz, unfortunately all tracks still blocked…

in the meantime (…still current…)

[bootzilla]

[bootzilla]

Listening to my rip of CD4 from the 5CD box set. At 28.5 minutes, this version of “Black Napkins” from NYC’s Palladium on 12/29/1976 is longest of which I am aware.

[tmcqueen]

Music is the Best

[Elk]

One of the best and truest posts ever!

[bootzilla]

I saw the 1988 Zappa band four times: Three shows in early February at the Beacon Theatre in NYC, and once more in mid-March at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont. This is an excellent document of that tour, which got cut short due to internal band squabbles (hence the album title).

[tmcqueen]

I was going to see Zappa in Fayetteville, NC later that tour, the band never made it down there.

[bootzilla]

There are now two tracks on Qobuz from the forthcoming “Halloween 81” box set:

[bootzilla]

[bootzilla]

The new Halloween 81 sampler CD is streaming on Tidal and Qobuz. I just listened to “Montana” on both and the Qobuz stream destroyed the Tidal stream for sound quality!

[joma0711]

[bootzilla]

[wijber]

Halloween ‘81 6CD now streaming on Qobuz and it’s great!

[bootzilla]

Zappy Halloween, everyone!

“Black Napkins” is one of Frank’s “three signature guitar tunes” that, after his death, the Zappa Family Trust requested that no one else perform or record (the other two are “Zoot Allures” and “Watermelon in Easter Hay”). See Charles Ulrich, The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa at pp. 249, 705, 709 (2018).

Apparently, these guys did not get the ZFT memo. Still, it is pretty good.