Frank Zappa - Beat the boots I - 1991- As An Am
MP3 | 320 Kbp/s | 43:38 Min | 99 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock | Bootleg
As an Am (LP)
* Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981
* Sporthalle, Cologne, 21-May-1982
Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots set.
Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: Discreep
Musicians:Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes and Chad Wackerman
1. That Makes Me Mad [interview]
2. Young & Monde [1982 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
3. Sharleena
4. Black Napkins
5. The Black Page #2
6. The Torture Never Stops
* Side 1 is live in Cologne 21-May-1982.
* Side 2 is live in New York 31-Oct-1981.
Track 1, "That Makes Me Mad", is an interview segment that goes like this:
ZAPPA: …You know it is not as a matter of fact the bootleg problem as it applies to the work that I do is very much out of control, and so the FBI is working on it for us. And we supply them with examples of all the various things that we've found that've been bootlegged. And they've been checkin' up on … tryin' to find out where the things are coming from. Because as far as my material goes it's a very big business.
INTERVIEWER: Really.
ZAPPA: I don't think that it's the work of just a couple of individual guys who went out and made a record for fun. It's some, one or two people who are releasing vast quantities of material. Last year twelve bootlegs, in the last year!
INTERVIEWER: Phew …
ZAPPA: And one of them has all the songs on the next album that's coming out in September, they've already got the stuff recorded live in concert before I can even release it on a record, and that makes me mad.
The cover is black & white, with Zappa's face pasted onto some sheet music. The vinyl boot was a 500-copy numbered edition with an 8-page booklet; the Beat the Boots version was made from copy #483. The title is a bit funny: the way most German speakers (in, say, Cologne) would prounounce it, it would sound exactly like most German speakers pronouncing the English "S&M".
From http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/bootlegs/concert_boots1981-1988.html#asanam