Frank Zappa - Best the boots I - 1991- Freaks & Motherf*#@%!
MP3 | 192 Kbp/s ! 40:6 Min | 55.1 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock | bootleg
Freaks & Motherfuckers (LP)
* Fillmore East OR West, 1970 (location & date fiercly debatable)
* Re-issued in a 222-copy editition (because it says so on the cover!) with a bonus poster of Zappa's head
* Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots set as Freaks & Mother*#@%!
Length: ~45 min
Label: The Swingin' Pig Records TSP 017
Sound quality: Bad
Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, George Duke and Ian Underwood
1. Happy Together [Bonner/Gordon] (01:25)
2. Wino Man - with Dr. John Routine (07:44) ["Wonderful Wino", Zappa/Simmons]
3. Concentration Moon (01:18)
4. Paladin Routine (01:14)
5. Call Any Vegetable (08:46)
6. Little House I Used to Live in [inclduding "Penis Dimension"]
7. Mudshark Variations
8. Holiday in Berlin [with lyrics!] [including "Would You Like a Snack?"]
9. Instrumental [including "Inca Roads" & "Easy Meat" themes]
10. Cruisin' for Burgers (02:51)
Total track time for tracks 6-9: 16:34.
Black & white cover: an ugly, sketchy drawing of Zappa holding a guitar. Small texts read things like "Like this one!". Track listings scribbled on the back. Sound characterized by myself as unlistenable. Made in Europe. The original came out in 1983. "Realised somewhere over the rainbow - all rights reserved".
This seems to be hodge-podged together from tapes of two shows that night (that goes also for the Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta boot). Probably tracks 4-5 are from the early show, and tracks 1-3 and 6-10 are from the late show.Track 9 contains 40 seconds of "Inca Roads" (a very early version, of course, with only the 16th-note theme) and 24 seconds of "Easy Meat". Side 2 is the same performance as side two of Hotel Dixie and tracks 11-14 of Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta, but here you can hear Zappa's introducing the suite and a "thank you" after "Cruisin' for Burgers", which are not included on Tengo.
The location and date of this show is up for grabs. Beat the Boots claims it as Fillmore East 11-May-1970, which is wrong; the Flo & Eddie band had not been formed then. According to fanzine T'Mershi Duween, the tape the boots are struck from is recorded at the Fillmore West and sometimes identified as 24-May-1970, sometimes as 6-Nov-1970. (As Mike Phillips points out, Zappa does talk about "the speech-impediment lounge at the Fillmore East" on Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta.) Some people identify them as 14-Dec-1970, but according to Miles' book A Visual Documentary, Zappa was in Europe in December 1970, which has given rise to the date 14-Nov-1970. The Hotel Dixie boot claims to be from that date, but is it the same recording? Pick your favourite.
From http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/bootlegs/concert_boots1967-1970.html#freaksandmotherfuckers