LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 6CD box set with 24 page full colour booklet
• The entire original KSAN, CKGM, WLIR, CBC FM and King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Broadcasts
• Incredible performances from San Francisco, Montreal, New York and Vancouver
• Over 60 tracks, professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos.

Showcasing the iconoclastic rock star’s provocative comedy routines alongside typically complex music, these historical performances, broadcast on US radio, feature material from 200 Motels, older songs, jazz fusion, touches of Zappa’s beloved doo-wop and much more, with plenty of ingenious musical flourishes and rabble-rousing audience interactions. Joined by notable figures in Aynsley Dunbar, Terry Bozzio, Adrian Belew, Howard Kaylan and many others, this is a must for all Zappa fans.

Track Listing:

DISC ONE

FILLMORE WEST, SAN FRANCISCO, 6TH NOVEMBER 1970, KSAN-FM

• Intro And Chat > Improvisation
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Call Any Vegetable
• The Sanzini Brothers
• The Penis Dimension
• The Sanzini Brothers (reprise) > Chat And Tuning
• Jam
• The Penis Dimension (reprise)
• Mudshark (with Dr. John Parody)
• Holiday In Berlin
• Cruising For Burgers
• Easy Meat
• San Francisco Bullshit
• Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
• Do You Like My New Car?
• Happy Together
• Who Are The Brain Police?

DISC TWO

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, 5TH JULY 1971, CKGM-FM

• Daddy’s Home
• The Polka / Drum Solo
• Mudshark
• Magdalena
• Station ID By Frank
• Jam (Including Pirate Jenny / Nikki Hoi)
• Daddy Daddy Daddy
• She Painted Up Her Face
• Band Intro By Mark Volman
• Oh Baby Don’t Drop It
• Happy Together > Penis Dimension
• Outro By Frank > Polka reprise
• CHOM

DISC THREE

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 31ST DECEMBER, 1973, WLIR-FM

Zappa’s personally prepared mixed reel of live performances

• Announcer’s Introduction
• Zappa’s Introduction – aka Tango Chat (Wayne, NJ 11th November ’73)
• Pygmy Twylyte > Dummy Up (w/ Coffee) (NYC ‘73)
• Be-Bop Tango Excerpt (NYC ‘73)
• The Story Of Dupree’s Paradise (NYC 22nd November ’73)
• Yellow Snow Suite (Sydney, Australia 24th June ’73)
• Guitar Event (Lowell, MA 30th November ’73)
• Bebop Tango Contest (Waterloo, Canada 18th November ’73)
• Announcer’s Closing Remarks

DISC FOUR

WAR MEMORIAL GYM, VANCOUVER, 1ST OCTOBER 1975, CBC-FM

• Blues Improvisation
• Apostrophe
• Duke Of Prunes
• Honey Don’t You Want A Man Like Me
• The Illinois Enema Bandit
• Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
• Lonely Little Girl
• Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
• What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body
• Chunga’s Revenge (Part One)

DISC FIVE

WAR MEMORIAL GYM, VANCOUVER, 1ST OCTOBER 1975, CBC-CM

• Chunga’s Revenge (Part Two)
• Talk
• Swallow My Pride
• Any Downers (Including Canadian Customs Rap)
• T’mershi Duween
• Zoot Allures

DISC SIX

PALLADIUM, NEW YORK, 31ST OCTOBER 1977, KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR

• Introduction
• San Berdino
• Tryin’ To Grow A Chin
• City Of Tiny Lights
• Big Leg Emma
• Audience Participation Time
• Black Page #2
• Jones Crusher
• Camarillo Brillo
• Black Napkins