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dave kreider's Collection

Frank Zappa   05/12/1974

Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
Source master Capitol II C120 audience cassettes > Nakamichi BX-125 > Aardvark Q10 > 24bit wav > Soundforge > flac (sector align)
Media CDR/Flac   2 discs
Notes Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention
Athletic and Convocation Center, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN 1974-05-12
new transfer Jun 2005 from master cassettes

01 Frank says hello, tunes and intros band
02 Cosmic Debris
03 Pygmy Twylyte
04 The Idiot Bastard Son
05 Cheepnis
06 Penguin in Bondage
07 Inca Roads (cut at 9:28 )
08 Montana
09 Dupree's Paradise, It Can't Happen Here
10 Hungry Freaks, Daddy
11 You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
12 How Could I Be Such a Fool
13 Ain't Got No Heart
14 I'm Not Satisfied
15 Wowie Zowie
16 Let's Make the Water Turn Black
17 Harry, You're a Beast (cut)
18 Oh No (in progress)
19 More Trouble Every Day
20 Louie Louie
21 Camarillo Brillo

The Mothers Of Invention:
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals
Jeff Simmons - guitar, vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock - tenor sax, vocals
George Duke - keyboards, vocals
Don Preston - keyboards
Bruce Fowler - trombone
Walt Fowler - trumpet
Tom Fowler - bass
Ralph Humphrey - drums
Chester Thompson - drums

master Capitol II C120 audience cassettes > Nakamichi BX-125 > Aardvark Q10 > 24bit wav > Soundforge > flac (sector align)
from the taper:

I taped this show on a Craig mono cassette recorder with a Kent external microphone. Shortly after the concert, I traded the tape around, and later it wound up on a bootleg LP entitled "Unmitigated Audacity" in very degraded form - it runs too slow and is muffled-sounding. I had nothing to do with this boot. Unmitigated Audacity, in unaltered form, was later included as part of the first Beat the Boots series, which is now long out of print.

The original tapes, while not recorded on the best equipment 1974 had to offer, sound very nice for the period and far better than the well-known bootleg. Note that I was recording on 120m cassettes, and the long medleys and my fascination with the show resulted in tape running out twice during the music: Inca Roads has music missing at 9:28. Also, the end of Harry You're a Beast and beginning of Oh No are lost due to late tape flips.

No EQ/compression has been used - what you hear is what is exactly what is on the original cassettes.
Tech Notes All
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A-
Reference / Generation 0006504655
Owned by dave kreider · Last Updated May 23, 2023