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Frank Zappa 11/27/1971

SHOWID 140710

Set I

27-Nov 1971, The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
156 min, Aud, B-
Intro, Call Any Vegetable, Anyway The Wind Blows, Magdalena, Dog Breath, Sofa Suite, Pound For A Brown, Sleeping In A Jar, Wonderful Wino, Sharleena, Cruising For Burgers, Peaches En Regalia, Tears Began To Fall, Shove It Right In, Billy The Mountain (incl The Tibetan Memory Trick), 200 Motels Finale, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Who Are The Brain Police?

Set II

 

Set III

 

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Collectors With This Show

User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
wes meyette (5/0) / View  
CJ (5/4.7) FLAC / 2 View  
Rick Martin (5/5) Flac / 1 B+ View   "Live in Amsterdam"
Notes: "Live in Amsterdam"
Xavier Birtwich (5/0) FLAC / 2 B View   AUD / 136 min / Frank ZAPPA MASTER FOLDER/ outlook account one drive
Jack Warner (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   MAT>?>C>FLAC,MAT>?>C>FLAC,MAT>?>LP>FLAC
Jordan Jacobs (5/3) Flac / 0 View   AUD
Notes: CDR>EAC (all tracks 100%)>WAV>FLAC Frontend 8> FLAC
Rich Pucci (5/4.7) CDR Audio / 3 View  
Steve K (4/5) FLAC / 1 B+ View   Aud
Notes: 39:24
Bohac (4/0) / 0 B- View  
Notes: Not the best of recordings, and not a whole lot of guitar action either
Joey Bohlmann (4/5) CDR / 2 View  
Ingo Benzler (4/0) CDR / 1 View   Vinyl Boot
Dignesheino (4/0) / 0 View  
TTDaddy (3/5) FLAC / 2 View   AUD
Notes: Complete show from three sources - converts to 3 audio discs (TRT 2:44:32) This is a monster show that got somehow overlooked, probably because of the low sound quality rating in FZShows. This is one of my favorite Zappa shows, so I decided to investigate a little bit about it and it turns out that we have not one, but three sources of it. The most commonly circulating one was first seeded by Kristoftof in April 2007, digitalized from Hoosac92's tapes. It is the most complete source, but also the one with the lowest quality, really boomy: parts are listenable, but others are overblown. In January 2012, Doctorzap seeded a second source from Robsam's tapes, which misses the first three songs, but, in spite of some hiss and waving between channels, has a better sound quality all around and also contains different tape flip spots, so everything that is lost on source #1 is preserved here. Famously, a 40 minute segment of this concert was pressed in a lot of bootlegs over time: "In Europe", "Poot Face Boogie", "Live in Amsterdam 1971" (a mistitle) and "The Dream Machine". This is a third source, the better sounding of them all: very clear and upfront, a very high B+ that could be an A- if it wasn't for some distortion problems. Unfortunately, outside of those pressed bootlegs, this source doesn't seem to have ever surfaced anywhere in any tape collection. The first bootlegs of this recording were pressed very early, in late 1971/early 1972, so it's possible that the complete tape was never traded and is now lost or discarded: let's hope not! The better sounding of these bootlegs is the erroneously titled "Live in Amsterdam 1971". I decided to create a version of this marvelous concert combining the three sources in order to havee the longest and best sounding version possible of each track. There is now no material lost in the tape flips, except maybe a little bit of tuning up before the start of track #13. Note that the "Live in Amsterdam 1971" seed on the tracker comes from CDRs of Maclen's original transfer, but it's not the case for the material used here: Maclen himself kindly sent me his original files. The original vinyl, albeit very good sounding, was a bit unbalanced between the two channels, so I tried to do my best to correct that. For a show long like this doing subfolders would result in an incredibly big torrent, but unpatched versions of source #1 and #3 are already available on the tracker. Source #2 is, at the moment of this writing, only available as a shoebox seed, but I will seed a proper unpatched version on FZShows in a couple of days, for the purists. All sources have been checked and are running at the correct speed. This is the longest show of the tour and an amazing one, undoubtedly my favorite: it contains everything I love from this tour (except for a juicy "King Kong" but, goddamnit, it's already close to three hours long!). The setlist is fantastic and so are the performances: every band member gets a chance to shine. There are so many highlights that I'm tempted to just tell you to sit down and listen the show, but I'll try: a great performance of the "Divan" suite (with some variations in Dutch), a lively "String Quartet", fantastic vocal duties in "Shove it Right In", "Magdalena" and "Anyway the Wind Blows", an odd performance of the already weird "Zanti Serenade" and, above all, the solo section of "Billy The Mountain", in which even Dunbar gets to play a drum solo: FZ's soloing in that is very weird and unusual, it almost sounds like a prototype of his Winter 1978 "Yo Mama" solos. Other great FZ madness is included all around the show. And what a better choice for an encore than The Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"? "Who Are The Brain Police?" is no slouch either. This version was a bit of a bitch to edit (hours on "Billy the Mountain" correcting glitches and working on the patches, while hoping the program would not crash before I save), but I'm glad I did it: I'm blasting the results as I'm writing and I love it. I hope you will too. This is an amazing show. Enjoy!!! "Billy the Mountain" is very long, but unless I have to include "unpatched tracks" folders, personally, I prefer to keep this kind of pieces in only one file, so I decided against splitting it. If you only want to listen to the "Studebaker Hotch" section it starts at 23:18". Credits: Thanks to the unknown tapers! Thanks to Hoosac92 and Robsam for collecting the tapes! Thanks to Kristoftof and Doctorzap for transferring them! Thanks to Maclen for a good transfer of the "Live in Amsterdam" vinyl bootleg!
Uwe Z. (3/5) FLAC / 3 B View   Unknown audience recording > Hoosac92's (unknown generation, but very low) Maxell XLII 1997 tapes...
Ed Adams (3/5) CDR / 2 View  
King of the Gypsies (2/5) / View  
OBIE (2/5) FLAC / 2 View  
Dennis Blom (2/5) / 0 View  
Jojo Fischer (2/5) cdr / 1 B View   aud
Notes: "Poot face boogie"
Kaz (1/5) flac / View  
thegreatdivide6 (1/0) flac / 0 View   AUD recording B+ stereo (unknown generation)
Notes: audience
Curtis Ensler (1/0) CDR / 1 View  
LossLess Legs (1/0) CDR / 1 View   original vinyl (no noise reduction) > Audiocleanic > flac
Notes:
bearmelt (1/3.5) cdr / 1 B- View  
Notes: disc 2 only: Peaches En Regalia, Tears Began To Fall, Shove It Right In, Billy The Mountain (incl The Tibetan Memory Trick), 200 Motels Finale, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Who Are The Brain Police? Might be excerpts,including Sofa w/singing in Dutch
Dionietzschean (0/0) Shn / 2 View  
Notes: Located On Master DVD #179
Tony H (0/0) CD / 1 A B+ View  
Notes: "Poot Face Boogie" bootleg
calgaryzappatrader (0/0) cdr / 3 a a View  
ZP (0/0) FLAC / 2 B- View   AUD
Notes: Billy the Mountain is nearly one hour long tonight. Splendid.