Privacy Policy. M: Well, we talked for a long time actually. because I wanted to play like . . Since that band was so great, but the problems were only [parts on BTHW], The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Any Kind Of Pain, Why Don't You Like Me? 1988 European Tour (44) 1988 US tour (37) Halloween Run 1977 (6) Songs; Albums; Avg Setlist; Covers; With; Concert Map; Songs played by . Entdecke Musik Express Sounds Nr. Love it or hate it, though, youll have to agree that theres never been anyone quite like Frank Zappa. He laughed and I got the job because he found someone who related to his music the way he did.". Could you tell us from your point of view something about the disaster . FZShows: 1988 - The last tour 1988 Frank Zappa's Band, February - June 1988 FZ, Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick. [parts on TBBYNHIYL, incl. I guess his strange humor sort of struck me because I was a strange kid. I haven't touched the guitar since we came off the road. On a bad night, it was me versus the band. However, it was not to be. Frank would say "go get the Doctor" or "hi Doctor Dot" and so it stuck. . Search Clear search text. Theme From Bonanza, 01. Those samples kind of became the signature sounds of that tour. In 1988, I went on Zappa's "Broadway the Hardway" tour and never asked for a penny for massaging Frank and the rest of his giant band. If I'm sitting around the house, I don't play it. Whipping Post, often used as the encore for shows on tours from 1981 through 1984, comes from Providence Civic Center on March 16, and Stairway to Heaven comes from the March 23 show at Towson Center in Towson MD. The real buzz, however, was about the five-man horn section, making this the largest band in Zappa history (excepting the brief Wazoo orchestra in 1972). So it doesn't sound like Zappa had a problem with him. We gave him a cassette but he didn't listen to it. (q: Mexican Hat Dance), Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Outside Now, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, Packard Goose Medley, Inca Roads, Sharleena, Bolero, Bamboozled By Love, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Sofa (q: Tarantella Calabrese), The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Any Kind Of Pain, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown*, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Inca Roads, Advance Romance, Bobby Brown, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Bolero, Whipping Post, The Black Page, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice [parts on MAJNH], Cosmik Debris, Stolen Moments, Outside Now, Cruising For Burgers, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Eat That Question, Black Napkins, Bamboozled By Love, Sharleena, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Loops, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Crew Slut, The Black Page [parts on MAJNH], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Let's Move To Cleveland [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Find Her Finer, Marqueson's Chicken, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Dupree's Paradise [parts on MAJNH], City Of Tiny Lights [MAJNH], You Are What You Is, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Sofa, Sharleena, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, Bolero, Crew Slut, The Black Page, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen [solo on TBBYNHIYL], Andy, Inca Roads, Advance Romance [solo on MAJNH], Bobby Brown, What's New In Baltimore?, Easy Meat, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Sharleena, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], You Are What You Is, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, FZ guitar check (including Zoot Allures, Arrivederci Roma, Filthy Habits), FZ tries out tonight's loops, Sofa, Dupree's Paradise, Purple Haze, You Are What You Is, Don't Touch My Hair, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, Chana In De Bushwop, Arrivederci Roma, Royal March from Aida / Arrivederci Roma, Bolero, Sinister Footwear, The Black Page (q: Arrivederci Roma), Packard Goose Medley, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage (q: Arrivederci Roma), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Zoot Allures, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown (q: Arrivederci Roma), Bamboozled By Love, Stairway To Heaven, Eat That Question [MAJNH], Black Napkins, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, Bolero, Royal March from Aida, Arrivederci Roma, Crew Slut (q: Arrivederci Roma). But he just got spoiled rotten and nobody At first, I was enjoying playing the guitar again. I didn't exactly know how to play everything he'd done, but I'd heard it all so much that I could pretty much fake my way through it. It wasn't the band it was Scott Thunes. I've listened to his work ever since, over and over and over. So anyway, I don't know . The Black Page (New Age Version) 03. So Bobby just said (impersonating Robert Martin) 'There is French horn on the DX5 and there is an acoustic piano sound on the Roland digital piano, and good luck'. After 88, I felt that we knew each other and the truth beneath all of the difficulty, and so I let it go at thatand to fate regarding circumstance that may bring us together again. But when the concert started, I felt this was cool and it was gonna go well. Let's just say I'm a booster for democracy.". That was the last time I worked for Frank. Stinkfoot, Dickie's Such An Asshole, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Mr Green Genes [TBBYNHIYL], Florentine Pogen [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Andy, Inca Roads, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, T'Mershi Duween, Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits, You Are What You Is, Marqueson's Chicken (with Twenty-One vamp), Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, Watermelon In Easter Hay, Whipping Post, Loops, Stinkfoot, What's New In Baltimore?, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, I Ain't Got No Heart, I Ain't Got No Heart, Let's Move To Cleveland, Find Her Finer, Filthy Habits, Cosmik Debris, T'Mershi Duween [MAJNH], Dupree's Paradise [parts on MAJNH], Marqueson's Chicken [incl. &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br />
. Finding Higgs' Boson, TRF], Peaches En Regalia [TFZAMBB], Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Sharleena, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, Whipping Post, Stinkfoot, What's New In Baltimore?, Heavy Duty Judy, Find Her Finer [TBBYNHIYL], Big Swifty (incl. Later he sent us into the soundcheck and said 'just sit and wait and I'll come back later and tell you what's going to happen'. so I'm always up for reading more about FZlooks like I should check that one out, thanks! Sheik Yerbouti Tango riff; q: Girl From Ipanema), The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, What's New In Baltimore?, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Inca Roads, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Happy Birthday To You, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, King Kong (q: I Love Lucy, Yankee Doodie, Entry Of The Gladiators, Girl From Ipanema), Stairway To Heaven (q: Yankee Doodle Boy), I Am The Walrus, Sofa, Cruising For Burgers, Crew Slut (q: T'Mershi Duween), Strictly Genteel (q: Batman), Stinkfoot, We're Turning Again, Alien Orifice, Why Don't You Like Me? 3 Any Kind of Pain Dupree's Paradise Inca Roads Advance Romance And during the encore when the guards were lined up in front of the stage facing the audience, he sneaked down behind the barricade and jammed this nozzle up her ass. Frank would change some lyrics around and we would follow. Pink Floyd Sets Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set. We should increase registration by as much as 250,000 to 300,000 voters. A 5 min FM fragment has the Daniel Schorr performance. City of Tiny Lites 04. In the band for the first (and last) time was Mike Keneally, stunt guitar, keyboards, vocals. Another aspect of that tour was Ike and I would always be trying to guess where Frank was going to go with the lyrics tonight and a lot of times, we all hit it together and guessed the same thing at the same time. I just came up with the perfect title for this tour. All the equipment was borrowed from Frank. We played the US and Europe and then it was over. It was the worst possible combination of events for him. The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Why Don't You Like Me?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, presidential popularity poll, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, King Kong (incl. The heart was a pedal board that had hundreds of little relays, quarter-inch jacks, and little circuit boards wrapped up in duct tape just piled in there, nothing labelled, nothing documented. When I asked him about this, he told me that the first stroke on the bass drum pedal was considerably louder than the volume Chad had been using. It was ridiculous with just one or two in the brass section. He took it very seriously and he was very 'pfff' (he imitates the noise of a whip) and anybody else didn't want to hear it so simple. follow. All I said was that Zappa got fed up with the whole inter-band fighting by the end and called the vote. of people. Somewhere in the East Coast there was a band meeting where everyone told Frank of the problems they were having with Scott. I got to the audition and Frank told me to play, "Cheapness." Stairway to Heaven 08. A Cold Dark Matter, TRF], Stairway To Heaven, Texas Motel Medley, The Untouchables [parts on BTHW], Strictly Genteel, FZ guitar workout (incl. .' He said, "That's not the answer. [] The burps came from Frank's Synclavier, which was only used sporadically (rarely)[some of] those samples were done by Eric Bogosian and Frank's nephew [Jade Teta] from North Carolina who could mega-burp in a controlled way on command. MG: (jokingly) What happened then? I told Frank and co. that I would massage them for free and my payment would be the honor to see every sound check and show for free. Frank Zappa 's final U.S. concert a March 25th, 1988 gig at New York's Nassau Coliseum is the next archival release from the Zappa Trust and UMe . For fans, of course, there is also an additional emotional dimension to the tour. And the show began with us playing the vamp from "It Ain't Necessarily So", which was in G minor and went "Dunnn, duh-dun Dunt Dunnn, Dunnn duh-dun Dunt Dunnn". I Left My Heart In San Francisco], What's New In Baltimore?, Inca Roads [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Advance Romance, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Torture Never Stops Medley [parts on TBBYNHIYL], I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Stairway To Heaven, Ring Of Fire, Bolero, Bobby Brown, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Ring Of Fire, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Black Page, Advance Romance, Any Kind Of Pain, Find Her Finer, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Cosmik Debris, Cruising For Burgers, Keep It Greasey, Sofa, Bolero, Crew Slut, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Heavy Duty Judy, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Texas Motel Medley, Sofa, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty (q: My Sharona, The Radio Is Broken), Bamboozled By Love (q: When Yuppies Go To Hell), Bolero, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, The Black Page (q: Handsome Cabin Boy), Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], Stick Together, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Willie The Pimp, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights (q: Did You Ever See A Dream Walkin'? They hated each other's guts. Did you start shaking? M: (laughter) Ja, of course. The Closer You Are always includes Johnny Darling at the end; The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley = Let's Make The Water Turn Black / Harry, You're A Beast / The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy; Packard Goose Medley = Packard Goose / Royal March from L'Histoire Du Soldat / Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3; Texas Motel Medley = Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood) / Lousiana Hooker With Herpes (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) / Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields Forever); The Torture Never Stops Medley = The Torture Never Stops / Theme from Bonanza / The Torture Never Stops pt. in the back seat. We also ended up not doing any more three-hour soundchecks. Before I joined Frank I was really more of a keyboard player, but I decided to work on my guitar playing, especially on his techniques and timings. the only downside was, "What do you do next?" We Are Doing Voter Registration Here 02. 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It seemed like the right thing to do, and I did want to get involved in the voter registration. The seeds of dissolution were sown during pre-tour rehearsals in L.A. But once I was thrust into that position and there was so much work that had to be done, that had to take precedence. . But my reading is so slow that it always proved more efficient to learn things by ear Scott (Thunes, bassplayer and as "Clonemeister" in charge of teaching and rehearsing the band in '88 -aa) wrote me a chart for the piano accompaniment in the Bartok piecea fairly simple part but it took me hours to learn it. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and I've only ever read the Real Frank Zappa Book (which is a ****in' riot!) According to The Crux of the Biscuit: By the 88 tour, Zappa would appoint band members to act as a rehearsal leader or Klonemeister to rehearse the rest of the band in his absence. . With Frank spinning many plates including his home video business and his dabbling in foreign trade the job fell on bassist Scott Thunes. And I did not expect a response, as it was not necessary. This tour is one of the most memorable, musically and otherwise. "Ok, he said, get her a DIET Coke, and make it snappy". Make A Sex Noise), Stairway To Heaven (q: Hall Of The Mountain King), Bolero, Rhymin' Man (world premiere), Sofa, Andy, Inca Roads, Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, What's New In Baltimore?, Sinister Footwear, Packard Goose Medley, Big Swifty, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Find Her Finer, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads (q: Florentine Pogen), Sofa (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bolero, (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Stairway To Heaven (q: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), Partial audience video exists. Frank is so receptive to technical change, it's ridiculous. This video, while not authorized by the Zappa Family Trust is a cool document of the short-lived 1988 Zappa big band. G Spot Tornado, Strictly Genteel), Disco Boy, Teenage Wind,Truck Driver Divorce, Advance Romance (q: Never On Sunday), Guitar Loops (q: A Pound For A Brown, Truck Driver Divorce), You Are What You Is (q: Never On Sunday), Mudd Club (q: Never On Sunday, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing), I'm The Slime (q: Never On Sunday), Stinkfoot, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Outside Now, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Packard Goose Meedley [incl. so obnoxious that nobody wanted to be around him. in connection to these futile acts of vandalism.). in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! [Dave Dondorf] ended up with Frank Zappa by chance when a friend passed a rumor along that Frank needed a new technician for the '88 tour. I turned NEON RED and raised my hand sheepishly and said with a, squeaky, cracking voice "it was me". FZ solo incl. (That night on stage Frank referred to "Playground psychotics!" Frank said to a stage hand "get her a Coke!". I Left My Heart. Teenage Wind), Stairway To Heaven, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus (with improvisational coda), Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Packard Goose Medley, The Torture Never Stops, Why Don't You Like Me, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, Dancin' Fool, Whipping Post, I Am The Walrus (q: Echidna's Arf), Strictly Genteel, The Black Page, Chana In De Bushwop, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Catholic Girls, Crew Slut, Andy, Inca Roads, The Illinois Enema Bandit (q: Wooly Bully), Stinkfoot, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Bamboozled By Love, Peaches En Regalia, Heavy Duty Judy, We're Turning Again, Packard Goose Medley, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, The Torture Never Stops Medley, King Kong, Stairway To Heaven, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou, Whipping Post*, Watermelon In Easter Hay, The Black Page, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Sofa, City Of Tiny Lights, A A Pound For A Brown, Cosmik Debris, Who Needs The Peace Corps?, We're Turning Again, The Torture Never Stops Medley (q: T'Mershi Duween), King Kong (q: Bolero, The Dangerous Kitchen, Happy Birthday To You, Frere Jacques, Harbor Lights),, Stairway To Heaven, Packard Goose Medley, I Am The Walrus, Strictly Genteel, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Stinkfoot, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Dickie's Such An Asshole [parts on BTHW], When The Lie's So Big [parts on BTHW], Planet Of The Baritone Women [parts on BTHW], Any Kind Of Pain [parts on BTHW], Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Sofa, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Black Napkins, Montana, City Of Tiny Lights (q: Beer Barrel Polka), A Pound For A Brown (q: City Of Tiny Lights; incl. It didn't really collapse. FZ: Oh, did you ever see that Cheech and Chong movie where they play these two Arab brothers? In 1988, Scott Thunes put me on the guest list for every show, for every sound check and so during the [March 15, 1988] Portland Maine sound check, me and about 5 other special friends were in the front row (just like at every sound checkthe whole concert hall was empty, like it is at most sound checks). It includes latter-period compositions as well as very early ones like I Aint Got No Heart, which first appeared onFreak Out!, the artists 1966 debut LP. . Here's the interview I was thinking of -- w/ guitarist Mike Keneally. It was the timing of the thing. Before the show Morgan and I discussed what we would do and so we just decided to play the jam that they were doing, sneak into 'T'Mershi Duween' and then get off the stage. Daniel [Schorr] sat in with the band during the first part of the show. and I spent a few years trying to figure that out, until I finally realized that the only logical thing for me to do is to place the majority of my heart and my musical attentions to my own music. It's one of the things I've been interested in since the 27th Amendment passed in 1971. 1. I guzzled down the Diet Coke, band, Frank and front row of amused Special guest (one of which was my girlfriend Jenny Jupiter) watched on, kind of impatiently. Another 40 or so have followed posthumously and theres no end in sight. That's right! and our "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here" 2. [Marque] Coy and Andronis had worked together in the '70s for Chris De Burgh, a superstar in Europe (if barely an opening act in the U.S.). Scott was put in a difficult position because he was given the job of running the band; it's really difficult. And the guy who runs the band teaches the rehearsals and all that stuff, and if it's not the right energy, it doesn't come across, it doesn't work somehow . Simply put, if someone hadn't learned their part properly, Scott was a pain in the ass. When Frank was off in the early part of the day doing interviews or whatever, it would be [bassist Scott] Thunes' job to rehearse the band. And Frank would switch the Synclavier to whatever program it was, but I could play it from the silicon mallets. Frank affectionately crowned me "Dr. Just that, kind of like everybody was, it was kind of falling apart as far as personalities, I guess. [] That was one of the most wonderful things about that tour, that on any given night, whatever had happened that day on the news or the night before in the hotel or that day on the airplane could and probably would come out in the concert in some way. . Scratch & Sniff, TRF], A Pound For A Brown [parts on When Yuppies Go To Hell, MAJNH], Sharleena, Texas Motel Medley, Stairway To Heaven, Bolero, The Black Page, Packard Goose Medley, Mr Green Genes, Florentine Pogen, Andy, Inca Roads, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, City Of Tiny Lights, I Ain't Got No Heart, Let's Move To Cleveland, Bamboozled By Love, Big Swifty [parts on MAJNH], Who Needs The Peace Corps?, Peaches En Regalia, Stairway To Heaven [parts on TBBYNHIYL], Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Strictly Genteel, Stinkfoot, Dickie's Such An Asshole, When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk [parts on BTHW], Cruising For Burgers, Outside Now [parts on BTHW], The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley [incl. TIL that Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante went to audition for Frank Zappa's 1988 touring band but left the rehearsal room before actually playing, saying later that " I wanted to be a rock star, do drugs and get girls, and that I wouldn't be able to do that if I was in Zappa's band." r/todayilearned 22 days ago u/therefore4 That's what it was, that's right. Q: I mean in '88, the band collapsed in a way . MG: So it was like 'If you wanna do it, you can do it'? After several displays of a complete lack of maturity on the part of the accusing musicians (culminating in someone scraping Scotts name off of a cake that was presented to the band by a promoter in Germany), Frank asked the offending players if they couldnt try to get along until the end of the summer leg of the tour. 15. The latest entry is a two-CD set that preserves most of a March 25, 1988, gig from Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. And those moments, if I wasn't able to get a hold of myself, I could get a little out of control (laughs). DS: Right. (incl. This tour is one of the most memorable, musically and otherwise. They play a little eight-bar figure that makes the transition between the body of the song and the guitar solo, that's not all that's required of them. '(loud laughter). 01. . So that was a lot of fun for me and very challenging. It's just a different way of looking at things. When Yuppies Go To Hell [parts on MAJNH]), Packard Goose Medley, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, The Torture Never Stops Medley, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, Sofa, Bolero, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit, The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley, Stinkfoot, Packard Goose Medley, Alien Orifice, Disco Boy, Teenage Wind, Bamboozled By Love, The Orange County Lumber Truck, When Yuppies Go To Hell, I Am The Walrus, Zoot Allures [TBBYNHIYL], When The Lie's So Big, Planet Of The Baritone Women, Any Kind Of Pain, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, City Of Tiny Lights [incl. It was the greatest thing in the world. It was interesting because on the previous tours, being a multi-instrumentalist was really one of the reasons that Frank liked me in the band. with Scott Thunes why didn't Frank fire him and continue with [YCDTOSA6], Inca Roads, Stairway To Heaven, Texas Motel Medley, Bolero, The Illinois Enema Bandit. Q: I remember reading somewhere that your equipment on the 1988 tour was connected to the Synclavier. I get this call back from Frank himself who basically said, "I heard you know how to play everything I've ever done. By the '88 tour, Zappa would appoint band members to act as a rehearsal leader or "Klonemeister" to rehearse the rest of the band in his absence. 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