Making a programme about Frank Zappa is just like sending a child to a candy store. There is so much and you can select anything; you are almost flooded with sensations. Tonight’s programme is an ode to the man who would have become 75 this year. Completely in style it is an hour long Zappa pieces in collage: interviews, commentary, sound effects, a range of music styles and of course some audience participation time. Also in style: we have not selected the most obvious pieces and if we did, we replaced it with other versions and there is not even a chronological order in the different bands and history. After all, everything in Zappa’s world is one big composition: The Big Note.
01. ‘intro’
02. ‘T’Mershi Duween
03. ‘Hungry Freaks Daddy (live)’
04. ‘Venusian Time Bandits
05. ‘Rykoniki
06. ‘Necessity’
07. ‘Stuff Up the Cracks- alternate mix
08. ‘Serious Fan Mail-excerpt-excerpt
09. ‘Audience Participation
10. ‘The Black Page #2
11. ‘The World Will be a Far Happier Place’ (Eric Clapton)
12. ‘Lonely Little Girl – original composition take #24’
13. ‘The Dick Kunc Story’
14. ‘RDNZL’
15. ‘Cut #3 Coming Soon…’ *
16. ‘Penis Dimension’
17. ‘The Revenge of the Knick Knack People’
18. ‘Who Are the Brain Police’
19. ‘Leather Goods’
20. ‘A Typical Soundcheck’
21. ‘Muffin Man’
* this is a reference to 200 Motels-the Suites which just got released for the broadcast, but could not make the programme due to technical reasons.
Sources:
01. CD: Apocrypha – Great Dane Records GDR 9405/ABCD.
02. CD: Roxy the Movie – Zappa Records/UMG 5051300205027.
03. CD: The MoFo project/object – Zappa Records ZR-20004.
04. CD: Quaudiophiliac – Barking Pumpkin DTS1125.
05. CD: Dance Me This – Zappa Records ZR-20018.
06. CD: The MoFo project/object – Zappa Records ZR-20004.
07. CD: Greasy Love Songs – Zappa Records ZR-20010.
08. CD: Greasy Love Songs – Zappa Records ZR-20010.
09. CD: Hammersmith Odeon – Vaultnerative Records VR-20101.
10. CD: Hammersmith Odeon – Vaulternative Records VR-20101.
11. CD: Lumpy Money – Zappa Records ZR-20008.
12. CD: Lumpy Money – Zappa Records ZR-20008.
13. CD: The Lost Episodes – Zappa Records 0238892.
14. CD: The Lost Episodes – Zappa Records 0238892.
15. CD: 200 Motels – Rykodisc RCD 10513/14.
16. CD: Zappa/Wazoo – Vaulternative Records VR-20072.
17. CD: Läther – Rykodisc RCD 10574/76.
18. CD: Carnegie Hall – Vaulternative Records VR-20111.
19. CD: Läther – Rykodisc RCD 10574/76.
20. CD: Playground Psychotics – Zappa Records 0238862.
21. CD: Philly ‘76 – Vaulternative Records VR-20091.
