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Frank Zappa: Thing-Fish

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On December 21, 1984, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “Thing-Fish”,  triple album box set by Frank Zappa. It was recorded 1976, 1980 -1983,  and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – book, arrangements
  • Ike Willis— Thing-Fish
  • Terry Bozzio— Harry
  • Dale Bozzio— Rhonda
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock— The Evil Prince
  • Bob Harris — Harry-As-A-Boy
  • Johnny “Guitar” Watson— Brown Moses
  • Ray White, Owl Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon
  • Mark Pinske, Bob Stone – engineer
  • Mark Pinske – mixing
  • Ladi Von Jansky – cover photo

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Prologue
  2. The Mammy Nuns
  3. Harry & Rhonda
  4. Galoot Up-Date
  5. The ‘Torchum’ Never Stops
  6. That Evil Prince
  7. You Are What You Is
  8. Mudd Club
  9. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  10. Clowns on Velvet
  11. Harry-As-a-Boy
  12. He’s So Gay
  13. The Massive Improve’lence
  14. Artificial Rhonda
  15. The Crab-Grass Baby
  16. The White Boy Troubles
  17. No Not Now
  18. Briefcase Boogie
  19. Brown Moses
  20. Wistful Wit a Fist-Full
  21. Drop Dead
  22. Won Ton On

Frank Zappa: Meets The Mothers Of Invention

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On November 21, 1985, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention”, the 44th Frank Zappa album. It was recorded November 1981–September 1985, at “UMRK”, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, Synclavier
  • Johnny “Guitar” Watson – vocals, guitar
  • Ike Willis– vocals, guitar
  • Ray White– vocals, guitar
  • Bobby Martin – vocals, keyboards
  • Steve Vai– guitar
  • Tommy Mars – keyboards
  • Scott Thunes– bass
  • Chad Wackerman– drums
  • Ed Mann – percussion
  • Moon Zappa– vocals
  • Dweezil Zappa– vocals
  • John Danforth– voice excerpts
  • Ernest Hollings– voice excerpts
  • Paul S. Trible, Jr.– voice excerpts
  • Paula Hawkins– voice excerpts
  • James Exon– voice excerpts
  • Al Gore– voice excerpts
  • Tipper Gore– voice excerpts
  • Bob Stone – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. We’re Turning Again
  2. Alien Orifice
  3. Yo Cats – Frank Zappa, Tommy Mars
  4. What’s New in Baltimore?
  5. Little Beige Sambo
  6. Porn Wars
  7. Aerobics in Bondage

Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is

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On September 23, 1981, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “You Are  What You Is”, the thirty-fourth Frank Zappa album. It was recorded July – September 1980, at “UMRK” and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocal, guitar, arrangements
  • Steve Vai– guitars
  • Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
  • Ray White – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Ike Willis– vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Tommy Mars – vocals, keyboards
  • Craig “Twister” Stewart – harmonica
  • Arthur Barrow– bass guitar
  • David Logeman – drums
  • Ed Mann– percussion
  • Mark Pinske – vocals
  • Jimmy Carl Black– vocals
  • Motorhead Sherwood – vocals, tenor saxophone
  • Bob Harris – vocals, Boy Soprano, trumpet
  • David Ocker – bass clarinet, clarinet
  • Ahmet Zappa– vocals
  • Moon Unit Zappa– vocals
  • Mark Pinske – chief engineer
  • Allen Sides – engineer
  • Dennis Sager – digital engineer
  • George Douglas – engineer assistant
  • Bob Stone – remixing, digital remastering
  • Jo Hansch – mastering
  • Amy Bernstein – artwork
  • John Vince – artwork, design
  • John Livzey – photography
  • Thomas Nordegg – Franks personnel assistant
  • Santi Rubio – studio secretary

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Teen-Age Wind
  2. Harder Than Your Husband
  3. Doreen
  4. Goblin Girl
  5. Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear
  6. Society Pages
  7. I’m a Beautiful Guy
  8. Beauty Knows No Pain
  9. Charlie’s Enormous Mouth
  10. Any Downers?
  11. Conehead
  12. You Are What You Is
  13. Mudd Club
  14. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  15. Dumb All Over
  16. Heavenly Bank Account
  17. Suicide Chump
  18. Jumbo Go Away
  19. If Only She Woulda
  20. Drafted Again

Frank Zappa: Joe’s Garage

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On September 17, 1979, “Zappa Records” label released “Joe’s Garage”, 28th and 29th, Frank Zappa albums. The First Zappa’s rock opera was originally released as two separate studio albums, and in 1987, remastered and reissued as a triple album box set, “Joe’s Garage, Acts I, II & III”. It was recorded March — June 1979, at “Village Recorders B” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, lead guitar
  • Warren Cuccurullo – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
  • Ike Willis– lead vocals
  • Peter Wolf– keyboards
  • Tommy Mars– keyboards
  • Craig Steward – harmonica
  • Arthur Barrow– vocals, bass, guitar
  • Patrick O’Hearn– bass
  • Vinnie Colaiuta– drums, combustible vapors, optometric abandon
  • Ed Mann– vocals, percussion
  • Jeff Hollie – tenor sax
  • Marginal Chagrin (Earle Dumler) – baritone sax
  • Stumuk (Bill Nugent) – bass sax
  • Dale Bozzio– vocals
  • Al Malkin – vocals
  • Joe Chiccarelli – engineer, mixing, recording
  • Steve Nye– remix
  • Mick Glossop – remix
  • Stan Ricker – mastering
  • Jack Hunt – mastering
  • Thomas Nordegg – assistant
  • Tom Cummings – assistant
  • John Williams – artwork
  • Ferenc Dobronyi – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

Act I

  1. The Central Scrutinizer
  2. Joe’s Garage
  3. Catholic Girls
  4. Crew Slut
  5. Wet T-Shirt Nite
  6. Toad-O Line
  7. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
  8. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
  9. Scrutinizer Postlude

Act II

  1. A Token of My Extreme
  2. Stick It Out
  3. Sy Borg
  4. Dong Work for Yuda
  5. Keep it Greasy
  6. Outside Now

Act III

  1. He Used to Cut the Grass
  2. Packard Goose
  3. Watermelon in Easter Hay
  4. A Little Green Rosetta

Frank Zappa: The Man From Utopia

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On March 28, 1983, “Barking Pumpkin” label release “The Man from Utopia”, thirty-sixth Frank Zappa album. It was recorded October 1980 – October 1982, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, drum machine, ARP 2600
  • Steve Vai – acoustic amd electric guitar
  • Ray White – vocals, guitar
  • Roy Estrada– vocals
  • Bob Harris – boy soprano
  • Ike Willis – vocals
  • Bobby Martin – vocals, keyboards, saxophone
  • Tommy Mars – keyboards
  • Arthur Barrow– keyboards, bass, micro bass, rhythm guitar
  • Craig Twister Steward – harmonica
  • Dick Fegy – mandolin
  • Marty Krystall – saxophone
  • Scott Thunes– bass
  • Chad Wackerman– drums
  • Vinnie Colaiuta– drums
  • Ed Mann– percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. Cocaine Decisions
  2. The Dangerous Kitchen
  3. Tink Walks Amok
  4. The Radio is Broken
  5. Mōggio
  6. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou – Donald and Doris Woods,  Obie Jessie
  7. Stick Together
  8. SEX
  9. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats
  10. We Are Not Alone

 

Frank Zappa: Them Or Us

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On October 18, 1984, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “Them or Us”, the fortieth Frank Zappa album. It was recorded November 1981 – June 1984 (except “Planet Of My Dreams” and “Ya Hozna” recorded in 1974), and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – lead vocal, guitar, keyboards, arrangements
  • Johnny “Guitar” Watson– vocals, guitar
  • Ray White – vocals, guitar, choir, chorus, harmony and backing vocals
  • Steve Vai– guitar, soloist, fills
  • Dweezil Zappa– soloist, guitar
  • Tommy Mars – vocals, keyboards
  • Bob Harris – vocals, keyboards, harmony vocals
  • George Duke – vocals, keyboards, piano
  • Bobby Martin – vocals, keyboards, saxophone, falssetist, harmony vocals, harmonica
  • Brad Cole – piano
  • Patrick O’Hearn – wind, bass guitar
  • Arthur Barrow – bass guitar
  • Roy Estrada– vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, bass guitar
  • Scott Thunes– vocals, Minimoog, synthesizer, bass guitar
  • Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals
  • Ed Mann – percussion
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock– saxophone, vocals, harmony vocals
  • Moon Unit Zappa– vocals
  • Thana Harris – vocals
  • Ike Willis – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals

Track listing:

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. The Closer You Are
  2. In France
  3. Ya Hozna
  4. Sharleena
  5. Sinster Footwear II
  6. Truck Driver Divorce
  7. Stevie’s Spanking
  8. Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
  9. Marque-son’s Chicken
  10. Planet of My Dreams
  11. Be in My Video
  12. Them or Us
  13. Frogs With Dirty Little Lips – Frank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa
  14. Whipping Post – Gregg Alman