Where The Shark Bubbles Blow (Classic Broadcasts 68-75)
Limited edition 5cd/booklet clamshell box set. Sourced and mastered from the original broadcasts
Released: 2018
Disc One (76.48) Schaefer Music Festival, Wollman Ice Rink, Central Park, New York, 3rd August 1968 1.A Jazz Rock Improv, Heavily Influenced By Al Kooper (Bunk Gardner's flute) (4.25) 2.Help I'm A Rock > Transylvania Boogie (12.34) 3.Baby Love (0.56) 4.Big Leg Emma (3. 37) 5.Holiday In Berlin (Shortly) (10.13) 6.Trouble Every Day (11.35) 7.The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (17.18) Band: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underworld, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood. The Johnny Otis Show, KPPC-FM Pasadena, California, 2nd November 1970 8.Frankie & Shuggie In D (9.13) 9.Frank's Shoplifting Yarn>Leave Me Alone (6.55) Ray Agee vocals. Frank Zappa acoustic guitar. Shuggie Otis acoustic guitar.
Disc Two (58.23): Uddel, Netherlands VPRO-FM, 18th June 1970 1.Silence Fools (0.21) 2.VPRO Interview>Band Intro's>Tuning (5.38) 3.Wonderful Wino (4.52) 4.Concentration Moon (2.29) 5.Mom and Dad (3.12) 6.The Air (3.16) 7.Dog Breath (2.08) 8.Mother People (2.09) 9.You Didn't Try To Call Me (4.19) 10.Agon (0.37) 11.Call Any Vegetable (7.11) 12.King Kong Part One (4.30) 13.Igor s Boogie (1.08) 14.King Kong Part Two (7.47) Band: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Ainsley Dunbar, Ian Underwood, George Duke. 1974 Finnish T.V. Interview 15.Yes I'm Very Avant Garde Right Now (4.16) 16.Did They Play Anything? (3.38) 17.I Don't Know Whether They Understand It Better (0.50)
Disc Three (56.54): Rare Tape Library Broadcast (The Unconcert), Garden City, New York, WLIR-FM, 31st December 1974. Frank's own choices recorded at various locations during 1973. 1.WLIR Introduction (0.22) 2.Tango Chat (0.50) 3.Pygmy Twylyte >Dummy Up (7.24) 4.Be-Bop Tango Excerpt (2.22) 5.The Story Of Dupree's Paradise (7.50) 6.Yellow Snow Suite (14.43) 7.Guitar Event (5.55) 8.Be-Bop Tango Contest (13.05) Band: Frank Zappa, Bruce Fowler, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ralph Humphrey, Tom Fowler, Sal Marquez. Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, Acoustic KWST-FM Radio Broadcast 1975 9.Orange Claw Hammer (4.21)
Disc Four (64.10): UBC Gym, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1st October 1975 1.Jam (8.13) 2. Apostrophe', Band Introduction> (5.40) 3. Duke of Prunes (5.28) 4.Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? (4.24) 5.The Illinois Enema Bandit (8.11) 6.Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy (6.36) 7.Lonely Little Girl (2.55) 8.Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (2.13) 9.What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (1.03) 10.Chunga's Revenge (19.26) Band: Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozzio, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis.
Disc Five (58.20): UBC Gym, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1st October 1975 1.Swallow My Pride (4.37) 2.Any Downers? (12.12) 3.Canadian Customs Routine (6.20) 4.T'Mershi Duween (2.26) 5.Zoot Allures (7.17) 6.Sleep Dirt (7.29) 7.Black Napkins (9.01) 8.Advance Romance (3.04) 9.I'm The Slime (5.55) Band: Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozzio, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis.
Acoustic Guitar – Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-8, 1-9), Shuggie Otis (tracks: 1-8, 1-9)
Musician – Andre Lewis (tracks: 4-1 to 5-9), Art Tripp (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Aynsley Dunbar (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Bruce Fowler (3) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Bunk Gardner (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Captain Beefheart (tracks: 3-9), Don Preston (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Frank Zappa (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Frank Zappa (tracks: 3-1 to 3-9), Frank Zappa (tracks: 4-1 to 5-9), George Duke (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), George Duke (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Howard Kaylan (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Ian Underworld* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Ian Underwood (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Jean-Luc Ponty (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Jeff Simmons (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Jimmy Carl Black (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Mark Vulman* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Motorhead Sherwood (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Napoleon Murphy Brock* (tracks: 4-1 to 5-9), Ralph Humphrey (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Roy Estrada (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Roy Estrada (tracks: 2-1 to 2-15), Roy Estrada (tracks: 4-1 to 5-9), Sal Marquez (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8), Terry Bozzio (tracks: 4-1 to 5-9), Tom Fowler (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8)
Vocals – Ray Agee (tracks: 1-8, 1-9)