Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show

The Different Versions

Vinyl Version

side 1

  1. "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here"
  2. The Black Page (New Age Version) 7:12
  3. I Ain't Got No Heart 1:59
  4. Love Of My Life 2:14

side 2

  1. Inca Roads 8:44
  2. Sharleena 6:22
  3. Who Needs The Peace Corps? 2:29
  4. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Cory/Cross) 0:35

side 3

  1. Dickie's Such An Asshole 6:01
  2. When The Lie's So Big 3:38
  3. Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 8:47
  4. Sofa #1 2:45
  5. One Man, One Vote 2:35

side 4

  1. Happy Birthday, Chad! (Hill/Hill) 1:24
  2. Packard Goose Pt. I 2:56
  3. Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat" (Stravinsky) 1:17
  4. Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto #3 (Bartók) 1:20
  5. Packard Goose Pt. II 2:03
  6. The Torture Never Stops Pt. I 5:09
  7. Theme From "Bonanza" (Evans/Livingston) 0:36
  8. Lonesome Cowboy Burt 4:59

side 5

  1. The Torture Never Stops Pt. II 7:29
  2. City Of Tiny Lites 9:21
  3. Pound For A Brown Pt. I 5:25

side 6

  1. Pound For A Brown Pt. II 5:49
  2. The Beatles Medley (Lennon/McCartney) 9:19
  3. Peaches En Regalia 3:36

side 7

  1. Stairway To Heaven (Page/Plant) 10:09
  2. I Am The Walrus (Lennon/McCartney) 3:42

side 8

  1. Whipping Post (Allman) 6:18
  2. Bolero (Ravel) 5:30
  3. America The Beautiful (Bates/Ward) 3:58

 

The Recordings

Joe Travers, liner notes, June 2021

Unbeknownst to anyone, [the show from Uniondale, New York at the legendary Nassau Coliseum on March 25, 1988] was to be the last show Frank Zappa would ever play in the United States. Because of this, we decided to pick this performance to be the main focus of the first archival concert release from the 1988 tour, presenting almost the entire performance (along with some tracks from Towson, MD & Providence, RI) remixed from the original 48 track digital master tapes. Back in '88, FZ was recording the shows using two Sony 3324 DASH PCM 24 track tape recorders synced together using a Lynx Time Code Module, thus providing 48 track recording capabilities. The tapes were transferred at their master resolution of 44.1K16B to .WAV files. Enjoy!

 

disc 1

1. "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here"

He registered Right to Life, ladies and gentlemen!

Patrick Buzby, June 23, 2021

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Right_to_Life_Party

 

2. The Black Page (New Age Version)

 

3. I Ain't Got No Heart

 

4. Love Of My Life

 

5. Inca Roads

 

6. Sharleena

 

7. Who Needs The Peace Corps?

 

8. I Left My Heart In San Francisco

 

9. Dickie's Such An Asshole

Gave a couple to Mr. Richard Secord

Charles Ulrich, June 24, 2021

He was a Major General in the US Air Force who was involved in the Iran-Contra affair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Secord

 

10. When The Lie's So Big

 

11. Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk

 

12. Sofa #1

 

13. One Man, One Vote

 

14. Happy Birthday, Chad!

Gwonam, "Official Live Releases With Edits," Zappateers, December 20, 2023

Happy Birthday Chad (Brother A. West mention [is edited out])

 

15. Packard Goose Pt. I

 

16. Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat"

 

17. Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto #3

 

18. Packard Goose Pt. II

 

19. The Torture Never Stops Pt. I

(Tuna!)

Pat Buzby, June 25, 2021

Ike may have been referring to opening act Hot Tuna.

"It's Garry Shandling's Show"

Charles Ulrich, June 28, 2021

I think FZ intended this as a musical quotation from This Is The Theme To Garry's Show.

But these guys did it much better than FZ did!

Byron Holmes, July 20, 2021

The joke about "It's Garry Shandling's Show" in "The Torture Never Stops Pt. I"? I think that was made since Flo & Eddie were guest-stars on the show around that time, and the duo considered rejoining Zappa in 1987 before dropping out for various reasons. I could be wrong though, but the episode they appeared in did premiere a few days into the tour.

Charles Ulrich, November 1, 2021

Flo & Eddie appeared in episode 2-13 "Save The Planet", which was broadcast on February 5, 1988.

 

20. Theme From "Bonanza"

 

disc 2

1. Lonesome Cowboy Burt

 

2. The Torture Never Stops Pt. II

 

3. City Of Tiny Lites

Facebook, c. June 22, 2021

Pat Buzby
Mike, just noticed the 16th note guitar fill in "City Of Tiny Lights" before "maybe you should know." [...]

Mike Keneally
"Alien Orifice," first two bars of the 16th note section.

 

4. Pound For A Brown

Gwonam, "Official Live Releases With Edits," Zappateers, December 20, 2023

Pound (Brother A. West completely removed)

 

5. The Beatles Medley

Gwonam, "Official Live Releases With Edits," Zappateers, December 20, 2023

Texas Motel Medley (intro from different show, possibly to remove A. West's adlib, though there's also a very ugly bum note from Mike?)

 

6. Peaches En Regalia

 

7. Stairway To Heaven

 

8. I Am The Walrus

Gwonam, "Official Live Releases With Edits," Zappateers, December 20, 2023

I'm The Walrus (i THINK that some of the intro is from Towson?, prob. for flow)

 

9. Whipping Post

 

10. Bolero

 

11. America The Beautiful

 

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa except as noted
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