You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4

 

disc 1

1. Little Rubber Girl

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: October 31, 1979 location: THE PALLADIUM, NYC original recording medium: 24 track analog recording engineer: JOE CHICARELLI remote facility: RECORD PLANT REMOTE remix engineer: JOE CHICARELLI remix facility: VILLAGE RECORDERS

Some more raw, unbridled buffoonery for you and yours, during this festive holiday season.

Charles Ulrich, alt.fan.frank-zappa, June 11, 2011

The comment about "raw, unbridled buffoonery" is from Dinah-Moe Humm '84. (And the "festive holiday season" was Thanksgiving, rather than Halloween.)

 

5. Montana

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date(s): November, 1973 & December, 1984 location(s): THE ROXY & THE UNIVERSAL AMPHITEATER, HOLLYWOOD original recording medium(s): 16 track analog & 24 track digital recording engineers: KERRY McNAB & BOB STONE remote facility: RECORD PLANT REMOTE & UMRK MOBILE

FZ, Roxy & Elsewhere (1974) liner notes

Most of the material in this double set was recorded Dec. 10, 11 & 12, 1973, at The Roxy, Hollywood. [...] The Roxy remote recording was done by Wally Heider (16-track 30-ips), engineered by Kerry McNab

Sources & Edits

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (1991)  
1. 5. Montana  
0:00-1:42 December 10, 1973, early show
1:42-3:37 December 9, 1973, early show
3:37-4:18 December 10, 1973, early show
4:18-5:47 December 23, 1984

 

6. Brown Moses

 

7. The Evil Prince

 

8. Approximate

 

9. Love Of My Life

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: 1980 location: THE MUDD CLUB, NYC original recording medium: 2 track Nagra recording engineer: KLAUSE WIEDEMANN remote facility: near the cash register behind the bar

Mark Pinske, January 26, 2003

That was a feed from this little mixer that I was using in the club and a couple of mics that we hung in front of this tiny stage. The whole mixer was behind the bar next to the cash register. Klaus & I were right next to each other and the place was real crowded.

 

10. Let's Move To Cleveland (Solos 1984)

Tan Mitsugu, March 21, 2014

On Roxy By Proxy, Dupree's Paradise starts with The Hook. I think it's the source of The Hook in Let's Move To Cleveland (Solos 1984) from YCDTOSA4.

Sources & Edits

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (1991)  
1. 10. Let's Move To Cleveland  
0:00-0:05 December 9, 1973, early show
0:05-7:10 October 28, 1984

 

11. You Call That Music?

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Sampler (1988) liner notes by FZ

YOU CALL THAT MUSIC? (3:07)
[...] date: September, 1969 location: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NYC original recording medium: 2 track analog recording engineer: DICK KUNC remote facility: UHER portable (7 1/2 ips) [...]

Another aspect of the old M.O.I. repertoire: dissonance and abstraction . . . the sort of material that used to drive rock critics into apoplexy.

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

musicians: [...] DAVE SAMUELS (guest soloist on vibes)

Charles Ulrich, May 18, 2006

I've just read an interview with Dave Samuels, in which he states that he did not play with the MOI in 1969. At that time he was in college in Chicago and just starting on vibes.

Dave Samuels, interviewed by Andy Hollinden (quoted by Charles Ulrich, August 2, 2007)

Let me see, in 1969, I was just starting vibes, and it would be unlikely that I'd be playing with them at that point. In '69, I was still in college in Chicago and playing, but not with Frank. I'd love to have a copy of the credits for that record that I never played on. That's got to be framed. That's the ideal credit.

Tracks recorded at Columbia University, NYC, NY, February 14, 1969

 

12. Pound For A Brown (Solos 1978)

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: October 31, 1979 location: THE PALLADIUM, NYC original recording medium: 24 track analog recording engineer: JOE CHICARELLI remote facility: RECORD PLANT REMOTE remix engineer: JOE CHICARELLI remix facility: VILLAGE RECORDERS

 

13. The Black Page (1984)

 

14. Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Yes, Elvis has left the building!

 

15. Filthy Habits

 

16. The Torture Never Stops

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: 1976 location: THE ARMADILLO, AUSTIN, TEXAS original recording medium: 16 track analog recording engineer: DAVEY MOIRE remote facility: RECORD PLANT REMOTE remix engineer: BOB STONE remix facility: UTILITY MUFFIN RESEARCH KITCHEN

Denny Walley, interviewed by Co de Kloet, August 21, 2008

We were in Texas, Armadillo World Headquarters Club, and the audience was in front of the stage, everybody was smoking marihuana and blowing the smoke at Frank, trying to get him high, and— So he had the roadies put big fans on the stage and blow it back in their face. And, uh, that's why I played such a good solo. That's all I remember.

No, actually it was very inspiring, you know? It was a live recording and the band was really hot. And, uh, I played off of the audience. Nothing's pre-planned when it comes to solos, obviously, so, we were getting a real good reaction from the audience and the band was really cooking that night.

Andreas Klaer, "Torture orig. Version," alt.fan.frank-zappa, March 8, 1998

some months ago i bougth a Howlin' Wolf record (Chess label) where's a song by HW called Smokestack Lighnin'.

To me it seems that the so called 'original' version of the torture never stops (YCDTOSA) sound VERY much like that song, not to mention that CB style of singing is similar to Howlin' Wolf's one. (Of course, the lyrics are completely different, but the music is pretty much the same)

As FZ mentioned in his real book, he and Don v. Vliet spent a lot of time listening to HW, which might be a reason for this sort-of-cover-version.

Jon Andreas Håtun, January 30, 2019

Listen to the riff on the song Primitive by The Groupies from 1966!

Very similar to the original Torture with Beefheart . . .

FZ, interviewed by Den Simms & Rob Samler, Society Pages, September 1991

FZ: Volume 4 [of the Stage series] is set to come out. It's the one that's got "Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him A Pepsi?."

DS: What was the basis for the title to that? As far as I could tell, in the versions that I've heard, I wasn't able to hear that anywhere in the lyrics. It's "The Torture Never Stops," right?

FZ: All right. Here's the story of "Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him A Pepsi?." When I used to go over to [Don] Vliet's house, when he was in high school, the only thing you would ever hear him say was, (Frank imitates Don) "Sue! Get me a Pepsi!" He was always yelling at his mother to get him a Pepsi, (laughter) and sometimes the Pepsi wouldn't arrive, so it was like "Please! Somebody get him a Pepsi!"

 

disc 2

1. Church Chat

 

2. Stevie's Spanking

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: summer, 1982 location: ROME, ITALY

Tan Mitsugu, quoted in Arf: Notes & Comments

The Rome performance wasn't used as a whole. Compared to Video From Hell version, the vocal section and the first FZ's short guitar solo is from an unknown performance. At 2:46, when Steve's solo begins, it is edited to Rome.

flambay, April 1, 2015

First 8 bars (guitar intro) are indeed from 1982 06 18 London UK.

Entire vocal section ("His name is Stevie Vai, ..." to "... Ate the banana") is from 1982 06 19 (Late) London UK.

Bridge (2:26-2:46) is from 1982 06 18 London UK.

Everything from start Steve Vai solo onwards (most probably to end of song) is indeed from 1982 06 09 Rome IT.

 

4. Disco Boy

Braun András, November 21, 2013

The first 15 or so seconds of Disco Boy on YCDTOSA Vol. 4. disc 2 is from Munich ("Fruit! ... Hidin' ther") surely, but the middle of the song is from the Early Frankfurt (Alte Oper) show on June 11, 1982, as the "Go on, take your teeth out, girl!" insert demonstrates (maybe a reference to the Them or Us basic track venue). The rest of the song imo is from Frankfurt too, difficult to determine, because of the soundquality, but definitely not from Munich.

 

5. Teen-age Wind

 

6. Truck Driver Divorce

 

7. Florentine Pogen

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: February 18, 1979 location: ODEON HAMMERSMITH, LONDON, ENGLAND original recording medium: 24 track analog recording engineer: MICK GLOSSOP remote facility: ISLAND MOBILE remix engineer: BOB STONE remix facility: UTILITY MUFFIN RESEARCH KITCHEN

Sources & Edits
Helsinki, September 22, 1974 (probably) London, February 18, 1979 (late show) YCDTOSA Vol. 4 (Zappa Records, 1991)
[0:00-2:16]   0:00-2:16
  2:16-5:11 2:16-5:09

 

8. Tiny Sick Tears

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: spring tour 1969 location: 'THE FACTORY' BRONX, NY original recording medium: 2 track analog recording engineer: DICK KUNC remote facility: UHER PORTABLE (71/2 ips) in corner

FZ, interviewed by John Gilliland, March 5, 1969 (for Pop Chronicles, KRLA, 1969)

I like "96 Tears." I mean I thought . . . listen! "96 Tears"! Wow! That's an art statement. [...] We did a version of "96 Tears" in the Bronx, that we called "Tiny Sick Tears."

 

9. Smell My Beard

 

10. The Booger Man

 

12. Are You Upset?

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: spring tour 1969 location: FILLMORE EAST, NYC original recording medium: 2 track analog recording engineer: DICK KUNC remote facility: SCULLY in basement (15 ips)

Sources
New York City, NY, February 21, 1969 (early show) YCDTOSA Vol. 4 (1991)
10. Improvisations With Bunk's Tape 2. 12. Are You Upset?
0:52-1:49 0:00-0:57
11. Are You Upset?  
0:00-0:32 0:57-1:29

 

13. Little Girl Of Mine

 

14. The Closer You Are

 

15. Johnny Darling

Roger Brenes, November 29, 2009

On "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4" the song entitled "Johnny Darling" the part where they sing (as you've described) "Wah-ah-ah hoo-oo" I'm pretty sure is a quote from "There's a Moon Out Tonight" by the Capris. Here is the song if you'd like to check it out for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4xNF9uh8SA. Also at the very end of the song those "Oo-oo-oo-oooooooooo's" sound like the ending to "Daddy's Home" by Shep and the Limelites. Again here is the song if you would like to hear it for yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzFAsYJyR60. The part I'm talking about is at the very end of the song (2:36).

 

16. No, No Cherry

Date & Venue

Liner notes by FZ, 1991

date: 1984 location: DETROIT, MICHIGAN & St. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA original recording medium: 24 track digital recording engineer: MARK PINSKE original facility: UMRK MOBILE

Charles Ulrich, "Frank Zappa Gig List: 1984," The Planet Of My Dreams, December 12, 2012

84/08/23-24
Rochester MI
Meadowbrook
CONFIRMED
program, ticket stub for 08/23. Meadowbrook Music Festival. aka Baldwin Pavillion.Rochester Hills? 08/24 not in [...] program; conflicts with Detroit. not Rochester, NY.
[...]

84/08/24
Detroit MI
conflicts with Rochester

The Turbans

FZ, interviewed by Les Carter, KPPC, November 27, 1968 (Mojo, December 1998)

LC: The one that we heard by The Turbans—"No No Cherry"—you were saying that it never played or the air and that it's owned by about 125 Mexicans in East Los Angeles.

FZ: Maybe a few more.

LC: So the censorship is finally coming down so that we can play records like this on the air.

FZ: Well, maybe on an FM station underneath a church.

LC: How did you hear about these records if you couldn't hear them on the radio?

FZ: Where I lived in Lancaster, a cruddy little town up in the desert, there's this place called Gilbert's Dime Store, and Mr. Gilbert made the awful mistake of having a rack of jukebox records that he'd sell for a dime apiece. He'd have all the latest hits, but we wouldn't buy-those. We'd hit on him to check through the batch of records when they came in. We'd explain to him that no-one would ever buy these and we could help him out by getting rid of them. So we'd go in there and pick out things like "I'm A King Bee" by Slim Harpo and lots of other stuff on Excello that you couldn't get in record stores. Excello's policy with a record store was that you had to take their gospel line if you wanted to take their R&B line, and although there may be a market among white teenagers for the R&B material, the record store owner figures that he's not going to sell too many gospel items so he won't take the line. So only a few record stores would carry them. We'd get them for a dime apiece and what we couldn't buy we'd steal.

 

17. The Man From Utopia

Well, he had a girl, but Sanavio says he got it

giancarlo (GTC), quoted by elviszappa, Zappateers, February 17, 2010

Please listen very carefully to the Pistoia show which had been one of the best for me and all the added lyrics where Zappa and the rest of the band teasing Francesco Sanavio, the italian promoter who wasn't paying the band.......the jokes on the laughs you can hear are always on him.

 

 

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http://www.donlope.net/fz/
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