FRANK ZAPPA
''YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 1, DISC ONE''
1995
RYKODISC
DISC ONE
01 - The Florida Airport Tape/1:03
02 - Once Upon A Time/4:37
03 - Sofa #1/2:53
04 - The Mammy Anthem/5:41
05 - You Didn't Try To Call Me/3:39
06 - Diseases of The Band/2:22
07 - Tryin' To Grow A Chin/3:44
08 - Let's Make The Water Turn Black Harry You're A Beast The Orange County Lumber Truck/3:28
09 - The Groupie Routine/5:41
10 - Ruthie-Ruthie/2:57
11 - Babbette/3:35
12 - I'm The Slime/3:13
13 - Big Swifty/8:46
14 - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/20:15
DISC TWO
01 - Plastic People/4:38
02 - The Torture Never Stops/15:48
03 - Fine Girl/2:55
04 - Zomby Wolf/5:39
05 - Sweet Leilani/2:39
06 - Oh No/4:34
07 - Be In My Video/3:29
08 - The Deathless Horsie/5:29
09 - The Dangerous Kitchen/1:49
10 - Dumb All Over/4:20
11 - Heavenly Bank Account/4:05
12 - Suicide Chump/4:56
13 - Tell Me You Love Me/2:09
14 - Sofa #2/3:00
REVIEW
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 1 (1988)
Volume one kicks off with a "field recording" of Flo and Eddie in a Florida airport, talking about nearly throwing up on stage. What a way to begin a marathon live set. After that we finally get part of the Sofa mini-rock-opera, but not as much as appears on the Swiss Cheese / Fire boot. The Mammy Anthem is a rippin' instrumental version of Thing Fish's Mammy Nuns. The dialog track Diseases of the Band documents a performance where nearly every band member was sick with one illness or another. The 1969 performance of Lets Make the Water Turn Black, Harry You're a Beast and Orange County Lumber Truck is great, and interesting to compare with the 1988 version of the same medley found on Make a Jazz Noise Here. There's a variation on Flo and Eddie's Fillmore groupie routine, and then a remake of Louie, Louie but with Ruth Underwood's first name substituted for Louie, and lyrics about her fighting off the advances of a man in the hotel the previous night. Babbette is a song about their road manager's "fondness" for dogs. There's a great version of Big Swifty, but unfortunately it's not by the Grand Wazoo band (who have yet to see an official release). Disc one ends with a 20 minute performance of the Yellow Snow suite from Apostrophe('), complete with a bizarre guy from the audience reciting poetry, and the extended Rollo ending.
The second disc of volume one begins with a version of Plastic People that makes it very, very clear that the song is based on Louie, Louie. The lyrics are also different from the Absolutely Free version. After that comes yet another version of The Torture Never Stops, stretching out to a torturous 16 minutes long. Sweet Leilani starts out sounding like an old 50s song, but changes to a Mothers-style freak out mid-way through. The versions of Fine Girl, Zombie Woof, Be in My Video, Deathless Horsie and The Dangerous Kitchen are all good. Towards the end of the disc there's the religion and suicide bashing songs from You Are What You Is - believe it or not, they actually come from a concert that MTV broadcast live back when they were just starting out and were desperate for content. The lyrics to those songs probably explain why MTV never had anything to do with Frank Zappa again after that. The side ends with an energetic Tell Me You Love Me and a nice Sofa #2.
''YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 1, DISC ONE''
1995
RYKODISC
DISC ONE
01 - The Florida Airport Tape/1:03
02 - Once Upon A Time/4:37
03 - Sofa #1/2:53
04 - The Mammy Anthem/5:41
05 - You Didn't Try To Call Me/3:39
06 - Diseases of The Band/2:22
07 - Tryin' To Grow A Chin/3:44
08 - Let's Make The Water Turn Black Harry You're A Beast The Orange County Lumber Truck/3:28
09 - The Groupie Routine/5:41
10 - Ruthie-Ruthie/2:57
11 - Babbette/3:35
12 - I'm The Slime/3:13
13 - Big Swifty/8:46
14 - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/20:15
DISC TWO
01 - Plastic People/4:38
02 - The Torture Never Stops/15:48
03 - Fine Girl/2:55
04 - Zomby Wolf/5:39
05 - Sweet Leilani/2:39
06 - Oh No/4:34
07 - Be In My Video/3:29
08 - The Deathless Horsie/5:29
09 - The Dangerous Kitchen/1:49
10 - Dumb All Over/4:20
11 - Heavenly Bank Account/4:05
12 - Suicide Chump/4:56
13 - Tell Me You Love Me/2:09
14 - Sofa #2/3:00
REVIEW
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol 1 (1988)
Volume one kicks off with a "field recording" of Flo and Eddie in a Florida airport, talking about nearly throwing up on stage. What a way to begin a marathon live set. After that we finally get part of the Sofa mini-rock-opera, but not as much as appears on the Swiss Cheese / Fire boot. The Mammy Anthem is a rippin' instrumental version of Thing Fish's Mammy Nuns. The dialog track Diseases of the Band documents a performance where nearly every band member was sick with one illness or another. The 1969 performance of Lets Make the Water Turn Black, Harry You're a Beast and Orange County Lumber Truck is great, and interesting to compare with the 1988 version of the same medley found on Make a Jazz Noise Here. There's a variation on Flo and Eddie's Fillmore groupie routine, and then a remake of Louie, Louie but with Ruth Underwood's first name substituted for Louie, and lyrics about her fighting off the advances of a man in the hotel the previous night. Babbette is a song about their road manager's "fondness" for dogs. There's a great version of Big Swifty, but unfortunately it's not by the Grand Wazoo band (who have yet to see an official release). Disc one ends with a 20 minute performance of the Yellow Snow suite from Apostrophe('), complete with a bizarre guy from the audience reciting poetry, and the extended Rollo ending.
The second disc of volume one begins with a version of Plastic People that makes it very, very clear that the song is based on Louie, Louie. The lyrics are also different from the Absolutely Free version. After that comes yet another version of The Torture Never Stops, stretching out to a torturous 16 minutes long. Sweet Leilani starts out sounding like an old 50s song, but changes to a Mothers-style freak out mid-way through. The versions of Fine Girl, Zombie Woof, Be in My Video, Deathless Horsie and The Dangerous Kitchen are all good. Towards the end of the disc there's the religion and suicide bashing songs from You Are What You Is - believe it or not, they actually come from a concert that MTV broadcast live back when they were just starting out and were desperate for content. The lyrics to those songs probably explain why MTV never had anything to do with Frank Zappa again after that. The side ends with an energetic Tell Me You Love Me and a nice Sofa #2.
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