FRANK ZAPPA
''YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 5, DISC ONE''
1995
RYKODISC
DISC ONE
01 - The Downtown Talent Scout/0:4:01
02 - Charles Ives/0:4:37
03 - Here Lies Love/0:2:44
04 - PianoDrum Duet/0:1:57
05 - Mozart Ballet/0:4:05
06 - Chocolate Halvah/0:3:25
07 - JCB & kansas On The Bus #1/0:1:03
08 - Run Home Slow Main Title Theme/0:1:16
09 - The Little March/0:1:20
10 - Right There/0:5:10
11 - Where Is Johnny Velvet/0:0:48
12 - Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke/0:1:44
13 - Trouble Every Day/0:4:06
14 - Proto-Minimalism/0:1:41
15 - JCB & Kansas On The Bus #2/0:1:06
16 - My Head/0:1:22
17 - Meow/0:1:23
18 - Baked Bean Boogie/0:3:26
19 - Where's Our Equipment/0:2:29
20 - FZJCB Drum Duet/0:4:26
21 - No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve/0:4:45
22 - A Game Of Cards/0:0:44
23 - Underground Freak-Out Music/0:3:52
24 - German Lunch/0:6:44
25 - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama/0:2:10
DISC TWO
01 - Easy Meat/0:7:38
02 - Dead Girls Of London/0:2:29
03 - Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously/0:1:44
04 - What's New In Baltimore/0:5:03
05 - Moggio/0:2:29
06 - Dancin' Fool/0:3:12
07 - RDNZL/0:7:58
08 - Advance Romance/0:7:01
09 - City Of Tiny Lites/0:10:38
10 - A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)/0:8:38
11 - Doreen/0:1:58
12 - The Black Page #2/0:9:56
13 - Geneva Farewell/0:1:25
REVIEW
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 (1992)
Volume five, as mentioned above, contains one full disc of the early Mothers, and one full disc of the 1982 band. The Mothers disc is an audio scrapbook of things recorded between 1965 and 1969. The sound quality is a little lower than the rest of the series, but still very listenable. Other than Trouble Every Day and My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, all the tracks are previously unreleased. A lot of the tracks document the Mothers improvising and freaking out, both on stage and off, but there are also some "regular" songs. The Downtown Talent Scout is an R&B number with lyrics about the undercover cops who would try to infiltrate the hippie culture so that they could make drug busts. Charles Ives is better known as the backing track for Captain Beefheart's The Blimp, but this version is longer and has extra material. Here Lies Love is a blues tune similar to Directly From My Heart To You, but with a smoky horn section replacing the violin. The Mozart Ballet features some of the Mothers attempting to dance a ballet (much to the audience's amusement) while Ian Underwood plays Mozart's Piano Sonata in B Flat. Chocolate Halvah is an exotic, eastern-sounding piece with a plodding drum beat and wailing vocals. Some of the music that Frank composed for the movie Run Home Slow is included, as is an early version of Little House I Used to Live In (although for some strange reason, on this disc it's called Return of the Hunchback Duke). Where's Our Equipment? is a "semi-acoustic" song, performed that way because the truck carrying their amplifiers broke down and couldn't get to the show in time. German Lunch is a lengthy, non-musical comedy sketch, in which the band reenacts the difficulties they had getting through customs in Germany. The closing My Guitar... is a shortened, "single edit" studio version. The rest of the disc is made up of various bizarre conversations recorded on tour buses and elsewhere, and the Mothers jamming and doing various experimental things on stage. If you like Weasels Ripped My Flesh, you should like this CD.
If you like the 1982 band, disc two is fantastic. A nice selection of songs (although I probably could have done without Dancin' Fool), crystal clear recording and note-perfect performances. The music is largely instrumental and includes a lot of Zappa's more complex rock compositions. Standout tracks include What's New In Baltimore?, Moggio, RDNZL, City of Tiny Lights, Pound For a Brown, Doreen and Black Page #2. Also included is a live version of Dead Girls of London, which Zappa co-wrote with violinist L. Shankar for his album Touch Me There (see the related albums page). Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? is a great song with vocals that get stuck in my head. I'm surprised Frank never included that one on a studio album. The lyrics were inspired by a concert promoter who acted like a dictator backstage, being particularly picky about who could eat the asparagus on the vegetable tray (apparently, in whatever country this was, asparagus is considered a delicacy). There's a word repeated several times in the song that I thought was "sparkle", but is actually the German (?) word for asparagus.
One down side to the 1982 tour was that, for some reason, audiences insisted on throwing things (including coins, food and even used hypodermic syringes) onto the stage. Frank wouldn't put up with it, so he would warn the crowd that if it continued, he'd cancel the show. In Geneva the crowd apparently wanted to see if he'd really do it, so the last track on disc two is Geneva Farewell, with Zappa ending the set in mid-song, announcing that he'd had enough and walking off.
''YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, VOL. 5, DISC ONE''
1995
RYKODISC
DISC ONE
01 - The Downtown Talent Scout/0:4:01
02 - Charles Ives/0:4:37
03 - Here Lies Love/0:2:44
04 - PianoDrum Duet/0:1:57
05 - Mozart Ballet/0:4:05
06 - Chocolate Halvah/0:3:25
07 - JCB & kansas On The Bus #1/0:1:03
08 - Run Home Slow Main Title Theme/0:1:16
09 - The Little March/0:1:20
10 - Right There/0:5:10
11 - Where Is Johnny Velvet/0:0:48
12 - Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke/0:1:44
13 - Trouble Every Day/0:4:06
14 - Proto-Minimalism/0:1:41
15 - JCB & Kansas On The Bus #2/0:1:06
16 - My Head/0:1:22
17 - Meow/0:1:23
18 - Baked Bean Boogie/0:3:26
19 - Where's Our Equipment/0:2:29
20 - FZJCB Drum Duet/0:4:26
21 - No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve/0:4:45
22 - A Game Of Cards/0:0:44
23 - Underground Freak-Out Music/0:3:52
24 - German Lunch/0:6:44
25 - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama/0:2:10
DISC TWO
01 - Easy Meat/0:7:38
02 - Dead Girls Of London/0:2:29
03 - Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously/0:1:44
04 - What's New In Baltimore/0:5:03
05 - Moggio/0:2:29
06 - Dancin' Fool/0:3:12
07 - RDNZL/0:7:58
08 - Advance Romance/0:7:01
09 - City Of Tiny Lites/0:10:38
10 - A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)/0:8:38
11 - Doreen/0:1:58
12 - The Black Page #2/0:9:56
13 - Geneva Farewell/0:1:25
REVIEW
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 (1992)
Volume five, as mentioned above, contains one full disc of the early Mothers, and one full disc of the 1982 band. The Mothers disc is an audio scrapbook of things recorded between 1965 and 1969. The sound quality is a little lower than the rest of the series, but still very listenable. Other than Trouble Every Day and My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, all the tracks are previously unreleased. A lot of the tracks document the Mothers improvising and freaking out, both on stage and off, but there are also some "regular" songs. The Downtown Talent Scout is an R&B number with lyrics about the undercover cops who would try to infiltrate the hippie culture so that they could make drug busts. Charles Ives is better known as the backing track for Captain Beefheart's The Blimp, but this version is longer and has extra material. Here Lies Love is a blues tune similar to Directly From My Heart To You, but with a smoky horn section replacing the violin. The Mozart Ballet features some of the Mothers attempting to dance a ballet (much to the audience's amusement) while Ian Underwood plays Mozart's Piano Sonata in B Flat. Chocolate Halvah is an exotic, eastern-sounding piece with a plodding drum beat and wailing vocals. Some of the music that Frank composed for the movie Run Home Slow is included, as is an early version of Little House I Used to Live In (although for some strange reason, on this disc it's called Return of the Hunchback Duke). Where's Our Equipment? is a "semi-acoustic" song, performed that way because the truck carrying their amplifiers broke down and couldn't get to the show in time. German Lunch is a lengthy, non-musical comedy sketch, in which the band reenacts the difficulties they had getting through customs in Germany. The closing My Guitar... is a shortened, "single edit" studio version. The rest of the disc is made up of various bizarre conversations recorded on tour buses and elsewhere, and the Mothers jamming and doing various experimental things on stage. If you like Weasels Ripped My Flesh, you should like this CD.
If you like the 1982 band, disc two is fantastic. A nice selection of songs (although I probably could have done without Dancin' Fool), crystal clear recording and note-perfect performances. The music is largely instrumental and includes a lot of Zappa's more complex rock compositions. Standout tracks include What's New In Baltimore?, Moggio, RDNZL, City of Tiny Lights, Pound For a Brown, Doreen and Black Page #2. Also included is a live version of Dead Girls of London, which Zappa co-wrote with violinist L. Shankar for his album Touch Me There (see the related albums page). Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? is a great song with vocals that get stuck in my head. I'm surprised Frank never included that one on a studio album. The lyrics were inspired by a concert promoter who acted like a dictator backstage, being particularly picky about who could eat the asparagus on the vegetable tray (apparently, in whatever country this was, asparagus is considered a delicacy). There's a word repeated several times in the song that I thought was "sparkle", but is actually the German (?) word for asparagus.
One down side to the 1982 tour was that, for some reason, audiences insisted on throwing things (including coins, food and even used hypodermic syringes) onto the stage. Frank wouldn't put up with it, so he would warn the crowd that if it continued, he'd cancel the show. In Geneva the crowd apparently wanted to see if he'd really do it, so the last track on disc two is Geneva Farewell, with Zappa ending the set in mid-song, announcing that he'd had enough and walking off.
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