Track Listing
DISC 1: ECTED SYNAPSES:
1. Penis Dimension
2. Air, The
3. Dog Breath / The Mother People
4. You Didn't Try to Call Me
5. King Kong
6. Who Are the Brain Police?
DISC 2: TENGO NA MINCHIA TANTA:
1. Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?
2. Pound For a Brown on the Bus, A
3. Sleeping in a Jar
4. Improv
5. Sharleena
6. Sanzini Brothers, The
7. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
8. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
9. Bwana Dik
10. Latex Solar Beef
11. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
12. Little House I Used to Live In
13. Holiday in Berlin
14. Cruisin' For Burgers
DISC 3: ELECTRIC AUNT JEMIMA:
1. Little House I Used To Live In / Dog Breath Variations / Blue Danube Waltz / Hungry Freaks Daddy
2. Improv
3. Dog Breath
4. King Kong
5. Trouble Every Day Variations
6. Pound For a Brown on the Bus, A
7. Improv / Plastic People / King Kong / America Drinks / Wipe Out
DISC 4: AT THE CIRCUS:
1. Intro
2. Baby Snakes
3. Dancing Fool
4. Easy Meat
5. Honey Don't You Want a Man Like Me
6. Other People
7. Wino Man
8. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
9. Fusions
10. Bobby Brown
11. I'm on Duty
12. Conehead
DISC 5: SWISS CHEESE:
1. Swiss Cheese: Intro
2. Peaches en Regalia
3. Tears Began To Fall / She Painted Up Her Face / Half-A-Dozen Provocative Squats
4. Call Any Vegetable
5. Anyway the Wind Blows
6. Fire!
7. Magdelena / Dog Breath
8. Give Me Some Floor Covering, Under This Fat, Floating Sofa / A Pound For A Brown On The Bus / Wonderful Wino / Sharleena / Cruisin' For Burgers
9. King Kong
10. Fire!
DISC 6: OUR MAN IN NIRVANA:
1. Intro Medley: Bacon Fat / The String Quartet / A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
2. Sleeping In A Jar / The Wild Man Fischer Story
3. I'm The Meany / Valerie
4. King Kong No. 1
5. King Kong No. 2
DISC 7: CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY:
1. Stinkfoot / Dirty Love / Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station / The Torture Never Stops / City Of Tiny Lights
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Frank Zappa (guitar, percussion, vocals), Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan (vocals), Jean-Luc Ponty (electric violin), Ian Underwood (keyboards, woodwinds), Peter Wolf (keyboards), George Duke (keyboards, trombone, vocals), Patrick O'Hearn, Jeff Simmons (bass, vocals), Terry Bozzio, Aynsley Dunbar (drums).
All music written by Frank Zappa.
A collection of seven historic live sets previously only available as bootlegs. It comes with a 60-page scrapbook featuring ultra-rare memorabilia culled from the Zappa archives and original artwork by Cal Schenkel, who did most of Zappa's best-known posters and album covers. Also included is a custom black wool military beret with a special BEAT THE BOOTS #2 pin attached.
The seven BEAT THE BOOTS #2 titles are: DISCONNECTED SYNAPSES (Palais Gaumont, Paris, France, 1970), TENGO NA MINICHIA TANTA (Fillmore East, NYC, 1971), ELECTRIC AUNT JEMIMA (Family Dog, Denver, 1968), AT THE CIRCUS (Circus Krone, Munich, Germany, 1970 & 1978), SWISS CHEESE/FIRE! (Montreux, Switzerland, 12/4/71), OUR MAN IN NIRVANA (Fullerton, CA, 11/8/68), CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY (Detroit, 11/19/77).
This is the second (and final) bootleg-gone-legit box that was actually sanctioned by Frank Zappa. But rather than go to the expense and time to use better sources -- which the artist presumably had access to -- he simply ripped off the illicit recordings that had been doing the same to him for decades. And voila, Beat the Boots was born. Zappa enlisted Rhino Records to manufacture and distribute the anthologies -- which were packaged to appear as if the contents were being sold in a low budget cardboard box. However once inside Beat the Boots!, Vol. 2 (1992), consumers were treated to a full LP jacket-sized 40-page memorabilia scrapbook, a black felt beret and a red pin/badge bearing the hammer-in-fist artwork emblazoned on it. The musical main events are the seven different titles that collectively span just over a decade of live Zappa and Mothers of Invention (MOI) (1968 -- 1978) performances. Electric Aunt Jemima was gleaned from three different 1968 gigs at the Family Dog in Denver, CO on May 3, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on October 20, and at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany on September 28. While certainly not audiophile quality -- none of the entries are -- fans of the seminal MOI will find lots to love. Our Man in Nirvana hails from California State College at Fullerton, November 8, 1968 and is noteworthy as it boasts contributions from Larry "Wild Man" Fischer (vocals) and Don Cherry (sax). The rare cover of the R&B obscurity "Bacon Fat" by Andre Williams, the "Wild Man Fischer Story," and Fischer's "I'm the Meany" should be considered essential listening for inclined parties. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta is an excellent -- if not pitched slightly fast -- document of the Phlorescent Leech & Eddie era band at the Fillmore in 1970. The readings of "Sharleena," and the 200 Motels (1971) tunes "What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?," "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy," and the ultra rare "Holiday in Berlin" with vocals are all primal Zappa. Disconnected Synapses finds the band in Paris, France at the Palais Gaumont on December 15, 1970 and the assembled crew is joined by Jean-Luc Ponty (violin). The half-hour "King Kong" suite as well as "Who Are the Brain Police" are standouts. Swiss Cheese/Fire is a double-disc set capturing the infamous Casino gig in Montreux, Switzerland on December 4, 1971. At some point while Don "Uncle Meat" Preston was several minutes into his synthesizer solo during "King Kong" -- as Deep Purple so eloquently put it "...some stupid with a flare gun/burned the place to the ground." The audience tape is excellent and quite clearly captures the ensuing mayhem, but not before more 200 Motels tunes, such as "She Painted Up Her Face," "Half-A-Dozen-Provocative Squats," and a blistering rendition of "Magdalena." Conceptual Continuity is another above average sounding audience-derived ...
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