Frank Zappa
March 27th, 1980
McArthur Court, University Of Oregon
Eugene, OR
AUD, B+
This is an odd one. Another case where I've already downloaded the torrent in the past. But as far as I can tell it's not on YT and I didn't post it previously.
TRACKLIST:
01. Audience [00:00]
02. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow [00:30]
03. Intro [03:05]
04. Teenage Wind [05:06]
05. Harder Than Your Husband [08:23]
06. Bamboozled By Love [11:07]
07. Pick Me, I'm Clean [16:44]
08. Society Pages [22:57]
09. I'm a Beautiful Guy [25:29]
10. Beauty Knows No Pain [27:35]
11. Charlie's Enormous Mouth [30:51]
12. Any Downers [34:51]
13. Conehead [38:31]
14. Easy Meat [43:16]
15. Mudd Club [48:36]
16. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [52:04]
17. Heavenly Bank Account [55:19]
18. Suicide Chump [59:17]
19. Jumbo Go Away [01:02:40]
20. If Only She Woulda [01:06:53]
21. I Don't Wanna Get Drafted [01:12:54]
22. Joe's Garage [01:16:09]
23. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee [01:18:21]
24. Dancin' Fool [01:21:49]
25. Bobby Brown [01:25:47]
26. Black Napkins [01:28:38]
27. Audience [01:36:36]
28. Keep It Greasey [01:37:11]
29. Watermelon In Easter Hay [01:40:21]
Narrative in txt file:
Nearly a year in the waiting! Waveforms direct from a star-studded cast of contributors, located on both sides of the Atlantic, one side of the Pacific, quite possibly the Baltic, and even, as if that weren't enough, and at utterly no additional cost to you, the partaker, the Mediterranean! Holy dark purple Monopoly, Batman! Without any further ado, here it is, directly from our heart to yours, straight from the Community Chest itself! We bring to you......a completely average, nothing-terribly-shocking, actually-almost-very-quite-forgettable show from that most Marchy of months: March, nineteen-hundred and eighty, to be precise! This show is, as vaguely hinted at above, somewhat forgettable. One of those random shows that, for no real reason, ended up being circulated relatively widely (I remember it being a standard touchstone in old trading lists of the day - the fact that at least six of the Sample crew had a copy is testament to that), and was, as I recall, one of the first couple waves of shows to be mp3'd back in the days of dialup. What is likely the night's highlight (Frank's typically-kicky Easy Meat solo) is butchered by not one but two (2!!) cuts. That's not to say this is a BAD show - those are so few in number that if this show were bad, it would be, ipso facto, memorable. It's just a curiously empty listening experience - perhaps ultimate in its ultimately ultimate neutrality. We get the aforementioned kicky Easy Meat solo, the Spring 1980 rarities (Any Downers, with a neat little guitar solo, and Conehead, with the usual Mars nuttiness in the middle - hardly as bizarre as it'd get by April, but fun to hear nonetheless). Other than that, it's an If Only She Woulda that fits the theme of the evening - forgettable, but inoffensively so; a fan who's excited to hear that Frank's starting off with Yellow Snow; and a brief interruption in Dancing Fool as Frank stumbles over the second verse (the Second Verse Curse strikes again!). Oh, and the usual YAWYI demos - forgettable, but not really terrible. The Watermelon solo is probably the second, and final, highlight of the night - intense, but brief, with one particular rising crescendo that manages to defy the night's theme and bury itself in that same nook (or possibly cranny) of the brain where all of those great Zappa guitar moments lurk in wait. The sound ain't too shabby either - I could give this an A-/B+ and feel none too terribly guilty about it in the morning. A straight B+ is perhaps more accurate, or at least a safer assumption. (Truncated because it's too long to post here)
REQUESTS:
Do not buy low, do not sell high. Trade only as .FLAC. Rob Hubbard's (is that L. Ron Hoover?) "Knuckledusters" dot SID.
CREDITS:
Unknown taper: Taping (Unknown, but the most important person in these 'credits')
WIU2B: Transfer
pbuzby: Transfer, Mystery Voodoo Patchwork Guru
Yojimbo: Fill transfer
flambay: Pitch correction, Yojimbo fill seeder
ZP: Patching, pitch correction application, seeding
FZ: Twenty-five years of extraordinary composition
AV: 10 to 25 whole minutes working on timestamps and waiting for the video to render (typically 2+ hours because windows movie maker sucks and thinks it's a good idea to invididaully render each frame despite using static images) / This used to take 1/10th the time when I had some ffmpeg-using software that would convert audio files like MP3s with static images to MP4 container.
Keep circulating the tapes.
Originally seeded to Zappateers.com = 26th June 2009
Seeded to Zappateers.com = 27 December 2020
