Halloween 73

Description

Cat No: 0200312

4CD Tracklisting:

1. Happy Halloween To Each And Every One Of You / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
2. Pygmy Twylyte / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
3. The Idiot Bastard Son / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
4. Cheepnis / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
5. Another Assembly Of Items / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
6. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Babecue / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
7. Kung Fu / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
8. Penguin In Bondage / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
9. TMershi Duween / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
10. The Dog Breath Variations / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
11. Uncle Meat / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
12. RDNZL / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
13. Village of The Sun / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
14. Echindas Arf (Of You) / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
15. Dont You Ever Wash That Thing? / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
16. Montana / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
17. Duprees Paradise / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
18. Almost Up To Date / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
19. Dickies Such An Asshole / Live October 31, 1973 Show 1
20. That Greatest Of American Holidays / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
21. Cosmik Debris / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
22. Were Hurtin For Tunes / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
23. Pygmy Twylyte / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
24. The Idiot Bastard Son / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
25. Cheepnis / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
26. Im The Slime / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
27. Big Swifty / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
28. The History Of The San Clemente Magnetic Deviation / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
29. Dickies Such An Asshole / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
30. Another New Event / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
31. Farther OBlivion Part 1 / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
32. Farther OBlivion Part 2 / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
33. Perverts Special Holiday / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
34. Penguin In Bondage / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
35. TMershi Duween / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
36. RDNZL / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
37. Inca Roads / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
38. Medley: Song Of Mr. Green Genes / King Kong / Chungas Revenge / Live October 31, 1973 Show 2
39. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue / Rehearsal October 21, 1973
40. Penguin In Bondage / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
41. TMershi Duween / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
42. Dog Breath / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
43. The Dog Breath Variations / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
44. Uncle Meat / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
45. RDNZL / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
46. Magic Fingers / Rehearsal October 21, 1973
47. Inca Roads / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
48. Farther OBlivion / Rehearsal October 21, 1973
49. Cosmik Debris / Rehearsal October 20, 1973
50. Big Swifty / Rehearsal October 21, 1973

Throughout the 70s and 80s, the iconoclastic composer Frank Zappa put on a series of spectacular, now legendary, shows around Halloween each year to celebrate his favorite holiday. Before settling on New York in 1974 to host his annual costume-clad festivities, which would continue until he retired the tradition in 1984, Zappa, fronting an exciting new band, performed two rousing back-to-back Halloween concerts the year prior at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Whereas many of the NYC shows were not recorded due to the musicians union charging exorbitant fees making it virtually impossible to allow Zappa to record the event, there were no such restrictions at the Chicago show in true Zappa fashion it was of course taped.

Now for the first time ever, Zappas two complete Halloween shows recorded on the 31st October, 1973 in Chicago, will be released on the 25th October via Zappa Records/UMe, just in time for Halloween. These completely unreleased live recordings total more than four and a half hours and feature songs from across his prolific catalog, including his then just-released 1973 album Over-Nite Sensation and forthcoming 1974 record Apostrophe, as well as early arrangements of compositions like Penguin In Bondage, Dickies Such An Asshole and Village Of The Sun that would appear on later studio and live albums. Continuing the Halloween series that the Zappa Family Trust began in 2017 with the acclaimed Halloween 77 releases, Halloween 73 will be released as a specially designed, limited run four-disc costume box complete with a FRANKenZAPPA mask and gloves, housed in a display worthy box. Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the boxed set is rounded out with a 40-page booklet featuring detailed liner notes from Travers and Ruth Komanoff Underwood and Ralph Humphrey, Zappas bandmates who played in the shows, and a wealth of never-before-seen photos from the event.

The two full shows will be presented on discs 1-3 with the fourth disc dedicated to unreleased rehearsals recorded just before the tour started. A single CD version titled Halloween 73 Highlights, which collects together 16 handpicked performances from both shows, will also be available. The concerts were recorded on 1/2 4-track analog tape which was stored in pristine condition in Zappas personal Vault. The tracks were digitally transferred in 96K/24B from the original analog tapes by Travers in 2019 and mastered and re-mixed by Craig Parker Adams.