The new 4 CD set includes live and studio performances by Frank Zappa & The Mothers 1970.
This features recordings from the first months by the new band that Frank formed after he broke the old Mothers up in 1969. It is often referred to as the Vaudeville band or the Flo & Eddie band.
The set includes the performance that the band did at VPRO, a dutch TV station. It has been bootlegged several times and it will be nice to hear this in better sound quality.
Some fans think that this era is already well covered and that it would be more interesting to hear recordings of others lineups. Others seem to enjoy any new Zappa release and appreciate that there is stuff being released every year.
This is an excerpt from the presentation by zappa.com:The Mothers 1970 encapsulates the band’s brief but productive span, which included two visits to the studio – resulting in the fantastic 1970 album, Chunga’s Revenge – and tours across the U.S., Canada and Europe. Divided into four parts, the collection is anchored by top notch studio recordings recorded at the famed London-based Trident Studios on June 21-22 with a then-young, unknown producer in the engineer chair by the name of Roy Thomas Baker, several years before he’d go on to have massive success working with Queen, The Cars and Alice Cooper to name a few. An unreleased early mix by Baker of the Chunga’s Revenge track, “Sharleena,” is just one of the many highlights of the studio recordings that also boasts several unearthed rough mixes of the Zappa/Simmons co-write, “Wonderfu l Wino,” including a rare version that showcases vocals and an alternate guitar solo by Zappa that has been lost to the ages as the original multi-track stems were recorded over. Of the material recorded during this two-day span, “Sharleena” was the only song ever officially released – so tracks like “Red Tubular Lighter,” “Giraffe” and an unheard version of “Envelopes” are completely brand new to fans half a century later.
There is already one track out on YouTube (and Spotify). Check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OmWRTfeJHo&list=OLAK5uy_k4sE51NAs5b2Pqdqw2hnNNG0-47YtzDm0&index=2&t=0s
Track list of the 4 CD set:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086ZF6DJB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_QnrTEb5BZ9XZX?fbclid=IwAR3dCePeNP-kWqr4w5MYIplTt5e__oFU3kk83BZA3slJMjAcH3UbT-VMF7U
