Frank Zappa
Gymnasium
University of Florida
Gainesville FL
1980 04 19
~~ from 1st gen AUD tape > CD-R copy ~~
previously uncirculated
No FZ Shows entry (yet!)
This copy: 121.38 min, AUD 1st, B to A-/B+
First part of show sounding slightly muffled (B), sound improving (more clarity, B+ to A-) from 13 Bamboozled By Love onwards.
recording equipment: Nakamichi professional cassette portable recorder, Beyer dynamic mics
Lineage: CRO2 Master tape > CRO2 1st gen > Yamaha MT44 multitrack cassette recorder > Echo Layla card > Cool Edit Pro > Samplitude Mastering software > CD-R > CD-R > EAC > WAV > Soundforge 9: speed correction, volume level adjsutments, 60 & 180 Hz hum removal (in silent parts), partially fixing CD track boundary flaws > flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (734 MB)
Taped by: Adam (with Dan's help)
Transferred by: Dan the Other Voice
Contributed by: Mr. Arouh, TFEC
edited by: flambay
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Notes from the taper's helper:
I had the fortune to see Frank a half dozen times of which this event was one. While it's not board quality sound, it has its own charm given the time frame and what was available for recording at the time. Kick back and a story I will tell.
It was a dark and stormy night - ok, in honesty, it was a great night. The Nakamichi was actually owned by a friend of mine, Adam (I don't know the model - but it was considered a professional cassette portable recorder and one of the better models available). He was in the UF College of Broadcast Journalism and he also was a Deadhead, who loved to record the Dead - hence, the good Nakamichi cassette recorder (we used CRO2 cassette tape). Being a musician, I had a pair of Beyer dynamic mics I used in performance (good quality mics at the time). We managed to get the mics and recorder into the venue, the Old Florida Gym, in a knapsack. We knew a lot of the tech people working that night for Student Government Productions, showed up early, and we were ushered in without being frisked. That night at the concert, Frank's bodyguard busted seven people I counted trying to record. We sat in the eighth row center left. The first piece of music you hear starts in after Frank had started playing - we had a little difficulty once switching tape in the dark and accidentally put the first tape in backwards thus erasing before we caught our error - not a lot of music lost, but, arghhh! The rustle you hear about halfway through the first track is me putting the mics up each sleeve of my denim jacket to avoid being detected by said bodyguard. I mean really, who is going to notice a crazy guy holding up both arms in the air for two hours of a Zappa concert?
I lost track of Adam years ago, he has the original tape and I have a dupe we did to CRO2 tape that night after the concert. Some of the material Frank played that night had not yet been released (Heavenly Bank Account, etc.). I called the concert 'Artichokes and Steaks' because at some point you'll hear a friend of mine wishing he had some artichokes and steaks - and I thought to myself, that sounds like a title Frank would use. Out of respect for Frank's livelihood and any possible litigation, we kept the recordings to ourselves and / or, at least I have through the years. I only played those tapes maybe three times through the years until I digitized the recordings.
There are 3 cassette tapes in total, which is why there are some noticeable gaps evident as we switched to a new cassette to continue recording the concert. I used a Yamaha MT44 multitrack cassette recorder to play back the tapes through an Echo Layla card (16-bit 44.1 kHz digital multitrack interface for PC - circa 1998-1999) into my PC. The software I used was Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro (now called Adobe Audition, since Adobe purchased Syntrillium). I used Samplitude Mastering software to create the CD disks. When Mr. Arouh told me he liked Zappa, I decided enough time had passed and so I made him a copy.
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Frank Zappa's Band, March - July 1980:
FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Arthur Barrow, David Logeman, Tommy Mars.
Setlist:
01 Chunga's Revenge [4:09] °°° cuts in, start missing, flaws & skips over first minute
02 Intro [0:42]
03 Keep It Greasey [3:08]
04 Outside Now [6:35]
05 City Of Tiny Lights [7:25]
06 Pound For A Brown [13:04]
07 Cosmik Debris [4:28]
08 You Didn't Try To Call Me [3:56]
09 I Ain't Got No Heart [2:11]
10 Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [2:34] °°° CD-R track boundary (tb) flaw at 0:00,500 °°° tf cut at 1:06
11 Teenage Wind [3:22]
12 Harder Than Your Husband [2:43]
13 Bamboozled By Love [5:57]
14 Pick Me, I'm Clean (q: The Radio Is Broken) [11:01]
15 Easy Meat (q: Mo 'N Herb's Vacation) [10:37]
16 Mudd Club [3:41]
17 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [3:23]
18 Heavenly Bank Account [5:28] °°° CD-R tb flaw at 0:48 °°° tf cut at 1:32
19 Encore Break [0:50] °°° cuts in, no music missing
20 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted [2:43]
21 Joe's Garage [2:26] °°° CD-R tb flaw at 2:25
22 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? [2:31]
23 Encore Break [1:34] °°° CD-R tb flaw at 1:30
24 Don't Eat The Yellow Snow [2:25]
25 The Illinois Enema Bandit [10:08]
26 Encore Break [0:57] °°° cut at 0:41, no music missing
27 Nite Owl [3:25]
Total time 121.38 min
Notes: previously uncirculated show, no fills available
Some CD-R track boundaries impossible to get fixed, flaws still audible (fade out gaps, micro-skips)
Credits:Frank Zappa 1980-04-19 Gainesville, FL (FLAC)
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