Frank Zappa
Rhein-Main-Halle, Wiesbaden, Germany
January 30th 1977
Early Show

~~ from Master Audience tape ~~

available tapes according FZshows:
1977 01 30 - Rhein-Main-Halle, Wiesbaden, Germany
Early Show
90 min, Aud, A-/B+
The Purple Lagoon, Peaches En Regalia, The Torture Never Stops, Big Leg Emma, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Jones Crusher, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Tryin' To Grow A Chin, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes, Dong Work For Yuda, Manx Needs Women, Titties 'n Beer, Black Napkins, Dinah-Moe Humm, I'm The Slime

This copy: 95.14 min, Aud MC, A/A-

Source: master audience cassette
Equipment: UHER CR124 Portable / Sennheiser MKE 2002
("in-ear dummyhead" condensor microphones /
AGFA CR90 tape.

Lineage: Master cassette > Nakamichi 680 deck > M-Audio Transit USB @ 88,2 kHz, 24 bit.
> Acoustica 4.1 (record/edits) > TTA compression > wav
> Soundforge 9: speed correction, phase offset adjustment,
downsample to 44.1kHz,16bit, tracking, patching fills
> flac TLH lvl7 w/SBA (540 MB)

Taped By: RockHopper62
Transferred By: RockHopper62
Edited By: RockHopper62, flambay

Fills from Yojimbo tape source (~92 min, Aud unknown gen, A-/B+ mono)
Lineage:
Maxell XLII (unknown gen) -> Denon DRM-800A -> Creative SB Live! -> wav -> FLAC Frontend -> wav -> Soundforge: speed correction, extracting fills and patching with main source

taped by: unknown
transferred by: Yojimbo
edited by: flambay

Line Up:
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Vocals
Ray White - Guitar, Vocals
Eddie Jobson - Keyboards, Violin
Patrick O'Hearn - Bass
Terry Bozzio - Drums, Vocals

Set list:

00 Crowd~Soundcheck [1:19]
01 Purple Lagoon Intro [2:48] °°° minor flaws (drop-out) at 0:19, 0:37, 1:23, 2:17 cross-mixed with Yojimbo material
02 Peaches En Regalia [2:57]
03 The Torture Never Stops [11:43]
04 Big Leg Emma [2:18]
05 City Of Tiny Lights [9:49]
06 Pound For A Brown [11:39] °°° tf/Yojimbo source patch {10:05-10:44}
07 Jones Crusher [2:42]
08 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [4:16]
09 Trying To Grow A Chin [3:46]
10 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes [5:14]
11 Dong Work For Yuda [2:33]
12 Manx Needs Women [1:25]
13 Titten Und Bier (Titties 'N Beer) [7:37]
14 Black Napkins [13:50]
15 Dinah Moe Humm [6:59] °°° cuts in, no music missing °°°switch to Yojimbo fill source at 3:07
(This was Encore #1 of 2, from a different recording position, since the whole
audience was politely moved to a rear gate, to open main gate for the next show)
16 I'm The Slime [4:12] °°° from Yojimbo source °°° cuts in, no music missing

Total time (patched version) 95.14 min

Unpatched tracks in separate subfolder (98 MB):
01 Purple Lagoon Intro [2:48] °°° minor flaws (drop-out) at 0:19, 0:37, 1:23, 2:17
10 Pound For A Brown [11:01] °°° tf/cut at 10:06
15 Dinah Moe Humm [3:08] °°° cuts off

Total time (RockHopper62 source only) 86.32 min

Notes:

Here are more extensive notes on the mastering of
base recording by RockHopper62:

Recorded on an UHER CR124 Portable / Sennheiser MKE 2002
("in-ear dummyhead" condensor microphones / AGFA CR90
tape. Replayed in Dec 2008 on a Nakamichi 680 deck,
digitized using M-Audio Transit USB @ 88,2 kHz,
24 bit. Acoustica 4.1 (acondigital.com) used for
recording, raw track cutting, linear volume editing,
some glitch-removal (aka drop-out-interpolation) and
(very subtle) de-hissing.

Field Notes by RockHopper62:
I've been only a few feet from the stage, in the midst
of a crowd of enthusiastic GIs, standing upright without
ever moving for almost 90 minutes (I still wonder what
they where thinking which stuff I had dropped in) with
an early version of the now so popular in-ear-type
microphones

Credits: Wow, thanks RockHopper62 for an excellent
recording, and fine mastering techniques.
Thanks to Drew51 for hosting and passing along the raw files.
Thanks to Yojimbo and to BengoFury for passing along the filler material.

brought to you by RockHopper62, Yojimbo and flambay

Enjoy !!!

www.zappateers.com/bb - February 2009