Frank Zappa

Uptown Theatre
Chicago, IL

1978 09 29 - Early Show

~~ analog414 Master recording, incl. patches ~~

Originally seeded by analog414 to the Shoebox:
1978 09 29 Early Chicago IL 66.48 AUD Master (analog414)
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7578

This A/A- sounding "short" source version
has been patched to near-completion with material from the "longer" source,
kindly contributed by blackpage (unknown gen AUD, CD-R source, with more or less B- sound)

Current FZshows entry:
1978 09 29 - Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL
Early show
100 min, Aud, B/B-
65 min, Aud, B+

The shorter version doesn't have Deathless Horsie, and cuts in Flakes.
The longer one is missing much of Pound For A Brown.

Deathless Horsie, Dancin' Fool, Easy Meat, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Keep It Greasey, Village Of The Sun, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Bobby Brown, Conehead, I Have Been In You, Flakes, Magic Fingers, Yellow Snow Suite, Dinah-Moe Humm, Camarillo Brillo, Muffin Man

This copy: 100.07 min, AUD MC, A/A- (patches: B/B-, Yellow Snow & encores: B-/C+)

Source and lineage info as per original analog414 seed:

*****Analog Master RB*****

16th row dead center main floor
Cassettes: TDK SA C-90
DECK: Technics RS-646DS
MICS: Teac ME-80 (nak cm-300)
Dolby On for recording.

Tape masters played back on Rotel RD-870 with speed and tape alignment adjusted.
Dolby off for playback!
Using Chord Company cables from Naim...
Played through the Naim Audio NAC-52 pre-amp
to the Teac CDR-2000 Standalone.
Mastered to Taiyo Yuden gold satin 74-ZY CDR's
PC drive.....Plextor UltraPlex40max CDR-ROM SCSI W/adaptec 2930
EAC (1.8X ripping speed or slower on all my uploads) > FLAC > YOU GUYS, Enjoy RB

Shoebox flac > wav > Soundforge 10: merging all tracks, minor volume level and phase offset adjustments,
tracking, patching in fills from alternate AUD source > flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (548 MB)

Taped by: analog414
Transferred: analog414
Edited by: analog414, flambay

Fills included from longer source unknown gen AUD
(blackpage CD-R, 97.52 min, AUD, B-)
same source as Yojimbo-av copy in the FZ Shows Archives:
1978 09 29 E Chicago IL 97.51 Aud long (av): http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2368
but without the digital flaws found there.

Lineage:
analog master audience cassette tape -> CD ->
extracted using EAC in secure mode ->
Sound Forge 4.5 used to normalize, remove dozens of small gaps ->
CDWave -> MKW SHN by Bill Lantz 9/15/03 ->
wav -> Soundforge 10: extracting patches, adjusting volume, merging with main source tracks

Taped by: unknown
Transferred by: blackpage
Edited by: blackpage, flambay

Frank Zappa's Band, August - October 1978:

FZ, Ike Willis (until 10 14), Patrick O'Hearn (from 10 13),
Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf.

Setlist:

01 waiting for the show to start, with classical/film music over PA (composer ?) [0:39]
°°° Tracks 01-03 from blackpage AUD source, cuts at end
02 Crowd, Läther Grout (via PA), tuning up [1:34] °°° cuts in
03 The Deathless Horsie [4:53] °°° switch to analog414 MC source at 4:51
04 Band Introductions [1:05]
05 Dancin' Fool [3:38]
06 Easy Meat [5:08]
07 Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me? [4:24]
08 Keep It Greasey [3:42]
09 Village Of The Sun [8:10]
10 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [3:40]
11 City Of Tiny Lites [9:55]
12 Pound For A Brown [9:54] °°° tf/blackpage source patch {5:41-5:48}
13 Bobby Brown [3:02]
14 Conehead [4:55]
15 "Love Songs Stink" rap [3:57]
16 I Have Been In You [3:38]
17 Flakes [5:20] °°° analog414 source ends here, blackpage source patch {0:08-0:13},
°°° switch to blackpage source at 0:31 for rest of show
18 Magic Fingers [2:36]
19 Yellow Snow Suite [5:38] °°° digital glitches over first 25 secs
°°° cuts off during Nanook Rubs It, rest of Suite missing

20 encore break [0:24] °°° cuts in
21 Dinah-Moe Humm [6:07]
22 Camarillo Brillo [3:21]
23 Muffin Man [4:26] °°° cuts, end missing

Total time (patched version) 100.07 min

Unpatched tracks (analog414 MC source only)
in separate subfolder (64 MB):
(all unpatched tracks SB aligned with tracks in main folder)

03 The Deathless Horsie (unpatched) [0:06] °°° fades in at end of song
12 Pound For A Brown (unpatched) [9:47] °°° tf cut at 5:41
17 Flakes (unpatched) [1:25] °°° fragments only, lots of cuts and drop outs

Total time (analog414 MC source only) 66.32 min

Credits:
Many thanks to Rick/analog414 for taping this show
and for sharing his original recording with Zappateers (Shoebox seed).
Many thanks to blackpage for contributing
his original CD-R copy for the patches included here.

Enjoy !!

Seeded to FZ Shows by flambay.

www.zappateers.com/bb - August 2013