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Waka/Wazoo, a new five-disc multi-format box set covering Frank Zappa‘s Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo period, is to be released through Zappa Records/Ume on December 16. You can listen to an alternate take of Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus from the new set below.
Produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vault expert Joe Travers, the comprehensive 4CD + Blu-Ray Audio set boasts unreleased alternate takes of almost every composition recorded during the album sessions, Vault mix session outtakes and oddities, and also includes the full final show of the 10-piece tour, recorded at the famous Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on December 15, 1972.
Additionally, the collection includes a set of demos for George Duke’s solo material that Zappa produced and played guitar on during the album recording sessions at Paramount Studios. Although Duke would go on to re-record the compositions for his own albums, the versions with Zappa have never been officially issued until now.
At the same tim the Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo albums themselves will be reissued on Blu-Ray Audio disc in a variety of exciting listening experiences: brand-new, first-time-ever immersive Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital True HD 5.1 surround sound mixes and also black and coloured vinyl. Both albums will also be available for hi-res streaming.
It was while recuperating with a broken leg in 1972 after an over-zealous fan had pushed him offstage at London’s Rainbow Theatre that Zappa decided to work with a large ‘Electric Orchestra’. Ultimately, he contracted a 20-piece group for recording sessions and an eight-city tour. Shortly thereafter, a scaled down 10-piece configuration, now popularly known as the ‘Petite Wazoo’ toured for almost two months, resulting in both Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, plus two tours and an archive of show masters in his Vault.
Frank Zappa: Waka/Wazoo tracklist
CD 1
Paramount Studios Recording Session Alternates and Outtakes
1. Your Mouth (Take 1)
2. Big Swifty (Alternate Take)
3. Minimal Art (Eat That Question – Version 1, Take 2)
4. Blessed Relief (Outtake Version)
5. Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo) (Outtake Version)
6. For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Outtake Version)
7. Waka/Jawaka (Outtake Version)
CD 2
Paramount Studios Recording Session Alternates and Outtakes, continued
1. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Take)
2. Eat That Question (Version 2, Alternate Take)
3. Big Swifty (Alternate Mix)
4. For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Alternate Mix)
5. It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (Alternate Mix)
6. Waka/Jawaka (Alternate Mix)
7. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Mix)
8. Eat That Question (Alternate Mix)
CD 3
George Duke Demos – The Master Versions
1. For Love (I Come Your Friend)
2. Psychosomatic Dung
3. Uncle Remus (Instrumental)
4. Love
George Duke Session Outtakes
5. For Love (I Come Your Friend) (Basic Track, Take 1)
6. Psychosomatic Dung (Basic Track, Take 2)
7. Love (Basic Track, Take 1)
The Grand Wazoo – Live
8. Approximate (Live – FZ Record Plant Mix)
10-Piece/Petite Wazoo – Live / Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
9. Winterland ’72 Opening And Band Introductions
10. Little Dots
CD 4 (10-Piece/Petite Wazoo – Live, continued (Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco)
1. America Drinks
2. Montana
3. Farther O’Blivion
4. Cosmik Debris
5. Chunga’s Revenge
Waka/Jawaka Blue-ray Audio
1. Big Swifty
2. Your Mouth
3. It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal
4. Waka / Jawaka
The Grand Wazoo
1. The Grand Wazoo
2. For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)
3. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
4. Eat That Question
5. Blessed Relief
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FRANK ZAPPA We're Only In It For The Money (1968 UK first issue 18-track mono LP with 'Sold in The UK' label text, a particularly tough pressing to find, featuring track separated sides and the 'heavily censored' version of the album, superb reverse Sgt. Pepper parody fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows creasing/discolouration to the edges & spine, the faint remains of a name to inside flipback, still with a decent sheen even after fifty years whilst the vinyl is graded VG+ with light hairlines on playing surface. A very acceptable play copy of this superb album VLP9199)
- Frank Zappa - Them Or Us - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $31.25, €29.00 (New Item) (arrived 07-Mar-2024 16:46)on April 25, 2024 at 9:35 pm
FRANK ZAPPA Them Or Us (1984 UK 14-track double LP, complete with original Barking Pumpkin Warning/Guarantee inners, great glossy Donald Roller Wilson gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics & lineups inside. The sleeve has splits to the top seam& the vinyl shows only a handful of hairline surface marks to indicate play FZD1)
- Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.50, €58.00 (New Item) (arrived 07-Feb-2024 16:30)on April 25, 2024 at 9:35 pm
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Absolutely Free (1967 UK 13-track stereo LP, housed in a unique front laminated flipback sleeve with the album art at ninety degrees to the gatefold version & with the tracklisting & Mike Raven poem on the back. The sleeve [VG+] reveals some light ageing with some faint discolouration to the reverse whilst the vinyl is clean & grades VG/VG+ with several light paper hairline scuffs not affecting play. Still a great copy of an early Zappa classic SVLP9174)
- Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $93.75, €87.00 (New Item) (arrived 07-Feb-2024 16:36)on April 25, 2024 at 9:35 pm
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- Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money / Lumpy Gravy - UK - CD album - £15.00, $18.75, €17.40 (New Item) (arrived 12-Feb-2024 16:55)on April 25, 2024 at 9:35 pm
FRANK ZAPPA We're Only In It For The Money / Lumpy Gravy (2012 UK 19-track CD featuring the whole of the two original LPs on one disc with audio sourced from the 1993 remaster, fold out picture sleeve)
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