ZAPPAone shot deal

Ok. This is where all the zany miscellany can be found - on the inside of the package -

in the liner notes. Not like what you would line the bottom of your birdcage with - but

really, like the notes you might keep for some fabulous trip across an ocean on a major

seagoing vessel. For me, it’s usually a little bit reminiscence and mostly documentary

steerage about what, how and sometimes why we got here from out there.

You will note the bandwidth on this recording is wide and the era septidecant. Since this

is literally a quickie - a sort of us daring ourselves to get this together on the fly without

the wall - it turns out that Joe had already set aside 2 sections of FZ ‘build reel’ material

so we decided one would open and the other would close what just might be a one shot

deal. Now we just had to fill in the blanks. The guitar was the main element for me and

the instant I heard Occam’s Razor I knew that this was where we had to go. Meanwhile,

concurrently trapped in Spring Cleaning mode, I happened upon a drawer that surely

had not been opened for maybe 20 years. And right there it was - the cover shot! A One

Shot Deal if ever there was a roadmap in Serendipity. Amusing that FZ had always

maintained that he was in the business of connecting the dots and here they were . . .

Now appearing for the first time on CD these recordings is a sandwich - the Bun being 2

FZ Constructs. The Crux of the Biscuit here really is the confinement loaf, comprised of

Tracks 1 - 4, and Tracks 8 & 9 - all put together �sequenced edited� by FZ and just as we

found them in the Vault. For me the Burger is Occam’s Razor. But all of these tracks

were Produced - Recorded Composed Arranged Conducted Constructed Mixed by FZ

and set aside by him for some project about which we can only speculate. Still, you can

say Darker and Darker and we can say yes, we have fries with that. And the special

sauce.

All Titles Produced by Frank Zappa

OSD Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers

Vaultmeisterment by Joe Travers

Mastered by Bernie Grundman

Cover Art by John Williams

Package Concept & Text by Gail Zappa

Design &�Layout - Michael “It kinda looks like Jupiter” Mesker

Production Manager - Melanie Starks

1. Bathtub Man 5:43 �Brock,

Duke� FZ� 1974. Road Recording Analog ¼”

Stereo Master. FZ’s Band: FZ - guitar; George Duke - key-

boards, vocals; Napoleon Murphy Brock - vocals, saxophone; Ruth

Underwood - percussion; Tom Fowler - bass; Chester Thompson - drums.

2. Space Boogers 1:24 1974. Road Recording� Analog ¼” Stereo Master. Players:

FZ - guitar; George Duke - keyboards; Chester Thompson - drums. 3. Hermitage 2:00

Royce Hall Performances, 17 18 September 1975, LA. Live Recording Analog ¼” Stereo

Master. Players: Frank Zappa - conductor, guitar; Alan Estes, John Bergamo, Emil Richards,

Tom Raney - percussion; Terry Bozzio - drums; Dave Parlato - bass; Mike Lang, Ralph Grierson -

keyboards; Bill Mays - clavinet; Bobby Dubow, John Wittenberg - violin; Pamela Goldsmith - viola;

Jerry Kessler - cello; Lou Anne Neill - harp; Gene Goe, Malcolm McNab, Roy Poper - trumpet; Bruce

Fowler, Jock Ellis, Kenny Shroyer - trombone; Dana Hughes - bass trombone; Don Waldrop - tuba, contrabass

trombone; Arthur Briegleb, David Duke, Todd Miller, Bob Henderson - French horn; Dave Shostac - flute, tenor

sax; Sheridan Stokes - flute, sax; Ray Reed - flute, alto sax; Vic Morosco - clarinet, alto sax; Jay Migliori -

clarinet, tenor sax; Mike Altschul - bass clarinet, baritone sax; Earl Dumler - oboe, English horn, bass oboe; John

Winter - oboe, English horn; Joan Elardo - oboe, English horn; JoAnn Caldwell - bassoon; Bobby Tricarico - bassoon,

contrabassoon. All personnel were members of the touring ensemble with the exception of these concerts. For these

performances Michael Zearott was hired to conduct but for the sections such as this it is obvious who is holding the

baton of life. 4. Trudgin’ Across The Tundra 4:01 11 11 72, Washington D.C. Show 1 Road Recording� Analog ¼”

Stereo Master. Players: FZ - conductor, guitar; Tony Duran - slide guitar; Malcolm McNab - trumpet; Gary Barone -

trumpet �solo ; Tom Malone - trumpet, trombone, tuba, piccolo, saxophone; Bruce Fowler - trombone; Glenn Ferris -

trombone; Earl Dumler - oboe, saxophone, sarrusophone; Dave Parlato - bass; Jim Gordon - drums, steel drums.

5. Occam’s Razor On The Bus - Original Solo 9:11 3 21 79, Heidelburg. Road Recording 1630 Digital Master.

Players: FZ - guitar solo; Vinnie Colaiuta - drums; Arthur Barrow - bass; Ed Mann - percussion; Tommy Mars -

keyboards; Denny Walley - guitar, b.g. vocal; Peter Wolf - keyboards; Ike Willis - b.g. vocal; Warren Cuccurullo -

guitar. 6. Heidelberg 4:46 2�24� 78. Road Recording� 1610 Digital Master. This first appeared on the cassette

“The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa” released in 1987. Check out the dates on tracks 5 & 6 - same

place �Eppleheim� and almost exactly one year apart. Players: FZ - guitar solo; Terry Bozzio - drums; Patrick

O’Hearn - bass; Ed Mann - percussion: Tommy Mars - keyboards; Peter Wolf - keyboards; Adrian Belew -

guitar. 7. The Illinois Enema Bandit 9:27 Halloween, 1981, New York City. Road Recording 1610

Digital Master also appears on TTNS, the DVD. Players: FZ - guitar, vocals; Ray White - vocals,

guitar; Steve Vai - guitar; Ed Mann - percussion; Tommy Mars - keyboards; Robert Martin -

keyboards, vocals; Scott Thunes - bass; Chad Wackerman - drums. 8. Australian Yellow Snow

12:26 6 24-26 73 Sydney, Australia. Road Recording 1610 Digital Master. Players: FZ -

guitar, vocals; George Duke - keyboards, vocals; Ian Underwood - woodwinds,

synthesizer; Bruce Fowler - trombone; Sal Marquez - trumpet, vocals;

Jean-Luc Ponty - violin; Ruth Underwood - percussion; Tom Fowler -

bass; Ralph Humphrey - drums. 9. Rollo 2:57 Yes, this is a

different edit than on “Quaudiophiliac” - the details are

per Track 3 above. Total Time: 51:55

01. Bathtub Man 5:43

02. Space Boogers 1:24

03. Hermitage 2:00

04. Trudgin’ Across The Tundra 4:01

05. Occam’s Razor 9:11

06. Heidelberg 1987 4:46

07. The Illinois Enema Bandit 9:27

08. Australian Yellow Snow 12:26

09. Rollo 2:57

All Tracks Produced by Frank Zappa

OSD Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers

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