The band on this is: Frank Zappa - Ian Underwood - Max Bennett - Shuggie Otis - Captain Beefheart - John Guerin - Paul Humphrey - Ron Selico - Don 'Sugarcane' Harris - Jean-Luc Ponty which is one helluva lineup by any standard. Thanks for this. Off to find a lossless version right away ;)
Ahmet and the Family Trust ought to release the Hot Rats sessions around Oct. of '19 to commemorate 50 years hence that monumental Zappa release. You'll Love It! It's a way of life.
A six disc Hot Rats Sessions box set is being prepared by the ZFT and Joe the Vaultmieister for relase sometime soon! forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/frank-zappa-the-hot-rat-sessions-6-cd-set.889260/
@@fastteddyb My cousin lived at 57. I think it was demolished. I spent much of the summer of 1968 staying with her. Done Butlitz quite a few times since too. There was a great record shop in Bognor. I think it was calked The Woods?
Sugar Cane Harris on the violin and FZ on the lead guitar and rhythm guitar. Is it Ian Underwood on the keyboards? Who the rhythm section is I don't know for sure.
zappa.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10328 has details about other material from the Hot Rats sessions that has been officially released, and other notes to assist seekers of treasure of this type.
una pieza maravillosa..que se quedó en el tintero.... con alguien tan prolijo es normal que esto pase. Gracias theassaultednuts ... una duda... es Sugarcane o Ponty el que toca el violín aquí.. me parece más Harris...
Mostly yeah. But it has (or had, haven't been there for 10 years) one of the last real English seafronts, as in Bonzo Dog Band's 'Postcard'. They were threatening to develop it a few years ago, so it may have all gone by now.
+Jeff Dexter why do you say that? just curious. It looks like an acetate from the day… although he was with Warner at the time, he was with MGM Verve before that. Often acetates were printed on whatever the studio had lying around…
Jeff Dexter (Jazzwise #71, December 2003-January 2004) One summer Sunday in 1970 my best friend and house mate, the late great producer Ian "Sammy" Samwell is up early looking after Frank Zappa while he is in London. As it's a Sunday, that means, Implosion at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm which was my baby, not just as the MC/DJ, but I was responsible for putting together most of the shows. Before I set off to Chalk Farm, Sammy tells me Frank has an edited version of a tune that may be a single, hoping that he might get some airplay, but he's not to sure about it. Frank wants to know if he can hear his record that afternoon on the Roundhose PA, would I mind giving him the chance to hear it played there? Before the masses arrived at about 3.45 in the afternoon Sammy shows up with Frank in tow. Frank hands me a 10" Artisan Sound Recorders acetate. Printed on side one, is "Sharleena" (vocal) 3:54 which has been crossed out but written in ballpoint it says 2.54, a real single edit, under three minutes. So on one of my Thorens TD124 Mk IIs it goes. Frank and Sammy wander round the house listening intently while looking at the few faces that are already inside. As the record finishes Frank comes closer to the stage, he doesn't look too convinced. I quickly flip the disk and play side two "Bognor Regis" (instrumental) 4:48. I crack up laughing at the title, it just seemed so funny, but I loved it. I then plopped on another record and put Frank's acetate back in its brown bag to hand it back. Frank holds up his hand and say, "you keep it, play it again if you want, it's the only one, let me know what you think," then he heads off round the back of the stage.
