Frank Zappa - Halloween '78

hiram.k.hackenbacker · Thursday at 19:17

Zappa has for years been on my blind buy list. Whatever gets released I pick it.

Call me a completist, fan-boy, idiot, all of the above I don't care, I just enjoy having them.

Tape, then vinyl, CD's, re-releases and now expanded anniversary editions. I've bought them all.

This upcoming release (ships 24/10) however, may be the straw that breaks the back of it for me.

So it's a 5CD set this time, packaged as per the previous three Halloween releases, which I do have.

It only seems to be available directly from Zappa.com this time and its priced at an eye watering $179.98.

That does not include getting it here, so probably add another $50 to that.

The packaging includes gimmicky crap (plastic mask/pitchfork) and a photo book.

No idea how substantial the book is as yet. Might be 10 pages with as many photos for all I know.

I'm sure the other sets were at least $100 less than this one.

I'm blaming Ahmet.

N.B. I know I'll be able to stream it for free.

Great sets from two gigs though....

Disc 1: Live at The Palladium, NYC / 10-31-78
1. 10-31-78 Show Start
2. Ancient Armaments
3. “Happy Halloween Everybody!”
4. Dancin’ Fool
5. Easy Meat
6. Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
7. Keep It Greasy
8. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
9. City Of Tiny Lites
10. Pound For A Brown
11. Thirteen
12. The Story Of Ms. X
13. Nancy

Disc 2: Live at The Palladium, NYC / 10-31-78 cont’d
1. Dinah-Moe Humm
2. Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder
3. Little Rubber Girl
4. The Idiot Bastard Son
5. Bobby Brown Goes Down
6. Conehead
7. Suicide Chump
8. Little House I Used To Live In
9. Watermelon In Easter Hay
10. Stink-Foot

Disc 3: Live at The Palladium, NYC / 10-31-78 cont’d
1. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
2. Peaches En Regalia
3. Strictly Genteel
4. Sofa #2
5. Packard Goose
6. Magic Fingers
7. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
8. Nanook Rubs It
9. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast
10. Father O’Blivion
11. Rollo
12. Camarillo Brillo
13. Muffin Man
14. Black Napkins / The Deathless Horsie

Disc 4: Live at The Palladium, NYC / 10-27-78 - Show 1
1. 10-27-78 Show 1 Opening
2. Dancin’ Fool
3. Easy Meat
4. Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
5. Keep It Greasy
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
7. City Of Tiny Lites
8. A Pound For A Brown
9. Bobby Brown Goes Down
10. Conehead
11. Dance Contest

Disc 5: Live at The Palladium, NYC / 10-27-78 - Show 1 cont’d
1. The Black Page #2
2. Dance Contest Aftermath
3. Little House I Used To Live In
4. Magic Fingers
5. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
6. Nanook Rubs It
7. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast
8. Father O’Blivion
9. Rollo
10. “Let Me Explain This To You…”
11. Dinah-Moe Humm
12. Camarillo Brillo
13. Muffin Man
14. Peaches En Regalia