For those of you who are interested, all of the tracks on Trance-Fusion have now been identified:
- Chunga's Revenge (London, 4/19/88, w/Dweezil)
- Bowling On Charen ("Wild Love" solo, NYC, 10/28/77 #1)
- Good Lobna ("Cleveland" solo, Memphis 12/4/84)
- Cold Dark Matter ("Inca Roads" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
- Butter Or Canons ("Cleveland" solo from NYC, 8/25/84)
- Ask Dr. Stupid ("Easy Meat" solo from Eppelheim, 3/21/79)
- Scratch & Sniff ("City of Tiny Lights" solo from Brighton 4/16/88)
- Trance-Fusion ("Marqueson's Chicken" solo from Stuttgart, 5/24/88)
- Gorgo ("Torture" solo from Stockholm, 5/1/88)
- Diplodocus ("King Kong" solo from Providence, 10/26/84)
- Soul Polka ("Oh No" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
- For Giuseppe Franco ("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Seattle 12/17/84 #2)
- After Dinner Smoker (another "Torture" solo from Genoa, 6/9/88)
- Light Is All That Matters ("Cleveland" solo(s) from Seattle, 12/17/84 #2)
- Finding Higgs' Boson ("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Vienna, 5/8/88)
- Bavarian Sunset (post-"Walrus" jam from Munich, 05/09/88, w/Dweezil)
These are the titles as they were spelled and in the order they were registered at the U.S. Copyright Office on August 26, 1994:
And this is a scan of the actual J-Card insert that came with the Trance-Fusion promo cassette years ago (courtesy of John Scialli & Bill Lantz):
How come that it says FZ had no tapes from the scandinavian part of the 88 tour (because the recording truck broke) and could use the torture solo from Stockholm 88 for trance-fusion.
As Pat Buzby wrote in another thread, it was only the Oslo and Helsinki concerts (Apr. 27 & 29) that were affected. The truck broke in Malmö, Sweden, right after the Lund concert on Apr. 26 and fixed in time for Stockholm, May 1.
Ok. Last week I called 818-Pumpkin about an unrelated question, and I asked also when Trance Fusion was being released. I was told, quite bluntly, "Trance Fusion is not being released."
I ordered from Barfko-Swill last week (and got EIHN). When I talked to B.J., she was unaware that zappaworld.com was repointed to zappa.com. But she did tell me that ZFT did withhold Trance-Fusion from Ryko (back to the lab) and that is why EIHN came out at Xmas instead.
Now look at the html-source of that page. (http://www.zappa.com/) In the keywords, they didn't mention "Freak Out" and "Absolutely Free" and "Läther". Otoh, there is "Dance Me This", "Trance-Fusion", "The Rage And The Fury".
Wtf?
Trance-Fusion, CD - Fall 2003.
Expect the Unexpected! Expect the long-anticipated release of Frank Zappa's TRANCE-FUSION. Coincidence? Uh uh! Guitar fans welcome!
Trans Fusion CD
Frank Zappa
Scheduled to release October 24, 2006
Label: WEA
Trans Fusion CD
Frank Zappa
Scheduled to release October 24, 2006
Label: Rykodisc distribution
Trance-Fusion CD
Frank Zappa
Scheduled to release Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Label: Zappa Records (USA)
Trance-Fusion
Zappa, FrankTrance-Fusion is the name of an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006. The album had previously been announced for release in 2003, and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through bootlegs.
Trance-Fusion (Release Date: 10\24\2006)
So you know Trance-Fusion ( http://www.zappa.com/spifnificent.html ) is out at long (fill in the blank) last.
31 October
We hope to see you at the Halloween Show!And should you need to Go With What You Know, or if you need an I.D., or a Trance-Fusion or a copy of the Monstrous Memoirs of A Mighty McFearless - they will be available before ZAPPA Plays ZAPPA starts at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. If you are lucky you can even get the Memoirs signed, in person by the Author his very self, Ahmet Zappa. When the doors open he will be signing books and drawing monsters - to him and for you (if you ask nice.)
I have "Trance-Fusion" in my hand right now.
They were selling it at the NYC ZPZ show.
Trance-Fusion starts shipping.
(London, 4/19/88, w/Dweezil)
aka "The Squirm"
("Wild Love" solo, NYC, 10/28/77 #1)
"The Squirm" is an unreleased guitar solo. It was recorded at the Palladium in New York on Halloween 1977 - the same concert that BABY SNAKES is taken from. The title "The Squirm" was probably first used on a bootleg LP called ZURKON MUSIC (ZX 3659).
Charon is Pluto's only moon. In Greek mythology Pluto was the god of the underworld and Charon was the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to his domain. I'd bet FZ was well aware of both connections.
Charon is not Pluto's only moon. Two more, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005.
Also, Pluto and Charon are arguably double dwarf planets rather than dwarf planet and moon.
("Cleveland" solo, Memphis 12/4/84)
I think this title was part of a line in the Simpson's episode where Bart falls in love with this "bad" girl. They are eating some food and dipping it in this sauce called lobna when Bart makes a comment about "good lobna". I wonder when the title of the song was given. We'd have to ask Matt Groening.
The Simpsons, episode 9F06 "The New Kid On The Block", written by Conan O'Brien. Bart has a crush on the new neighbor, Laura (played by Sara Gilbert). When Laura baby-sits Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, she orders dinner from Two Guys From Kabul.
Laura: You take your kafta bi sanya and dip it in the labna.
Bart: Now that is good labna.
The closed captions spell both "kafta" and "labna" with As. Web searches suggest that the first is commonly spelled either kafta or kofta, while the latter is usually spelled labna.
Kafta/kofta are meatballs or dumplings. Labna is yoghurt cheese. Both are general Middle-Eastern, not specifically Afghan.
According to Mike Keneally (affz, 2/14/96), "Frank was absolutely referring to the Simpsons episode."
("Inca Roads" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
Can someone with a larger tape collection than me, confirm this additional info I got about the locations. A cold Dark Matter Inca Roads Solo from 19.3.88 Allentown
Yep! Soul Polka comes from this show too, a recent discovery.
GALAXY BUILDING BLOCK AND COLD DARK MATTER THEORIES http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/96/29/galtheory.html
Butter Or Canons ("Cleveland" solo from NYC, 8/25/84)
("Easy Meat" solo from Eppelheim, 3/21/79)
Another cartoon reference.. this one was the title of an episode of Ren & Stimpy. Frank provided voices for another episode.. see the entry in the Videography FAQ.
("City of Tiny Lights" solo from Brighton 4/16/88)
("Marqueson's Chicken" solo from Stuttgart, 5/24/88)
("The Torture Never Stops" solo from Stockholm, 05/01/88)
"Gorgo" is the name of a bad movie made in 1961. The film has something to do with a giant monster (An American "Godzilla") trashing some city, looking for it's offspring, a walking sea monster named Gorgo. The film aired as part of an "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode in 1998.
Gorgo, short for Gorgonzola, was the name of FZ's cat. It can be seen on the back cover of Russo's book Cosmik Debris.
("King Kong" solo from Providence, 10/26/84)
("Oh No" solo from Allentown, 3/19/88)
("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Seattle 12/17/84 #2)
For Giuseppe Franco should be from cleveland not from hot plate heaven.
Quite possible.
I really think that this solo is from "hotel"...Scott's bass part certainly is very similar to what he plays on "hotel" in "Does Humor Belong in Music"(and many concert tapes I have from '84)...I have many versions of "cleveland" from '84...none of the solo sections have this bass structure....IMHO...
This Trance-Fusion track is dedicated to FZ's hairdresser.
Go to <http://www.giuseppefrancosalon.com/> and click on "Clients".
(another "Torture" solo from Genoa, 6/9/88)
("Cleveland" solo(s) from Seattle, 12/17/84 #2)
Light is all that matters cleveland solo from 8.5.88 Vienna (not 84!)
I believe Light Is All That Matters includes what sounds like two solos, over two different loops (one faster and one slower, the second serving as a nice bridge to the next track), and I think I once identified them as coming from Let's Move To Cleveland, Seattle 12/17/84 #1 (can't find that tape right now - damn!). There's no question that both solos (i.e the entire Light Is All That Matters, if I'm right) are from 1984, though.
("Hot Plate Heaven" solo from Vienna, 5/8/88)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_913000/913637.stm
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000
Scientists close in on elusive particle
By BBC News Online science editor Dr David WhitehouseScientists may have spotted the most sought-after prize in particle physics, the elusive Higgs particle.
Finding the Higgs is vitally important for our understanding of the way the Universe is made as it is the particle that gives matter its mass.
Researchers working at Cern, the international particle detector near Geneva, say they have detected a handful of events that may indicate the fleeting appearance of the Higgs boson.
"We all hope that what we are seeing is the Higgs on the horizon," said Dr Chris Tully of Princeton University to a packed Cern auditorium.
Hundreds of particle physicists heard that all four experiments at the Large Electron Positron (Lep) collider had found the first hints of the elusive Higgs boson.
The atom-smasher that produced these events is scheduled to close down in a few weeks, meaning that researchers have little time to confirm their discovery.
Unseen sea
Predicted over 30 years ago, the Higgs particle gives other particles such as electrons their mass. In a sense, other particles are swimming through a sea of unseen Higgs bosons, which cause a drag that shows itself as mass.
The hunt for the Higgs has been on for over a decade.
Fast-moving sub-atomic particles have to be smashed together to detect it. If they are lucky, physicists may be able to see evidence of the Higgs in the debris from the collision.
Such a Higgs signature may have been seen in several unusual events observed recently at Lep. It is possible that what has been seen is due to chance, and hence more observations are required.
The excitement about the Higgs may spur Cern's rival, Fermilab near Chicago, to intensify its efforts to find the Higgs. Fermilab will resume experiments later this month.
The committee that decides Cern's research programme will decide next week whether the Lep accelerator will continue running until December. Particle physicists nervously await its decision.
(post-"Walrus" jam from Munich, 05/09/88, w/Dweezil)
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