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Music For Low-Budget Orchestra

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

• Originally released in Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong (Pacific Jazz, 1970) as Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Playground Psychotics (1992) as Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra, performed in NYC, June 1971
• Studio Tan (1978) as Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra, recorded at the Record Plant, LA, January-February, 1975 and at Royce Hall, UCLA, September 18-19, 1975
  • same version on Läther (1996) as Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra
  • excerpt from the same version with drums over-dubs from UMRK, c. 1982-84 on The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa (1987) as "Excerpt from Revised Music for Guitar & Low-Budget Symphony Orchestra"

Tour(s) in which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1):

• May-August, 1969 (MOI) <Intro>
• May-July, 1971 (MOI) <Intro>
• September, 1972 (Grand Wazoo)
• September, 1975 (Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra)

Comments:

Touring versions from Foggy G's We're Only In It For The Touring:

1972
"Just like all big bands, we have a medley." And yes they do, comprised of the FZ written Ponty tune "Low Budget Symphony Orchestra", "Dog Breath Variations", and "Uncle Meat". I have purposely avoided the Ponty album in my life, and thus cannot testify to the similarities of these tunes. I do, however, recognize the majority of the composition as being from "Revised Music for Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra". The remainder of the tune is essentially performed as in the "Dog Meat" medley from YCDTOSA Volume II, allowing for the obvious differences in instrumentation, and minus the opening guitar theme from "Dog Breath". This medley only lasts two performances, before the "Low Budget" portion is dropped and only the "Dog Meat" remains.

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