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Shove It Right In

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• 200 Motels (1971) as a three part suite: She Painted Up Her Face, Half A Dozen Provocative Squats and Shove It Right In, recorded at Pinewood Studios, London, January-February 1971
  • same version on 200 Motels (The Movie)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992) as Shove It Right In, performed in NYC, June 5-6, 1971
• BTB II: Swiss Cheese/Fire! (1992) as part of Tears Began To Fall/She Painted Up Her Face/Half-A-Dozen Provocative Squats, performed in Montreaux, December 4, 1971

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

• May-July, 1971 (MOI)
• August-October, 1971 (MOI)
• November-December, 1971 (MOI European Tour)

Comments:

FZ on the April 1975 Royal Albert Hall Trial, as quoted on The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 123:

It is the only piece of material that deals with a look at the motivations of the girl. Many groups have done songs about groupies, but coverage of that subject has been superficial and the lyrics to this song represent some kind of landmark in the way in which the subject has been dealt with.

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

1971
Essentially performed as on YCDTOSA Volume VI. As this song appears on YCDTOSA Volume VI, it is actually three separate songs joined together. These songs- "She Painted Up Her Face", "Half A Dozen Provocative Squats", and "Shove It Right In"- are separated by classical interludes on the "200 Motels" album, but live they become the beast that appears here.

Conceptual Continuity:

• 200 Motels

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