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Yo Cats

(Zappa/Mariano - music: FZ & Tommy Mars; words: FZ)

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• quoted in King Kong from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989), performed in London, June 19, 1982
• Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention (1985) as Yo Cats, recorded at UMRK, c. 1982-85
  • same version re-mixed on Have I Offended Someone? (1997) as Yo Cats

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

• May-July, 1982 (Europe) <rehearsals>
• February-March, 1988 (North America)

Comments:

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

1988
Frank Zappa meets Milli Vanilli. In tribute to the lip-synching wonders of the world, this band never actually performs this tune. Instead, Frank has the FZMTMOP track played over the PA system, which the band then pretended they were actually playing. Sort-of a full-blown "Putting on the Hitz", if you know what I mean.

Conceptual Continuity:

• Po-Jama People

More Unions:

• Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink ("I'm the union man")
• Lonesome Cowboy Burt ("Unionized roofin' old son-of-a-gun")
• Flakes ("We're protected by unions")
• Stick Together ("This is a song about the union, friends")

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