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Zomby Woof

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Over-Nite Sensation (1973) as Zomby Woof, recorded at Bolic Sound, May 29 & 30, 1973
  • same version on Zappa en la Radio (1997)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1 (1988) as Zomby Woof, performed in Milan and London, July 7 and June 19, 1982
  • same version on Cheap Thrills (1998)
• The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (1991) as Zomby Woof, performed in 1988

Comments:

• Non-Standard English in Frank Zappa's "Zomby Woof" (PDF) - Bossk(R)'s small 1999 academic paper

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

1973
Essentially performed as on "Overnite Sensation", with the standard deviation coming in Frank's solo. Frank performs all the vocals himself this time round, which definitely lessens the effect of many of the sections. Also, several lines of lyrics are missing throughout the song, either not having been written at this point, or due to Frank realizing that he just cannot sing them.
1982
Essentially performed as on YCDTOSA Volume I, with the standard deviation coming in Frank's solo.
1988
Essentially performed as on TBBYNHIYL, with the standard deviation coming in Frank's solo. This is another of the long lost Zappa classics, which thankfully saw the light-of-concert-day every so often in the '80's.

Conceptual Continuity:

• Nanook Rubs It ("just about as evil as an Eskimo boy can be")

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