Frank Zappa
1977 11 11 Kansas City 131.19 Aud A- (fredfox-fl), speed corrected

This is a "re"-seed of last year's fredfox seed (got it via EZT) of
1977 11 11 Kansas City Aud A-/B+, but speed corrected, see details below.

available tapes according JN:
11-Nov 1977, Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO
130 min, Aud, B+
Intro, Stinkfoot, Dirty Love, Peaches En Regalia, Torture Never Stops, Tryin' To Grow A Chin, City Of Tiny Lights, Pound For A Brown, Bobby Brown, King Kong, Flakes, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes, Punky's Whips, Wild Love, Disco Boy, Black Napkins

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orig.seeder info:

Frank Zappa
Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO;
Friday, 11-11-1977
134 min, Aud; subjective quality hint: A- (from Punky's Whips on see notes below)

Source: Aud (unknown mics) > ? > CDR > EAC (secure mode) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (new wav file) > CDWav (new tracking) > flac frontend (Level 8, SBE correction)
Taper: unknown
Transfer Lineage/Transferer of original CD's: unknown
EAC'd and flac'd by fredfox, 11-22-2004; Enjoy!

- No noise reduction at all -

Disc 1: [64:46]
01: Intro (see "Intro-Notes" below!)
02: Stinkfoot
03: The Poodle Lecture*
04: Dirty Love
05: Peaches En Regalia
06: The Torture Never Stops
07: Tryin' To Grow A Chin
08: City Of Tiny Lights**
09: Pound For A Brown
10: Bobby Brown Introduction
11: Bobby Brown

Disc 2: [69:23]
01: King Kong
02: Flakes
03: Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
04: Punky's Whips (see "Punky's Whips-Notes" below)
05: Wild Love
Encores:
06: Disco Boy
07: Black Napkins

Notes:
* peak level varies several times between 03:08 and 05:30 (taper busy with people around him)
** tape flip at 03:07 (fade out/in again, like on orig. CD's) ; unknown how much music is missing, but for sure more than necessary :-(

Intro-Notes:
Not sure if this recording is missing an Intro like mentioned by JN (Dylan section of Flakes); Track 01 starts some seconds late in the chords of Stinkfoot with FZ greeting the audience and introducing the band members

Punky's Whips Notes (all quality hints subjective, maybe you rate them better or worse) :
- Song start to 03:26 = A- sound quality, same source/tape like first 90 minutes of this recording
- 03:26 to 06:02 = B+ sound quality, patch from much higher generation tape (hissy)
- 06:02 to end of show = B+ sound quality, higher generation tape than first 90 minutes, lower than Punky's Whips 03:26 to 06:02
- fade-out at 05:58 (tape flip?) , fade-in into guitar solo
- dropouts at 00:16, 05:02 and 05:08 :-(

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flambay samples notes:

entire show speed corrected (between -20 and +65 cts.) with Soundforge,
then re-encoded to flac w.Frontend lvl8

total time now: 131.19 min

Disc 1: (63:46)

01: Intro [1:15]
02: Stinkfoot [8:42]
03: The Poodle Lecture* [5:55]
04: Dirty Love [4:29]
05: Peaches En Regalia [2:37]
06: The Torture Never Stops [15:03]
07: Tryin' To Grow A Chin [3:32]
08: City Of Tiny Lights** [4:24]
09: Pound For A Brown [12:47]
10: Bobby Brown Introduction [2:20]
11: Bobby Brown [2:42]

Disc 2: (67:33)

01: King Kong [13:43]
02: Flakes [3:15]
03: Broken Hearts Are For Assholes [3:56]
04: Punky's Whips [8:25]
05: Wild Love [27:49]
Encores:
06: Disco Boy [4:04]
07: Black Napkins [6:21]


Sound quality imo: mostly A-/B+,
B- sound in PW starts at "your album's the shits - it's all wrong ...",
B+ at cut in PW, getting close to A- in Black Napkins.

Let me know, if there is a better sounding version throughout,
or at least some filler material to compensate the above mentioned flaws & cuts.

Thanks.

Enjoy.

-- flambay


samples seeded here: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3127

sample 1 - to illustrate the cut/tf in City of Tiny Lites, A- sound
sample 2 - Assholes~Punky's Whips (1st dropout), A- sound
sample 3 - Punky's Whips (2nd & 3rd dropouts, cut/tf to guitar solo), B-/B++ sound