Frank Zappa
Chapiteau
Mulhouse (France)
July 1, 1980

~~ New Stereo Aud source with fills from prev.circulating version ~~

We're very happy to be able finally to present the almost complete 1980 Mulhouse concert. Just the very beginning of the first track is missing.

Up to this date, only a partial (80 min, according to FZShows) and rather mediocre sounding (B-/C+) version of this show has been circulating among collectors, mostly in strongly ninjatized or otherwise lossy (MP3) shape. Here we have, from a different source, thanks to RC and Lolive, a sonic upgrade (stereo sound) with fills from a lossless copy of the more widely circulating version, kindly provided by faroba.

Available tapes according FZshows:
1980 07 01 - Sous Chapiteau, Mulhouse (or Toulouse?), France
80 min, Aud, B-
City Of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, Cosmik Debris, You Didn't Try To Call Me, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, You Are What You Is, Easy Meat, Mudd Club, The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Joe's Garage, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Dancin' Fool, Bobby Brown, Ms Pinky, In France, Stick It Out, The Illinois Enema Bandit

not listed: Watermelon In Easter Hay, Keep It Greasey, Pick Me I'm Clean

This copy: 106.07 min, Aud, B+/B (w.fills, B-/C+)

Lineage : unknown taper and generation copy ... recorded in stereo.
TDK SA90 -> Alpine deck AL-35 (azimuth optimised) -> Creative SB Live -> Adobe Audition (acquisition)-> wav -> Soundforge 5: speed correction, tracking, inserting patches ->
flac FFE lvl7 w/SBA (693 MB)

taped by: unknown
collected & contributed by: RC
transferred by: lolive
edited by: flambay

Fills from faroba version (Aud, B-/C+) for tracks 06-07, 15-16, 20-21-22:
Lineage: Copy of traded CD-R > EAC 0.95 > wav > Soundforge 5: speed correction, volume level adjustment, phase offset corrected, patched with main source
taped and transferred by: unknown
CD-R copy provided by: faroba
edited by: flambay

Line-up:
Frank Zappa's Band, March - July 1980
FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Arthur Barrow, David Logeman, Tommy Mars.

Setlist:

01 Watermelon In Easter Hay 7:11 ��� cuts in, very beginning missing
02 Keep It Greasey 3:10
03 Pick Me, I'm Clean 6:53
04 City Of Tiny Lights 11:40
05 Pound For A Brown (q: ... , Mo & Herb's Vacation, Sheik Yerbouti Tango Coda, Filthy Habits, ...) 12:14
06 Cosmik Debris 5:41 ��� faroba source patch {1:07-1:11} and {3:05-end}
07 You Didn't Try To Call Me 3:36 ��� faroba patch {0:00-2:11}
08 I Ain't Got No Heart 1:58
09 Love Of My Life 1:54
10 You Are What You Is 3:17
11 Easy Meat (q: ...) 9:47
12 Mudd Club 2:59
13 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 2:58
14 Joe's Garage 2:21
15 Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 2:36 ��� faroba patch at end (applause - 7 secs)
16 Dancin' Fool 3:09 ��� faroba patch {0:00-0:01}
17 Bobby Brown 2:40
18 Ms. Pinky 3:01
19 In France (incl.La Marseillaise) 3:53 ��� main source ends here
20 In France - "Luigi & The Wise Guys" 1:07 ��� faroba source (last three tracks)
21 Stick It Out (incl.Looney Tunes) 5:44
22 The Illinois Enema Bandit 8:06

Total time 106.07 min

unpatched tracks (in bonus subfolder, 32 MB):
06 Cosmik Debris (unpatched) 3:03 ��� cuts at and at end
07 You Didn't Try To Call Me (unpatched) 1:37 ��� cuts in

notes:
several cuts during applauses & encore breaks, no music missing.

A few more theme quotes (unknown to us at this time) than mentioned in setlist can be heard during FZ solos (most notably in Pound For A Brown and Easy Meat). Hopefully, with some carefully listening experts' help we'll be able to add them progressively in the setlist (online) ...

credits:
Many thanks to the unknown tapers for both sources,
to RC for contributing the main source,
to faroba for sending a CD-R copy of the fill source.

Enjoy !!

-- lolive & flambay

Originally seeded to Zappateers.com = August 2008
Seeded to Zappateers.com = 30 December 2020