Frank Zappa
The Palace
Los Angeles, CA
July 17, 1984
(Rand-Eye Master Series Volume 19)

Recording: Aiwa Mic > unknown Aiwa Cassette Recorder

Transfer: Master Cassette > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > iZotope RX 8 / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Tuning and Dialogue
02 Zoot Allures
03 Band Introductions
04 Tinsel Town Rebellion
05 Oh No (includes Son Of Orange County)
06 More Trouble Every Day
07 Penguin In Bondage
08 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
09 Dumb All Over
10 Evil Prince
11 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
12 Advance Romance
13 He's So Gay
14 Bobby Brown
15 Keep It Greasey
16 Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
17 Carol, You Fool
18 Chana In De Bushwop
19 Let's Move To Cleveland
20 Why Don't You Like Me?

Known Faults:
-Incomplete

We're back with Volume 19 of a Master series from one of Dime's newest members "SCIhead". First, welcome to the party SCIhead (from now on he will be referred to as "Rand-Eye" for the master series).

Rand-Eye comes to use via guitars101 (Goody posts most of our shows there so all our series have a pretty good presence). Rand-Eye joined Dime in the interest of getting his masters out, made contact, and we were off and running.

Using a handheld Aiwa deck with an Aiwa mic, the series will be approximately 20 volumes similar to the genres TapeTyrant focused on captures between 1985 and 1990. Many new wave artists with a sprinkling of Rock and Jazz Fusion were captured in the southern California area.

There will be several shows that will be a second source but also include performances that do not circulate at all.

As for quality, Rand-Eye says "We're not talking Millard quality here" and though lo-fi on several occasions Rand-Eye found this location and gave us very listenable recordings.

This is the first of five nights Zappa played at The Palace in Los Angeles and the opening night of the tour. This Recorder 2 capture is a substantial upgrade to the circulating version which is quite distant and muffled in places.

Unfortunately, the encores are missing after they were confiscated at another show.

Oddly, another taper that taped the second night had his second-night encores confiscated at the third night's show, you have to wonder how many encores were lost over the years to save tape.

We've also included newspaper ads and a negative review that Frank read to the audience at the start of the third show, he's introduced in the article as "Moon Unit Zappa's old man".

Thanks to Goody for the continued pitch excellence and to Rand-Eye for deciding it's time to leave no tape behind and properly get his masters out for all of us to enjoy.

No tape left behind, don't let your archives be the one that disappears!

Artwork is included.

mjk5510 and Rand-Eye

PREVIOUS RELEASES
01 Echo & The Bunnymen 1986-04-20 Los Angeles, CA
02 B-52's 1990-01-03 Los Angeles, CA
03 General Public 1986-01-03 Los Angeles, CA
04 U2 1985-03-02 Los Angeles, CA
05 Simple Minds 1985-11-24 Los Angeles, CA
06 Echo & The Bunnymen 1988-04-02 Los Angeles, CA
07 Leon Redbone 1986-03-08 Los Angeles, CA
08 Jean-Luc Ponty 1987-10-10 Los Angeles, CA
09 X 1985-11-01 Los Angeles, CA (1st Generation)
10 Smiths 1986-08-25 Los Angeles
11 Hawkwind 1990-12-22 Long Beach, CA
12 Thompson Twins 1985-11-05 Los Angeles, CA
13 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 1985-11-05 Los Angeles, CA
14 Blancmange 1986-02-13 West Hollywood, CA
15 Midnight Oil 1985-09-29 Los Angeles, CA
16 Robin Trower 1987-01-30 Reseda, CA
17 Ozark Mountain Daredevils 1990-10-12 North Hollywood, CA
18 U2 1987-11-17 Los Angeles, CA
19 Frank Zappa 1984-07-17 Los Angeles, CA

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