Zappa* – FZ:OZ

"This is the first in a series of live recordings. […] This is the first official vault release. It is #70 on the official Frank Zappa Masters list. This was the first date of Frank's last series of appearances onstage in the land of Oz".

This CD contains almost all of a January 20, 1976 concert at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia. Only one reel-to-reel tape machine was available to record the concert, resulting in gaps in some songs as the tape needed to be changed. These gaps have been filled in with bootleg recordings from the same tour and, in one instance, with a multitrack recording from Japan (same tour, same band).
"Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)" (track 2-14) is a rehearsal version recorded before the start of the tour.

Audience by Sydney, Australia.

Thanks to Kent Huffnagle for his timewarp pitch adjustment on Zoot bootleg. Bill Lantz, thanks (you bastard) for (not saying by what means you came by) this tape tape and cooperating (anyway).

K2 Laser Cutting

Honorable mention to Jenny Brown.

This CD is dedicated to the following:
In Celebration -
Moon Zappa & Paul Doucette - 1 June 2002
In Memoriam:
Waleed Joseph Iskandar 25 August 1967 - 11 September 2001
Louis Steven Inghilterra 21 December 1955 - 11 September 2001

Packaged in a gatefold card sleeve with 3- fold-out insert booklet containing information about endangered and extinct flora.

All compositions copyrighted for the world by Munchkin Music.
© & ℗ 2002 Zappanese. All rights reserved.
Zappa, FZ, Frank Zappa & the Moustache are marks belonging to The Zappa Family Trust. All rights of the artist (deserved) conserved, heirs preserved & copyrightholders reserved.

Total times: - CD1: 73:33 - CD2: 73:12.

[Literally, from the "Did-You-Know?"-Section: First 5.000 orderers from Barfko-Swill are mentioned by name in the booklet. These releases were sent with an additional signed sheet by Gail Zappa (or other Zappa Family-?), see pics].