Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Intro Intros
2. Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)
3. Approximate
4. Big Swifty

Disc 2:

1. Ulterior Motive"
2. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement I
3. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement II
4. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement III
5. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement IV -- The New Brown Clouds
6. Penis Dimension - Frank Zappa
7. Variant I Processional March
8. Intro Intros
9. Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)
10. Approximate
11. Big Swifty
12. Ulterior Motive"
13. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement I
14. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement II
15. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement III
16. Adventures of Greggery Peccary: Movement IV -- The New Brown Clouds
17. Penis Dimension
18. Variant I Processional March

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17239 in Music
• Released on: 2008-12-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

An impressive audio documentary
If your interest in Frank Zappa's music is more than fleeting, this CD is highly recommended. It is a live recording from one of the few tours not represented in Zappa's You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series: the Grand Wazoo tour of 1972. Zappa fronts a big band capable of performing some very demanding instrumental pieces. So, if you are one of the people who are deterred by Zappa's lyrics, this album could be for you: It has no singing, only music.

This is ninety-six minutes of great aural pleasure. The sound quality is a little bootleggish but clear enough, and the rough and ready production adds an unexpected value. Comparing this recording to the much slicker product Imaginary Diseases (featuring the Petit Wazoo, recorded in 1972 and released in 2004) is rewarding. Rather than being a carefully manipulated portrait with flattering lighting, Wazoo! is an audio documentary, which makes it all the more impressive. All music on this CD is from one concert (Boston, Massachusetts, September 1972). Performances throughout are excellent, of course, and many of the musicians will be familiar to Zappa fans: Ian & Ruth Underwood, Tony Duran, Dave Parlato, Jim Gordon, Sal Marquez and Bruce Fowler.

FZ's big band jazz.
The Grand Wazoo band was much bootlegged,but this is the first official release of any material from the 1972 tour.
The problem with bootlegs is they grow on you,warts and all,so you get used to the less-than-perfect sound quality.Listening to this seems so sanitised,as though the tapes weren't cleaned up in a studio but in a washing machine.
The material is great,especially "Think It Over"/"The Grand Wazoo" and "Big Swifty".Fans of "Lather" may be suprised to hear a live instrumental version of "Greggery Peccary".I know not all Zappaphiles like the jazz music he did,prefering the rock material,but it's worth a spin both for fans of jazz and for most FZ fans.
As far as I know,there are tapes of the Berlin,London and Hollywood Bowl shows by this band available unoffically.If you catch them,they're good companions to "Wazoo".