🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Grand Wazoo Comic Book Extravaganza
📅 Date: 1984
🌍 Country: Europe
🏷 Label: Mushroom Records Ltd
🎛 Bootleg
Features: Double album, Red & White

Another Wazoo bootleg. Zappa always had audience participation in his shows, but this one is special and unique. First, Zappa gave some of the orchestra musicians comic books. Then he tells the audience to make some comic magazine noises as (Capuuu, Tchapooo, etc) conducted by hand signs during the time when the musicians are reading some random parts of the magazine. Very entertaining and unique audience participation, and a rare one to have! Musicly is a very good one with the petite wazoo band, but the audience participation takes up almost one of the records.

Other audience participation can range from dancing the be-bop tango to all the craziness in between.

Recording at The Grand Wazoo tour, this is a must-have record for any collector. This is only one of the many variations Zappa did during the wazoo tour.

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Wazoo / Joe's Domage
📅 Date: 2008
🌍 Country: Europe
🏷 Vaulternative Records
🎛 Original; 3 Vinyl Boxset (Green vinyl) Limited Edition
Features: Each vinyl has its own full glossy picture sleeve housed in an informative inner sleeve. All housed in a deluxe, shiny slipcase.
Limited edition of 100 copies on colour vinyl and 300 copies on black vinyl.

So... I have the coloured green vinyl box set.
This is just another pearl in my collection! While the other box set (The petite wazoo) is all recorded live as a bootleg, the sound quality is not great.

This one comes from the Zappa Vault. (Still dont understand why they keep calling this unofficial, as it was published by the Zappa family after his death).
Anyways... limited edition with two records of the best catch of the live performances in high sound quality PLUS an album called "Joe's Domage"

Joe's Domage album is basically a Zappa rehearsal with the entire band in the studio playing parts and highlighting the parts that need changing, etc...
Some tracks of the rehearsal are not on this box, but the full tracks are on the Bootleg box set and on other split bootlegs.

An amazing box set to have and I am just very lucky to have it ;)

This is an orchestral tour, but with many improvisations and a very jazzy feel. Different from Zappa Orchestral. There are some orchestral Zappa albums I dont have, and I am happy like that (Hence I dont find myself to be a Zappa collector!)
No Eddie... I'm not kidding! ;)

Misspelling error on this box set: Joe's Domage appears as "Joe's Damage" on spine, front and back.

See you next for more wazoo curiosities! :)

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa & The Petit Wazoo Orchestra
💿 Album: The Great Wazoo Box Set
📅 Date: 2009
🌍 Country: US
🏷 Label: Not On Label
🎛 Original; 3 Vinyl Boxset (Multi colored splash vinyl) Limited Edition

I debated whether to keep posting my Zappa collection, starting with the originals and then moving into the bootlegs. Still, once I posted about the Grand Wazzo, I needed to make an exception!

This is an exception. A very rare box set from the Grand Wazoo tour. This box is one of the precious ones in my collection. Next, I will be posting more related Wazoo records I have because it only makes sense to do it this way.

And you may ask... why so many records and bootlegs from the same tour?
If you are a fan of Frank Zappa's music, you should know by now that he never plays the same tracks in his shows and always makes changes to them as he goes. That is what makes Zappa so collectable!

So... Following the Grand Wazoo studio album post I made, now I post the Great Wazoo box set bootleg, but more from this tour will follow ;)

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: The Grand Wazoo
📅 Date: 1972
🌍 Country: US
🏷 Label: Bizarre Records
🎛 Original

This is one of my favourite albums and tours in the Zappa universe!
Still recovering... Zappa finally assumed the role of composer and orchestra maestro, assembled a mini-band of 20 musicians to go on tour. The musicians included jazz players, contemporary musicians, studio musicians, and some members of the Mothers.

The Grand Wazoo is hilarious, jazzy, comical, orchestral, and a great piece of music. The band was put together to record this music, go on tour, and disband at the end. This is another instrumental album in the same line as the Waka Jawaka but more orchestral.

From what I know about this tour, there is an original vinyl box set (Zappa/Wazzo), the Bootleg box set (The Pettite Wazoo), a bootleg called "Grand Wazoo Comic Book Extravaganza" and a "Grand Wazoo Orchestra" record part of the 20 years of Frank Zappa (bootleg boxset)

All the bootlegs were recorded in different places and with many variations.

This is a great album from a great music composer.

EDIT: There is one record published after Zappa's death called: "Frank Zappa – Imaginary Diseases". This is a missing piece from the same time as the Grand Wazoo. If you know someone who has it, just let me know!

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