After the 1978 Halloween shows (of which there were five, culminating with an approximately four-hour how on Halloween night), FZ went into the studio and physically excised masters from the original tapes with a razor blade. The stuff he liked best he compiled together on master reels. The rest of the stuff is scattered across dozens of reels. When it came time to put together this disc, the issue of sequencing, pacing and continuity became the order of the day. In other words, Joe and Dweezil needed to come up with about 70 minutes that played like a show [...]. The only answer was to go back to the vault, find all the original material, listen to it and decide what should go on the finished program. [...] The starting point, of course, were FZ's preferred performances. The result is that about half of the tunes you hear were FZ's personal choices and the other half were laboriously [...] compiled by Joe and Dweezil from the vault tapes.
IB: How did you and Janet "The Planet" first get together?
DW: We first met in 1978. We were playing in New York at The Palladium, doing our annual Halloween shows. Frank filmed Baby Snakes the year before and Janet had no idea that she was included in the final film. When Frank saw her, he said "I'm so glad to see you here; you were so fantastic in my new movie." She was brought backstage and that is when I first met her. We started dating in April of 1987 and were married in August of '89.
This from an FZ Build Reel.
This is Frank Zappa on Halloween and he's like Guy Lombardo on New Years!!
Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian, then American bandleader and violinist. [...] Lombardo's orchestra played at the "Roosevelt Grill" in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City from 1929 to 1959, and their New Year's Eve broadcasts (which continued with Lombardo until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria) were a major part of New Year's celebrations across North America. Even after Lombardo's death, the band's New Year's specials continued for two more years on CBS.
| Single version from The Frank Zappa AAA·FNR·AAA Birthday Bundle 21.Dec.2008 (2008) | Halloween (2003) |
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| 0:01-0:21 | |
| 0:00-1:43 | 0:21-2:04 |
| 2:04-2:16 | |
| 1:43-2:06 | 2:16-2:33 |
| 2:33-3:04 | |
| 2:06-3:38 | 3:04-4:35 |
| 4:35-4:49 | |
| 3:38-4:07 | 4:49-5:19 |
| 5:19-8:23 |
Hi! How ya doin'? Come up here. It's my little friend from TV, huh?
See Dancin' Fool (Video) on the Tricks Or Treats section.
Wait a minute. You look, you look very familiar. Are you the guy--you're the guy?! C'mere. Get up here. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how many of you people were at the Garrick Theatre in uh '67, in the olden days. There's probably very few of you left but, way back when, there were, there were these two guys that used to come to all the shows back then. Called themselves Loeb & Leopold. [...] You know what this guy used to do? You know what his idea of a good time was in those days? He would run up onto the stage And he would take the microphone and he would scream into it as loud as he could and then he would lay on the stage and wait for me to spit Pepsi-Cola all over his body, right?
See The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 96.
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