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Fillmore East, June 5, 1971
24 min. (45 min. version reported)
John Lennon--guitar, vocals
Yoko Ono--bag, vocals
FZ--guitar, vocals
Howard Kaylan--vocals, tambourine
Mark Volman--vocals, tambourine
Bob Harris--keyboards
Don Preston--Minimoog
Ian Underwood--keyboards, alto
sax
Jim Pons--bass, vocals
Aynsley Dunbar--drums
3rd generation, time column at bottom and the letters A.I.R.Q. appear almost centered on the screen. Two instances of no picture for about 40 seconds each, sound remains.
I understand it was stolen from Zappa.
I don't think it was stolen from FZ - the copy I have was shot by a journalist in the audience. There's a version with an obnoxious timebar that's become quite available in trading circles, while the version w/o the timebar can be pretty hard to find, I think.
“Bill Graham closed Fillmore East in 1971, and one of the last shows was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention who did three nights,” adds [Joe] Lauro. “Who shows up one of the nights but John and Yoko. There was a girl, an NYU film student, who worked the light show. She got a tip Lennon would show up so she borrowed a 16 mm Bolex and bought two rolls of film and shot Lennon and Yoko on stage with Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.”
scan: ebay seller "retraumatic"