Live At Fillmore East, June 1971[50th Anniversary 3 LP]

Just an old favorite from back in the day. I had to have it for my collection.

love it

This was my 1st album as a 6 year old. Wonderful to have the whole show 40 years later. This version of the Mothers touring band of course included Howard Kaylan & Mark Vollman of Turtles fame providing most of the vocals and improvised humor. "The Mud Shark" solo is essential earlyish Zappa. Other highlights include "Latex Solar Beef", "Willie the Pimp", a great "Peaches", and the Turtles "Happy Together". 50th Anniversary version includes the unreleased encore with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Plus another 3 sides of previously unreleased material. Maybe not essential for the casual Zappa listener but this one has always held a special one for me. If you like this one, I highly recommend the 3LP "Mothers Live at the Rainbow Theatre". Same band, different set, more great '71 Mothers mayhem.

i dont understand why they included the horrid john lennon yoko crap on here when there was 6 cds worth of material they put on the cd boxset of the same namethe “scumbag” jam is a total piss take and not in a good way and frank even stops to sarcastically describe what a “great idea” it isthat being said, i have an original copy on vinyl from wayback and i did a side by side-the vinyl i had was very rigid and flat sounding and this mix/master is an overall improvement. wish they would’ve ixnayed on the lennon yoko garbage as 1.it was already released and 2. theres so much more they could’ve put instead. but the remix/master is way better than the original . i used to have the ryko cd from the 90s but its gone so i couldn’t compare it with that.

Was my 1st Zappa album, still sounds great.

Muy buena calidad de sonido.El primer LP coincide con el LP original, pero yo me atrevería a decir que suena sensiblemente mejor.El segundo LP incluye, por una cara, el concierto con Lennon y Ono, y una versión de “King Kong” por la otra. Los balidos (por llamarles de alguna forma) de Yoko Ono me tientan a quitarle al set cuatro estrellas, pero no haré tal cosa. De hecho, Lennon y Zappa están bien, Lennon canta bien, pero Yoko Ono es insufrible. El sonido, de nuevo, hay que decir que es muy bueno.Ya tengo los balidos de Yoko Ono en tres álbumes de Zappa diferentes: “Filmore East” (3LPs), “The Mothers 1971” (8CDs) y “Playground Psychotics” (2CDs). En fin.El tercer LP tiene una versión de “Billy The Mountain” con el sonido espectacular del que vengo hablando. Unos temas completan el final de la segunda cara.Un gran álbum. Yo diría que sorprendentemente bueno.Saludos.

An awesome remastering of an already great album, full of surprises and disk times surpassing 25 minutes in the most part. Slightly superior to it’s accompanying “Rainbow Theatre”release.