Yes indeed, here we are, another mono release from 1966. This is, of course, one of my most prized albums, especially since I found it for $6.75 at Red Light Vintage on Broadway over a decade ago. I love this album backwards and forwards. I have too many copies of Freak Out! (three Verve LPs, mono LP, Barking Pumpkin cassette, two different Ryko CDs, Japanese LP-replica CD, two different Zappa Records CDs, new UMe CD, new Zappa Records 180-g LP reissue), many of which are aurally redundant, and still have yet to track down a single-LP edition, 8-track, Old Masters LP, or a white label. Who could imagine?
You're probably wondering why this mono version is here, and so am I. It has never been reissued, even though it contains different mixes (obviously) and several different edits (the end of You Didn't Try To Call Me, the count-in to Trouble Every Day). Did FZ do the mono mix? Mono single edits of a couple songs are on the MOFO box set, which is worth every penny. Every home should have one.
All compositions by Frank Zappa except where noted
- Hungry Freaks, Daddy 3:27
- I Ain't Got No Heart 2:33
- Who Are The Brain Police? 3:33
- Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (FZ/Collins) 3:39
- Motherly Love 2:43
- How Could I Be Such A Fool 2:11
- Wowie Zowie 2:51
- You Didn't Try To Call Me 3:16
- Any Way The Wind Blows 2:54
- I'm Not Satisfied 2:38
- You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here 3:38
- Trouble Every Day 5:49
- Help, I'm A Rock 4:43
- It Can't Happen Here 3:55
- The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet 12:16
March 9-12, 1966
Produced by: Tom Wilson
The Mothers of Invention:
Frank Zappa—Musical director, guitar & vocals
Ray Collins—Lead vocalist, harmonica, tambourine, finger cymbals, bobby pin & tweezers
Jim Black—Drums (also sings in some foreign language)
Roy Estrada—Bass & guitarron; boy soprano
Elliot Ingber—Alternate lead & rhythm guitar with clear white light
THE MOTHERS' AUXILIARY
Gene Estes—percussion
Eugene Di Novi—piano
Neil Le Vang—guitar
John Rotella—clarinet, sax
Kurt Reher—cello
Raymond Kelley—cello
Paul Bergstrom—cello
Emmet Sargeant—cello
Joseph Saxon—cello
Edwin V. Beach—cello
Arthur Maebe—French horn, tuba
George Price—French horn
John Johnson—tuba?
Carol Kaye—12-string guitar
Virgil Evans—trumpet
David Wells—trombone
Kenneth Watson—percussion
Plas Johnson—sax, flute
Roy Caton—copyist
Carl Franzoni—voice
Vito—voice
Kim Fowley—(Featured on hypophone)
Benjamin Barrett—contractor
David Anderle
+
Motorhead Sherwood—noises
Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John)—piano
Paul Butterfield
Les McCann—piano
Danny Hutton
Cory Wells
Mike Clarke
P.F. Sloane
Bobby Beausoleil—vocals
Terry Gilliam ?
Jeannie Vassoir—(the voice of Cheese)
Verve Records – V-5005-2, 1966
24/96 LP transfer, mono V0 mp3 download
FZ-FreakOut[mono][RPM2014].zip 58.2 MB
24/96 LP transfer, mono 24/96 FLAC download
FZ-FreakOut[mono][RPM2014][FLAC].zip 575.0 MB
22 comments:
Gotta just love "Freak Out" right after Coltrane. Thanks, porter_esq! Does anyone have the background knowledge to shed light on the (questionable) participation of Terry Gilliam or any of the other auxiliaries listed?
I think Gilliam was added to the Freak Out auxillary in the 2006 MOFO box with no explanation.
I just watch a documentary about Zappa + the early Mothers of Invention, and a guy in the interview spoke about Gilliam's involvement on "Absolutely Free" - and I found the following Gilliam quotes on the United Mutations site:
"As for that quote from Frank Zappa about me being the only comic genius to come out of America that's nonsense. I mean, it's a great quote but it's all balls! I actually knew Frank before I came to England. Me and my then girlfriend appear on one of the early Mothers of Invention albums. It's some sort of crowd effect and we were dragged into the studio to make noises like drunks in a bar.
(snip)
From: Román García Albertos
>From "Terry Gilliam, el soñador rebelde", by Jordi Costa and Sergi Sánchez, published by Euskadiko Filmategia, 1998, p. 320:
According to the 1995 edition of _Record Collector_, the voice of Terry Gilliam --and of his girlfriend at the time-- can be heard amidst the noise of the patrons of a bar that appears in the background of the song "America Drinks (and Goes Home)", included in the album "Absolutely Free!", by Frank Zappa & The Mothers."
That's all, folks!
forgot the source:
http://www.united-mutations.com/g/terry_gilliam.htm
:)
This is cool, but track 3 (Who Are The Brain Police?) is missing from the download link. Any chance you could repost it with all of the tracks?
Just checked FLAC and mp3 links and all tracks are accounted for.
I've just downloaded mp3 and flac, but track 3 is missing from both...
Try a different app to unzip. The track 3 ends in a "?" and that may make some unzipping apps choke. BTW, the size of the flac archive should be exactly 602,926,033 bytes. Good luck!
I tried a different app to unzip and it worked.
Thank you very much!
I just downloaded the flac and it is clearly a stereo mix, not mono...
Would love to hear the actual mono! Thanks.
This is catalog # V-5005-2 (V6 is stereo). Label and matrices confirm this is a 1966 US mono pressing (specifically: https://www.discogs.com/The-Mothers-Of-Invention-Freak-Out/release/4948749). Mono edition-specific edits as outlined in my post above (and here: http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/freakout.html#monovinyl) are in evidence. Transferred via mono stylus to mono 24/96 wav. Even the flac files are mono. It can't get more mono.
I believe the catalog number is correct, but I downloaded the files and I'm hearing different instruments out of each speaker...
Perhaps your audio equipment is malfunctioning, because as I reiterated, these files are mono. Or perhaps you are confusing the files from this post with the Freak Out stereo files from my Old Masters Box 1 post.
Either way, thanks for listening and commenting.
I am so excited to hear this in mono. I just think maybe the download link is pointing to the stereo files. Seriously, please download and check. I'm not crazy. I'm a mono enthusiast. I really really appreciate that you are making these available, especially under such good conditions (clean record, using a mono cartridge, etc).
But I downloaded the flac and I'm hearing stereo. Check for yourself, please :)
Honestly, you open the file archive [FZ-FreakOut[mono][RPM2014][FLAC].zip] you downloaded, decompress it, and open any of the files in any audio editor - like Audacity, an app that is totally free and works like a charm. There you can see that it contains only one mono track. Just to check you downloaded the correct zip archive, here's one file to check/verify: file "01 Hungry Freaks, Daddy.flac" is exactly 36,658,698 bytes in size and contains only one (mono) track at 24/96 resolution. Whatever stereo effect you may encounter lives within your amplifier.
Bizarre. I'll keep testing, thanks!
Not sure what was going on with my system yesterday but everything seems to be in mono today. Thanks so much for posting this and doing such a great job capturing the audio!
Freak Out was the first album I bought myself. My father was in the USNavy and we lived on base at Pt. Magu Naval Airstation, Oxnard, California. I went to the PX looking for the latest British Invasion Groups 45's and I spotted this strange-looking album...Who the heck were the Mothers of Invention??? And they looked so ugly, I just had to have it. I saved my lunch money for two weeks, in the meantime, I would go back to the PX and hide the album in the back of the stacks. I had saved up enough for the double album and I bought that sucker and went home and was totally FREAKED OUT!!! I played it over and over, I would go to bed and put my turntable speakers on either side of my pillow so I could listen and turn the volume low enough so no one else in the house would hear it, just me. I still have that original copy and the under-groud paper that came in the first pressings. I played it for my friends and they thought I was nuts! Two sisters, I hung out with at school, Gloria & Angela, their mother was a freelance photographer and they got to meet Frank at a magazine shoot at his house, Oxnard is only an hour away from Hollywood by the freeway. The girls were big into the Small Faces...and all things British!!!
Thank you for this!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you very much!!!
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