This particular concert took place at the Palais des Sports, Paris, France on June 11th, 1980 and was first broadcast on France’s Antenne 2 in late 1980, and later rebroadcast on Europe2 TV on May 10, 2007.
It features Zappa’s Rockin’ Teenage Combo:
Frank Zappa–lead guitar, vocals
Ike Willis–guitar, vocals
Ray White–guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars–keyboards, vocals
Arthur Barrow–bass, keyboards, vocals
David Logeman–drums
Besides the three clips posted above — “Chunga’s Revenge”, “Outside Now” and “Pound For A Brown”, respectively — I have endeavoured to link the following setlist to available videos from that concert:
• Chunga’s Revenge
• Keep It Greasey
• Outside Now
• City Of Tiny Lites
• Pound For A Brown
• Cosmik Debris
• You Didn’t Try To Call Me
• Ain’t Got No Heart
• Love Of My Life
• You Are What You Is
• Easy Meat
• Mudd Club
• The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing/Heavenly Bank Account
• Suicide Chump/Jumbo Go Away
• If Only She Woulda (Pt 1)
• If Only She Woulda (Pt 2)
• I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted
• Joe’s Garage/Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
• Dancin’ Fool/Bobby Brown/Ms Pinky
• Stick It Out
• Illinois Enema Bandit
Information Is Not Knowledge identifies many highlights in this concert, one of which:
There’s a lot of guitar in this concert.. nearly every song has an extended guitar solo, so if you like that sort of thing you’re definitely in luck. Ike sang really well on Outside Now, and then Ray did his usual fantastic singing of City of Tiny Lites. John Smothers runs out a couple of times and shines his flashlight into the crowd. Then something curious happens. In the middle of Pound For A Brown, Frank “brings the band on down” and says that he’s going to give a demonstration to a mystery guest… this would be Pierre Boulez, whom both Frank and Tommy Mars got to meet personally and show off their electronic effects, which Boulez seemed to enjoy.
Much thanks to “YourArf”, “bongolampo”, “zw”, “berthy75”, and “justanotherbrick” for posting all these videos.
