Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Frank Zappa [1963.05.19] Carlos Hagen Presents - 1st Zappa Concert [SBD]



Frank Zappa - First Zappa Concert!
Carlos Hagen Presents
     Mount St. Mary's Concert KPFK-FM
Mount St. Mary's, Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 19th, 1963 (T-1106)

Pre-FM Soundboard Recording
Encoded: FLAC & MP3@320 Kbps

Lineage: Mics and Recorder unknown> Cassette generation unknown > Playback Deck: Tascam 130 > Nikko 32 Band EQ > Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder > HHB CDR-800 Compact Disc Recorder > CDR > WAV >CD Wave Editor > FLAC

Something a lot of people don't know is that the first public performance of Frank Zappa's own music was caught on tape and broadcast on KPFK-FM!!! Here is a great copy of that tape, a pre-FM from the KPFK archive. I often see this tape listed as having B or B+ sound quality, but it's actually a very strong A-. And it's stereo!!! This CD-r release is from a cassette tape that I got in trade many years ago from a fellow trader in California who claims to have a KPFK archive tape.


Track List: (Artwork Included)
01. Opening comments by Carlos Hagen
02. Piece #2 of Visual Music 1957 for Jazz Ensemble and 16mm Projector
03. Piano Pieces from Opus 5
04. Collage #1 for Stringed Instruments
05. 2 Fragments of the Prepared Tape to be used in Opus 5
06. Opus 5
07. Question and answer session
08. Closing comments by Carlos Hagen


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