Trance-Fusion

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Trance-Fusion
Live album by Frank Zappa
Released	October 24, 2006
Recorded	1977—1988
Genre	Instrumental rock[1]
Label	Zappa Records
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Frank Zappa chronology
Imaginary Diseases (2006) Trance-Fusion (2006) MOFO (2006)

Trance-Fusion is the name of an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006.^[2] The album had previously been announced for release in 1999^[3] and 2003^[4], and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through bootlegs.^[5]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Notes 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Track listing

1. Chunga's Revenge
   • Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa
2. Bowling On Charen
   • Guitar solo from Wild Love, performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show)
   • Originally called The Squirm
3. Good Lobna
   • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December 4, 1984
   • Refers to an episode of The Simpsons: "New Kid on the Block," in which Bart says this line. Series creator Matt Groening is a Zappa fan.
4. A Cold Dark Matter
   • Guitar solo from Inca Roads, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
   • Refers to cold dark matter, a term from cosmology and particle physics.
5. Butter Or Cannons
   • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984
6. Ask Dr. Stupid
   • Guitar solo from Easy Meat, performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979
   • Refers to a reccurring segment from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Series creator John Kricfalusi is also a Zappa fan, and Zappa provided the voice of "The Pope" on one episode of the series.
7. Scratch & Sniff
   • Guitar solo from City Of Tiny Lights, performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988
8. Trance-Fusion
   • Guitar solo from Marque-Son's Chicken, performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988
9. Gorgo
   • Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988
   • May refer to the 1961 science fiction film (Zappa is known to be a fan of monster movies), or Gorgonzola, the Zappa family's cat.
10. Diplodocus
    • Guitar solo from King Kong, performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984
11. Soul Polka
    • Guitar solo from Oh No, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
12. For Giuseppe Franco
    • Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show)
13. After Dinner Smoker
    • Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988
14. Light is all that matters
    • Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland,performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 (late show)
15. Finding Higgs' Boson
    • Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8, 1988
    • Refers to the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
16. Bavarian Sunset
    • Guitar solo from post-I Am The Walrus jam, performed at Rudi-Sedlmeyer Sporthalle, Munich, Germany: May 9, 1988

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Trance-Fusion at Zappa.com

[edit] References

1. Information Is Not Knowledge: FZ Discography. Retrieved on October 27, 2006.

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