Joe's Domage

The Album

John Swenson, "Zappa Returns!," Stereophile, November 2008

"Our Corsage series, they're just random—just examples of stuff that Frank had, intact," says Gail. "We don't do anything to them, we didn't try to construct them in any way. There was this one rehearsal tape that Frank carried around with him on the road, and it was a rehearsal of members of the Wazoo band. That's Joe's Domage."

 

The Cover

The Guitar

Les guitares Jacobacci

Le 6 janvier 1971, un incendie déclanché par une fusée de détresse lancée lors d'un concert des Mothers of Invention détruit le casino de Montreux et le matériel de Frank Zappa. De passage à Paris, il achète une Jacobacci Studio 3 dans les jours qui suivent.

Google Translate:

January 6, 1971, a fire triggered by a flare launched at a concert Mothers of Invention destroys the Montreux Casino and equipment of Frank Zappa. While in Paris, he bought a Jacobacci in Studio 3 days.

 

1. When it's perfect . . .

The Music Heard:
Time Music
00:04-00:07 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing") (slow)
00:11-00:20 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing") (slow)
00:24-00:32 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing") (slow)
01:26-01:33 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
01:56-02:10 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
02:10-02:14 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
02:20-02:22 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
03:00-03:06 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")

 

2. The New Brown Clouds

The Music Heard:
Time Music
00:02-00:07 New Brown Clouds (section A) (intro)
00:07-00:21 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
00:21-00:23 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
00:23-00:43 New Brown Clouds (section C) ("Mysterious Phone Call") (15:47-16:14)
00:43-00:46 New Brown Clouds (section C2) ("A Philostopher Be") (16:14-16:17)
00:46-00:52 melody link #1
00:52-01:00 vamp link #2
01:00-01:22 Big Swifty
01:22-01:31 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
01:38-01:53 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
01:53-01:55 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
01:55-02:14 New Brown Clouds (section C) ("Mysterious Phone Call")
02:14-02:18 New Brown Clouds (section C2) ("A Philostopher Be")
02:21-02:24 New Brown Clouds (section C2) ("A Philostopher Be")

 

5. The ending line . . .

Muelo . . . Ate some jell-o . . . Swell time

 

6. Blessed Relief/The New Brown Clouds

The Music Heard:
Time Music
00:02-00:09 Blessed Relief
00:14-02:16 Blessed Relief
02:16-02:38 Big Swifty
02:39-02:43 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
02:46-02:59 Big Swifty
02:59-03:16 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
03:16-03:18 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
03:18-03:39 New Brown Clouds (section C) ("Mysterious Phone Call")
03:39-03:42 New Brown Clouds (section C2) ("A Philostopher Be")
03:42-03:49 melody link #1
03:49-03:57 vamp link #2
03:57-04:19 Big Swifty
04:19-04:32 New Brown Clouds (section B) ("New Brown Clouds")
04:32-04:34 New Brown Clouds (section B2) ("5/16 Thing")
04:34-04:54 New Brown Clouds (section C) ("Mysterious Phone Call")
04:54-04:58 New Brown Clouds (section C2) ("A Philostopher Be")

 

7. It Ain't Real So What's The Deal

The Music Heard:
Time Music
00:28-00:43 Think It Over ("It'll come down")
00:43-08:55 Think It Over ("It ain't real")
08:55-09:58 Think It Over (intro vamp/"Think it over")
09:58-10:14 Think It Over ("It'll come down")
10:14-10:38 Think It Over ("It ain't real")
10:38-10:55 Think It Over (intro vamp/solo)
10:59-11:18 Think It Over ("It ain't real")
11:18-11:25 Think It Over (intro vamp/"Think it over")
11:30-12:19 Think It Over (intro vamp/"Think it over")
12:19-13:14 Think It Over ("It'll come down"/"It ain't real")

 

8. Think It Over (some)/Think It Over (some more)

The Music Heard:
Time Music
0:00-0:49 Think It Over (intro vamp/"Think it over")
0:49-1:04 Think It Over ("It'll come down")
1:04-1:28 Think It Over ("It ain't real")
1:28-3:07 Think It Over (intro vamp/solo)
3:20-4:38 Think It Over (intro vamp/solo)
4:38-5:09 Think It Over ("Think it over")

 

9. Another Whole Melodic Section

Ken Walter, October 10, 2004

The tune labeled "Another Whole Melodic Section" is actually the tune known as "Interlude" to collectors, performed by the MOI in 1969 and the Hot Rats band.

Jon Naurin

A quite good little piece of music, played in 1969 (it opens up one of the Toronto shows) and by the Hot Rats band in 1970 (can be heard on the "Hot Rats at the Olympic" bootleg, aka "Sharleena"). [...] (can be heard on Apycrypha as well, BTW).

 

 

Informants: Ken Walter, Derek Milhouse Gilger, Charles Ulrich, Tan Mitsugu

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