FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Broadway The Hard Way (1988), quoted in When The Lie's So Big, performed in Cleveland, OH, March 5, 1988
• Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show (2021), quoted in "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here", performed in Uniondale, NY, March 25, 1988
• Frank Zappa For President (2016), quoted in When The Lie's So Big, performed in Uniondale, NY, March 25, 1988
  • same recording on Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show (2021) as When The Lie's So Big
• Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show (2021), as Bolero, performed in Uniondale, NY, March 25, 1988
• The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (1991) as Bolero, performed in Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 3, 1988

 

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• September-December 1975 (MOI)—known performances: 1 (a capella)
• May-July 1982 (Europe)—known quotations: 1
• September-October 1984 (Europe)—known quotations: 2
• February-March 1988 (North America)—known performances: 3; known quotations: 7
• April-June 1988 (Europe)—known performances: 38

 

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1988: Essentially performed as on TBBYNHIYL (for those of you who have the complete version of the album, that is).

A partial list of "Bolero" quotations, compiled by Charles Ulrich

10/4/75 (late) Seattle (stand-alone)
9/28/84 Düsseldorf (Trouble Every Day)
3/11/88 Rochester (Chunga's Revenge, Big Swifty, Penguin In Bondage, Hot Plate Heaven)
1988 (41 stand-alone performances, all performances of When the Lie's So Big)

Any more?