Original version(s)

• Originally recorded at Pal Recording Studio, Cucamonga, and released by The Surfaris (DFS 11/2, 1962; reissued as Princess 50, 1962; then as Dot 16479, 1963)

 

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• BTB II: Electric Aunt Jemima (1992), as part of English Tea Dancing Interludes, performed in Denver, CO, May 3, 1968
• Joe's Garage Act I (1979), quoted in Joe's Garage, recorded at Village Recorders, LA, April 1979
  • same version, different edit, released as a single (Zappa Z-31, September 1979)
    • same version (single edit) on Strictly Commercial (1995)
• Zappa '80—Mudd Club/Munich (2023), quoted in Joe's Garage, performed in New York, NY, May 8, 1980
• Zappa '80—Mudd Club/Munich (2023), quoted in Joe's Garage, performed in Munich, Germany, July 3, 1980
• Buffalo (2007), quoted in Joe's Garage, performed in Buffalo, NY, October 25, 1980
• Halloween 81 (2020), quoted in Joe's Garage, performed in New York, NY, October 31, 1981, late show
  • same version on Halloween 81 Highlights (2020), as Joe's Garage
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989), quoted in Joe's Garage, performed in Chicago, November 23, 1984 (early show)
  • same version on Cheap Thrills (1998)

 

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

• October 1967-August 1968 (MOI)—known performances: 2
• November 1968-May 1969 (MOI)—known performances: 2
• June-December 1970 (MOI)—known quotations: 1
• September-December 1975 (MOI)—known quotations: 1
• January-March 1976 (MOI Pacific & European Tour)—known quotations: 1
• October-November 1976 (North America)—known quotations: 1
• January-February 1978 (Europe)—known quotations: 3

 

Comments

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

1968: This song is briefly quoted at the chaotic end of the February Denver "King Kong", which is captured and can be heard on the "Electric Aunt Jemima" boot from Beat the Boots Volume II.

A partial list of FZ's performances/quotations of "Wipe Out" compiled by Charles Ulrich

68/05/03 Denver
68/08/03 New York
68/69 Los Angeles (as heard on the Artisan acetate)
69/05/17 Detroit
69/05/30 Birmingham
70/12/06 (late) Amsterdam (quoted in Penis Dimension)
75/10/29 (late) Waterbury (included in Chunga's Revenge)
76/02/15 Ludwigshafen (quoted in The Torture Never Stops)
78/01/24 London (quoted in Black Page #2)
78/01/25 London (quoted in Black Page #2)
78/01/26 London (quoted in Black Page #2, as heard on Hammersmith Odeon)
78/01/27 London (quoted during audience participation)
78/01/29 Frankfurt (quoted in Black Page #2)
1980-1988 all performances of Joe's Garage

Any more?