Frank Zappa - 1981 08 05 (R) - UMRK Los Angeles CA

5-Aug 1981 #1, UMRK, Los Angeles, CA (with Lisa Popeil) STG, B/B- If you're looking for the highest quality part, skip to Strictly Genteel onward (the 2nd half) EDIT: I see the dislikes, folks. I will make it a point not to upload such noisy audio in the future. I'll try to take out the tracks that are as bad as some of these are. Otherwise this would be an actually enjoyable listening experience. For newer fans or casual fans who might not know, UMRK means Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Frank's name for his basement studio. As the source for this tape is unknown, the source in the folder name has been set to "Stage". I don't have any information on who was present other than obviously Zappa and Lisa, but presumably the 1981 band or most of it. 01 Pick Me, I'm Clean [00:00] 02 Ms. Pinky [06:14] 03 Classical Medley [10:10] 04 Portuguese Lunar Landing [19:29] 05 Portuguese Lunar Landing [30:59] 06 Tinsel Town Rebellion [43:27] (very distorted) 07 Fine Girl - Easy Meat [46:20] 08 Portuguese Lunar Landing [48:20] 09 Portuguese Lunar Landing [01:02:40] 10 Shall we Take Ourselves Seriously [01:16:24] (very distorted) 11 Cruising For Burgers [01:17:34] (very distorted) UMRK Los Angeles, CA (with Lisa Popeil) 5-Aug 1981 #2 STG, A- Track List: 01 Strictly Genteel [01:29:47] 02 For The Young Sophisticate [01:32:37] 03 Mudd Club [01:37:58] 04 The Dangerous Kitchen [01:43:45] 05 The Jazz Discharge Party Hats [01:44:38] 06 Lisa's Life Story [01:49:05] 07 The Black Page [01:52:40] 08 Bobby Brown [02:05:13] 09 Ms. Pinky [02:06:37] Combined total time: 2 hours, 13 minutes and 32.04 seconds Notes on the first recording of the two: Notes Parts are distorted: track 01, track 06 (very distorted), track 10 & 11 (very distorded). Tape flip is between track 06 and track 07. More notes Most of this rehearsals (the not distorted one) are on "Portuguese Lunar Landing", a sort of short satirical rock opera that FZ performed on stage only during the Bongo Fury tour and never released on official stuff. The '81 band really didn't know this stuff. Recommended to true maniacs only! Btw, the initial main theme of the song reminds me the music of a (very) old italian jingle for a coffee brand, I bet Zappa (and the jingle too) took inspiration from some popular music, spanish or south american, I don't know. More speculations on this strange stuff are really welcome! More information (and lyrics) here: http://www.donlope.net/fz/songs/Portuguese_Lunar_Landing.html Information Is Not Knowledge Seeded to Zappateers = 7 February 2021 Fair warning given in description of quality issues.

Added 14 Sept 2026