FROM NIGHTCLUB TO ARENA: FRANK ZAPPA'S SHORT-LIVED 1980 LINEUP SHOWCASED ON LATEST VAULT TREASURE, 'ZAPPA '80: MUDD CLUB/MUNICH'
Additionally, this is the first posthumous release of this distinct, brief lineup, as Logeman, who replaced drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, would end up leaving when Colaiuta returned to the band.
- Additionally, this is the first posthumous release of this distinct, brief lineup, as Logeman, who replaced drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, would end up leaving when Colaiuta returned to the band.
- The Maestro was early to embrace the emerging technology and would importantly shift to it as a result of this recording.
- Notably the band played an early rendition of "Pick Me, I'm Clean," which Zappa would release the following year on the double live album, Tinsel Town Rebellion.
- Zappa '80: Mudd Club/Munich is an opportunity to experience Zappa and his terrific yet transitory 1980 band playing two fantastic concerts at two very different venues for the first time.