Beat the Boots II is a box set by Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

. It compiles bootleg recording

Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...

s which were previously available illegally, and was released through Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company. It is owned by Warner Music Group.-History:Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes...

 in 1992 as part of Zappa's campaign to dissuade his fans from buying illegal recordings of his concerts. The set contains material from between 1968 and 1978, including Swiss Cheese/Fire! which documents a famous 1971 concert at a casino in Montreux

Montreux

Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...

 where the venue burned down, inspiring the lyrics of Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

's "Smoke on the Water

Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. In 2004, the song was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, and in March 2005, Q magazine placed "Smoke on the Water"...

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Disconnected Synapses

Disconnected Synapses was recorded at Palais Gaumont, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 December 15, 1970.

1. "Penis Dimension" – 11:15
2. "The Air" – 3:54
3. "The Dog Breath/Mother People" – 4:22
4. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" – 3:34
5. "King Kong" – 31:38
6. "Who Are the Brain Police?" – 6:30

Tengo Na Minchia Tanta

Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Sicilian

Sicilian language

Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is...

 for "I've got such a big dick") was recorded at the Fillmore East

Fillmore East

The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It was open from 1968 to 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time...

, New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 November 13, 1970.

1. "Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?" – 0:49
2. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 7:26
3. "Sleeping in a Jar (with extensions)" – 4:34
4. "Sharleena" – 4:31
5. "The Sanzini Brothers" – 0:32
6. "What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?" – 4:35
7. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" – 5:00
8. "Bwana Dik" – 1:45
9. "Latex Solar Beef" – 1:00
10. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" – 2:46
11. "Little House I Used to Live In" – 4:04
12. "Holiday in Berlin" – 4:36
13. "Inca Roads/Easy Meat" – 7:16
14. "Cruisin' for Burgers" – 2:45

Electric Aunt Jemima

Electric Aunt Jemima incorporates material from various dates: tracks 1, 2, 5 and 7 are from a show at The Dog, Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

 on May 3, 1968; tracks 3 and 6 are from Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, October 20, 1968 and track 4 was recorded at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany on September 28, 1968.

1. "Little House I Used to Live In/Dog Breath Variations/Blue Danube Waltz/Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 14:30
2. "whät" – 3:53
3. "Dog Breath" – 2:10
4. "King Kong" – 16:30
5. "More Trouble Every Day" – 5:59
6. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 8:36
7. "English Tea Dancing Interludes/Plastic People/King Kong/America Drinks/Wipe Out" – 12:00

At the Circus

All tracks on At the Circus were recorded at Circus Krone, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 on September 8, 1978, except tracks 6 and 7, recorded for VPRO TV, Uddel, Netherlands June 18, 1970.

1. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 2:15
2. "Baby Snakes" – 2:05
3. "Dancin' Fool" – 3:15
4. "Easy Meat" – 4:39
5. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" – 4:32
6. "Mother People" – 2:40
7. "Wonderful Wino" – 5:41
8. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" – 2:21
9. "Seal Call Fusion Music" – 3:12
10. "Bobby Brown Goes Down" – 2:53
11. "I'm On Duty" – 1:52
12. "Conehead" – 5:31

Swiss Cheese/Fire!

Swiss Cheese and Fire! were initially produced as two separate bootlegs. Both were recorded at the same show at Casino, Montreux

Montreux

Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...

, Switzerland on December 4, 1971 that inspired Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

's song Smoke On The Water

Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. In 2004, the song was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, and in March 2005, Q magazine placed "Smoke on the Water"...

. Swiss Cheese comprises tracks 1 to 5 and Fire! tracks 6 to 11.

1. "Zanti Serenade" – 14:21
2. "Peaches En Regalia
   Peaches en Regalia
   "Peaches en Regalia" is an instrumental jazz fusion composition by Frank Zappa. It was released on Zappa's album Hot Rats in 1969 and has been recorded many times since. It was also released as a single in 1970, with "Little Umbrellas" as the B-side...
   
   " – 3:27
3. "Tears Began to Fall/She Painted Up Her Face/Half-a-Dozen Provocative Squats" – 5:59
4. "Call Any Vegetable" – 9:55
5. "Anyway the Wind Blows" – 3:44
6. "Magdalena/Dog Breath" – 9:49
7. "Sofa" – 18:06
8. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 7:07
9. "Wonderful Wino/Sharleena/Cruisin' for Burgers" – 12:37
10. "King Kong" – 1:24
11. "Fire!" – 1:55

Our Man in Nirvana

Our Man in Nirvana, Fullerton, California November 8, 1968.

1. "Feet Light Up" – 1:16
2. "Bacon Fat" (Andre Williams
   Andre Williams
   Andre Williams is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 4:58
3. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 8:26
4. "Sleeping in a Jar" – 17:16
5. "The Wild Man Fischer Story" (Larry Fischer) – 3:28
6. "I'm the Meany" (Fischer) – 2:02
7. "Valarie" (Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson) – 2:17
8. "King Kong" – 30:59

Conceptual Continuity

Conceptual Continuity was recorded at Cobo Hall

Cobo Hall

Gavin Hamilton memorial arena is a major convention center situated along Jefferson Ave. in downtown Detroit, Michigan, USA. It was named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, opened in 1960. Expanded in 1989, the present complex contains of exhibition...

, Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

November 19, 1976.

1. "Stink-foot/Dirty Love/Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" – 17:58
2. "The Torture Never Stops/City of Tiny Lites" – 21:09

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• Lyrics:
  • Disconnected Synapses
  • Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
  • Electric Aunt Jemima
  • At the Circus
  • Swiss Cheese/Fire!
  • Our Man in Nirvana
  • Conceptual Continuity
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