A one hour selection of unreleased gems from various Zappa bands between 1969 and 1978 and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1984.
These cuts include unreleased studio acetates and live recordings made via the mixing soundboard and by audience members on their own recording equipment.
Fans of the Sheik Yerbouti album will be drooling to Torture as it features the full-length, utterly monstrous Rat Tomago solo.
There's a slight dip in sound quality during the audience recording of the violin/guitar duel between Zappa and Shankar on Watermelon. But this is such an incredible musical event it's worth hearing even if the audio is less than perfect.
Some orchestral wonderment rounds everything off, from a radio broadcast of A Zappa Affair, 1984, which featured various FZ orchestra compositions set to choreography by life-sized puppets.
My other Zappa mix is easily my most listened to mix, so presumably there's an audience on here for this sort of stuff - Merry Christmas!
