Anyway the Wind Blows

Frank Zappa | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032GP
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,714 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Watermelon In Easter Hay

2. Dead Girls Of London

3. I Ain't Got No Heart

4. Brown Shoes Don't Make It

5. Cosmic Debris

6. Tryin' To Grow A Chin

7. City Of Tiny Lights

8. Dancin' Fool

9. Easy Meat

Disc: 2

1. Jumbo Go Away

2. Andy

3. Inca Roads

4. Florentine Pogen

5. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?

6. Keep It Greasy

7. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

8. Another Cheap Aroma

9. Wet T-Shirt Night

10. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This 2 CD set is an out of print collectible! It is the 1991 Rhino/Foo-Eee Records release. Catalog R2-70541. There is a saw cut on the spine of the cases.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Concert, January 25, 2003

By 

Antonio Teixeira (Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anyway the Wind Blows (Audio CD)

Although a bootleg (later recognized by FZ) is one of the best samples of the late 70's Zappa Shows. Recorded in Paris early 1979 (just a week before Odeon Hammersmith Concert, with some releases on Tinsell Town Rebellion 'n' YCTOSA Vols.1 & 6). The sound quality is acceptable (8/10) 'n' the tunes are AWESOME. From "Watermelon" overture to "Peaches (should i call it IV?)the band plays from MOI old tunes (Brown Shoes...) to new material to be released in future records 'n' shows (as any FZ ensemble) all their musical talents. This is an essential record to any Zappa freak!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great live Zappa from the late '70s period, December 14, 1998

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Anyway the Wind Blows (Audio CD)

This two disc set is a great addition to the Zappahiles collection and not a bad primer to Zappa music in general. A good selection of cuts from the late '70s touring band while they were in Europe. The band is outstanding (even for a Zappa band)and you get plenty of the Zappa guitar fire on cuts like "Andy", "Inca Roads", and "Watermelon In Easter Hay." While not the best of live Zappa, the arrangements are great on the tunes and it covers a very under-documented period of live Zappa. I would recommend this because even at its worst it is great live music and many of Zappa's best tunes are available here in arrangements unique to the period.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best officlal bootlegs, April 8, 2006

By 

coca-ebola (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anyway the Wind Blows (Audio CD)

It's the most extensive and historically accurate document of the 1978-79 Zappa band - which was one of the most spectacular-sounding of what I refer to as Frank's "rock big bands" (as opposed to nearly-jazz big bands like the Petit Wazoo or the '88 band). A couple of highlights from this era found their way onto Tinseltown Rebellion, many guitar solos from this era appear in the Shut Up box..but this is where you find out what the 1979 shows were really like.
They played pretty much the same set at every show, but then it WAS a great set. A fine balance of pop Zappa (including rare chances to hear "Dead Girls of London", "For The Young Sophisticate" [mistitled on sleeve], the Denny Whalley arrangement of "...Chin" and the `slow version' of "Easy Meat"), complex Zappa (the three One Size Fits All tunes) and inbetweens ("Wet T-Shirt Nite" and a terrific "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", which you may find preferable to the original version).
In my opinion, Frank never played better than he did with the Arthur & Vinnie rhythm section - he himself credited Mr Colauita as his most polyrhythmically simpatico accompanist (but not in those words!) - and there's plenty of evidence here. Even if it never doesn't reach the insane heights of the Shut Up... solos, it's one of the best "guitar discs" in the Zappa catalogue.
What's not to like - the sound quality doesn't flatter the keyboards and rhythm guitar at times, but nonetheless it is very good for a bootleg (this may not be the edited radio transcript of this show, but it IS a soundboard tape). The editing is a bigger problem - a large chunk of Jumbo Go Away (in the middle!) is missing. Also the peculiarly slow Watermelon fades in during the performance - nine- or ten-minute guitar/drum jousts were not uncommon on this tour. Was this one of them - we'll never know.