Touring Can Make You Crazy

This website is dedicated to investigate the live entertainment activities of Frank Zappa. It's a work in progress, so new material will be added from time to time.

• General reference:
  • The clickable multi-purpose FZ calendar - an overview on Zappa tours and official releases publishing dates (plain text version here).
  • The St. Alfonzo's reference table - quick information for every Zappa tour.
  • The big St. Alfonzo's pancake table and The quote festival - single-sight overview of the performing story of every Zappa's song.
  • The FZ's medley/suite page.
  • List of FZ's songs never performed on stage.
  • Countries visited by years.
• Main Zappa eras:
  • 1965 - 1969: The original Mothers of Invention - line-ups and activities of the first Zappa rocking combo, may 1965 - august 1969.
  • 1973 - 1974: Line-ups and activities of Frank Zappa's 1973/1974 bands.
  • 1975 - 1988: Line-ups of Zappa's touring bands from 1975 to 1988 - a graphical overview.
• Tours/bands in-deep analysis:
  • The 1975 'Bongo Fury' tour.
  • The 2nd 1980 North America tour.
  • 1984 tours.
• Phonography and videography:
  • Some notes about the FZ phonography, including a compact mini-guide to different versions of Zappa's records.
  • Frank Zappa's discography chronotable
  • Grandson of Vinyl-vs-CDs: The Easy Teen-Age Version - index (almost entirely updated!).
  • List of live impros and solos available as stand alone tracks on FZ's official releases.
  • What's on MOFO.
  • List of Frank Zappa's live performances available on FZ's official videos.
  • List of Frank Zappa's live performances available on pro-shot videos (1966-1974).
  • Acronyms.
• More places of interest
  • FZShows, v. 7.1 - a list of all the circulating unofficial live recordings of Frank Zappa.
  • The unofficial recordings Catalogue at Zappateers tracker (by yours truly...).
  • Zappa links.