Frank Zappa's legendary 1971 release with The Mothers Of Invention, Fillmore East June 1971, is to be expanded for a 50th anniversary box set, The Mothers 1971, which will be released through Zappa Records/UMe on March 18.The original album was a semi-conceptual release that supposedly peeked behind the curtain at the life of a touring rock band, that featured in The Mud Shark, the apocryphal Seattle Edgewater Inn story of the mud shark which, so legend goes, featured Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and tour manager Richard Curtis, a member of Vanilla Fudge, a shark and a groupie!
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared at one of the two Filllmore performances and performed an encore with Zappa and the Mothers, some of which appeared on Live Jam, a bonus disc with Lennon's own Some Time In New York City.
The box set will be available on eight CDs or as a digital equivalent. There will also be a a pair of concurrently released individual 3LP sets, One, an expanded 50th anniversary 3LP vinyl edition of Fillmore East – June 1971 will have a remaster of the original 1971 live album on LP1 along with 2 LPs of bonus tracks, including the John Lennon and Yoko Ono encore and the complete masterpiece Billy The Mountain plus liner notes by Joe Travers, while Rainbow Theatre is the 3LP vinyl equivalent to the CD box’s contents, featuring a brand new 2021 mix and liner notes by Eddie Kramer.
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