IMAGINARY DISEASES

This album is representative of the tour on which I first heard Zappa's band play live -- at Winterland, in San Francisco, in December 1972. The music herein is therefore very sentimental to me, but is very unlike the typical Zappa fare that came afterward, on which most of his latter-day popularity was based. In other words, if One Size Fits All is your favorite, you probably won't like this. Memory suggests that "Montana" was included on this tour as an encore, but it isn't here.

"Good, but non-essential" seems fair for this one. The sound is much better than the bootleg that I've heard from this tour.