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Beat the Boots II is a box set by Frank Zappa. It compiles bootleg recordings which were previously available illegally, and was released through Rhino Entertainment in 1992 as part of Zappa's campaign to dissuade his fans from buying illegal recordings of his concerts. The set contains material from between 1968 and 1978, including Swiss Cheese/Fire! which documents a famous 1971 concert at a casino in Montreux where the venue burned down, inspiring the lyrics of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water".

Beat the Boots II
Box set by Frank Zappa
Released	June 16, 1992
Recorded	Various locations May 3, 1968–September 8, 1978
Genre	Rock
Length	415:39
Label	Rhino
Frank Zappa chronology
Beat the Boots (1991) Beat the Boots II (1992) The MOFO Project/Object (2006)

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Track listing

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

Disconnected Synapses

Recorded at Palais Gaumont, Paris December 15, 1970.

1. "Penis Dimension" – 11:15
2. "The Air" – 3:54
3. "The Dog Breath/Mother People" – 4:22
4. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" – 3:34
5. "King Kong" – 31:38
6. "Who Are the Brain Police?" – 6:30

Tengo Na Minchia Tanta

Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Sicilian for "I've got such a big dick") was recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City November 14, 1970. Tracks 11-14 are duplicated from the "Freaks & Motherfuckers" disc from box I.

1. "Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?" – 0:49
2. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 7:26
3. "Sleeping in a Jar (with extensions)" – 4:34
4. "Sharleena" – 4:31
5. "The Sanzini Brothers" – 0:32
6. "What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?" – 4:35
7. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" – 5:00
8. "Bwana Dik" – 1:45
9. "Latex Solar Beef" – 1:00
10. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" – 2:46
11. "Little House I Used to Live In" – 4:04
12. "Holiday in Berlin" – 4:36
13. "Inca Roads/Easy Meat" – 7:16
14. "Cruisin' for Burgers" – 2:45

Electric Aunt Jemima

Electric Aunt Jemima incorporates material from various dates: tracks 1, 2, 5 and 7 are from a show at The Dog, Denver, Colorado on May 3, 1968; tracks 3 and 6 are from Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, October 20, 1968 and track 4 was recorded at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany on September 28, 1968.

1. "Little House I Used to Live In/Dog Breath Variations/Blue Danube Waltz/Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 14:30
2. "whät" – 3:53 [the true title of this piece is not known]
3. "Dog Breath" – 2:10
4. "King Kong" – 16:30
5. "More Trouble Every Day" – 5:59
6. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 8:36
7. "English Tea Dancing Interludes/Plastic People/King Kong/America Drinks/Wipe Out" – 12:00 [the first ingredient in this medley is Zappa's arrangement of a motif from Edgard Varèse's "Octandre"]

At the Circus

All tracks were recorded at Circus Krone, Munich on September 8, 1978, except tracks 6 and 7, recorded for VPRO TV, Uddel, Netherlands June 18, 1970.

1. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 2:15
2. "Baby Snakes" – 2:05
3. "Dancin' Fool" – 3:15
4. "Easy Meat" – 4:39
5. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" – 4:32
6. "Mother People" – 2:40
7. "Wonderful Wino" – 5:41
8. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" – 2:21
9. "Seal Call Fusion Music" – 3:12
10. "Bobby Brown Goes Down" – 2:53
11. "I'm On Duty" – 1:52
12. "Conehead" – 5:31

Swiss Cheese/Fire!

Swiss Cheese and Fire! were initially produced as two separate bootlegs. Both were recorded at the same show at Casino, Montreux, Switzerland on December 4, 1971, that inspired Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water". Swiss Cheese comprises tracks 1 to 5 and Fire! tracks 6 to 11.

Disc one: Swiss Cheese

1. "Zanti Serenade" – 14:21
2. "Peaches En Regalia" – 3:27
3. "Tears Began to Fall/She Painted Up Her Face/Half-a-Dozen Provocative Squats" – 5:59
4. "Call Any Vegetable" – 9:55
5. "Any Way the Wind Blows" – 3:44

Disc Two: Fire!

1. "Magdalena/Dog Breath" – 9:49
2. "Sofa" – 18:06
3. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 7:07
4. "Wonderful Wino/Sharleena/Cruisin' for Burgers" – 12:37
5. "King Kong" – 1:24
6. "Fire!" – 1:55

Our Man in Nirvana

Recorded At Fullerton College, Fullerton, California November 8, 1968, with Wild Man Fischer as a guest on tracks 5 and 6.

1. "Feet Light Up" – 1:16
2. "Bacon Fat" (Andre Williams) – 4:58
3. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 8:26
4. "Sleeping in a Jar" – 17:16
5. "The Wild Man Fischer Story" (Larry Fischer) – 3:28
6. "I'm the Meany" (Fischer) – 2:02
7. "Valarie" (Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson) – 2:17
8. "King Kong" – 30:59

Conceptual Continuity

Recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan November 19, 1976.

1. "Stink-foot/Dirty Love/Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" – 17:58
2. "The Torture Never Stops/City of Tiny Lites" – 21:09

See also

• Beat the Boots
• Beat the Boots III

References

External links

• Lyrics:
  • Disconnected Synapses
  • Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
  • Electric Aunt Jemima
  • At the Circus
  • Swiss Cheese/Fire!
  • Our Man in Nirvana
  • Conceptual Continuity
• Release details

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[es] Beat the Boots II

Beat the Boots II es una caja recopilatoria del músico y compositor estadounidense Frank Zappa. Compila varios bootlegs antes disponibles de forma ilegal, y fue lanzado por Rhino Entertainment en 1992 como parte de una campaña de Zappa para disuadir a sus seguidores de comprar grabaciones ilegales de sus conciertos. La caja contiene material entre 1968 y 1978, incluyendo Swiss Cheese / Fire! que documenta el famoso concierto de 1971 en el casino de Montreux donde se quemó el edificio, inspirando la letra de "Smoke on the Water" de Deep Purple.

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