Beat The Zappa Boots (Slight Return)

“Wading in worse cacadoody than ever…”

By Blurt Staff

This just in…The Zappa Family Trust will make available the long-out-of-print Frank Zappa Beat The Boots series next Tuesday, July 8. But don’t rush out to your CD store: the material, 148 tracks in all, will only be available digitally at iTunes, Amazon, etc.

Interestingly, these will be the only authorized Frank Zappa albums available on iTunes.

Gail Zappa said in a statement, "Even though the polar caps are melting away at such a horrendous rate we will probably never need boots again except for wading in worse cacadoody than ever, you can finally get these Beat the Boots on iTunes just in time to be reminded of Liberation of another sort on the 4th of July."

The whole deal was set up through TuneCore, of whom Zappa noted, "We chose to use TuneCore because it's the fastest and easiest way to get Frank Zappa's music into iTunes, while keeping all of our rights and royalties in the process."

Jeff Price, CEO of TuneCore added, "Excited? What are you kidding me? It's Frank Zappa!"

Originally conceived by Frank Zappa as a way to outsell bootleggers, the original eight-album box set Beat The Boots I was released in July, 1991 on Rhino. It was followed in June, 1992, by another seven albums, marking Beat The Boots II. Though the albums were later released individually on CD, they went out of print and routinely fetch high prices on eBay.

Albums to made available starting July 8:

As An Am (Beat The Boots I)
The Ark (Beat The Boots I)
Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! (Beat The Boots I)
Unmitigated Audacity (Beat The Boots I)
Anyway The Wind Blows (Beat The Boots I)
'Tis The Season To Be Jelly (Beat The Boots I)
Saarbr¸cken 1978 (Beat The Boots I)
Piquantique (Beat The Boots I)
Disconnected Synapses (Beat The Boots II)
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Beat The Boots II)
Electric Aunt Jemima (Beat The Boots II)
At The Circus (Beat The Boots II)
Swiss Cheese/Fire! (Beat The Boots II)
Our Man In Nirvana (Beat The Boots II)
Conceptual Continuity (Beat The Boots II)