Frank Zappa/John Lennon-Fillmore East

[spotlightkid]

Does anyone know if the songs on the sometime in new york city album with Zappa and Lennon are the only songs they peformed that night at Fillmore East?

[Paul L.]

Except for "Well," it's a stretch to call them songs : )

There is a bootleg with the complete John and Yoko portion. It's the same songs, just not shortened like the released version on Sometime in New York City.

There's a famous story about this tape. Zappa had a state-of-the-art storage vault, in his home I believe, and the John and Yoko master reel was the only one that ever came up stolen. Of course he must have been talking about *after* the record came out.

[Uncle Al]

Originally the J & Y portion of the concert was slated to be included on the Mother's at Fillmore East album, but John wanted the tracks on his lp and Zappa relented. The Lennon's mislabled one of the songs played which was actually Zappa's "King Kong", or at least it started out that way before turning into a free-fall jam and Yoko babble.

Zappa's mix of the J&Y appearance was released on CD sometime in the 90's on the "Playground Psychotic's" CD, and as a token of his appreciation, he titled the last jam of the set as "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono".