Last year I thought it might be a nice addition to offer up textual transcripts of Mother's shows from 40 years ago.
Well, in the mean time Scott Parker has written and printed a book that he calls "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" which is the first volume in his series on FZ recordings . . . and takes things through the disbanding of the first Mothers (circa August 1969)
more info at his website:
http://www.scottparkerbooks.com/
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he has provided as he says "a full discography of authorized and unauthorized releases as well as detailed listings of all known circulating "underground" live and studio recordings. And more besides!"

Indeed, he gives word for word transcriptions of bootleg tapes as found at zappateers for the period 1963-1969 in the first volume., as well as music descriptions (like I was trying to do here last year) of this material in a chronological order and even in the order of performers in arrangements in live FZ directed settings. Which is as close as I can describe for his decriptions of what Frank was doing with the Mothers at this time.
Scott gets it right.
He deserves to get credit for publishing this himself.
Though I should ssay, what I posted up here last year had nothing to do with what Scott was doing as I hadn't sen that til xmas last year.
So, Though I would like to post up here for all to see 'transcripts'' of 1968 Mothers shows AS THEY OCCUR
maybe I should just put up a link to zappateers as the dates go by . . .
what does anybody think?

As it does turn out tomorrow, April 20, 1968 is the first date for 1968 that the collective bootleg collection known as zappateers has a recording of Frank Zappa of any kind. The Steve Allen show is unknown as to broadcast or recording . . .
1968 04 20 E/L Fillmore East, NYC, 73 min, 12 sec / 78 min, 8 sec
I've been listening to both of these the last few days and enjoy them as fuller expressions of stuff very similar in 'structure' musically and thematically to Weasels Ripped My Flesh, if that can make any sense at all.
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Sounds like he does great work to me... I'd love to have done it myself!

I've a;lready missed one:

1968 04 28 E Detroit, MI
60 min, SBD, B+

Mr Green Genes (q: Petrushka),
Hungry Freaks Daddy,
America Drinks And Goes Home,
King Kong,
Handsome Cabin Boy / Wedding Dress Song / Dog Breath / Little House I Used To Live In,
Status Back Baby,
The Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (q: Dog Breath)

found here
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2979

1968 05 03 Denver, CO
59 min, SB, A-/B+

Improvisations (incl Octandre)
Plastic People (incl Octandre, King Kong, America Drinks)
Wipe Out
Little House I Used To Live In (incl Dog Breath, Coquette, Tchaikovsky's 6th, Blue Danube, Hungry Freaks Daddy, Funiculì Funiculà)
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (snippet only)
Improvisations (several cuts in the beginning)
Status Back Baby (cuts)
Trouble Every Day Variations
Duke Of Earl
King Kong

found at zappateers here
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2925

many of these tracks also made it to the Beat The Boot release Electric Aunt Jemima

here's a link to Scott's book. You can get it at amazon now!!!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Freaks-Daddy-Recordings-Inventi...

That looks like it's going to be one fantastic collection of books!