Frank Zappa Bootlegs

Frank Zappa's Best Band (also known as St Patrick's Day) has tracks 1-10 on disc one and tracks 11-25 on disc two - all from Binghampton. The cover says "Frank Zappa's Best Band Live at the Broome County Veterans Arena, Binghampton, NY March 17 1988"; the spine says "St Patrick's Day". The front cover has a picture of Zappa in a pink sweater, playing a Stratocaster. Back cover has track list and black & white picture of Zappa's head with a marine cap and a mike. An "inside cover" has a list of musicians and "Notes, Aspects, Lyric Mutations, etc." The inlay lists OSA/BIEM.

Recorded on an open-air stage near Budapest in June 1991, at a concert to celebrate the exodus of Soviet troops from Hungary (as seen on the TV documentary Zappa Pest). Track 1 has Zappa's aquaintance Gabor Demsky, mayor of Budapest, introducing him, and tracks 2-3 have Zappa jamming on guitar with the Gypsy band of Gynla Babos. These were Zappa's last live guitar solos. There's a later studio solo on Everything Is Healing Nicely ("Strat Vindaloo"). The boot itself is a preposterous limited edition CD-R. The reported copy was #2 out of a total 100.