Frank Zappa - Zappa '80: Mudd Club LP

During the spring/summer tour of 1980, Frank Zappa played a set at his favorite NYC nightclub – the famous Mudd Club. Zappa adored the place and even wrote a song dedicated to it. Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in 2022, the complete performance is included here on two 45rpm 180g audiophile vinyl LPs. The package also features photography and a memoir from George Alper, who worked for FZ and was at the event, along with liner notes from Arthur Barrow, Steve Vai and Vaultmeister Joe Travers. In 1980, The Mudd Club was a happening, underground venue in lower Manhattan best known for being a popular hangout for the counterculture and a bastion of new wave and punk which dominated NYC's music and fashion scene. As Travers writes in the liners, "celebrities and musicians alike would frequent the 'art bar cabaret' during its heyday between 1979 and 1983, dancing, drinking and making the scene amongst the New York City denizens of the deep." Zappa loved the small, se