What do those letters mean?

Alphabetical lists of acronyms for FZ's records and videos

Used and abused (not only) in these pages.

Acronyms for officially released movies and videos

Acronyms for officially released records

Please note you could find in my site and elsewhere another couple of acronyms:

• TGWATFZ refers to The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa, a cassette tape issued in 1987 by Barfko-Swill and Guitar World magazine. It contains a otherwise unavailable guitar solo and some alternate editing/mix of other officially released tracks (see FZ Discography for more details).
• TFZABB refers to The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle, a compilation made availaibe only through download at iTunes in December 2006. It contains 5 FZ recordings not available elsewhere
• TFZAABB refers to The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle, a compilation made availaibe only through download at iTunes in December 2008. It contains 3 FZ recordings not available elsewhere and 2 recording previously only available on singles or compilations.
• BTB1 and BTB2 refer to Beat The Boots! and Beat The Boots! #2, two collections of more or less historical bootlegs that Rhino Records published in boxes in 1991 and 1992 with Zappa agreement but without any further post-production by him (see Zappa Patio for more details).

Not all Zappa's compilation are listed here, check the complete and chronological FZ Discography by Román García Albertos.
You may also want to check my notes about the FZ phonography, including a compact mini-guide to different versions of Zappa's Records.
Last, you also can check the many differences exiting in the various editions of these albums in the complete Vinyl-vs-CDs faq at The Zappa Patio or in my simpler Easy Teen-Age version.

• Frank Zappa's discography chronotable.

Acronyms for officially released records

Acronyms for officially released movies and videos

Note that most of the movies/videos listed above contain live performances not available in official released records (details here: complete list of Frank Zappa's live performances available on Frank Zappa's official videos).
A couple of video clips not available on any of the above main releases are included in the Halloween DVD-Audio release;
the cd version of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels album contains an original theatrical trailer for the movie;
a Valley Girl documentary (from 1982) has been added as bonus video in the The Dub Room Special! DVD release;
a Roxy trailer has been added as bonus video in the Baby Snakes DVD release.
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe(')/Over-Nite Sensation should be added at the videos above (CAFZ). It was first broadcasted in december 2006 in Norway and then commercially released as DVD in May 2007. It contains various live excerpts (inclundig some previously unseen footage with Bianca), and, as "bonus features", complete live performances of Montana (from one of the December 1973 Roxy shows) and I'm The Slime (from a December live TV appareance at the Saturday Night Live show).
The same Roxy Montana performance, followed by a twenty minutes Dupree's Paradise, is/was also available as low resolution .mov file at Zappa.com (this video was first shown as intro at some 2006 Zappa Plays Zappa shows).

• Check the Complete list of Frank Zappa's live performances available on Frank Zappa's official videos.
• Check the FZ live performances available on video (1967-1974)
• Check the FZ videography by Román García Albertos (it also includes complete transcriptions of many official and unofficial movies/videos/documentaries).

This page created on April 2005 and latest revised on February 21, 2009

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