''Imaginary Diseases'' is an album of material by
Frank Zappa from the Petit Wazoo tour of 1972. It is one of two finished CD projects from the tour containing material mastered by Zappa before his death. The name of the album is derived from a lyric in the ''
Apostrophe (')'' (1974) song "Stink-Foot".
Track listing
All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.
Personnel
* Frank Zappa – conductor, guitar, vocals
* Earl Dumler –
woodwinds
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed ...
*
Tom Malone – saxes, piccolo trumpet, trumpet, tuba
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Malcolm McNab
Malcolm Boyd McNab is a trumpeter and player of other brass instruments, and a Los Angeles-based session musician who has performed on nearly 2000 film and television soundtracks.
Education
Raised in the San Gabriel Valley, McNab began studyi ...
– trumpet
* Gary Barone – trumpet, flugelhorn
*
Glenn Ferris
Glenn Arthur Ferris (born June 27, 1950) is an American jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. Outside of jazz he has played for Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, and Duran Duran.
He studied classical music from 1958 to 196 ...
– trombone
*
Bruce Fowler
Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American trombonist and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart and in the Fowler Brothers Band. He composes and arranges music for movies, ...
– trombone
*
Tony Duran – slide guitar
* Dave Parlato – bass
*
Jim Gordon – drums
Composed/Produced/Performed/Edited/Mixed/Tweaked by Frank Zappa
Vaultmeistered by Joe Travers. Mastered by Doug Sax & Robert Hadley
Liner notes by
Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist f ...
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References
External links
''Imaginary Diseases'' at Zappa.com
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Live albums published posthumously
Frank Zappa live albums
2006 live albums
Zappa Records albums