January 8 1995 - Shinjuku Disk Union Store, Tokyo Japan
personnel: Mike Keneally
setlist: Open Up!/Day Of The Cow/The Idiot Bastard Son/Weekend/Rosemary
Girl
MK comments: "The in-store performance at Disk Union was good."
tapes: guerilla audio exists
January 19 1995 - NAMM, Hilton, Anaheim CA
personnel: Mike Keneally, Bryan Beller, Toss Panos (and Joe Travers
on Andy and Inca Roads)
setlist: Career-Quimby/I Can't Stop/Open Up/The Car Song/Aglow/My Dilemma/Spoon
Guy/Top Of Stove Melting/ Lightnin' Roy/Bryan Beller's Favorite Song/Uglytown
(w/drum solo)/Weekend/Spearmint Pup/ Cowlogy/The Desired Effect/Dolphins/Performing
Miracles/Skunk-Thorax/Waiting On Williams/1988 Was A Million Years Ago/Dhen
Tin/Cheddar/Scotch/Cheddar/Rosemary Girl/Andy/Inca Roads (and possibly
more)
MK comments: The MK/BFD show at the Hilton was wonderful....I'm jazzed
because every show we do kicks ass on the one before it.
note: one of the longest, if not the longest BFD-sets ever.
tapes: guerilla audio and video exist
January 20? 1995 - NAMM, Hilton, Anaheim CA
personnel: Z (Dweezil & Ahmet Zappa, MK, BB, JT)
setlist: The Medley
BB comments: The Z show was a private party for Peavey, with a special
guest appearance by Dick Clark. We all got dressed up in fake costume
stage tuxes and wore ZZ Top beards for a planned skit, before playing
our only song of the evening: an even newer medley, one that spanned
the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. It was fun, it was silly, it was Z in
a nutshell.
tapes: audio and video exist
January 21 1995 - NAMM, Hilton, Anaheim CA
(for Guitar Player Magazine)
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist: Snowcow (they only played for 10 minutes)
MK comments:
tapes: -
February 24 1995 - Musicians' Institute, Hollywood CA
personnel: MK, BB, Toss Panos on drums, with Joe Travers on drums for
"Andy" and "Inca Roads." Also, Satnam Ramgotra played
tablas on Uglytown-1988-Uglytown
setlist:
Intro/Career-Quimby/I Can't Stop/Open Up/Dolphins/Performing Miracles/Aglow/My
Dilemma/Spoon Guy/Uglytown/1988 was a Million Years Ago/Uglytown/Weekend/Blameless/The
Car Song/Spearming Pup/Cowlogy/Skunk/Thorax/Cheddar/Good Morning Sometime/Scotch/Cheddar/Rosemary
Girl/Andy/Inca Roads [setlist provided by Terry Weaver]
MK comments: The MI show [...] was good, but not one of our best.
and some time later: The[...] show we did there sucked.
tapes: video and audio
April 6 1995 - Club Lingerie, Hollywood CA
personnel: MK, BB, TP (and Satnam Ramgotra on tablas on Uglytown)
setlist: Career Politicians-Quimby (medley)/I Can't Stop/Dolphins (truncated
version)/Performing Miracles/My Dilemma/Spoon Guy/Uglytown/Weekend/Spearmint
Pup/Cow 1/Snowcow/Cow 2/Rosemary Girl/ encores: Skunk/Scotch
MK comments: Beautiful. We had a very very beautiful time.
tapes: video
April 26 1995 - Club Lingerie, Hollywood CA
personnel: MK, BB, TP
setlist: unknown
MK comments: I really liked it a lot. [...] Toss and Bryan don't
believe me, they still think it sucked.
tapes: video
June 2 1995 - Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego CA
personnel: MK
setlist: well, uhm, a prerecorded tape of "classic rock" guitar
licks (in order: intro wankage, "Satisfaction", "Walk
This Way", seventh chords chromatically up the neck, "Won't
Get Fooled Again", Page solo from "Heartbreaker" [segment])
and then harmonizing to the intro of Voodoo Chile and the entire Star
Spangled Banner.
MK comments: Extremely surreal.
'We Never Thought Of A Name For The Tour'-Tour
July 1995
personnel: Mike Keneally, Bryan Beller, Toss Panos
Rich Lewis (driver, road manager, video and audiographer)
Go here for Mike's '2 Motels' Road Diary
July 8 1995 - Berkeley Square, Berkeley CA
opening for M.I.R.V.
setlist:
Rosemary Girl/Lightnin' Roy/My Dilemma/Spoon Guy/Uglytown/Dolphins/Performing
Miracles/ Day Of The Cow 1/Snowcow/Day Of The Cow 2/encore: Quimby/I
Can't Stop
MK comments: one of the good ones for sure
tapes: video exists, guerilla video exists
July 10 1995 - The Jambalaya, Arcata CA
setlist: unknown
tapes: video?
July 12 1995 - Baked Potato, Pasadena CA
MK with Patrick Moraz, Ronnie Ciago, Doug Shreeve
setlist:
tapes: video
July 20 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist: unknown
MK comments: "We were devastating." BB
comments (2001): We played a 45-minute set for about twenty people,
mostly hardcore Z and Zappa fans. It was a hell of a lot of fun. The
promoter thought so too, and she booked Mike again the following month.
And the month after that.
tapes: -
July 30 1995 - Better World Galleria, San Diego CA
(sponsored by Taylor Guitars)
personnel: MK, BB (on acoustic guitar/bass)
setlist: Spearmint Pup/Cowlogy/The Desired Effect/Career-Quimby/I Can't
Stop/Them Dolphins Is Smart/ 1988 Was A Million Years Ago/Open Up/Spoon
Guy/Rosemary Girl
MK comments: "An utter pleasure, well-received."
tapes: video and audio exist, guerilla audio exists
July 31 1995 - San Diego Street Scene-press conference, somewhere
in DT San Diego CA
personnel: MK, BB (on acoustic guitar/bass)
setlist: unknown
MK comments: "It SUCKED."
tapes: -
August 5 1995 - Guitar Center, San Diego CA
(San Diego Music Awards)
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist: Performing Miracles, Spearmint Pup, Cowlogy [The juxtaposition
of prepared and improvised], Quimby, I Can’t Stop, [The time structure
of Skunk] (They played Skunk, but it was not included on the tape),
My Dilemma, Spoon Guy, Uglytown, [FZ influence talk] [Uglytown hook
lesson], The Car Song
tapes: video exists
note: part of the MK&BFD Video Club Tape #1
August 6 1995 - Spreckles Theatre, San Diego CA
(San Diego Music Awards)
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist:
tapes: -
August 24 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA
personnel:
setlist:
tapes: video
MK comments: "Part of this show is on the "Soap Scum Remover"
video."
September 8 1995 - Reno NV
personnel: MK, BB, TP (?)
setlist:
MK comments: "sparsely attended, had a lot of magic in it"
tapes: -
September 10 1995 - Dick's Last Resort, San Diego CA
(San Diego Street Scene)
personnel: MK, BB, TP (?)
setlist: unknown
MK comments: "Just peculiar"
tapes: -
September 28 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist: unknown
MK comments: "An unqualified success."
tapes: -
October 18 1995 - Alligator Lounge, Santa Monica CA
personnel: Z
setlist: intro > Flibberty Jibbet, Coyote Face, Break On Through
snippet, Boodledang, chatter, You Used All My Soap, babysitting story,
80's Medley, The Gweech, Kidz Cereal, Chicken Out [setlist provided
by Rons Spiegelhalter]
tapes: audio
note: The last Z show with MK and BB.
October 20 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA
personnel: MK, BB, JT
setlist: Don't Read Bam magazine anymore/Career/Quimby, I Can't stop,
My Dilemma, Skunk/I'm Glad..., Bob Dylan's Nose, Scotch, Stage rap/Spearmint
Pup, Cowlogy, Don't You Ever Tune That Thing?, the Desired Effect, Dolphins,
Performing Miracles, Rosemary Girl, Inca Roads
tapes: audio
November 2 1995 - Wikiup Cafe, San Diego CA
personnel: MK, BB, TP
setlist:
MK comments: Way too much fun.
tapes: -
November 17 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA ("Bourbon Square
#5")
personnel: MK, BB, TP
setlist: Cheddar/Snowcow, Aglow, The Car Song, Skunk, Drum Solo/Dolphins,
Immigrant Song, Weekend, My Dilemma, Top of Stove Melting, Lightnin'
Roy, Scotch, I Can't Stop
BB comments: "Last night's gig at Bourbon Square was majestically
wonderful."
tapes: guerilla audio exists. Nowhere Man video is also out there. Ron
says: "I believe the audio in circulation is probably my dub from
the video."
December 8 1995 - Bourbon Square, Van Nuys CA
personnel: MK, BB, TP
setlist: And Your Bird Can Sing ("Tomorrow Never Knows" variant),
Rosemary Girl, Open Up!, Top of Stove Melting, Aglow, Blameless (the
floating face), I Will, Performing Miracles, The Desired Effect, 'Cause
of Breakfast, Sgt Pepper Reprise, Christmas Time Is Here, My Dilemma
MK comments: "Great show, with a much different texture than
earlier performances."
tapes: guerilla audio exists, guerilla video exists
