{"product_id":"bongo_fury_50th_anniversary_edition","title":"Bongo Fury - 50th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eBongo Fury – 50th Anniversary Edition is an expansive celebration of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s 1975 collaboration with The Mothers, built around the original album—largely drawn from the May 1975 shows at Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters plus a handful of Record Plant studio cuts—and massively extended with vault material. The Super Deluxe configuration presents 5 CDs plus a Blu‑ray Audio disc, featuring Bob Ludwig’s remaster of the original album (with staples like “Debra Kadabra,” “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy,” “Advance Romance,” “Muffin Man,” and Beefheart’s spoken‑word pieces “Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top” and “Man with the Woman Head”) alongside session outtakes, oddities, and full newly remixed stereo versions of both Austin concerts from May 20–21, 1975. The Blu‑ray adds Dolby Atmos, 5.1, and hi‑res stereo mixes plus extra surround “vault” material, while the album is also issued separately in all‑analogue 180g vinyl editions (single LP and 2LP) cut from the original tapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe box set emphasizes the reunion story: Zappa and old high‑school friend Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) mending fences and hitting the road together, captured in performances that blend Zappa’s complex, tightly arranged avant‑rock with Beefheart’s raw, Howlin’ Wolf–channeling vocals and surrealist poetry. Highlights among the previously unreleased material include the nine‑minute “Portuguese Lunar Landing,” extended versions of “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy” and “200 Years Old,” and curios like “Born to Suck,” built by grafting new vocals onto the “Florentine Pogen” guitar solo. Across the 57‑track program, you also hear wide‑ranging Zappa repertoire—from Over‑Nite Sensation and Apostrophe(’) through Uncle Meat and Freak Out!—plus what some reviewers call near‑definitive live readings of “The Torture Never Stops,” “Stink-Foot,” “Camarillo Brillo,” and “Willie the Pimp,” making this edition a comprehensive document of one of Zappa’s most storied lineups and his final recorded collaboration with Beefheart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ 2LP","offer_id":53318177423674,"sku":"37651","price":58.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53318177456442,"sku":"37652","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-04-14_at_1.22.39_PM_51c95f90-da65-4201-b513-10a0759d599d.jpeg?v=1779309830","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/bongo_fury_50th_anniversary_edition","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}