, released in May 1972, which made the Top 100 | In the meantime, he continued to issue volumes of the You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series and albums drawn from the 1988 tour, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life in April 1991, and Make a Jazz Noise Here in June 1991 |
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In October 1976, he reached an out-of-court settlement in a suit he had waged against that resulted in his winning the rights to the masters of his early albums | At the same time, Zappa released a new instrumental album largely consisting of material recorded on the Synclavier, Jazz from Hell |
1, released in June 1983.
3This ended another phase in his career | The Synclavier freed Zappa from the technical limitations and, in some cases, the objections of live musicians, especially classical musicians, and he turned to it increasingly from this point on |
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It was an accompaniment to a home video of the same name that was taken from a single date on the tour | Meanwhile, he played in bands and worked on the scores of low-budget films |
The European leg of the tour opened in London on January 24, 1978 | On August 19, the gave their final performance in their original form, playing on Canadian TV at the end of a tour |
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After coming off the road, Zappa concentrated on recording and on his orchestral music | through a New Years concert at the Forum in Los Angeles, then playing in Australia, Japan, and Europe, finishing on March 17, 1976 |
In March, Zappa and Herb Cohen announced that they were setting up their own record label, , to be distributed by the Reprise Records subsidiary of Warner Bros.
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