“We Don’t Mess Around” was a band rehearsal—there’s no audience—for a show at the Krone Circus in Munich that a German TV station taped on September 8, 1978. At the time Zappa was touring with arguably one of the tightest bands he ever assembled—Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann, Vinnie Colaiuta—and you even get to see Frank playing the accordion…

With some documentary elements including a shopping trip and an interview with Zappa’s bodyguard. Some of this material overlaps with/was included in Zappa’s own Baby Snakes feature.

Songs you will hear are “Pound for a Brown on a Bus,” “Baby Snakes,” “The Deathless Horsie,” “Dancin’ Fool,” “Easy Meat,” “Honey Don’t You Want a Man Like Me?” “Keep It Greasy,” “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?” “Sofa #2,” “Seal Call Fusion Music,” “Bobby Brown,” “Conehead,” “Dead Air,” “I’m On Duty,” “St. Alphonzo’s Pancake Breakfast,” “Rollo.”

Zappa’s guitar solo on “Easy Meat” is stunning and the camera stays right on his hands, building an ephemeral sculpture in the air. The interview with his limo driver/bodyguard is laugh out loud funny.