Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Fire/Swiss Cheese
The Casino, Montreux, Switzerland
December 04, 1971
 
Swiss Cheese
1. Intro (14:21)
2. Peaches en Regalia (03:27)
3. Tears Began to Fall / She Painted up Her Face / [Half a Dozen] Provocative Squats (05:59)
4. Call Any Vegetable (09:55)
5. Any Way the Wind Blows (03:44)

Fire!
6. Magdalena [Kaylan/Zappa] / Dog Breath (09:49)
7. Once Upon a Time / Sofa / Stick It Out / Divan (18:06)
8. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (07:07)
9. Wonderful Wino [Zappa/Simmons] / Sharleena / Cruisin' for Burgers (12:37)
10. King Kong (01:24)
11. Fire! (01:55)

Comments:
       One of the best Zappa boots out there, amazing sound for an audience, great 
setlist, plus the place burns down.  See more info below.  These were taken from
the Chameleon Records versions, not Beat the Boots Vol II.  Also included High 
Quality Bitmap Scans of the covers.

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info from:
http://w1.858.telia.com/%7Eu85821131/bootlegs/concert_boots1971-1975.html#fire

Swiss Cheese (LP/CD)
Fire! (LP/CD)
Smoke on the Water (2 CD)
Tears Began to Fall (CD)
The Casino, Montreux, 04-Dec-1971 
Illicitly issued as two separate records. 
Coupled for licit release in the Beat the Boots II set. 
Swiss Cheese re-issued on CD and LP on Chamelion Records (CHAM 890050-1). 
Fire! re-issued on CD and LP on Chamelion Records (CHAM 890050-2). 
Re-issued on double CD as Smoke on the Water. 
Swiss Cheese re-issued on CD with a part of Fire! and a bonus track from The Ark as Tears Began to Fall (Alegra CD 9023), in some country outside the USA. 
Most of Swiss Cheese also issued on The Real Thing with side one of 'Tis the Season to be Jelly 
Length: 2x~45 min
Sound quality: VERY good audience

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Pons & Ian Underwood

Swiss Cheese
1. Intro (14:21)
2. Peaches en Regalia (03:27)
3. Tears Began to Fall / She Painted up Her Face / [Half a Dozen] Provocative Squats (05:59)
4. Call Any Vegetable (09:55)
5. Any Way the Wind Blows (03:44)

Fire!
6. Magdalena [Kaylan/Zappa] / Dog Breath (09:49)
7. Once Upon a Time / Sofa / Stick It Out / Divan (18:06)
8. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (07:07)
9. Wonderful Wino [Zappa/Simmons] / Sharleena / Cruisin' for Burgers (12:37)
10. King Kong (01:24)
11. Fire! (01:55)

(The cover track lists don't exactly match the above, but the above should be more correct.)

This is the infamous concert where the Casino caught fire and burned down (the very fire mentioned in "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple) so most of the Mothers' equipment was destroyed. Track 1 contains Feedback, Attempted French Monologue, Tuning of the Instruments, Hard-Rock Combo and Hard-Rock Guitar Solo; track 7 is listed as "Give Me Some Floor Covering Under This Fat Floating Sofa" and includes the complete "Sofa" suite as performed live in 1971.

The Swiss Cheese cover shows Zappa amidst green plants wearing nothing but a red scarf, striped stockings and leopard tangas (the picture can be seen on page 79 of Miles' book A Visual Documentary). Fire! is similar, but here he wears a white tropic outfit (helmet, pants and shirt). Rubber Slices and Canada 1973 have similar covers. Fire! has been issued on black, white and multi-coloured vinyl and as a picture disc. Swiss Cheese has been pressed on black, green, multi-coloured and picture vinyl. Both were first released, in Europe, in 1985. 

See also: A Collector's 10 Favourite Zappa Boots (this coupling reached #2)