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Frank Zappa
Finer Moments

Album US 2012 on Zappa Records label
Rock (Avant-garde, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock)

Total time of complete program - 82:40. Tracks 1-1 to 1-4: Recorded live on 6.6.69, Royal Albert Hall, London, EMI Recorders Remote - ½" 4-track analog tape (15 ips). Track 1-5: Recorded live (cassette) 5.21.71, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. Tracks 1-6 & 1-7: Recorded live - multi-track Analog (15 ips), 7.7-8.69, The Ark, Boston. Track 2-1: Recording - 1" 8 Track Analog, Mayfair Studios, NYC, 1967. Track 2-2: Recorded (1" 8 Track Analog) September, 1968, Sunset Sound, L.A. Track 2-3: Recording (½" 4-track Analog) Zappa Basement, 1972. Track 2-4: Recording live - ¼" stereo 2 track analog (15 ips). Track 2-5: Recorded live on 2/16/69 at The Ballroom, Stratford, CT. Track 2-6: Recorded live 10.11.71 at Carnegie Hall, NYC. ¼" mono analog tape (7½ ips). 1972 stereo tweakeage at Paramount, L.A. Engineered at Paramount Studios, Hollywood. Original ¼" DBX 187 encoded analog master tapes - dated 25 June, 1972. Vaultmeisterment & Tape Transfers at UMRK, 28 March, 2007. Mastered at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, April 2007. Cover art: 'Finer Moments' - Reclaimed Vintage Linoleum Assemblage (32" × 48"), 2011. Design layout and art photography for Zappa Records. All ZFT Archival Materials including photographs courtesy the Vault. And for hot duty on 60!!! 2012 reissues on Zappa Records: Ahmet Zappa for Target Focus & Acquisition/Dweezil Zappa for Prodigious Noteworthyness/Moon Zappa for Fierce Perspective & Diva Zappa for Tea-time of the Soul. Special Forces: M. DuClaw; Special Thanks for all Good Will expressed by various members of the FZ Teen-age Audience & Support Team: Larry Stein, Owen Sloane, Barry Siegel, Bev D'Angelo, Steve Vai, MDB, everyone at UMe (Bruce Resnikoff!!, Herb Agner), Mandy at Fintage, Niels Teves, Mike, Joe, Melanie, Kurt, Antonio, Holland, Keith, Jack & Licorice, Kit10s, Rebus & Regypt, Shadow & the Freds - without all of whom the possible is horribly foreshortened. Very Special thanks to Mathilda, Zola, Ceylon & Halo. Officially released 2012. All FZ works controlled worldwide by the Zappa Family Trust dba Munchkin Music. ©℗ mmxii Zappa Family Trust. Under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution. This is Zappa Family Archival Matter In Living Ylem. Sourece: 1972 Analog Master. This is Official Release #94. "The present-day composer refuses to die." - Edgard Varèse

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	Frank Zappa voc, g, 1940-1993 US composed by, compiled by, other, title, engineer, producer, composed by, compiled by, constructed by, album by, conductor, vocals, guitar, conductor, guitar, performer, all, conductor, performer, engineer, performer, performance, engineer, stereo tweakeage
	Gail Zappa , 1945-2015 US liner notes, contextural excursions
	Bill Miller , US liner notes, cover, assemblage, cover art
	Joe Travers dr, voc, US transferred by, tape transfers, research, vaultmeisterment
	Motorhead Sherwood tam, bs, 1942-2011 US baritone saxophone
	Roy Estrada b, voc, eb, *1943 US bass, bass, vocals
	Noel Redding b, voc, 1945-2003 GB choreography, special dance stylings
	Jimmy Carl Black dr, voc, 1938-2008 US drums
	Art Tripp dr, *1944 US drums, percussion
	Don Preston syn, ep, *1932 US keyboards, keyboards, synthesizer, mini moog
	Buzz Gardner tr, 1931-2004 US trumpet
	Bunk Gardner ts, *1933 US woodwind, tenor saxophone, woodwind
	Ian Underwood , *1939 US woodwind, piano, alto saxophone, alto saxophone, woodwind, piano, clarinet, keyboards
	Jim Pons voc, b, *1943 US bass
	Aynsley Dunbar dr, *1946 GB drums
	Bob Harris key, voc, *1943 keyboards
	Howard Kaylan voc, *1947 US tambourine, cowbell
	Mark Volman voc, *1947 US tambourine, cowbell
	Dick Barber , vocals, snorks
	Dave Samuels vib, mar, *1948 US guest, soloist, vibraphone
	Lowell George voc, g, 1945-1979 US guitar
	Kerry McNabb , engineer, stereo tweakeage

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