New Zappa releases

[chalkpie]

That cover is pretty amateurish. They deserve better.

Yeah it's pretty bad. Cheesy 🧀.

[Hobo Chang Ba]

The artwork reminds me of a Keyhole release, but this is a legit release. Joe has been mentioning for a while that it could happen.

Awesome. I'm totally in.

[Czyszy]

That cover is pretty amateurish. They deserve better.

In this day and age where AI generated album artwork is used for all kinds of releases all the time, no matter if indie, mainstream, low budget or big budget, seeing anything non-AI generated is a blessing!

[The Czar]

That cover is pretty amateurish. They deserve better.

Maybe they can get them all back together to take another photo so it pleases everyone.

[ronmac]

Maybe they can get them all back together to take another photo so it pleases everyone.

Uh, the photo isn't the problem.

[chalkpie]

Imagine hanging out with that crew....I wouldn't even know where to start.

[Mister Triscuits]

In this day and age where AI generated album artwork is used for all kinds of releases all the time, no matter if indie, mainstream, low budget or big budget, seeing anything non-AI generated is a blessing!

For the record, the logo is the design from Jimmy Carl Black's bass drum.

[chalkpie]

Anyway, that show looks fookin brilliant! Can't wait to hear this.

[unclemeat]

[Hobo Chang Ba]

Damn that sounds pretty excellent.

Is there a release date set?

[unclemeat]

Is there a release date set?

June 21.

[chalkpie]

Damn that sounds pretty excellent.

Is there a release date set?

I love FZ's guitar tones during this era (Switchmaster?). Do we know if "Meow" from YCDTOSA Vol 5 is the same gig as this set?

[pb2015]

Do we know if "Meow" from YCDTOSA Vol 5 is the same gig as this set?

It is. (Also "God Bless America" from Uncle Meat.)

[Steve F.]

oh, yeah!

[Steve F.]

P.S. I had not realized it was professionally recorded and filmed.

[Hobo Chang Ba]

June 21.

Awesome, thanks.

[Hobo Chang Ba]

I love FZ's guitar tones during this era (Switchmaster?). Do we know if "Meow" from YCDTOSA Vol 5 is the same gig as this set?

Same. In fact I love the sound of everything from this era very much. Instruments just don't sound this way anymore.

[Sterbus]

That cover is pretty amateurish. They deserve better.

So true, Cal Shenkel was really angry about it on facebook

[unclemeat]

Details :

''On July 23, 1968, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention took over the Whisky a Go Go for an all-night affair. Although bits and pieces were released by Zappa over the years, a full live album never happened, and the tapes sat in the vault for 56 years. Now all three sets by The Mothers are being released as Whisky a Go Go 1968, featuring brand new 2023 mixes on 3-CD, 5LP and a 2-LP highlights edition with liner notes by Joe Travers, Pamela Des Barres (The GTO’s), and an interview between Alice Cooper and Ahmet Zappa. The album will also be available to stream digitally on June 21st!

This release compiles everything The Mothers of Invention played in their designated sets, complete and newly re-mixed from hi-res digital transfers of the original master tapes. Yet another historic moment in time from the vault and a reminder of how special the original Mothers of Invention were. ''

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https://allabouttherock.co.uk/frank-...-a-go-go-1968/

[walt]

Music from this era of Zappa/MoI is always on my "to get" agenda.

I'm in.

[JKL2000]

There’s another new release today. Can’t post it now…

[Mister Triscuits]

There’s another new release today. Can’t post it now…

You mean the Record Store Day thing? (Vinyl edition of Zappa for President.)

[Baribrotzer]

There was something unique about this band.

The early Mothers bundled together an odd combination of people: Half were trained jazz/classical musicians who understood Frank's music and could confidently play what he wanted (Gardner, Underwood, Preston, Tripp). The other half were LA bar-band types whom FZ had cajoled and browbeaten into approximating it as well as they could, and were hanging on for dear life (Black, Estrada, Sherwood, Collins). Nobody else ever really sounded like them - not even Frank's later, more accomplished bands - and that sound came as much from their weakness as their strengths. Something in the primitive musicianship of the bar-band contingent gave his music a quality it never had with his more polished ensembles. Maybe a sort of directness - he HAD to write parts that Jimmy and Roy could play, and that meant they couldn't be too intricate. The result was a one-of-a-kind mix of crudity and sophistication.

And to other musicians whose compositional and musical reach exceeded their grasp, it may have made their big artistic ambitions seem attainable. I know it did for me.

[Mister Triscuits]

^ Well said!

[chalkpie]

Same. In fact I love the sound of everything from this era very much. Instruments just don't sound this way anymore.

Cheers and agreed. It seems that particular magic has long since gone. Even strictly acoustic instruments tend to have a modern sheen to them now. Lightning in a bottle....