New Zappa releases

[Mister Triscuits]

I feel like you've mentioned this before? ;-)

Unfortunately not where it would do any good. Maybe if I camp out on Joe Travers's lawn...

I mean that Hollywood Palladium show is the day before the one I've been begging for all these years.

[unclemeat]

[Piskie]

Its lovely having new releases but I do wish the rest of the discography was properly available. There are several albums I fancy but can't buy at sensible prices.

[lovecraft]

I wish Erie was at a sensible price and in sensible packaging....

[MudShark22]

Unfortunately not where it would do any good. Maybe if I camp out on Joe Travers's lawn...

I mean that Hollywood Palladium show is the day before the one I've been begging for all these years.

This is from your show - notice that AZ & JT mixed / produced it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xvkS0JNk4jY

[Plasmatopia]

I recently came across Funky Nothingness and Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana in my local store and of course had to buy them. $81 for the two of them! That hurt.

[StarThrower]

More details:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/...-super-deluxe/

[Hunchentootz]

I wish Erie was at a sensible price and in sensible packaging....

I just picked this up not long ago at a reduced price. The packaging is awful. Wasteful. I AM glad I have it for the music but man... swing and a massive miss on that package. Clam shell Wazoo was much better at least.

[Mister Triscuits]

I just picked this up not long ago at a reduced price. The packaging is awful. Wasteful. I AM glad I have it for the music but man... swing and a massive miss on that package.

I didn't think Erie was bad at all: six CDs in a package around the size of a double LP (one half inch thick). Not as economical as the Waka Wazoo box you cite, but much more so than the Hot Rats box (also six CDs, but a full inch thick). And I like the 12" format's scope for bigger photos and artwork. Erie wasn't the best example of that, but the interior art was at least...interesting.

[polmico]

Pre-order and associated Merch is up: https://store.zappa.com/

That purple Mothers shirt is pretty sweet.

[Hunchentootz]

I didn't think Erie was bad at all: six CDs in a package around the size of a double LP (one half inch thick). Not as economical as the Waka Wazoo box you cite, but much more so than the Hot Rats box (also six CDs, but a full inch thick). And I like the 12" format's scope for bigger photos and artwork. Erie wasn't the best example of that, but the interior art was at least...interesting.

Yeah. I agree with ya on the Hot Rats Sessions. I guess the scale of the text and what was in Erie - just made it seem less than ideal to me. Large fonts and space filling vibes. The material on the cds is ace for sure.

[lovecraft]

Erie remains stubbornly above £100. That's brutal.

[The Czar]

Erie remains stubbornly above £100. That's brutal.

Lowest I have seen it is $94 USD

[Mister Triscuits]

Its lovely having new releases but I do wish the rest of the discography was properly available. There are several albums I fancy but can't buy at sensible prices.

Shocking that even Freak Out is out of print, although you can still get MOFO, which includes the original album in its entirety.

[r2daft2]

There was a blink-and-you-miss-it opportunity to get Erie for £78 in the UK a few months ago - still arguably on the expensive side but if there's plenty of unsold copies about then a similar low price could happen again!

I wonder if Erie might be the last of the OTT packaging experiments. I was fully expecting the Over-nite Sensation box to be a super-deluxe box and am more than happy that it will be a relatively reasonably priced clamshell like M70, M71 & W/W. Have poorer sales of Erie and the Halloween boxes helped to encourage more appropriate packaging trends? Hope so!

[Hobo Chang Ba]

Pre-order and associated Merch is up: https://store.zappa.com/

That purple Mothers shirt is pretty sweet.

I mean...yeah. I'm going to buy this.

[lovecraft]

There was a blink-and-you-miss-it opportunity to get Erie for £78 in the UK a few months ago - still arguably on the expensive side but if there's plenty of unsold copies about then a similar low price could happen again!

I wonder if Erie might be the last of the OTT packaging experiments. I was fully expecting the Over-nite Sensation box to be a super-deluxe box and am more than happy that it will be a relatively reasonably priced clamshell like M70, M71 & W/W. Have poorer sales of Erie and the Halloween boxes helped to encourage more appropriate packaging trends? Hope so!

I hope you're right about that. These monstrous things are pretty dumb IMO.

[MudShark22]

Arrrgh!!! all this Zappa talk has "forced me" to purchase Imaginary Diseases, Little Dots and Wazoo today.

Shame on you all.

[flowerking]

Arrrgh!!! all this Zappa talk has "forced me" to purchase Imaginary Diseases, Little Dots and Wazoo today.

Shame on you all.

What took you so long? Three amazing releases.

[The Czar]

There was a blink-and-you-miss-it opportunity to get Erie for £78 in the UK a few months ago - still arguably on the expensive side but if there's plenty of unsold copies about then a similar low price could happen again!

I wonder if Erie might be the last of the OTT packaging experiments. I was fully expecting the Over-nite Sensation box to be a super-deluxe box and am more than happy that it will be a relatively reasonably priced clamshell like M70, M71 & W/W. Have poorer sales of Erie and the Halloween boxes helped to encourage more appropriate packaging trends? Hope so!

I think Erie was the last before Universal took over, and they probably saw that the sales were not as high as other smarter price & packaged releases.

I hear that the audio is a must have, but the one thing that really turns me off about it is this... if I wanted vinyl sized packaging, I would buy vinyl!
The Marillion and Jethro Tull book sets are the biggest and smarter way to go.

[pb2015]

I guess it hasn't been mentioned yet here..

Next release (shipping date in November) will be a 50th anniversary box for Over-Nite Sensation with outtakes/alternates and two shows from the early 1973 U.S. tour with that lineup, plus a Blu-ray with surround and Atmos mixes.

https://store.zappa.com/products/ove...deluxe-edition

[MudShark22]

I guess it hasn't been mentioned yet here..

Next release (shipping date in November) will be a 50th anniversary box for Over-Nite Sensation with outtakes/alternates and two shows from the early 1973 U.S. tour with that lineup, plus a Blu-ray with surround and Atmos mixes.

https://store.zappa.com/products/ove...deluxe-edition

See post 1132 ;-)

[pb2015]

See post 1132 ;-)

You're right. Well, now it's re-foregrounded.

[Hunchentootz]

I guess it hasn't been mentioned yet here..

Next release (shipping date in November) will be a 50th anniversary box for Over-Nite Sensation with outtakes/alternates and two shows from the early 1973 U.S. tour with that lineup, plus a Blu-ray with surround and Atmos mixes.

https://store.zappa.com/products/ove...deluxe-edition

I done did it. Pre-ordered. That track they let loose is SICK. Duke reinforcing why I LOVE him so much.

[Mister Triscuits]

That track they let loose is SICK. Duke reinforcing why I LOVE him so much.

Isn't that awesome? Duke sounds like he's soloing even when he's just comping. You hardly miss the overdubbed solos and vocals--it sounds like a complete track as it is.