Which was originally in the middle of an Inca Roads performance.
It was also great to get the Yo Mama solo Heidelberg in a legitimate CD release. It was on some boots like Apocrypha and on the Guitar World cassette. (The Guitar World set would make a cool ZFT release. My cassette has some age issues these days.)
Where does the beat the boots series fit into the current scheme of things. Are they being replaced with the more recent releases like buffalo and and one shot deal etc...?
They are not considered part of the official discography, but the ZFT does acknowledge them, and there's a section for them on the zappa.com website separate from the official releases. The individual albums from the first two box sets are still available as downloads on Amazon and iTunes, but out of print as physical releases. The third "box," which was never released in physical form, is currently unavailable.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Thanks. Have you listened to them?
^ I have the physical sets in both vinyl and CD form. I never did get around to downloading BTB III, which seemed weirdly slapped together, including some material that was already available, and just appeared with no fanfare and disappeared with little notice.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Those were exact replicas of existing bootlegs. A certain amount of effort went into selecting them. (A Zappa maven on Rhino's staff compiled a short list of recommended inclusions; Zappa himself vetoed some of the items the maven had hoped would make the cut; apparently they went behind Zappa's back to use a better source than the vinyl for one of the albums, which Zappa was dead set against.) The BTB3 downloads were just sets of tracks dumped on the market with generic art and no indications of what bootlegs they came from, and just seemed kind of random.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Is the sound quality of BTB 3 better than 1 and 2?
It's odd that a download-only release would be out of print. I wonder if something is in the works?
An interesting BTB approach would have been to have released Apocrypha and Mystery Box as is, packaging and everything, except to add ZFT copyrights all over the packages. Imagine all the dough they could have raked in from us suckers.
Steve F.
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I bought the vinyl of the BTB sets when they were released. I think they are going for a fairly handsome price these days. I stumbled across the third set on Amazon. Wasn't aware, at the time, it even existed. I downloaded the whole thing. It's an interesting release but not quite what the first two were.
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