Frank Zappa Finer Moments
2012 2x CD
Avantgarde
Psychedelic Rock
Prog Rock

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Zappa Records
composed by, compiled by, other [title] Frank Zappa
design [design layout], photography by [art photography] Michael Mesker
engineer Frank Zappa
engineer Kerry McNabb
liner notes [contextural excursions] Gail Zappa
liner notes, cover, assemblage [cover art] Bill Miller
mastered by Stephen Marcussen
photography by Ed Caraeff
photography by John Williams
producer, composed by, compiled by [constructed by] Frank Zappa
production manager Melanie Starks
research [vaultmeisterment], transferred by [tape transfers] Joe Travers
Phonographic Copyright (p) Zappa Family Trust
Published By Zappa Family Trust
Copyright (c) Zappa Family Trust
Published By Munchkin Music
Licensed To Universal Music Enterprises
Distributed By Universal Music Distribution
Recorded At Royal Albert Hall
Recorded At EMI Remote Facility
Recorded At Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
Recorded At The Ark, Boston
Recorded At Mayfair Recording Studios
Recorded At Sunset Sound Recorders
Recorded At The Ballroom, Stratford
Recorded At Carnegie Hall
Engineered At Paramount Recording Studios
Mastered At Marcussen Mastering
Pressed By Sony DADC, Terre Haute
Pressed By Sony DADC, Terre Haute
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
Barcode: 8 24302 38942 3 (Text)
Barcode: 824302389423 (String)
Other: ZR 3894 CD01 (Cat# CD1)
Other: ZR 3894 CD02 (Cat# CD2)
Matrix / Runout: DIDX-826277 1 ZAPPA.COM (CD1)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L328 (CD1)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 50B1 (CD1)
Matrix / Runout: DIDX-826278 2 ZAPPA.COM (CD2)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L327 (CD2)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 507B (CD2)