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.