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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

Hardly comparable? You're probably right, poly. I'm too lazy to listen right now.

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Huzzah ! It arrived today and it sounds great. In my humble opinion it's the best sounding concert release from ZFT so far. The packaging is great as well. I can't complain at all. Brilliant edition.

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

Somebody understands what I'm getting at.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

You mean someone was awake...I get yer point though

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

Anyway, when this release first came out, I'd been listening to that Berlin sound board boot, so I was a bit over this band at the time, and I just put this one in its place on the shelf. I just caught a track off this the other day on random on my iPhone and I've been listening through the whole album ever since. This is a truly monster release.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Yeah, I think it's quintessential to the Sheik lineup.

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It pretty much puts Sheik in context, as we see some of the basic tracks. It does sound pretty good too, but I am sure Galoot and other advocates of high-end equipment will tell me I am wrong.

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
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Yoooo! That's what it's been engineered for. /or: Just to my ears it seems that's what it's been engineered on! ---->

See Mr. Buffalo put us in our place

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
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I think It'd be rather o.k. if one could actually hear Patrick O'Hearn. Mixing a player like this out is a disaster IMHO, I have a feeling they rushed the mixing and operated the wrong sliders, with the impending November deadline pressing hard ----

For the record, it is possible to listen to lossless audio on an iPhone.

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See Mr. Penguin, Mr. Buffalo, all youse guys is so much smarter than me. I only play FZ loud through my work speakers at my desk before anyone else gets to work. (Hmmmmm, guess that says something about me, huh?).

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

Ha! Crank it when you can, I say!

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You live under your desk?

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

Considering how many hours I work, I kinda live at my desk.

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

Deadlines don't usually seem to trouble the ZFT (eg. no Carnegie Halls or Live In The Moments last UK tour). But sonic oddities aside, I agee that this is a monster release.

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The point about the iPhone is that it enables me to listen to music when I'm "between A and B". Pretty much that's almost the only music listening time I have these days and if the audio is good to start with, it still sounds good on an iPhone. On the other hand, I do have quite a good quality music system at home - money spent because I do value good audio - and Hammersmith is really bitchen on that. In contrast, the only time Carnegie sounds almost bearable is on that system, I don't really enjoy listening to it on the iPhone.

The main reason I find the audio complainers a pain, is that none of them have any real idea what state the original recordings are in or exactly what the problems are that the ZFT has to deal with in order to make a master suitable for release possible in the first place. I've done some work myself with old recordings and working them into plausible mixes involves dealing with defects in the original and when you don't have the opportunity to rerecord parts compromises have to be made. Look at how long it took FZ before he was able to release LSO II.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

it's an ok album, probably worth torrenting it for king kong - san berdino

everything else is pretty

I haven't listened to this album in awhile. I love this band (they're one of my top 5 favourite FZ bands), so I'll have to listen to this one again soon.

Btw, I still can't believe the extended version of Wild Love wasn't included. It was definitely a wtf? moment upon finding that out...

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I like Hammersmith Odeon and have listened to it a lot, but I prefer Frank's own mixes from the same tour - Torture, YCDTOSA 1, A solo from Heidelberg - and Sheik Yerbouti, of course - although the overdubbage makes the sonics of SY rather incomparable to HO. Even the soundboard bootleg from Deutschlandhalle, February 15 has some advantages over the HO mix. Although there is some noise on there, the sound image is more natural and dynamic. That's the show that yielded Rat Tomago and SY Tango, and the one where Bowie was in the audience to spy on Belew. - I really wish Filipetti - or preferably someone else, like Steven Wilson - had taken cues from Zappa's best mixes rather than going for the "modern" compressed blast on Hammersmith Odeon. This could have been a truly great album - with the hip, musk, compressed mix it's merely good.

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I swear bufflo gets everything wrong or he looked on line finds a album that is not released for some reason then bitches about it FACT.

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

FZ hacked up all the versions of Wild Love/Yo Mama from London while preparing the Sheik album.

'Wild Love' has always been one of my faves... it just has a little bit of everything that must "do" it for me.

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Right, Wild Love>Yo Mama was only performed twice in London, and both versions were hacked up and utilized for Sheik. Otherwise I'm sure they would have included it somehow.