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Gail, do you hear? We don´t want the billionth "Joe´s Crappage". We want the best of the best!

I like the "Joe's Fill-in-the-sage" stuff. I like that quirky, incidental stuff like the Mormon X-Mas report, etc. Bring it on.

Uh....I don't know. I guess I could throw something together from what's already out there.

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My picks would of course be Zappa's own recordings not the bootleg quality versions that are floating around.

Really, in my post I was thinking of a cool compilation. I'd prefer whole shows. If I could pick the next few ZFT CD releases (Roxy DVD would be first if video was included) I would pick these complete shows (assuming Zappa recorded them and the quality is high) In this order:

Halloween '78
Passaic, NJ 4/19/75
Halloween '72
Vancouver 10/1/75 (mostly just for a better quality version of the awesome Any Downers)
Halloween '74 (because I've never heard it and '74 is my favorite Zappa year)

Or how about a Halloween boxset '72-'78? Unedited. Maybe leave out '77 because we all have Baby Snakes.

Joe's Garage mixed to 5.1...

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[quote="downer mydnyte"]My picks would of course be Zappa's own recordings not the bootleg quality versions that are floating around.

Really, in my post I was thinking of a cool compilation. I'd prefer whole shows. If I could pick the next few ZFT CD releases (Roxy DVD would be first if video was included) I would pick these complete shows (assuming Zappa recorded them and the quality is high) In this order:


Halloween '74 (because I've never heard it and '74 is my favorite Zappa year)

Halloween 74 has a great combo of Big Swifty and Apostrophe. Big Swifty segues into it during the guitar solo, which is guitar heaven. You´ll love it. It´s a way of live!

Official DVD releases of:
TabanFestival, Budapest & the Prague 'Goodbye, S.A.' Performance, June 1991 plus 'Zappe V Praze' & footage from the 1991 Prague press conference as a bonus.

Uncle Meat.

Mudd Club, May 1980.

In no order:

1. a deluxe cd box with unreleased synclavier music
2. a full concert with J L Ponty
3. unreleased music coming from studio improvisations
4. full good sound cds of Japan concerts
5. another Petit Wazoo concert
6. .....

don´t forget a Halloween Compilation, like they did with Hammersmith (repeating tracks from Halloween allowed!)

Absolutely Yes!!!

6. a Halloween Compilation
7. a full concert with Captain Beefheart
8. Uncle Meat project/object
9. Hot Rats project/object
10. 200 Motels live act
11. .....

Joe's Sausage

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You like him that much?

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

Waterbury - box set of entire 72, 73, 74 and 75 concerts

New Haven - box set of 71, 75 and 84 concerts

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My dream release would be the entire Festival Hall '68 performance on DVD (Not Blu-Ray? Well no, why?). Everything that we get on the disc but all the edited out bits too. The quality of the recordings and vision (as seen on the video Uncle Meat) are outstanding and very professionally shot.
Who needs to remaster that kind of stuff?

That would be my ultimate. No whacky 60's camera effects like those that ruined the '68 Bremen gig (IMO), just great shots of the Mothers playing at a fantastic and historic venue. It does not get much interest on this forum but I personally go mad for those orchestral pieces, they remind me a lot of the music on the originally intended Lumpy Gravy.

In terms of unheard music I again would dig into that period of the early Mothers and I would like to hear the more serious side of this amazing band. Lots of improvised pieces that allows the listener to hear just how good Gardner, Underwood, Tripp and Preston were. I know we hear more Preston and Underwood in later years but I feel that Gardener and Tripp played on studio cuts that were severely edited and frigged with. Maybe stuff from the UM period?
On side 2 (yeah, I know there wouldn't be a side 2 really) would be a host of Zappa's orchestral music. There must be all sorts of gems in that goddamned basement. All that stuff that Zappa himself said was his SERIOUS MUSIC and not the crap that he had to play for most his career (Who were you trying to kid Frank!?!)

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Zurich - April 1, 1979 Complete show!

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I've thought about it a bit more and I don't really know. I've got everything know and have heard a couple of bootlegs and I'm not sure whether there's anything better out there.

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