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Check out Best Buy's listing for Läther. Different artwork and no bonus tracks. If this is accurate (and it may not be), why didn't they reduce it to two discs?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lather+-+CD ... &lp=1&cp=1

This would be worth buying just for the artwork alone for a change. Comes close to what I've read so far about the artwork how it was planned originally (shots from those sessions later reused for Joe's Garage).

Thinman

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Maybe it's the original vinyl masters? that would explain the exclusion of the bonus tracks.

awesome cover artwork for Lather, I hated that stupid 3 legged cow

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Same photo session, entirely different, but very good, image, and for the best: very good lettering, utilizing the same font as on the original test prints. A very fine adaption, IMHO, using a different shot but coming up with kind of "the same" artwork. Nice. I'm very happy with it.

There was a promo record for Läther in the planning in 1977 which had this lettering and the photo from JG Act. 1. Can be seen in the book GRAND ZAPPA. I don't know whether the front cover for the complete set would have been like that, too.

Wasn't there a shot from a radio station, where Frank was showing the original cover design?

I never liked the badly photoshopped cow design, either.

Th.

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This, yes?

Yes, this.

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I flipped inserts as soon as I got it in '97, the think bubble design being the hip alternative. Now, that's obsolete --

I think the more streamlined FZ album cover designs from the late 70s were very advanced for that time. More 80s style than 70s style. 5 or even 10 years ahead of its time.

Th.

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Just wanted to point out that we're allegedly supposed to get the P.S. release this week, "bremember*"?

* - the way my step-son says "remember".

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I like the new cover. Frank looks even MORE cynical than usual.

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

Yes. It even looks like a proof print or a Chromatech-kind-of-a-thing (a proofing system way before the age of digital graphic technologies). I can see register marks there.

Th.

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Yep It's nice looks 4.3 in a world of Widescreen,i see the dark looking block on either side is that Chromatech like on old Kodak?,FZ's glare looks different

Seek the path to the sudsy yellow nozzle
Of their foaming nocturnal
Parametric digital whole-wheat inter-faith
Geo-thermal terpsichorean ejectamenta)
In Serious Leather . . .

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

Oh great. It looked like I was set with the existing CD version of Lather, and now there's one more fucking reissue I might have to buy...

Since it was mastered after FZ's death, I'd assumed that it was basically a straight transfer with no added processing. However, the Ryko version doesn't seem to have that much "sparkle" to it, so I do wonder if it might benefit from a better transfer.

Even though it bore no relation to the original proposed cover, I admit I've always had a soft spot for the "cow cover." Very cheerful.

Funny you say that. You do know that the L in KLH and JBL stands for James Bullough Lansing ??

The high end from both companies are very sought after.

You guys are way too anal with the cover variants . Ryko Lather sounds fine. No need to upgrade. Don't care enough about the new cover art to purchase again. It's all about the music. As of now the only bonus tracks that are still exclusive to the Ryko set are Revenge Of The Knick Knack People, and Leather Goods.

Just got Mothermania CD in the mail today . Looks and sounds great.

Typo found within "The Story of Ruben & The Jets"

The(y) are good socially acceptable young men who only want to sing about their girl friends.

Misspellings are irksome. Just ask the members of Jethro Toe.

Small potatos in the grand scheme of things, you'd just think there would be a proofreader on the team. Enough small things going wrong can fuck up a good thing.

HK-"See, the trouble here Frank lies in the fact that on that sheet it says 'that size' not 'that the size' therefore..."
FZ-"Get a pencil, I'm writing 'That the size."

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O.K. people
I don't understand why Lather wouldn't be remastered from the original tapes
instead of taking it from the Ryko?
I mean.....it's from the seventies and it's analogue.

Why??

Shouldn't they use the original analogue masters??

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Lather(Ryko) already from the original analog tapes? It's not a digital remix ala Bongo Fury or Roxy.

Yes. I don't know what all of the fuss is about. This is what Spencer Chrislu did in 1996. If the sound on the reissue is identical, that's a good thing.

They still haven't answered the question as to whether it is FZ's original master, the one he played on the radio at the time, or whether it's a tweezed together approximation.

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

Have I missed something? Has this been in doubt for the past 16 years? I was under the impression that the master that was used for the Läther CD on Ryko was the same that was used for the test pressing that Frank played on the radio. Does anyone have evidence to the contrary?

I guess I've read the second page of Gail's three page description of what they did in the Ryko Läther booklet over and over again, and even though she says Joe found the original FZ masters, she also says that much other stuff was found. At no point does she say that those original FZ vinyl masters were used as was and obscures matters by saying decisions had to be made without specifying what those decisions involved, claiming it shall remain a UMRK secret.

That's enough to make me wonder, anyway. I'm not aware that at any point anyone has come out and said definitively that it is the entire original Läther as produced by FZ. Has anyone with access to the radio recording done some kind of A/B?

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