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Apart from all of the them do you have a list of an ultimate recording session that you would love to have been present at?
I guess a lot of Zappa's releases were pieced together from different sessions with many overdubs. WOIIFTM for example was built from a set of basic tracks with multiple music, vocal and special effects overdubbed later. I love however that very short segment of footage of Zappa, Roy and Ian in the studio getting set from on one of the many video montages and I would loved to have been there.
Hell, I would love to have been at all the studio sessions with those early Mother's.

Well to get things started, these would be my favourites;

Freak Out
Absolutely Free
The How did that get in there? session and the orchestral segments that went onto Lumpy Gravy
Hot Rats
The sessions that made up Burnt Weeny Sandwich

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

Well, I'd've loved to be in the room for the Waka/Wazoo sessions and for the initial playbacks of the Jazz From Hell material.

To hang out at Joe's Garage for the rehearsals in the eighties would have been cool.

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would have been great to have witnessed the recording of 'directly from my heart to you' on 'weasels ripped my flesh.'

just one example...

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

The wacky bits from Flrentine Pogen and Andy, from OSFA.
Picking FZ's brain about the inspiration, harmonies and so forth.

I'd love to hear all of the snippets that were edited together to make up Brown Shoes Don't Make It from the original.
Actually back to what I originally said, which was the whole of AF.

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

It would be great to be at any of them.

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

it would be nice to have been at the pauley pavilion when they recorded billy the mountain released on JABFLA.

and also whatever recording sessions they did for uncle meat

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

oh, and of course, the original 'piano people' sessions recorded for 'lumpy gravy.'

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Berlin '68

or

1970 05 15, the MOI Reunion w/ Zuben Mehta and the LA Phil
"the unrecorded session"

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" . . . On the outside now . . ."

unrecorded? i have it on my ipod

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

The Freak Out session would have been awesome.

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Take a penny... give a shit.

Any day in the 4 months they were recording Money, Ruben and Uncle Meat in New York.

Unrecorded by FZ, I guess he means.

No question. Grand Wazoo!

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FZ ~ !(^()
9 o 9oo

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Uncle Meat sessions definitely, but the recording of Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown or RDNZL as on ST would be pretty good too.

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

It intrigues me a bit what it would have been like for FZ and the band up on the mountains in Colorado in December (Caribou Studios 1974).

I'm with that.
I'd also liked to have been at the recording of King Kong for the Ponty album. I'd also love to have sat in on the long piece from the same album and watched Tripp play that percussion

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