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mmmmm..... cheesecake.

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cd's won't last forever, cd players will be obsolete before record players go away; a nice clean set of vinyl can be copied once per decade to the latest bit of playback technology that comes & goes... those om 1,2 & 3 boxes will be 200 years old, only played 20 times, still sounding 'mint' in the year 2208; a little scratch 'n sniff isn't necessarily a bad thing

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Does anyone know what is this??

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anyone?

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Here's My Zappa Vinyl! I can't wait to find the rest!

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secret word for tonite: verticality



from right;
complete works v1 [varese, 1950], freak out, absolutely free, woiiftm, lumpy gravy, ruben, mothermania, moi, worst of mothers, uncle meat,
hot rats[x2], 2 originals[bws+wrmf], bws, weasels, chunga's, fillmore e, 200 motels, jabfla, waka, wazoo, over-nite, ['], roxy , osfa, bongo fury,
wax flags, zoot, zappa in ny, leatherette, studio tan[x2], sleep dirt[x2], sheik, orch favs, joe's g sampler, joe's g 1, joe's g 2&3, tinsel town,
sunpyg sampler, sunpyg, sunpyg some more, rotso sunpyg, sunpyg box, yawyi, drowning witch, man from utopia sampler, mfu, bbsnx, lso 1&2,
boulez/stranger, them or us, t-f, francesco, om1, mop[us&euro], om2, jazz from hell, mystery disc 1&2, guitar, ycdtosa sampler, guitar hernia, rare meat

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niiiiiiiiiice.......

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One two, buckle my shoe!

Yes, very nice! The only ones that I really want that I don't have are Grand Wazoo and Freak Out! ... and maybe Ruben.

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Here's a product for you - The ELP Laser Turntable!
This technological marvel plays vinyl records with master tape sound quality and no wear. The Laser Turntable is perfect for record collectors, archivists and vinyl enthusiasts alike.
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That would be great, except for the fact that the cheapest model is $10,000. But if it were a tiny fraction of the price I'd be all over it.

Great ! Í wished I would have the YCDTOSA Vol. 2 box.

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You want some more?
Well here's some more.

"official" Zappa Vinyl.



("Beat the Boots vol2" is on CD. I just hate to break up the pair.)

Zappa on other albums.



"unofficial" vinyl.

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Wow !!! Great collection, Doug !

This is my tiny European teenager FZ vinyl collection:

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Man, it strikes me as strange, to see other record collections, and they look like mine!!
Not used to that, at all.

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Doug, your collection is awesome. One question: The black box on the left at the 4th looks like The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention. Am I right ? Once I owned this one as well. But I was young and needed the money, so I sold it.

You got some nice other boxes. Great !

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Bingo! Booklet, and all.
I sold my Zappa collection, back in 1975....three years later, bought them all back again. Learned my lesson.

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Sigh ! Darn. Once I paid 300 deutschmarks for it. How could I be such a fool ?

What's in the Mystery Box ?

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Too big to scan in one piece, so I cut the box set in two, to fit into my scanner.

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very nice fritz & doug, & all in perfect chronological order ... except, why left->right, my lps/cds/mags have always gone right->left

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Are you a south paw?

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A few pics from my collection, no bootlegs i don't want them

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Squirt.

zurkon_wax, primo collection of vinyl you got there, plenty of doubles & they all look mint

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Let's not lose sight of the fact that this vinyl thing is just an opinion. My main interest is in the music itself. To me, the ultimate playback device is one that enables you to hear the music as though it wasn't being played back. But even that is riddled with paradoxes.

A studio album is layered and would never be heard if it wasn't for recording and playback devices, so what is it meant to sound like, but none the less, I'm sure FZ wasn't producing studio pieces to be heard with the crackle and pop and even insisted with his later stuff that you listen to it with no added EQ.

A live album largely depends on how it's recorded, for instance the six channel mix FZ used for the Yellow Shark performances. If you hear an ensemble playing live, is the sound being interfered with by using microphones mixed and then piped through a PA or is that enabling you to get a better sense of the detail? As a composer, anything that interferes with what I'm hearing through that PA, given that the mix is just right on the night, is a problem.

I've just scratched the surface here, but one thing is for sure, I have never liked vinyl (I'm purely talking about the sonic aspects here) even when that was the only option available. The arrival of digital was an occasion to celebrate.

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

Zurkon Wax-

INCREDIBLE collection there. My purely-purely-digital-far-from-mint-next-to-complete heart is a-trembling. I deeply covet your three sets of BTB2 and will happily trade you my left arm for one.

The BTB are not all vinyl, only two of them the other three are cd and cassette.

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