Finer Moments

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Release Date: 2012-12-18

Label: Zappa Records

Total time of complete program - 82:40.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-4: Recorded live on 6.6.69, Royal Albert Hall, London, EMI Recorders Remote - ½" 4-track analog tape (15 ips).
Track 1-5: Recorded live (cassette) 5.21.71, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago.
Tracks 1-6 & 1-7: Recorded live - multi-track Analog (15 ips), 7.7-8.69, The Ark, Boston.
Track 2-1: Recording - 1" 8 Track Analog, Mayfair Studios, NYC, 1967.
Track 2-2: Recorded (1" 8 Track Analog) September, 1968, Sunset Sound, L.A.
Track 2-3: Recording (½" 4-track Analog) Zappa Basement, 1972.
Track 2-4: Recording live - ¼" stereo 2 track analog (15 ips).
Track 2-5: Recorded live on 2/16/69 at The Ballroom, Stratford, CT.
Track 2-6: Recorded live 10.11.71 at Carnegie Hall, NYC. ¼" mono analog tape (7½ ips). 1972 stereo tweakeage at Paramount, L.A.

Engineered at Paramount Studios, Hollywood.
Original ¼" DBX 187 encoded analog master tapes - dated 25 June, 1972.
Vaultmeisterment & Tape Transfers at UMRK, 28 March, 2007.
Mastered at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, April 2007.

Cover art: 'Finer Moments' - Reclaimed Vintage Linoleum Assemblage (32" × 48"), 2011.
Design layout and art photography for Zappa Records.
All ZFT Archival Materials including photographs courtesy the Vault.

And for hot duty on 60!!! 2012 reissues on Zappa Records: Ahmet Zappa for Target Focus & Acquisition/Dweezil Zappa for Prodigious Noteworthyness/Moon Zappa for Fierce Perspective & Diva Zappa for Tea-time of the Soul.
Special Forces: M. DuClaw; Special Thanks for all Good Will expressed by various members of the FZ Teen-age Audience & Support Team: Larry Stein, Owen Sloane, Barry Siegel, Bev D'Angelo, Steve Vai, MDB, everyone at UMe (Bruce Resnikoff!!, Herb Agner), Mandy at Fintage, Niels Teves, Mike, Joe, Melanie, Kurt, Antonio, Holland, Keith, Jack & Licorice, Kit10s, Rebus & Regypt, Shadow & the Freds - without all of whom the possible is horribly foreshortened.

Very Special thanks to Mathilda, Zola, Ceylon & Halo.

Officially released 2012.
All FZ works controlled worldwide by the Zappa Family Trust dba Munchkin Music.
©℗ mmxii Zappa Family Trust.
Under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by Universal Music Distribution.
This is Zappa Family Archival Matter In Living Ylem. Sourece: 1972 Analog Master. This is Official Release #94.

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