Re: tipper girl

[maiullo@tms.attmail.com (Gary Maiullo)]

Kevin, 

>>> I think the entire American civil stratus owes a huge debt to Frank Zappa
for being the most prominent figure in revealing the folly of Tipper's
crusade.  Without his tireless efforts, we may have seen that Fallwell-ian
idiocy succeed and actually become some sort of law.

    Well said!  The only problem is, that pressure is always there.  And the 
question is:  "Who's Next?"  (IF you know what I mean!)

>>> BTW: if you haven't picked up any of the Zappa redux catalog from Ryko,
slap yourself twice and go get some.  I just got "One Size Fits All" and am
totally blown away.  FZ approved all the masters himself, and they are   
*stunning.*  I hope that Ryko gets Pete's catalog to reissue.  Then we might
have a chance...

    You're not kiddin' about "One Size Fits All".  It was the first Zappa cd
on my list of cd's to get when I started collecting them.  I have almost the 
entire collection of Zappa's Ryko catalog, and have only 4 criticisms:  

1)  On "Sheik Yerbouti", at the end of "I'm So Cute", Zappa opted for the 
segue into "Jones Crusher", omitting the very quiet dialogue found on the LP:
".... did you just record that?!...."

2)  On "You Are What You Is", at the end of "Dumb All Over" on the lp, there 
is a guitar solo that fades out, and then on the following side, there are 4 
bars of "Dumb All Over", that goes right into "Heavenly Bank Account".  When 
they cut the disc, they omitted the part with the guitar solo, and went 
straight into the 4-bar section, to segue into "HBA".  And it really is quite 
weak.  I just think they could have had a least a section with the guitar solo
on there, before the segue.

3)  On "Sleep Dirt", there was an instrumental (I forget the title) that Zappa
added some lady singing over.  I liked the instrumental, and HATE the new 
vocals (which were recorded at the time, but initially not used).  I think 
Frank should have at LEAST offered both versions (IE, "One Size Fits All")

4)  On "Live at the Fillmore", the end of side 1 on the record and the 
beginning of side 2 are the same song (again, it slips my mind), and there is 
supposed to be a guitar solo in the middle that was chopped out, and not 
included on either side.  Why didn't he include the entire track, with no fade
out (IE: ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery"!)?

        Question:  Did any of the most recent Ryko re-releases clear ANY of 
those concerns up?  (I'll bet not...)

                gary m.