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Galeans Contributor Joined: 2005-11-12 Posts: 3692
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 2011-07-29 23:18 |
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Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention
Possible Building Reel
1969
This version: 21.08 min, A
Setlist:
01 "Hamburgers Make Me Sleepy" [00:31]
02 Passalaglia [03:07]
03 The Dick Kunc Story [01:21]
04 Randomonium [01:27]
05 My Head [01:54]
06 German Lunch [08:43]
07 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [04:05]
This is actually a reconstruction I made. Since it has been approved and since some of the material here is unheard elsewhere here it is. The story goes like this: Drew obtained a bit of a building reel from the Steve Hecht tapes containing "Hamburgers Make Me Sleepy", "Passalaglia" (or "Passacaglia") abruptly cut at 40 seconds, "Randomonium", "My Head" and the first three seconds of "German Lunch". So at first, I included the complete "Passalaglia" from the Artisan acetate seed and the complete "German Lunch" from the "My Name is Fritz" seed. Then I noticed that, at the end of the longer version "German Lunch", the first chords of "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" were audible, so I spliced in the extended version from the seed, just for my pure enjoyment.
After I did listen back to the complete results it all sounded very familiar. And indeed it was, it reminded me of a description Lowell George did in an interview from "Zig Zag magazine" in 1975, reprinted in Billy James' excellent book "Necessity is": "I'm also on the 12-album set that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a German border guard interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long realtively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out"
I think George may have had some things mixed, but it seems like he's describing what is going on here, even if what occupes half a side is not the lame guitar solo (probably "Passacaglia"), but "German Lunch". I also realized "The Dick Kunc Story" and "My Head" are longer edits unheard before.
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5:
Lineage: Maxell Epitaxial XLII Cassette>Nakamichi CR-7A cassette deck>Tascam US-122L> Sound Forge Pro 10.0 (record/edits/resample)>FLAC Level 8>wav (speed correction)>wav>FLAC Level 8
Tape collected by: Steve Hecht
Tape transferred by: Drew51
Track 2:
Lineage: Uher and Scully portable 2-track stereo recorders (Track 7 recorded in mono) -> 7-1/2 ips RtR -> compiling and editing by FZ -> master reference dub -> 12” acetate -> Numark TTUSB turntable -> wav -> Adobe Audition 3.0 (declicking) -> flac
Acetate ripped by: RJ
Declicking by: BengoFury
Track 6:
Lineage: Vinyl> Thorens TD 147 turnatable with custom catridge>Sherwood Audio/Video Receiver R-925RDS>Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96>Wavelab Lite recording 24bps at 88.2kHz>Wavelab Lite downsample to 16bps at 44.1kHz>Wave files front and tail removed and edit to single file with Cool Edit 2000>FLAC using dbPowerAMP level 4 compression (medium)
Transfer and edit: buddyjones
Track 7:
Lineage: CDR > EAC v0.95 beta 4 > wav > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 > speed adjust -40cts from original sample & right channel boost +3dB (thank you flambay!) > TLH 1.1.1 (Build 90) > flac Level 8
Obtained by: progrockfan
Edited and spliced together by: Galeans (the new born "Bastard Son")
Credits:
Thanks to Steve Hecht for the source tape!
Thanks to Drew51 for collecting and transfering!
Thanks to RJ, Buddyjones, Bengofury and Progrockfan for their amazing work on the original seeds!
Thanks to Flambay for the advices!
Enjoy !!
Galeans
www.zappateers.com/bb - July 2011
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1969 Possible Building Reel - 01 - Hamburgers Make Me Sleepy.flac:f646fff595ea154b627e4f269a4909ed
1969 Possible Building Reel - 02 - Passalaglia.flac:c5217d75ce3d30d8a5e2f1772831adb0
1969 Possible Building Reel - 03 - The Dick Kunc Story.flac:16d841b9e9d136399cb7a5a1b33bd529
1969 Possible Building Reel - 04 - Randomonium.flac:36ac7541f8ec8703f0bc4357f8b30051
1969 Possible Building Reel - 05 - My Head.flac:03343d133939bba1807561a4f8d9a311
1969 Possible Building Reel - 06 - German Lunch.flac:24d341740e926624cde792815a9d5fab
1969 Possible Building Reel - 07 - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama.flac:501420991a12718ed1db9850ebf1f322
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| 2011-07-29 23:29 |
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And indeed it was, it reminded me of a description Lowell George did in an interview from "Zig Zag magazine" in 1975, reprinted in Billy James' excellent book "Necessity is": "I'm also on the 12-album set that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a German border guard interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long realtively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out"
I think George may have had some things mixed, but it seems like he's describing what is going on here, even if what occupes half a side is not the lame guitar solo (probably "Passacaglia"), but "German Lunch". I also realized "The Dick Kunc Story" and "My Head" are longer edits unheard before.
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I think Lowell's "lame guitar solo" is the one heard on the "Columbia Test Pressing." The "half a side" comment puzzled me too, but looking at it again, it's possible that he meant that "German Lunch" combined with the solo made up half a side. (I believe Lowell also was prone to exaggeration now and then.)
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| 2011-07-29 23:31 |
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| pbuzby wrote: |
| I think Lowell's "lame guitar solo" is the one heard on the "Columbia Test Pressing." The "half a side" comment puzzled me too, but looking at it again, it's possible that he meant that "German Lunch" combined with the solo made up half a side. (I believe Lowell also was prone to exaggeration now and then.) |
Well, we all know how much Frank liked to edit back and forth, so it's possible that there was another building reel with both the Columbia solo and "German Lunch", unless George had two separate reels and confused them
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| 2011-07-30 00:01 |
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Well two of the build reels we have share identical material so it's likely that Frank was constantly shuffling everything around. It isn't unlikely that the LG solo and "German Lunch" at one point appeared on an LP side together.
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| 2011-07-30 14:02 |
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Interesting!
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And the cast of thousands in the credits. 
