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- From: sweet@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
- Subject: Re: We're Only In It For The Money... remixed?
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 14:18:37 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- >> Vinksu Chandrasekhar writes:
- >>
- >> I only know the CD version. I would like to know, in detail if possible,
- >> WHAT was removed from the original? What was changed? And I would like
- [ parts deleted for brevity ]
- >> To be honest, the early MOI don't play too good. And the recording
- >> technology of 60's is nothing worth of conserving.
- [ parts deleted ]
- >> There's nothing wrong to rerecord the music, if you do it with good taste.
- >> (In general FZ has good taste.)
-
- Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
-
- >I am really appalled by this message. I suppose you would throw the Mona Lisa
- >in the garbage because the colors are faded, the paint is a bit cracked, and
- >a computer-enhanced version of the same thing would probably look better?
- >(Not that I am claiming We're Only In It... is one of the great works of
- >Western civilization.)
- >
- >Perhaps we should throw the originals of this album in the garbage and redo
- >the whole thing on the Synclavier?
- >
- >I like this album in its original form because that's the way I've been
- >listening to it for about 25 years. It's unfortunate that the bass and drum
- >lines got screwed up, but I don't think the decision to add modern sounding
- >replacements is a satisfactory solution to the problem. Surely it would be
- >possible to take a near-pristine copy of the album (the original) and use
- >today's technology to remove the distortion and surface noise. (Anyway, I
- >hear that it may be reissued, perhaps from a long-lost tape??)
- >
-
- I have to agree with Mike on this one. When someone kicks out
- the bucks for a CD to replace the scratched up vinyl version, I don't
- think he/she would really appreciate the "newly re-mixed by Jelly-Bean
- Benitez" version, if they were expecting something like the original.
- The best examples of loyalty to the original have to be the Beatles CD's
- that were re-mixed by George Martin. The only surprise on "Sgt Pepper's"
- was the loop on the end of the CD (after "A Day in the Life") which was
- apparently on the British vinyl release.
-
- There are technologies available to takes pops and clicks out of
- vinyl masters. This has been done to re-master some of the music released
- in the 30's and 40's, where the only "masters" were on 78 rpm vinyl.
- The "duet" with Hank Williams and Willie Nelson were done this way.
-
- I am very much against enhancing the original with new tracks or
- solos, much like I would be appalled to see a colorized version of "Young
- Frankenstein", "Dr. Strangelove" or "Manhattan". In the case of Zappa,
- at least these were changes made by the composer. However this is one of
- the few times I have been disappointed with Zappa's decisions. I was very
- disappointed when the solo on "Dumb All Over" was nearly eliminated on the
- CD version of "You Are What You Is".
-
- I look forward to seeing some of the Zappa works (Cruisin',
- YAWYI, and WOIIFTM) being re-re-released as something closer to the
- original.
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