You do not have to be sorry, If you like it GO FOR IT. I will sleep this evening, even If you buy it. Just joking.
Hot Rats is and always will be my favorite Frank Zappa album (the original, not the remix). I'd been begging for something like this on the zappa.com forum for close to 20 years. So happy we are finally getting this. Anyone complaining about this, that or the other about it is just a BOOB.
I'm excited about this as well. Hey, sorry off topic - but are you the Philly area taper? If so, I've been watching some of your live recordings for over 20 years!
Anyone got the Black Friday RSD "Peaches en Regalia" picture disc? Any comment on the material included?
Awesome, thanks. Your occasional narration on that vid was legendary! Ha. I've been watching your live captures since '97.
It does sound like a ratchet tool in "Willie." I tend to like idiosyncrasies and noises, but that one is too prominent in the mix, annoys me.
I'm sticking with castanets. See here: Grover Pro Castanet Mounting Frame and more Drum and Percussion Clamps At Cascio Interstate Music
I'm seriously going nuts waiting for this!! I didn't get the PeR picture disc yet because I wanna hear all of this in one long sitting straight thru and I NEVER check out the pre-released tracks. I do this with all the FZ deluxe box sets.
The ratchet is classified as a scrape idiophone or cog rattle (though it is not actually a rattle in the precise sense of the word) of Europe. It is called for sparingly in the orchestral and band repertoires, and might better be thought of as an auxiliary sound-effects instrument. Description Two wooden blocks each with a pair of thinly-shaven tongues cut out of them are mounted on an inverted V-shaped metal frame so that the tips of their tongues touch the cogs on a rotatable wooden wheel mounted at the peak of the frame. A metal handle runs through the wheel’s axis and is used to rotate it so that the cogs flex and release the tongues. Player - Instrument Interface and Sound Production The performer can control and easily vary the rate of the clicks by rotating the crank faster or slower. Origins/History/Evolution Ratchets of various designs have been used for centuries in some religious traditions. They have also been used to provide warning signals, to scare animals, and as a children’s toy. The ratchet pictured here was designed specifically for musical use.
As a percussionist, I feel the need to chime in on the ratchet vs castanets debate. While it sounds timbre wise a bit like castanets, to me it's distinctly ratchet. The way Frank's playing it, he's just turning the ratchet handle on 2 and 4. I'll also attach two YouTube links of both a small ratchet made for musical use and a castanet machine. I hope this helps! Castanet Machine Ratchet (like the one in Beatnik_Daddyo's picture) How to Play the Ratchet (Cog Rattle)
heard it at a friend's house. I honestly could not hear any differences in the mono mixes--fold downs? Which is weird cause Tears Began to Fall has a dedicated mono single mix.
I lean toward it being a dirty ratchet wrench from an auto garage. ...but can we agree that it's a slightly annoying sound that goes on for way too long in an otherwise killer groove of a song?
