Frank Zappa - The Hot Rat Sessions 6 CD set

Like me, and you do need them!

 

Still showing 404.

 

Exactly. Five minutes ago, it wasn't.

 

Wait until tomorrow.

 

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY

Is it just me, or hasn't Ahmet steadily raised the price on all the multi-CD sets since the Roxy box?

 

We apologise for the fault in the website. Those responsible have been sacked...

The directors of the firm hired to continue the website after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.

 

What’s the release date for this?

 

At 20:17 North America Eastern time it is there, box goes at $125 USD...., I think that since the ZFT is financially in a not so solid situation, this yield for us lots of great release but not exactly cheap... its like a coin there is two sides.

Hopefully one day they will go back to the Cheap Thrills era.

Here you go, as found in the store

"THE HOT RATS SESSIONS"



The Hot Rats Sessions box set celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded music. The original 1969 Frank Zappa album was the first to be recorded on a prototype 16-Track Tape Machine. Self described as a "Movie For Your Ears,” it was the first solo outing for the composer and the album that put FZ on the map as a guitar player. The recording sessions produced a wealth of material that ended up being sprinkled among multiple releases during FZ’s lifetime. This mammoth six disc collection documents and compiles every composition recorded during those days in July 1969, along with an abundance of rare mixes, Vault nuggets and complete basic tracks mixed from the original multi-track masters by Craig Parker Adams in 2019. Additional gems include images by original Hot Rats cover photographer, Andee Nathanson, session photos taken by Bill Gubbins, liner notes by Matt Groening and essays by Ian Underwood, Andee Nathanson and Vaultmeister Joe Travers. The box set also includes a Zappa Land board game in celebration of this release.



Disc 1

1. Piano Music (Section 1)
2. Piano Music (Section 3)
3. Peaches En Regalia (Prototype)
4. Peaches En Regalia (Section 1, In Session)
5. Peaches En Regalia (Section 1, Master Take)
6. Peaches Jam - Part 1
7. Peaches Jam - Part 2
8. Peaches En Regalia (Section 3, In Session)
9. Peaches En Regalia (Section 3, Master Take)
10. Arabesque (In Session)
11. Arabesque (Master Take)
12. Dame Margret's Son To Be A Bride (In Session)

Disc 2

1. It Must Be A Camel (Part 1, In Session)
2. It Must Be a Camel (Part 1, Master Take)
3. It Must Be a Camel (Intercut, In Session)
4. It Must Be a Camel (Intercut, Master Take)
5. Natasha (In Session)
6. Natasha (Master Take)
7. Bognor Regis (Unedited Master)
8. Willie The Pimp (In Session)
9. Willie The Pimp (Unedited Master Take)
10. Willie The Pimp (Guitar OD 1)
11. Willie The Pimp (Guitar OD 2)

Disc 3

1. Transition (Section 1, In Session)
2. Transition (Section 1, Master Take)
3. Transition (Section 2, Intercut, In Session)
4. Transition (Section 2, Intercut, Master Take)
5. Transition (Section 3, Intercut, In Session)
6. Transition (Section 3, Intercut, Master Take)
7. Lil’ Clanton Shuffle (Unedited Master)
8. Directly From My Heart To You (Unedited Master)
9. Another Waltz (Unedited Master)

Disc 4

1. Dame Margret’s Son To Be A Bride (Remake)
2. Son Of Mr. Green Genes (Take 1)
3. Son Of Mr. Green Genes (Master Take)
4. Big Legs (Unedited Master Take)
5. It Must Be a Camel (Percussion Tracks)
6. Arabesque (Guitar OD Mix)
7. Transition (Full Version)
8. Piano Music (Section 3, OD Version)

Disc 5

1. Peaches En Regalia (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
2. Willie The Pimp (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
3. Son Of Mr. Green Genes (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
4. Little Umbrellas (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
5. The Gumbo Variations (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
6. It Must Be A Camel (1987 Digital Re-Mix)
7. The Origin Of Hot Rats
8. Hot Rats Vintage Promotion Ad #1
9. Peaches En Regalia (1969 Mono Single Master)
10. Hot Rats Vintage Promotion Ad #2
11. Little Umbrellas (1969 Mono Single Master)
12. Lil' Clanton Shuffle (1972 Whitney Studios Mix)

Disc 6

1. Little Umbrellas (Cucamonga Version)
2. Little Umbrellas (1969 Mix Outtake)
3. It Must Be A Camel (1969 Mix Outtake)
4. Son Of Mr. Green Genes (1969 Mix Outtake)
5. More Of The Story Of Willie The Pimp
6. Willie The Pimp (Vocal Tracks)
7. Willie The Pimp (1969 Quick Mix)
8. Dame Margret's Son To Be A Bride (1969 Quick Mix)
9. Hot Rats Vintage Promotion Ad #3
10. Bognor Regis (1970 Record Plant Mix)
11. Peaches En Regalia (1969 Rhythm Track Mix)
12. Son Of Mr. Green Genes (1969 Rhythm Track Mix)
13. Little Umbrellas (1969 Rhythm Track Mix)
14. Arabesque (Guitar Tracks)
15. Hot Rats Vintage Promotion Ad #4

 

Gail will be fling a law suit if she can get a cell signal in hades.

 

The new website has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

 

Yeah, but this one includes a 250pp hardcover book. That's a lot more valuable than a Halloween costume. Plus, this one looks like it won't get damaged in shipping. Which the previous one definitely will. Oh, and there's also a t-shirt.

 

I must get this...by hook or rat

 

So no mask or rubber gloves this time, but now there's a board game.
I don't care, take my money. It's Hot Rats, with Bognor Regis. Pre-order links please, now!

 

I would rather just have the discs for about $50. Just as an example the current Amazon pre-order price for the Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies 5 cd set is about $44. That seems a bit more reasonable.

 

HOTCHA!

Maybe I misread, but I don’t believe for a second that’s Jimmy Carl Black playing drums on Lil Clanton Shuffle...way too dynamic in the execution and I say that as a fan of his clockwork like drumming.

 

I wish I could, I really do.

 

The page has been taken down as the store page was NOT supposed to be online until tomorrow!
According to Joe Travers, there was some stuff on that was from a work document that should have never been leaked.
I don't know what that means, but it'll be back tomorrow, full on.

 

Not a full-on Zappateer, but this is in my interest zone. 2 minutes of Beefheart (my favorite Beefheart vocal I might add) really seals the deal. But even without the Beef, FZ really shreds on "Willie" and the whole album is hot ratty gumbo.

 

I think he refers to the line-ups and audio source information. That never appears in the promotion posts.

 

...thanks for that info. I preordered at $59. Didn’t know it went down

 

I AM FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. can't think clearly................

 

Yes, Joe Travers posted same info @ Post #92

 

I can’t wait until we get to the Joe’s Garage and Sheik Yerbouti expanded box sets! In the mean time, I’m all in on whatever they’re selling. Masks, gloves, books and discs. Bring it beeahch, BRING IT!

 

Already tried both. Need a 12-Step group for music junkies, I guess. FWIW I have this forum to thank and to blame for many of the hundreds of dollars (thousands more likely) I've spent this year on releases I wouldn't have otherwise known about. On the other side of it, if I end up hearing about it years after its release and it's going for several times the original selling price on the collectors' market (happened to me with MOFO and other non FZ related SACD titles and box sets, etc)... and so I rationalize spending money on it NOW.