Currently listening to the original mix of Cruising with Ruben and the Jets, picked it up last week and that was the first time I've heard this record. Gotta say, the drums are like nothing I've heard from around that time. There snare is super distant, and spatial. Almost sounds electronic, like a burst of white noise, filtered and treated with reverb. Does anyone have any insight to the recording and production style on the drums? They don't sound like anything else I've heard from the 60s. (And no, I'm not listening to the 80s re-recording). Regardless, cool record. Think it's a pretty distinct entry into a very varied discography.
...two weeks until I get my hands on the ‘70 Mothers box. I really miss picking up new releases from a shop on their release day. No dice ever since Tower closed their doors. NP: Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention – Absolutely Free Label: Zappa Records – ZR 3835 Series: Zappa – 2, Official Release – #2 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Country: US Released: 2012
NP: Frank Zappa – Road Tapes, Venue # 3 Label: Vaulternative Records – VR 2016-1, UMe – VR 2016-1 Series: Road Tapes – Venue #3 Format: 2 × CD, Album Country: US Released: 2016 Recorded live at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. 5 July 1970.
Zappa Halloween 73 first show ( I have made playlist in order to have all tunes in one listening). here it goes 1973-10-31-Show-1
I hope you like it, cos for me Flo && Eddie is a NOGO. That is the only thing about good ol Frank that I cannot dig...