You Will Never Experience Lather Again Whatever Man
| Läther | ||||
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| Studio anthology by Frank Zappa | ||||
| Released | September 24, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1969; 1972–1977 | |||
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| Length | 173:18 | |||
| Label | Rykodisc | |||
| Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
| Frank Zappa chronology | ||||
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| 2012 Re-issue | ||||
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'' Läther'' (, or "Leather") is the sixty-fifth official album by Frank Zappa. It was released posthumously as a three-CD attack Rykodisc in 1996. The album's title is derived from bits of comic dialog that link the songs. Zappa also explained that the proper noun is a joke, based on "bastardized pronunciation of Germanic syllables by the Swiss."[1]
Läther integrates many aspects of Zappa's musical oeuvre — heavy rock, orchestral works, and complex jazz flavored instrumentals, along with Zappa'south distinctive electrical guitar solos and satirical lyrics, all edited together in a seemingly random way.[two]
The Läther anthology was intended for release in 1977 as a 4-LP box set up, but it never appeared officially in this format. A variety of homemade recordings of this cloth were widely distributed. One of these was a 4-LP box on the "Edison Record" label and appeared to be professionally packaged.[3] Zappa's name did not appear on this anthology but some fans may have been led to believe that it was authorized.
Background [edit]
Zappa's relationship with director Herb Cohen concluded in May 1976.[4] Zappa sued Cohen for skimming more than he was allocated from the Unimposing Records label. The visitor was co-owned by Zappa and Cohen and distributed past Warner Bros. Records. Zappa was besides upset with Cohen for signing acts of which Zappa did not approve.[5] [half dozen]
Cohen filed a lawsuit against Zappa in return, which froze the money Zappa and Cohen had gained from an out-of-court settlement with MGM/Verve over the rights to Zappa'south early Mothers of Invention recordings. Legal bug as well prevented Zappa having admission to any of his previously recorded cloth during the trials. Zappa then had his contract re-assigned and took his personal master copies of the album Zoot Allures directly to Warner in Oct 1976 while bypassing Unimposing.[seven] Cohen claimed that this activity violated the terms of his contract with Zappa, and so the last 4 albums of Zappa's contract were so assigned dorsum to Unimposing.
Recording sessions [edit]
Läther was assembled by Zappa in 1977 from a broad variety of recording sessions stretching back every bit far as viii years, merely mostly between 1972 and 1976. The tracks apply a constantly changing cast of backing musicians. Most of the songs on Läther are linked together with $.25 of musical sound effects (musique concrète) and comic dialog from Zappa ring members, Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn, and Davey Moire.[viii] [iv] More than of these same bits, or "grouts" equally Zappa may have chosen them,[9] appear on other albums such as Sheik Yerbouti.[viii]
Bones tracks for Lemme Take You to the Embankment were recorded during 1969 sessions for Hot Rats. The runway was finished in 1976 at the Record Constitute in Los Angeles. Down in De Dew comes from November 1972 sessions in New York and Los Angeles. For The Immature Sophisticate is a 1973 studio recording from Bolic Sound and is different from the later alive version on Tinsel Town Rebellion.
The album's opener Re-Gyptian Strut comes from December 1974 sessions at Caribou Ranch in Colorado. Flambe' and Spider of Destiny were also recorded at the ranch with additional overdubs in 1976 at the Los Angeles Record Plant.[10] These three are amongst the songs written by Zappa in 1972 for a stage musical called Hunchentoot. A full script exists, but the recordings of this projection were never completed.[xi]
The almost substantial work is The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, a story set to music, which lasts over 20 minutes. The piece is scored for a large orchestra and was recorded in Los Angeles between 1972 and 1974. More orchestral works come from a September 1975 session with the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electrical Symphony Orchestra, which was recorded at Royce Hall with usher Michael Zearott. Zappa said the 1975 orchestral sessions solitary price him about $200,000.[5]
Most of the alive tracks were recorded in December 1976 at the Palladium in New York City. The last recordings are alive tracks including Tryin' to Abound a Mentum from a February 1977 London show at the Hammersmith Odeon.[10] This song also appeared in a different subsequently recording on Sheik Yerbouti.
History [edit]
An album titled Six Things was cut as a demo acetate disc at Kendun Recorders in Burbank, California in April 1976. This was an unreleased early edit of music from the orchestral sessions.[12] The aforementioned year Zappa tried to negotiate release of an orchestral album with Columbia Masterworks, but the deal fell through when the label did not agree to Zappa's terms.[13]
During the fall 1976 tour the Zappa band performed in front slide projector images, one of which said "Warner Bros. Sucks!" Zappa was upset over inadequate promotion. By tardily 1976 he was adamant to complete his Warner contract equally presently as possible.[13] As early every bit December that year Zappa considered handing multiple individual albums over to Warner and said he had "more than than 4" currently in production.[14] Contracts then stipulated that Zappa deliver iv new albums to Warner for release on Discreet. In December 1977 Zappa said:
"Between last October and December 31 of this year I was required to deliver to Warner Brothers four completed albums. I delivered all four in March of this year."[5]
Warner was expecting to receive just one anthology at a time. Upon delivery the label was required to pay Zappa $threescore,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States inside six weeks. Warner failed to honor these contractual terms.[15] [sixteen] [17]
A long legal boxing between Zappa and Warner occurred, during which no Zappa material was released for more than a year. Most of the fabric on Läther would exist released during 1978 and 1979 on Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Clay (previously titled Hot Rats Three), and Orchestral Favorites. In an October 1978 radio interview, Zappa identified these iv individual albums every bit the ones he previously delivered to Warner and added "Läther was made out of four albums. Warners has released 2 of them already and they have two more than that they're probably gonna release."[xviii]
The offset of these 4 albums was a 2-LP live jazz stone album and was produced with Zappa approved comprehend art. Two others were single disc jazz stone studio albums, while the terminal was fabricated up of orchestral recordings. Therefore, the complete 4 individual album collection really fills a total of v total length LPs.
After having violated the contract with Zappa, Warner scheduled the release of Zappa in New York on DiscReet in mid 1977. A "Dateline Burbank" ad in the June 30, 1977 issue of Rolling Rock magazine described the release of the album as "imminent".[19] A few uncensored full length copies appeared but the album was chop-chop pulled from stores. Warner and Discreet were forced to withdraw it by Nov due to legal action. Zappa objected to the release at this time. He also claimed that Warner offset began to manufacture the anthology merely when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing visitor.[5] [16]
At approximately the same time Zappa was likewise planning a iv-LP box set titled Läther.[20] The album was completed at the Los Angeles Record Establish and Zappa'south handwriting on the tape boxes testify either EMI or Arista as the intended client.[ii] Frank's wife Gail Zappa claimed that Warner, wary of a four-LP box, had declined to release the material in this format.[ii] [21] [22] [23] Both sets of recordings (5-LP and four-LP) accept much of the same music, only each besides has unique content. Zappa announced Läther in a mid September 1977 interview, post-obit a concert in San Diego. He described it every bit his "current album".[24]
Zappa attempted to go Läther released in the iv-LP box configuration as the first release on the Zappa Records label. He briefly negotiated distribution with Capitol/EMI and and so Phonogram Inc. At Phonogram the projection reached the test pressing phase and was scheduled for a Halloween, October 31, 1977 release.[25] But Warner interfered with these negotiations by challenge rights over the material. [26] Past this bespeak Zappa had refused a music copyright license to Warner to reproduce the songs.[sixteen]
Following this Zappa appeared on the Pasadena, California radio station KROQ in December 1977 and played the unabridged test pressing of Läther. While encouraging listeners to tape the broadcast[27] Zappa besides counterclaimed that Warner did non have rights to the material.[28] Bootlegs of Läther before long appeared. Some came directly from the test pressing, but near were lower quality ones sourced from broadcast tapes. Until the album'south official release in 1996 the bootlegs circulated widely.[27]
Eventually, Warner issued all four private albums starting in March 1978 and running through May of 1979.[two] [22] [23] However, the label censored the 1978 version of Zappa in New York by removing the song Punky's Whips besides as other references to Punky Meadows, a member of the American glam rock ring Angel. The modify of anthology championship from "Hot Rats 3" to "Sleep Dirt" and editing of the cloth were too washed in violation of Zappa's contract.[29] Since Zappa had supplied only the tapes for the final three albums they were released without musician or songwriting credits. Likewise, the artwork for these albums was non canonical by Zappa. Instead, Warner deputed the designs from cartoonist Gary Panter. All iv individual albums went out of print when the Unimposing/Warner distribution agreement ended in 1982.
CD issues [edit]
Later contracts with Warner and Unimposing expired Zappa chose to re-issue the iv previously released individual albums on CD in 1991 forth with the Panter artwork and added credits. Each of them were either remixed and or contradistinct in various ways. The 1991 releases appeared in the U.s. on Zappa's Barking Pumpkin label.
In 1995 Rykodisc once more reissued Zappa's entire catalog up to that engagement. None of the four albums related to Läther were altered from the original CD problems, though new analog to digital transfers were made.
One year later, Läther was released officially through Rykodisc as a three-CD album. This edition used new 1996 artwork and was released in a plastic precious stone case. Gail Zappa confirmed that the stereo master tapes for the iv-LP Läther box were used as the source.[two] While Zappa'due south notes from the tape boxes show a slightly different track listing, the 1996 CD version of Läther is musically identical to the 1977 examination pressings. The but difference is that four bonus tracks were also added. Among these is commentary from Zappa taken from his KROQ broadcast. Too, the title of the song "One More Time for the World" was inverse to "The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution", the title under which the same vocal appears on the album Slumber Dirt.
Along with almost of Zappa'southward material, a "mini-LP" CD edition was also released by Rykodisc in Nippon, with the artwork reformatted to resemble the packaging of a vinyl album.[22]
In December 2012 an official reissue of Läther appeared in cardboard packaging with the original intended 1977 artwork. This version omits the 1996 bonus tracks.
Release and reception [edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [22] |
The official version of Läther was finally released with the authorization of Gail Zappa in September 1996, nearly three years later on Frank'southward decease.
Information technology is nonetheless debated every bit to whether Zappa had conceived the fabric as a four-LP box set up from the beginning, or only later when working with Phonogram around September-October 1977.[30] In the liner notes to the 1996 release, Gail states that "As originally conceived by Frank, Läther was e'er a 4-record box prepare."[2] Despite this claim, however, there is no evidence that Zappa ever delivered the four-LP Läther set to Warner, simply the four private albums. Zappa himself really contradicted Gail's posthumous claims that Warner had broken up Läther into other albums.[18] Several interviews published in 1978 and an album review from 1996 explicitly state that Zappa re-edited the 4 individual albums into the Läther four-LP box then presented it to Phonogram.[17] [31] [32]
In a January 1978 Zappa interview the British publication New Musical Express said:
"Since his (Warner) contract had allegedly been breached, Zappa took his copy tapes of the four albums, added some new textile, subtracted some quondam, and prepared a iv-record set chosen "Läther", but pronounced "Leather".[15]
Allmusic author Richie Unterberger praised the album, only wrote that it would "appeal far more to the Zappa cultist than the general listener, though the Zappa cult – which has been craving Läther in its original format for years – is a pretty wide fan base in and of itself."[22]
Track list [edit]
All tracks are written by Frank Zappa.
| No. | Title | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| i. | "Re-Gyptian Strut" | Slumber Clay | four:36 |
| 2. | "Naval Aviation in Art?" | Orchestral Favorites | ane:32 |
| three. | "A Little Light-green Rosetta" | Previously unreleased. A reworked version appears on Joe's Garage. This version has a guitar solo that tin be heard on "Ship Ahoy" from Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar. | 2:48 |
| 4. | "Duck Duck Goose" | Previously unreleased | 3:01 |
| 5. | "Down in De Dew" | Previously unreleased | 2:57 |
| 6. | "For the Young Sophisticate" | Previously unreleased. A different version appears on Tinsel Town Rebellion. [33] | three:14 |
| 7. | "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" | Previously unreleased. A different version appears on Sheik Yerbouti. | 3:26 |
| 8. | "Cleaved Hearts Are for Assholes" | Previously unreleased. A different version appears on Sheik Yerbouti. | 4:40 |
| 9. | "The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit" | Zappa in New York | 12:41 |
| ten. | "Lemme Take You to the Beach" | Studio Tan | ii:46 |
| 11. | "Revised Music for Guitar & Depression Budget Orchestra" | Studio Tan | 7:36 |
| 12. | "RDNZL" | Studio Tan | 8:fourteen |
| No. | Title | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Honey, Don't You lot Want a Human being Like Me?" | Zappa in New York. | 4:56 |
| 2. | "The Blackness Page #i" | Zappa in New York | one:57 |
| iii. | "Large Leg Emma" | Zappa in New York | 2:xi |
| 4. | "Punky's Whips" | Zappa in New York (1977 edition) | 11:06 |
| 5. | "Flambé" | Sleep Dirt | 2:05 |
| 6. | "The Majestic Lagoon" | Zappa in New York | 16:20 |
| 7. | "Pedro'south Dowry" | Orchestral Favorites | seven:45 |
| eight. | "Läther" | Zappa in New York (nether the title "I Promise Non to Come up In Your Oral fissure") | iii:fifty |
| 9. | "Spider of Destiny" | Slumber Clay | 2:40 |
| 10. | "The Duke of Orchestral Prunes" | Orchestral Favorites | 4:21 |
| No. | Title | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| ane. | "Filthy Habits" | Sleep Dirt | 7:12 |
| two. | "Titties & Beer" | Zappa in New York | 5:23 |
| 3. | "The Bounding main Is the Ultimate Solution" | Sleep Dirt | 8:31 |
| 4. | "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" | Studio Tan | 21:00 |
| No. | Title | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| ane. | "Regyptian Strut (1993)" | Slumber Dirt (remixed) | four:42 |
| 2. | "Leather Goods" | Previously unreleased | six:01 |
| 3. | "Revenge of the Knick Knack People" | Previously unreleased | 2:25 |
| 4. | "Fourth dimension Is Money" | Sleep Dirt | 3:04 |
Personnel [edit]
- Disc 1, Rail ane
- Frank Zappa – percussion
- George Duke – keyboards
- Bruce Fowler – all brass
- James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass
- Ruth Underwood – percussion
- Chester Thompson – drums
- Disc One, Track 2; Disc Two, Rail 7 & x
- Frank Zappa – guitar
- Dave Parlato – bass
- Terry Bozzio – drums
- Emil Richards – percussion
- Orchestra conducted by Michael Zearott
- Disc One, Track iii (Part Ane)
- Frank Zappa – vocal
- George Duke – keyboards
- Disc 1, Track three (Role 2)
- Frank Zappa – atomic number 82 guitar
- Andre Lewis – keyboards
- Roy Estrada – bass
- Terry Bozzio – drums
- Disc I, Track 4, vii & 8; Disc 3 Track 6
- Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
- Ray White – guitar, vocals
- Eddie Jobson – violin, keyboards
- Patrick O'Hearn – bass
- Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals
- Disc One, Track v
- Frank Zappa – all guitars, bass
- Jim Gordon – drums
- Disc One, Rails 6
- Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
- George Duke – keyboards
- Tom Fowler – bass
- Ralph Humphrey – drums
- Ricky Lancelotti – vocals
- Disc One, Track 9; Disc Two, Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, eight; Disc Three, Track 2
- Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
- Ray White – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Eddie Jobson – violin, keyboards, vocals
- Patrick O'Hearn – bass, vocals
- Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals
- Ruth Underwood – percussion, synthesizer
- Dave Samuels – timpani, vibes
- Randy Brecker – trumpet
- Michael Brecker – tenor sax, flute
- Lou Marini – alto sax, flute
- Ronnie Cuber – baritone sax, clarinet
- Tom Malone – trombone, trumpet, piccolo
- Don Pardo – sophisticated narration
- Disc One, Track ten
- Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
- Davey Moire – vocals
- Eddie Jobson – keyboards, yodeling
- Max Bennett – bass
- Paul Humphrey – drums
- Don Brewer – bongos
- Disc One, Track 11; Disc Three, Track iv
- Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
- George Duke – keyboards
- Bruce Fowler – trombone
- Tom Fowler – bass
- Chester Thompson – drums
- Disc One, Rails 12; Disc Three, Track eight
- Frank Zappa – guitar
- George Knuckles – keyboards
- James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass
- Ruth Underwood – percussion
- Chester Thompson – drums
- Disc Two, Track v & 9
- Frank Zappa – guitar
- George Duke – keyboards
- Patrick O'Hearn – bass
- Ruth Underwood – percussion
- Chester Thompson – drums
- Disc Three, Track ane
- Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards
- Dave Parlato – bass
- Terry Bozzio – drums
- Disc Three, Track 3
- Frank Zappa – guitar, synthesizer
- Patrick O'Hearn – bass
- Terry Bozzio – drums
- Disc Three, Track 5
- Frank Zappa – percussion
- George Knuckles – keyboards
- Bruce Fowler – all brass
- James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass
- Ruth Underwood – percussion
- Republic of chad Wackerman – drum overdubs
- Production credits
- Digital Mastering & EQ – Spencer Chrislu
- Transfer Engineers – David Dondorf, Spencer Chrislu
- Vaultmeisterment – Joe Travers
- Bonus Section Associates, Edits & Mastering – Spencer Chrislu
- Comprehend Concept – Dweezil Zappa
- Forrard Movement – Gail Zappa
- Deep-dish Descriptions – Simon Prentis
- Cover Execution & Layout Design – Steven Jurgensmeyer
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