At last the zappa family trust have seen fit to release sleep dirt as it originally sounded when released on vinyl in 1979.
Zappa sleep dirt vinyl.
Zappa asked singer thana harris to add vocals to three songs.
L ther has the same mix as the sleep dirt vinyl.
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Sleep dirt is underrated.
This album was recorded circa 1974 1976 and originally released 1979.
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My favorite zappa album and i have over 50 of his releases.
Sleep dirt consists of miscellaneous tracks recorded between 1974 and 1976 including flambay spider of destiny and time is money songs that wre apparently part of an unissued zappa musical rock opera from 1972 called.
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Zappa had originally envisioned flambay spider of destiny and time is.
Hope you ll enjoy it.
Some sleep dirt cds have a different mix.
The 1979 lp version of sleep dirt was entirely instrumental.
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However with the cd release in 1991 zappa added new overdubs to the recordings.
This 2012 re release comes without the dreaded vocals that were present on previous cd versions and which disappointed and even angered many zappa fans myself included.
Inspired by the original version the philly 88 soundcheck version and sleep napkins from the live in vancouver 1975.
The ocean is the ultimate solution is his best song i have ever heard.
It got more exposure again with the lather record but still not talked about a lot.
Great controlled feed back guitar in filthy habits and the closing cut is epic.
Nothing he did sounded like that track again.
Even though i wore out my first copy of apostrophe sleep dirt is the best.
When zappa re issued the recordings he did not change the title.
And he plays a rare acoustic guitar too.
Some of his best instrumentals are on here.
The results were dumped on the market in 1978 and 1979 while zappa moved on to his own record label.