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november 2023
officiële release - 127
4cd/1 blu-ray
disc 1
1. Camarillo Brillo
2. I'm The Slime
3. Dirty Love
4. Fifty-Fifty
5. Zomby Woof
6. Dinah-Moe Humm
7. Montana
Bonus Session Masters
8. Wonderful Wino (Complete Edit)*
9. Inca Roads (1973 Version, 2023 Mix)*
10. RDNZL (1973 Mix)*
11. For The Young Sophisticate (Dolby EQ Copy)
12. I’m The Slime (Single Version)
13. Montana (Single Edit with Intro)
Bonus Vault Sensations
14. Inca Roads (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*
15. RDNZL (Take 2)*
16. X-Forts (Echidna’s Arf (of You))*
CD 2:
Bonus Vault Sensations Continued
1. Camarillo Brillo (Alternate Mix)*
2. Face Down (I’m The Slime - Demo)*
3. I’m The Slime (Basic Track Outtake)*
4. Dirty Love (Session Rehearsal)*
5. Dirty Love (with Quad Guitar)*
6. Fifty-Fifty – Pipe Organ Intro Improvisations*
7. Fifty-Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7)*
8. Dinah-Moe Humm (Session Rehearsal)*
9. Dinah-Moe Humm (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*
10. Montana (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*
Live in Hollywood, California, Hollywood Palladium –
March 23, 1973
11. Montana*
12. Dupree’s Paradise (Intro)*
13. Dupree’s Paradise*
CD 3:
Live in Hollywood, California, Hollywood Palladium –
March 23, 1973
Continued
1. Cosmik Debris*
2. “The Dynamic Sal Marquez!”*
3. Big Swifty*
4. “…The Successor to Willie The Pimp”*
5. The Curse Of The Zomboids (I’m The Slime)*
6. Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?*
7. FZ & The Percussion Section*
8. Palladium Jam - Part 1*
9. Palladium Jam - Part 2*
CD 4:
Live in Detroit, Michigan, Cobo Hall – May 12, 1973
1. Cobo Hall ’73 Band Intros and Sound Check*
2. Exercise #4*
3. Dog Breath*
4. The Dog Breath Variations*
5. Uncle Meat*
6. Fifty-Fifty*
7. Inca Roads*
8. FZ Introduces the Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
Medley*
9. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow*
10. Nanook Rubs It*
11. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast*
12. Father O’Blivion*
13. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast (Reprise)*
14. Join The March*
15. Cosmik Debris*
16. Medley: King Kong/Chunga’s Revenge/Son Of Mr.
Green Genes*
BLU-RAY AUDIO:
Over-Nite Sensation - The Album
Dolby Atmos* / Dolby TrueHD 5.1* / Dolby TrueHD 1973
Quadraphonic / 192K24B Stereo / 96K24B Stereo
1. Camarillo Brillo
2. I’m The Slime
3. Dirty Love
4. Fifty-Fifty
5. Zomby Woof
6. Dinah-Moe Humm
7. Montana
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Frank Zappa: guitar,
vocals
Ian Underwood: flute, clarinet,
alto & tenor sax
Ruth Underwood: percussion
George Duke: keyboards, synthesizer
Bruce Fowler: trombone
Sal Marquez: trumpet, vocals
Jean-Luc Ponty: electric violin,
electric baritone violin
Tom Fowler: bass
Ralph Humphrey: drums
Ricky Lancelotti: vocals on
Fifty-Fifty & Zomby Woof
Kin Vassy: announcer on I'm the
Slime; vocals in Dinah-Moe Humm
Tina Turner: backing vocals
Debbie Wilson: backing vocals *
Linda 'Lynn' Sims: backing vocals *
Tina Turner's Ikettes
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 Fifty-
Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7)
Face
Down ("I'm The Slime" Demo)
Ha, dit wordt een mooie aanwinst op de nachtelijke
sensaties. De teaser-track is ongelooflijk funky, dank
Duke met zijn Clavinet. naar de rest ben ik inderdaad meer
dan nieuwsgierig. Concerten met Ponty stonden hier hoog op
de wenslijst. Dus...
De commercial:
THE ALBUM THAT HAS LONG BEEN A FAVORITE GATEWAY INTO
ZAPPA’S VAST MUSICAL UNIVERSE HAS BEEN NEWLY EXPANDED WITH
57 UNRELEASED AND RARE STUDIO AND LIVE TRACKS FORGED FROM
CREATION OF THE BENCHMARK GOLD-SELLING RECORD
THREE-88-TRACK, FIVE-DISC EXPANDED SUPER DELUXE EDITION
CONTAINS FOUR CDS AND BLU-RAY AUDIO DISC WITH OUTTAKES,
ALTERNATE EDITS, AND UNEDITED BONUS VAULT MASTERS PLUS TWO
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SHOWS RECORDED AT THE HOLLYWOOD
PALLADIUM AND DETROIT’S COBO HALL EXPANDED DELUXE EDITION
CONTAINS OUTTAKES, ALTERNATE EDITS, AND UNEDITED MASTERS
FROM LITTLE KNOWN RECORDING SESSIONS
“Over-Nite Sensation will go on in history as one of the
absolute quintessential FRANK ZAPPA records of his entire
catalog. Happy 50th anniversary, OS — may you live on
forever and continue to delight the ‘Lifers’ as well as
providing an entry point to one of the most iconic,
influential, and important composers of 20th century
music.”
–Joe Travers, Zappa Vaultmeister
In 1973, Frank Zappa and The Mothers were once again on
the move. Coming off a year laden with a pair of
well-lauded high watermarks — July 1972’s jazz-fusiony
solo masterstroke Waka/Jawaka and November 1972’s big-band
Mothers progression The Grand Wazoo — Zappa wanted to next
convene another revised Mothers collective, rethink some
long-throw compositional tracts, and begin exploring the
differences inherent in the form and function of his
songwriting. In turn, Zappa also decided to bring his own
singing voice more to the lead vocal fore than ever
before, as well as refine the scope of his guitar playing.
And thus, September 1973’s Over-Nite Sensation was born. A
stone cold classic, Over-Nite Sensation has long been
viewed by both the cognoscenti and layman as being a
gateway album entry into the Zappaverse at large, serving
as a mighty grand place to enter into the breach along
with his follow-up March 1974 solo release, Apostrophe(‘).
It was also the first album by Zappa to be released in
Quadraphonic surround sound, an ever-evolving sonic medium
Zappa would continue to explore throughout his career on
the cutting edge.
Not only did Over-Nite Sensation signal a change in
musical direction for The Mothers at large, but Zappa
handled the bulk of the lead vocal duties and staked his
claim as the album’s only guitarist. It was a new band
with a new sound that resonated widely, eventually going
gold in 1976. Over the ensuing years, almost every song on
Over-Nite Sensation became indelible live staples and
longstanding fan favorites, with “I’m The Slime,”
“Fifty-Fifty,” “Zomby Woof,” and “Camarillo Brillo”
immediately making their respective presences known in the
setlist. In the here and now, 50 years on, Over-Nite
Sensation remains both one of the top-tier highlights of
the vast Zappa catalog as well as one of his most
consistent bestsellers.
In celebration of 50 years of Over-Nite Sensation, a newly
expanded 50th anniversary edition will be released on
November 3 via Zappa Records/UMe in a variety of formats,
including a five-disc (4CD/1Blu-ray Audio) Super Deluxe
Edition that showcases 88 tracks in total, featuring 57
previously unreleased tracks and mixes. Produced and
compiled by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe
Travers, this new, expanded collection titled Over-Nite
Sensation: 50th Anniversary Edition, boasts the 2012
remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, along with
additional unreleased masters, highlights, and mix
outtakes from the original 1973 sessions mastered by John
Polito. Also included are two completely unreleased live
concert recordings from 1973 showcasing the same band that
recorded the classic album — one show captured at the
Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, and the other recorded
at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
The Blu-ray contains the core album newly remixed in Dolby
Atmos and 5.1 surround sound by Karma Auger and Erich
Gobel at Studio1LA, the same team behind the acclaimed
Dolby Atmos and surround mixes of 2022’s Waka/Wazoo
release, plus it offers Zappa’s original 4-channel
Quadraphonic mix (available again for the first time since
1973) as well as the hi-res stereo 2012 remaster at both
24-bit/192kHz and 24-bit/96kHz. The lavish, Super Deluxe
Edition box is rounding out with a 48-page booklet and
unseen photos from the album cover shoot by Sam Emerson,
along with liner notes and new essays by noted audiophile
journalist Mark Smotroff and Travers.
In addition to the Super Deluxe Edition box set, there
will be two separate vinyl releases: a 2LP 180-gram black
audiophile vinyl reissue with the album cut at 45 rpm for
the first time ever from the original analog tape by Chris
Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in 2023 and a bonus
24” x 12” poster of the complete cover art and a limited
edition 3LP deluxe color vinyl version pressed on clear
vinyl with 4-color splatter with the album cut at 45 rpm
on LPs 1 & 2 and a third LP with 35 minutes of bonus
tracks culled from the box set, cut at 33 1/3 rpm by
Bellman. The limited edition color pressing, which will
also include the bonus 24” x 12” poster of the cover art,
is available to pre-order now exclusively at Zappa.com,
uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl.
Additionally, the Super Deluxe Edition will be available
digitally, with all 88 tracks available in both hi-res
24-bit/96kHz and standard-res 16-bit/44.1kHz options. A
standalone Dolby Atmos mix of the core album’s seven
tracks will also be available on all major hi-res
streaming services.
The new group of Mothers heard on Over-Nite Sensation was
comprised of virtuoso musicians rooted in jazz
(keyboardist George Duke, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty,
drummer Ralph Humphrey, and trumpeter Sal Marquez) and
serious music (wind instrumentalist Ian Underwood and
percussionist Ruth Underwood) alike, all polished off with
the Fowler brothers duly in tow (with Bruce Fowler on
trombone, and Tom Fowler on bass). As a result, the
instrumentation of this aurally palpable Mothers lineup
was akin to having a mini orchestra in a rock format — and
Zappa utilized them brilliantly, crafting arrangements for
existing material like “Cosmik Debris” and “Montana” in
addition to writing a large number of new compositions to
maximize their strengths.
The recording sessions at Bolic Sound and Whitney Studios
were sweetened by the addition of some now-iconic guest
vocalists. The truly crazy, over-the-top vocal stylings of
Ricky Lancelotti catapulted songs like “Fifty-Fifty” and
“Zomby Woof” into the stratosphere. For his part, Kin
Vassy (of Kenny Rogers and The First Edition) added
numerous, tasty tidbits all throughout. But perhaps the
most legendary guest turns of them all would be those by
Tina Turner and The Ikettes. With Zappa tracking at Ike
Turner’s Bolic Sound studio in Inglewood, Calif., it only
seemed logical that Tina and Frank’s paths would
eventually cross. Although famously uncredited, Tina and
The Ikettes’ background vocals were draped all throughout
the record and are undeniably unique —and spot-on perfect.
If you dropped the needle on Over-Nite Sensation for the
first time in 1973, it was immediately apparent something
new, different, and exciting was happening in Zappa’s
ever-expanding musical universe. The material was funky,
funny, challenging, and mighty — and, yes, even more
accessible than his output of the prior few years.
Over-Nite Sensation went through several sequencing
options over the course of early June, at one point
incorporating instrumental songs like “Inca Roads” (which
ultimately soared in revised and vocalized form on June
1975’s One Size Fits All) and “RDNZL” (a version of which
eventually surfaced on September 1978’s Studio Tan).
“Wonderful Wino,” finally released 23 years later on The
Lost Episodes CD in 1996, was also a contender. Over-Nite
Sensation was completed at Paramount Studios in Hollywood
with engineer Kerry McNabb before the band departed for
Hawaii and Australia, and the album masters were turned in
to the label in July. Disc 1 of the set includes these
three compositions as “Bonus Session Masters,” with
“Wonderful Wino” presented as a “Complete Edit” in its
1973 vintage mix mixed by Zappa and McNabb, an unreleased
1973 vintage mix of “RDNZL” that contains Zappa’s guitar
solo which was missing from the version released on The
Lost Episodes, and a newly mixed “Inca Roads” which was
mixed in 2023 from the 16-track master after Sal Marquez’s
vocals and trumpet tracks were rediscovered warranting the
new mix.
Zappa and The Mothers hit the road in full force in 1973
by touring auditoriums, theaters, and college venues,
looking to tap into a new audience as well as cater to the
hardcores. These concerts would primarily consist of new
compositions blended with some rearranged older tunes — an
approach that was very typical for Zappa, who always
prioritized the new. You can hear some of those immediate
results via the 27 previously unreleased live tracks
included from the above-noted Hollywood and Detroit shows.
On March 23 at the Hollywood Palladium, fans got early
tastes of the “sort-of” guru blues of “Cosmik Debris” and
the sleazy, slow-rolling funky grease of “Curse Of The
Zomboids (I’m The Slime).” Nary a few months later on May
12 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, the odds-busting, horn-driven
instrumental sneer of “Fifty-Fifty” and the “Don’t Eat The
Yellow Snow,” “Nanook Rubs It,” and “St. Alphonzo’s
Pancake Breakfast” troika medley were all served up with
patented Zappa narrative aplomb.
Over-Nite Sensation indeed opened new commercial doors for
Frank Zappa, but the maestro himself would not be sucked
down into the corporate conformity ooze as he continued
following his own muse all throughout the 1970s, and
beyond. This 50th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of
Over-Nite Sensation puts an expanded stamp on all the
visceral, tall-in-the-saddle tales recounting the finer
points of dental floss farming, mindless video drones, and
poncho-wearing lotharios — all of it acting as a pretext
for what was to come, not to mention cementing the odds
that Zappa still had lots more to say.
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