Frank Zappa - Cheaper Than Cheap [June 21, 1974 - Blu-ray video / Dolby Atmos]

[privateuniverse]

Talk of this on the other forum as well as a Zappa Facebook group. I don't see it listed yet on any official site or retailer.

Next official release due on March 28, 2025
The Discreet TV special/Premore shoot, filmed and recorded on June 21, 1974, in three versions:
– The “Super Deluxe” version which will contain the concert in Blu-ray video (Dolby Atmos), as well as on two CDs, three LPs + a booklet with unpublished photos;
– The three LP version + a booklet with unpublished photos;
– The two CD + Blu-ray version will contain the concert in Blu-ray video (Dolby Atmos) and on two CDs + a booklet with unpublished photos.
Tracklist:
1. Intro / Cheepnis - Percussion / “Cheaper Than Cheep”
2. Cosmik Debris
3. Band Introductions
4. RDNZL
5. Village Of The Sun
6. Montana
7. Duke Goes Out
8. A Visit To The Art Studio
9. Inca Roads
10. « Get Down Simmons »
11. Penguin In Bondage
12. T’Mershi Duween
13. The Dog Breath Variations
14. Uncle Meat
15. How Could I Be Such A Fool
16. I’m Not Satisfied
17. Wowie Zowie
18. I Don’t Even Care
19. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
20. Dupree’s Paradise Introduction
21. Dupree’s Paradise
22. Oh No
23. Son Of Orange County
24. More Trouble Every Day
25. Apostrophe’
26. Camarillo Brillo
27. Time Is Money (excerpt) (Bonus)
28. Echidna’s Arf (Of You) – Incomplete (Bonus)
29. Art Studio Outtakes (Bonus)

 

[PurpleMoustache]

If the price is true to the name, I’ll be picking up that 2CD/1BR set

 

[stoopid]

As much as this is a great era of Zappa music, I feel like I have enough live material which I don't listen to very often. Just gimme the studio releases in surround already.

 

[lovecraft]

Well, live 70s Zappa on celluloid, in Atmos. Sold!

 

[marpow]

If the price is true to the name, I’ll be picking up that 2CD/1BR set

Lets hope, not like George Harrison's Living In The Material World, ultra expensive based on what was included.

 

[jimfisheye]

As much as this is a great era of Zappa music, I feel like I have enough live material which I don't listen to very often. Just gimme the studio releases in surround already.

Well, they actually came through with the two quads! And about half of the catalog genuinely properly mastered in 24 bit. But yeah, all the rest and the handful of early mono mixes, please and think you! You mean the unreleased quad Roxy, right?

This set looks to be awesome! I'll take any and all of this! An actual 12 channel mix with an aside legacy live release?! Not just a cursory stereo mix on a CD? Well, I haven't heard the mix yet... Hitting a lot of correct buttons so far though!

The mix will not be by Frank's hand delivering the arrangement like only he could and did. So will probably have a "radio broadcast" vibe to it like a lot of these post live releases. Hope it's more like those unexpected 7.1.4 remixes of Waka Jawaka and Grand Wazoo than the lesser remixes of Apostrophe or Over-Nite.