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Released
  
December 18, 2012

Length
  
82:40

Release date
  
18 December 2012

Producer
  
Frank Zappa

Recorded
  
1968-1971

Artist
  
Frank Zappa

Label
  
Zappa Records

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Finer Moments #94 (2012)
  
AAAFNRAA Baby Snakes The Compleat Soundtrack #95 (2012)

Genres
  
Rock music, Avant-garde music

Similar
  
Frank Zappa albums, Rock music albums

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Finer Moments is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was compiled and mastered by Zappa in 1972 and released posthumously in 2012.

Contents

Some of the tracks from this album have appeared on various other releases including 1991's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, 1992's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, 1998's Mystery Disc, 1996's The Lost Episodes, and 2011's Carnegie Hall.

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Zappa.

Personnel

Musicians
  • Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
  • Don Preston – keyboards, mini moog
  • Ian Underwood – clarinet, keyboards, piano, alto sax, woodwind
  • Bunk Gardner – tenor sax, woodwind
  • Motorhead Sherwood – baritone sax
  • Buzz Gardner – trumpet
  • Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
  • Jimmy Carl Black – drums
  • Art Tripp – drums, percussion
  • Lowell George – guitar (on "There Is No Heaven From Where Slogans Go To Die" and "Squeeze It, Squeeze It, Squeeze It")
  • Dave Samuels – guest artist, vibraphone (on "There Is No Heaven From Where Slogans Go To Die")

    • on "The Old Curiosity Shoppe" :

  • Frank Zappa – guitar
  • Ian Underwood – alto sax
  • Bob Harris – keyboards
  • Jim Pons – bass
  • Aynsley Dunbar – drums
  • Howard Kaylan – cowbell, tambourine
  • Mark Volman – cowbell, tambourine

    • on "The Subcutaneous Peril" :

  • Frank Zappa – guitar
  • Don Preston – keyboards, mini moog
  • Ian Underwood – keyboards
  • Jim Pons – bass
  • Aynsley Dunbar – drums
    • Production credits
  • Ed Caraeff – photography
  • Jerry Hansen – engineer
  • Dick Kunc – engineer
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Kerry McNabb – engineer
  • Michael Mesker – layout, photography
  • Bill Miller – cover art, liner notes
  • Melanie Starks – production manager
  • Joe Travers – transfers
  • John Williams – photography

    • Songs

    1Intro1:20
    2Sleazette3:33
    3Mozart Piano Sonata in B-flat6:22

    References

    Finer Moments Wikipedia
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