Monday, April 30, 2007

Frank Zappa: "A Pioneer Of The Future Of Music" part #02 torrent

Frank Zappa

Part #02 of the Frank Scheffers documentary A Pioneer Of The Future Of Music about Frank Zappa has been saved to disc, authored to DVD and shared through the Zappateers.

VPRO Dutch TV Broadcast
2007/04/29
PAL 720 * 576, 25 fps, MPEG2 7000 kbps VBR; Dolby Digital (AC-3) 192 kbps
Total running time 53:25.

Part of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. A large part of it is new stuff though (to me anyway), particularly interviews with Napoleon, Bozzio and Steve Vai; footage from Zappa plays Zappa; the Teheran Symphony.
From digital cable receiver, analog out to Hard disc recorder (Kiss DP558) recorded in MPEG2 best quality, over local network uploaded to computer, clipped and converted VOB to MPEG2 in VIDEOREDO, transferred to DV in Studio 9, recoded to MPEG2 in TMPEGenc masking 6 toplines to get rid of noise along the edge, authored in TMPEGauthor and replaced MPG layer 1 sound track with the AC-3 soundtrack (as was recorded on the Kiss DP558).

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"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" petition

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

It would be nice if EMI would do something right for a change ... A petition for and expanded (deluxe edition) CD box set of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the classic Pink Floyd album.

This year, 2007, marks the 40th anniversary of the Pink Floyd's classic debut album, 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.

For this reason, the VegetableFriends discussion group (...) has organised an online petition, on behalf of all Syd Barrett / early Pink Floyd fans worldwide.
We, the undersigned, urge EMI to pay respect to the late Syd Barrett's musical legacy by releasing Pink Floyd's seminal album 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' in a fitting expanded (deluxe edition) CD box set. Like many other fans worldwide, we are convinced that the *only* worthy tribute would be the release of a special commemorative box set, one that contains not only the original stereo version of the UK album (as opposed to the remastered edition), but at very least the now ultra-rare *original MONO* version of this classic album (as opposed to the remastered mono CD version), a tribute which preserves the artwork of the original release in 1967 for posterity.

Update: It's gonna happen!

» Sign the petition
» en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn
» launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/VegetableFriends/

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