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Revision as of 05:26, 7 November 2009
| Album History | |
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| Released June 1967 | |
| See also: The Old Masters, Box I Threesome No. 1 | |
Players
- FZ (guitar, vocals)
- Ray Collins (vocals, tambourine, "prune")
- Jim Fielder (guitar, piano)
- Don Preston (keyboards)
- Bunk Gardner (woodwinds)
- Roy Estrada (bass, vocals)
- Jimmy Carl Black (drums, vocals)
- Billy Mundi (drums, percussion)
Tracks
Release Notes
Recorded Sunset-Highland Studios of TTG, November 15-18, 1966.
Produced by: Tom Wilson.
Director of engineering: Val Valentin.
Recording Engineer: Ami Hadani.
Remix Engineer: David Greene.
Cover art, layout, notes, design, etc.: Zappa
Front cover photo: Alice Ochs.
Liner Notes
Background Information
... Absolutely Free: The Complete Libretto
Zappa about the album:
"When it came time for us to do our second album, Absolutely Free, MGM proclaimed that we couldn't spend more than eleven thousand dollars on it. The recording schedules were ridiculous, making it impossible to perfect anything on the album. It was typical of the kind of bullshit we had to put up with until I got my own studio.
Gail and I moved to New York in 1967 to play in the Garrick Theater on Bleecker Street. The first place we stayed, before we could find an apartment, was the Hotel Van Rensselaer on Eleventh Street. We were living on a small room on one of the upper floors. I was working on the album cover illustration for Absolutely Free at a desk by the window. I remember the place being so dirty I couldn't keep the soot off the artwork."
Conceptual Continuity
Versions
| ZFT # | Version # | # discs | Format | Catalog # | Release (YYYY-MM-DD) |
Barcode (EAN-13) |
Artwork | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1.1 Original Stereo 13 Tracks |
1 | LP | MGM Verve V6-5013 |
1967-06-26 | None | US edition. | |
| 1 | LP | MGM Verve SVLP 9174 |
1967 | None | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | LP | MGM Verve MV 1120 |
None | Japanese edition. | ||||
| 1 | LP | MGM Verve 710006 |
1967 | None | German edition. | |||
| 1.2 Original Mono 13 Tracks |
1 | LP | MGM Verve V-5013 |
1967-06-26? | None | US edition. | ||
| 1 | LP | MGM Verve VLP 9174 |
None | UK edition. | ||||
| 1.3 Remaster Stereo 13 Tracks |
1 | LP | Barking Pumpkin BPR 7777-2 |
1985-04-19 | Included in The Old Masters, Box I set. | |||
| Unknown | 1 | CS | Zappa TZAPPA 12 |
? | 5016583601249? | UK edition. | ||
| 1.4 Remaster Stereo & 2 Bonus Tracks |
1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10093 |
1989-01 | 0014431009327 | US edition. | ||
| 1 | CD | Zappa CDZAP 12 |
? | 5016583601225? | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc D40733 |
1989 | Australian edition = Rykodisc RCD 10093 stickered with the Ozzie catalog #. | ||||
| Unknown | 1 | CS | Barking Pumpkin D4 74214 |
1990-10-17 | 0013347421445 | US edition. | ||
| 1.4 Remaster Stereo & 2 Bonus Tracks |
1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5022 |
1994-10-26 | 4988112405257 | Japanese edition. | ||
| 1 | CS | Rykodisc RAC 10502 |
1995-05-02 | 0014431050244 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10502 |
1995-05-02 | 0014431050220 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5111 |
1995-09-25 | 4988112407749 | Japanese edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5246 |
1996-05-30 | 4988112408463 | Japanese edition = Rykodisc RCD 10502 repackaged with an obi strip and extra liner notes in Japanese | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 1204 |
2001-09-21 | 4988112412606 | Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve. | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 40582/2 |
2002-03-21 | None | US edition, included in the Threesome No. 1 box set. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8708 DISCTRONICS RCD 10502 01 | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10592 |
2005-07-19 | 0014431059223 | = VideoArts VACK 1204, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 1328 |
2008-06-18 | 4988112417717 | Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve. |
