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The first official Music
For Pets release, and not a moment too soon after a year of
working on it. If only we'd known then that the whole thing would
get reworked three more times before its American release….
This sequence, though incredibly long, is the
most accurate reflection of this band at its creative studio peak,
such as it was. Z, at its core, was a hard rock band. Eventually
some of the harder rockers got replaced with more "modern"
tunes for the American version, and while they may indeed have been
better songs, they didn't add up to a better album (IMHO, as always).
Fun fact: this CD was released in France ten months
before Mike and I left the band, and yet the album didn't hit America
until two months afterwards. Considering that the first track ("Us")
was recorded in mid-1994, that makes it a three-year project.
And, of course, if you want to see what the band
pictures looked like before Mike and I were replaced by the heads
of the Zappas' dogs, the French version is the one for you.
For the way-too-long full story of the Music
For Pets sessions, check out Act
18 of The Life Of Bryan, "Dissecting Pets".
Click here
for the official
Zappa family website.
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