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Studio Tan [Original recording remastered]

~ Frank Zappa
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (1 April 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • ASIN: B0000009ST
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,015 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
2. Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra
3. Lemme Take You To The Beach
4. RDNZL

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When STUDIO TAN first appeared in 1978 it was in a rapid barrage with three other titles (SLEEP DIRT, ORCHESTRAL FAVORITES and LIVE IN NEW YORK) which served to fill and end FrankZappa's contractual obligations to his then-label, Warner Brothers. The four pieces that make up this work have since been reconfigured by Zappa back into his once-slated 4-recordset, LATHER (released posthumously as a 3-CD set).
"The Adventures Of Gregory Peccary", at twenty minutes, constitutes half of the album and is a monumental work of story-telling with diverse compositional and arrangement figures. It touches on musical themes found throughout much of Zappa's other work up to that time. Bits of surf music fly by trailed by symphonic fanfares. "Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra" is an abbreviated and reworked version of a piece originally composed as a feature for the violin (and premiered on Jean-Luc Ponty's KING KONG album).

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Half good, half goof, 21 Jan 2008
By Matt Westwood (Reading, UK) - See all my reviews
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There are two interesting and worthy jazz instrumentals which push their boundaries just a fraction. Those are worth the price of the album on their own. There is a surf-pop pastiche which is actually quite listenable and thankfully nice and short. Then there is the utter waste of effort and 20 precious minutes of your time that is The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, which is even worse than the excesses of that abominable Nanook.
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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars small, but perfectly formed..., 9 Dec 2001
By colski (Aberdeen, Scotland) - See all my reviews
A wee cracker, which like most of FZ's releases, produces more snippits of conceptual continuity the more times you listen to it. Gregary Peccary, probably the weakest of the 4 tracks still makes me laugh out loud at least twice.
Revised Music.... when that sublime solo kicks in... my god (it's actually a guitar solo that Frank transcribed to be played by the rest of the band at a later date, true Xenochrony at work.
Lemme Take You To The Beach? Absolutely hilarious, frantic, heartfelt, touching even?
RDNZL- a tour de force, solos galore, uplifting, rounding off a neat wee package.
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