Masterpiece Ruined By Incompetent Engineer
Jeffrey W. Richman | Boynton Beach, Florida United States | 03/13/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD contains the most amazing performance of "The Black Page #2"!I seriously doubt anyone will ever top it. The arranger even improved the fast lick at 3.00 by having the chord change come in a measure early. I wish Zappa could hear that part.It is very unfortunate that the ending is ruined. After the band goes through all the trouble of playing every bit of the song correctly (including the the drum solo and The Black Page #1), the engineer couldn't let the last note ring out. The reverb gets cut off, with a "pop" no less! It's edited like a bootleg.....The song was so hard to play. It would have been so easy to fix the ending..."