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As he was a musical pioneer who broke every rule in the book when it came to songwriting, recording, and performing, it’s truly fitting that a Frank Zappa album has finally been brought to DVD-Audio in 5.1 surround sound on the disc Halloween. Produced by Zappa’s son Dweezil, with assistance from Joe Travers and original concert recording engineer/mixer Joe Cicarelli, this DVD-Audio disc filled with live material is an incredible tribute to Zappa’s genius, bringing together the best performances from five live shows in New York City’s Palladium between October 27 and October 31, 1978. After the shows were over, Frank Zappa, using a razor blade to splice the tapes, assembled a pseudo concert with his favorite songs from each of the five shows. Dweezil and company decided to use this concept for Halloween, but took it several steps further. They created what sounds like a single concert from the five evenings’ worth of 24-track master tapes, sometimes using several nights’ performances on one song. On the track “Magic Fingers,” there are elements from three of the five nights’ performances that are used to make up the song, but I defy anyone without excellent ears or years of experience editing audio professionally to hear the digital splices. The spaces between some of the songs are a tad obvious, but the edits within the actual songs are stellar. Zappa often used a similar technique on his studio albums, where a song that began as a studio track would magically morph into a live version of the same song. This obviously doesn’t happen on this live album, but it was surely an inspiration for the production team and Frank would have most certainly approved.

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