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Digging Deep with Vaultmeister Joe Travers

We present an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation with Joe Travers, drummer and percussionist who is best known as the Vaultmeister, the man overseeing and curating Frank Zappa’s extensive archive of …recordings.

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01:00:41:01 Joe Travers Early Years
01:03:23:04 Frank Zappa’s Music
01:05:37:15 High school
01:08:05:26 Studying at Berkelee School of Music
01:09:23:28 Coming to L.A. and joining Z
01:12:24:10 Vaultmeister
01:18:53:25 How projects are initiated
01:22:13:10 Definitive versions
01:30:33:12 Hunchentoot!
01:32:01:26 Giant jigsaw puzzles
01:36:13:10 Other challenges: archival media formats
01:38:48:25 Looking ahead
01:40:48:16 Varese: The Rage and the Fury
01:43:47:22 Question about San Diego 1973
01:45:35:27 Atmos and multi-channel mixes
01:47:33:02 Soft-Sell Conclusion

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Photos courtesy of Joe Travers

Addition photo credits:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgard_Varese.gif
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berkelee_College_of_Music.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZMusicForPets.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_recording_of_the_music_of_Edgard_Varese.jpg
https://www.afka.net/images/Books-pic/hunchentoot.jpg

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