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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.

To find out more about Joe Travers and his work, please visit
youtube.com/@UCqH0Xycsrbvc7dH9rpATuuA

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