Finer Moments

Overview

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
• Don Preston – keyboards, mini moog
• Ian Underwood – clarinet, keyboards, piano, alto sax, woodwind
• Bunk Gardner – tenor sax, woodwind
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone sax
• Buzz Gardner – trumpet
• Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums
• Art Tripp – drums, percussion
• Lowell George – guitar
• Dave Samuels – guest artist, vibraphone

• Frank Zappa – guitar
• Ian Underwood – alto sax
• Bob Harris – keyboards
• Jim Pons – bass
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums
• Howard Kaylan – cowbell, tambourine
• Mark Volman – cowbell, tambourine

• Frank Zappa – guitar
• Don Preston – keyboards, mini moog
• Ian Underwood – keyboards
• Jim Pons – bass
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums

• Ed Caraeff – photography
• Jerry Hansen – engineer
• Dick Kunc – engineer
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Kerry McNabb – engineer
• Michael Mesker – layout, photography
• Bill Miller – cover art, liner notes
• Melanie Starks – production manager
• Joe Travers – transfers
• John Williams – photography

Overlaps with other albums

• * "Enigmas 1 Thru 5" contains parts from "Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich" in a sped-up versionThe Ark from Beat the Boots
• * "Uncle Rhebus" contains a shorter edit of "Uncle Meat/King Kong" You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
• * "There Is No Heaven From Where Slogans Go To Die" is a slightly longer version of "You Call That Music?" You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
• * "Mozart Piano Sonata In B♭" is a different edit
• * "Uncle Rhebus" contains "Baked Bean Boogie" and "Piano/drum duet"
• * The final segment of "Squeeze It, Squeeze It, Squeeze It" is also heard in "Right There" The Lost Episodes
• * "The Big Squeeze" is the same versionMystery Disc
• * "You Never Know Who Your Friends Are" is a longer version of "Harmonica Fun"
• * "Squeeze It, Squeeze It, Squeeze It" is a different edit of "Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit"Carnegie Hall
• * "The Subcutaneous Peril" is edited from "Pound For A Brown" and "King Kong"