long or short?

[Chris Warburton]

At 12:59 30/06/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/30/99 12:31:51 PM, farmer at ALLENCC.NET writes:
>
><<So what about it? What gets played more, long
>version or short version?
>>>
>===
>i'm surely not a 'cult aficionado; didnt even know there WAS a version of
>"reaper" minus the middle break. did that version get am radio airplay in
>1976? and why would such a thing still get aiplay? yuck!
>

There was definitely a "horribly foreshortened" (©FZ) version over here in
the UK on 7" 45 (it may even have charted!) that was heard on radio & many
a pub jukebox in the late 70s

>
>which is more than i could say about that stairway song...zappa did a neat
>version of it in '88, though

And I had the great pleasure of seeing it performed by the "best Band You
Never Heard In Your Life"

ChrisW