While I straighten out the FB, you might want to have a listen to this interview with Rick Smith who was Frank Zappa’s personal engineer for 5 years in the mid 70s at Record Plant (and who is now quite an accomplished blues guitarist). “Läther was about 8% live”, he says.
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Wasn’t that 80%?
Or, if we’re both wrong, 18%
It’s 80%.
He says “ALL of Lather”, then corrects himself to 80%. I don’t think he’s accurate, but that’s what he meant.
Wel, maybe 60% would be correct, since these are (mostly) studio cuts: Re-Gyptian Strut,
A Little Green Rosetta,
Down In De Dew,
For The Young Sophisticate,
Lemme Take You To The Beach,
RDNZL,
Flambé,
Spider Of Destiny,
Filthy Habits,
The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution,
The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary,
Re-Gyptian Strut (1993),
Time Is Money,