Tink Walks Amok
The Frank Zappa album The Man from Utopia includes the track “Tink Walks Amok,” which is an athletic study in syncopation and polyrhythms. It’s a cool track.
I’ve owned the LP since its initial release in 1983 and heard it first on my elder brothers’ pretty good stereos and since then on my own, much better systems. I spin it now on a VPI Prime/Ortofon rig via a tubed phono stage.
I noticed the album up on Qobuz, so I took the easy way out and streamed it instead of finding and cleaning my LP. Soon I noticed something different: What on LP had always been (and still
