In Collection
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
| Uncle Meat (Disc 1 of 2) (March 1969) | 57:11 | |||||||
| 01 | Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:55 | |||||
| 02 | The Voice of Cheese | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 00:26 | |||||
| 03 | Nine Types of Industrial Pollution | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 06:00 | |||||
| 04 | Zolar Czakl | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 00:54 | |||||
| 05 | Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 03:59 | |||||
| 06 | The Legend of the Golden Arches | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 03:27 | |||||
| 07 | Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) | Written and composed by: Richard Berry | 02:19 | |||||
| 08 | The Dog Breath Variations | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:48 | |||||
| 09 | Sleeping in a Jar | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 00:50 | |||||
| 10 | Our Bizarre Relationship | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:05 | |||||
| 11 | The Uncle Meat Variations | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 04:46 | |||||
| 12 | Electric Aunt Jemima | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:46 | |||||
| 13 | Prelude to King Kong | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 03:38 | |||||
| 14 | God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go) | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:10 | |||||
| 15 | A Pound for a Brown on the Bus | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:29 | |||||
| 16 | Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen) | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 05:05 | |||||
| 17 | Mr. Green Genes | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 03:14 | |||||
| 18 | We Can Shoot You | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 02:03 | |||||
| 19 | If We'd All Been Living in California... | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 01:14 | |||||
| 20 | The Air | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 02:57 | |||||
| 21 | Project X | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 04:49 | |||||
| 22 | Cruising for Burgers | Written and composed by: Frank Zappa | 02:17 | |||||
| Uncle Meat (Disc 2 of 2) (March 1969) | 63:19 | |||||||
| 01 | Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I | 37:34 | ||||||
| 02 | Tengo Na Minchia Tanta | 03:46 | ||||||
| 03 | Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II | 03:51 | ||||||
| 04 | King Kong I | 00:49 | ||||||
| 05 | King Kong II | 01:21 | ||||||
| 06 | King Kong III | 01:44 | ||||||
| 07 | King Kong IV | 06:17 | ||||||
| 08 | King Kong V | 00:34 | ||||||
| 09 | King Kong VI | 07:23 | ||||||
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Notes
RykoCatalog Number: RCD 10064
Produced by: Frank Zappa
Engineered by: Richard Kunc
Other Artists: Frank Zappa: guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
Ray Collins: swell vocals
Jimmy Carl Black: drums, droll humor, poverty
Roy Estrada: electric bass, cheeseburgers, Pachuco falsetto
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston: electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi: drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS
Bunk (Sweetpants) Grdner: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or non-electric depending)
Ian Underwood: electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal
Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp: drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquiries
Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood: pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies special thanks to:
Ruth Komanoff who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and
Nelcy Walker the soprano voice with ray & Roy on Dog Breath & The Uncle Meat Variations.
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"MOST OF THE MUSIC FROM THE MOTHER'S MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME WHICH WE HAVEN'T GOT ENOUGFH MONEY TO FINISH YET"
-FRANK ZAPPA, 1969
The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except the members of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material. They are all VERY SERIOUS & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities. (Basically this is an instrumental album.)
The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track through a procedure known as over-dubbing. The weird middle section of DOG BREATH (after the line, "Ready to attack") has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by Maestro with a setting labeled Oboe D'Amore and sped up a minor third with a V.S.O. (variable speed oscillator). Other peculiar sounds were made on a Kalamazoo electric organ. The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers, and three Melchor Compressors built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr. Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship. The material was recorded on a prototype Scully 12 track machine at 30 ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc or Dynamite Dick, as he is known to the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend Mike in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us.
Digitally Remixed 1987.