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Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention

Name: Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention – Uncle Meat (2LP)
Brand: Zappa Records
SKU: 0238391, ZR3839-1, 0238391, 00824302383919
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Uncle Meat (2LP)

LabelZappa Records, Barking Pumpkin Records, Universal Music Group InternationalGenrePsychedelia & Kraut

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2025 stock Frank Zappa’s “Uncle Meat” is one of the most extraordinary records released in the 1960s, its sonic signature is so distinctive and so ineluctably alien, and it’s really not even a rock album, in the conventional use of the word. Although “Uncle Meat” is easy enough to sit through, it takes multiple plays to even begin to come to terms with it, and to process its irreducible complexity. “Uncle Meat” was never going to trouble even the margins of the mainstream, and its experimentalism would mean that, for decades, it was difficult to assess its importance within any specific context, but musically, it would go on to define a whole genre that sprang up in the UK and Europe in the early ‘70s – that of art rock groups like Henry Cow, The Art Bears and Universe Zero, the “rock in opposition” movement of the late ‘70s. Zappa’s album is one amongst several in his artistic lifetime that can truly be named as a genre-unto-itself, and still sounds utterly unique.

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File under: Acid Rock Psychedelic Rock Avant-Garde

Cat. number: 0238391, ZR3839-1, 0238391, 00824302383919

Year: 2013

Format

This is Official Release #6.

Source: Original 1968 Analog Stereo Master Digital Transfer

For best sonics (the original edit master for Uncle Meat unfortunately in sections suffers from oxide loss due to tape age and bad storage conditions), a new hi-res digital patchwork edit master was created in 2013 with all damaged sections restored from safeties in The Vault - Joe Travers.

Contains 12-page 30x30cm full-color book with photo-montages, illustrations & text.

Recorded Oct 1967 through to Feb 1968.

Many overdubs. Clarinets fed through 'Maestro' device, set at 'Oboe D'Amour' with variable speed oscillator [V.S.O.]. Two Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers & three Melchor Compressors built into console at Apostolic Studio, N.Y.C.

Recorded on prototype Scully 12-track at 30 ips. Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound.

This soundtrack album originally released 1969.

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Release notes

This is Official Release #6. Source: Original 1968 Analog Stereo Master Digital Transfer For best sonics (the original edit master for Uncle Meat unfortunately in sections suffers from oxide loss due to tape age and bad storage conditions), a new hi-res digital patchwork edit master was created in 2013 with all damaged sections restored from safeties in The Vault - Joe Travers. Contains 12-page 30x30cm full-color book with photo-montages, illustrations & text. Recorded Oct 1967 through to…

Tracklist

A1	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme	1:56
A2	The Voice Of Cheese	0:26
A3	Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution	6:02
A4	Zolar Czakl	0:54
A5	Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague	3:59
A6	The Legend Of The Golden Arches	3:27
A7	Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London)	2:18
A8	The Dog Breath Variations	1:50
B1	Sleeping In A Jar	0:50
B2	Our Bizarre Relationship	1:05
B3	The Uncle Meat Variations	4:46
B4	Electric Aunt Jemima	1:46
B5	Prelude To King Kong	3:39
B6	God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go)	1:10
B7	A Pound For A Brown On The Bus	1:29
B8	Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)	5:09
C1	Mr. Green Genes	3:13
C2	We Can Shoot You	2:03
C3	"If We'd All Been Living In California..."	1:14
C4	The Air	2:57
C5	Project X	4:49
C6	Cruising For Burgers	2:18
D1	King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)	0:51
D2	King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)	1:19
D3	King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)	1:45
D4	King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)	6:14
D5	King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)	0:37
D6	King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival... The Underwood Ramifications)	7:24

Credits

Cal Schenkel: Design [Package Designed By]
Jimmy Carl Black: Drums
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi: Drums [Some Tracks]
Artie (With The Green Mustache) Tripp: Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small]
Roy Estrada: Electric Bass, Soprano Vocals [Pachuco Falsetto], Other [Cheeseburgers]
Ian Underwood: Electric Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta [Celeste], Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Copyist, Other [Special Assistance, Industrial Relations, Teen Appeal]
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston: Electric Piano, Other [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice]
Richard Kunc (Dynamite Dick): Engineer
Jerry Hansen: Engineer [Sunset Sound]
Frank Zappa: Guitar, Vocals [Low Grade], Percussion, Producer, Composed By, Arranged By
CB: Lacquer Cut By, Mastered By
Ruth Komanoff: Marimba, Vibraphone [Many Tracks, Special Thanks]
Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner: Piccolo Flute, Clarinet, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon
Nelcy Walker: Soprano Vocals, Harmony Vocals (A5, B3)
Lou Lindauer: Technician
Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood: Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine
Joe Travers: Transferred By [Analog Master Tape To Digital, Restoration]
Ray Collins: Vocals
Pamela Zarubica: Voice [Uncredited, Voice Of Cheese, Suzy Creamcheese]