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THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

UNCLE MEAT

Uncle Meat" is the fifth studio album by the Mothers of Invention

Released as a double album in 1969

MUSICIANS

Frank Zappa – guitar, low grade vocals, percussion

Ray Collins – left the group in May 1968 swell vocals

Jimmy Carl Black – drums, droll humor, poverty

Roy Estrada – electric bass, cheeseburgers

Don (Dom De Wild) Preston – electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice

Billy (The Oozer) Mundi – drums on some pieces

before he quit in December 1967 to join Rhinoceros

Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner – piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet,

soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon

(all of these electric and/or no-electric depending)

Ian Underwood – electric organ, piano, harpsichord,

celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax,

special assistant, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal

Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp – drums, timpani, vibes,

marimba, xylophone, wood blocks,

bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific inquiries

Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood – pop star,

frenetic tenor sax stylings,

tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper

when he's not hustling local groupies

Ruth Komanoff – who plays marimba and vibes

with Artie on many of the tracks

Nelcy Walker – the soprano voice with Ray & Roy

on "Dog Breath" & "The Uncle Meat Variations."

Uncredited:

Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese

TRACK TITLES

"Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" - 1:54

"The Voice of Cheese" - 0:27

"Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" - 5:56

"Zolar Czakl" - 0:57

"Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" - 5:51

"The Legend of the Golden Arches" - 1:24

"Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" - 2:28

"The Dog Breath Variations" - 1:36

"Sleeping in a Jar" -  0:49

"Our Bizarre Relationship" - 1:05

"The Uncle Meat Variations" - 4:40

"Electric Aunt Jemima" - 1:53

"Prelude to King Kong" - 3:24

"God Bless America (Live at the Whisky a Go Go)" -  1:22

"A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" -  1:29

"Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)" - 5:08

"Mr. Green Genes" - 3:10

"We Can Shoot You" - 1:48

"If We'd All Been Living in California..." - 1:29

"The Air" - 2:57

"Project X" - 4:47

"Cruising for Burgers" - 2:19

"King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" -  0:53

"King Kong (it's magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" - 1:15

"King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)" - 1:44

"King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)" -  6:17

"King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" - 0:29

"King Kong - 7:22

live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track

at a Miami Pop Festival...the Underwood ramifications"

ZAPPA RECORDS 3839

High Quality 180 Gram Vinyl Reissue

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