FRANK ZAPPA/MOTHERS OF INVENTION Uncle Meat 1969 UK TRANSATLANTIC
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Apr 9, 2012 Sold Date
Mar 30, 2012 Start Date
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FRANK ZAPPA/MOTHERS OF INVENTION Uncle Meat 1969 UK TRANSATLANTIC

HARD TO FIND UK ORIGINAL - GREAT COPY - NR MINT SOUND

THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Uncle Meat

UK TRANSATLANTIC (TRA 197) FIRST PRESSING (September 1969) OF THE MOTHERS' DOUBLE LP SET "Uncle Meat"
HARD TO FIND IN THIS SHORT-LIVED UK TRANSATLANTIC FORMAT
MOST COPIES AVAILABLE IN THE UK WERE US IMPORTS AND THE UK EDITION WAS QUICKLY DELETED
SUPERB CONDITION (BOTH RECORDS AND THE SLEEVE) - SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL THROUGHOUT

PRESSED ON TWO HEAVYWEIGHT RECORDS WITH ROUGHLY TEXTURED TRANSATLANTIC LABELS
MATRIX NUMBERS: STRA 197 A1 / STRA 197 B1 / STRA 197 C1 / STRA 197 D1
(Track 3 / Side 1 is listed as "400 DAYS OF THE YEAR" on the label but as "NINE TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION" on the cover)
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1"

NOTE: This original UK pressing did NOT come with a booklet but booklets were sold instead of programmes at Mothers' concerts

Just three years into their recording career, the Mothers of Invention released their second double album, Uncle Meat, which began life as the largely instrumental soundtrack to an unfinished film.
It's essentially a transitional work, but it's a fascinating one, showcasing Frank Zappa's ever-increasing compositional dexterity and the Mothers' emerging instrumental prowess.
It was potentially easy to overlook Zappa's melodic gifts on albums past, but on Uncle Meat, he thrusts them firmly into the spotlight; what few lyrics there are, Zappa says, are in-jokes relevant only to the band.
Thus, Uncle Meat became the point at which Zappa began to establish himself as a composer and he would return to many of these pieces repeatedly over the course of his career.
Taken as a whole, Uncle Meat comes off as a hodgepodge, with centrepieces scattered between variations on previous pieces, short concert excerpts, less-realised experiments, doo-wop tunes, and comedy bits; the programming often feels as random as the abrupt transitions and tape experiments held over from Zappa's last few projects.
But despite the absence of a conceptual framework, the unfocused sprawl of Uncle Meat is actually a big part of its appeal.
It's exciting to hear one of the most creatively fertile minds in rock pushing restlessly into new territory, even if he isn't always quite sure where he's going.
However, several tracks hint at the jazz-rock fusion soon to come, especially the extended album closer "King Kong"; it's his first unequivocal success in that area, with its odd time signature helping turn it into a rhythmically kinetic blowing vehicle.
Though some might miss the gleeful satire of Zappa's previous work with the Mothers, Uncle Meat's continued abundance of musical ideas places it among his most intriguing works.

Track Listing: (the play is more or less continuous)
Side 1: Uncle Meat - The Voice of Cheese - Nine Types of Industrial Pollution - Zolar Czakl - Dog Breath in The Year of the Plague - The Legend of the Golden Arches - Louie Louie - The Dog Breath Variations
Side 2: Sleeping in a Jar - Our Bizarre Relationship - The Uncle Meat Variations - Electric Aunt Jemima - Prelude to King Kong - God Bless America - A Pound for a Brown on the Bus - Ian Underwood Whips it Out
Side 3: Mr Green Genes - We Can Shoot You - If We’d All Been Living in California - The Air - Project X - Cruising for Burgers
Side 4: King Kong Itself - King Kong - King Kong - King Kong - King Kong - King Kong

LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, bright, fresh and unmarked labels with only light spindles (which show readily on these rough textured labels)
VINYL Visual: EX+/EX++/EX++/EX++
The edge of Side One which has some misty marking but this is purely cosmetic and has no audio consequence otherwise, all four sides are practically unmarked with only light wispy light hairlines visible under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Superb sound - crisp, sharp, fresh and finely detailed (and there's an awful lot going on here). My play-check at loud volume detected no major audio issues of note - just the occasional, random soft click (impossibly minor and barely worth a mention). There are no scratches, no surface noise or any other audible distractions of any kind and the whole set plays beautifully throughout - stunning copy - the finest I have seen for a long while - practically flawless playback - and these UK Transatlantic presses are extremely hard to find
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Clean, sharp and unmarked with some storage rubbing to the bottom edge being the only wear issue of note and the spine is straight and true with all text clear and bold - a very fine example

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