FRANK ZAPPA/MOTHERS OF INVENTION Uncle Meat 1969 UK TRANSATLANTIC
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Oct 21, 2013
Sold Date
Oct 11, 2013
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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 INVENTIONUncle 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 (within 6 months)
PRESSED ON TWO MID/HEAVYWEIGHT RECORDS (154g/138g) WITH THE "MADE IN ENGLAND" WHITE/PURPLE 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)
THE RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1"
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL DIE-CUT PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVES
NOTE: This UK Transatlantic version did not have the booklet, but I understand that copies of a version of the US Uncle Meat booklet were sold instead of programmes at Mothers concerts of the time
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: NEAR MINT
A clean, unmarked set of labels which display from none to just a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
All four surfaces are clean and apart from some wispy hairlines and a mark on the run-in to Side D (all of no audio consequence) the set looks barely played
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Superb sound quality - 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) otherwise, no scratches, no surface noise or any other audible distractions of any kind - the whole set plays beautifully throughout - practically flawless and these UK Transatlantic presses are extremely hard to find
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD++
Fine example - clean and unmarked with just some rub to the edges and spine being the only issue of note
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: Free (Recorded Delivery) or £9.00 (1pm Next Day Guaranteed Royal Mail Special Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £13.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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525 (GS 6.6.5 (525))
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