Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar, percussion); Roy Estrada (vocals, bass); Jimmy Carl Black (vocals, drums); Ray Collins, Nelcy Walker (vocals); Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (tenor saxophone, tambourine); Bunk Gardner (piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, bassoon); Don Preston (piano); Ian Underwood (clarinet, flute, alto & baritone saxophones, piano, organ, harpsichord, celeste); Artie Tripp (vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, drums, tympani, wood blocks, bells, chimes); Ruth Komanoff (marimba).
Recorded from October 1967 to February 1968. Includes liner notes by Frank Zappa.UNCLE MEAT was digitally remixed in 1987 with approximately 40 minutes of previously unreleased material from the original sessions.Over the two-record set, Zappa manages to cover the entire spread of his interests. Masquerading as a movie in progress, it is a way of highlighting the struggle of trying to keep the band together against a pretty hostile, or worse, apathetic audience. The frustration of putting something out that is artistically brilliant has a particular significance, as music and film go hand in hand. The film dialogue is either hilarious or it will leave you cold. The former is the general consensus. Zappa was so far ahead that his earth life ended before we caught up with him.
Tracklisting:
Disc I:
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
The Voice of Cheese
Nine Types of Industrial Pollution (a.k.a. 400 Days of the Year)
Zolar Czakl
Dog Breath, In the Year of the Plague
The Legend of the Golden Arches
Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)
The Dog Breath Variations
Sleeping in a Jar
Our Bizarre Relationship
The Uncle Meat Variations
Electric Aunt Jemima
Prelude to King Kong
God Bless America (Live at the Whiskey A Go Go)
A Pound For A Brown on the Bus
Ian Underwood Whips it Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)
Mr. Green Genes
We Can Shoot You
"If We'd All Been Living in California..."
The Air
Project X
Cruising For Burgers
Disc II:
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II
King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a Studio)
King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)
King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it)
King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties)
King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)
King Kong VI (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival...the Underwood ramifications)
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