Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat [Vinyl 2LP]

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2013-12-13
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Editor's info:
Uncle Meat is the sixth album by the Mothers of Invention, and seventh overall by Frank Zappa, released as a double album in 1969. Uncle Meat was originally developed as a part of No Commercial Potential, a project which spawned three other albums sharing a conceptual connection: We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.
The album also served as a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, which was released direct-to-video in 1987.
The music is diverse in style, drawing from orchestral, jazz, blues and rock music. The Uncle Meat album was a commercial success upon release, and has been highly acclaimed for its innovative recording and editing techniques, including experiments in manipulation of tape speed and overdubbing, and its diverse sound.

Frank Zappa, who had been interested in film since high school, decided to develop a film vehicle for the Mothers of Invention, titled Uncle Meat. The film would combine elements of science fiction and road stories inspired by the band's sexual escapades.
Subsequently, Zappa began working on a project called No Commercial Potential, which eventually became the albums We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and Uncle Meat. Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related.
According to artist Cal Schenkel, who worked extensively with Zappa, "I started working on the story of Ruben and the Jets that is connected with the Uncle Meat story, which is this old guy turns this teenage band into these dog snout people … We started that before it actually became Ruben and the Jets. That came out of my love for comics and that style, the anthropomorphic animals, but also it was part of a running story line."

muzycy:
The Mothers – at the time of this recording were:
Frank Zappa – guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
Ray Collins – swell vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – drums, droll humor, poverty
Roy Estrada – electric bass, cheeseburgers, Pachuco falsetto
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston – electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi – drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS
Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner – piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or non-electric depending)
Ian Underwood – electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, 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

Special thanks to:
Ruth Komanoff – who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and
Nelcy Walker – the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on "Dog Breath" & "The Uncle Meat Variations".
Uncredited:
Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese
Buzz Gardner – trumpet and flugel horn (name appears on back cover along with Lowell George).
Only on the CD version:
Phyllis Altenhaus, Rodney Bingenheimer, Aynsley Dunbar, Francesca Fisher, Lucy Offerall, Meredith Monk, Janet Neville-Ferguson, Linda Ronstadt, Stumuk, Haskell Wexler, Carl Zappa, guys from Alabama - dialogue on the film excerpts
Massimo Bassoli - vocals on "Tengo na minchia tanta"
Tommy Mars - keyboards on "Tengo na minchia tanta"
Scott Thunes - bass on "Tengo na minchia tanta"
Chad Wackerman - drums on "Tengo na minchia tanta"

utwory:
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

total time - 120:25
wydano: 2013-12-13 (1969)
nagrano: Recorded October 1967 – July 14, 1982

more info2: www.zappa.com