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TFEC says: THE WEASEL MUSIC side 1 - 1969 acetate 19.18
Here
it is: 1/24th of "The History and Collected Improvisations of the
MOI." THE
STORY OF THE ACQUISITION: A firsthand account from my source ... So
I get a call from the widow of the great artist, Neon Park. She says,
"I've been going through Marty's stuff (Neon's real name was Marty)
and I have a lot of records of his. I was talking to (mutual friend) Betzy
and she said you like records. Do you want them?" and, being the
vinyl hound I am, I said, "You bet! I'll take 'em all sight
unseen." She said, "Okay, I'll go pull the can back in from the
street." She had had them all in a trash can waiting for the
Sanitation Engineers to pick them up. Now
I know Neon worked for many years doing album art for Warner Brothers
(best known for Zappa's WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH and his string of covers
for LITTLE FEAT) and was on their mailing list for new releases. Upon
going through the LPs from the trash bin I found the usual assortment of
product, some good, some not to my liking. But
then... In
an envelope addressed to Mr. Frank Zappa at his Laurel Canyon address, I
found three studio acetate test recordings: a early ELO LP, a copy of
Jean-Luc Ponty's Zappa tribute LP, KING KONG, and a curious disc labeled
"The Weasel Music". Suspecting that this might indeed BE
SOMETHING, I cautiously played it once. It seemed to be a live recording
of the Mothers goofing around on stage doing what I guessed to be a
mock-ballet. While light pseudo-classical piano arpeggios play (Ian
Underwood?) you can hear the shuffling of feet and various antics while
the crowd respond with laughter and amusement. I would imagine that it was
mostly a visual presentation as opposed to an essential Zappa musical
composition. I
kept this relic in good condition, still in its original envelope and
cardboards. I lent it to my new friend and Zappaphile, Krel, when I moved
to Little Rock. He has played it only twice, recording it both times. So there you go. The recording has been seeded on the Zappateers site. August 2008, the album got sold on ebay for (at least) 2,125.00 US $.
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