zappa / mothers

meat light

released november 2016
compiled and produced by gail zappa & joe travers

    frank zappa: guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
    ray collins: swell vocals
    jimmy carl black: drums, droll humor, poverty
    roy estrada: electric bass, cheeseburgers, pachuto falsetto
    don (dom dewilde) preston: electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
    billy (the oozer) mundi: drums
    bunk (sweetpants) gardner: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon
    ian underwood: electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance,...
    artie (with the green moustache) tripp: drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes,...
    euclid james 'motorhead / motorishi' sherwood: pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment ...
special thanks to:
    ruth komanoff who plays marimba and vibes with artie on many of the tracks
    nelcy walker the soprano voice with ray & roy on 'dog breath' & 'the uncle meat variations'

all compositions by frank zappa except where noted

artwork (cover and interior paintings by theo holdt)

produced by frank zappa

engineer: richard "dick dynamite" kunc
overdubs engineered by jerry hansen

disc one - original 1969 vinyl mix

1. uncle meat - main title theme
2. the voice of cheese
3. nine types of industrial pollution
4. zolar czakl
5. dog breath, in the year of the plague
6. the legend of the golden arches
7. louie louie (at the royal albert hall in london) (berry)
8. the dog breath variations
9. sleeping in a jar
10. our bizarre relationship
11. the uncle meat variations
12. electric aunt jemima
13. prelude to king kong
14. god bless america (live at the whisky a go go) (berlin)
15. a pound for a brown on the bus
16. ian underwood whips it out (live on stage in copenhagen)
17. mr. green genes
18. we can shoot you
19. "if we'd all been living in california..."
20. the air
21. project x
22. cruising for burgers
23. king kong itself (as played by the mothers in a studio)
24. king kong (it's magnificence as interpreted by dom dewild)
25. king kong (as motorhead explains it)
26. king kong (the gardner varieties
27. king kong (as played by 3 deranged good humor trucks)
28. king kong (live on a flat bed diesel inthe middle on a race track at a miami pop festival - the underwood ramifications)

disc two - original sequence, produced and constructed by frank zappa and dick kunc

  part one

1. dog breath, in the year of the plague
2. the legend of the golden arches
3. the voice of cheese
4. whiskey wah
5. nine types of industrial pollution
6. louie louie (live at the royal albert hall in london) (berry)
7. the dog breath variations
8. shoot you pecussion item

  part two

9. the whip
10. the uncle meat variations
11. king kong

  part three

12. project x minus .5
13. a pound for a brown on the bus
14. electric aunt jemima
15. prelude to king kong
16. god bless america (live at the whiskey a go go)
17. sleeping in a jar
18. cops & buns
19. zolar czakl

disc three - original sequence (continued)

  part four

1. we can not shoot you
2. mr. green genes
3. "pooyeahrg"
4. uncle meat: main title theme
5. our bizarre relationship
6. "later we can shoot you"
7. "if we'd all been living in california..."
8. "ere ian whips it / jcb spits it / motorhead rips it"
9. the air
10. project x .5
11. cruising for burgers

  from the vault

12. "a bunch of stuff"
13. dog breath (single version - stereo)
14. tango
15. the string quartet
16. electric aunt jemima (mix outtake)
17. exercise 4 variant
18. zolar czackl (mix outtake)
19. "more beer!"
20. green genes snoop
21. mr. green genes (mix outtake)
22. echo pie
23. 1/4 tone unit
24. sakuji's march
25. no.4
26. prelude to king kong (extended version)
27. blood unite
28. my guitar (proto I - excerpt)
29. nine types of industrial pollution (guitar track, normal speed)
30. uncle meat (live at columbia university 1969)
31. dog breath (instrumental)
32. the dog breath variations (mix outtake)