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Meat Light

a Compilation/Boxed-Set release
by Frank Zappa

Release Year: 2016

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Release Information

Uncle Meat gets the deluxe treatment in this three CD Project/Object Audio Documentary. Included is the original 1969 vinyl mix (restored, remastered and available digitally for the first time), an original sequence that includes unique source material and bonus vault tracks mostly compiled from the recording sessions at Apostolic Studios in NYC between 1967 and 1968. 

Added To Proggnosis Database on: 11/24/2016 12:00:00 AM
Entry Last Updated on: 4/4/2017 1:42:00 PM by: DBSilver

Track List

Disc: 1

  1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
  2. The Voice Of Cheese
  3. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
  4. Zolar Czackl
  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)
  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)
  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 (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 in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival...the Underwood ramifications)

Disc: 2

  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)
  7. The Dog Breath Variations
  8. Shoot You Percussion Item
  9. The Whip
  10. The Uncle Meat Variations
  11. King Kong
  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: 3

  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
  12. A Bunch Of Stuff
  13. Dog Breath (Single Version - Stereo)
  14. Tango
  15. The String Quarte
  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 Unit
  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)

Performer Credits

Don Preston
Bass, Keyboards, Electric Piano

Jimmy Carl Black
Percussion, Drums

Ray Collins
Guitar, Vocals

Aynsley Dunbar
Guitar

Roy Estrada
Bass, Vocals

Frank Zappa
Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals

Bunk Gardner
Clarinet, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Piccolo, Alto/Tenor/Soprano Sax, Wind

Ruth Komanofff
Percussion

Billy Mundi
Drums, Vocals

Jim Sherwood
Guitar, Vocals, Wind

Art Tripp
Percussion, Chimes, Drums, Marimba, Xylophone, Bells, Tympani, Vibraphone, Wood Block

Ian Underwood
Organ, Clarinet, Flute, Guitar, Piano, Celeste, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Alto/Baritone Sax, Wind, Electric Organ

Ruth Underwood
Percussion, Keyboards

Nelly Walker
Vocals

Euclid James Sherwood
Tenor Sax, Tambourine

Walker, Nelcy
Soprano (Vocal)

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