The Mothers - Uncle Meat (LP,Album) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)

Rock Musique Concrète, Post-Modern, Avantgarde, Fusion, Doo Wop, Jazz-Rock, Experimental, Parody LP,Album

Record is in great shape with minimal wear and plays beautifully
 

Notes:

Auto-coupled US first issue: Over-sticker on cover, with "The Mothers Of Invention" band name & "Two LPs And A Nifty 12-Page Book" text. Full-color paper-pasted gatefold (no internal glue tabs), with only "Bizarre" on spine. Warner '7Arts/Reprise' roundel logo on cover & 2024 cat#.
"Printed in U.S.A." on back cover.
"Made in U.S.A." inside cover.

Contains 12-page 30x30cm full-color book with photo-montages, illustrations & text.

2 auto-coupled vinyls (I/IV & II/III) cat# 2MS 2024 on blue/green Bizarre labels. Disc I, A3 is "400 Days Of The Year" (the later credit, "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution" on sleeve inner spread). No visible track separation (no banding). Vinyl discs are stored in dark brown Bizarre (Zappa/Cohen imaged) liners with white text.

Distributed by; "Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc." on labels. 
"Reprise Records, A Division of Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc., 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California; 321 W. 44th Street, New York, New York." on r/h inner gatefold spread.


Recorded Oct 1967 through to Feb 1968.
Many overdubs. Clarinets fed through 'Maestro' device, set at 'Oboe D'Amour' with variable speed oscillator [V.S.O.. Two Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers & three Melchor Compressors built into console at Apostolic Studio, N.Y.C.
Recorded on prototype Scully 12-track at 30 ips. Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound.

Other variations on track credits: Sleeve reads;
A7 - "Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London"
D6 - "King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications).

[The 2-disc tracklisting here gives what is printed on the labels. Later issues/CDs had title corrections

"All lyrics & music copyrighted for the world by Frank Zappa Music, a Division of Third Story Music - BMI"

A1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme 1:54
A2. The Voice Of Cheese 0:27
A3. 400 Days Of The Year 5:56
A4. Zolar Czakl 0:57
A5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague 5:51
A6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches 1:24
A7. The Mothers Play Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London) 2:28
A8. The Dog Breath Variations 1:36
B1. Sleeping In A Jar 0:49
B2. Our Bizarre Relationship 1:05
B3. The Uncle Meat Variations 4:40
B4. Electric Aunt Jemima 1:53
B5. Prelude To King Kong 3:24
B6. God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go) 1:22
B7. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus 1:29
B8. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen) 5:08
C1. Mr. Green Genes 3:10
C2. We Can Shoot You 1:48
C3. "If We'd All Been Living In California . . . " 1:29
C4. The Air 2:57
C5. Project X 4:47
C6. Cruising For Burgers 2:19
D1. King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio) 0:53
D2. King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild) 1:15
D3. King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It) 1:44
D4. King Kong (The Gardner Varieties) 6:17
D5. King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks) 0:29
D6. King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Zappa Ramifications) 7:22

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout 30,871
Matrix / Runout 30,872
Matrix / Runout 30,873
Matrix / Runout 30,874
Matrix / Runout S 1 30871 MS 2024 A - 1B    A4
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30874 MS 2024 D - 1B    A3
Matrix / Runout S 1 30872 MS 2024 B - 1B    A1
Matrix / Runout S 1 30873 MS 2024 C - 1B    A2
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30871 MS 2024A-1B A2
Matrix / Runout S 1 30874 MS 2024D-1B Aµ
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30872 MS 2024B-1B A6
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30873 MS 2024C-1E DJ A3
Matrix / Runout S 1 30871 MS 2024A-1B 0 A2
Matrix / Runout S 1 30874 MS 2024D-1B 0 A11
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30872 MS 2024B-1B 0 A3
Matrix / Runout ᔓ 1 30873 MS 2024C-1B 0 A4
Matrix / Runout Ƨ 1 30871 MS 2024A-1B o A6
Matrix / Runout S 1 30873MS2024-C-1B o A4
Matrix / Runout S 1 30872 MS 2024B-1B o A7
Matrix / Runout Ƨ 1 30874 MS 2024D-1B o A6
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Rights Society BMI

Copyright (c) Frank Zappa Music
Distributed By Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
Pressed By Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Mastered At Customatrix

US