We’re Only In It For The Money

March 4th 1968

Tracks

Are You Hung Up?
Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Concentration Moon
Mom & Dad
Telephone Conversation
Bow Tie Daddy
Harry, You're A Beast
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
Absolutely Free
Flower Punk
Hot Poop
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
The Idiot Bastard Son
Lonely Little Girl
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise)
Mother People
The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

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Official Release #4

Catalog Number: ZR 3837

Produced by: FZ

Executive Producer: Tom Wilson

The Mothers Today (as of 1967):

FZ: Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Weirdness & Editing

Billy Mundi: Drums, Vocal, Yak & Black Lace Underwear

Bunk Gardner: All Woodwinds, Mumbled Weirdness

Roy Estrada: Electric Bass, Vocals, Asthma

Don Preston: Retired

Jimmy Carl Black: Indian of the Group, Drums, Trumpet, Vocals

Ian Underwood: Piano, Woodwinds, Wholesome

Euclid James “Motorhead” Sherwood: Visible on back cover, road manager, soprano & baritone saxophone, all purpose weirdness & TEEN APPEAL

Suzy Creamcheese: Telephone

Dick Barber: SNORKS

also:

Gary Kellgren engineer for two months of basic sessions at MAYFAIR STUDIOS is the one doing all the creepy whispering

Dick Kunc record and remix engineer for the final month of recording at APOSTOLIC STUDIOS is the one responsible for the cheerful Interruptions

Eric Clapton (noted philosopher and guitarist with THE CREAM) has graciously consented to speak to you in several critical area

Spider (from a group that hasn't destroyed your minds yet) is the one who wants you to turn your radio around

Note: All the music heard on this album was compsed, arranged & scientifically mutilated by Frank Zappa (with the exception of a little bit of surf music). None of the sounds are generated electronically - they are all the product of electronically altering the sounds of NORMAL instruments.

The orchestral segments were conducted by Sid Sharp under the supervision of the composer.

THIS WHOLE MONSTROSITY WAS CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED AS A RESULT OF SOME UNPLEASANT PREMONITIONS*, AUGUST THROUGH OCTOBER 1967.

*All premonitions continuing to come true.

"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."