Meat Light – The Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary

November 4th 2016

Tracks

Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
The Voice Of Cheese
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
Zolar Czackl
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
The Legend Of The Golden Arches
Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)
The Dog Breath Variations
Sleeping In A Jar
Our Bizarre Relationship
The Uncle Meat Variations
Electric Aunt Jemima
Prelude To King Kong
God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go)
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)
Mr. Green Genes
We Can Shoot You
“If We’d All Been Living In California...”
The Air
Project X
Cruising For Burgers
King Kong (as played by the Mothers in a studio)
King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)
King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)
King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)
King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)
King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival... the Underwood ramifications)
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
The Legend Of The Golden Arches
The Voice Of Cheese
Whiskey Wah
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
Louie Louie (Live at the Royal Albert Hall in London)
The Dog Breath Variations
Shoot You Percussion Item
The Whip
The Uncle Meat Variations
King Kong
Project X Minus .5
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Electric Aunt Jemima
Prelude To King Kong
God Bless America (Live at the Whiskey A Go Go)
Sleeping In A Jar
Cops & Buns
Zolar Czakl
We Can Not Shoot You
Mr. Green Genes
“PooYeahrg”
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
Our Bizarre Relationship
“Later We Can Shoot You”
“If We’d All Been Living In California…”
‘Ere Ian Whips It/JCB Spits It/Motorhead Rips It
The Air
Project X .5
Cruising For Burgers
“A Bunch Of Stuff”
Dog Breath (Single Version - Stereo)
Tango
The String Quartet*
Electric Aunt Jemima (Mix Outtake)
Exercise 4 Variant
Zolar Czackl (Mix Outtake)
“More Beer!”
Green Genes Snoop
Mr. Green Genes (Mix Outtake)
Echo Pie
1/4 Tone Unit
Sakuji’s March
No. 4*
Prelude To King Kong (Extended Version)*
Blood Unit*
My Guitar (Proto I- Excerpt)*
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution (Guitar track, normal speed)
Uncle Meat (Live at Columbia University 1969)
Dog Breath (Instrumental)*
The Dog Breath Variations (Mix Outtake)

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Official Release #107

Catalog Number: ZR 20024

Written & Produced by FRANK ZAPPA

Recording Engineers: Dick Kunc, Jerry Hansen

Studios: Apostolic Studios, NYC; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles

Original package designed by Cal Schenkel, NT&B

THE MOTHERS at the time of this recording were:

FRANK ZAPPA — guitar, low grade vocals, percussion

RAY COLLINS — swell vocals

JIMMY CARL BLACK — drums, droll humor, poverty

ROY ESTRADA — electric bass, cheeseburgers, Pachuco falsetto

DON (Dom De Wild) PRESTON — electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice

BILLY (The Oozer) MUNDI — drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS

BUNK (Sweatpants) GARDNER — piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or nonelectric depending)

IAN UNDERWOOD — electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal

ARTIE (With the Green Mustache) TRIPP — drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquires

EUCLID JAMES (Motorhead/Motorishi) SHERWOOD — pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he’s not hustling local groupies

Special Thanks to:

RUTH KOMANOFF who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks,

and

NELCY WALKER the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on Dog Breath & The Uncle Meat Variations.

The Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary

Compiled & Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers

Mastering:

Disc One - Chris Bellman, Bernie Grundman Mastering 2013

Disc Two & Three - John Polito, Audio Mechanics 2013

Cover and Interior Paintings by: Theo Holdt

Photography: Michael Ochs Archive; Additional Photos Courtesy of: The Vault

Package Design: Michael Mesker

Production Manager: Melanie Starks

Special Thanks: Ahmet & Diva, Holland Greco, Kurt Morgan

Vaultmeister Notes:

All material for this release was taken entirely from ¼” mono & stereo analog tapes except Disc Three, Track 24, taken from the original 12 track analog master (Mixed by Joe Travers, UMRK 2013). All transfers by Joe Travers at UMRK 2012-2013, 96K 24B .WAV (except Disc One- transferred 2005). The original analog tape edit master for Uncle Meat unfortunately suffers in sections from oxide loss due to tape age and bad storage conditions. A new hi-res digital patchwork edit master was created in 2013 with all damaged sections restored from safety tapes found in the vault for best sonics!

MEAT LIGHT is project/object #5 in the series of 4tieth Anniversary FZ Audio Documentaries

"The music on this album was recorded over a period of 5 months from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track through a procedure known as overdubbing. The weird middle section of DOG BREATH (after the line, “Ready to attack”) has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through a Maestro with a setting labeled Oboe D’Amore and sped up a minor third with a V.S.O. (variable speed oscillator)."