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Digitally Remixed 1987. Original first US CD edition, comes in a fat double jewelcase with an 8 page booklet with lyrics, a 12 page booklet with notes, pictures and score, and a small 4 page Ryko FZ on CD catalog. Composed By – Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 1-8 to 2-9), Richard Berry (tracks: 1-7) Drums [On Some Pieces Before He Quit To Join Rhinoceros] – Billy (The Oozer) Mundi Drums, Performer [Droll Humor, Poverty] – Jimmy Carl Black Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone [Vibes], Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small], Performer [Cheerful Outlook & Specific Enquiries] – Artie (With The Green Mustache) Tripp Electric Bass, Performer [Cheeseburgers, Pachuco Falsetto] – Roy Estrada Electric Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Performer [Special Assistance], Performer [Copyist, Industrial Relations & Teen Appeal] – Ian Underwood Electric Piano, Performer [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice] – Don (Dom De Wild) Preston Engineer – Richard Kunc, Jerry Hansen Guitar, Vocals [Low Grade], Percussion – Frank Zappa Marimba, Vibraphone – Ruth Komanoff Performer [Pop Star], Tenor Saxophone [Frenetic Stylings], Tambourine, Choreography, Performer [Obstinance & Equipment Setter-upper When He's Not Hustling Local Groupies] – Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood Piccolo Flute, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon [All Of These Electric And / Or Non-electric Depending] – Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner Producer – Frank Zappa Vocals [Swell] – Ray Collins Voice – Pamela Zarubica (tracks: 1-2, 1-10) Voice [Soprano] – Nelcy Walker (tracks: 1-5, 1-11) Copyright © – Barking Pumpkin Records Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Barking Pumpkin Records Manufactured By – Rykodisc Distributed By – Rykodisc "MOST OF THE MUSIC FROM THE MOTHER'S MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME WHICH WE HAVEN'T GOT ENOUGFH MONEY TO FINISH YET" -FRANK ZAPPA, 1969 The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except the members of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material.  They are all VERY SERIOUS & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities.  (Basically this is an instrumental album.) The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 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 over-dubbing.  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 an electric device made by Maestro with a setting labeled Oboe D'Amore and sped up a minor third with a V.S.O. (variable speed oscillator).  Other peculiar sounds were made on a Kalamazoo electric organ.  The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers, and three Melchor Compressors built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York.  The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr. Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship.  The material was recorded on a prototype Scully 12 track machine at 30 ips.  The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc or Dynamite Dick, as he is known to the trade.  Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend Mike in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed Folder: Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (disc 1)_dr.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR          Peak          RMS              Filename                       ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR14   -0.73 dB   -17.75 dB  01 - Uncle Meat- Main Title Theme.flac DR17   -1.01 dB   -22.09 dB  02 - The Voice Of Cheese.flac DR14   -0.03 dB   -16.68 dB  03 - Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution.flac DR14   -0.00 dB   -18.15 dB  04 - Zolar Czakl.flac         DR13   -0.77 dB   -16.49 dB  05 - Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague.flac DR11   -3.16 dB   -17.19 dB  06 - The Legend Of The Golden Arches.flac DR11   -3.60 dB   -18.64 dB  07 - Louie Louie.flac         DR11   -3.86 dB   -17.30 dB  08 - The Dog Breath Variations.flac DR13   -0.00 dB   -15.59 dB  09 - Sleeping In A Jar.flac   DR14   -1.64 dB   -24.67 dB  10 - Our Bizarre Relationship.flac DR15  +0.00 dB   -17.61 dB  11 - The Uncle Meat Variations.flac DR13   -0.40 dB   -16.03 dB  12 - Electric Aunt Jemima.flac DR11   -2.21 dB   -16.37 dB  13 - Prelude To King Kong.flac DR16   -1.20 dB   -21.29 dB  14 - God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go).flac DR11   -3.11 dB   -17.30 dB  15 - A Pound For A Brown On The Bus.flac DR10   -2.84 dB   -16.07 dB  16 - Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen).flac DR08   -2.88 dB   -12.79 dB  17 - Mr. Green Genes.flac     DR14   -0.20 dB   -21.88 dB  18 - We Can Shoot You.flac     DR12   -5.57 dB   -21.19 dB  19 - If We'd All Been Living in California.flac DR14  +0.00 dB   -16.03 dB  20 - The Air.flac             DR12   -2.12 dB   -19.28 dB  21 - Project X.flac           DR11   -1.81 dB   -15.55 dB  22 - Cruising For Burgers.flac ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Files: 22 Official DR Value: DR13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed Folder: D:\Music\FLAC\Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (disc 2)_dr.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR           Peak         RMS              Filename                       ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR17   -1.21 dB   -21.75 dB  01 - Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I.flac DR12   -2.29 dB   -16.10 dB  02 - Tengo Na Minchia Tanta.flac DR13   -2.54 dB   -19.69 dB  03 - Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II.flac DR10   -2.11 dB   -14.15 dB  04 - King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio).flac DR11   -2.59 dB   -15.65 dB  05 - King Kong (Its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild).flac DR11   -1.40 dB   -15.56 dB  06 - King Kong (as Motorhead explains it).flac DR13   -1.32 dB   -16.82 dB  07 - King Kong IV.flac         DR11   -3.60 dB   -18.05 dB  08 - King Kong V.flac         DR10   -0.84 dB   -14.14 dB  09 - King Kong VI.flac         ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Files: 9 Official DR Value: DR12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------