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Uncle Meat is the sixth album by the Mothers of Invention, and seventh overall by Frank Zappa, released as a double album in 1969. Uncle Meat was originally developed as a part of No Commercial Potential, a project which spawned three other albums sharing a conceptual connection: We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.
[37] [38] Recorded from September 1967 to September 1968 and released in early 1969, Uncle Meat, the final release by the original Mothers, was a double album of varied music, intended as a soundtrack for a proposed film of the same name.
The album includes the original 1969 vinyl mix of "Uncle Meat" (without the film dialogue and "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" which were added on the CD release in 1987), followed by the originally planned sequence of the tracks (which includes different edits and a longer version of the track "Cops & Buns" from The Lost Episodes) and outtakes.
Uncle Meat: Voice Mike Altschul: 1972, 1978–1981, 1996, 2004, 2007, 2008 Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Wazoo, One Shot Deal: Woodwinds Jay Anderson: 1983–1985 The Man from Utopia, Thing-Fish, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1985 Remix) Bass Peter Arcaro: 1962, 1996
While filming Uncle Meat, Frank Zappa recorded in New York City for a project called No Commercial Potential, which ended up producing four albums: We're Only in It for the Money; a revised version of Zappa's solo album Lumpy Gravy; Cruising with Ruben & the Jets; and Uncle Meat, which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which finally saw a release in 1987, albeit in ...
Phonogram president Robert Sherwood disputed Zappa's version of the story, insisting that they did not want to release a single without the support of a full length album. [3] Zappa distributed the single independently in the US and elsewhere through CBS Records. In 1981, Zappa founded Barking Pumpkin Records with distribution by CBS Records.
The album contains selections Zappa had previously recorded either with the Mothers of Invention or under his own name, including: "King Kong", originally included on the Mothers' 1969 album Uncle Meat "Idiot Bastard Son", from the Mothers' 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money
[1] [3] [4] [5] Following the Mothers' split in late 1969, Zappa assembled two albums of unreleased recordings by the band - this album and its follow-up Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Burnt Weeny Sandwich focuses mostly on studio recordings and tightly arranged compositions, while Weasels Ripped My Flesh focuses mostly on live recordings and loose ...