The Mothers Of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Bizarre Records – MS 2028
Vinyl, LP, Album
US
Sep 1970
Jazz, Rock
Blues Rock, Free Jazz, Fusion, Avantgarde
収録曲
A1
Didja Get Any Onya?
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Lowell George
3:44
A2
Directly From My Heart To You
Violin [Electric], Vocals – Don "Sugarcane" Harris
Written-By – R.W. Penniman*
5:17
A3
Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
Vocals – Roy Estrada
3:35
A4
Toads Of The Short Forest
4:48
A5
Get A Little
2:35
B1
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
6:53
B2
Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
2:12
B3
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Vocals – Frank Zappa
3:35
B4
Oh No
Vocals – Ray Collins
1:46
B5
The Orange County Lumber Truck
3:18
B6
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
2:05
会社名など
Record Company – Reprise Records
Distributed By – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Published By – Frank Zappa Music, Inc.
Published By – Third Story Music, Inc.
Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
クレジット
Alto Saxophone – Ian Underwood
Baritone Saxophone, Vocals [Snorks] – Motorhead Sherwood
Bass – Roy Estrada
Cover – Neon Park
Drums – Art Tripp, Jimmy Carl Black
Lead Guitar, Keyboards – Frank Zappa
Piano, Organ, Effects [Electronic Effects] – Don Preston
Producer – Frank Zappa
Tenor Saxophone – Bunk Gardner
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Buzz Gardner
Written-By – Frank Zappa (tracks: A1, A3 to B6)
ノート
Studio and Live material on this album represents different aspects of their work from 1967 to 1969.
Track A1 rec, live Philadelphia Arena
Track A2 rec. TTG, Hollywood
Tracks A3, B5 rec. live Festival Hall , London
Track A4 rec. Whitney Studios, Glendale CA
Track A5 rec. live The Factory, Bronx NYC
Track B1 rec. A&R Studios, NYC
Tracks B2, B4 rec. Apostolic Studios, NYC
Track B3 rec. Criteria Studios, Miami, TTG & Whitney Studios
Track B6 rec. live Birmingham, England
Original release on a blue aquamarine Bizarre
label with the antiquated gear machine in the background.
b&w inner sleeve with Zapped promo LP offer
バーコードとその他の識別子
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: Runout side A, etched [Artisan logo stamped]): MS-2028 31083-1-A-1B [Artisan logo] A
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: Runout side B, etched [Artisan logo stamped, re 5 scratched out]): MS-2028 S [Artisan logo] 31084-1 re B-1C5
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: Runout side A, etched [Artisan logo stamped]): S MS-2028 31083-1-A-1B [Artisan logo] B5
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: Runout side B, etched [Artisan logo stamped, re1 5 scratched out]): MS-2028 [Artisan logo] 31084-1 re1 B-1C5
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Runout side A, etched [Artisan logo stamped]): MS-2028 31083-1-A-1B [Artisan logo] 135
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Runout side B, etched [Artisan logo stamped, re1 5 scratched out]): MS-2028 [Artisan logo] 31084-1 re1 B-1C5
The layered drum passage, some 3:40 to 4:40 within "Didja Get Any Onya?" - the first track on Weasels Ripped My Flesh - can be heard in its infancy as the 'backing track' to "The Blimp" on the Frank Zappa-produced Trout Mask Replica album from Captain Beefheart. The work, by members of The Mothers, was resident on a tape channel when Zappa used the tape to capture the field-recording of 'The Blimp' lyrics, which were read over a telephone to him in the studio. Zappa's comment can be heard at the end of 'The Blimp'.
"Didja Get Any Onya" is also reprised in a reworking as "Charles Ives", which can be found on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5. The modernist composer Charles Ives had a strong influence on Zappa's work.
A related and singular item, in private collection and unlikely to surface, but which is interesting:
A single test-press vinyl LP exists entitled "Weasel Music", made for Bizarre Records by LRS (Location Recording Services) . The title & band name, on a black & red printed white label, is simply typewritten. Encased in an ivory 'Audiodiscs' sleeve it was sent from "World Pacific Records, 6920 Sunset, L.A. 90028" to "Frank Zappa, 7885 Woodrow Wilson Dr., Los Angeles".
It was later scheduled to appear in a 12xLP box set in 1970 under the title "The History & Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention", covering work from 1963 - 1969. FZ's ads in "Playboy" failed to raise interest - the set was culled, producing "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" & Burnt Weeny Sandwich - the balance to become the non-starter No Commercial Potential (bootlegged) and later, in 1974 but another non-starter set, "Four Generations Of The Mothers".
