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The Mothers - Uncle Meat

2x12"

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Record Details

Artist: The Mothers
Title: Uncle Meat
Format: 12"
Label: Bizarre Records / Bizarre Records / Reprise W7
Cat No: 2024 / 2MS 2024 / 2MS 2024
Released: Apr 1969
Country:
Genres: Alternative RockMusique ConcrètePost-ModernAvantgardeFusionDoo WopJazz-RockExperimentalParody
Status Have
Added To List 1st August 2014
Disc 1 | 12"
Auto-coupled 
A Matrix:
S 1 30871 MS 2024 A - 1B    A4  
B Matrix:
ᔓ 1 30874 MS 2024 D - 1B    A3  
Disc 2 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
S 1 30872 MS 2024 B - 1B    A1  
B Matrix:
S 1 30873 MS 2024 C - 1B    A2  

Additional Information

Comments Auto-coupled US first issue: Over-sticker on cover, with "The Mothers Of Invention" band name & "Two LPs And A Nifty 12-Page Book" text. Full-color paper-pasted gatefold (no internal glue tabs), with only "Bizarre" on spine. Warner '7Arts/Reprise' roundel logo on cover & 2024 cat#.
"Printed in U.S.A." on back cover.
"Made in U.S.A." inside cover.

Contains 12-page 30x30cm full-color book with photo-montages, illustrations & text.

2 auto-coupled vinyls (I/IV & II/III) cat# 2MS 2024 on blue/green Bizarre labels. Disc I, A3 is "400 Days Of The Year" (the later credit, "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution" on sleeve inner spread). No visible track separation (no banding). Vinyls in dark brown Bizarre (Zappa/Cohen imaged) liners with white text.

Distributed by; "Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc." on labels.
"Reprise Records, A Division of Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc., 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California; 321 W. 44th Street, New York, New York." on r/h inner gatefold spread.


Recorded Oct 1967 through to Feb 1968.
Many overdubs. Clarinets fed through 'Maestro' device, set at 'Oboe D'Amour' with variable speed oscillator [V.S.O.]. Two Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers & three Melchor Compressors built into console at Apostolic Studio, N.Y.C.
Recorded on prototype Scully 12-track at 30 ips. Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound.

Other variations on track credits: Sleeve reads;
A7 - "Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London"
D6 - "King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications).

[The 2-disc tracklisting here gives what is printed on the labels. Later issues/CDs had title corrections]

"All lyrics & music copyrighted for the world by Frank Zappa Music, a Division of Third Story Music - BMI"
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