Difference between revisions of "Hot Rats"

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Release Info

Hot Rats

Released October 15 1969

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Players

Captain Beefheart (vocals), Sugar Cane Harris (violin), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin), John Guerin (drums), Paul Humphrey (drums), Ron Selico (drums), Max Bennett (bass), Shuggy Otis (bass), Ian Underwood (keyboards, clarinets, saxes) and Frank Zappa (guitar, octave base, percussion)

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The woman on the cover of the Hot Rats album crawling out of the crypt is Christine Frka.

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ZFT #	Mix	# discs	Format	Catalog #	Release	EAN.UCC-13 (barcode)	Artwork	Comment
8	Stereo vinyl	1	LP	Warner Bizarre/Reprise RS 6356	1969	None	Cal Schenkel	US edition. Matrix # Side1: T 1 RS 6356 A 30926 - 1 Side2: T 1 RS 6356 B 30927 - 2
	?	1	LP	Barking Pumpkin BPR 8888-2	November 25 1986			Included in The Old Masters, Box II set.
	Important remix	1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10066	1987	0014431006623		US edition
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10066	1988			24 Karat Gold Picture CD. Matrix # 818 PUMPKIN RYK-RCD 10066 SOI01
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 2027	October 26 1994	4988112405295		Japanese edition
		1	CS	Rykodisc RAC 10508	May 2 1995	0014431050848		US edition
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10508	May 2 1995	0014431050824		US edition
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5102	September 25 1995	4988112406964		Japanese edition
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5237	May 30 1996	4988112408371		Japanese edition
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 1209	September 21 2001	4988112412651		Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 40583/1	March 21 2002	None		US edition. Included in the Threesome No. 2 box set. Matrix # IFPI L504 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD 10508 03
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10598	July 19 2005	0014431059827		Mini-album papersleeve

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 == Background ==
 The woman on the cover of the [[Hot Rats]] album crawling out of the crypt is [[Christine Frka]].
-From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - LOWELL GEORGE: "I got into The Mothers to replace Ray - an impossible job, because no-one can replace Ray. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on 'WPLJ' [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on 'Burnt Weeny Sandwich'], and I played on 'Hot Rats', and I sang something else. I wasn't on 'Uncle Meat' although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the 12-album set that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a German border guard interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of The Mothers Of Invention. What he might do is make it a limited edition."
 == Conceptual Continuity ==

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