You Are What You Is

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Release Info

You Are What You Is

Released September 1981.

Tracks

Players

Frank Zappa -- lead guitar, vocals
Ike Willis -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Ray White -- rhythm guitar, vocals
Bob Harris -- boy soprano, trumpet
Steve Vai -- guitar
Tommy Mars -- keyboards
Arthur Barrow -- bass
Ed Mann -- percussion
David Ocker -- clarinet, bass clarinet
Motorhead Sherwood -- tenor saxophone, vocals
Denny Walley -- slide guitar, vocals
David Logeman -- drums
Craig Steward -- harmonica
Jimmy Carl Black -- vocals
Ahmet Zappa -- vocals
Moon Zappa -- vocals

Background

The girl-hitting incident heard in Jumbo Go Away represented yet another case of Frank reporting on real events and letting listeners come to their own conclusions (rather than force-feeding them any “message songs”); Zappa guitarist Denny Walley had slapped a woman.

Dweezil’s line “Leave my nose alone, please” from the end of Drafted Again was originally heard at the end of Flower Punk on the Money album.

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

See also: "Clean Cuts from You Are What You Is".