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Revision as of 17:14, 3 January 2006

Release Info

Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Released August 10, 1970.

Tracks

  1. Didja Get Any Onya? (06:52)
  2. Directly From My Heart To You (05:17)
  3. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask (03:48)
  4. Toads Of The Short Forest (04:48)
  5. Get A Little (02:31)
  6. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (06:53)
  7. Dwarf Nebula Professional March & Dwarf Nebula (02:12)
  8. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (03:32)
  9. Oh No (01:46)
  10. The Orange County Lumber Truck (03:22)
  11. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (02:08)

Players

Background

After Zappa broke up The Mothers in the autumn of 1969, he mentioned a twelve-record set tentatively titled The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention. What emerged instead were Burnt Weeny Sandwich and, in the summer of 1970, Weasels. Both were amalgams of material extracted from various 1968 and ‘69 shows and studio tapes.

The album’s title and cover came from a 1956 Man’s Life magazine which Zappa had shown to Neon Park

Man's Life 1956

. who recalled:

Shaver Advert

The cover story was *Weasels Ripped My Flesh* and it was the adventure of a guy, naked to the waist, who was in water. The water was swarming with weasels, and they were all kind of climbing on him and biting him. So Frank said, "This is it. What can you do that's worse than this?"








German "Doll" Cover

German "Doll" Cover created by Dieter Boé

Frank Zappa on first seeing the German cover:

"This ... actually, in terms of graphics it's not bad. The thing I resent most about this album cover is that it's not the way I wanted it to come out. I wanted it to look like that one. That one is ugly enough. I don't need this one.

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Mix # discs Format Catalog # Release EAN.UCC-13 (barcode) Artwork Comment
10 Stereo vinyl 1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
MS 2028
August 10 1970 None   US edition. Matrix # Side1:
MS-2028 31083-1-A-1B logo
Side2:
MS-2028 logo 31084-1 re 1 B-/A overwritten on D B7
? 1 LP Barking Pumpkin
BPR 8888-4
November 25 1986     Included in The Old Masters, Box II set.
Remastered 1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10163
May 1990 0014431016325   US edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5028
October 26 1994 4988112405301   Japanese edition
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10510
May 2 1995 0014431051029   US edition. Matrix # IFPI 2U3Q WEA mfg. OLYPHANT ifpi L902 X11970 A4 P2 310510-2 02 M1S1
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5119
October 25 1995 4988112407794   Japanese edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5254
May 30 1996 4988112408548   Japanese edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1211
September 21 2001 4988112412675   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10599
August 16 2005 0014431059926   = VideoArts VACK 1211, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed