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Revision as of 14:09, 3 April 2006
Contents
Release Info
Released August 10, 1970.
Tracks
- Didja Get Any Onya? (06:52)
- Directly From My Heart To You (05:17)
- Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask (03:48)
- Toads Of The Short Forest (04:48)
- Get A Little (02:31)
- Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (06:53)
- Dwarf Nebula Professional March & Dwarf Nebula (02:12)
- My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (03:32)
- Oh No (01:46)
- The Orange County Lumber Truck (03:22)
- Weasels Ripped My Flesh (02:08)
Players
- FZ: lead guitar, vocals
- Ray Collins: vocals
- Lowell George: rhythm guitar, vocals
- Don "Sugarcane" Harris: electric violin
- Ian Underwood: alto saxophone
- Bunk Gardner: tenor saxophone
- Motorhead Sherwood: baritone saxophone
- Buzz Gardner: trumpet, flugelhorn
- Roy Estrada: bass guitar, vocals
- Don Preston: keyboards, electronics
- Jimmy Carl Black: drums
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
. who recalled:
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
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 # | Version # | # discs | Format | Catalog # | Release (YYYY-MM-DD) |
Barcode (EAN-13) |
Artwork | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 Original Stereo |
1 | LP | Warner Bizarre/Reprise MS 2028 |
1970-08-10 | None | Neon Park | 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 | 1970 | None | Neon Park | French edition - manufactured by Vogue - Matrix # Side1: SR 2028 A Side2: SR 2028 B | |||
| Unknown | 1 | LP | Barking Pumpkin BPR 8888-4 |
1986-11-25 | Included in The Old Masters, Box II set. | |||
| 2 Remaster |
1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10163 |
1990-05 | 0014431016325 | US edition | ||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5028 |
1994-10-26 | 4988112405301 | Japanese edition | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10510 |
1995-05-02 | 0014431051029 | US edition. Matrix # IFPI 2U3Q WEA mfg. OLYPHANT ifpi L902 X11970 A4 P2 310510-2 02 M1S1 | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5119 |
1995-10-25 | 4988112407794 | Japanese edition | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5254 |
1996-05-30 | 4988112408548 | Japanese edition | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 1211 |
2001-09-21 | 4988112412675 | Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10599 |
2005-08-16 | 0014431059926 | = VideoArts VACK 1211, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed |
