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== Background == | == 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." | |
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== Conceptual Continuity == | == Conceptual Continuity == | ||
Revision as of 11:01, 27 September 2005
Release Info
Released October 15 1969
Tracks
- Peaches En Regalia (03:39)
- Willie The Pimp (09:17)
- Son Of Mr. Green Genes (09:00)
- Little Umbrellas (03:04)
- The Gumbo Variations (16:57)
- It Must Be A Camel (05:17)
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)
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
Versions
See also: "Hot Rats / Burnt Weeny Sandwich Sampler".
| 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 | 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 |
