Sinister Footwear

Players On This Song

You Are What You Is Players

• Frank Zappa - Lead Guitar
• Steve Vai - Stunt Guitar
• Ed Mann - Percussion
• David Ocker - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
• Tommy Mars - Keyboards
• Arthur Barrow - Bass
• David Logeman - Drums

Them Or Us Players

• Frank Zappa - Lead Guitar
• Steve Vai - Written Guitar Lines
• Ray White - Rhythm Guitar
• Tommy Mars - Keyboards
• Bobby Martin - Keyboards
• Ed Mann - Percussion
• Scott Thunes - Bass
• Chad Wackerman - Drums

Frank Zappa: Guitar Players

• Frank Zappa - Lead Guitar (Custom Strat)
• Ike Willis - Rhythm Guitar
• Ray White - Rhythm Guitar
• Bobby Martin - Keyboards
• Alan Zavod - Keyboards
• Ed Mann - Percussion
• Scott Thunes - Bass
• Chad Wackerman - Drums

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Zappa Albums

• You Are What You Is, as Theme From The 3rd Movement of "Sinister Footwear"
• Them Or Us as Sinister Footwear II
• Frank Zappa: Guitar
• Make A Jazz Noise Here

Tributes & Cover Albums

• Omnibus Wind Ensemble: Music By Frank Zappa as Sinister Footwear, 2nd Movement
• Pierrejean Gaucher: Zappe Zappa in Sinister Footwear / Uncle Meat
• Colin Towns + NDR Bigband: Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (And Funny Smells), as Sinister Footwear - 2nd Mvt.

Notes About This Song

Guitar solo originally from The Palladium, NYC October 27, 1978

In KPFM-FM Radio Interview, 84/5 Zappa told that "Sinister Footwear" is "a ballet about a guy who designs the ugliest shoe in the world and then all the things that happen before you get to wear it. And the shoe has been designed and I just saw like about … twenty pairs of it, sitting around this place, it's really great."