The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement I

For other versions of this song, see: The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

Lyrics

Instrumental.

Players On This Song

Frank Zappa (guitar and white stick with cork handle) Mike Altschul (piccolo, bass clarinet and other winds) Earle Dumler (oboe, contrabass sarrusophone and other winds) Tony Duran (slide guitar) Glenn Ferris (trombone and euphonium) Bruce Fowler (trombone of the upper atmosphere) Jim Gordon (electric drums) Jerry Kessler (electric cello) Tom Malone (trumpet in Bb and tuba) Sal Marquez (trumpet in Bb)

Joann McNab (bassoon) Malcolm McNab (trumpet in D) Jay Migliori (flute, tenor sax and other winds) Charles Owens (soprano sax, alto sax and other winds) Dave Parlato (bass) Tom Raney (vibes and electric percussion) Ray Reed (clarinet, tenor sax and other winds) Kenny Shroyer (trombone and baritone horn) Ian Underwood (piano and synthesizer) Ruth Underwood (marimba and electric percussion)

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Singles

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Zappa Albums

• Zappa Wazoo

Tribute & Cover Albums

• Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
• Nasal Retentive Orchestra: Music For Hungry People as Greggery Peccary

Notes About This Song

• Recorded live at Boston Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts on 24 September 1972
• This is the first of the four movements of The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

• FZ on "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary": (from The Complete History Of The Few Last Weeks Of The Mothers Of Invention, 1972)

"Along with the original plans for the Uncle Meat movie, the legendary multi-record history of the ancient M.O.I., and, most recently, the Hunchentoot project, "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary" must take its place over in the corner with the rest of the goodies that never quite escaped into the light of day.

This piece was originally designed as a ballet with narration and singing, based on the activities of a little pig belonging to an endangered species. Not much potential in that concept I guess.

This presentation contains no narration, no singing and no dancing. However, so you won't be too disoriented by what's left (the music), we provide herewith a simile of the original text design, complete up to the point where I quit working on it. We will, once again, leave it up to your very own imagination to hook it all up and make some sense out of it." [For a complete transcription of the original lyrics see the article.]