''Meat Light'' is a 3CD compilation of

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...

Uncle Meat ''Uncle Meat'' is the fifth studio album by the Mothers of Invention, released as a double album in 1969. ''Uncle Meat'' was originally developed as a part of ''No Commercial Potential'', a project which spawned three other albums sharing a conce ...

recordings. It is project/object #5 in a series of 40th Anniversary FZ Audio Documentaries, following '' MOFO'' (2006), ''

Lumpy Money ''The Lumpy Money Project/Object'' is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously on January 23, 2009 as Official Release #85, it compiles the releases ''Lumpy Gravy'' and ''We're Only in It for the Money'' with previously unrelease ...

'' (2009), '' Greasy Love Songs'' (2010) and '' The Crux of the Biscuit'' (2016). The album includes the original 1969 vinyl mix of "Uncle Meat" (without the film dialogue and "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" which were added on the CD release in 1987), followed by the originally planned sequence of the tracks (which includes different edits and a longer version of the track "Cops & Buns" from '' The Lost Episodes'') and outtakes.

Track listing

* * indicates track is mono

Personnel

— guitar, vocals, percussion * Ray Collins — vocals *

Jimmy Carl Black James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (February 1, 1938 – November 1, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Carl Black, was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention. Background and early career: 1960s–1990s Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was o ...

— drums * Roy Estrada — electric bass, falsetto *

Don Preston Donald Ward Preston (born September 21, 1932) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist. He is known for working with Frank Zappa from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Biography Preston was born into a family of musicians in Detroit and began st ...

— electric piano * Billy Mundi — drums on some pieces * Bunk Gardner — piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon *

Ian Underwood Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, known for his work with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Biography Underwood graduated from The Choate School in 1957 and Yale University with a bachelor' ...

— electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax *

Art Tripp Arthur Dyer Tripp III (born September 10, 1944) is an American retired musician who is best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band during the 1960s and 1970s. ...

— drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes *

Euclid James Sherwood Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood (May 8, 1942 – December 25, 2011) was an American rock musician notable for playing soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, tambourine, vocals and vocal sound effects in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. He appear ...

— tenor sax, tambourine *

Ruth Komanoff Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of In ...

— marimba, vibes * Nelcy Walker — vocals on "Dog Breath" and "The Uncle Meat Variations"
Theodore Holdt
— cover art

References

{{Authority control Frank Zappa compilation albums 2016 compilation albums Compilation albums published posthumously