FRANK ZAPPA weasels ripped my flesh RAT TRAP avant psych LP MOTHERS OF INVENTION
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Frank Zappa/Mothers Of Invention: "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" ORIGINAL GERMAN LP
Rare original German only press LP with the deleted & withdrawn "RAT TRAP" (Dieter Boe) cover!
The record is in NM condition and the laminated sleeve is in EX condition.
Here's the story: it seems that in germany the regular neon park version of the weasels ripped my flesh cover with the guy shaving with a razor / weasel was determined to be too vulgar and excessive to distribute to the virgin minds of the consumer in Germany. So the Germans, always known for their creativity came up with this special rat trap cover without ever informing Zappa about it and released it. Now it just so happens that Frank went on a tour of Europe in 1970 and while in Germany on a TV show, the guy showed Frank a copy of this rat trap cover. [there is a video of that German TV segment on Youtube], well needless to say Frank got really pissed off, he didn't know anything about this rat trap cover being released and went to the record company over there shortly after the TV show and threatened to sue them if they didn't stop manufacturing that cover. Of course they quit making it but not untill a few hundred were already on the shelves of record stores throughout Germany waiting to pollute the minds of innocent German consumers. And you think that Hitler wasn't enough? Now they had to deal with Zappa. In any case this version is quite rare.
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A fascinating collection of mostly instrumental live and studio material recorded by the original Mothers of Invention, complete with horn section, from 1967-1969, Weasels Ripped My Flesh segues unpredictably between arty experimentation and traditional song structures.Highlights of the former category include the classical avant-garde elements of "Didja Get Any Onya," which blends odd rhythmic accents and time signatures with dissonance and wordless vocal noises; these pop up again in "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" and "Toads of the Short Forest." The latter and "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" also show Frank Zappa's willingness to embrace the avant-garde jazz of the period.Yet, interspersed are straightforward tunes like a cover of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart to You," with great violin from Don "Sugarcane" Harris; the stinging Zappa-sung rocker "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," and "Oh No," a familiar Broadway-esque Zappa melody (it turned up on Lumpy Gravy) fitted with lyrics and sung by Ray Collins.Thus, Weasels can make for difficult, incoherent listening, especially at first. But there is a certain logic behind the band's accomplished genre-bending and Zappa's gleefully abrupt veering between musical extremes; without pretension, Zappa blurs the normally sharp line between intellectual concept music and the visceral immediacy of rock and R&B.Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating; they also even make the closing title track -- a minute and a half of squalling feedback, followed by applause -- perfectly logical in the album's context.
SIDE 1.
1. Didja Get Any Onya?
2. Directly From My Heart to You
3. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
4. Toads of the Short Forest
5. Get a Little
SIDE 2
1. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
2. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
3. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
4. Oh No
5. The Orange County Lumber Truck
6. Weasels Ripped My Flesh
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