Uncle Meat

The Cover Art

Calvin Schenkel interviewed by Steven Cerio, Seconds #32, 1995

Uncle Meat was entirely my design and I showed [FZ] what I did and he liked it.

Cal Schenkel, alt.fan.frank-zappa, October 2, 1997

winter 68, 69 -LA. Assemblage, collage. After everybody moved out of the Log Cabin, I found a space over this blood-testing lab next to a famous hot dog stand on Melrose avenue that used to be a dentist's office (need I say more?) Well yes actually, but at a later date. (This is also the place of genesis of many other gems of albumcoverdom including Captain Beefheart's- "Trout Mask Replica" & "Wild Man Fisher Pretties for You With A Real Knife!!")

95RR-inlay: 2 of the found Dentoid elements that were used in the cover assemblage (turned into mush when they printed it with a scan instead of a simple line shot.)

Calvin Schenkel interviewed by Dan Nadel, Eye #53, 2001

I rented a studio on Melrose that was an old dentist's office, which was where a lot of the Uncle Meat source material came from. Uncle Meat was a rush job for the cover, but the book that came with the record was more collaborative, and a lot of dentistry visuals crept in.

disc 1

7. Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)

Richard Hemmings, The Treatment Of Random Pitches In Frank Zappa's 'Approximate', ICE-Z, January 16, 2004

During a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1968, a member of the audience climbed on stage with a trumpet. Possibly making the mistake that free jazz was easy to play, the interloper was left flailing behind when the band joined in. Zappa captured the incident on tape and released it on Uncle Meat (1969).

21. Project X

knepo (Zappateers, April 14, 2012)

I try to follow what movies that get DVD release and today I saw this:

Project X (1968)

It's from 1968, so it could be quite possible, when you think of Zappa's interest for cheesy sci-fi flicks.

 

disc 2

1. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I

Motorhead: I'm going to hear the Fudge.

The Vanilla Fudge are also mentioned on "The Mud Shark" from Fillmore East -- June 1971 (1971), the liner notes of "Plastic People" from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1 (1988) and "A Game Of Cards" from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992).

 

 

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