Uncle Meat
Encyclopedia
Uncle Meat is the fifth studio album by the Mothers of Invention, released in 1969. It is billed as a supposed "soundtrack" to a film by The Mothers of Invention which was, in the end, never made. The front cover, designed by Cal Schenkel
, included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money to Finish Yet)". The album was Zappa's first on his own Bizarre Records
label, distributed by Warner Bros. Records
' subsidiary Reprise Records
. The album was reissued on the Reprise label proper in 1973 following the Bizarre label's dissolution, and has since been reissued by Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin Records
and by Rykodisc
(originally an independent label, now a Warner Music subsidiary).
Uncle Meat marked an evolution in Frank Zappa
's career, moving further into jazz
and classical music. It also contains half-mocking, half-homage
elements of doo-wop
, blues
, and rock and roll
. The album is united by its dreamy melodies, stream of consciousness lyrics (many about places and events in suburban LA
teenagers' lives), and a set of musical themes and sub-themes and variations idiomatic of film soundtracks. It also features the character of Suzy Creamcheese
.
, and sung in Italian
by Massimo Bassoli) and over 40 minutes' worth of soundbites and dialogue from the direct-to-video Uncle Meat
film. The CD's cover and labels omit the titles of the various sections of "King Kong," and the first CD edition omitted some of the album's artwork, reprinting much of what was retained in black and white instead of the original color.
Special thanks to:
Uncredited:
on their album First Base
. It was also covered by The Residents
in 1971; their version is available on The Residents Radio Special
cassette and CD release and the 1991 CD Daydream B-Liver, as well as on internet-only bootlegs such as the still-officially-unreleased Baby Sex. Other cover versions of the song include one by the keyboard trio Niacin on their album "Organik" and one by Zappa collaborator Jean-Luc Ponty
. The composition was also featured as a sax solo gag in the opening credits of four episodes of The Simpsons
.http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/The_Simpsons.html Independent hip hop
producer Madlib
, who often references Zappa's work, samples "Sleeping in a Jar" on the Madvillain
track "Meat Grinder." Also, Jon Poole
's album of Zappa cover versions, "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?", includes covers of "Uncle Meat", "Dog Breath", "The Legend Of The Golden Arches", and "Cruising For Burgers".
Cal Schenkel
Cal Schenkel is an artist specialising in album cover design. He was the main visual collaborator for Frank Zappa and was responsible for the art and graphic design of many of Zappa's most well-known album covers. Schenkel's work is iconic and distinctive in style; a forerunner of punk art and...
, included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money to Finish Yet)". The album was Zappa's first on his own Bizarre Records
Bizarre Records
Bizarre Records was a record label formed for artists discovered by rock musician Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen.Bizarre was originally formed as a production company...
label, distributed by Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
' subsidiary Reprise Records
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...
. The album was reissued on the Reprise label proper in 1973 following the Bizarre label's dissolution, and has since been reissued by Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin Records
Barking Pumpkin Records
Barking Pumpkin Records was a record label created by Frank Zappa in 1981. The label was initially distributed by CBS Records from 1981–1984 and Capitol Records from 1984 - 1993. Records sold outside of the US and Canada were distributed by the Music for Nations label. In 1993, after Zappa's death,...
and by Rykodisc
Rykodisc
Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:...
(originally an independent label, now a Warner Music subsidiary).
Uncle Meat marked an evolution in Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
's career, moving further into jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and classical music. It also contains half-mocking, half-homage
Homage
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....
elements of doo-wop
Doo-wop
The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...
, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, and rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
. The album is united by its dreamy melodies, stream of consciousness lyrics (many about places and events in suburban LA
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
teenagers' lives), and a set of musical themes and sub-themes and variations idiomatic of film soundtracks. It also features the character of Suzy Creamcheese
Suzy Creamcheese
Suzy Creamcheese was a fictional vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. On the album Freak Out! , Suzy Creamcheese was played by Jeannie Vassoir; on Absolutely Free and Mothermania it was Lisa Cohen; and on We're Only in It for the Money and...
.
Side one
- "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" – 1:56
- "The Voice of Cheese" – 0:26
- "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" – 6:00
- "Zolar Czakl" – 0:54
- "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" – 3:59
- "The Legend of the Golden Arches" – 3:28
- "Louie LouieLouie Louie"Louie Louie" is an American rock 'n' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists...
(At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (Richard BerryRichard BerryRichard Berry was an African American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins....
) – 2:19 - "The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:48
Side two
- "Sleeping in a Jar" – 0:50
- "Our Bizarre Relationship" – 1:05
- "The Uncle Meat Variations" – 4:46
- "Electric Aunt Jemima" – 1:46
- "Prelude to King KongKing KongKing Kong is a fictional character, a giant movie monster resembling a gorilla, that has appeared in several movies since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 movie, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels of the first two films...
" – 3:38 - "God Bless AmericaGod Bless America"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938. The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song ....
(Live at the Whisky A Go Go)" (Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
) – 1:10 - "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" – 1:29
- "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)" – 5:05
Side three
- "Mr. Green Genes" – 3:14
- "We Can Shoot You" – 2:03
- "If We'd All Been Living in California..." – 1:14
- "The Air" – 2:57
- "Project X" – 4:48
- "Cruising for Burgers" – 2:18
Side four
- "King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" – 0:49
- "King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" – 1:21
- "King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)" – 1:44
- "King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)" – 6:17
- "King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" – 0:34
- "King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop FestivalMiami Pop FestivalThe Miami Pop Festival was the name of two different music festivals that took place in 1968 at Gulfstream Park, a horse racing track in Hallandale, Florida , just north of Miami....
. . . the Underwood ramifications)" – 7:24
CD release
Rykodisc released Uncle Meat in 1987 in a double-CD configuration including additional material beyond that included in the album's original double-LP package. The CD contained a song recorded in 1982, "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" (meaning "I've Got a Big Bunch Of Cock" in SicilianSicilian language
Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is...
, and sung in Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Massimo Bassoli) and over 40 minutes' worth of soundbites and dialogue from the direct-to-video Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat (film)
Uncle Meat is a film written and directed by Frank Zappa, released directly to video in 1987. Principal photography having never been completed, the videocassette is actually a "making of" documentary showing rehearsals and background footage from 1968 and interviews with people involved with the...
film. The CD's cover and labels omit the titles of the various sections of "King Kong," and the first CD edition omitted some of the album's artwork, reprinting much of what was retained in black and white instead of the original color.
Disc one
- "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" – 1:56
- "The Voice of Cheese" – 0:26
- "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" – 6:00
- "Zolar Czakl" – 0:54
- "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" – 3:59
- "The Legend of the Golden Arches" – 3:28
- "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" – 2:19
- "The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:48
- "Sleeping in a Jar" – 0:50
- "Our Bizarre Relationship" – 1:05
- "The Uncle Meat Variations" – 4:46
- "Electric Aunt Jemima" – 1:46
- "Prelude to King Kong" – 3:38
- "God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go)" – 1:10
- "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" – 1:29
- "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)" – 5:05
- "Mr. Green Genes" – 3:14
- "We Can Shoot You" – 2:03
- "If We'd All Been Living in California..." – 1:14
- "The Air" – 2:57
- "Project X" – 4:48
- "Cruising for Burgers" – 2:18
Disc two
- "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1" – 37:34
- "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" – 3:46
- "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2" – 3:50
- "King Kong I" – 0:49
- "King Kong II" - 1:21
- "King Kong III" – 1:44
- "King Kong IV" – 6:17
- "King Kong V" – 0:34
- "King Kong VI" – 7:24
Musicians
THE MOTHERS – at the time of this recording were:- Frank ZappaFrank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
– guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, low grade vocals, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Ray CollinsRay Collins (rock musician)Ray Collins was born on November 19, 1936 and grew up in Pomona, California singing in his school choir, the son of a local police officer. He quit high school to get married. He started his musical career singing falsetto backup vocals for various 'doo-wop' groups in the Los Angeles area in the...
– left the group in May 1968 swell vocals - Jimmy Carl BlackJimmy Carl BlackJimmy Carl Black , born James Inkanish, Jr., was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.-Career: 1960s-1990s:Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was of Cheyenne heritage...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, droll humor, poverty - Roy EstradaRoy EstradaRoy Estrada is an American musician and backing vocalist, best known for his bass guitar work with Frank Zappa and for co-founding Little Feat.-Biography:With drummer Jimmy Carl Black and Ray Collins, Estrada was an original member of Frank Zappa's...
– electric bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, cheeseburgers, Pachuco falsetto - Don (Dom De Wild) PrestonDon PrestonDonald Ward Preston also known as Dom DeWilde or Biff Debrie born September 21, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. Preston is an American jazz and rock and roll musician.-Biography:Preston was born into a family of musicians and began studying music at an early age...
– electric pianoElectric pianoAn electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
, tarot cards, brown rice - Billy (The Oozer) MundiBilly MundiBilly Mundi is an American drummer, who has played a multitude of sessions and been a member of countless bands, most notably The Mothers of Invention and Rhinoceros. He sometimes used the name Tony Schnasse.A former Hells Angel, his career dates back to the late 1950s, when he majored in music at...
– drums on some pieces before he quit in December 1967 to join RhinocerosRhinoceros (band)Rhinoceros was a rock band established in 1967 by Elektra Records as that label's intended supergroup. The band, while well respected in many circles, did not live up to the record label's expectations... - Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner – piccoloPiccoloThe piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written...
, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, clarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
, bass clarinetBass clarinetThe bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
, soprano saxSoprano saxophoneThe soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
, alto saxAlto saxophoneThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
, tenor saxTenor saxophoneThe tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
, bassoonBassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
(all of these electric and/or no-electric depending) - Ian UnderwoodIan UnderwoodIan Robertson Underwood is a woodwind and keyboards player. He began his career by playing San Francisco Bay Area coffeehouses and bars with his improvisational group the Jazz Mice in the mid 1960s before he became a member of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in 1967 for their third studio...
– electric organElectric organIn biology, the electric organ is an organ common to all electric fish used for the purposes of creating an electric field. The electric organ is derived from modified nerve or muscle tissue...
, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, harpsichordHarpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
, celesteCelestaThe celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone saxBaritone saxophoneThe baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
, special assistant, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal - Artie (With the Green Mustache) TrippArt TrippArthur Dyer Tripp III is a chiropractor and former musician best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band.-Early career:Tripp grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and started playing drums in...
– drums, timpaniTimpaniTimpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...
, vibesVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
, marimbaMarimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
, xylophoneXylophoneThe xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...
, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquiries - Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) SherwoodEuclid James SherwoodJim "Motorhead" Sherwood is 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...
– pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourineTambourineThe tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
, choreographyChoreographyChoreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies
Special thanks to:
- Ruth Komanoff – who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and
- Nelcy Walker – the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on "Dog Breath" & "The Uncle Meat Variations."
Uncredited:
- Pamela Zarubica as Suzy CreamcheeseSuzy CreamcheeseSuzy Creamcheese was a fictional vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. On the album Freak Out! , Suzy Creamcheese was played by Jeannie Vassoir; on Absolutely Free and Mothermania it was Lisa Cohen; and on We're Only in It for the Money and...
Production
- Frank Zappa – producer
- Jerry Hansen – engineer
- Euclid James Sherwood – equipment technician, choreographer
- Art Tripp – advisor
- Cal SchenkelCal SchenkelCal Schenkel is an artist specialising in album cover design. He was the main visual collaborator for Frank Zappa and was responsible for the art and graphic design of many of Zappa's most well-known album covers. Schenkel's work is iconic and distinctive in style; a forerunner of punk art and...
– package design - Roy Estrada – prop design
- Ian Underwood – copyist, public relations, special assistance
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Pop Albums | 43 |
Cover versions
"King Kong" has been covered by Babe RuthBabe Ruth (band)
Babe Ruth are a rock music group, primarily active through the 1970s, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Their characteristically 'heavy' sound is marked by powerful vocals from Janita Haan and full arrangements by Alan Shacklock...
on their album First Base
First Base (album)
First Base was the album by the rock music group Babe Ruth. Produced by Alan Shacklock and Nick Mobbs, released in 1972.The album went gold in Canada, sold well in the US, but had disappointing sales by comparison in the UK. The song "The Mexican" has been covered and mixed many times...
. It was also covered by The Residents
The Residents
The Residents is an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. The first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs....
in 1971; their version is available on The Residents Radio Special
The Residents Radio Special
The Residents Radio Special is an album released by The Residents in 1979. This cassette was a promotional item issued to radio stations shortly before the release of Eskimo. It was soon offered through the mail-order service in limited quantities on cassette. The cassette was re-released in 1980...
cassette and CD release and the 1991 CD Daydream B-Liver, as well as on internet-only bootlegs such as the still-officially-unreleased Baby Sex. Other cover versions of the song include one by the keyboard trio Niacin on their album "Organik" and one by Zappa collaborator Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.- Early years:Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians on 29 September 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano...
. The composition was also featured as a sax solo gag in the opening credits of four episodes of The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
.http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/The_Simpsons.html Independent hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
producer Madlib
Madlib
Otis Jackson Jr. in Oxnard, California, known professionally as Madlib, is a Los Angeles-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and music producer...
, who often references Zappa's work, samples "Sleeping in a Jar" on the Madvillain
Madvillain
Madvillain is a hip hop group consisting of MF DOOM and Madlib . Their debut album Madvillainy was met with wide critical acclaim for its unique approach—short songs, obscure lyrics, few choruses and a sound which was generally unfriendly to commercial radio.In 2006, Madvillain was featured on...
track "Meat Grinder." Also, Jon Poole
Jon Poole
Jon Poole is a British multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter best known for his work as guitarist for Cardiacs and as bass player for The Wildhearts .Poole is the frontman and main performer of God Damn Whores, and has also worked with the...
's album of Zappa cover versions, "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?", includes covers of "Uncle Meat", "Dog Breath", "The Legend Of The Golden Arches", and "Cruising For Burgers".