Meat Light

Meat Light is a 3CD compilation of Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat recordings. It is project/object #5 in a series of 40th Anniversary FZ Audio Documentaries, following MOFO (2006), Lumpy Money (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

 * Frank Zappa — guitar, vocals, percussion
 * Ray Collins — vocals
 * Jimmy Carl Black — drums
 * Roy Estrada — electric bass, falsetto
 * Don Preston — electric piano
 * Billy Mundi — drums on some pieces
 * Bunk Gardner — piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon
 * Ian Underwood — electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax
 * Art Tripp — drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes
 * Euclid James Sherwood — tenor sax, tambourine
 * Ruth Komanoff — marimba, vibes
 * Nelcy Walker — vocals on "Dog Breath" and "The Uncle Meat Variations"
 * Theodore Holdt — cover art