The LP included a large triple-folded dark too white poster ("The Mothers of Invention Sincerely Regret to Inform You") which has never been reproduced inward whatsoever of the CD reissues. Until the 2012 Zappa Family Trust reissue campaign, CD editions had a severe dropout at the starting fourth dimension of "The Little House I Used to Live In" that wasn't nowadays on the master LP pressing. This is Official Release #9.
The album's odd title, Zappa would after tell inward an interview, comes from an actual snack that he enjoyed eating, consisting of a burnt Hebrew National hot domestic dog sandwiched betwixt 2 pieces of staff of life amongst mustard.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich too Weasels Ripped My Flesh were also reissued together on vinyl every bit 2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention, amongst the master covers used every bit the left too correct sides of the inner spread, too the front end encompass depicting a pistol shooting toothpaste onto a toothbrush.
The album was essentially a 'posthumous' Mothers release having been released after Frank Zappa dissolved the band.
Ian Underwood's contributions are pregnant on this album. The album, similar its counterpart Weasels Ripped My Flesh, comprises tracks from the Mothers vault that were non previously released. Whereas Weasels to a greater extent than oftentimes than non showcases the Mothers inward a alive setting, much of Burnt Weeny Sandwich features studio move too structured Zappa compositions, similar the centerpiece of the album, "The Little House I Used to Live In", which consists of several movements too employs chemical compound meters such every bit 11/8 amongst overlaid melodies inward 6/8 too 4/4.
The guitar solo part of the "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" is an outtake from an unused extended version of "Lonely Little Girl" from the 1967 sessions for the We're Only inward It for the Money LP. Zappa too Art Tripp after added multiple percussion overdubs for the released version (The source recordings for the percussion overdubs were issued inward 2012 on the posthumous Zappa release Finer Moments nether the championship "Enigmas 1-5").
"Valarie" was originally intended to hold out released every bit a unmarried coupled amongst "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama". However, either Zappa or his label, Reprise Records, cancelled its release, resulting inward its inclusion on the LP.
"Igor's Boogie" is a reference to a major Zappa influence, composer Igor Stravinsky.
Cal Schenkel has noted that his unique encompass art for Burnt Weeny Sandwich was originally commissioned for the encompass of an Eric Dolphy release.
The pianoforte introduction of "The Little House I Used to Live in" appears inward Yvar Mikhashoff's 4 CD seat "Yvar Mikhashoff's Panorama of American Piano Music"
After guiding the Mothers of Invention to pregnant critical honor too fifty-fifty pocket-size commercial success over the 2d one-half of the ‘60s, Frank Zappa welcomed 1970 every bit a newly minted solo artist. But y'all wouldn’t necessarily know it based on his of late disbanded group’s lingering presence all over Zappa’s initiative of all album of the novel year, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, which arrived inward stores inward Feb 1970 too was credited to the defunct group.
Named after i of Zappa’s favorite snacks inward times of hunger emergency, the burnt weeny sandwich essentially consisted of flash-roasting a hot domestic dog over an opened upwards flame, sticking it betwixt 2 slices of bread, too snarfing it downward spell expediently returning to work, which, inward Zappa’s case, entailed filling endless pieces of newspaper amongst piddling dark dots called notes.
‘Burnt Weeny Sandwich’ inward many ways mirrored the recipe for the snack inward that it somewhat hastily too haphazardly threw together songs of radically various trend too origin, every bit was aptly represented yesteryear artist Cal Shenkel’s chaotic collage adorning the LP cover. As such, 2 doo-wop covers — the Four Deuces’ “WPLJ” too Jackie & the Starlites’ “Valarie” — book-ended the other musical contents similar sparse slices of white bread. They may create got harked dorsum to Zappa’s earliest musical influences, only they had pretty much cipher inward mutual amongst the musical condiments they surrounded.
These included a dazzling display of the Mothers’ ensemble virtuosity inward “Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich” (complete amongst blazing atomic number 82 guitar too establish audio effects), a mutant bounding main shanty named “Aybe Sea” (named after its A-B-C chord progression) too a quartet of bite-sized avant-classical pieces inward “Igor’s Boogie, Phases 1 & 2,” “Overture to a Holiday inward Berlin” too “Holiday inward Berlin, Full Blown.” Though consistently stimulating, too typical of Zappa’s fearless genre-hopping tendencies, many of these songs were essentially leftovers from previous recording sessions amongst the of late unemployed Mothers, too to a greater extent than oftentimes than non an practise inward cupboard cleaning.
The biggest unmarried ingredient packing this savory musical hoagie was a near-20-minute concert functioning entitled “The Little House I Used to Live In.” Recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall inward June 1969, the song’s extended improvisations provided an epic send-off to the dearest Mothers, inward all of their eclectic audaciousness nether the leadership too inward the service of Zappa’s singular vision. The recording fifty-fifty contains a snippet of heated repartee betwixt Zappa too an audience fellow member that spawned his famous critique of all the bloom children present: “Everybody inward this room is wearing a uniform.”
Everyone, that is, except for Zappa, who would nigh destination clearing out his vaults of Mothers cloth after inward the twelvemonth amongst the release of Weasels Ripped My Flesh. In October, Zappa released Chunga’s Revenge, which introduced the initiative of all of many novel Mothers lineups that would dorsum him over the decade ahead.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich is the initiative of all of 2 albums yesteryear the artist/mothers-of-invention-mn0000405522">Mothers of Invention that artist/frank-zappa-mn0000138699">Frank Zappa released inward 1970, after he had disbanded the master lineup. While Weasels Ripped My Flesh focuses on complex cloth too improvised phase madness, this collection of studio too alive recordings summarizes the leader's various interests too influences at the time. It opens too closes on '50s popular covers, "WPLJ" too "Valarie." "Aybe Sea" is a artist/zappa-mn0000138699">Zappafied bounding main shanty, spell "Igor's Boogie" is named after composer Igor Stravinsky, the closest affair to a hero artist/zappa-mn0000138699">Zappa always worshipped. But the best cloth is represented yesteryear "Holiday inward Berlin," a topic that would move fundamental to the music of 200 Motels, too "The Little House I Used to Live In," including a virtuoso pianoforte solo yesteryear artist/ian-underwood-mn0000062688">Ian Underwood. Presented every bit an extended seat of topic too variations, the latter does non accomplish the same heights every bit "King Kong." In many places, too amongst the 2 aforementioned exceptions inward mind, Burnt Weeny Sandwich sounds similar a seat of outtakes from Uncle Meat, which already summarized to an extent the adventures of the early on Mothers. It lacks around direction, only those allergic to the group's grunts too free-form playing volition prefer it to the wacky Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
Track listing
All songs written too composed yesteryear Frank Zappa except where noted.
No. Title Length
1. "WPLJ" (The Four Deuces) 3:02
2. "Igor's Boogie, Phase One" 0:40
3. "Overture to a Holiday inward Berlin" 1:29
4. "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" 4:35
5. "Igor's Boogie, Phase Two" 0:35
6. "Holiday inward Berlin, Full Blown" 6:27
7. "Aybe Sea" 2:45
8. "The Little House I Used to Live in" 18:42
9. "Valarie" (Jackie too the Starlites) 3:14
Personnel
Frank Zappa – organ, guitar, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums
Roy Estrada – bass, backing vocals, Pachuco rap on "WPLJ"
Janet Ferguson – backing vocals on "WPLJ"
Bunk Gardner – horn, wind
Buzz Gardner - trumpet
Billy Mundi – drums (uncredited, left grouping inward Dec 1967, peradventure played on "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich")
Lowell George – guitar, vocals
Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "The Little House I Used to Live In"
Don Preston – bass, piano, keyboards
Jim Sherwood – guitar, vocals, wind
Art Tripp – drums, percussion
Ian Underwood – guitar, piano, keyboards, wind
John Balkin – bass on "WPLJ", string bass on "Overture to a Holiday inward Berlin"
EmoticonEmoticon