The LP included a large triple-folded dark as well as 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 showtime 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 afterwards nation inward an interview, comes from an actual snack that he enjoyed eating, consisting of a burnt Hebrew National hot domestic dog sandwiched betwixt ii pieces of breadstuff alongside mustard.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich as well as Weasels Ripped My Flesh were also reissued together on vinyl equally 2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention, alongside the master covers used equally the left as well as correct sides of the inner spread, as well as 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 meaning 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 by as well as large showcases the Mothers inward a alive setting, much of Burnt Weeny Sandwich features studio travel as well as structured Zappa compositions, similar the centerpiece of the album, "The Little House I Used to Live In", which consists of several movements as well as employs chemical compound meters such equally 11/8 alongside overlaid melodies inward 6/8 as well as 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 as well as Art Tripp afterwards 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 upward released equally a unmarried coupled alongside "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 fine 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 iv CD seat "Yvar Mikhashoff's Panorama of American Piano Music"
After guiding the Mothers of Invention to meaning critical honour as well as fifty-fifty little commercial success over the 2d one-half of the ‘60s, Frank Zappa welcomed 1970 equally a newly minted solo artist. But you lot wouldn’t necessarily know it based on his 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 as well as was credited to the defunct group.
Named after 1 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 upward flame, sticking it betwixt ii slices of bread, as well as snarfing it downward piece expediently returning to work, which, inward Zappa’s case, entailed filling endless pieces of newspaper alongside footling dark dots called notes.
‘Burnt Weeny Sandwich’ inward many ways mirrored the recipe for the snack inward that it somewhat hastily as well as haphazardly threw together songs of radically various trend as well as origin, equally was aptly represented past times creative mortal Cal Shenkel’s chaotic collage adorning the LP cover. As such, ii doo-wop covers — the Four Deuces’ “WPLJ” as well as Jackie & the Starlites’ “Valarie” — book-ended the other musical contents similar sparse slices of white bread. They may stimulate got harked dorsum to Zappa’s earliest musical influences, merely they had pretty much nil inward mutual alongside the musical condiments they surrounded.
These included a dazzling display of the Mothers’ ensemble virtuosity inward “Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich” (complete alongside blazing Pb guitar as well as constitute audio effects), a mutant bounding main shanty named “Aybe Sea” (named after its A-B-C chord progression) as well as a quartet of bite-sized avant-classical pieces inward “Igor’s Boogie, Phases 1 & 2,” “Overture to a Holiday inward Berlin” as well as “Holiday inward Berlin, Full Blown.” Though consistently stimulating, as well as typical of Zappa’s fearless genre-hopping tendencies, many of these songs were essentially leftovers from previous recording sessions alongside the late unemployed Mothers, as well as by as well as large 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 honey Mothers, inward all of their eclectic audaciousness nether the leadership as well as inward the service of Zappa’s singular vision. The recording fifty-fifty contains a snippet of heated repartee betwixt Zappa as well as 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 nearly goal clearing out his vaults of Mothers cloth afterwards inward the twelvemonth alongside 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 ii albums past times the Mothers of Invention that Frank Zappa released inward 1970, after he had disbanded the master lineup. While Weasels Ripped My Flesh focuses on complex cloth as well as improvised phase madness, this collection of studio as well as alive recordings summarizes the leader's various interests as well as influences at the time. It opens as well as closes on '50s popular covers, "WPLJ" as well as "Valarie." "Aybe Sea" is a Zappafied bounding main shanty, piece "Igor's Boogie" is named after composer Igor Stravinsky, the closest matter to a hero Zappa e'er worshipped. But the best cloth is represented past times "Holiday inward Berlin," a subject that would travel primal to the music of 200 Motels, as well as "The Little House I Used to Live In," including a virtuoso pianoforte solo past times Ian Underwood. Presented equally an extended seat of subject as well as variations, the latter does non accomplish the same heights equally "King Kong." In many places, as well as alongside the ii 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 or as well as thus direction, merely those allergic to the group's grunts as well as free-form playing volition prefer it to the wacky Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
Track listing
All songs written as well as composed past times 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 as well as 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, mayhap 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"
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