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
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