Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Original 1970 German Reprise label 6-track Stereo LP - Alternate Artwork

Scarce original 1970 German Reprise Records 6-track stereo vinyl LP - the second album that Zappa released after disbanding the Mothers Of Invention in 1969 - featuring an almost equal mix live recordings and studio material and full of cross-references to avant-garde/free jazz and modern classical music.

Vinyl has the generic tan steamship labels with boxed orange ':r' logo above company name - housed in outer laminated picture cover featuring Dieter Boé alternate artwork displaying a metal doll bleeding away in a rat trap.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG+(+) (Cover):
Vinyl is bright and lustrous - has a touch of extremely light and fine sleeve marks - combined with just a touch of faint sleeve wear.
Labels are equally near mint and has less than a handfull of barely traceable spindmarks... probably more a couple or three faint, but slightly scattered ones - which kind of supports the thought that this album was just played a very few times and handled well when so.

Cover has few light spine edge wrinkles and laminate has started to lift in the upper corners and opening region. Front and back centre are otherwise extremely nice - superglossy surface with intact deep and unfaded colours underneath.

Seams are intact with a couple of cm's crack in the laminate/sleeve against opening and 1 cm barely noticeable wear a few cm's from spine. Spine and the imediate area around it has light sun-discolouration - perfectly readable though. Corners are nice - spine corners pointy and a with almost no visible denting - opening corners with very light dents and almost no rubbibf - a simply extremely nice cover - which normally only turns up wrecked - this one is close to near perfect/excellent - an overall way above awerage copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Didja Get Any Onya (March 2, 1969, Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia) 3:44
2. Directly from My Heart to You (Richard Wayne Penniman) (July 1969, TTG Recording Studios, Hollywood) 5:17
3. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask (October 25, 1968, Royal Festival Hall, London) 3:35
4. Toads of the Short Forest (August 1969, Whitney Studios, Glendale and February 7?8, 1969, Thee Image, Miami) 4:48
5. Get a Little (February 13, 1969, The Factory, New York) 2:35

Side 2:
1. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (June 1969, A&R Studios, New York) 6:53
2. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula (December 1967 - February 1968, Apostolic Studios, New York) 2:12
3. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (February 1969, Criteria Studios, Miami and August?September 1969, T.T.G. Studios, Hollywood) 3:35
4. Oh No (December 1967 - February 1968, Apostolic Studios, New York) 1:46
5. The Orange County Lumber Truck (October 25, 1968, Royal Festival Hall, London) 3:18
6. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (May 30, 1969, Town Hall, Birmingham) 2:05

Credits:
Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black - drums
Ray Collins - vocals
Roy Estrada - bass, vocals
Bunk Gardner - tenor saxophone
Lowell George - rhythm guitar, vocals
Don "Sugarcane" Harris - vocals, electric violin
Don Preston - organ, electronic effects
Buzz Gardner - trumpet and flugel horn
Motorhead Sherwood - baritone saxophone, snorks
Art Tripp - drums
Ian Underwood - alto saxophone

Technical Credits:
Frank Zappa - Production

Artwork:
Dieter Boé - Cover Art