First, a little history: as Mike Myers notes in the score, Frank Zappa first performed “Alien Orifice” on an MTV Halloween show in 1981. (You can see that performance on YouTube, by the way, with a very young Chad Wackerman on drums.) In 1986 Zappa recorded the work on the Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention album.
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