FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) as Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask, performed in London, October 25, 1968
  • part of the same recording heard in King Kong on Ahead Of Their Time (1993)
• Baby Snakes (The Movie) (1979) as part of Managua/Police Car/Drum Solo and King Kong/Roy's Halloween Gas Mask, performed in NYC, October 1977
  • same version on AAAFNRAA—Baby Snakes—The Compleat Soundtrack (2012) as Managua/Police Car/Drum Solo and King Kong/Roy's Halloween Gas Mask
  • part of the same performance in Video From Hell (1987)

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• September-October, 1968 (2nd MOI European Tour)—known performances: 3
• November, 1968-May, 1969 (MOI)—known performances: 3
• September-December, 1977 (North America)—known performances: 3

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1968: The actual "Gas Mask" track from the "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" album is a sample of the improvisation common during this tour. Originally taken from a Fall '68 performance, the title "Gas Mask" has come to mean any improvisational music highlighted (or possibly tainted?) by Roy Estrada's tortured and painful "singing". At the beginning of shows, during such Monster tunes as "King Kong" and "Little House", and liberally sprinkled through many a show, this type of improvisation pops up and provides that unique Mothers flavor to the music.