The Weasels - Meat The Weasels Volume 1: Fondue Cabaret

Meat The Weasels Volume 1: Fondue Cabaret

Inspired by the response to their Ear Jam performance, the expanded band polished their basement tapes and released Meat the Weasels: Volume 1, Fondue Cabaret in 1993. In addition to Fun, Weasell and Graf, this record featured Jon Cohen (bass guitar and slide whistle, sometimes billed as Jonny Weasel), Rocky Petrocelli (drums) and David Maynard (guitar). Maynard had once been a member of the New York Rubber Rock Band, whose 1975 single "Disco Lucy" was named "Worst Single of the Year" by Billboard Magazine.

The Weasels continued to perform live in support of their early material, though with continued instability in the drummer’s seat, which was occupied at various times in their early years by Petrocelli, Jordan Cohen (later of Powerman 5000 and Blue Man Group), Dave King, Doug Klein, Dan Roberts, Steve Scoons, Dave Berger and Steve Candlen, with the latter two emerging as drummers of choice for their middle recording period. The album’s opening cut, “Let the Killing Begin,” is the first in a series of Weasels songs about notorious killers, in this case Henry Lee Lucas. It incorporates a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the soliloquy from the Doors’ “The End”.

Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret included the following songs:

1. “Let the Killing Begin”
2. “Amway Man”
3. “Red Meat”
4. “Might As Well Try You” (Sometimes listed as “Might As Well Try Ewe”)
5. “Plastic Plant”
6. “Dancing On Your Grave”
7. “Have A Nice Day”
8. “Never Been to Jersey”
9. “Maybe You’re Dead”
10. “Put Your Finger in My Brain”
11. “When the Fat Lady Sings”
12. “Little Town Ashtray Disaster”