Personnel
- Musicians
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- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) – vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, musette, simran horn, hunting horn, jingle bells
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- The Magic Band
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- Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo) – "Glass Finger Guitar" (slide guitar using a glass slide), flute
- Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) – "Steel Appendage Guitar" (slide guitar using a metal slide), vocals on "Pena" and "The Blimp"
- Victor Hayden (The Mascara Snake) – bass clarinet, additional vocals
- Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) – bass guitar, narration on "Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish" and "Old Fart At Play"
- John French (Drumbo) – drums, percussion (uncredited on the original release)
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- Additional personnel
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- Doug Moon – guitar on "China Pig"
- Dick Kunc - speaking voice on "She's Too Much for My Mirror"(uncredited); engineer
- Gary "Magic" Marker – bass guitar on "Moonlight on Vermont", "Veteran's Day Poppy" (uncredited)
- Frank Zappa – speaking voice on "Ella Guru", "The Blimp", and "Pena"; credited as album producer
- Roy Estrada – bass guitar on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
- Arthur Tripp III – drums & percussion on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
- Don Preston – piano on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
- Ian Underwood and Bunk Gardner – alto and tenor saxophones on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
- Buzzed Gardner – trumpet on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
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