I can not emphasize enough, my appreciation for this man's, and this group's work. Frank Zappa has said that the original band was good, but lacked the ability to perform his more difficult material. Combine this with the cost of touring this band, and it just did a nose-dive into the ground. It's kind of difficult to figure what the whole story was, because Don Preston has said that Zappa complained about the the band being too big and expensive to tour, but kept adding personnel nonetheless. "Freak Out" was recorded when The Mothers existed as a five-piece, and there are at least ten musicians on this, but the end result doesn't suffer; even though it's left-over material, it's top-notch left-over material. I just don't think any of it fit into any existing format of the band's work up to that point. The same with "Weasels Ripped My Flesh."