Frank zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Warren cucurullo (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Denny walley (slide guitar, vocals)
Ike willis (lead vocals)
Peter wolf (keyboards)
Arthur barrow (bass, vocals)
Ed mann (percussion)
Vinnie colaiuta (drums)

Central scrutinizer:
This is the central scrutinizerjoe has just worked himself into an imaginary frenzy during the fade- out of his imaginary songhe begins to feel depressed now he knows the end is near he
Ealized at last that imaginary guitar notes and imaginary vocals exist only in the imagination of the imaginerand ultimately, who gives a fuck anywaysoso excuse mesowho give
Uck anyway? so he goes back to his ugly little room and quietly dreams his last imaginary guitar solo

(after the song ends)

This is the central scrutinizeras you can see, music can get you pretty fucked uptake a tip from joe, do like he did, hock your imaginary guitar and get a good jobjoe did, and he?s a ha
Uy now, on the day shift at the utility muffin research kitchen, arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully-charged icing anointment utensil and every time a nice little muffin com
On the belt, he poots forth

And if this doesn?t convince you that music causes big troublethen maybe I should turn off my plastic megaphone and sing the last song on the album in my regular voice