One of my favourites is when Frank Zappa says on Bongo Fury "Captain Beefheart on vocals, soprano sax, shopping bags and madness"

at the moment I am listening to Brainticket. Their Cottonwoodhill album has one Hellmuth Kolbe on 'potentiometers'. That's my new favourite. You can't really play a potentiometer as such - it's merely a volume control .. but still ... well done!!

On Nagisa Ni Te's early records, one of them is credited as providing "wind" :lol:

:lol: good one.

Another one of mine that springs to mind - although it's actually the title of the album and not a credit as such... is a late 60s album by Savatore Martirano called 'L's GA'... subtitled "For Gassed-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb and Two Channel Tape".

I know they're deeply uncool, but I always get a laugh out of the Pop Will Eat Itself production credit: Vestan Pance.

On the 1968 live album A Week At Klook's Kleek, the singer/guitarist of Ten Years After, Alvin Lee, is heard thanking Hitler, Mussolini, Mary Bell (the 1968 child-killer) and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

On one of FZs albums, he credited a musician with several things ending with "bobby pin and tweezers"

My favourite ever credit on a record sleeve is a single by Discharge (De-control I think) which says "Thanks to no fucker."

Also "Half Man Half Biscuit use other people's equipment" on Some Call It Godcore and "the Brodsky Quartet are on holiday" on Trouble Over Bridgwater.

Clayton getting thanks on Reformation was nice.

Not strictly true - doesn't potentiometers mean any knob that can adjut the level of any parameter - pitch/filtering/tone/modulation etc.?

I like the credits on Songs About Fucking, esp. :

'Steve uses and endorses heroin'

Josh would like to thank dr. Kevorkian (type o negative)

From Ghostface Killah's album Ironman: "I'd like to thank myself"

I think the tone knob also activates a pot, same as the volume knob.

Jinx Lennon Ireland's finest thanks MES on Live at the Spirit Store

Two faves of mine are Scottish band "The Headboys" album has "Nae Aphex, Nae Dolbies, Nae Bother" on the back; the other being the percussion credit on Be-Bop Deluxe's album "Live in the Air Age" which goes to "Cabasa El Dubova" , always liked that one. :applaud: :)

Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound has had a few interesting credits in his time - on a Current 93 record, he's credited for "hookah, bong", he's had "sheep ventilator guitar" (seemingly an actual instrument of his own creation) and simply "etc...". I know that the credits for "Pills Thrills And Bellyaches" have the entry "Bez - Bez" and I think Eno has had a similar credit.

I think my favourite is Blur - on the track "Miss America" (on "Modern Life Is Rubbish") where drummer Dave Rowntree is credited with "The Plough, Bloomsbury", which is the pub he was drinking in when the drumless song was recorded.

Slightly off of the main topic, but it is credits related... ;)

There is at least one track on Grace Slick's solo LP Manhole on which said artist is credited with absolutely nothing: she doesn't play, sing, write, produce or otherwise appear anywhere on the track.

That reminds me of an NME review of an Alan White (Yes drummer) solo album from the '70s...'Ramshackled'. The review pointed out that Alan White hadn't actually written any of the songs... sung them, produced the album ... nor indeed played drums on the album ... on his own solo record.

Nick mason's solo album Fictious Sports was to all intenst and purposes a Carla Bley album as she wrote the songs... and her band performed them. I don't think mason played drums on that one either.
What is it with 70s drummers and their solo albums?
Zoot will know

Credits of The Who's Quadrophenia:

John Entwistle: Bass, Horns, Vocals
Roger Daltrey: Lead Vocals
Keith Moon: Percussion, Vocals
Pete Townshend: Remainder

Oooooh, la-di-da.... :rolleyes:

Ha, I always thought that was quite cute and modest in a subtly boastful way (eh?)

I like the credit for the bloke in the latter Magic Band (was it Eric Drew Feldman?) credited as Air Bass - conjured up all sorts of strange images to an impressionable young rocker.

"Forget your name...even though you've been in the group for a while..."

Zappa on Tinseltown Rebellion

Bruce Lambourne Fowler.

An air bass is a synth bass, but he also played a bit of trombone in there to give it a rather unique effect.

Bill Bruford actually played drums on a solo LP of his I had, but it was better appreciated as an Annette Peacock album.

Thank you Zoot.

On Eno's "Some Of Them Are Old" he's credited with playing Snake Guitar.

I'm guessing it's because the lovely solo he plays on this, the lovliest of his songs, does sound a bit like a snake in its movement. Whether this would have been helpful for any Fall drummers being ordered to "play like a fookin snake!" I don't know.

I think that was the name Stockhausen gave to the sound projection unit he "plays" on some studio recordings.

Yeah, it's John Cale's great "Fear" album with "Eno:Eno", and on "The Stodge Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis he's credited with "Enossification", which is fair enough!

Don't want to get into a technical hoo-ha, but a potentiometer is simply a device for altering the amount of voltage going into a circuit. If you have dimmer switches on your lights or an elctric cooker with knobs on, that's a potentiometer.

My copy of The Residents "The Big Bubble" has an unmasked group photo (no, me neither), and standard muso credits (lead vocals, guitar, etc) given to 4 people: FRank Leone, Ramsay Whiten, Paul Sage, and Alex Beason. The Lp is dedicated to "Kula Bocca and the Zinkenite Protection Agency".

A google search led me into predicatably unpredictable dead ends: a kennel club and some type of metallic substance.....

Wasn't the photo (and presumably the names) of the fictitious group whose traumatic story was related in that album - the band being called The Big Bubble. Why, those wascally wesidents.

Sort of like Bowie/Ziggy...but more obscure.

I'm sure I've bought a few albums over the years that list "found objects" among the instruments: eg "My Life in the bush of ghosts", "pet Sounds".....but looking through my Einsturzende Neubauten LPs I was surprised that theirs aren't amongst them!

Brainticket's "Alchemic Universe" album (not a patch on the wonderfully trippy/groovy Cottonwoodhill BTW) has credits like: Lance Bunda -"Relics and Roll". Huh?!?

Perhaps my fave LOL credits moment is on Microdisney's "The Clock Comes Down the Stairs" in which someone called "Blah Blah" is credited with "Vocals, Keyboards, and Plastic Pubis".

Yeah, you're onto it. Part Four of the Mole Trilogy (!!)

I thought the Fall's Zeus B Held production credit was just Mark until I saw Mr Held was a member of 80s new romantics funksters Fashion.

PWEI's first LP is a fricken treat BTW! As varied and entertaining as they come. Up there with "3 foot high and rising" I say!

From The Slyvie and Babs Hi-fi Companion...

...featuring the last ever performance of Murray Fontana, a harbinger by nature, who killed himself in the name of music by successive acts of self indulgence.

(Actually A Nurse With Wound LP - like Octophone said, they have lots of strange credits)

From the first PiL album: "Public Image would like to thank absolutely nobody, thank you".

I reckon that's because NU Unruh made them into actual named instruments. My current set-up includes several instruments made by a friend and me (although Jon's the real handyman): The Tibbotron, The Hot Contender and The Endangered Guitar all look and (usually) sound great.

Just flicking through some Nurse With Wound LP's -

This record may be played at any speed
From 150 Murderous Passions

An Awkward Pause credits Scara Nishizato as playing... Stained-glass, mail box, wind-up fire breathing nun, voice. :lol:

Ha ha! THat's brilliant!! You've got a guaranteed purchase here, just for the sleeve credits.....

The Jazz Butcher's first album says File Under: Wigged Out.

I've always been impressed by that sound many mistake as a weird synth noise on the first two 13th Floor Elevators albums (you know the one). It's actually a guy tapping on a jug while he blows across it, somehow.

I imagine Bradx could tell us a little about the unusual instrumentation the Silver Apples used.

Yes, and that early REM album: File Under Fire; also Husker Du: File Under Water