Difference between revisions of "The Mothers"
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== The Mothers == | == The Mothers == | ||
| + | Once the [[Soul Giants]] started playing FZ's compositions, they needed a more appropriate name. The Blackouts was used, as was Captain Glasspack & The Magic Mufflers. They eventually settled (on May, 10, "Mothers Day" 1964, legend has it) on The Mothers. There were some personnel changes before they recorded their first album: | ||
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| + | #1) The Soul Giants/Mothers = [[Jimmy Carl Black]]: drums / [[Ray Collins]]: vocals / [[Roy Estrada]]: bass / [[Frank Zappa]]: guitar. | ||
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| + | #2) Add [[Alice Stuart]]: guitar, vocals to the above. | ||
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| + | #3) Replace Stuart with [[Henry Vestine]]: guitar. | ||
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| + | #4) Replace Vestine with [[Steve Mann]]: guitar / Collins with [[Jim Guercio]]: guitar, vocals. | ||
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| + | #5) Replace Guercio with Collins / Mann with [[Elliott Ingber]]: guitar. | ||
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| + | #6) Add [[Denny Bruce]]: drums. | ||
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| + | #7) Subtract Bruce. | ||
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| + | On March 1, 1966 The Mothers signed a two-year, five-album record deal with verve/mgm. mgm had the band change their name to the mothers of invention and they started recording their first album. | ||
== The Mothers Of Invention == | == The Mothers Of Invention == | ||
Revision as of 19:53, 22 March 2005
The name of several different Zappa bands (and even more permutations of those different bands), loosely defined by the 3 syntactual derivations below. The name reportedly means "motherfucker" as applied to a musician's slang term for any musician who could really play well; i.e. "That cat's a motherfucker!".
The Muthers
A pick-up band that FZ employed to play bar gigs in the SoCal desert.
The Mothers
Once the Soul Giants started playing FZ's compositions, they needed a more appropriate name. The Blackouts was used, as was Captain Glasspack & The Magic Mufflers. They eventually settled (on May, 10, "Mothers Day" 1964, legend has it) on The Mothers. There were some personnel changes before they recorded their first album:
- 1) The Soul Giants/Mothers = Jimmy Carl Black: drums / Ray Collins: vocals / Roy Estrada: bass / Frank Zappa: guitar.
- 2) Add Alice Stuart: guitar, vocals to the above.
- 3) Replace Stuart with Henry Vestine: guitar.
- 4) Replace Vestine with Steve Mann: guitar / Collins with Jim Guercio: guitar, vocals.
- 5) Replace Guercio with Collins / Mann with Elliott Ingber: guitar.
- 6) Add Denny Bruce: drums.
- 7) Subtract Bruce.
On March 1, 1966 The Mothers signed a two-year, five-album record deal with verve/mgm. mgm had the band change their name to the mothers of invention and they started recording their first album.
