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Spider of Destiny at 20:23, 31 July 2026

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Frank Zappa

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References to Lancaster in Zappa's work

Spider of Destiny at 16:35, 26 July 2026

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Spider of Destiny: /* References to Lancaster in Zappa's work */

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2026-07-26T16:30:17Z

References to Lancaster in Zappa's work

Spider of Destiny at 16:28, 26 July 2026

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Jason.Kreitzer at 02:14, 27 April 2026

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Duncan at 20:13, 4 May 2007

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 In 1958, Zappa's family and him moved to [[Claremont]], California.
 ==Frank Zappa about Lancaster==
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 Quoted from: ''[[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)]]'', 1992, by [[Don Menn]] and [[Matt Groening]].
-==References to Lancaster in Zappa's work==
+==Other quotes==
 ''"Lancaster was just a barren town, it seems like all the misfits from [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Bernardino]] counties were sent up there to get out of everybody else's face. There wasn't really anything to do there. You spent most of your time just wandering around through the desert, trying to occupy yourself with anything. That's probably why most people got into music or drinking all the time. On weekends that's about all there was to do. One boring town, believe me."'' - [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]] in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'' (1993).

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	In 1958, Zappa's family and him moved to [[Claremont]], California.		In 1958, Zappa's family and him moved to [[Claremont]], California.
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		+	==Frank Zappa about Lancaster==
		+	[[Matt Groening]]: '''You were in a band at that time, too, right? So you were just a degenerate.'''
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		+	'''Frank Zappa''': ''"Absolutely. The scum of the earth, as far as the people in Lancaster were concerned. See, I didn't know when I moved to Lancaster that, prior to my arrival, there had been an unfortunate experience with "Negroes" in the area. A group of black entertainers had come up from what they call "down below," the evil area below the high desert. They had come up. It was [[Big Jay McNeely]] and a bunch of other entertainers that had come to do a rock show at the fairgrounds, and along with them came people who were selling reefers and pills, and the founding fathers of the city decided never again shall this music enter our fair cowboy area. I didn't know any of this had happened. I moved there from [[San Diego]], and put a rhythm and blues band together, and decided to throw my own dance, and put up little posters just like in the 1950 movies with the help of this lady who ran the local record store. Her name was Elsie. We rented the women's club, and we were going to have our little dance there. And the day before the dance, walking down Lancaster Boulevard at 6:00 o'clock in the evening, I was arrested for vagrancy. They kept me in jail overnight, trying to make sure this dance wasn't going to come off."''
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		+	[[Don Menn]]: '''How old were you?'''
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		+	'''Frank Zappa''': ''"Seventeen."''
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		+	[[Matt Groening]]: '''So what happened?'''
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		+	'''Frank Zappa''': ''"I got out, and we had the dance."''
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		+	Quoted from: ''[[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)]]'', 1992, by [[Don Menn]] and [[Matt Groening]].

	==References to Lancaster in Zappa's work==		==References to Lancaster in Zappa's work==

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 Frank Zappa lived in Lancaster between 1956 and 1958, where he attended the [[Antelope Valley High School]], played in the bands [[The Blackouts]] and [[The Omens]] and had a relationship with [[Sandy Schwanekamp]] and later [[Kay Sherman]].
-During this period, he also made a phone call with [[Louise Varèse]] and [[Edgar Varèse]] and received a letter from Varèse. Zappa also met [[Don Van Vliet]], with whom he recorded ''[[Lost In A Whirlpool]]'' and ''[[The Search For Tom Dooley]]''. Other significant people from his career whom he met during this period were [[Denny Walley]] (a friend of [[Bobby Zappa]] a the time) and [[Ian Underwood]].
+During this period, he also made a phone call with [[Louise Varèse]] and [[Edgar Varèse]] and received a letter from Varèse. Zappa also met [[Don Van Vliet]], with whom he recorded ''[[Lost In A Whirlpool]]'' and ''[[The Search For Tom Dooley]]''. Other significant people from his career whom he met during this period were [[Denny Walley]] (a friend of [[Bobby Zappa]] at the time), [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]] (a classmate of [[Bobby Zappa]]) and [[Ian Underwood]].
 In 1958, Zappa's family and him moved to [[Claremont]], California.
 ==References to Lancaster in Zappa's work==

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 * ''[[Village Of The Sun]]'': ''"I went to high school in Lancaster, which is not very far from [[Palmdale]]."''
 * ''[[Be-Bop Tango]]'': Zappa says [[Brenda]] the stripper performed at Edwards Air Force Base, earlier.
 ==See also==

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 * ''[[Billy The Mountain]]'': Billy the Mountain and Ethell the Tree destroy Edwards Air Force Base.
 * ''[[Village Of The Sun]]'': ''"I went to high school in Lancaster, which is not very far from [[Palmdale]]."''
-* ''[[Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church]])'': Zappa says [[Brenda]] the stripper performed at Edwards Air Force Base, earlier.
+* ''[[Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)]]'': Zappa says [[Brenda]] the stripper performed at Edwards Air Force Base, earlier.
 ==See also==

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 [[File:Lancasterca.jpg|thumb|right]]
-Lancaster, California
+'''Lancaster''' is a city in [[California]], close to the [[Mojave Desert]] and [[Edwards Air Force Base]].
-==Link==
+==Frank Zappa==
 *[[Wikipedia: Lancaster,_California]]
-[[Category:Geography]]
+[[Category:Cities]]

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	Lancaster, California		Lancaster, California
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		+	==Link==
		+	*[[Wikipedia: Lancaster,_California]]

	[[Category:Geography]]		[[Category:Geography]]

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