Orange County
The Orange County in California is bordered by the Pacific Ocean (south west), San Bernardino county (north east), Riverside County (east) and San Diego County (south east).
Among the notable locations within Orange County are Anaheim (where Disneyland is located), Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach.
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References to Orange County in Frank Zappa's work
- The Orange County Lumber Truck (a reference to Roy Estrada, who was a lumber truck driver in Orange County (source: Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stone Interviews Vol. 1, interview by Jerry Hopkins, in Rolling Stone, issue 14, 1968.))
- Billy The Mountain: "We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethell is still an active Communist... and it is this reporter's opinion that she also practices (coven!) witch-craft!"
- Son Of Orange County: a callback to Zappa's line "I'm not a crook!", referring to Richard Nixon, who was born in Orange County.
People born in Orange County
- Roy Estrada (born in Santa Ana)
- Richard Nixon (born in Yorba Linda, Orange County)
Frank Zappa about Orange County
"Now I didn't tell the guys what to wear; I merely suggested their mode of dress conform to what we were doing. I felt you couldn't play the sort of music we were playing and look the way some of the guys did – with processed pompadours. It took a year for some of the guys to change. You have to understand some of the guys lived in Orange County and they were afraid to go home if they looked too weird. After a while they gave in." - Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stone Interviews Vol. 1, interview by Jerry Hopkins, in Rolling Stone, issue 14, 1968.
"Jim Black, the drummer, had just come to California from Kansas. He got together with Roy Estrada, the bass player. They'd been working terrible jobs in Orange County, which is a bad place to live unless you belong to the John Birch Society." - Frank Zappa, The Incredible History Of The Mothers, Hit Parader, No. 48, June 1968.
