Difference between revisions of "The Mothers"
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== The Mothers Of Invention == | == The Mothers Of Invention == | ||
− | The Mothers | + | The Mothers Of Invention (#1) that recorded [[Freak Out!]] = [[Jimmy Carl Black]]: drums / [[Ray Collins]]: vocals / [[Roy Estrada]]: bass / [[Elliot Ingber]]: guitar / [[Frank Zappa]]: guitar / |
2) Add [[Billy Mundi]]: drums. | 2) Add [[Billy Mundi]]: drums. |
Revision as of 20:56, 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.
The Mothers Of Invention
The Mothers Of Invention (#1) that recorded Freak Out! = Jimmy Carl Black: drums / Ray Collins: vocals / Roy Estrada: bass / Elliot Ingber: guitar / Frank Zappa: guitar /
2) Add Billy Mundi: drums.
3) Replace Ingber with Jim Fielder: guitar / add Don Preston: keyboards and Bunk Gardner: horns. This band began recording Absolutely Free.
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