Elliot Ingber

Elliot Ingber joined The Mothers in the Fall of 1965, shortly after their signing with Verve/MGM. One might call Elliot FZ's first 'stunt' guitarist... Ingber provided guitar for Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5, The Lost Episodes, and Mystery Disc. He can be seen in the Zappa movies Uncle Meat (The Film) and Video From Hell.

Recorded an album Fraternity Of Man with Fraternity Of Man in 1968, containing a cover of "Oh No I Don't Believe It"...

From the "biographical trivia" section on the Freak Out! (1966) album: ... Moved into my recording studio, joined forces with Ray, Jim and Roy, schemed and plotted for a year, working in beer joints, blah, blah, starved a lot, etc... played a lot of freaky music & stayed vastly unpopular (though notorious). OWE OUR EXISTENCE to Mark Cheka for his initial encouragement and sterling example (and to a whole bunch of other people who are going to be bugged because their names aren't listed in detail, with addresses and pertinent facts about what they like about the government & their other fetishes). Ray used to be a carpenter and a bartender and sing with Little Julian Herrera & The Tigers (note the falsetto part in 'I REMEMBER LINDA')... been singing R&B for ten to twelve years. Jim got fired from some idiot band in Kansas, forcing him to move to California. Lucky for us. Seems he just couldn't get turned on playing " Louie, Louie" all night... it must have hurt him deeply when they rejected him. Roy is an asthmatic Pachuco, good-natured excellent bass player, involved in the R&B scene here for about ten years. He is unbelievably tolerant. I don't understand it. Elliot digs the blues. He has a big dimple in his chin. We made him grow beard to cover it up. He just got out of the Army. Lucky for the Army. THEY ARE ALL MUSICIANS.