Christine Frka
Christine Frka was one of the seven members of the GTO's, arriving on LA's Sunset Strip music scene from San Pedro accompanied by Sandra Leano. The pair of them occupied the basement of The Log Cabin when Carl Franzoni was in residence with his commune. In the group she was referred to as Miss Christine. Ex GTO's member Pamela Des Barres cites in her recent book: "Miss Christine died on November 5th, 1972, of a drug overdose in a hotel room after spending close to a year in a full body cast to correct her crooked spine".
FZ in The Real Frank Zappa Book: "The residents at that time included my wife, Gail; my secretary, Pauline Butcher; our road manager, Dick Barber; Pamela Zarubica; Ian Underwood; Motorhead Sherwood; and a girl named Christine Frka - the woman on the cover of the Hot Rats album crawling out of the crypt. Christine Frka was our baby-sitter, along with Pamela Des Barres."
Miss Christine of the GTO's.
Miss Christine's Story: She, too was born in San Pedro of Yugoslav parents. She was a "sickly kid," she says, and had a "big complex about being skinny." (She is tall and lean, the type of girl who would have been called "beanpole" by her schoolmates.) "Pop music brought it all together for me socially," she said. "It brought people together, it gave me friends." She says she is the cold, cruel one in the group, but she's not. She's bright and quite outgoing. She met Zappa when he returned to LA from New York for a concert, when she was living in Franzoni's commune. "We talk about groups a lot," she said. "That's because it's glamourous and because we're very young. If you have a fave rave in a band, it's like having a soldier in the war; you write him letters and you worry about him." When Zappa returned to LA for good, she became his housekeeper and governess to Moon Unit, Frank's daughter. "Mercy and I sent the Velvet Underground a dozen roses with our pictures on the back," she said. "You can't be subtle."
