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• Mother’s Day Has Finally Come
  ...ncement that the Mothers had cancelled all bookings from now until the end of the year so Zappa could concentrate on other projects long in progress. A t ...o figure out what we’ve done already before we do any more". The last live Mothers performance was in Montreal. The last 'otherwise' performance was a televis
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• More Polemics From Pop Satirist
  ...and "The Present Day Composer Refuses to Die." The group is the Mothers of Invention, spearheaded by [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]. ..., a two-record set, anticipated many of the strange rhythmic "innovations" of the last album by [[the Rolling Stones]], "Their Satanic Majesties Request.
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• The Mothers Are Dead, But Zappa's Still Very Much Alive
  ...re dead. Killed by a public apathy towards a style of music which the rest of the world will catch up with maybe around 1975. After Frank Zappa had announced that he and his loveable bunch of freaks were no longer together, the MM rang him at his Los Angeles home to
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• Schallplattenclub box
  Previous album = [[2 Originals Of The Mothers Of Invention|Previous]] | # [[Son Of Mr. Green Genes]] (09:00)
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• Interview With Bunk Gardner, 92-11
  ...'re supposed to make?' Later on we certainly did have fun along with a lot of hard work and bizarre experiences playing and partying from 1966 to 1970. ...each other quite well and we all have memories that we'll cherish the rest of our lives.
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• Zappa vs. The Mothers Of Prevention
  ...Guthrie|Woody Guthrie]] sang his lungs out to call attention to the plight of the American laborer. [[Bob Dylan]] smelled something wrong with American s ...r apathy in his youthful audience by registering thousands of fans at each of his concerts and urging them to make their voices heard in this presidentia
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• Not Just In It For The Money
  Get ready for the Zappa of the Month Club. The family of the late [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] is putting together plans to release mus
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• The Truth Is – They're Not As Ugly As Their Pictures
  ...[Biography|Frank Zappa]] and the Mothers of Invention took the aware youth of Britain by storm last week and – perhaps – made them just a bit more aw Within a few days of their arrival they upset a dozen preconceived ideas about their views and m
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• Absolutely Free: The Complete Libretto
  all the words on the record<br> ...ccompany the [[Verve Records|VERVE]] recording V/V6-5013 by THE MOTHERS of INVENTION.<br>
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• Zappa and the Mothers: Ugly Can Be Beautiful
  from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, ISBN 9780394705354, edited by Jonathan Ei A Vintage Book, a division of RANDOM HOUSE, New York.<br>
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• Suzy Creamcheese (What's Got Into You?)
  '''FZ:''' Well, I'll have to answer you in the same tone of voice that you asked …<br> '''FZ:''' It's very simple, it's really very simple. First of all there was no Suzy Creamcheese to begin with …<br>
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• Penguin In Bondage / The Little Known History of the Mothers of Invention
  ...= Penguin In Bondage / The Little Known History of the Mothers of Invention | <br>Of the bed
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• Zappa – The Great Satirist
  Most of us would probably get quite a shock if he did for we each seem to have inve ...ve as their own. There are record company executives who regard him as one of the most cunning capitalists in the business. There are musicians who consi
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• Billy's Private Parts
  ...of which went well beyond the realms of this mag. However, here are chunks of the FZ relevant sections. ...bar bands. I was drummer for him, playing a lot of cover garbage and some of his stuff in the clubs, not making hardly any money.
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• Frank Zappa: The Mother of Us All
  ...ich might merit the term 'progress' would be an increase in the percentage of intelligent human beings." And he added: "Those who work toward this goal a ...s, but no more than other musicians I have met, and Zappa himself is a man of striking sobriety. Sometimes, he even made me feel frivolous.
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• That Ol' "Fish Thing"
  ...ics tend to upset adults and industry executives, took another bite of his club sandwich and placed another banderilla into the music industry's side. ...meback, anything is possible – if [[Richard Nixon]] can do it, why not one of his chief nemeses? Tonight, 12 years since his last concert in the nation's
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• Frank Zappa's Revenge
  ...interview when the conversation winds around to one of his favored topics of condemnation: organized religion. To be more specific, television evangelis ...exhibited, shit-eating grin was easily detectable despite over 2000 miles of telephone line. It was clearly evident ... Zappa was pleased.
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• Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
  ...rarely find much to laugh about in such broadsides, but Zappa remains one of rock's sharpest wits. ...n, finally, they got a record player, and I think the first rhythm & blues record that I got was "Riot in Cell Block #9" by [[The Robins]]. And shortly there
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• Mother In Lore
  If "necessity be the mother of invention," Frank Zappa is then an obscene colloquialism. Francis Vincent Zappa Jr, 33, born of Sicilian/Greek parentage, is not a necessity; he is mandatory. The obligato
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• Gold From California: Alice Stuart Is Back
  ...thers of Invention and her ability to kick serious butt in the blues clubs of California during the seventies, seem, like her two albums for Fantasy to b ...inished me off. Morrison part Sinatra, alot of Ray Charles and a whole lot of soul. John Platania's guitar solo in 'I Just Want Make Love To You' just ab
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• 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago with Studs Terkel
  Transcription of the MP3 residing at [http://tasutpen.net/zappaterkel868.mp3 Tasutpen.net]<b ...y first album, at [[Verve Records|Verve]] put-out [[Freak Out!]], ah, some of the lines come to mind, ah, the instrumentation, the strange kind comes to
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• Mudsharks, Motels and Mothers
  ...e road with [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] – including a preview of [[200 Motels]]. [[Image:framewidth.jpg|frame|'''"Frank, my balance went of to were it seamed I should mayby be dead except Greg Lake said to SAVE ever
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• Zappa's Inferno
  ...geles. "I could be just as happy if all this" – gesturing toward the array of equipment that surrounds him in this devil's advocate's workshop – "were ...ially the guitarists he has introduced to the world through his succession of bands: [[Lowell George]], [[Adrian Belew]], [[Warren Cuccurullo]] and [[Ste
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• Frank's Wild Years, '93
  For almost 30 years, [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] has been at the cutting edge of what can loosely be defined as avant garde rock. Now aged 53 and in ailing Technically, what follows is not an interview at all, rather the result of an unplanned and hastily improvised conversation that took place in the Hol
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• Is This Phase One Of The Best Of Frank Zappa?
  <br>"I never had any intention of writing rock music," [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] told me during an interview ...pop music stupor, Zappa used poignant satire, goofy humor and hefty doses of snarling rock to provoke his audiences to think.
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• We're Only In It For The Money
  ...] spoofed the cover of [[the Beatles]]' 1967 [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]. [[The Mothers]]:
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• Pop Chronicles interview
  ...ollection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas]. Parts of this interview were included in the Pop Chronicles documentary, but Zappa s ...=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas].
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• The Rolling Stone Interviews Vol. 1
  Editors of Rolling Stone<br> ...others.) Utilizing what he calls "visual aids" and creating a vast complex of musical style and technique (based on everyone from the Penguins to [[Edgar
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• Zappa On Air
  ...Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman... ...f freak-rock. Join me for an Innerview of one of the most creative mothers of rock n roll, Frank Zappa.
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• Das Capitalist
  ..."[[The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing]]." For a quarter of a century, creator of the weirdest, most satirical, most provocative music you couldn't find on t .... It's not strictly financial. As far as Frank's concerned, he's a citizen of the world. "
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• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!
  [[Image:68_MOI_Germany.jpg|right|none|thumb|300px|'''The Mothers of Invention in Germany, 1968.'''<br>Copyright: Getty Images.]] May 1968: early morning in the sprawling, 18-room log cabin on the corner of [[Laurel Canyon|Laurel Canyon Boulevard]] and ''Lookout Mountain Drive'' wh
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• One Size Fits All Interview
  ...Mothers|The Mothers Of Invention]] – is at 36 probably the elder statesman of progressive rock and roll. Though most people first credit Zappa for his ad ...most articulate and controversial satirists on "pop music weirdness." Some of the Baltimore-born artist's side projects have included producing an album
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• Biography
  ...century. But note Zappa's [[ A Proposal For A System To Replace Phonograph Record Merchandising]], which anticipated digital downloading and streaming servic ...d put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to.... I could do this twenty ways. The material is de
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• Frank Zappa, 82/06
  Record Review, June 1982<br> ...current situation in the music industry as well as touching on highlights of a long and changing career.''
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• Frank Kofsky interviews FZ
  from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, edited by Jonathan Eisen<br> A Vintage Book, a division of RANDOM HOUSE, New York.<br>
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• Pulse Interview
  ...n '65, while the [[wikipedia:Watts Riots|Watts riots]] were escalating out of control, the song is eerily appropriate nearly 30 years later, when the cit 'Cause the color of your skin<br>
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• What's A Mother To Do?
  ...m.' Right sign: 'Anybody who can get a Frank Zappa L.P. even to the bottom of the top ten is o.k. in my booklet –F.Z.']] ...ng poorly; a nagging flu had begun to affect his appetite and the prospect of regaining his health with three straight concerts to go before a day off, s
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• You Call That Music? (The Article)
  ...ties of scheduling lockouts in commercial studios, had constructed a state-of-the-art personal studio, the [[Utility Muffin Research Kitchen]] (UMRK). An ...going to get the kind of equalization that you have in a Neve console out of a little portable Midas board."
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• Interview: Frank Zappa
  ...New York's St. Regis Hotel, supervised by his gigantic bodyguard, for most of the interview). He has worked with [[Zubin Mehta]], [[Ringo Starr]], and th ...of his own making – and not a bad place to be. He has a very clear picture of what the sixties were really all about, and as far as his own image is conc
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• Zappa, 79/8
  ...ner into our camp." While other groups were advocating peace and love, the Mothers would insult their audiences onstage. And they were anything but beautiful. ...of Zappa sustaining one of the longest, most prolific careers in the field of rock.
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• Zappa, City paper, 94-1
  Like the lion's share of interesting Baltimore-born artists, [[Biography|Frank Vincent Zappa]], Jr., When Zappa died last month, a victim of prostate cancer at 52, you didn't hear much about the man's local roots in
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• Frank Zappa, Unholy Mother
  ''In this rare Interview, Zappa looks back on 28 years of guitar-playing Motherhood and provides more clues to [[Conceptual Continuit ...usic Fair. It features the [[Ensemble Modern]] playing Zappa's music, some of it already familiar to us from albums like '[[Uncle Meat]]' and '[[Roxy & E
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• The Zappa Legacy
  <blockquote>Veterans of his keyboard chair recall the life & work of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]</blockquote><br> ...ng nearly as tawdry), and composer (see below) succumbed after three years of battling prostate cancer. Or, as the Zappa family put it in an official sta
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• Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy
  ...]], the Czech playwright-turned-politician, and [[Matt Groening]], creator of "[[The Simpsons]]", make an odd pair. Yet in separate interviews, when aske ...ime in the magazine's history, an issue of Playboy both announces the Hall of Fame winner and features him in the interview.
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• I'm Different or Not Exactly Duane Allman
  ...erforming in London in 1971, he was pushed from a stage by an irate member of the audience, and suffered a compound leg fracture and many bruises.<br> ...g Witch]]), However, airplay for the overwhelming majority of his hundreds of songs has been sporadic at best.<br>
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• Relix Magazine's April/May '06 special on Frank Zappa
  *'''The Many Minds of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'''<br> Pioneer, prankster, musical genius and more – we celebrate the life and times of the one and only Frank Zappa.<br>
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• The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)
  '''The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)<br> ...was also called "''Belgian Waffles in Plastic''". During this second part of the final conversation, cartoonist [[Matt Groening]] ''([[wikipedia:Life in
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