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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • Previous album = [[2 Originals Of The Mothers Of Invention|Previous]] | # [[Son Of Mr. Green Genes]] (09:00)
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  • ...'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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  • ...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
    9 KB (1,611 words) - 16:09, 27 July 2021
  • Get ready for the Zappa of the Month Club. The family of the late [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] is putting together plans to release mus
    4 KB (662 words) - 06:23, 30 August 2021
  • ...[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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  • 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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  • 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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  • '''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>
    7 KB (1,271 words) - 12:13, 9 November 2021
  • ...= Penguin In Bondage / The Little Known History of the Mothers of Invention | <br>Of the bed
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  • 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
    9 KB (1,683 words) - 10:29, 28 July 2021
  • ...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.
    19 KB (3,561 words) - 07:44, 15 October 2021
  • ...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.
    16 KB (2,716 words) - 11:52, 21 December 2021
  • ...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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  • ...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.
    17 KB (2,867 words) - 14:18, 12 October 2021
  • ...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
    26 KB (4,783 words) - 09:05, 14 December 2021
  • 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
    25 KB (4,689 words) - 06:52, 4 October 2021
  • ...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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