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Contents
Articles
Overview 1
Frank Zappa 1
The Mothers of Invention 27
Discography 35
Frank Zappa discography 35
Studio albums 43
Freak Out! 43
Absolutely Free 50
We're Only in It for the Money 54
Lumpy Gravy 60
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 66
Hot Rats 70
Chunga's Revenge 75
Waka/Jawaka 78
The Grand Wazoo 80
Over-Nite Sensation 84
Apostrophe (') 87
One Size Fits All 91
Zoot Allures 94
Studio Tan 98
Sleep Dirt 101
Sheik Yerbouti 104
Joe's Garage 109
You Are What You Is 117
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch 120
The Man from Utopia 123
Them or Us 127
Thing-Fish 129
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention 135
Jazz from Hell 138
Civilization Phaze III 140
Live albums 145
Fillmore East – June 1971 145
Just Another Band from L.A. 149
Roxy & Elsewhere 151
Bongo Fury 155
Zappa in New York 157
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar 162
Tinseltown Rebellion 166
Broadway the Hard Way 169
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life 172
Make a Jazz Noise Here 175
Playground Psychotics 177
Ahead of Their Time 180
Guitar 182
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 186
FZ:OZ 204
Halloween 207
Imaginary Diseases 209
Trance-Fusion 210
Buffalo 213
Wazoo 216
One Shot Deal 218
Philly '76 222
Soundtracks 224
200 Motels 224
Baby Snakes 229
The Dub Room Special 231
Does Humor Belong in Music? 233
Uncle Meat 235
Classical music 241

Orchestral Favorites 241
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 244
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger 247
Francesco Zappa 250
The Yellow Shark 252
Everything Is Healing Nicely 255
Compilations 257
Mothermania 257
Burnt Weeny Sandwich 260
Weasels Ripped My Flesh 263
The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa 267
Strictly Commercial 268
The Lost Episodes 273
Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute 276
Have I Offended Someone? 278
Strictly Genteel 280
Mystery Disc 281
Cucamonga 284
Cheap Thrills 285
Son of Cheep Thrills 287
Joe's Corsage 288
Quaudiophiliac 290
Joe's Xmasage 292
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle (2006) 294
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle (2008) 296
Joe's Domage 299
Joe's Menage 301
Greasy Love Songs 303
Box sets 305

The Old Masters 305
Beat the Boots 308
Beat the Boots II 312
Beat the Boots III 316
Läther 318
The MOFO Project/Object 324
The Lumpy Money Project/Object 328
Songs 332
"A Token of My Extreme" 332
"Absolutely Free" 334
"Advance Romance" 336
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" 337
"America Drinks and Goes Home" 340
"Are You Hung Up?" 341
"Billy the Mountain" 342
"The Black Page" 345
"Bobby Brown (Goes Down)" 347
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" 349
"Camarillo Brillo" 351
"Cheepnis" 352
"Cocaine Decisions" 353
"Cosmik Debris" 355
"Dancin Fool" 356
"Disco Boy" 358
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite" 360
"Duodenum" 362
"Find Her Finder 363
"I'm the Slime 365
"I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" 367
"Inca Roads" 369
"Joe's Garage" 371
"Let's Make the Water Turn Black" 373
"Montana" 375
"Muffin Man" 377
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" 378
"Plastic People" 380
"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" 381
"Sofa" 383
"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" 385
"The Torture Never Stops" 386
"Trouble Every Day" 388
"Valley Girl" 390
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" 392
Who Are the Brain Police? 393
"Who Needs the Peace Corps?" 394
"Willie the Pimp" 395
"Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" 397
"WPLJ" 398
"You Are What You Is" 400
Filmography 402
200 Motels 402
Baby Snakes 405
Video from Hell 409
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels 412
The Amazing Mr. Bickford 413
Uncle Meat 414
The Torture Never Stops 416
Related articles 418

In popular culture 418
Captain Beefheart 421
The Real Frank Zappa Book 445
The Frank Zappa Guitar Book 446
Zappa Plays Zappa 447
List of performers on Frank Zappa records 450
Relatives 469
Gail Zappa 469
Moon Zappa 471
Dweezil Zappa 473
Ahmet Zappa 479
Diva Zappa 481
References
Article Sources and Contributors 483
Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 491
Article Licenses
License 492
1
Overview
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977
Background information
Birth name Frank Vincent Zappa
Born December 21, 1940

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died December 4, 1993 (aged 52)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres Progressive rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion, 20th-century classical music
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician, conductor, producer
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synclavier, drums
Years active 1955–1993
Labels Verve, Bizarre, Straight, DiscReet, Zappa, Barking Pumpkin
Associated acts The Mothers of Invention

Captain Beefheart
Website [Zappa.com Zappa.com]
Notable instruments
• Hagström Viking
• Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster
• Gibson SG
• Gibson Les Paul
• Fender Stratocaster
• Synclavier
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Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter,
electric guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years,
Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music
videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band
The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical
composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music.
He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he
later switched to electric guitar.
He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was
often difficult to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in
conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later
albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock,
jazz or classical. His lyrics—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political
processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a
forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of
censorship.
Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained widespread critical acclaim. He had some commercial
success, particularly in Europe, and for most of his career was able to work as an independent artist. He also remains
a major influence on musicians and composers. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Zappa was married to Kathryn J.
"Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his
death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva
Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.
Early life
Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1940. His mother, Rose Marie (née Colimore), was
of Italian and French ancestry; his father, Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily of
Sicilian, Greek, and Arab ancestry.[2] [3]Zappa, the eldest of four children, was raised in an Italian-American
household where Italian was spoken often by his grandparents.[4][5] The family moved often because his father, a
chemist and mathematician, worked in the defense industry. After a time in Florida in the 1940s, the family returned
to Maryland, where Zappa's father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the Aberdeen
Proving Ground. Due to their home's proximity to the arsenal, which stored mustard gas, gas masks were kept in the
home.[6] This had a profound effect on Zappa, and references to germs, germ warfare and the defense industry occur
throughout his work.[7]
Zappa was often sick as a child, suffering from asthma, earaches and sinus problems. A doctor treated his sinusitis
by inserting a pellet of radium into each of Zappa's nostrils; little was known about the potential dangers of even
small amounts of therapeutic radiation.[8] Nasal imagery and references appear in his music and lyrics, as well as in
the collage album covers created by his long-time collaborator Cal Schenkel.
Many of Zappa's childhood diseases may have been due to exposure to mustard gas. His health worsened when he
lived in Baltimore.[6][8] In 1952, his family relocated for reasons of health.[9] They moved, next, to Monterey,
California, where his father taught metallurgy at the Naval Postgraduate School. They soon moved to Claremont,[10]
then to El Cajon, before finally settling in San Diego.[11]
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Musical influences
"Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal
group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music."
[12]
—Frank Zappa, 1989
Zappa joined his first band at Mission Bay High School in San Diego. He was the band's drummer.[13] About the
same time his parents bought a phonograph, which allowed him to develop his interest in music, and to begin
building his record collection.[14] R&B singles were early purchases, starting a large collection he kept for the rest of
his life.[15] He was interested in sounds for their own sake, particularly the sounds of drums and other percussion
instruments. By age 12, he had obtained a snare drum and began learning the basics of orchestral percussion.[13]
Zappa's deep interest in modern classical music began[16] when he read a LOOK magazine article about the Sam
Goody record store chain that lauded its ability to sell an LP as obscure as The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse,
Volume One.[17] The article described Varèse's percussion composition Ionisation, produced by EMS Recordings, as
"a weird jumble of drums and other unpleasant sounds". Zappa decided to seek out Varèse's music. After searching
for over a year, Zappa found a copy (he noticed the LP because of the "mad scientist" looking photo of Varèse on the
cover). Not having enough money with him, he persuaded the salesman to sell him the record at a discount.[17] Thus
began his lifelong passion for Varèse's music and that of other modern classical composers.
"The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history."
[18]
—Frank Zappa, 1969 Pop Chronicles interview.
Zappa grew up influenced by avant-garde composers such as Varèse, Halim El-Dabh,[19] Igor Stravinsky, and Anton
Webern, R&B and doo-wop groups (including the Medallions[18] and local pachuco groups), and modern jazz. His
own heterogeneous ethnic background, and the diverse social and cultural mix in and around greater Los Angeles,
were crucial in the formation of Zappa as a practitioner of underground music and of his later distrustful and openly
critical attitude towards "mainstream" social, political and musical movements. He frequently lampooned musical
fads like psychedelia, rock opera and disco.[20][21] Television also exerted a strong influence, as demonstrated by
quotations from show themes and advertising jingles found in his later works.[22]
Youth and beginning of career (1955–1960)

By 1956, the Zappa family had moved to Lancaster, a small aerospace
and farming town in the Antelope Valley of the Mojave Desert close to
Edwards Air Force Base, in northern Los Angeles County. Zappa's
mother encouraged him in his musical interests. Although she disliked
Varèse's music, she was indulgent enough to give her son a long
distance call to the composer as a 15th birthday present.[17]
Unfortunately, Varèse was in Europe at the time, so Zappa spoke to the
composer's wife. He later received a letter from Varèse thanking him
for his interest, and telling him about a composition he was working on
called "Déserts". Living in the desert town of Lancaster, Zappa found
this very exciting. Varèse invited him to visit if he ever came to New
York. The meeting never took place (Varèse died in 1965), but Zappa
framed the letter and kept it on display for the rest of his life.[16][23]
Zappa's senior yearbook photo, 1958.
At Antelope Valley High School, Zappa met Don Vliet (who later
expanded his name to Don Van Vliet and adopted the stage name
Captain Beefheart). Zappa and Vliet became close friends, sharing an interest in R&B records and influencing each
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other musically throughout their careers.[24] Around the same time, Zappa started playing drums in a local band, The
Blackouts.[20] The band was racially diverse, and included Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood who later became a
member of The Mothers of Invention. Zappa's interest in the guitar grew, and in 1957 he was given his first guitar.
Among his early influences were Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Howlin' Wolf and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.[25] (In
the 1970s and '80s, he invited Watson to perform on several albums.) Zappa considered soloing as the equivalent of
forming "air sculptures",[26] and developed an eclectic, innovative and highly personal style.
Zappa's interest in composing and arranging proliferated in his last high-school years. By his final year, he was
writing, arranging and conducting avant-garde performance pieces for the school orchestra.[27] He graduated from
Antelope Valley High School in 1958, and later acknowledged two of his music teachers on the sleeve of the 1966
album Freak Out![28] Due to his family's frequent moves, Zappa attended at least six different high schools, and as a
student he was often bored and given to distracting the rest of the class with juvenile antics.[29] He left community
college after one semester, and maintained thereafter a disdain for formal education, taking his children out of school
at age 15 and refusing to pay for their college.[30]
Zappa left home in 1959, and moved into a small apartment in Echo Park, Los Angeles. After meeting Kathryn J.
"Kay" Sherman during his short stay at Pomona College, they moved in together in Ontario, and were married
December 28, 1960.[31] Zappa worked for a short period in advertising. His sojourn in the commercial world was
brief, but gave him valuable insights into how it works.[32] Throughout his career, he took a keen interest in the
visual presentation of his work, designing some of his album covers and directing his own films and videos.
Early 1960s: Studio Z

Zappa attempted to earn a living as a musician and composer, and played different nightclub gigs, some with a new
version of The Blackouts.[33] Financially more rewarding were Zappa's earliest professional recordings, two
soundtracks for the low-budget films The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) and Run Home Slow (1965). The former
score was commissioned by actor-producer Timothy Carey and recorded in 1961. It contains many themes that
appeared on later Zappa records.[34] The latter soundtrack was recorded in 1963 after the film was completed, but it
was commissioned by one of Zappa's former high school teachers in 1959 and Zappa may have worked on it before
the film was shot.[35] Excerpts from the soundtrack can be heard on the posthumous album The Lost Episodes
(1996).
During the early 1960s, Zappa wrote and produced songs for other local artists, often working with singer-songwriter
Ray Collins and producer Paul Buff. Their "Memories of El Monte" was recorded by The Penguins, although only
Cleve Duncan of the original group was featured.[36] Buff owned the small Pal Recording Studio in Cucamonga,
which included a unique five-track tape recorder he had built. At that time, only a handful of the most sophisticated
commercial studios had multi-track facilities; the industry standard for smaller studios was still mono or
two-track.[37] Although none of the recordings from the period achieved major commercial success, Zappa earned
enough money to allow him to stage a concert of his orchestral music in 1963 and to broadcast and record it.[38] He
appeared on Steve Allen's syndicated late night show the same year, in which he played a bicycle as a musical
instrument.[39] With Captain Beefheart, Zappa recorded some songs under the name of The Soots. They were
rejected by Dot Records for having "no commercial potential", a verdict Zappa subsequently quoted on the sleeve of
Freak Out![40]
In 1964, after his marriage started to break up, he moved into the Pal studio and began routinely working 12 hours or
more per day recording and experimenting with overdubbing and audio tape manipulation. This established a work
pattern that endured for most of his life.[41] Aided by his income from film composing, Zappa took over the studio
from Paul Buff, who was now working with Art Laboe at Original Sound. It was renamed Studio Z.[42] Studio Z was
rarely booked for recordings by other musicians. Instead, friends moved in, notably James "Motorhead"
Sherwood.[43] Zappa started performing as guitarist with a power trio, The Muthers, in local bars in order to support
himself.[44]
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An article in the local press describing Zappa as "the Movie King of Cucamonga" prompted the local police to
suspect that he was making pornographic films.[45] In March 1965, Zappa was approached by a vice squad
undercover officer, and accepted an offer of $100 to produce a suggestive audio tape for an alleged stag party. Zappa
and a female friend recorded a faked erotic episode. When Zappa was about to hand over the tape, he was arrested,
and the police stripped the studio of all recorded material.[45] The press was tipped off beforehand, and next day's
The Daily Report wrote that "Vice Squad investigators stilled the tape recorders of a free-swinging, a-go-go film and
recording studio here Friday and arrested a self-styled movie producer".[46] Zappa was charged with "conspiracy to
commit pornography".[47] This felony charge was reduced and he was sentenced to six months in jail on a
misdemeanor, with all but ten days suspended.[48] His brief imprisonment left a permanent mark, and was key in the
formation of his anti-authoritarian stance.[49] Zappa lost several recordings made at Studio Z in the process, as the
police only returned 30 out of 80 hours of tape seized.[50] Eventually, he could no longer afford to pay the rent on the
studio and was evicted.[51] Zappa managed to recover some of his possessions before the studio was torn down in
1966.[52]
Late 1960s: The Mothers of Invention

In 1965, Zappa was approached by Ray Collins who asked him to take over as the guitarist in local R&B band the
Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist.[4] Zappa accepted, and soon he
assumed leadership and the role as co-lead singer (even though he never considered himself a singer[53]). He
convinced the other members that they should play his music to increase the chances of getting a record contract.[54]
The band was renamed the Mothers, coincidentally on Mother's Day.[55] The group increased their bookings after
beginning an association with manager Herb Cohen, while they gradually gained attention on the burgeoning Los
Angeles underground music scene.[56] In early 1966, they were spotted by leading record producer Tom Wilson
when playing "Trouble Every Day", a song about the Watts Riots.[57] Wilson had earned acclaim as the producer for
singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the folk-rock act Simon & Garfunkel, and was notable as one of the few African
Americans working as a major label pop music producer at this time.
Wilson signed The Mothers to the Verve Records division of MGM Records, which had built up a strong reputation
in the music industry for its releases of modern jazz recordings in the 1940s and 1950s, but was attempting to
diversify into pop and rock audiences. Verve insisted that the band officially rename themselves because "Mother",
in slang terminology, was short for "motherfucker" — a term that apart from its profane meanings can denote a
skilled musician.[58] The label suggested the name "The Mothers Auxiliary", which prompted Zappa to come up with
the name "The Mothers of Invention."
Debut album: Freak Out! (1966)

With Wilson credited as producer, The Mothers of Invention, augmented by a studio orchestra, recorded the
groundbreaking Freak Out! (1966) which, preceded by Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, was the second rock double
album ever released. It mixed R&B, doo-wop, musique concrète,[59] and experimental sound collages that captured
the "freak" subculture of Los Angeles at that time.[60] Although he was dissatisfied with the final product—in a late
'60s radio interview (included in the posthumous MOFO Project/Object compilation) Zappa recounted that the
side-long closing track "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" was intended to be the basic track for a much more
complex work which Verve did not allow him to complete—Freak Out immediately established Zappa as a radical
new voice in rock music, providing an antidote to the "relentless consumer culture of America".[61] The sound was
raw, but the arrangements were sophisticated. While recording in the studio, some of the additional session
musicians were shocked that they were expected to read the notes on sheet music from charts with Zappa conducting
them, since it was not standard when recording rock music.[62] The lyrics praised non-conformity, disparaged
authorities, and had dadaist elements. Yet, there was a place for seemingly conventional love songs.[63] Most
compositions are Zappa's, which set a precedent for the rest of his recording career. He had full control over the
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arrangements and musical decisions and did most overdubs. Wilson provided the industry clout and connections to
get the group the financial resources needed.[64]
During the recording of Freak Out!, Zappa moved into a house in Laurel Canyon with friend Pamela Zarubica, who
appeared on the album.[62] The house became a meeting (and living) place for many LA musicians and groupies of
the time, despite Zappa's disapproval of their illicit drug use.[65] After a short promotional tour following the release
of Freak Out!, Zappa met Adelaide Gail Sloatman. He fell in love within "a couple of minutes", and she moved into
the house over the summer.[54] They married in 1967, had four children and remained together until Zappa's death.
Wilson nominally produced The Mothers' second album Absolutely Free (1967), which was recorded in November
1966, and later mixed in New York, although by this time Zappa was in de facto control of most facets of the
production. It featured extended playing by The Mothers of Invention and focused on songs that defined Zappa's
compositional style of introducing abrupt, rhythmical changes into songs that were built from diverse elements.[66]
Examples are "Plastic People" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", which contained lyrics critical of the hypocrisy
and conformity of American society, but also of the counterculture of the 1960s.[67] As Zappa put it, "[W]e're
satirists, and we are out to satirize everything."[68] At the same time, Zappa had recorded material for an album of
orchestral works to be released under his own name, Lumpy Gravy, released by Capitol Records in 1967. Due to
contractual problems, the album was pulled. Zappa took the opportunity to radically restructure the contents, adding
newly recorded, improvised dialogue. After the contractual problems were resolved, the album was reissued by
Verve in 1968.[69] It is an "incredible ambitious musical project",[70] a "monument to John Cage",[71] which
intertwines orchestral themes, spoken words and electronic noises through radical audio editing techniques.[72][73]
New York period (1966–1968)

The Mothers of Invention played in New York in late 1966 and were offered a contract at the Garrick Theater during
Easter 1967. This proved successful and Herb Cohen extended the booking, which eventually lasted half a year.[74]
As a result, Zappa and his wife, along with The Mothers of Invention, moved to New York.[69] Their shows became
a combination of improvised acts showcasing individual talents of the band as well as tight performances of Zappa's
music. Everything was directed by Zappa's famous hand signals.[75] Guest performers and audience participation
became a regular part of the Garrick Theater shows. One evening, Zappa managed to entice some U.S. Marines from
the audience onto the stage, where they proceeded to dismember a big baby doll, having been told by Zappa to
pretend that it was a "gook baby".[76]
Situated in New York, and only interrupted by the band's first European tour, The Mothers of Invention recorded the
album widely regarded as the peak of the group's late 1960s work, We're Only in It for the Money (released
1968).[77] It was produced by Zappa, with Wilson credited as executive producer. From then on, Zappa produced all
albums released by The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. We're Only in It for the Money featured some of
the most creative audio editing and production yet heard in pop music, and the songs ruthlessly satirized the hippie
and flower power phenomena.[78] The cover photo parodied that of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band.[79] The cover art was provided by Cal Schenkel whom Zappa met in New York. This initiated a lifelong
collaboration in which Schenkel designed covers for numerous Zappa and Mothers albums.[80]
Reflecting Zappa's eclectic approach to music, the next album, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968), was very
different. It represented a collection of doo-wop songs; listeners and critics were not sure whether the album was a
satire or a tribute.[81] Zappa has noted that the album was conceived in the way Stravinsky's compositions were in his
neo-classical period: "If he could take the forms and clichés of the classical era and pervert them, why not do the
same ... to doo-wop in the fifties?"[82] A theme from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is heard during one song.
In New York, Zappa increasingly used tape editing as a compositional tool.[83] A prime example is found on the
double album Uncle Meat (1969),[84] where the track "King Kong" is edited from various studio and live
performances. Zappa had begun regularly recording concerts,[85] and because of his insistence on precise tuning and
timing, he was able to augment his studio productions with excerpts from live shows, and vice versa.[86] Later, he
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combined recordings of different compositions into new pieces, irrespective of the tempo or meter of the sources. He
dubbed this process "xenochrony" (strange synchronizations[87]) — reflecting the Greek "xeno" (alien or strange)
and "chrono" (time).[86] Zappa also evolved a compositional approach which he called "conceptual continuity,"
meaning that any project or album was part of a larger project. Everything was connected, and musical themes and
lyrics reappeared in different form on later albums. Conceptual continuity clues are found throughout Zappa's entire
œuvre.[22][83]
During the late 1960s, Zappa continued to develop the business sides of his career. He and Herb Cohen formed the
Bizarre Records and Straight Records labels, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, as ventures to aid the funding of
projects and to increase creative control. Zappa produced the double album Trout Mask Replica for Captain
Beefheart, and releases by Alice Cooper, Wild Man Fischer, and The GTOs, as well as Lenny Bruce's last live
performance.[88]
Disbanding the original Mothers of Invention (1969)

Zappa and The Mothers of Invention returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 1968, and the Zappas moved into a
house on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, only to move again to one on Woodrow Wilson Drive in the autumn.[89] This
was to be Zappa's home for the rest of his life. Despite being a success with fans in Europe, The Mothers of
Invention were not faring well financially.[90] Their first records were vocally oriented, but Zappa wrote more
instrumental jazz and classical oriented music for the band's concerts, which confused audiences. Zappa felt that
audiences failed to appreciate his "electrical chamber music".[91][92]
In 1969 there were nine band members and Zappa was supporting
the group himself from his publishing royalties whether they
played or not.[90] 1969 was also the year Zappa, fed up with
MGM's interference, left MGM Records for Warner Bros.
Records' Reprise Records subsidiary where Zappa/Mothers
recordings would bear the Bizarre Records imprint. In late 1969,
Zappa broke up the band. He often cited the financial strain as the
main reason,[93] but also commented on the band members' lack of
sufficient effort.[94] Many band members were bitter about Zappa's
decision, and some took it as a sign of Zappa's concern for
perfection at the expense of human feeling.[92] Others were
irritated by 'his autocratic ways',[64] exemplified by Zappa's never
staying at the same hotel as the band members.[95] Several
members would, however, play for Zappa in years to come.
Remaining recordings with the band from this period were
collected on Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Burnt Weeny Sandwich
(both released in 1970).
After he disbanded The Mothers of Invention, Zappa released the

Zappa with The Mothers of Invention, Theatre de acclaimed solo album Hot Rats (1969).[96][97] It features, for the
Clichy, Paris, 1971
first time on record, Zappa playing extended guitar solos and
contains one of his most enduring compositions, "Peaches en
Regalia", which reappeared several times on future recordings.[98] It was backed by jazz, blues and R&B session
players including violinist Don "Sugarcane" Harris, drummers John Guerin and Paul Humphrey,
multi-instrumentalist and previous member of Mothers of Invention Ian Underwood, and multi-instrumentalist
Shuggie Otis on bass, along with a guest appearance by Captain Beefheart (providing vocals to the only
non-instrumental track, "Willie the Pimp"). It became a popular album in England,[99] and had a major influence on
the development of the jazz-rock fusion genre.[98][97]
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1970s: From The Mothers to Zappa

In 1970 Zappa met conductor Zubin Mehta. They arranged a May 1970 concert where Mehta conducted the Los
Angeles Philharmonic augmented by a rock band. According to Zappa, the music was mostly written in motel rooms
while on tour with The Mothers of Invention. Some of it was later featured in the movie 200 Motels.[99] Although the
concert was a success, Zappa's experience working with a symphony orchestra was not a happy one.[82] His
dissatisfaction became a recurring theme throughout his career; he often felt that the quality of performance of his
material delivered by orchestras was not commensurate with the money he spent on orchestral concerts and
recordings.[100]
Rebirth of The Mothers and filmmaking (1970)

Later in 1970, Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers (from then
on, he mostly dropped the "of Invention"). It included British drummer
Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff
Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of The Turtles:
bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan,
who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the
stage name "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", or "Flo & Eddie".[101]
This version of The Mothers debuted on Zappa's next solo album Frank Zappa in Paris, early 1970s
[102]
Chunga's Revenge (1970), which was followed by the
double-album soundtrack to the movie 200 Motels (1971), featuring The Mothers, The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, and Keith Moon. Co-directed by Zappa and Tony Palmer, it was filmed in a
week at Pinewood Studios outside London.[103] Tensions between Zappa and several cast and crew members arose
before and during shooting.[103] The film deals loosely with life on the road as a rock musician.[104] It was the first
feature film photographed on videotape and transferred to 35 mm film, a process which allowed for novel visual
effects.[105] It was released to mixed reviews.[106] The score relied extensively on orchestral music, and Zappa's
dissatisfaction with the classical music world intensified when a concert, scheduled at the Royal Albert Hall after
filming, was canceled because a representative of the venue found some of the lyrics obscene. In 1975, he lost a
lawsuit against the Royal Albert Hall for breach of contract.[107]
After 200 Motels, the band went on tour, which resulted in two live albums, Fillmore East - June 1971 and Just
Another Band From L.A.; the latter included the 20-minute track "Billy the Mountain", Zappa's satire on rock opera
set in Southern California. This track was representative of the band's theatrical performances in which songs were
used to build up sketches based on 200 Motels scenes as well as new situations often portraying the band members'
sexual encounters on the road.[108][109]
Accident, attack and their aftermath (1971–1972)

In December 1971, there were two serious setbacks. While performing at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, The
Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the
casino.[110] Immortalized in Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water", the event and immediate aftermath can be
heard on the bootleg album Swiss Cheese/Fire, released legally as part of Zappa's Beat the Boots II compilation.
After a week's break, The Mothers played at the Rainbow Theatre, London, with rented gear. During the encore, an
audience member pushed Zappa off the stage and into the concrete-floored orchestra pit. The band thought Zappa
had been killed—he had suffered serious fractures, head trauma and injuries to his back, leg, and neck, as well as a
crushed larynx, which ultimately caused his voice to drop a third after healing.[110] This accident resulted in him
using a wheelchair for an extended period, forcing him off the road for over half a year. Upon his return to the stage
in September 1972, he was still wearing a leg brace, had a noticeable limp and could not stand for very long while on
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stage. Zappa noted that one leg healed "shorter than the other" (a reference later found in the lyrics of songs "Zomby
Woof" and "Dancin' Fool"), resulting in chronic back pain.[110] Meanwhile, The Mothers were left in limbo and
eventually formed the core of Flo and Eddie's band as they set out on their own.
During 1971–1972 Zappa released two strongly jazz-oriented solo LPs, Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, which
were recorded during the forced layoff from concert touring, using floating line-ups of session players and Mothers
alumni.[111] Musically, the albums were akin to Hot Rats.[112] Zappa began touring again in late 1972.[112] His first
effort was a series of concerts in September 1972 with a 20-piece big band referred to as the Grand Wazoo. This was
followed by a scaled-down version known as the Petit Wazoo that toured the U.S. for five weeks from October to
December 1972.[113]
Top 10 album (1973–1975)

Zappa then formed and toured with smaller groups that variously included Ian Underwood (reeds, keyboards), Ruth
Underwood (vibes, marimba), Sal Marquez (trumpet, vocals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax, flute and vocals),
Bruce Fowler (trombone), Tom Fowler (bass), Chester Thompson (drums), Ralph Humphrey (drums), George Duke
(keyboards, vocals), and Jean-Luc Ponty (violin).
By 1973 the Bizarre and Straight labels were discontinued. In their
place, Zappa and Cohen created DiscReet Records, also distributed by
Warner Bros.[114] Zappa continued a high rate of production through
the first half of the 1970s, including the solo album Apostrophe (')
(1974), which reached a career-high No. 10 on the Billboard pop
album charts[115] helped by the chart single "Don't Eat The Yellow
Snow".[116] Other albums from the period are Over-Nite Sensation
(1973), which contained several future concert favorites, such as
"Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana", and the albums Roxy &
Elsewhere (1974) and One Size Fits All (1975) which feature
Frank Zappa in concert, Hordern Pavilion,
Sydney, May 1973 ever-changing versions of a band still called The Mothers, and are
notable for the tight renditions of highly difficult jazz fusion songs in
such pieces as "Inca Roads", "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" and "Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)".[117] A
live recording from 1974, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 (1988), captures "the full spirit and
excellence of the 1973–75 band".[117] Zappa released Bongo Fury (1975), which featured live recordings from a tour
the same year that reunited him with Captain Beefheart for a brief period.[118] They later became estranged for a
period of years, but were in contact at the end of Zappa's life.[119]
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Business breakups and touring (1976–1979)

Zappa's relationship with long-time manager Herb Cohen ended in
1976. Zappa sued Cohen for skimming more than he was allocated
from DiscReet Records, as well as for signing acts of which Zappa did
not approve.[120] Cohen filed a lawsuit against Zappa in return, which
froze the money Zappa and Cohen had gained from an out-of-court
settlement with MGM over the rights of the early Mothers of Invention
recordings. It also prevented Zappa having access to any of his
previously recorded material during the trials. Zappa therefore took his
personal master copies of the rock-oriented Zoot Allures (1976)
directly to Warner Bros., thereby bypassing DiscReet.[121]
In the mid-1970s Zappa prepared material for Läther (pronounced

"leather"), a four-LP project. Läther encapsulated all the aspects of
Zappa's musical styles — rock tunes, orchestral works, complex
instrumentals, and Zappa's own trademark distortion-drenched guitar
solos. Wary of a quadruple-LP, Warner Bros. Records refused to Zappa with Captain Beefheart, seated left, during
release it.[122] Zappa managed to get an agreement with Phonogram, a 1975 concert
and test pressings were made targeted at a Halloween 1977 release, but
Warner Bros. prevented the release by claiming rights over the material.[123] Zappa responded by appearing on the
Pasadena, California radio station KROQ, allowing them to broadcast Läther and encouraging listeners to make their
own tape recordings.[124] A lawsuit between Zappa and Warner Bros. followed, during which no Zappa material was
released for more than a year. Eventually, Warner Bros. issued different versions of much of the Läther material in
1978 and 1979 as four individual albums (five full length LPs) with limited promotion.[125] The four individual
albums were not included in the third Old Masters box set released in 1987.[126] When the music was first released
on CD in 1991, Zappa chose to release the four individual albums. Läther was released posthumously in 1996.[127]
Although Zappa eventually gained the rights to all his material created under the MGM and Warner Bros.
contracts,[128] the various lawsuits meant that for a period Zappa's only income came from touring, which he
therefore did extensively in 1975–1977 with relatively small, mainly rock-oriented, bands.[123] Drummer Terry
Bozzio became a regular band member, Napoleon Murphy Brock stayed on for a while, and original Mothers of
Invention bassist Roy Estrada joined. Among other musicians were bassist Patrick O'Hearn, singer-guitarist Ray
White and keyboardist Eddie Jobson. In December 1976, Zappa appeared as a featured musical guest on the NBC
television show Saturday Night Live.[129][130] The performances included an impromptu musical collaboration with
cast member John Belushi during the instrumental piece "The Purple Lagoon". Belushi appeared as his Samurai
Futaba character playing the tenor sax with Zappa conducting.[131] Zappa's song, "I'm the Slime", was performed
with a voice-over by SNL booth announcer Don Pardo, who also introduced "Peaches En Regalia" on the same
airing.
Zappa's band at the time, with the additions of Ruth Underwood and a
horn section (featuring Michael and Randy Brecker), performed during
Christmas in New York, recordings of which appear on one of the
albums Warner Bros. culled from the Läther project, Zappa in New
York (1978). It mixes intense instrumentals such as "The Black Page"
and humorous songs like "Titties and Beer".[132] The former
composition, written originally for drum kit but later developed for
larger bands, is notorious for its complexity in rhythmic structure and
Zappa in Toronto, 1977
short, densely arranged passages.[133][134]
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Zappa in New York featured a song about sex criminal Michael H. Kenyon, "The Illinois Enema Bandit", which
featured Don Pardo providing the opening narrative in the song. Like many songs on the album, it contained
numerous sexual references,[132] leading to many critics objecting and being offended by the content.[135] Zappa
dismissed the criticism by noting that he was a journalist reporting on life as he saw it.[136] Predating his later fight
against censorship, he remarked: "What do you make of a society that is so primitive that it clings to the belief that
certain words in its language are so powerful that they could corrupt you the moment you hear them?"[53] The
remaining albums released by Warner Bros. Records without Zappa's consent were Studio Tan in 1978 and Sleep
Dirt in 1979, which contained complex suites of instrumentally-based tunes recorded between 1973 and 1976, and
whose release was overlooked in the midst of the legal problems.[137] Also released by the label without the artist's
consent was Orchestral Favorites in 1979, which featured recordings of a concert with orchestral music from 1975.
Zappa as an independent artist (1979)

Resolving the lawsuits successfully, Zappa ended the 1970s "stronger than ever",[138] by releasing two of his most
successful albums in 1979: the best selling album of his career, Sheik Yerbouti,[139] and the "bona fide
masterpiece",[138] Joe's Garage.[140] The double album Sheik Yerbouti was the first release on Zappa Records, and
contained the Grammy-nominated single "Dancin' Fool", which reached No. 45 on the Billboard charts,[141] and
"Jewish Princess", which received attention when a Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), attempted to
prevent the song from receiving radio airplay due to its alleged anti-Semitic lyrics.[136] Zappa vehemently denied any
anti-Semitic sentiments and dismissed the ADL as a "noisemaking organization that tries to apply pressure on people
in order to manufacture a stereotype image of Jews that suits their idea of a good time".[142] The album's commercial
success was attributable in part to "Bobby Brown". Due to its explicit lyrics about a young man's encounter with a
"dyke by the name of Freddie", the song did not get airplay in the U.S., but it topped the charts in several European
countries where English is not the primary language.[143] The triple LP Joe's Garage featured lead singer Ike Willis
as the voice of the character "Joe" in a rock opera about the danger of political systems,[138] the suppression of
freedom of speech and music — inspired in part by the Islamic revolution that had made music illegal within its
jurisdiction at the time[144] — and about the "strange relationship Americans have with sex and sexual
frankness".[138] The album contains rock songs like "Catholic Girls" (a riposte to the controversies of "Jewish
Princess"),[145] "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", and the title track, as well as extended live-recorded guitar
improvisations combined with a studio backup band dominated by drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (with whom Zappa had
a particularly good musical rapport)[146] adopting the xenochrony process. The album contains one of Zappa's most
famous guitar "signature pieces", "Watermelon in Easter Hay".[26][147]
On December 21, 1979, Zappa's movie Baby Snakes premiered in New York. The movie's tagline was "A movie
about people who do stuff that is not normal".[148] The 2 hour and 40 minutes movie was based on footage from
concerts in New York around Halloween 1977, with a band featuring keyboardist Tommy Mars and percussionist Ed
Mann (who would both return on later tours) as well as guitarist Adrian Belew. It also contained several
extraordinary sequences of clay animation by Bruce Bickford who had earlier provided animation sequences to
Zappa for a 1974 TV special (which later become available on the video The Dub Room Special (1982)).[149] The
movie did not do well in theatrical distribution,[150] but won the Premier Grand Prix at the First International Music
Festival in Paris in 1981. The Zappa Family Trust released it on DVD, and it has been available since 2003.[149]
Zappa later expanded on his television appearances in a non-musical role. He was an actor or voice artist in episodes
of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre,[151] Miami Vice[152] and The Ren and Stimpy Show.[151] A voice part in The
Simpsons never materialized, to creator Matt Groening's disappointment (Groening was a neighbor of Zappa's, and a
lifelong fan).[153]
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1980s: Productive as ever

In 1980, Zappa cut his ties with Mercury Records after the label
refused to release his song "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted."[154] It was
picked up by CBS Records and released on the Zappa label in North
America and the CBS label internationally.[155] After spending most of
1980 on the road, Zappa released Tinsel Town Rebellion in 1981. It
was the first release on his own Barking Pumpkin Records,[156] and it
contains songs taken from a 1979 tour, one studio track and material
from the 1980 tours. The album is a mixture of complicated
instrumentals and Zappa's use of sprechstimme (speaking song or
voice)—a compositional technique utilized by such composers as
Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg — showcasing some of the most
accomplished bands Zappa ever had (mostly featuring drummer Vinnie
Colaiuta).[156] While some lyrics still raised controversy among critics,
in the sense that some found them sexist,[157] the political and Frank Zappa performing at the Memorial
sociological satire in songs like the title track and "The Blue Light" Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, 1980. The
concert was released in 2007 as Buffalo.
have been described as a "hilarious critique of the willingness of the
American people to believe anything".[158] The album is also notable
for the presence of guitarist Steve Vai, who joined Zappa's touring band in the fall of 1980.[159]
The same year the double album You Are What You Is was released. Most of it was recorded in Zappa's brand new
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (UMRK) studios, which were located at his house,[86] thereby giving him complete
freedom to work.[160] The album included one complex instrumental, "Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister
Footwear", but focused mainly on rock songs with Zappa's sardonic social commentary—satirical lyrics targeted at
teenagers, the media, and religious and political hypocrisy.[161] "Dumb All Over" is a tirade on religion, as is
"Heavenly Bank Account", wherein Zappa rails against TV evangelists such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson for
their purported influence on the U.S. administration as well as their use of religion as a means of raising money.[162]
Songs like "Society Pages" and "I'm a Beautiful Guy" show Zappa's dismay with the Reagan era and its "obscene
pursuit of wealth and happiness".[162] In 1981, Zappa also released three instrumental albums, Shut Up 'N Play Yer
Guitar, Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More, and The Return of the Son of Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar, which
were initially sold via mail order, but later released through the CBS label due to popular demand.[163] The albums
focus exclusively on Frank Zappa as a guitar soloist, and the tracks are predominantly live recordings from
1979–1980; they highlight Zappa's improvisational skills with "beautiful performances from the backing group as
well".[164] Another guitar-only album, Guitar, was released in 1988, and a third, Trance-Fusion, which Zappa
completed shortly before his death, was released in 2006.
From hit single to classical performances

In May 1982, Zappa released Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, which featured his biggest selling
single ever, the Grammy Award-nominated song "Valley Girl" (topping out at No. 32 on the Billboard charts).[141]
In her improvised lyrics to the song, Zappa's daughter Moon Unit satirized the vapid speech of teenage girls from the
San Fernando Valley, which popularized many "Valspeak" expressions such as "gag me with a spoon," "fer sure, fer
sure," "grody" (gross), and "barf out".[165] Most Americans who only knew Zappa from his few singles successes
now thought of him as a person writing novelty songs, even though the rest of the album contained highly
challenging music.[166] Zappa was irritated by this[167] and never played the song live.[166]
In 1983, two different projects were released, beginning with The Man from Utopia, a rock-oriented work. The
album is eclectic, featuring the vocal-led "Dangerous Kitchen" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats", both
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continuations of the sprechstimme excursions on Tinseltown Rebellion. The second album, London Symphony
Orchestra, Vol. 1, contained orchestral Zappa compositions conducted by Kent Nagano and performed by the
London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). A second record of these sessions, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 was
released in 1987. The material was recorded under a tight schedule with Zappa providing all funding, helped by the
commercial success of "Valley Girl".[168] Zappa was not satisfied with the LSO recordings. One reason is "Strictly
Genteel", which was recorded after the trumpet section had been out for drinks on a break: the track took 40 edits to
hide out-of-tune notes.[168] Conductor Nagano, who was pleased with the experience, noted that in "fairness to the
orchestra, the music is humanly very, very difficult".[169] Some reviews noted that the recordings were the best
representation of Zappa's orchestral work so far.[170] In 1984 Zappa teamed again with Nagano and the Berkeley
Symphony for a live performance of A Zappa Affair with augmented orchestra, life-size puppets, and moving stage
sets. Although critically acclaimed the work was a financial failure, and only performed twice. Zappa was invited by
conference organizer Thomas Wells to be the keynote speaker at the American Society of University Composers at
the Ohio State University. It was there Zappa delivered his famous "Bingo! There Goes Your Tenure" address,[171]
and had two of his orchestra pieces, "Dupree's Paradise" and "Naval Aviation in Art?" performed by the Columbus
Symphony and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus.[172][173]
Synclavier
For the remainder of his career, much of Zappa's work was influenced by his use of the Synclavier as a
compositional and performance tool. Even considering the complexity of the music he wrote, the Synclavier could
realize anything he could dream up.[174] The Synclavier could be programmed to play almost anything conceivable,
to perfection: "With the Synclavier, any group of imaginary instruments can be invited to play the most difficult
passages ... with one-millisecond accuracy—every time".[174] Even though it essentially did away with the need for
musicians,[175] Zappa viewed the Synclavier and real-life musicians as separate.[174] In 1984, he released four
albums. Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger, contains orchestral works commissioned and conducted by
world-renowned conductor Pierre Boulez (who was listed as an influence on Freak Out!) and performed by his
Ensemble InterContemporain, juxtaposed with premiere Synclavier pieces. Again, Zappa was not satisfied with the
performances of his orchestral works as he found them under-rehearsed, but in the album liner notes he respectfully
thanks Boulez's demands for precision.[176] The Synclavier pieces stood in contrast to the orchestral works, as the
sounds were electronically generated and not, as became possible shortly thereafter, sampled.
The album Thing-Fish was an ambitious three-record set in the style of a Broadway play dealing with a dystopian
"what-if" scenario involving feminism, homosexuality, manufacturing and distribution of the AIDS virus, and a
eugenics program conducted by the United States government.[177] New vocals were combined with previously
released tracks and new Synclavier music; "the work is an extraordinary example of bricolage".[178] Finally, in 1984,
Zappa released Francesco Zappa, a Synclavier rendition of works by 18th century composer Francesco Zappa (no
known relation), and Them or Us, a two-record set of heavily edited live and session pieces.
Digital medium and last tour

Around 1986, Zappa undertook a comprehensive re-release program of his earlier vinyl recordings.[179] He
personally oversaw the remastering of all his 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s albums for the new digital compact disc
medium.[180] Certain aspects of these re-issues were, however, criticized by some fans as being unfaithful to the
original recordings.[181] Nearly twenty years before the advent of online music stores, Zappa had proposed to replace
"phonographic record merchandising" of music by "direct digital-to-digital transfer" through phone or cable TV
(with royalty payments and consumer billing automatically built into the accompanying software).[182] In 1989,
Zappa considered his idea a "miserable flop".[182]
The album Jazz from Hell, released in 1986, earned Zappa his first Grammy Award in 1987 for Best Rock
Instrumental Performance. Except for one live guitar solo (St. Etienne), the album exclusively featured compositions
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brought to life by the Synclavier. Although an instrumental album, containing no lyrics whatsoever, Meyer Music
Markets sold Jazz from Hell featuring an "explicit lyrics" sticker—a warning label introduced by the Recording
Industry Association of America in an agreement with the PMRC.[183]
Zappa's last tour in a rock and jazz band format took place in 1988 with a 12-piece group which had a repertoire of
over 100 (mostly Zappa) compositions, but which split under acrimonious circumstances before the tour was
completed.[184] The tour was documented on the albums Broadway the Hard Way (new material featuring songs
with strong political emphasis), The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (Zappa "standards" and an eclectic
collection of cover tunes, ranging from Maurice Ravel's Boléro to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"), and Make a
Jazz Noise Here (mostly instrumental and avant-garde music). Parts are also found on You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, volumes 4 and 6.
1990s: Classical music and death

Most of Zappa's projects came to a halt in 1990, when he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. The disease
had been developing unnoticed for ten years and was considered inoperable.[185] After his diagnosis, Zappa devoted
most of his energy to modern orchestral and Synclavier works. Shortly before his death in 1993 he completed
Civilization, Phaze III, a major Synclavier work which he had begun in the 1980s.[186][187]
In 1991, Zappa was chosen to be one of four featured composers at the Frankfurt Festival in 1992 (the others were
John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Alexander Knaifel).[188] Zappa was approached by the German chamber
ensemble, Ensemble Modern, which was interested in playing his music for the event. Although ill, Zappa invited
them to Los Angeles for rehearsals of new compositions and new arrangements of older material.[189] In addition to
being satisfied with the ensemble's performances of his music, Zappa also got along with the musicians, and the
concerts in Germany and Austria were set up for the fall.[189] In September 1992, the concerts went ahead as
scheduled, but Zappa could only appear at two in Frankfurt due to illness. At the first concert, he conducted the
opening "Overture", and the final "G-Spot Tornado" as well as the theatrical "Food Gathering in Post-Industrial
America, 1992" and "Welcome to the United States" (the remainder of the program was conducted by the ensemble's
regular conductor Peter Rundel). Zappa received a 20-minute ovation.[190] It would become his last professional
public appearance, as the cancer was spreading to such an extent that he was in too much pain to enjoy an event that
he otherwise found "exhilarating".[190] Recordings from the concerts appeared on The Yellow Shark (1993), Zappa's
last release during his lifetime, and some material from studio rehearsals appeared on the posthumous Everything Is
Healing Nicely (1999).
Frank Zappa died on Saturday, December 4, 1993 in his home with his wife and children by his side. At a private
ceremony the following day, Zappa was interred in an unmarked grave at the Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles,[191][192] next to the eventual (1996) grave of actor Lew Ayres.[193] On
Monday, December 6 his family publicly announced that "Composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before
6:00 pm on Saturday".[194]
Politics
On commenting on Zappa's music, politics and philosophy, Barry Miles noted in 2004 that they cannot be separated:
"It was all one; all part of his 'conceptual continuity'".[195] Describing his political views, Frank Zappa categorized
himself as a "practical conservative."[196] He favored limited government and low taxes; he also stated that he
approved of national defense, social security and other federal programs, but only if recipients of such programs are
willing and able to pay for them.[196] He favored capitalism, entrepreneurship and independent business, stating that
musicians could make more from owning their own businesses than from collecting royalties.[197] He opposed
communism, stating "A system that doesn't allow ownership [...] has–to put it mildly–a fatal design flaw."[196]
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He labeled people on drugs "assholes in action", and he tried cannabis only a few times, but without any
pleasure.[198] He was a regular tobacco smoker for most of his life, and strongly critical of anti-tobacco
campaigns.[199] While Zappa disapproved of drug use, he criticized the War on Drugs, comparing it to alcohol
prohibition, and stated that the United States Treasury would benefit from the decriminalization and regulation of
drugs.[196]
Describing his philosophical views, Zappa stated, "I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies;
people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as)
individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist'–in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a
democracy, you own the government–it doesn't own you."[196]
Activism
Zappa always encouraged his fans to register to vote on album covers, and throughout 1988 he had registration
booths at his concerts.[200] In early 1990, Zappa visited Czechoslovakia at the request of President Václav Havel, and
was asked to serve as consultant for the government on trade, cultural matters and tourism. Havel was a lifelong fan
of Zappa who had great influence in the avant-garde and underground scene in Central Europe in the 1970s and
1980s (a Czech rock group that was imprisoned in 1976 took its name from Zappa's 1968 song "Plastic People").[201]
Zappa enthusiastically agreed and began meeting with corporate officials interested in investing in Czechoslovakia.
Within a few weeks, however, the U.S. administration put pressure on the Czech government to withdraw the
appointment. Havel made Zappa an unofficial cultural attaché instead.[202] Zappa also planned to develop an
international consulting enterprise to facilitate trade between the former Eastern Bloc and Western businesses.[185]
He also considered running for President of the United States, but ultimately cancelled these plans, due to his
declining health.[203] On June 24, 1991, Zappa took part at the concert "Adieu Soviet Army", organised in Prague, as
the farewell to the last soldiers of Soviet Red Army, leaving Czechoslovakia (the Red Army had occupied
Czechoslovakia since the Prague spring). This was probably Zappa's last rock appearance on stage and it is recorded
on the album Adieu C. A. (Soviet Army).[204]
Senate testimony
On September 19, 1985, Zappa testified before the United States
Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee,
attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music
organization co-founded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator Al Gore.
The PMRC consisted of many wives of politicians, including the wives
of five members of the committee, and was founded to address the
issue of song lyrics with sexual or satanic content.[205] Zappa saw their
activities as on a path towards censorship,[206] and called their proposal
for voluntary labelling of records with explicit content "extortion" of
Zappa testifies before the U.S. Senate, 1985
the music industry.[207] In his prepared statement, he said:
The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to
children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts
busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's
design. It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a
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preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this

context, the PMRC's demands are the equivalent of
treating dandruff by decapitation ... The establishment of a
rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an
endless parade of moral quality control programs based on
things certain Christians do not like. What if the next
bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow "J" on
all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save
helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist
Testimony continued
doctrine?[208]
Zappa set excerpts from the PMRC hearings to Synclavier music in his composition "Porn Wars" on the 1985 album
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, and the full recording was released in 2010 as Congress Shall Make
No Law.... Zappa is heard interacting with Senators Fritz Hollings, Slade Gorton, Al Gore (who claimed, at the
hearing, to be a Zappa fan), and in an exchange with Florida Senator Paula Hawkins over what toys Zappa's children
played with. Zappa expressed opinions on censorship when he appeared on CNN's Crossfire TV series and debated
issues with Washington Times commentator John Lofton in 1986.[209]
Legacy
Acclaim and honors

Frank Zappa was one of the first to try tearing down the barriers between rock, jazz, and classical music. In the late Sixties his
Mothers of Invention would slip from Stravinsky's "Petroushka" into The Dovells' "Bristol Stomp" before breaking down into
saxophone squeals inspired by Albert Ayler
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
Zappa earned widespread critical acclaim in his lifetime and after his death. The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004)
writes: "Frank Zappa dabbled in virtually all kinds of music — and, whether guised as a satirical rocker, jazz-rock
fusionist, guitar virtuoso, electronics wizard, or orchestral innovator, his eccentric genius was undeniable".[210] Even
though his work drew inspiration from many different genres, Zappa was seen establishing a coherent and personal
expression. In 1971, biographer David Walley noted that "The whole structure of his music is unified, not neatly
divided by dates or time sequences and it is all building into a composite".[211]
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Guitar Player devoted a special issue to Zappa in 1992, and asked on

the cover "Is FZ America's Best Kept Musical Secret?" Editor Don
Menn remarked that the issue was about "The most important
composer to come out of modern popular music".[212] Among those
contributing to the issue was composer and musicologist Nicolas
Slonimsky, who conducted premiere performances of works of Ives
and Varèse in the 1930s.[213] He became friends with Zappa in the
1980s,[214] and said "I admire everything Frank does, because he
practically created the new musical millennium. He does beautiful,
beautiful work ... It has been my luck to have lived to see the
emergence of this totally new type of music."[215] Conductor Kent
Nagano remarked in the same issue that "Frank is a genius. That's a
word I don't use often ... In Frank's case it is not too strong ... He is
extremely literate musically. I'm not sure if the general public knows
that".[216] Pierre Boulez stated in Musician magazine's posthumous
Zappa tribute article that Zappa "was an exceptional figure because he
Frank Zappa in 1977 was part of the worlds of rock and classical music and that both types
of his work would survive."[217] Many music scholars acknowledge
Zappa as one of the most influential composers of his generation.[218][219][220] As an electric guitarist, he has become
highly regarded.[221][222][223]
In 1994, jazz magazine Down Beat's critics poll placed Zappa in its Hall of Fame.[224] Zappa was posthumously
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. There, it was written that "Frank Zappa was rock and roll's
sharpest musical mind and most astute social critic. He was the most prolific composer of his age, and he bridged
genres — rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde and even novelty music — with masterful ease".[225] He received the
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.[226] In 2005, the U.S. National Recording Preservation Board
included We're Only in It for the Money in the National Recording Registry, calling it "a scathing satire on
hippiedom and America's reactions to it".[227] The same year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 71 on its
list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[228] In 2011, he was ranked at No. 22 on the list of the 100 Greatest
Guitarists of All Time by the same magazine.[229]
Artists influenced by Zappa

A number of notable musicians, bands and orchestras from diverse genres have been influenced by Frank Zappa's
music. Rock artists like Alice Cooper,[230] Primus,[231] Fee Waybill of The Tubes[232] all cite Zappa's influence, as
do progressive rock artists like Henry Cow,[233] Trey Anastasio of Phish,[228] and John Frusciante.[234] Paul
McCartney regarded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as The Beatles' Freak Out![235] Heavy rock and metal
acts like Black Sabbath,[236] Mike Portnoy,[237] Warren DeMartini,[238] Steve Vai,[239] Strapping Young Lad,[240]
System of a Down,[241] Clawfinger,[242] and Devin Townsend[243] acknowledge Zappa's inspiration. On the classical
music scene, Tomas Ulrich,[244] Meridian Arts Ensemble,[245] Ensemble Ambrosius[246] and the Fireworks
Ensemble[247] regularly perform Zappa's compositions and quote his influence. Contemporary jazz musicians and
composers Bill Frisell[248] and John Zorn[249] are inspired by Zappa, as is funk legend George Clinton.[250] Other
artists whose work is affected by Zappa include new age pianist George Winston,[251] electronic composer Bob
Gluck,[252] parodist and novelty composer "Weird Al" Yankovic,[253] industrial music pioneer Genesis
P-Orridge,[254] and noise music artist Masami Akita of Merzbow.[255]
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References in arts and sciences

Scientists from various fields have honored Zappa by naming new
discoveries after him. In 1967, paleontologist Leo P. Plas, Jr. identified
an extinct mollusc in Nevada and named it Amaurotoma zappa with
the motivation that, "The specific name, zappa, honors Frank
Zappa".[256] In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid
fishes of New Guinea Zappa, with a species named Zappa
confluentus.[257] Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a Californian
jellyfish Phialella zappai (1987), noting that he had "pleasure in
naming this species after the modern music composer".[258] Belgian
biologists Bosmans and Bosselaers discovered in the early 1980s a
Cameroonese spider, which they in 1994 named Pachygnatha zappa
because "the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species
strikingly resembles the artist's legendary moustache".[259] A gene of
the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infections was
in 1995 named zapA by three biologists from Maryland. In their
scientific article, they "especially thank the late Frank Zappa for
inspiration and assistance with genetic nomenclature".[260] In the late Frank Zappa bust by Vaclav Cesak in Bad
Doberan
1990s, American paleontologists Marc Salak and Halard L. Lescinsky
discovered a metazoan fossil, and named it Spygori zappania to honor
"the late Frank Zappa ... whose mission paralleled that of the earliest paleontologists: to challenge conventional and
traditional beliefs when such beliefs lacked roots in logic and reason".[261]
In 1994, lobbying efforts initiated by psychiatrist John Scialli led the International Astronomical Union's Minor
Planet Center to name an asteroid in Zappa's honor: 3834 Zappafrank.[262] The asteroid was discovered in 1980 by
Czechoslovakian astronomer Ladislav Brozek, and the citation for its naming says that "Zappa was an eclectic,
self-trained artist and composer ... Before 1989 he was regarded as a symbol of democracy and freedom by many
people in Czechoslovakia".[263]
In 1995, a bust of Zappa by sculptor Konstantinas Bogdanas was installed in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. A
replica was offered to the city of Baltimore in 2008, and on September 19, 2010 — the twenty-fifth anniversary of
Zappa's testimony to the U.S. Senate — a ceremony dedicating the replica was held, with the bust installed at the
Southeast Anchor Branch Library in Baltimore's Highlandtown. Speakers at the event included Gail Zappa and
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake[264][265] In 2002, a bronze bust was installed in German city Bad
Doberan, since 1990 location of the Zappanale, an annual music festival celebrating Zappa.[266] At the initiative of
musicians community ORWOhaus, the city of Berlin named a street in the Marzahn district "Frank-Zappa-Straße" in
2007.[267] The same year, Baltimore's mayor Sheila Dixon proclaimed August 9 as the city's official "Frank Zappa
Day" citing Zappa's musical accomplishments as well as his defense of the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution.[268]
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Notes
[1] Until discovering his birth certificate as an adult, Zappa believed he had been christened "Francis", and he is credited as Francis on some of
his early albums. His legal name was always "Frank", however, never "Francis." Cf. Zappa with Occhiogrosso, 1989, The Real Frank Zappa
Book, p. 15.
[2] Biography entitled Zappa. pg. 2
[3] The Real Frank Zappa Book. pg. 5
[4] The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, 1993.
[5] The Real Frank Zappa Book. pg. 6
[6] Zappa with Occhiogrosso, 1989, The Real Frank Zappa Book, pp. 20–23.
[7] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, pp. 8–9.
[8] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, p. 10.
[9] Zappa with Occhiogrosso, 1989, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 22.
[10] Slaven, Neil (2003). Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=a4EyfFjQ3DgC)
(2nd ed.). Music Sales Group. p. 46. ISBN 0-7119-9436-6. ., Extract (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=a4EyfFjQ3DgC& pg=PT46)
[11] Mendoza, Bart (November, 2005). "Counter Culture Coincidence" (http:/ / www. sandiegotroubadour. com/ content/ features/ fullcircle.
aspx?issue=nov_2005). San Diego Troubadour. The San Diego Troubadour. . Retrieved September 11, 2010.
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[16] Zappa, Frank (June 1971). "Edgard Varese: The Idol of My Youth". Stereo Review: 61–62..
[18] Show 14 – Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. [Part 4] : UNT Digital Library (http:/ / digital. library. unt. edu/ ark:/
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[19] Holmes, Thom (2008). "Early Synthesizers and Experimenters" (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=hCthQ-bec-QC& pg=PA153).
Electronic and experimental music: technology, music, and culture (3rd ed.). Taylor & Francis. pp. 153–4. ISBN 0-415-95781-8. . Retrieved
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[20] Watson, 1996, Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, p. 13.
[21] Among his many musical satires are the 1967 songs "Flower Punk" (which parodies the song "Hey Joe") and "Who Needs The Peace
Corps?", which are critiques of the late-Sixties commercialization of the hippie phenomenon.
[22] For a comprehensive list of the appearance of parts of "old" compositions or quotes from others' music in Zappa's catalogue, see Albertos,
Román García, FZ Musical Quotes (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ quotes. html), Information is Not Knowledge, globia.net/donlope, .
Retrieved on January 21, 2008.
[23] On several of his earlier albums, Zappa paid tribute to Varèse by quoting his: "The present-day composer refuses to die."
[24] Slaven, 2003, Electric Don Quixote, pp. 29–30.
[25] The Mike Douglas Show, NBC [TV Show], November 1976
[26] The other signature pieces are "Zoot Allures" and "Black Napkins" from Zoot Allures. See Zappa, Dweezil (1996), Greetings music lovers,
Dweezil here, Liner Notes, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute
[28] Walley, 1980, No Commercial Potential, p. 23.
[36] Gray, 1984, Mother!, p. 29.
[43] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa. pp. 82–83.
[46] Harp, Ted (March, 1965), "Vice Squad Raids Local Film Studio", The Daily Report (Ontario, California)
[49] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, p. XV.
[51] Slaven, 1996, Electric Don Quixote, p. 40.
[53] Swenson, John (March 1980), Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean, High Times
[58] Interview with Frank Zappa, UMRK, Los Angeles, CA: BBC [TV Show], March 1993
[59] Lowe, 2006, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, p. 25.
[60] Walley, 1980, No Commercial Potential, pp. 60–61.
[63] Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, pp. 10–11.
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[67] Lowe, 2006, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, pp. 38–43.
[72] Couture, François, Lumpy Gravy. Review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22630), Allmusic.com, . Retrieved on January 2, 2008;
Lowe, 2006, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, p. 56.
[73] The initial orchestra-only recordings were released posthumously on the box set Lumpy Money (2009). See Dolan, Casey (December 8,
2008), "The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul" (http:/ / www. laweekly. com/ 2008-12-11/ music/
the-resurrection-of-frank-zappa-8217-s-soul/ 1), LA Weekly (Village Voice Media), . Retrieved on February 2, 2009.
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[77] Huey, Steve, We're Only in It for the Money. Review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22631), Allmusic.com, . Retrieved on January 2,
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[78] Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, p. 15. Walley, 1980, No Commercial Potential, p. 90.
[79] As the legal aspects of using the Sgt Pepper concept were unsettled, the album was released with the cover and back on the inside of the
gatefold, while the actual cover and back were a picture of the group in a pose parodying the inside of the Beatles album. Miles, 2004, Frank
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[84] James, 2000, Necessity Is ..., p. 104.
[85] In the process, he built up a vast archive of live recordings. In the late 1980s some of these recordings were collected for the 12-CD set You
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[105] Starks, 1982, Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness, p. 153.
[109] During the June 1971 Fillmore concerts Zappa was joined on stage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. This performance was recorded, and
Lennon released excerpts on his album Some Time In New York City in 1972. Zappa later released his version of excerpts from the concert on
Playground Psychotics in 1992, including the jam track "Scumbag" and an extended avant-garde vocal piece by Ono (originally called "Au"),
which Zappa renamed "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono".
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Mercury-Phonogram; see, e.g., Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, p. 49. In the liner notes to the 1996 release,
however, Gail Zappa states that "As originally conceived by Frank, Läther was always a 4-record box set."
[128] Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, p. 49.
[130] In 1978, Zappa served both as host and musical act on the show, and as an actor in various sketches.
[131] Zappa, Frank, 1978, Zappa in New York, Liner Notes.
[133] Clement, Brett (2004), "Little dots: A study of the melodies of the guitarist / composer Frank Zappa (pdf file)" (http:/ / etd. lib. fsu. edu/
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• The official Frank Zappa website (http://www.zappa.com/)
• Appearances (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/frankzappa) on C-SPAN
• Frank Zappa (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm953261/) at the Internet Movie Database
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Guardian
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collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Frank Zappa (http://www.nndb.com/people/737/000024665) at the Notable Names Database
• Frank Zappa (http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTML/browse/?start=42&
fq=untl_collection:JGPC) interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969).
The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention
"The Grandmothers", composed of former Mothers of Invention bandmembers, in 2000.
Also known as The Soul Giants, Mothers, The Muthers, The Mothers
Genres Experimental rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, blues rock, jazz fusion
Years active 1964-1971; 1973-1975
Labels Verve, Reprise, Bizarre, DiscReet
Associated acts Canned Heat

Little Feat
The Turtles
Ruben and the Jets
Flo & Eddie
Captain Beefheart
Past members
See below
The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California that served as the backing musicians for
Frank Zappa, a self-taught composer and performer whose diverse musical influences led him to create music that
was often impossible to categorize. Their work is marked by the use of sonic experimentation, innovative album art,
and elaborate live shows.
Originally an R&B band called The Soul Giants, the band's original lineup included Ray Collins, David Coronado,
Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black. Zappa was asked to take over as the band's guitarist following a fight between
Collins and the band's original guitarist. Zappa insisted that the band perform original material, changing their name
to The Mothers. Founded in 1964, the band first became popular playing in California's underground music scene in
the late 1960s. Under Zappa's leadership, the band signed to Verve Records, releasing a début album, Freak Out!
(1966), with a lineup which consisted of Zappa, Collins, Black, Estrada and Elliot Ingber.
Under Zappa's leadership and a fluctuating lineup, the band released a series of acclaimed albums, including
Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money and Uncle Meat, before being disbanded by Zappa in 1969. In 1970,
Zappa formed a new lineup of The Mothers which included Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons, George Duke, Aynsley
Dunbar and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, formerly of The Turtles, who were credited as The
Phlorescent Leech & Eddie for contractual reasons. Later adding another ex-Turtle, bassist Jim Pons, this lineup
lasted until the end of 1971, when Zappa was injured by an audience member during a concert.
Zappa focused on big-band and orchestral music while recovering from his injuries, and later formed the Mothers'
final lineup in 1973, which included Ralph Humphrey, Sal Marquez, George Duke, Tom and Bruce Fowler and Ruth
and Ian Underwood. The final album using the Mothers as a backing band, Bongo Fury (1975), featured guitarist
Denny Walley and drummer Terry Bozzio, who continued to play for Zappa on non-Mothers releases.
History
The Soul Giants was formed in 1964. In 1965, Frank Zappa was approached by Ray Collins who asked him to take
over as the guitarist in local R&B band The Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original
guitarist.[1] Zappa accepted, and convinced the other members that they should play his music to increase the
chances of getting a record contract.[2] Original leader David Coronado did not think that the band would be
employable if they played original material, and left the band.[2] Zappa soon assumed leadership and the role as
co-lead singer, even though he never considered himself a singer.[3]
The band was renamed The Mothers, coincidentally on Mother's Day.[4] The group increased their bookings after
beginning an association with manager Herb Cohen, while they gradually gained attention on the burgeoning Los
Angeles underground music scene.[5] In early 1966, they were spotted by leading record producer Tom Wilson when
playing "Trouble Every Day", a song about the Watts Riots.[6] Wilson had earned acclaim as the producer for
singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the folk-rock act Simon & Garfunkel, and was notable as one of the few African
Americans working as a major label pop music producer at this time.
Wilson signed The Mothers to the Verve Records division of MGM Records, which had built up a strong reputation
in the music industry for its releases of modern jazz recordings in the 1940s and 1950s, but was attempting to
diversify into pop and rock audiences. Verve insisted that the band officially rename themselves because "Mother",
in slang terminology, was short for "motherfucker" — a term that apart from its profane meanings can denote a
skilled musician.[7] The label suggested the name "The Mothers Auxiliary", which prompted Zappa to come up with
the name "The Mothers of Invention."
Debut album: Freak Out! (1966)

With Wilson credited as producer, The Mothers of Invention, augmented by a studio orchestra, recorded the
groundbreaking Freak Out! (1966) which, preceded by Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, was the second rock double
album ever released. It mixed R&B, doo-wop, musique concrète,[8] and experimental sound collages that captured
the "freak" subculture of Los Angeles at that time.[9] Although he was dissatisfied with the final product—in a late
'60s radio interview (included in the posthumous MOFO Project/Object compilation) Zappa recounted that the
side-long closing track "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" was intended to be the basic track for a much more
complex work which Verve did not allow him to complete—Freak Out immediately established Zappa as a radical
new voice in rock music, providing an antidote to the "relentless consumer culture of America".[10] The sound was
raw, but the arrangements were sophisticated. While recording in the studio, some of the additional session
musicians were shocked that they were expected to read the notes on sheet music from charts with Zappa conducting
them, since it was not standard when recording rock music.[11] The lyrics praised non-conformity, disparaged
authorities, and had dadaist elements. Yet, there was a place for seemingly conventional love songs.[12] Most
compositions are Zappa's, which set a precedent for the rest of his recording career. He had full control over the
arrangements and musical decisions and did most overdubs. Wilson provided the industry clout and connections to
get the group the financial resources needed.[13]
Wilson nominally produced The Mothers' second album Absolutely Free (1967), which was recorded in November
1966, and later mixed in New York, although by this time Zappa was in de facto control of most facets of the
production. It featured extended playing by The Mothers of Invention and focused on songs that defined Zappa's
compositional style of introducing abrupt, rhythmical changes into songs that were built from diverse elements.[14]
Examples are "Plastic People" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", which contained lyrics critical of the hypocrisy
and conformity of American society, but also of the counterculture of the 1960s.[15] As Zappa put it, "[W]e're
satirists, and we are out to satirize everything."[16]
New York period (1966–1968)

The Mothers of Invention played in New York in late 1966 and were offered a contract at the Garrick Theater during
Easter 1967. This proved successful and Herb Cohen extended the booking, which eventually lasted half a year.[17]
As a result, Zappa and his wife, along with The Mothers of Invention, moved to New York.[18] Their shows became
a combination of improvised acts showcasing individual talents of the band as well as tight performances of Zappa's
music. Everything was directed by Zappa's famous hand signals.[19] Guest performers and audience participation
became a regular part of the Garrick Theater shows. One evening, Zappa managed to entice some U.S. Marines from
the audience onto the stage, where they proceeded to dismember a big baby doll, having been told by Zappa to
pretend that it was a "gook baby".[20]
Situated in New York, and only interrupted by the band's first European tour, The Mothers of Invention recorded the
album widely regarded as the peak of the group's late 1960s work, We're Only in It for the Money (released
1968).[21] It was produced by Zappa, with Wilson credited as executive producer. From then on, Zappa produced all
albums released by The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. We're Only in It for the Money featured some of
the most creative audio editing and production yet heard in pop music, and the songs ruthlessly satirized the hippie
and flower power phenomena.[22] The cover photo parodied that of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band.[23] The cover art was provided by Cal Schenkel whom Zappa met in New York. This initiated a lifelong
collaboration in which Schenkel designed covers for numerous Zappa and Mothers albums.[24]
Reflecting Zappa's eclectic approach to music, the next album, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968), was very
different. It represented a collection of doo-wop songs; listeners and critics were not sure whether the album was a
satire or a tribute.[25] Zappa has noted that the album was conceived in the way Stravinsky's compositions were in his
neo-classical period: "If he could take the forms and clichés of the classical era and pervert them, why not do the
same ... to doo-wop in the fifties?"[26] A theme from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is heard during one song.
Zappa and The Mothers of Invention returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 1968. Despite being a success with
fans in Europe, The Mothers of Invention were not faring well financially.[27] Their first records were vocally
oriented, but Zappa wrote more instrumental jazz and classical oriented music for the band's concerts, which
confused audiences. Zappa felt that audiences failed to appreciate his "electrical chamber music".[28][29]
In 1969 there were nine band members and Zappa was supporting the group himself from his publishing royalties
whether they played or not.[27] 1969 was also the year Zappa, fed up with MGM's interference, left MGM Records
for Warner Bros. Records' Reprise Records subsidiary where Zappa/Mothers recordings would bear the Bizarre
Records imprint. In late 1969, Zappa broke up the band. He often cited the financial strain as the main reason,[30] but
also commented on the band members' lack of sufficient effort.[31] Many band members were bitter about Zappa's
decision, and some took it as a sign of Zappa's concern for perfection at the expense of human feeling.[29] Others
were irritated by 'his autocratic ways',[13] exemplified by Zappa's never staying at the same hotel as the band
members.[32] Several members would, however, play for Zappa in years to come. Remaining recordings with the
band from this period were collected on Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Burnt Weeny Sandwich (both released in
1970).
Rebirth of The Mothers and filmmaking (1970)

Later in 1970, Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers (from then
on, he mostly dropped the "of Invention"). It included British drummer
Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff
Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of The Turtles:
bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan,
who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the
stage name "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", or "Flo & Eddie".[33]
This version of The Mothers debuted on Zappa's next solo album

Mark Volman performing with the Mothers in
Chunga's Revenge (1970),[34] which was followed by the 1971.
double-album soundtrack to the movie 200 Motels (1971), featuring
The Mothers, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, and Keith Moon. Co-directed by
Zappa and Tony Palmer, it was filmed in a week at Pinewood Studios outside London.[35] Tensions between Zappa
and several cast and crew members arose before and during shooting.[35] The film deals loosely with life on the road
as a rock musician.[36] It was the first feature film photographed on videotape and transferred to 35 mm film, a
process which allowed for novel visual effects.[37] It was released to mixed reviews.[38] The score relied extensively
on orchestral music, and Zappa's dissatisfaction with the classical music world intensified when a concert, scheduled
at the Royal Albert Hall after filming, was canceled because a representative of the venue found some of the lyrics
obscene. In 1975, he lost a lawsuit against the Royal Albert Hall for breach of contract.[39]
After 200 Motels, the band went on tour, which resulted in two live albums, Fillmore East - June 1971 and Just
Another Band From L.A.; the latter included the 20-minute track "Billy the Mountain", Zappa's satire on rock opera
set in Southern California. This track was representative of the band's theatrical performances in which songs were
used to build up sketches based on 200 Motels scenes as well as new situations often portraying the band members'
sexual encounters on the road.[40][41]
Accident, attack and their aftermath (1971–1972)

In December 1971, there were two serious setbacks. While performing at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, The
Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the
casino.[42] Immortalized in Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water", the event and immediate aftermath can be
heard on the bootleg album Swiss Cheese/Fire, released legally as part of Zappa's Beat the Boots II compilation.
After a week's break, The Mothers played at the Rainbow Theatre, London, with rented gear. During the encore, an
audience member pushed Zappa off the stage and into the concrete-floored orchestra pit. The band thought Zappa
had been killed—he had suffered serious fractures, head trauma and injuries to his back, leg, and neck, as well as a
crushed larynx, which ultimately caused his voice to drop a third after healing.[42] This accident resulted in him
using a wheelchair for an extended period, forcing him off the road for over half a year. Upon his return to the stage
in September 1972, he was still wearing a leg brace, had a noticeable limp and could not stand for very long while on
stage. Zappa noted that one leg healed "shorter than the other" (a reference later found in the lyrics of songs "Zomby
Woof" and "Dancin' Fool"), resulting in chronic back pain.[42] Meanwhile, The Mothers were left in limbo and
eventually formed the core of Flo and Eddie's band as they set out on their own.
Top 10 album (1973–1975)

After releasing two solo jazz-oriented albums with large bands, Zappa
formed and toured with smaller groups that variously included Ian
Underwood (reeds, keyboards), Ruth Underwood (vibes, marimba), Sal
Marquez (trumpet, vocals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax, flute and
vocals), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Tom Fowler (bass), Chester
Thompson (drums), Ralph Humphrey (drums), George Duke
(keyboards, vocals), and Jean-Luc Ponty (violin).
Zappa continued a high rate of production through the first half of the
1970s, including the solo album Apostrophe (') (1974), which reached
Frank Zappa in concert, Hordern Pavilion, a career-high No. 10 on the Billboard pop album charts[43] helped by
Sydney, May 1973 the chart single "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".[44] Other albums from
the period are Over-Nite Sensation (1973), which contained several
future concert favorites, such as "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana", and the albums Roxy & Elsewhere (1974) and
One Size Fits All (1975) which feature ever-changing versions of a band still called The Mothers, and are notable for
the tight renditions of highly difficult jazz fusion songs in such pieces as "Inca Roads", "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" and
"Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)".[45] A live recording from 1974, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 2 (1988), captures "the full spirit and excellence of the 1973–75 band".[45]
Zappa released Bongo Fury (1975), which featured live recordings from a tour the same year that reunited him with
Captain Beefheart for a brief period.[46] They later became estranged for a period of years, but were in contact at the
end of Zappa's life.[47] Bongo Fury constituted the last new album to be credited to The Mothers.
In 1993, Zappa released Ahead Of Their Time, an album of previously recorded material by the original Mothers of
Invention lineup.
Band members
The Soul Giants (c. April 1965)
• Ray Collins - vocals
• Frank Zappa - guitar
• David Coronado - sax
• Roy Estrada - bass
• Jimmy Carl Black - drums
The Mothers of Invention (1966–1969)
• Frank Zappa - musical director, guitar & vocals
• Ray Collins - lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, finger cymbals, bobby pin & tweezers 1966-early 1967,
September 1967 - August 1968
• Jim Black - drums
• Roy Estrada - bass & guitarrón, boy soprano
• Henry Vestine - alternate lead & rhythm guitar, mid 1965 - early 1966
• Elliot Ingber - alternate lead & rhythm guitar, early 1966 - September 1966
• Jim Fielder - guitar, piano, late 1966 - February 1967
• Don Preston - keyboards, November 1966 - August 1969
• Bunk Gardner - woodwinds, November 1966 - August 1969
• Billy Mundi - drums, November 1966 - December 1967
• Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood - soprano, tambourine, baritone saxophone & roadie, 1966, September 1967 -
August 1969
• Ian Underwood - woodwinds, saxophone, July 1967 - August 1969

• Arthur Dyer Tripp III - drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, December
1967 - August 1969
• Lowell George - rhythm guitar, November 1968 - May 1969
• Buzz Gardner, November 1968 - August 1969
The Mothers (1970–1971)
• Frank Zappa - guitar & vocals
• Ian Underwood - rhythm guitar, keyboards & woodwinds
• Jeff Simmons - bass & vocal, 1970 - January 1971
• George Duke - organ, May - December 1970
• Aynsley Dunbar - drums
• The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan) - vocals
• Jim Pons - bass, February 1971 - December 1971
• Don Preston - keyboards, August - December 1971
• Bob Harris - keyboards, May – August 1971
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1973–1975)
• Frank Zappa - guitar & vocals
• Ralph Humphrey - drums, early 1973 - May 1974
• Jean-Luc Ponty - violin, February - August 1973
• Sal Marquez - trumpet & vocals, March - July 1973
• George Duke - keyboards & synthesizer, 1973 - December 1974, April - May 1975
• Jeff Simmons - bass & vocals, December 1973 - July 1974
• Tom Fowler - bass, 1973 - May 1975
• Bruce Fowler - trombone, 1973 - May 1974, April - May 1975
• Ruth Underwood - marimba, vibes & percussion, 1973 - December 1974
• Ian Underwood - flute, clarinet, alto & tenor sax, February - September 1973
• Napoleon Murphy Brock - flute and tenor sax, vocals, October 1973 - May 1975
• Chester Thompson - drums, October 1973 - December 1974
• Terry Bozzio - drums, April - May 1975
• Denny Walley - slide guitar & vocals, April - May 1975
Discography
• Freak Out! (1966)
• Absolutely Free (1967)
• We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
• Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968)
• Uncle Meat (1969)
• Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
• Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
• Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971)
• Just Another Band from L.A. (1972)
• Over-Nite Sensation (1973)
• Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
• One Size Fits All (1975)
• Bongo Fury (1975)
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - The Helsinki Concert (1988, recorded 1974)
• Playground Psychotics (1992, recorded 1970-71)

• Ahead of Their Time (1993, recorded 1968)
• Joe's Corsage (2004, recorded 1964-65)
• Carnegie Hall (2011, recorded 1971)
References
[1] The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, 1993.
[3] Swenson, John (March 1980), Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean, High Times
[7] Interview with Frank Zappa, UMRK, Los Angeles, CA: BBC [TV Show], March 1993
[9] Walley, 1980, No Commercial Potential, pp. 60–61.
[12] Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, pp. 10–11.
[17] James, 2000, Necessity Is ... , pp. 62–69.
[21] Huey, Steve, We're Only in It for the Money. Review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22631), Allmusic.com, . Retrieved on January 2,
2008.
[22] Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, p. 15. Walley, 1980, No Commercial Potential, p. 90.
[23] As the legal aspects of using the Sgt Pepper concept were unsettled, the album was released with the cover and back on the inside of the
gatefold, while the actual cover and back were a picture of the group in a pose parodying the inside of the Beatles album. Miles, 2004, Frank
Zappa, p. 151.
[41] During the June 1971 Fillmore concerts Zappa was joined on stage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. This performance was recorded, and
Lennon released excerpts on his album Some Time In New York City in 1972. Zappa later released his version of excerpts from the concert on
Playground Psychotics in 1992, including the jam track "Scumbag" and an extended avant-garde vocal piece by Ono (originally called "Au"),
which Zappa renamed "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono".
[43] Frank Zappa > Charts and Awards > Billboard Albums (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ artist/ p74796), Allmusic.com, . Retrieved on January
3, 2008.
[44] Huey, Steve, Apostrophe ('). Review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53148), Allmusic.com, . Retrieved on January 3, 2008.
External links
• The Mothers of Invention (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p196790) at Allmusic
• Jimmy Carl Black website (http://www.jimmycarlblack.com)
• "The Grande Mothers Re:Invented" - MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/grandemothersreinvented)
• The Mothers of Invention (http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTML/browse/?start=42&
fq=untl_collection:JGPC) interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969).
35
Discography
Frank Zappa discography

Frank Zappa discography
Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977

Releases
↙Official albums 91
↙Compilation albums 13
↙Singles 34
↙Tribute and cover albums 40
↙Miscellaneous 6
This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa, including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention, as well as tribute
albums to him. During his lifetime Zappa released 62 albums. Between 1994 and 2011 the Zappa Family Trust
released 29 posthumous albums, making a total of 91 albums.
Official albums
[1] Title Peak chart positions Certifications
Released
(sales thresholds)
Year Month US UK GER NOR SWE CH AUT
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
1966 Jun Freak Out! 130 — — — — — —
1967 Apr Absolutely Free 41 — — — — — —
Aug Lumpy Gravy 159 — — — — — —
1968 Mar We're Only in It for the Money 30 31 — — — — —
Nov Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 110 — — — — — —
1969 Mar Uncle Meat 43 — — — — — —
Mothermania — — — — — — —
Oct Hot Rats 173 9 — — — — —

1970 Feb Burnt Weeny Sandwich 94 17 — — — — —
Aug Weasels Ripped My Flesh 189 28 — — — — —
Oct Chunga's Revenge 119 43 — — — — —
1971 Aug Fillmore East – June 1971 38 — — — — — —
Oct 200 Motels 59 — — — — — —
1972 Mar Just Another Band from L.A. 85 — — — — — —
Jul Waka/Jawaka 152 — — — — — —
Nov The Grand Wazoo — — — — — — —
1973 Sep Over-Nite Sensation 32 — — 15 — — — [9]

US: Gold
1974 Mar Apostrophe (') 10 — — 6 — — — [10]

US: Gold
Jul Roxy & Elsewhere 27 — — 14 — — —
1975 Jun One Size Fits All 26 — — 5 — — —
Oct Bongo Fury 66 — — 11 — — —
1976 Oct Zoot Allures 61 — — 16 17 — — [11]

UK: Silver
1978 Mar Zappa in New York 57 55 — 6 24 — —
Sep Studio Tan 147 — — — 30 — —
1979 Jan Sleep Dirt 175 — — 16 19 — —
Mar Sheik Yerbouti 21 32 — 5 4 — 6 [12]

Canada: Gold
May Orchestral Favorites 168 — — — — — —
Sep Joe's Garage Act I 27 62 — 1 2 — 8 [12]

Canada: Gold
Nov Joe's Garage Acts II & III — — — — — — —
1981 May Tinsel Town Rebellion 66 55 — 13 8 — 9
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar — — — — — — —
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More — — — — — — —
Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar — — — — — — —
Sep You Are What You Is 93 51 — 12 22 — —
1982 May Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch 23 61 — 20 26 — —
1983 Mar The Man from Utopia 153 87 — — 23 — —
Baby Snakes — — 67 — — — —
Jun London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I — — — — — — —
1984 Aug Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger — — — — — — —
Oct Them or Us — 53 — — 22 — —
Nov Thing-Fish — — — — — — —
Francesco Zappa — — — — — — —
The Old Masters, Box I — — — — — — —
1985 Nov Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention 153 — — — — — —

1986 Jan Does Humor Belong in Music? — — — — — — —
Nov The Old Masters, Box II — — — — — — —
Jazz from Hell — — — — — — —
1987 Jun London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II — — — — — — —
Dec The Old Masters, Box III — — — — — — —
1988 Apr Guitar — 82 — — — — 25
May You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 — — — — — — —
Oct You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 — — — — — — —
Broadway the Hard Way — — — — — — —
1989 Nov You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 — — — — — — —
1991 Apr The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life — — — — — — —
Jun Make a Jazz Noise Here — — — — — — —
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 — — — — — — —
1992 Jul You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 — — — — — — —
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 — — — — — — —
Nov Playground Psychotics — — — — — — —
1993 Mar Ahead of Their Time — — — — — — —
Oct The Yellow Shark — — 61 — — — 30
Posthumous albums
1994 Dec Civilization Phaze III — — 87 — — — —
1996 Feb The Lost Episodes — — — — 54 — —
Sep Läther — — — — 50 — —
Oct Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute — — — — — — —
1997 May Have I Offended Someone? — — — — — — —
1998 Sep Mystery Disc — — — — — — —
1999 Dec Everything Is Healing Nicely — — — — — — —
2002 Aug FZ:OZ — — — — — — —
2003 Feb Halloween — — — — — — —
2004 May Joe's Corsage — — — — — — —
Oct Joe's Domage — — — — — — —
Sep QuAUDIOPHILIAc — — — — — — —
2005 Dec Joe's XMASage — — — — — — —
2006 Jan Imaginary Diseases — — — — — — —
Dec The MOFO Project/Object (2-CD set) — — — — — — —
The MOFO Project/Object (4-CD set) — — — — — — —
Oct Trance-Fusion — — — — — — —
2007 Apr Buffalo — — — — — — —
Aug The Dub Room Special! — — — — — — —
Oct Wazoo — — — — — — —
2008 Jun One Shot Deal — — — — — — —
Sep Joe's Menage — — — — — — —
2009 Jan Lumpy Money — — — — — — —
Dec Philly '76 — — — — — — —
2010 Apr Greasy Love Songs — — — — — — —
Sep Congress Shall Make No Law... — — — — — — —
Nov Hammersmith Odeon — — — — — — —
2011 Sep Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison — — — — — — —
Oct Carnegie Hall — — — — — — —
Miscellaneous
Released Title Peak chart positions
Year Month US UK GER NOR SWE CH AUT

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
1982 May Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (Box Set) 66 — — — — — —
1987 May Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III — — — — — — —
1991 Jul Beat the Boots — — — — — — —
1992 Jun Beat the Boots II — — — — — — —
1995 Apr London Symphony Orchestra, Volumes I & II — — — — — — —
2009 Jan Beat the Boots III — — — — — — —
Compilation albums
Released Album details Peak chart positions
Year Month US UK
GER
[13]
1968 Oct The **** of the Mothers — — —
1970 Jul The Mothers of Invention — — —
1971 Mar Worst of the Mothers 201 — —
1987 Jun The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa — — —
1995 Aug Strictly Commercial 12 45 51
1997 May Strictly Genteel — — —
1998 Feb Cucamonga — — —
Apr Cheap Thrills — — —
1999 Apr Son of Cheep Thrills — — —
2006 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle 2006 — — —
2008 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle 2008 — — —
2010 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010 — — —
2011 Dec [14] — — —

The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAAAM Birthday Bundle 2011
Singles
Year Song Peak Chart positions Album
U.S. U.S. GER CH AUT NOR SWE

[15] [16] [7] [8] [5] [6]
Rock
[15]
1966 "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" b/w "It Can't — — — — — — — Freak Out!
Happen Here"
"Trouble Comin' Every Day" — — — — — — —
"Who Are the Brain Police?" — — — — — — —
1967 "Big Leg Emma" b/w "Why Don't You Do Me — — — — — — — Non-album single
Right?"
"Son of Suzy Creamcheese" — — — — — — — Absolutely Free
"Lonely Little Girl" (non-LP version) — — — — — — — We're Only in It for the Money
1968 "Motherly Love" — — — — — — — Freak Out!
"Deseri" b/w "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" — — — — — — — Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
"Anyway the Wind Blows" — — — — — — —
1969 "WPLJ" — — — — — — — Burnt Weeny Sandwich
"My Guitar" b/w "Dog Breath" — — — — — — — Non-album single
1970 "Peaches en Regalia" — — — — — — — Hot Rats
"Tell Me You Love Me" — — — — — — — Chunga's Revenge
1971 "Tears Began To Fall" b/w "Junier Mintz Boogie" — — — — — — — Non-album single
"Magic Fingers" — — — — — — — 200 Motels
"What Will This Evening Bring Me This — — — — — — —

Morning"
1972 "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" — — — — — — — The Grand Wazoo
1973 "I'm the Slime" (single mix with different guitar — — — — — — — Over-Nite Sensation
solo)
1974 "Cosmik Debris" — — — — — — — Apostrophe (')
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" 86 — — — — — —
1975 "Du Bist Mein Sofa" — — — — — — — One Size Fits All
1976 "Find Her Finer" — — — — — — — Zoot Allures
"Disco Boy" 105 — — — — — —
1979 "Dancin' Fool" 45 — — — — — — Sheik Yerbouti
"Bobby Brown" — — 4 5 2 1 1
"Joe's Garage" — — — — — 4 14 Joe's Garage
"Stick It Out" — — — — — — —
1980 "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" b/w "Ancient 103 — 71 — — — 3 Non-album single
Armaments"
1981 "Love of My Life" — — — — — — — Tinsel Town Rebellion
"Harder Than Your Husband" — — — — — — — You Are What You Is
"You Are What You Is" — — — — — — —
"Goblin Girl" — — — — — — —
1982 "Valley Girl" 32 12 — — — — — Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a

Drowning Witch
1983 "The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou" — — — — — — — The Man From Utopia
"Cocaine Decisions" — — — — — — —
1984 "Baby Take Your Teeth Out" — — — — — — — Them or Us
"In France" — — — — — — —
"The Girl in the Magnesium Dress" — — — — — — — Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect
Stranger
1988 "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" — — — — — — — Guitar
"Zomby Woof" — — — — — — — You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,

Vol. 1
1991 "Stairway to Heaven" — — — 9 — — — The Best Band You Never Heard In

Your Life
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
[17] [18]
Cover or tribute albums by other artists

• King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (Jean-Luc Ponty) (1970)
• The BRT Big Band Plays Frank Zappa (BRT Big Band) (1990)
• Yahozna Plays Zappa (Yahonza) (1992)
• Zappa's Universe—A Celebration of 25 Years of Frank Zappa's Music (Joel Thome/Orchestra of Our
Time)(1993)
• Smart Went Crazy (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1993)
• Harmonia Meets Zappa (Harmonia Ensemble) (1994)
• What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Jon Poole) (1994)
• Music by Frank Zappa (Omnibus Wind Ensemble) (1995)
• Thanks to Frank (Warren Cuccurullo) (1995)
• Prime Meridian (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1995)
• Anxiety Of Influence (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1996)
• Frankincense: The Muffin Men Play Zappa (Muffin Men) (1997)
• Plays The Music of Frank Zappa (The Ed Palermo Big Band) (1997)
• Dischordancies Abundant (CoCö Anderson) (1997)
• Zappe Zappa (Pierre-Jean Gaucher) (1998)
• Ear Mind I (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1998)
• Frankly A Cappella (The Persuasions) (2000)
• The Zappa Album (Ensemble Ambrosius) (2000)
• Bohuslän Big Band plays Frank Zappa (Bohuslän Big Band) (2000)
• Fric Out ! (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2001)
• Have A Bun (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2002)
• Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions (Ensemble Modern) (2003)
• UMO Jazz Orchestra: UMO plays Frank Zappa feat. Marzi Nyman (2003)
• Tales Of Brave Flegmar (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2003)
• Oh No!... Just Another Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue! (LeBocal) (2003)
• Zapparcie, czyli uboczne skutki jedzenia żółtego śniegu (Prząśniczki & Tymon Tymański) (2003)[19]
• NRO Live (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2004)
• Lemme Take You To The Beach: Surf Instrumental Bands playing the music of Zappa (Cordelia Records) (2005)
• Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (and Funny Smells) (Colin Towns and the NDR bigband) (rent a dog) (2005)[20]
• Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (The Ed Palermo Big Band) (2006)
• Music For Hungry People (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2007)
• Struber Z'Tett Plays Zappa Live : Les Noces De Dada (Struber Z'Tett) (2007)
• 2G (Pierre-Jean Gaucher & Christophe Godin) (2007)
• Zappa Plays Zappa (Dweezil Zappa) (2008)
References
[1] "> FZ Official Discography" (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ discography/ index. html). Zappa.com. .
[2] "Frank Zappa > Charts & Awards" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ artist/ p74796/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-12-04.
[3] Warwick, 2004. p.1220
[4] "Musicline.de - Chartverfolgung - Zappa,Frank" (http:/ / www. musicline. de/ de/ chartverfolgung_summary/ artist/ Zappa,Frank/
?type=longplay). www.musicline.de. . Retrieved 2012-04-05.
[5] "norwegiancharts.com - Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free" (http:/ / norwegiancharts. com/ showitem. asp?interpret=Frank+ Zappa&
titel=Absolutely+ Free& cat=s). norwegiancharts.com. . Retrieved 2009-04-24.
[6] "swedishcharts.com - Frank Zappa - A Token Of My Extreme" (http:/ / swedishcharts. com/ showitem. asp?interpret=Frank+ Zappa&
titel=A+ Token+ Of+ My+ Extreme& cat=s). swedishcharts.com. . Retrieved 2009-04-24.
[7] "Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown - hitparade.ch" (http:/ / hitparade. ch/ showitem. asp?interpret=Frank+ Zappa& titel=Bobby+ Brown& cat=s).
hitparade.ch. . Retrieved 2009-05-22.
[8] "Frank Zappa - Sharleena - austriancharts.at" (http:/ / austriancharts. at/ showitem. asp?interpret=Frank+ Zappa& titel=Sharleena& cat=s).
austriancharts.at. . Retrieved 2009-04-24.
[9] "Searchable Database" (http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?table=SEARCH). Recording Industry Association of America. .
Retrieved 2012-04-05. Note: User must define 'Artist' search parameter as "Mothers".
[10] "Searchable Database" (http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?table=SEARCH). Recording Industry Association of America. .
Retrieved 2011-12-15. Note: User must define 'Artist' search parameter as "Frank Zappa".
[11] " Certified Awards Search (http:/ / www. bpi. co. uk/ certifiedawards/ search. aspx)". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on
2011-12-15. Note: User needs to enter "Frank Zappa" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select
"More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
[12] " Certified Awards Search (http:/ / www. musiccanada. com/ gpSearchResult. aspx)". Music Canada. Retrieved on 2011-12-15. Note: User
must define 'Artist' search parameter as "Frank Zappa".
?type=longplay). www.musicline.de. . Retrieved 2012-04-05.
[14] http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ aaafnraa/ 2011aaafnraaaaam. html
[15] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ artist/ p74796/ charts-awards/ billboard-singles
single?sort=pos). www.musicline.de. . Retrieved 2009-04-24.
[17] http:/ / www. zappafrenzy. com/ singles/ singles. html
[18] http:/ / www. zappafrenzy. com/ maxisingles/ maxisingles. html
[19] Polish, translates to "Zapparcie, that is, the side effects of eating yellow snow."
[20] ndrbigband (http:/ / www. united-mutations. com/ n/ ndrbigband. htm) united-mutations.com. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
External links
• Official Frank Zappa website (http://www.zappa.com/)
• Discography of main releases with lyrics (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/index.html)
• Frank Zappa: A Weirdo Discography (http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/weirdo/index.html) — details of
further Zappa compilations and other releases
43
Studio albums
Freak Out!
Freak Out!
Studio album by The Mothers of Invention
Released June 27, 1966
Recorded March 9–12, 1966 at Sunset-Highland Studios of TTG
Genre Rock, blues rock, comedy rock, psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues, experimental, doo-wop, spoken word
Length 60:55
Label Verve
Producer Tom Wilson
Frank Zappa chronology
Freak Absolutely
Out! Free
(1966) (1967)
Singles from Freak Out!
1. "How Could I Be Such A Fool?"

Released: 1966
2. "Trouble Comin' Every Day/Who Are the Brain Police?"
Released: 1966
3. "Motherly Love"
Released: 1968
Back cover
Featuring a "letter" from Suzy Creamcheese
Freak Out! is the debut album by American band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve
Records. Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of frontman
Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture. It was also one of the earliest double albums in rock music
(although Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde preceded it by a week), and the first 2-record debut. In the UK the album
was originally released as a single disc.
The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who signed The Mothers, formerly a bar band called the Soul Giants.
Zappa said many years later that Wilson signed the group to a record deal in the belief that they were a white blues
band.[1][2] The album features vocalist Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada, drummer Jimmy Carl Black
and guitar player Elliot Ingber, who would later join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band under the name Winged Eel
Fingerling.[3][4]
The band's original repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues covers; though after Zappa joined the band he
encouraged them to play his own original material, and the name was changed to The Mothers.[5] The musical
content of Freak Out! ranges from rhythm and blues, doo-wop and standard blues-influenced rock to orchestral
arrangements and avant-garde sound collages. Although the album was initially poorly received in the United States,
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it was a success in Europe. It gained a cult following in America, where it continued to sell in substantial quantities
until it was prematurely discontinued in the early 1970s.
In 1999, it was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award,[6] and in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it among the
500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[7] In 2006, The MOFO Project/Object, an audio documentary on the making of the
album, was released in honor of its 40th anniversary.[8][9]
Background
In the early 1960s, Zappa met Ray Collins. Collins supported himself by working as a carpenter, and on weekends
sang with a group called the Soul Giants. Collins got into a fight with their guitar player, who quit, leaving the band
in need of a substitute, and Zappa filled in.[1][10] The Soul Giants' repertoire originally consisted of R&B covers;
though after Zappa joined the band he encouraged them to play his own original material and try to get a record
contract.[5] While most of the bandmembers liked the idea, then-leader and saxophone player Davy Coronado felt
that performing original material would cost them bookings, and quit the band.[1][2] The Soul Giants became The
Mothers, and Zappa took over leadership of the band.[1]
The group moved to Los Angeles in early 1965 after Zappa got them a management contract with Herb Cohen. They
gained steady work at clubs along the Sunset Strip. MGM staff producer Tom Wilson offered the band a record deal
on the Verve Records division in early 1966. He had heard of their growing reputation but had seen them perform
only one song, "Trouble Every Day", which concerned the Watts riots.[10] According to Zappa, this led Wilson to
believe that they were a "white blues band."[1][2] The group signed their contract on March 1, 1966 and quickly
began work on their first album. This would have made them a part of the "white blues band" trend, initiated in 1965
with the debut of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band from Chicago and the 1966 debut of the Blues Project from New
York City.
Recording
The first two songs recorded for the album were "Any Way The Wind Blows" and "Who Are the Brain
Police?"[1][10] When Tom Wilson heard the latter, he realized that The Mothers were not merely a blues band. In The
Real Frank Zappa Book, Zappa wrote "I could see through the window that he was scrambling toward the phone to
call his boss—probably saying: 'Well, uh, not exactly a "white blues band," but...sort of.'"[1] In a 1968 article written
for Hit Parader magazine, Zappa wrote that when Wilson heard these songs, "he was so impressed he got on the
phone and called New York, and as a result I got a more or less unlimited budget to do this monstrosity."[10] Freak
Out! is an early example of the concept album, a sardonic farce about rock music and America. "All the songs on it
were about something," Zappa wrote in The Real Frank Zappa Book. "It wasn't as if we had a hit single and we
needed to build some filler around it. Each tune had a function within an overall satirical concept."[1]
If you were to graphically analyze the different types of directions of all the songs in the Freak Out! album,
there's a little something in there for everybody. At least one piece of material is slanted for every type of
social orientation within our consumer group, which happens to be six to eighty. Because we got people that
like what we do, from kids six years old screaming on us to play "Wowie Zowie." Like I meet executives
doing this and that, and they say, 'My kid's got the record, and 'Wowie Zowies their favorite song."[11]
The album was recorded at TTG Studios at the corner of Sunset and Highland in Hollywood, California, between
March 9 and March 12, 1966.[12] Some songs, such as "Motherly Love" and "I Ain't Got No Heart" had already been
recorded before the Freak Out! sessions. These early recordings, said to have been made around 1965,[12] were not
officially released until 2004, when they appeared on the posthumous Zappa album Joe's Corsage. An early version
of the song "Any Way The Wind Blows," recorded in 1963,[13] appears on another posthumous release, The Lost
Episodes. The song was written when Zappa considered divorcing first wife Kay Sherman.[13][14] In the liner notes
for Freak Out!, Zappa wrote "If I had never gotten divorced, this piece of trivial nonsense would never have been
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recorded."[14]
Tom Wilson became more enthusiastic as the sessions continued. In the middle of the week of recording, Zappa told
him "I would like to rent $500 worth of percussion equipment for a session that starts at midnight on Friday and I
want to bring all the freaks from Sunset Boulevard into the studio to do something special." Wilson agreed. The
material was worked into "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet".[1] According to Zappa, the record label
refused to allow him the time needed to complete the composition, and so it was released in unfinished form.[14][15]
Zappa later found out that when the material was recorded, Wilson had taken LSD. "I've tried to imagine what he
must have been thinking, sitting in that control room, listening to all that weird shit coming out of the speakers, and
being responsible for telling the engineer, Ami Hadani (who was not on acid), what to do."[1] By the time Freak Out!
was edited and shaped into an album, Wilson had spent $25–35,000 of MGM's money.[1] In Hit Parader magazine,
Zappa wrote "Wilson was sticking his neck out. He laid his job on the line by producing the album. MGM felt that
they had spent too much money on the album."[10]
The label requested that two lines be removed from the "It Can't Happen Here" section of "Help, I'm a Rock," (a
song dedicated to Elvis Presley)[14][16] both of which had been interpreted by MGM executives to be drug
references. However, the label either had no objections to, or else did not notice, a sped-up recording of Zappa
shouting the word "fuck" after accidentally smashing his finger,[17] occurring at 11 minutes and 36 seconds into "The
Return of the Son of Monster Magnet". On the 1995 compact disc issue of the album, "Help, I'm a Rock" and "It
Can't Happen Here" were indexed as separate tracks, as "It Can't Happen Here" had been on the 1969 vinyl
compilation "Mothermania."[18]
MGM also told Zappa that the band would have to change their name, claiming that no DJ would play a record on
the air by a group called "The Mothers."[1][19]
...at the time, it was, you know, if you were a good musician, you were a motherfucker, and Mothers was short
for collection of motherfuckers. And actually, it was kind of presumptuous to name the band that, because we
weren't that good musicians, we were...But by bar-band standards in the area, we were light-years ahead of our
competition, but in terms of real musicianship, I just suppose we were right down there in the swamp.[2]
—Frank Zappa
Release
Freak Out! was released June 27, 1966 with the band's name changed to The Mothers of Invention, a name Zappa
chose in favor of MGM's original suggested name, "The Mothers Auxiliary."[20] The album's back cover included a
"letter" from Zappa-created fictional character Suzy Creamcheese (who also appears on the album itself), which
read:
These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were
gonna get them for a dance after the basketball game but my best pal warned me you can never tell how many
will show up...sometimes the guy in the fur coat doesn't show up and sometimes he does show up only he
brings a big bunch of crazy people with him and they dance all over the place. None of the kids at my school
like these Mothers...specially since my teacher told us what the words to their songs meant. Sincerely forever,
Suzy Creamcheese, Salt Lake City, Utah.[21]
Because the text was printed in a typeface resembling typewriter lettering, some people thought that Suzy
Creamcheese was real, and many listeners expected to see her in concert performances. Because of this, it was
decided that "it would be best to bring along a Suzy Creamcheese replica who would demonstrate once and for all
the veracity of such a beast."[22] Because the original voice of Suzy Creamcheese, Jeannie Vassoir, was unavailable,
Pamela Lee Zarubica took over the part.[22]
Early US pressings of the album included a blurb for a "Freak Out Hot Spots!" map. Inside the gatefold jacket the
small ad was aimed at people coming to visit Los Angeles and it listed several famous restaurants and clubs
Freak Out! 46
including Canter's and The Whiskey A Go-Go. The ad also claimed information concerning police arrests. It states:
"Also shows where the heat has been busting frequently, with tips on safety in police terror situations". Those
interested in the map were instructed to send $1.00 to MGM Records c/o 1540 Broadway NY. NY. address. The
phony map blurb was not included on later pressings but was removed and the space was left blank.,[18] It was
eventually reprinted and included with The MOFO Project/Object, a four-disc audio documentary on the making of
the album, released posthumously by the Zappa Family Trust in 2006.[8][9]
Response
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [23]
The Daily Vault [24]

(B)
Los Angeles Times (unfavorable)[25]
Q [26]
Yahoo! Music [27]

(favorable)
Though it reached #130 on the Billboard chart,[28] Freak Out! was neither a major commercial nor critical success
when it was first released in the United States.[2] Some listeners were convinced that the album was drug-inspired,[1]
and interpreted the album's title as slang for a bad LSD trip.[29] In The Real Frank Zappa Book, Zappa quotes a
negative review of the album by Pete Johnson of the Los Angeles Times, who wrote:
I guess you might call it surrealistic paintings set to music. Not content to record just two sides of musical
gibberish, the MOI devote four full sides to their type of 'artistry.' If anyone owns this album, perhaps he can
tell me what in hell is going on...The Mothers of Invention, a talented but warped quintet, have fathered an
album poetically entitled Freak Out, which could be the greatest stimulus to the aspirin industry since the
income tax.[30]
However the album did develop a major cult following in the US by the time MGM/Verve had been merged into a
division of PolyGram in 1972. At that time many MGM/Verve releases including Freak Out! were prematurely
deleted in an attempt to keep the struggling company financially solvent. Zappa had already moved on to his own
companies Bizarre Records and Straight Records which were distributed by Warner Bros. Records. Freak Out! was
initially more successful in Europe and quickly influenced many English rock musicians.[17] According to David
Fricke, the album was a major influence on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[31] Paul McCartney
regarded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as The Beatles' Freak Out![32] However, Zappa criticized the
Beatles, as he felt they were "only in it for the money".[33]
Freak Out! was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999,[6] ranked at number 243 on Rolling Stone
magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003,[7] and featured in the 2006 book 1001 Albums You
Must Hear Before You Die.[34] The album was named as one of Classic Rock magazine's "50 Albums That Built
Prog Rock".[35]
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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" 3:32
2. "I Ain't Got No Heart" 2:34
3. "Who Are the Brain Police?" 3:25
4. "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder" Frank Zappa and Ray Collins 3:43
5. "Motherly Love" 2:50
6. "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" 2:16
Side two
No. Title Length
7. "Wowie Zowie" 2:55
8. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" 3:21
9. "Any Way the Wind Blows" 2:55
10. "I'm Not Satisfied" 2:41
11. "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" 3:41
Side three
No. Title Length
12. "Trouble Every Day" 5:53
13. "Help, I'm a Rock (Suite In Three Movements) 1st Movement: Okay To Tap Dance/2nd Movement: In Memoriam, Edgar Varèse/3rd 8:37
Movement: It Can't Happen Here"
Side four
No. Title Length
14. "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (Unfinished Ballet in Two Tableaux)" 12:22
Total length: 60:55
Credits
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, conductor, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums, vocals
• Ray Collins – harmonica, cymbals, sound effects, tambourine, vocals, finger cymbals
• Elliot Ingber – alternate lead & rhythm guitar
• Roy Estrada – bass, vocals, guitarron, soprano vocals
• Gene Estes – percussion
• Eugene Di Novi – piano
• Neil Le Vang – guitar
• John Rotella – clarinet, sax
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• Carol Kaye - 12-string guitar

• Kurt Reher – cello
• Raymond Kelley – cello
• Paul Bergstrom – cello
• Emmet Sargeant – cello
• Joseph Saxon – cello
• Edwin V. Beach – cello
• Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba
• Motorhead Sherwood – noises
• Kim Fowley - megaphone
• Mac Rebennack – piano
• Paul Butterfield
• Les McCann – piano
• Jeannie Vassoir – (the voice of Cheese)
Production
• Producer: Tom Wilson
• Engineering director: Val Valentin
• Engineers: Ami, Tom, Val Valentin
• Assistant: Eugene Dinovi, Neil Levang, Vito, Ken Watson
• Musical director: Frank Zappa
• Orchestration: Frank Zappa
• Arranger: Frank Zappa
• Cover design: Jack Anesh
• Hair stylist: Ray Collins
Charts
Album
Year Chart Position
1967 Billboard Pop Albums 130[28]
References
[1] Zappa, Frank; Occhiogrosso, Peter (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press. pp. 65–80. ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
[2] Leigh, Nigel. Interview with Frank Zappa for BBC Late Show. UMRK, LA. March, 1993.
[3] "Elliot Ingber info" (http:/ / www. united-mutations. com/ i/ elliot_ingber. htm). United Mutations. . Retrieved 2007-02-22.
[4] "FZ Musicians & Collaborators H-L: Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling)" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ musicians/ H-L.
html#IngberElliot). Information Is Not Knowledge. . Retrieved 2007-02-22.
[5] Billy James, Necessity Is . . .: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, page 23 (http:/ / books. google. com/
?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA23& dq=So"the+ Soul+ Giants+ no+ longer+ seemed+ like+ an+ appropriate+ name& cd=1#v=onepage&
q=So"the Soul Giants no longer seemed like an appropriate name). SAF Publishing Ltd, 2002, ISBN 0946719519. 2002-10-01.
ISBN 978-0-946719-51-8. . Retrieved 2010-05-28.
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2007-03-20.
[7] "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ story/ _/ id/ 6599773). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 2007-01-20.
[8] Zappa, Frank. The MOFO Project/Object. ZR 20004.
[9] "Vinyl Vs. CDs: MoFo: The Making of Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ vinylvscds/ mofo. html). The Zappa Patio.
. Retrieved 2007-01-20.
[10] Zappa, Frank (June 1968). "The Incredible History Of The Mothers" (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ interviews/ 006_19680600. html). Hit
Parader. . Retrieved 2007-02-09.
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[11] Eisen, Jonathan. The Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution. Random House Inc. ISBN 0-394-70535-1.
[12] "FZ chronology: 1965–1969: The Mothers of Invention" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ chronology/ 1965-1969. html). Information Is
Not Knowledge. . Retrieved 2007-02-08.
[13] The Lost Episodes. Liner notes. RCD 40573.
[14] Zappa, Frank. Freak Out! Liner notes. V/V6-5005-2.
[15] Zappa, Frank. Radio appearance. WDET, Detroit, MI. November 13, 1967.
[16] Shelton, Robert (December 25, 1966). "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ interviews/ 001_19661225. html). The
New York Times. . Retrieved 2007-02-09.
[17] Biberfeld, Matty. Interview with Frank Zappa. WRVR, New York City, NY. Summer, 1967.
[18] "Vinyl Vs. CDs: Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ vinylvscds/ freakout. html). The Zappa Patio. . Retrieved
2007-01-20.
[19] "Interview" (http:/ / home. online. no/ ~corneliu/ rs88. htm). Rolling Stone. 1988. . Retrieved 2007-02-09.
[20] Zappa, Frank (Unknown date). ""Pretty Pat" (Interview excerpted on Joe's Corsage, VR 20041)" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/
Joe's_Corsage. html#Pretty). . Retrieved 2007-02-07.
[21] Zappa, Frank. Freak Out! Back cover. V/V6-5005-2.
[22] Zappa, Frank. Interview. KBEY-FM, Kansas City, MO. October 22, 1971.
[23] Huey, Steve. "Review: Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53126). Allmusic. . Retrieved 13 June 2009.
[24] Thelen, Christopher. "Review: Freak Out!" (http:/ / dailyvault. com/ toc. php5?review=5820). Daily Vault. . Retrieved 13 June 2009.
[25] Johnson, Pete (1966-07-10). "Popular Record: Pass Aspirin, Please" (http:/ / pqasb. pqarchiver. com/ latimes/ access/ 496874152.
html?dids=496874152:496874152& FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:AI& type=historic& date=Jul+ 10,+ 1966& author=& pub=Los+ Angeles+
Times& desc=POPULAR+ RECORDS:+ PASS+ ASPIRIN,+ PLEASE& pqatl=google). Los Angeles Times. . Retrieved 20 November 2009.
[26] "Review: Freak Out!". Q (August 1995): 150–151.
[27] Walls, Richard C.. "Review: Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. music. yahoo. ca/ read/ review/ 12048959). Yahoo! Music. . Retrieved 23 April
2012.
[28] "Chart & Awards for Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53126). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2007-12-06.
[29] Zappa, Frank. Interview. Mixed Media, Detroit, MI November 13, 1967.
[30] Johnson, Pete (August 1966). "Review of Freak Out!". Los Angeles Times.
[31] Fricke, David (2006). The MOFO Project/Object (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Zappa Records.
[32] MacDonald, 1994, Revolution in the Head, p. 171.
[33] Fricke, David (2008). Lumpy Money (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Zappa Records.
[34] Robert Dimery, ed. (2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ steveparker/ 1001albums.
htm). Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5. .
[35] Classic Rock magazine, July 2010, Issue 146.
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Absolutely Free
Absolutely Free
Released May 26, 1967
Recorded November 15–18, 1966 at Sunset-Highland Studios of TTG
Genre Progressive rock, comedy rock, experimental rock
Length 38:29
43:37 (reissue)
Label Verve
Producer Frank Zappa,

Tom Wilson
Freak Absolutely Lumpy

Out! Free Gravy
(1966) (1967) (1967)
The Mothers of Invention chronology
Freak Absolutely We're Only in It for the

Out! Free Money
(1966) (1967) (1968)
Singles from Absolutely Free
1. "Son of Suzy Creamcheese"

Released: 1967
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau [2]

B−
[3] (8/10)
Piero Scaruffi
Absolutely Free is the second album by The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. Absolutely Free is, again, a
display of complex musical composition with political and social satire. The band had been augmented since Freak
Out! by the addition of saxophone player Bunk Gardner, keyboardist Don Preston, guitarist Jim Fielder and drummer
Billy Mundi. Fielder quit the group before the album was released and his name was removed from the album
credits.
This album's emphasis is on interconnected movements, as each side of the original vinyl LP comprises a mini-suite.
It also features one of the most famous songs of Zappa's early career, "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," a track which
has been described as a "condensed two-hour musical".[4]
Absolutely Free 51
In the book Necessity Is..., former Mothers of Invention band member Ray Collins claimed that Absolutely Free is
probably his favorite of the classic Mothers albums.[5]
Reissues
The CD reissue adds a single that The Mothers released at the time between where side one would have ended and
side two would have begun. It features the songs "Why Dontcha Do Me Right?" (titled "Why Don't You Do Me
Right" on the 45) and "Big Leg Emma", both described as "an attempt to make dumb music to appeal to dumb
teenagers". These were a rare Verve single.
The UK-67 release (Verve VLP/SVLP 9174) came in a laminated flip-back cover, with a Mike Raven poem at the
reverse that was not apparent on any other issue.
In 2007, the Lagunitas Brewing Company put out an India Pale Ale named Kill Ugly Radio, featuring the inside art
from the album on the label, one in a series of beers planned to be released on the 40th anniversary of each of
Zappa's studio albums.
Album content
The title of "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" was inspired by an event covered by Time reporter Hugh Sidey in 1966.
The reporter correctly guessed that something was up when the founced public relations visit later that day.
In the songs "America Drinks and Goes Home" and "America Drinks", Zappa combines a silly tune with nightclub
sound effects to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands during the early 1960s. Other songs recorded
soon after, that used the same kinds of ideas, include "On with the Show" by The Rolling Stones (released in 1967),
"My Friend" by Jimi Hendrix (recorded in 1968, released in 1971) and "You Know My Name (Look Up The
Number)" by The Beatles (recorded in 1967 and 1969, released in 1970).
"Plastic People" begins with a mock introduction of the President of the United States, who (along with his wife) can
only recite the opening notes to "Louie, Louie". "Louie, Louie" is often interpolated in Zappa's compositions (other
examples appear in the Uncle Meat and Yellow Shark albums, among others), and when Zappa first began
performing "Plastic People" around 1965, the words were set to the tune of "Louie, Louie".
References
It is not unusual to find melodies or scores from other composers within the music of Frank Zappa. Absolutely Free
is full of musical references to other compositions and artists, including Igor Stravinsky.
For example, "Amnesia Vivace" quotes the nocturne from Stravinsky's The Firebird, while Zappa's "la la la"s
underneath are a fair rendition of the opening bassoon melody to The Rite of Spring. The song begins with a little
harpsichord solo, which is also a direct reference to the second part of The Rite of Spring, Ritual Action of the
Ancestors. The opening sequence of Petrouchka is quoted in the middle section of "Status Back Baby". "Soft-Sell
Conclusion" ends with the intro of Stravinsky's march from A Soldier's Tale.
The "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin", in the beginning of the saxophone solo (first cadence)
quotes the trio directly from the fourth movement of Gustav Holst's The Planets, Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity.
"Soft-Sell Conclusion", after Zappa's intro, also contains a plausible burlesque of Bob Dylan, complete with
harmonica noodlings. This would be repeated in the song "Flakes" on Sheik Yerbouti.
The melody to "The Duke of Prunes" is the love theme from Zappa's own film score to Run Home Slow.
Absolutely Free 52
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa.
Side one: Suite No. 1: "Absolutely Free" (1st in a Series of Underground Oratorios)
No. Title Length
1. "Plastic People" 3:42
2. "The Duke of Prunes" 2:13
3. "Amnesia Vivace" 1:01
4. "The Duke Regains His Chops" 1:52
5. "Call Any Vegetable" 2:15
6. "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin" 7:00
7. "Soft-Sell Conclusion" 1:40
1967 Mothers of Invention single, bonus tracks on Compact Disc:
No. Title Length
8. "Big Leg Emma" 2:31
9. "Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?" 2:37
Side two: Suite No. 2: "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios)
No. Title Length
10. "America Drinks" 1:52
11. "Status Back Baby" 2:54
12. "Uncle Bernie's Farm" 2:10
13. "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" 1:34
14. "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" 7:30
15. "America Drinks and Goes Home" 2:46
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, conductor, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals
• Ray Collins – vocals, tambourine
• Don Ellis – trumpet on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
• Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
• Bunk Gardner – woodwinds
• Billy Mundi – drums, percussion
• Don Preston – keyboards
• John Rotella – percussion
• Jim Fielder – guitar, piano
• Pamela Zarubica – vocals
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Production
• Producers: Frank Zappa, Tom Wilson
• Director of engineering: Val Valentin
• Engineer: Ami Hadani
• Remixing: David Greene
• Cover design: Ferenc Dobronyi, Cal Schenkel
• Layout design: Frank Zappa
• Cover photo: Alice Ochs
• Cover art: Frank Zappa
• Photography: Jerry Deiter
• Artwork: Alice Ochs
• Collage: Frank Zappa
• Liner Notes: Frank Zappa
Charts
Year Chart Position
1967 US Billboard 200 41
References
[1] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Absolutely Free – The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22628).
allmusic.com. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[2] Christgau, Robert (2011 [last update]). "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 4155" (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155).
robertchristgau.com. Archived (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20110606104003/ http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2.
php?id=4155) from the original on 6 June 2011. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[3] Scaruffi, Piero (2011 [last update]). "The History of Rock Music. Frank Zappa: biography, discography, reviews, links" (http:/ / www.
scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html). scaruffi.com. Archived (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20110605181240/ http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/
zappa. html) from the original on 5 June 2011. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[4] allmusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ t998763)
[5] Billy James, Necessity Is...: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, SAF Publishing Ltd (2001), p51 (http:/ / books.
google. de/ books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& printsec=frontcover#PPA51), ISBN 978-0-946719-14-3
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Absolutely_Free.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/absolutely_free.html)
• "The Meaning of Cordovans" reporter Hugh Sidey recalls the event when he saw Lyndon B. Johnson wearing the
wrong shoes (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924245-1,00.html)
We're Only in It for the Money

We're Only in It for the Money
Released March 4, 1968
Recorded March 14–16; August 2–9; October 1967 at Capitol Studios, LA; Mayfair and Apostolic Studios, NYC
Genre Rock, orchestral, experimental
Length 39:15
Label Verve
Producer Frank Zappa
Lumpy We're Only in It for the Cruising with Ruben & the
Gravy Money Jets
(1967) (1968) (1968)
Absolutely We're Only in It for the Cruising with Ruben & the
Free Money Jets
(1967) (1968) (1968)
Singles from We're Only in It for the Money
1. "Lonely Little Girl"

Released: 1967 (non-LP version)
We're Only in It for the Money is the third studio album by The Mothers of Invention. Released on March 4, 1968
on Verve Records, it was subsequently remixed and re-recorded by Frank Zappa and reissued independently by
Rykodisc Records in 1986.
As with the band's previous two albums, We're Only in It for the Money is a concept album, and satirizes left and
right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other
albums: Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and Uncle Meat.
We're Only in It for the Money encompasses rock, orchestral and experimental music, with its orchestral segments
deriving from the recording sessions for Lumpy Gravy, which was previously issued as a solo instrumental album by
Capitol Records and was subsequently reedited by Zappa and released by Verve; the reedited Lumpy Gravy was
produced simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money and is the first part of a conceptual continuity,
continued with the reedited Lumpy Gravy and concluded with Zappa's final album, Civilization Phaze III (1994).
Background
While filming Uncle Meat, Frank Zappa recorded in New York City for a project called No Commercial Potential,
which ended up producing four albums: We're Only in It for the Money, a revised version of Zappa's solo album
Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and Uncle Meat, which served as the soundtrack to the film of the
same name, which was not completed until 1987.[1]
Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes
and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one
piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way,
and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."[1]
As the recording sessions continued, The Beatles released their acclaimed album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
Band. In response to the album's release, Zappa decided to change the album's concept to parody the Beatles album,
because he felt that the Beatles were insincere and "only in it for the money".[2] The Beatles were targeted as a
symbol of Zappa's objections to the corporatization of youth culture, and the album served as a criticism of them and
psychedelic rock as a whole.[2]
Recording
Band member Ray Collins had left the Mothers before the New York recording sessions took place, but later
rejoined when the band was recording the doo-wop songs that formed the album Cruisin' with Ruben & the Jets.[2]
Gary Kellgren was hired as an engineer for the project, and subsequently wound up delivering spoken pieces of
dialogue that linked segments of We're Only in It for the Money.[3] During the recording sessions, Verve requested
that Zappa remove a verse from the song "Mother People". Zappa complied, but reversed the recording and included
the backwards verse as part of the dialogue track "Hot Poop", concluding the album's first side[4], but this would be
removed by Verve themselves on subsequent represses of their own.
While recording We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa discovered that the strings of Apostolic Studios' grand piano
would resonate if a person spoke near those strings. The "piano people" experiment involved Zappa having various
speakers improvise dialogue using topics offered by Zappa. Various people contributed to these sessions, including
Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Tim Buckley.[5] The "piano people" voices primarily consisted of Motorhead
Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Spider Barbour, All-Night John (the manager of the studio) and Louis Cuneo, who was
noted for his laugh, which sounded like a "psychotic turkey".[6]
During the production, Zappa experimented with recording and editing techniques which produced unusual textures
and musique concrète compositions; the album featured abbreviated songs interrupted by segments of dialogue and
unrelated music which changed the continuity of the album.[7] Segments of orchestral music included on the album
came from a solo orchestral album by Zappa previously released by Capitol Records under the title Lumpy Gravy in
1967.[3] MGM claimed that Zappa was under contractual obligation to record for them, and subsequently Zappa
re-edited Lumpy Gravy, releasing a drastically different version on Verve Records, after the release of We're Only in
It for the Money. The artwork of Lumpy Gravy identified it as "phase 2 of We're Only in It for the Money", while
We're Only in It for the Money was identified in its artwork as "phase one of Lumpy Gravy", alluding to the
conceptual continuity of the two albums.[3]
Before release, MGM censored several tracks without Zappa's knowledge, involvement or permission.[3][8] On the
song "Absolutely Free", the line "I'm not going to do any more publicity balling for you" was edited by MGM to
remove the word "balling", changing the context of the sentence.[3] Additionally, on "Let's Make The Water Turn
Black", the line "and I still remember Mama, with her apron and her pad, feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe" was
removed.[8] Zappa later learned that this line was censored because an MGM executive thought that the word "pad"
referred to a sanitary napkin, rather than a waitresses order pad.[8] Also censored was the Lenny Bruce reference in
"Harry, You're A Beast",[9] and a spoken segment of "Concentration Moon" referring to The Velvet Underground as
being "as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group".[6] Zappa later declined to accept an award for the album upon
being made aware of the censorship, stating "I prefer that the award be presented to the guy who modified this
record, because what you're hearing is more reflective of his work than mine."[8]
Lyrical themes
In his lyrics for We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa speaks as a voice for "the freaks--imaginative outsiders who
didn't fit comfortably into any group", according to Allmusic writer Steve Huey.[7] Subsequently, the album satirizes
hippie culture and left-wing politics, as well as targeting right-wing politics, describing both political sides as
"prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness."[4][7][10]
Zappa later stated in 1978, "hippies were pretty stupid. [...] the people involved in [youth] processes [...] are very
sensitive to criticism. They always take themselves too seriously. So anybody who impugns the process, whether it's
a peace march or love beads or whatever it is - that person is the enemy and must be dealt with severely. So we came
under a lot of criticism, because we dared to suggest that perhaps what was going on was really stupid."[2]
Another element of the album's lyrical content came from the Los Angeles Police Department's harassment and
arrests of young rock fans, which made it difficult for the band to perform on the West Coast, leading the band to
move to New York City for better financial opportunities.[2] Additionally, Zappa made reference to comedian Lenny
Bruce; the song "Harry, You're A Beast" quotes Bruce's routine "To Is A Preposition, Come Is A Verb".[9]
The song "Flower Punk" is done in the style of Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix, only in a weird, comical style about a
person going to San Francisco and becoming a flower child.
Cover
Zappa's art director, Cal Schenkel photographed a collage for the album's cover, which parodied The Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Zappa spent $4,000 on the photo shoot, which he stated was "a direct negative"
of the Sgt. Pepper album cover. "[Sgt. Pepper] had blue skies [...] we had a thunderstorm."[2] Jimi Hendrix, a friend
of Zappa's, took part in the photo shoot, standing where a wax sculpture of Sonny Liston had appeared on the Beatles
album cover.[2]
Zappa phoned Paul McCartney, seeking permission for the parody. McCartney told him that it was an issue for
business managers,[2][3][6] but Zappa responded back, saying that the artists themselves were supposed to tell their
business managers what to do.[3][6] Nevertheless, Capitol objected, and the album's release was delayed for five
months.[3][11] Verve decided to package the album with inverted artwork, placing the parody cover as interior
artwork and the intended interior artwork as the main sleeve, out of fear of legal action.[2][4] Zappa was angered over
the decision; Schenkel felt that the Sgt. Pepper parody "was a stronger image" than the final released cover.[2]
Release
The album was released on March 4, 1968 by Verve Records. It peaked at number thirty on the Billboard 200.
Later releases
In 1984, Zappa prepared a remix of the album for its compact disc reissue and the vinyl box set The Old Masters I.
The remix reinstated audio that had been censored by Verve, as well as the original "Mother People" verse.[6] It also
featured new rhythm tracks recorded by bassist Arthur Barrow and drummer Chad Wackerman. Zappa would later
do the same with Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, stating "The master tapes for Ruben and the Jets were in better
shape, but since I liked the results on We're Only in It for the Money, I decided to do it on Ruben too. But those are
the only two albums on which the original performances were replaced. I thought the important thing was the
material itself."[1]
Lumpy Gravy was also remixed by Zappa, but not released at the time.[2] After the remixing was announced, a $13
million lawsuit was filed against Zappa by Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner and Don Preston, who were later joined
by Ray Collins, Art Tripp and Motorhead Sherwood, increasing the claim to $16.4 million, stating that they had
received no royalties from Zappa since 1969.[1]
The audio documentary box set Lumpy Money chronicles the production of We're Only in It for the Money, including
the orchestral version of Lumpy Gravy, a 1968 mix of We're Only in It for the Money and 1984 remixes of We're
Only in It for the Money and the reedited Lumpy Gravy album, as well as additional material from the original
recording sessions.
Reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [7]

(A)
Rolling Stone [13]

(Positive)
Barret Hansen praised the album in an April 1968 review for Rolling Stone.[2] He felt it was the most "advanced"
rock album released up to that date, though not necessarily the "best"; he compared Zappa with the Beatles, and felt
that the wit and sharpness of Zappa's lyrics was more intelligent, but unless one were to adopt a utilitarian view, he
would not deny the beauty of the Beatles music. He concluded that while the initial listening may be significantly
profound, due to the reliance on shock, subsequent listening may be reduced in value; and he returns to a comparison
with the Beatles, in which he feels that Zappa has the greater musical genius, but is less comfortable to listen to. [14]
Legacy
Allmusic writer Steve Huey wrote, "the music reveals itself as exceptionally strong, and Zappa's politics and satirical
instinct have rarely been so focused and relevant, making We're Only in It for the Money quite probably his greatest
achievement."[7] Robert Christgau gave the album an A, writing, "With bohemia permanent and changed utterly, this
early attack on its massification hasn't so much dated as found its context. Cheap sarcasm is forever."[12]
In 2003, the album was ranked number 296 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all
time.[15] It is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die along with the Mothers' first
release Freak Out!.[16]
In 2005, the U.S. National Recording Preservation Board included We're Only in It for the Money in the National
Recording Registry, calling it "a scathing satire on hippiedom and America's reactions to it".[17]
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Are You Hung Up?" 1:23
2. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" 2:34
3. "Concentration Moon" 2:32
4. "Mom & Dad" 2:16
5. "Bow Tie Daddy" 1:22
6. "Harry, You're a Beast" 1:22
7. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" 1:03
8. "Absolutely Free" 3:26
9. "Flower Punk" 3:57
10. "Hot Poop" 0:26
Side two
No. Title Length
11. "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music" 2:03
12. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" 1:45
13. "The Idiot Bastard Son" 2:44
14. "Lonely Little Girl (It's His Voice on the Radio)" 1:45
15. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" 1:35
16. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)" 0:57
17. "Mother People" 2:32
18. "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" 6:25
Total length: 39:15
For the 1986 CD release and all later reissues, track 5 (Bow Tie Daddy) has been re-credited as two separate titles;
the first half now being re-titled "Telephone Conversation" and the second half remaining as "Bow Tie Daddy."
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, piano, lead vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – trumpet, drums, vocals
• Roy Estrada – electric bass, vocals
• Bunk Gardner – all woodwinds
• Billy Mundi – drums, vocals
• Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, road manager
• Suzy Creamcheese – telephone voice
• Ian Underwood – piano, woodwinds
• Pamela Zarubica – vocals

• Eric Clapton – Male speaking part in "Are You Hung Up?" and "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music."
• Gary Kellgren – "the one doing all the creepy whispering" (i.e., interstitial spoken segments)
• Spider Barbour – vocals
• Dick Kunc – "cheerful interruptions" vocal
• Vicki Kellgren – additional telephone vocals
• Sid Sharp – orchestral arrangements on "Absolutely Free", "Mother People" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone
of Destiny"
Production
• Producer: Frank Zappa
• Executive producer: Tom Wilson
• Engineers: Gary Kellgren, Dick Kunc
• Remixing: Dick Kunc
• Editing: Dick Kunc, Frank Zappa
• Concept: Frank Zappa
• Art direction: Cal Schenkel
• Design: Cal Schenkel
• Artwork: Cal Schenkel
• Photography: Jerrold Schatzberg
• Fashion advisor: Tiger Morse
• Wardrobe: Billy Mundi
Charts
Album
Year Chart Position
1968 US Billboard 200 30
References
[1] Barry Miles (2004). Frank Zappa : the biography (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA160#v=onepage& q&
f=false) (23. print. ed.). New York, NY: Grove Press. pp. 160, 326. ISBN 0-8021-4215-X. .
[2] David Fricke (2008). Lumpy Money (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Zappa Records.
[3] Walley, David (1980). No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa. Da Capo Press. pp. 85, 89. ISBN 0-306-80710-6.
[4] Schinder, Scott; Schwartz, Andy (2008). Icons of rock : an encyclopedia of the legends who changed music forever (http:/ / books. google.
com/ books?id=CzWE_J3ZZfoC& pg=PA363). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 363. ISBN 978-0-313-33847-2. .
[5] James, Billy (2002). Necessity is.... : the early years of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA59#v=onepage& q& f=false) (2. ed. ed.). Middlesex: SAF Publishing Ltd. pp. 59. ISBN 0-946719-51-9. .
[6] Slaven, Neil (2003). Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa. Omnibus Press. pp. 85, 100, 105. ISBN 0-7119-9436-6.
[7] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "We're Only in It for the Money - The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ r22631). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[8] Zappa, Frank with Occhiogrosso, Peter (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-671-63870-X.
[9] Courrier, Kevin (2002). Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa. ECW Press. pp. 9, 81. ISBN 1-55022-447-6.
[10] Shuker, Roy (2001). Understanding popular music (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=PRavFA8l2FQC& pg=PA121#v=onepage& q&
f=false) (2. ed. ed.). Psychology Press. pp. 121. ISBN 0-415-23509-X. .
[11] Penney, Stuart (May 1987). "Frank Zappa - The Early Albums". Record Collector 93: 38–44.
[12] Robert Christgau (2011 [last update]). "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 4155" (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155).
robertchristgau.com. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[13] Barret Hansen (1968 [last update]). "We're Only In It For The Money" (http:/ / archive. rollingstone. com/ Desktop?s=1968040619#/
19680406/ 16). . Retrieved 24 August 2012.
[14] Barret Hansen (6 April 1968). "1968-04 We're Only In It For the Money (review)" (http:/ / www. afka. net/ articles/
1968-04_Rolling_Stone_2. htm). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
[15] "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ 500albums). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved July 12, 2006.
[16] Dimery, Robert (2009). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=PIyEkArSW0EC&
source=gbs_navlinks_s). Octopus Publishing Group, London. pp. 156. ISBN 9781844036240. . Retrieved 2012-09-23.
[17] The National Recording Registry 2005 (http:/ / www. loc. gov/ rr/ record/ nrpb/ registry/ nrpb-2005reg. html), National Recording
Preservation Board, The Library of Congress, May 24, 2005, . Retrieved on August 18, 2008.
Lumpy Gravy
Lumpy Gravy
Following threatened litigation from MGM Records, Lumpy Gravy was reedited by Zappa and reissued by Verve Records.
Studio album by Frank Zappa and the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra
Released August 7, 1967
Genre 20th century classical music, Tape music, experimental
Label Capitol
Producer Nick Venet
Absolutely Lumpy We're Only in It for the

Free Gravy Money
(1967) (1967) (1968)
Original cover
Lumpy Gravy was originally released by Capitol Records in 1967.
Lumpy Gravy is the debut solo album by Frank Zappa, recorded with a group of session players he dubbed the
Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. It is his third album overall. Released on August 7, 1967 on
Capitol Records, it was subsequently reedited and reissued by Verve Records, and later reissued independently by
Zappa.
In its original incarnation, Lumpy Gravy served as an album of orchestral music written by Zappa and performed by
an orchestra assembled for the album. Zappa conducted the orchestra's performance, and did not perform any
instrument on the album. However, MGM Records claimed that the album's production and release violated Zappa's
contract with Verve Records. Lumpy Gravy was subsequently reedited by Zappa as part of a project called No
Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben &
the Jets and Uncle Meat.
The reedited Lumpy Gravy, released by Verve on May 13, 1968, consisted of two musique concrète pieces which
combined elements from the original orchestral performance with elements of surf music and spoken word dialogue.
Produced simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money, the reedited Lumpy Gravy served as the second part of
a conceptual continuity which later included Zappa's final album, Civilization Phaze III. The reedited Lumpy Gravy
was critically appraised for its unique music and innovative editing techniques.
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Recording
Following the release of Freak Out!, the debut album of the rock band
The Mothers of Invention, Capitol Records A&R representative Nick
Venet commissioned an album of orchestral music composed by the
Mothers of Invention's leader, Frank Zappa, a self-taught composer.
Venet invested $40,000 in the album.[1][2] Because Zappa's contract
with Verve and MGM Records did not allow for him to perform on
albums recorded for any other label, he could not play any instrument
on the proposed album, and instead served as the conductor of an
In 1966, Frank Zappa was commissioned to
orchestra consisting of session musicians hired for the recording.
compose Lumpy Gravy for Capitol Records.
Zappa states that "my contract [with MGM] did not preclude me from
doing that. I wasn't signed as a conducter."[1]
Lumpy Gravy was conceived as a short oratorio, written in eleven days.[2] John Cage served as a major influence on
the album.[3] Zappa named the group assembled for the sessions the "Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony
Orchestra".[2]
Percussionist Emil Richards recalled that he did not know who Zappa was and did not take him seriously as the
recording sessions began, believing that Zappa was merely the guitarist for a rock band. However, upon meeting
Zappa, who handed the musicians the scores for the pieces, which were dense, complex and varied in time
signatures.[1] Richards' close friend, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, was another member of the recording sessions.
Tedesco mocked Zappa, believing that Zappa did not know what he was doing.[1] The bassonist and bass clarinetist
hired for the sessions refused to perform their parts, declaring them impossible to play. Zappa responded, "If I play
your part, will you at least try it?" Zappa then played the notes for the musicians, who agreed to perform their
assigned parts.[1] By the end of the recording sessions, Richards and Tedesco became convinced of Zappa's talent,
and became friends with the composer. Richards later performed on sessions which appeared on Zappa's album
Läther.[1]
Release, lawsuit and reediting

Capitol released Lumpy Gravy on August 7, 1967. Capitol intended to
release a single consisting of the pieces "Gypsy Airs" and "Sink Trap"
to promote its release.[2] In response to the album's release, MGM
threatened a lawsuit, claiming that its release violated Zappa's
contract.[2]
During the litigation, Zappa reedited the album while recording in New
York City for a project called No Commercial Potential, which ended
up producing four albums: We're Only in It for the Money, the reedited
second version of Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and
Uncle Meat, which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same
name, which was ultimately not completed until 1987.[3]
Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is
organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a
Mothers of Invention bassist Roy Estrada was
among the voices who contributed to the "piano razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different
people" dialogue which served as the basis of the order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I
second version of Lumpy Gravy.
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could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do
this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."[3]
The reedited Lumpy Gravy contained dialogue segments recorded at Apostolic Studios after Zappa discovered that
the strings of the studio's grand piano would resonate if a person spoke near those strings. The "piano people"
experiment involved Zappa having various speakers improvise dialogue using topics offered by Zappa. Various
people contributed to these sessions, which produced dialogue that was released on other Zappa albums in the No
Commercial Potential project and later albums. These speakers included Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Tim
Buckley.[4]
Most of the dialogue on the reedited Lumpy Gravy, recorded simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money,[5]
was spoken by a small group which included Motorhead Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Spider Barbour, All-Night John
(the manager of the studio) and Louis Cuneo, who was noted for his laugh, which sounded like a "psychotic
turkey".[2] The concept of the reedited album derived from Zappa's "big note" theory, which states that the universe
consists of a single element, and that atoms are vibrations of that element, a "big note".[6]
The reedited album proved to be very difficult to make, as the master tapes featured many accidental splices.[6] The
reedited version also incorporated additional musical content not on the original release of the album, including
previously recorded surf music.[6] Some of the editing was done in Zappa's living room.[7] On the 1967 and 1968
releases of the album, Zappa was credited as "Francis Vincent Zappa", as Zappa had believed that this was his real
name. He later learned that his birth name was Frank Vincent Zappa, and this mistake was subsequently corrected in
reissues of the album.[7]
Reception and legacy
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [8]
Rolling Stone [9]

(not rated)
Piero Scaruffi [10]
The reedited Lumpy Gravy was well received by critics, and Zappa called it one of his favorite albums out of his own
work, stating that it contains his favorite music.[3][11] Allmusic writer François Couture wrote, "The starting point of
Zappa's 'serious music,' Lumpy Gravy suffers from a lack of coherence, but it remains historically important and
contains many conceptual continuity clues for the fan."[8]
In 1984, the second version of Lumpy Gravy was remixed by Zappa, with new overdubs by bassist Arthur Barrow
and drummer Chad Wackerman.[1] This third version of the album was not released in full at the time; an excerpt
appeared in a The Old Masters sampler sent to radio stations.[12] Dialogue from the "piano people" sessions was
included on Zappa's later album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention,[13] and formed Zappa's final album,
Civilization Phaze III in 1993.[14] In 2009, the box set Lumpy Money was released, containing the 1967 and 1984
versions of Lumpy Gravy, and audio documentary material derived from the sessions that produced the original 1967
orchestral sessions, dialogue which appeared in the 1968 release of Lumpy Gravy, and the album We're Only in It for
the Money.[15]
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Track listing
1967 version
No. Title Length
1. "Sink Trap" 2:45
2. "Gum Joy" 3:44
3. "Up and Down" 1:52
4. "Local Butcher" 2:36
5. "Gypsy Airs" 1:41
6. "Hunchy Punchy" 2:06
7. "Foamy Soaky" 2:34
8. "Let's Eat Out" 1:49
9. "Teenage Grand Finale" 3:30
Total length: 22:37
1968 version, part one
No. Title Length
1. "The Way I See It, Barry"
2. "Duodenum"
3. "Oh No"
4. "Bit of Nostalgia"
5. "It's from Kansas"
6. "Bored Out 90 Over"
7. "Almost Chinese"
8. "Switching Girls"
9. "Oh No Again"
10. "At the Gas Station"
11. "Another Pickup"
12. "I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again"
Total length: 15:50

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1968 version, part two
No. Title Length
1. "Very Distraughtening"
2. "White Ugliness"
3. "Amen"
4. "Just One More Time"
5. "A Vicious Circle"
6. "King Kong"
7. "Drums Are Too Noisy"
8. "Kangaroos"
9. "Envelops the Bath Tub"
10. "Take Your Clothes Off"
Total length: 15:55
Personnel
Musicians - Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra
• Arnold Belnick – strings • Bunk Gardner – woodwind • Lincoln Mayorga – piano, celeste, harpsichord
• Harold Bemko – strings • James Getzoff – strings • Ted Nash – woodwind
• Chuck Berghofer – bass • Philip Goldberg – strings • Richard Parissi – French horn
• Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums • John Guerin – drums • Glenn Phillips - vocals
• Jimmy Bond – bass • Bruce Hampton – chorus • Jerome Reisler – strings
• Monica Boscia – chorus • Jimmy "Senyah" Haynes – guitar • Emil Richards – percussion
• Dennis Budimir – guitar • Harry Hyams – strings • Tony Rizzi – guitar
• Frank Capp – drums • Jules Jacob – woodwind • John Rotella – percussion, woodwind
• Donald Christlieb – woodwind • Pete Jolly – piano, celeste, harpsichord • Joseph Saxon – strings
• Gene Cipriano – woodwind • Harold Kelling - vocals • Ralph Schaeffer – strings
• Vincent DeRosa – french horn • Ray Kelly – strings • Leonard Selic – strings
• Joseph DiFiore – strings • Jerome Kessler – strings • Kenny Shroyer – trombone
• Jesse Ehrlich – strings • Alexander Koltun – strings • Paul Smith – piano, celeste, harpsichord
• Alan Estes – percussion, drums • Bernard Kundell – strings • Tommy Tedesco – guitar
• Gene Estes – percussion • William Kurasch – strings • Al Viola – guitar
• Louis "Louie The Turkey" Cuneo – chorus • Michael Lang – piano, celeste, harpsichord • Bob West – bass
• Roy Estrada – bass, chorus • Arthur Maebe – French horn • Tibor Zelig – strings
• Larry Fanoga – vocals, chorus • Leonard Malarsky – strings • Jimmy Zito – trumpet
• Victor Feldman – percussion, drums • Shelly Manne – drums
Production credits
• Frank Zappa - composer, conductor
• Cal Schenkel - artwork
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Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1968 Pop Albums 159
References
[2] Slaven, Neil. Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=0lyCSdW78-sC&
pg=PA84& redir_esc=y). Music Sales Group. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[3] Miles, Barry (16 Sep 2005). Zappa: A Biography (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA168& redir_esc=y).
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. pp. 480. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[4] James, Billy (1 Oct 2002). Necessity Is...: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA60). SAF Publishing Ltd. p. 60. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[5] Schinder, Scott (2008). Icons of Rock (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=CzWE_J3ZZfoC& pg=PA363& redir_esc=y#v=onepage& q&
f=false). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 363. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[6] Walley, David (22 Aug 1996). No Commercial Potential: The Saga Of Frank Zappa (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=G_eCWwKdyfsC& pg=PA87& redir_esc=y). Da Capo Press. pp. 240. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[7] Zappa, Frank with Occhiogrosso, Peter (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press. pp. 244–245. ISBN 0-671-63870-X.
[8] Lumpy Gravy (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22630/ review) at Allmusic
[9] Miller, Jim (June 22, 1968). "Lumpy Gravy - Album Reviews - Rolling Stone" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ albumreviews/
lumpy-gravy-19680622). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 20 August 2012.
[10] Scaruffi, Piero. "Frank Zappa" (http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html). . Retrieved 20 August 2012.
[11] Kart, Larry (11 Oct 2004). Jazz in Search of Itself (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=uX221dKEmloC& pg=PA166). Yale University
Press. p. 166. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[12] Zappa, Gail (2008). "track listing notes". Lumpy Money (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Zappa Records.
[13] Rense, Rip (Jan 1986). "Flash - Mothers of Prevention" (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=O8JuDPDsl1gC& pg=PA11). Spin (SPIN
Media LLC) Vol. 1 (No. 9): 82. . Retrieved 20 August 2012.
[14] Morin, Alexander J. (2002). Classical Music: The Listener's Companion (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=ayT5T59ckzIC&
pg=PA1067). Backbeat Books. p. 1067. . Retrieved August 20, 2012.
[15] Dolan, Casey (December 8, 2008), "The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul" (http:/ / www. laweekly. com/ 2008-12-11/ music/
the-resurrection-of-frank-zappa-8217-s-soul/ 1), LA Weekly (Village Voice Media),
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
Released December 2, 1968
Recorded Apostolic Studios, NYC

December 1967 - February 1968
Genre Doo wop, rock and roll
Length 40:34
Label Bizarre/Verve
We're Only in It for the Cruising with Ruben & the Uncle
Money Jets Meat
(1968) (1968) (1969)
Singles from Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
1. "Deseri"
Released: 1968
2. "Anyway the Wind Blows"
Released: 1968
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth studio album by the Mothers of Invention. Released on December 2,
1968 on Bizarre and Verve Records with distribution by MGM Records, it was subsequently remixed by Frank
Zappa and reissued independently.
As with the band's previous three albums, it is a concept album, influenced by 1950s doo wop and rock and roll. The
album's concept deals with a fictitious doo wop band called Ruben & the Jets, represented by the cover illustration
by Cal Schenkel, which depicts the Mothers of Invention as anthropomorphic dogs. It was conceived as part of a
project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, We're Only in It for the
Money and Uncle Meat.
The album and its singles received some radio success, due to its doo wop sound. The band Ruben and the Jets was
named after this album.
Background
During a previous recording session engineer Richard Kunc and the Mothers of Invention discussed their high school
days and doo wop songs. Ray Collins and some of the other members of the band started singing and performing the
songs, and Zappa suggested, that they record an album of doo wop music.[1] Collins later left the Mothers of
Invention, and Zappa began working on a project entitled No Commercial Potential, which included sessions that
produced Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, as well as We're Only in It for the Money, a revised version of Lumpy
Gravy, and Uncle Meat.[2]
After The Mothers of Invention's contract with MGM and Verve Records expired, Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen
negotiated to form a semi-independent record label Bizarre Records, with Verve releasing three Bizarre releases with
distribution by MGM: a new Mothers of Invention album, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, the compilation
Mothermania, and an album by Sandy Hurvitz, Sandy's Album is Here at Last.[3][2]

Zappa stated regarding the releases Lumpy Gravy, We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
and Uncle Meat, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master
tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would
make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a
different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."[2]
Recording
Ray Collins rejoined the Mothers of Invention for the recording of the album, as his high falsetto was suited for the
recordings. According to Collins, "I brought the 'style of being raised in Pomona, California, being raised on the
Four Aces, the Four Freshmen, Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra and Jesse Baldwin. The early influences of R&B came
into the Southern California area when I was probably in the tenth grade in high school. And I remember Peter
Potter's show, and I think I recall the first R&B tune on there was 'Oop-Shoop'. Frank actually had more influences
from the 'real blues', you know, like Muddy Waters, those kind of people. But I wasn't into that in my early life. I
was more of the pop culture, pop radio things, and it's always been more of a favourite of mine than the early blues
stuff - even though I love John Lee Hooker and all those people."[1]
According to Bunk Gardner, "Cruising with Ruben & the Jets was an easy album to record. We were recording it at
the same time as Uncle Meat because the songs were easy and very simple and didn't require a lot of time for
arrangements and technical overdubbing. It was the beginning of the end for Ray Collins because all the new
material Frank was writing was a little too far out and away from Ray's roots - which was Ruben-era material.
Motorhead too was in his glory during the recording of this album. He loved Ruben and that was really his kind of
music to get nostalgic over - on stage and doing the dance steps and playing that music [...] I really enjoyed playing a
solo on Ray's tune 'Anything'. I remember Frank, Ray and Roy standing in the control booth while I recorded my
solo. Frank was telling me after the first take to keep it simple. So I nailed it on the second take and everyone was
happy!"[1]
Concept
Within the concept of the album, Ruben Sano was the leader of the fictitious band "the Jets". The back cover
depicted Ruben with an early high school photograph of Zappa.[1] According to artist Cal Schenkel, "I started
working on the story of Ruben and the Jets that is connected with the Uncle Meat story, which is this old guy turns
this teenage band into these dog snout people [...] We started that before it actually became Ruben and the Jets. That
came out of my love for comics and that style, the anthropomorphic animals, but also it was part of a running story
line."[2]
Zappa stated regarding the album's lyrics, "I detest 'love lyrics'."[3] He intentionally wrote lyrics he described as
"sub-Mongoloid" to satirize the genre.[3] The music of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets was the most straightforward
genre work the Mothers of Invention had performed yet, attempting to faithfully reproduce the sound of 1950s doo
wop and rock and roll.[1] However, the arrangements included quotes from Igor Stravinsky pieces and unusual chord
changes and tempos.[3][4]
Release and legacy

Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic (Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 1984 Remix) [5]
Allmusic (Greasy Love Songs) [6]
The album was popular with radio stations, as they believed it to be an unearthed doo wop album by an unknown
band called Ruben & the Jets.[1] According to Zappa, the original pressings of the singles identified the songs as
being performed by "Ruben & the Jets", and later pressings, which credited the Mothers of Invention, did not receive
as much airplay.[7] The album's cover has a word balloon stating "Is this the Mothers of Invention recording under a
different name in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio?"[3] Zappa later dismissed claims that he
had "fooled people" with this album as "nonsense".[3]
Subsequently, Zappa stated that the Mothers of Invention would record a second Ruben & the Jets album.[7] No
sequel to Cruising with Ruben & the Jets was produced. However, a band called Ruben and the Jets, named in honor
of the album, released their debut album, For Real! in 1973 on Mercury Records, produced by Zappa.[8]
Reissues
In 1984, Zappa prepared a remix of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets for its compact disc reissue and the vinyl box set
The Old Masters I. The remix featured new rhythm tracks recorded by bassist Arthur Barrow and drummer Chad
Wackerman, much as the 1984 remix of We're Only in It for the Money had featured. Zappa stated "The master tapes
for Ruben and the Jets were in better shape, but since I liked the results on We're Only in it For the Money, I decided
to do it on Ruben too. But those are the only two albums on which the original performances were replaced. I
thought the important thing was the material itself."[2]
After the remixing was announced, a $13 million lawsuit was filed against Zappa by Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk
Gardner and Don Preston, who were later joined by Ray Collins, Art Tripp and Motorhead Sherwood, increasing the
claim to $16.4 million, stating that they had received no royalties from Zappa since 1969.[2]
In 2009, the original mix of the album was released as part of a compilation entitled Greasy Love Songs.[6]
Allmusic's François Couture gave the album's 1984 remix 3 out of 5 stars.[5] Another writer for the site, Sean
Westergaard, gave Greasy Love Songs 4 out of 5 stars.[6]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except as noted.
Side one
1. "Cheap Thrills" 2:23
2. "Love of My Life" Zappa, Ray Collins 3:10
3. "How Could I Be Such a Fool" 3:35
4. "Deseri" Collins, Paul Buff 2:07
5. "I’m Not Satisfied" 4:03
6. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" 2:20
7. "Anything" Collins 3:04

Side two
8. "Later That Night" 3:06
9. "You Didn’t Try to Call Me" 3:57
10. "Fountain of Love" Zappa, Collins 3:01
11. ""No. No. No."" 2:29
12. "Anyway the Wind Blows" 2:58
13. "Stuff Up the Cracks" 4:35
Total length: 40:34
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – rock guitar, keyboards, sound effects, vocals, bass, drums
• Jimmy Carl Black – guitar, percussion, drums, rhythm guitar
• Ray Collins – guitar, vocals
• Roy Estrada – bass, electric bass, sound effects, vocals, voices
• Bunk Gardner – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Don Preston – bass, piano, keyboards
• Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood – baritone saxophone, tambourine, guitar, vocals, wind
• Art Tripp – drums, percussion
• Ian Underwood – guitar, piano, keyboards, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, wind
Production
• Engineer: Dick Kunc
• Cover Art: Cal Schenkel
• Cover Design: Cal Schenkel
Charts
Year Chart Position
1969 Pop Albums 110
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA86
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA160, http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA326
[4] Couture, François. "Review of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22667). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2007-11-02.
[5] Couture, François (2011 [last update]). "Cruising with Ruben & the Jets - The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ r22667). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 26 June 2011.
[6] Westergaard, Sean. "Greasy Love Songs: An FZ Audio Documentary Project/Object - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ greasy-love-songs-an-fz-audio-documentary-project-object-r1813720). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 October 2011.
[7] Frank Zappa, "Serious Fan Mail", Greasy Love Songs, Zappa Records ZR20010, 2010.
[8] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r221064
Hot Rats
Hot Rats
Studio album by Frank Zappa
Released October 10, 1969
Recorded July 18 - August 30, 1969

T.T.G., Los Angeles
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Whitney Studios, Glendale
Genre Jazz fusion, instrumental rock, progressive rock
Length 43:05
Label Bizarre/Reprise
Mothermania Hot Burnt Weeny

(1969) Rats Sandwich
(1969) (1970)
Singles from Hot Rats
1. "Peaches en Regalia"
Released: 1970
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

(C)
Piero Scaruffi [3]

(7/10)
Yahoo! Music [4]

(favorable)
Amazon.com [5]
Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. Five of the six songs are
instrumental ("Willie the Pimp" features a short vocal by Captain Beefheart). It was Zappa's first recording project
after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention. In his original sleeve notes Zappa described the album as
"a movie for your ears."
Because Hot Rats focuses on instrumental jazz-like compositions with extensive soloing, the music sounds very
different from earlier Zappa albums, which featured satirical vocal performances with extensive use of musique
concrète and editing. Multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood is the only member of the Mothers to appear on the
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album and was the primary musical collaborator. Other featured musicians were Max Bennett and Shuggie Otis on
bass, drummers John Guerin, Paul Humphrey & Ron Selico, and electric violinists Don "Sugarcane" Harris and
Jean-Luc Ponty.
This was the first Frank Zappa album recorded on 16-track equipment and one of the first albums to use this
technology. Machines with 16 individual tracks allow for much more flexibility in multi-tracking and overdubbing
than the professional 4- and 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorders that were standard in 1969. While Zappa was
recording Hot Rats The Beatles were working on their Abbey Road album, but were limited to 8 track technology.
The album was dedicated to Zappa's newborn son, Dweezil Zappa. In February 2009, his band, Zappa Plays Zappa,
won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for their rendition of "Peaches en Regalia."[6]
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #13 in its list of "40
Cosmic Rock Albums".[7] It was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[8]
Music
Zappa composed, arranged and produced the album himself. His primary instrument on the album is lead guitar.
"Willie the Pimp", "Son of Mr. Green Genes", and "The Gumbo Variations" are showcases for his powerful and
unconventional solo guitar performances. Four of the tracks have intricately arranged charts featuring multiple
overdubs by Ian Underwood. Underwood plays the parts of approximately eight to ten musicians, often
simultaneously. His work includes complicated sections of piano and organ, as well as multiple flutes, clarinets and
saxophones.
The song "Peaches en Regalia" is widely recognized as a modern jazz fusion standard and is one of Zappa's best
known tunes. Zappa plays a short octave-bass solo. Underwood contributes flute and multiple saxophone, clarinet
and keyboard parts. Zappa later re-recorded the song several times in live performances. It has been re-interpreted by
many other jazz and rock artists, including Phish, the Dixie Dregs, and Frogg Café.
"Willie the Pimp" is a blues-rock tune. It has violin by Don "Sugarcane" Harris and guitar solos by Zappa in what
appear to be loose jams, though the performances were edited before release. This song features vocals by Zappa's
longtime friend and collaborator Captain Beefheart. The title Hot Rats comes from the lyric of this song.
"Son of Mr. Green Genes" is an instrumental re-arrangement of the song Mr. Green Genes from the Mothers album
Uncle Meat. The unusual title of this song led to an urban legend that Frank Zappa was related to the character Mr.
Green Jeans from the television show Captain Kangaroo. This is the only song on the album to feature both intricate
horn charts and extended guitar solo sections.
"Little Umbrellas" is similar in style to "Peaches", another short carefully arranged tune with numerous keyboard and
wind overdubs by Underwood.
"The Gumbo Variations" also is a jam performance which was edited for the LP. In addition to the Zappa solo, it
features a tenor saxophone solo by Underwood and violin solo by Don "Sugarcane" Harris.
"It Must Be a Camel" is also an intricately arranged tune with numerous wind and keyboard overdubs by
Underwood. The very unusual melody of this song is highly rhythmic and often makes large melodic leaps. The title
may come from the fact that these leaps resemble "humps" when written on paper. The recording contains a violin
performance by Jean-Luc Ponty.
A recording from the Hot Rats sessions titled "Bognor Regis" was set to be released on the B-side of an edited
version of "Sharleena", a track from the 1970 Zappa album Chunga's Revenge. The single release was canceled,
however, an acetate disc copy was leaked to the public and the track has appeared on Zappa bootlegs. The song was
named after Bognor Regis, a town on the south coast of England. Musically, "Bognor Regis" is a basic blues
instrumental with electric violin solo by Don "Sugarcane" Harris. Another track recorded during these sessions, titled
"Twenty Small Cigars", was later released on Chunga's Revenge.
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Advanced recording techniques

Zappa used advanced recording equipment to create an album of outstanding technical and musical quality. The
album was recorded on what Zappa described as a "homemade sixteen track" recorder; the machine was custom built
by engineers at TTG Studios in Hollywood in late 1968. Additional tracks made it possible for Zappa to add multiple
horn and keyboard overdubs by Ian Underwood. Only a few musicians were required to create an especially rich
instrumental texture which gives the sound of a large group. It was this use of advanced overdubbing that was the
main motivation for Zappa, who hated playing in a studio.[9]
Zappa was among the first to record drums on multiple tracks. This made it possible to create a stereo drum sound.
Prior to this time the entire drum set was typically recorded to a single (mono) track of an 8-track recorder. On Hot
Rats, however, four of the tracks were assigned to the main drum set, including individual tracks for the snare and
bass drums and left and right tracks for other drums and cymbals. In this setup the engineer had unprecedented
control over the sound of each drum component in the final mix. This technique was widely imitated and become the
norm in the early 1970s when machines with 16 or more tracks became widely available.
Zappa pioneered the use of tape speed manipulation to produce unusual timbres and tonal colors. On "Peaches en
Regalia", "Son of Mr. Green Genes", and "It Must Be a Camel" Zappa plays "double-speed percussion." After
recording basic tracks (drums, bass, guitar and piano, etc.) at the fast speed of the recorder, Zappa played additional
drum overdubs while listening to the basic tracks at half speed. On the finished recording, played at normal speed
again, the overdubs are heard at twice the usual speed and pitch. This gives the drum overdubs a surreal, comical
quality, much like toy drums.
Other instruments were processed in a similar way, including keyboards, saxophones and bass. Zappa is credited
with "octave bass" (a bass guitar sped up to double speed)—the resulting sound is similar to that of a guitar.
Additionally, a processed electronic organ was integrated as an orchestral voice within an ensemble of woodwinds
and piano. "It Must Be a Camel" features the sound of a hard plastic comb being stroked, sounding almost like a
jerky, audio slow-motion bell tree or wind chime; Zappa also 'plays' a ratchet wrench as percussion on "Willie the
Pimp". This was all done with analog technology more than 10 years before modern digital sound processing
equipment became available.
Artwork
The colourful, psychedelic aura of the late sixties is apparent in the graphic design and photography of Hot Rats,
though Zappa himself actually disdained the psychedelic movement. At a time when foldouts were usually reserved
for double-disc albums, this one-disc album had a foldout emphasizing the photography as well as the elaborate
artwork of Cal Schenkel. The cover photo by Andee Cohen Nathanson, utilizes infrared photography and reflects
Zappa's taste for a visually striking expression, combined with the absurdly humorous. The woman pictured on the
cover is "Miss Christine" Frka of The GTOs.
Release history
The LP version was released on the blue Bizarre Records label in 1969. In 1973 the album was re-issued by Reprise
Records. The Reprise version was deleted in the early 1980s when Zappa's contract with record distributor Warner
Bros. Records ended. The inside of the original gatefold LP cover has a collage of color pictures, many of which
were taken during the recording sessions. On the initial CD edition many of these were removed, and the few that
were included were printed in black and white. The 1995 reissue restored the full gatefold artwork.
In 1987 Zappa remixed Hot Rats for re-issue on Compact Disc. "Willie the Pimp" is edited differently during the
introduction and guitar solo. "The Gumbo Variations" has 4 minutes of additional material including an introduction
and guitar and saxophone solo sections which were cut from the vinyl LP version. Piano and flute which were buried
the LP mix of "Little Umbrellas" are prominent on the CD. Other differences include significant changes to the
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overall ambiance and dynamic range. A 2008 remaster of the original mix was used for a 2009 limited edition
audiophile LP by Classic Records and for the 2012 Universal Music reissue.[10]
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Peaches en Regalia" 3:38
2. "Willie the Pimp" 9:25
3. "Son of Mr. Green Genes" 8:58
Side two
No. Title Length
4. "Little Umbrellas" 3:09
5. "The Gumbo Variations" 12:55
6. "It Must Be a Camel" 5:15
Total length: 43:20
Rykodisc CD version
No. Title Length
2. "Willie the Pimp" 9:16
3. "Son of Mr. Green Genes" 8:58
4. "Little Umbrellas" 3:04
5. "The Gumbo Variations" 16:55
6. "It Must Be a Camel" 5:15
Total length: 47:05
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – electric guitar, percussion, octave bass
• Ian Underwood – organ, clarinet, flute, piano, saxophone
also featuring
• Max Bennett – bass on all tracks except "Peaches en Regalia"
• Captain Beefheart – vocals on "Willie the Pimp"
• John Guerin – drums on "Willie the Pimp", "Little Umbrellas" and "It Must Be a Camel"
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "Willie the Pimp" and "The Gumbo Variations"
• Paul Humphrey – drums on "Son of Mr. Green Genes" and "The Gumbo Variations"
• Shuggie Otis – bass on "Peaches en Regalia"
• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin on "It Must Be a Camel"
• Ron Selico – drums on "Peaches en Regalia"
• Lowell George - guitar (uncredited)[9]
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• Harvey Shantz – Snorks
Production
• Director of engineering: Dick Kunc
• Engineers: Cliff Goldstein, Jack Hunt, Brian Ingoldsby, Dick Kunc
• Cover design: Cal Schenkel
• Design: Cal Schenkel, John Williams
Charts
Year Chart Position
1969 Pop Albums 173
References
[1] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Hot Rats - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22632). allmusic.com. .
Retrieved 11 July 2011.
robertchristgau.com. . Retrieved 11 July 2011.
scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html). scaruffi.com. . Retrieved 11 July 2011.
[4] yahoo (http:/ / music. yahoo. com/ read/ review/ 12030788)
[5] (http:/ / www. amazon. com/ Hot-Rats-Frank-Zappa/ dp/ B0000009S3)
[6] "Frank Zappa: Biography" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ artists/ frank-zappa/ biography). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 2011-02-22.
[7] Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005.
[8] 1001 Albums You Must Hear - 2008 Edition (http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ 1001Albums. htm)
[9] Neil Slaven (2003-03-01). Electric Don Quixote (http:/ / books. google. com/ ?id=ZaGs3UTVm1sC). pp. 141–144.
ISBN 978-0-7119-9436-2.
[10] (http:/ / theseconddisc. com/ 2012/ 07/ 30/ would-you-go-all-the-way-zappa-reissues-arrive-and-details-emerge-next-batch-announced/ )
External links
• Hot Rats vinyl vs. CD (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/hotrats.html)
• FZ chronology (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/chronology/1965-1969.html)
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Chunga's Revenge
Chunga's Revenge
Recorded July 1969 - August 1970
Genre Progressive rock, jazz fusion, comedy rock, hard rock
Length 40:22
Weasels Ripped My Chunga's Fillmore East – June

Flesh Revenge 1971
(1970) (1970) (1971)
Singles from Chunga's Revenge
1. "Tell Me You Love Me"

Released: 1970
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

C+
Rolling Stone [3]

(unfavorable)
Piero Scaruffi [4]
Chunga's Revenge is an album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s
marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a
controversial epoch in Zappa's history. Chunga's Revenge represents a shift from both the satirical political
commentary of his 1960s work with The Mothers of Invention, and the jazz fusion of Hot Rats.
Song info
The material presented on Chunga's Revenge is eclectic: there are two guitar jams ("Transylvania Boogie" and the
title track), a bluesy amble ("Road Ladies"), a jazz interlude ("Twenty Small Cigars", culled from the Hot Rats
sessions), an avant-garde live improvisation (the multi-part "The Nancy and Mary Music", an excerpt from King
Kong), and several poppy numbers ("Tell Me You Love Me", "Would You Go All the Way?", "Rudy Wants to Buy
Yez a Drink", "Sharleena").
The vocal tracks all deal with the subject of sex and/or groupie encounters, and, as Zappa notes on the sleeve of both
the vinyl and CD, are a preview of the (then forthcoming) 200 Motels film/album (parts of the album were intended
Chunga's Revenge 76
to grace the film, but did not make the final cut). Several of these tracks ("Transylvania Boogie", "20 Small Cigars",
"The Clap", and the title track) were recorded during either the Hot Rats sessions or during the early 1970 sessions
for the follow-up to Hot Rats that never materialized.
Other material from those sessions appeared on: Weasels Ripped My Flesh ("Directly From My Heart To You"),
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Sugar Cane Harris solo section of "Little House I Used To Live In"), Zoot Allures (backing
track for "Friendly Little Finger"), Studio Tan (backing track for "Let Me Take You To The Beach", and The Lost
Episodes (original version of "Sharleena" and possibly "Li'l Clanton Shuffle").
Other "lost" tracks from these sessions include the instrumentals "Twinkle Tits" and "Bognor Regis". A live version
of "Twinkle Tits" is available on bootlegs (though the original studio version is not available yet), and "Bognor
Regis" was supposed to be released as a B-side of "Sharleena". The single was never released, though the track was
leaked to the public on an acetate disc copy which made its way to the collector's market.
Supposedly, the title track is a song about a small industrial Gypsy vacuum sweeper. "Chunga" was a term used to
describe a mutated individual of the sort Zappa depicted in such songs as "The Idiot Bastard Son." The word was
coined by Dan O'Brien, a teenage Zappa admirer, to describe the effects of the Hiroshima blast on later generations.
The title track was later recorded by Parisian tango revival group Gotan Project for their 2001 debut album La
Revancha del Tango.
The guitar melody in "Tell Me You Love Me" is extremely similar to the one used in "Bwana Dik" and "Daddy,
Daddy, Daddy" (during the "if his dick is a monster" section), from Fillmore East - June 1971, and 200 Motels,
respectively.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Transylvania Boogie" 5:01
2. "Road Ladies" 4:10
3. "Twenty Small Cigars" 2:17
4. "The Nancy & Mary Music" 9:27
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "Tell Me You Love Me" 2:33
6. "Would You Go All the Way?" 2:29
7. "Chunga's Revenge" 6:15
8. "The Clap" 1:23
9. "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink" 2:44
10. "Sharleena" 4:04

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Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, harpsichord, percussions, drums, vocals, Condor
• Max Bennett – bass
• George Duke – organ, trombone, electric piano, sound effects, vocals
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums, tambourine
• John Guerin – drums (only on Twenty Small Cigars)
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – electric violin, organ
• Howard Kaylan – vocals
• Mark Volman – vocals
• Jeff Simmons – bass, vocals
• Ian Underwood – organ, guitar, piano, rhythm guitar, electric piano, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, pipe organ
Production
• Engineers: Stan Agol, Roy Baker, Dick Kunc, Bruce Margolis
• Production assistant: Dick Barber
• Illustrations: Cal Schenkel
• Photography: Phil Franks (front cover) and John Williams
Charts
Year Chart Position
1970 Pop Albums 119
References
[1] Allmusic review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22635)
[2] Robert Christgau review (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155)
[3] Rolling Stone review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 218261/ review/ 5944141/ chungas_revenge)
[4] Piero Scaruffi review (http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html)
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Chunga's_Revenge.html)
Waka/Jawaka 78
Waka/Jawaka
Waka/Jawaka
Released July 5, 1972
Recorded Paramount Studios, LA,

April 17–21 and May, 1972
Genre Jazz fusion, progressive rock, big band
Length 36:08
Just Another Band from Waka/Jawaka The Grand

L.A. (1972) Wazoo
(1972) (1972)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

(B)
Rolling Stone [3]

(favorable)
Piero Scaruffi [4]
Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to The
Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats. According to Zappa, the title "is
something that showed up on a Ouija board at one time."[5]
It was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Rykodisc in 1986 (with much digital reverb added and
missing the back cover artwork) and in 1995 (restoring the rear cover, but with identical sound). In 2012, Universal
Music released a CD containing a remastered version of the original vinyl mix.
Waka/Jawaka 79
Track listing
All songs by Frank Zappa.
Side one
1. "Big Swifty" – 17:22
Side two
1. "Your Mouth" – 3:12
2. "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" – 4:16
3. "Waka/Jawaka" – 11:18 (song sample, 659Kb)
Credits
• Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, electric bed springs
• Tony Duran – slide guitar, vocals
• George Duke – ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano, tack piano
• Sal Marquez – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, chimes
• Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – electric bass, vocals, fuzz bass
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums, washboard, tambourine
• Chris Peterson – vocals
• Joel Peskin – tenor sax
• Mike Atschul – baritone saxophone, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet, tenor sax
• Jeff Simmons – Hawaiian guitar, vocals
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
• Janet Ferguson – vocals
• Don Preston – guitar, Minimoog
• Bill Byers – trombone, baritone horn
• Ken Shroyer – trombone, baritone horn
• Gerry Sack - muted maracas
Production
• Engineers: Marshall Brevitz, Kerry McNabb
• Mastering: Frank Zappa
• Supervisor: Marshall Brevitz
• Concept: Sal Marquez
• Creative consultant: Sal Marquez
• Design: Cal Schenkel
• Cover Design: Cal Schenkel
• Cover illustration: Marvin Mattelson
• Illustrations: Marvin Mattelson
• Photography: Philip Schartz
• Back cover: Philip Schwartz
• Packaging: Cal Schenkel
• Repackaging: Ferenc Dobronyi
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Charts
Year Chart Position
1972 Pop Albums 152
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Waka/Jawaka - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53146). allmusic.com. .
[2] Christgau, R. (2011 [last update]). "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 4155" (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155).
[3] Houghton, Rob (2011 [last update]). "Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/
20090513083957/ http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 111805/ review/ 5946768/ wakajawaka).
web.archive.org. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[4] Scaruffi, P. (2011 [last update]). "The History of Rock Music. Frank Zappa: biography, discography, reviews, links" (http:/ / www. scaruffi.
com/ vol1/ zappa. html). scaruffi.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[5] Frank Zappa interview, November, 1972, on WGOE-FM Richmond VA interview by Jerry Williams from the Frank Zappa GSW Project Vol.
6 1971-72, disk 2 track 22
External links
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/wakajawaka.html)
The Grand Wazoo

The Grand Wazoo
Released December 1972
Recorded Paramount Studios, Hollywood, April – May, 1972
Genre Big band, jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length 37:05
Waka/Jawaka The Grand Over-Nite

(1972) Wazoo Sensation
(1972) (1973)
Singles from The Grand Wazoo
1. "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus"
Released: 1972
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi [2]

(7.5/10)
The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of
convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent
Zappa's foray into big band fusion, the logical progression from Hot Rats, which used a much smaller lineup. Zappa
was also producer and principal composer for Jean-Luc Ponty's album "King Kong" during this period.
Before "Wazoo," two earlier albums of mostly instrumental work were released by Zappa, "Hot Rats" and "Burnt
Weeny Sandwich." The album "Waka/Jawaka" followed "Wazoo." The instrumental makeup of "Wazoo" is largely a
big band. It was the third album released in a period where Zappa used a wheelchair and was unable to tour after
being assaulted and pushed offstage into an orchestra pit during a London concert.
The Grand Wazoo was the last release on Zappa's Bizarre Records label.
Track listing
Vinyl release
Side one
1. "For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)" – 6:06
2. "The Grand Wazoo" – 13:20
Side two
1. "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" – 2:57
2. "Eat That Question" – 6:42
3. "Blessed Relief" – 8:00
CD release
The original Ryko release(1986) featured the vinyl track running order. The Ryko re-master(1995) has tracks #1 and
#2 reversed. All songs by Frank Zappa.
2. "For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)" – 6:06
3. "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" – 2:57
5. "Blessed Relief" – 7:59
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Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, vocals
• Mike Altschul – woodwind
• Bill Byers – trombone
• Chunky (Lauren Wood)– vocals
• Lee Clement – percussion
• George Duke – keyboards, vocals
• Earl Dumler – woodwind
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums
• Tony Duran – guitar, bottleneck guitar
• Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – bass
• Alan Estes – percussion
• Janet Neville-Ferguson – vocals
• Fred Jackson, Jr. – woodwind
• Sal Marquez – bass, trumpet, vocals, brass
• Joanne Caldwell McNabb – vocals, brass, woodwind
• Malcolm McNabb – trombone, horn, trumpet in D
• Tony Ortega – woodwind
• Joel Peskin – saxophone, woodwind
• Don Preston – Mini Moog
• Johnny Rotella – woodwind
• Ken Shroyer – trombone, brass, contractor and spiritual guidance
• Ernie Tack – brass
• Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone, C Melody Saxophone (the "Mystery Horn") solo on "Cleetus Awreetus
Awrightus", woodwinds
• Robert Zimmitti – percussion
• Gerry Sack - phantom tambourine
Production
• Engineer: Kerry McNabb
• Special assistance: Paul Hof
• Photography: Ed Caraeff, Tony Esparza
• Cover illustration: Cal Schenkel
• Spiritual advisor: Kenny Shroyer
• Contractor: Kenny Shroyer
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Eat That Question

Eat That Question, the 4th track on the album, provides a humorous image of the tendency of free jazz and fusion
to deconstruct tempo and harmony in the free interaction of small sounds: "In a burlesque of feeding Christians to
the lions (or tiraal leon in Mexican slang), the solution to the problem of Questions (individuals who don't like
music) is a literal one: a tank of undifferentiated tissue."[3]
"Eat That Question" features George Duke's piano playing and the recording of the Fender Rhodes electric piano in a
novel way. Most recordings of the instrument prior to "Eat That Question" were not of comparable sonic quality or
production value as Duke's performance on the piece.
The track is a vehicle for George Duke's electric piano and begins with a rubato intro followed by the entrance of the
full rhythm section in time. On this and several other tracks Zappa plays a flat top acoustic/electric guitar using a
wah-wah pedal and a Maestro phase shifter or Leslie speaker for a chorale effect. The Barcus-Berry transducer used
was at the time a novel way of amplifying the instrument instead of using a traditional magnetic guitar pickup.
In this same period in analog recording the number of tracks available was expanding. Multi-track recording was
changing rapidly with "sound on sound" being supplanted by "sound with sound" tape technology. "Hot Rats" had
been released a few years prior to "Wazoo" and was recorded on one of the first 16 track tape machines. It featured
multiple tracks of clarinets, flutes, saxophones, piano and organ parts played by a single musician, Ian Underwood.
At the time of "Grand Wazoo" the compositions were arranged for large ensembles which were conceived as studio
recording vehicles, rather than live, touring bands.
The Zappa Plays Zappa (led by Dweezil Zappa) tours since 2006 regularly have featured "Eat That Question," with
the song serving as a vehicle for both keyboard and guitar solos. Beginning in 2010, the ZPZ shows also have
incorporated "Blessed Relief," usually introduced by Dweezil as an underappreciated Zappa composition.
References
[1] Huey, S. (2011 [last update]). "The Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r69742). allmusic.com. .
[3] Page 204; Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1995
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Grand_Wazoo.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/wazoo.html)
Over-Nite Sensation
Over-Nite Sensation
Studio album by Zappa/Mothers
Released September 7, 1973
Recorded March 19 – June 1, 1973 at Bolic Sound, Inglewood and Whitney Studios, Glendale
Genre Rock
Length 34:26
Label DiscReet
The Grand Over-Nite Apostrophe

Wazoo Sensation (')
(1972) (1973) (1974)
Burnt Weeny Over-Nite One Size Fits

Sandwich Sensation All
(1970) (1973) (1975)
Singles from Over-Nite Sensation
1. "I'm the Slime"

Released: 1970 (Alternative Mix)
Over-Nite Sensation is the seventeenth studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. Released on
September 7, 1973, it was subsequently followed by Zappa's solo album, Apostrophe ('), which derived from the
same recording sessions.
Recording
Frank Zappa wanted to use backup singers on the songs "I'm the Slime", "Dirty Love", "Zomby Woof", "Dinah-Moe
Humm" and "Montana". His road manager suggested The Ikettes, and Ike & Tina Turner were contacted. Ike Turner
insisted that Zappa pay the singers, including Tina Turner, no more than $25 per song.[1] During the recording
sessions, Tina brought Ike into the studio to hear one of her recordings with Zappa. Ike listened to the tape and
responded "What is this shit?" before leaving the studio.[1] Ike later insisted that Zappa would not credit the Ikettes
on the released album.[1]
The recording sessions which produced Over-Nite Sensation also produced Zappa's followup, Apostrophe ('),[1]
released as a solo album rather than a Mothers of Invention release.
Music and lyrics

Many of the album's lyrics deals with sexual intercourse.[1][2] "Dirty Love" includes references to a woman
performing zoophilia with a poodle,[1] while "Dinah-Moe Humm" describes a woman who wagers that the narrator
can't give her an orgasm, and is ultimately aroused by watching him have sex with her sister.[1] Sexuality, however,
is not the sole focus of the album's lyrics, as "I'm The Slime" criticizes television shows, which are described as "vile
and pernicious", brainwashing their audiences into eating the processed food advertised in their commercials and
shaping their thinking into the pattern required by the government.[1] "Montana" describes moving to Montana to
grow dental floss.[1]
The music of Over-Nite Sensation draws from rock, jazz and pop music.[2] "Zomby Woof" has been described as a
"heavy metal hybrid of Louis Jordan and Fats Waller".[2]
Reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [3]

(C)
The album received mixed reviews due to its lyrical content, which some critics found puerile.[2] Rolling Stone
disliked the album, describing Zappa as a "spent force", and saying that his best work had been recorded with earlier
incarnations of the Mothers.[2] New Music Express said that the album was "not one of Frank's most outstanding
efforts."[2] Robert Christgau gave the album a C, asking "where's the serious stuff?"[4]
Contemporary reviews evaluated the album far better, with Allmusic writer Steve Huey writing, "Love it or hate it,
Over-Nite Sensation was a watershed album for Frank Zappa, the point where his post-'60s aesthetic was truly
established".[3] Kelly Fisher Lowe, in The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, wrote that "Over-Nite and Apostrophe
(') are important [...] as a return to Mothers of Invention form and as close to traditional pop albums as Zappa would
ever come."[2]
Legacy
Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe (') are the subject of a Classic Albums series documentary from Eagle Rock
Entertainment, released on DVD May 1, 2007.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Camarillo Brillo" 3:59
2. "I'm the Slime" 3:34
3. "Dirty Love" 2:58
4. "Fifty-Fifty" 6:09
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "Zomby Woof" 5:10
6. "Dinah-Moe Humm" 6:01
7. "Montana" 6:35
Total length: 34:26
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals on all tracks except "Fifty-Fifty" and most of "Zomby Woof"
• George Duke – synthesizer, keyboards
• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Tom Fowler – bass
• Ralph Humphrey – drums
• Ricky Lancelotti – vocals on "Fifty-Fifty" and "Zomby Woof"
• Sal Marquez – trumpet, vocals on "Dinah-Moe Humm"
• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, baritone violin
• Ian Underwood – clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, marimba, vibraphone
• Kin Vassy – vocals on "I'm the Slime", "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana"
• Tina Turner and the Ikettes - backing vocals (uncredited)
Production staff
• Engineers: Fred Borkgren, Steve Desper, Terry Dunavan, Barry Keene, Bob Stone
• Remixing: Kerry McNabb
• Technician: Paul Hof
• Cover design: Ferenc Dobronyi, Cal Schenkel
• Illustrations: David McMacken
Charts
Year Chart Position
1973 Pop Albums 32
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA232
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA105
[3] Huey, S. (2011 [last update]). "Over-Nite Sensation - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53147).
allmusic.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
Apostrophe (')
Apostrophe (')
Recorded 1969 - 1974 at Electric Lady Studios, NYC; Bolic, Inglewood and Paramount Studios, Hollywood
Genre Jazz Rock, Comedy Rock, Hard Rock, Blues, Eletronic
Length 31:45
Label DiscReet
Over-Nite Apostrophe Roxy &

Sensation (') Elsewhere
(1973) (1974) (1974)
Singles from Apostrophe (')
1. "Cosmik Debris"
Released: 1974
2. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
Released: 1974
Apostrophe (') is an album by Frank Zappa, his eighteenth, released on March 22, 1974[1] in both stereo and
quadraphonic formats. An edited version of its lead-off track, "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", was Zappa's first chart
single, reaching position 86. Apostrophe (') remains Zappa's biggest commercial success in the US. It was certified
Gold by the RIAA on April 7, 1976.[2] The album also peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Charts, and would end
up becoming Zappa's highest-charting album.
Continuing from the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation (1973), this album is a similar mix of short
songs showcasing Zappa's humor and musical arrangements. The record's lyrical themes are often bizarre or obscure,
with the exception of "Uncle Remus" which is an extension of Zappa's feelings on racial disharmony featured on his
Apostrophe (') 88
earlier song "Trouble Every Day".
Music
The first half of the album loosely follows a continuing theme. "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" and "Nanook Rubs It"
tell of a dream the singer had where he saw himself as an Eskimo named Nanook.
As the album reaches "Cosmik Debris", the mood changes with a theme about a man who resists drugs from a drug
dealer and then robs him.
As was the case with many of Zappa's albums, Apostrophe was a menage of archival and newer recordings (most of
Apostrophe (') and Over-Nite Sensation were recorded simultaneously). The older recordings include the basic tracks
for: "Excentrifugal Forz" (a Hot Rats outtake) and "Uncle Remus" (from The Grand Wazoo). While the title track
also hails (with some possible 1973 overdubbage) from The Grand Wazoo' sessions.
The title track is an instrumental jam featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Jim Gordon. Jack Bruce is
credited on the album cover with bass guitar and co-writing the title song. However, in his interview for Polish rock
magazine Tylko Rock he jokingly insisted to journalist Wiesław Weiss that he had not played any bass guitar parts on
Apostrophe ('), only the cello parts. Bruce learned cello as a child and plays it on some of his other recordings.
However, his cello comments regarding Apostrophe (') can't be taken seriously because there is in fact no cello on
the title song or on the album. His bass playing on Apostrophe (') does in fact sound at times very much like the bass
lines that he played with Cream.
(Tylko Rock, Oct. 1992, pp. 17)
• "WW: Can you tell me something about your cooperation with Frank Zappa?
• JB: Sure, what do you happen to know? (laughs)
• WW: You appeared on his Apostrophe album...
• JB: Yes, as you know, at the time I was recording an album with Carla Bley, far more interesting one... you heard
that?
• WW: Yes, Escalator over the Hill...
• JB: Right. So Frank, whom I met earlier, appeared one day in the studio and asked me: "Can you take your cello
and go to my session?" So I turned up in a NY studio with my cello, I'm listening to his music, pretty awful, and
just don't know what to do with myself, and Frank says to me: "Listen, I would like you to play a sound, like
this... whaaaaaang!!!" So I did what he asked me to do. Whaaaaaang!!! That was all. That was my input to Frank
Zappa's most popular record! (laughs) "
[3]
However, in an interview in Guitar Player Magazine from January 1977, Zappa talks about his experience with
Jack Bruce's bass playing on the song:
• Q: What about playing with (bass guitarist) Jack Bruce on Apostrophe?
• FZ: Well, that was just a jam thing that happened because he was a friend of (drummer) Jim Gordon. I found it
very difficult to play with him; he's too busy. He doesn't really want to play the bass in terms of root functions; I
think he has other things on his mind. But that's the way jam sessions go.
Release and reception

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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [4]

B−
Rolling Stone [6]

favorable
Apostrophe (') and the preceding release Over-Nite Sensation, recorded with the same group of musicians, are the
subject of a Classic Albums series documentary from Eagle Rock Entertainment, released on DVD May 1, 2007.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" 2:07
2. "Nanook Rubs It" 4:38
3. "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" 1:50
4. "Father O'Blivion" 2:18
5. "Cosmik Debris" 4:14
Side two
1. "Excentrifugal Forz" 1:33
2. "Apostrophe'" Frank Zappa, Jim Gordon and Jack Bruce 5:50
3. "Uncle Remus" Frank Zappa and George Duke 2:44
4. "Stink-Foot" 6:33
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, bass, bouzouki
• Lynn – vocals, backing vocals
• Kerry McNabb – backing vocals, engineer, remixing
• Ian Underwood – saxophone
• Ruth Underwood – percussion
• Sal Marquez – trumpet
• Sue Glover – backing vocals
• Jim Gordon – drums on "Apostrophe'"
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, backing vocals
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• Robert "Frog" Camarena – vocals, backing vocals

• Ruben Ladron de Guevara – vocals, backing vocals
• Debbie – vocals, backing vocals
• Tony Duran – rhythm guitar
• Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – bass guitar
• Johnny Guerin – drums
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin
• Bob Ludwig – Technician
• Jack Bruce – bass on "Apostrophe'" (see controversy presented above)
• George Duke – keyboards, backing vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
Production staff
• Cal Schenkel – artwork, graphic design
• Barry Keene – engineer
• Ferenc Dobronyi – cover design
• Paul Hof – technician
• Oscar Kergaives – technician
• Brian Krokus – technician
• Mark Aalyson – photography
• Bob Stone – transfers, digital remastering
• Steve Desper – engineer
• Terry Dunavan – engineer
• Zach Glickman – marketing
• Bob Hughes – engineer
Charts
Album
Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1974 Pop Albums 10[2]
Singles
Song Chart Peak

position
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" Pop Singles [2]

86
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References
[1] "Official Zappa Discography" (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ discography/ 1974apostrophe. html). . Retrieved 2011-04-01.
[2] "Charts and Awards for Apostrophe (')" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53148/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
[3] http:/ / home. online. no/ ~corneliu/ gp77interview. htm
[4] Huey, S.. "Apostrophe (') - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53148). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 30 August
2011.
[5] Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 4155" (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155). robertchristgau.com.
. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
[6] Fletcher, Gordon (6 June 1974). "Apostrophe ' by Frank Zappa | Rolling Stone Music | Music Reviews" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/
music/ albumreviews/ apostrophe-overnight-sensation-19740606). rollingstone.com. .
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Apostrophe_(').html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/apostrophe.html)
One Size Fits All

One Size Fits All
Studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Recorded Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; and Paramount Studios, Los
Angeles,
August 1974 - April 1975
Genre Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, hard rock
Length 42:55
Label DiscReet
Roxy & One Size Fits Bongo

Elsewhere All Fury
(1974) (1975) (1975)
Singles from One Size Fits All
1. "Du Bist Mein Sofa"

Released: 1975
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi [2]

(6/10)

C+
Amazon.com [4]
One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. A special four-channel
Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released.[5]
The album features the final version of The Mothers of Invention, with George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth
Underwood, Tom Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock. Zappa continued to tour and record, often with members of
previous "Mothers of Invention" lineups.
The album itself features one of Zappa's most complex and well-known tracks, "Inca Roads". One of Zappa's heroes,
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, guests on two tracks.
Early U.S. LP pressings of One Size Fits All are particularly notable, for two reasons:
• Some copies also have the catalog number "BS 2879" inscribed - and crossed out - in the runoff matrix, indicating
that at one point One Size Fits All was (perhaps mistakenly) planned to be released on Warner Bros. Records,
whose Reprise Records subsidiary distributed Zappa's DiscReet Records label. The album was ultimately released
on DiscReet with a catalog number in Reprise's sequence, DS 2216. Warner Bros. did not reassign the number BS
2879 to another album.
One Size Fits All was first released on CD by Rykodisc in 1988; and in 2012 reissued yet again by the Universal
Music Group under the Zappa Records imprint.
Track listing
All songs written by Frank Zappa.
Side one
1. "Inca Roads" – 8:45
2. "Can't Afford No Shoes" – 2:38
3. "Sofa No. 1" – 2:39
4. "Po-Jama People" – 7:39
Side two
1. "Florentine Pogen" – 5:27
2. "Evelyn, a Modified Dog" – 1:04
3. "San Ber'dino" – 5:57
4. "Andy" – 6:04
5. "Sofa No. 2" – 2:42
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
• George Duke – keyboards, vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer
• Ruth Underwood – marimba, vibraphone, percussion
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals
• James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass guitar
• Chester Thompson – drums, sound effects, voices
• Captain Beefheart (credited as 'Bloodshot Rollin' Red') – harmonica
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – tenor saxophone, vocals, backing vocals, flute
Production staff
• Kerry McNab – engineer, remixing
• Cal Schenkel – design, illustrations, paintings
• Robert Stone – engineer
• Michael Braunstein – engineer
• Unity – assistant engineer
• Dick Barber – assistant engineer, assistant
• Gary O. – engineer
• Ferenc Dobronyi – design
• J.E. Tully – design
• Coy Featherstone – assistant engineer
• Paul Hof – assistant engineer, assistant
• Matti Laipio – voices, assistant engineer
• Bill Romero – voices, assistant engineer
• Richard "Tex" Abel – assistant engineer, assistant
• Jukka – engineer
Charts
Album
Year Chart Peak
1975 Billboard 200 26[6]
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "One Size Fits All - The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22605/
review). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[4] "One Size Fits All" (http:/ / www. amazon. com/ Size-Frank-Zappa-Mothers-Invention/ dp/ B0000009SM/ ref=pd_sim_m_3). . Retrieved
July 08, 2012.
[5] Zappa Patio unreleased discography (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ weirdo/ unreleased. html#roxy)
[6] "Charts and Awards for One Size Fits All" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22605/ charts-awards/ billboard-album). Allmusic. .
Retrieved 2008-08-22.
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/One_Size_Fits_All.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/osfa.html)
Zoot Allures
Zoot Allures
Recorded May – June, 1976 at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California except "Wonderful Wino" (1972/73), "Friendly Little Finger"
(1973/October 1975) and "Black Napkins" (recorded live in Osaka, Japan, February 3, 1976)
Genre Progressive rock, Jazz Fusion, Comedy Rock
Length 41:32
Label Warner Bros.
Bongo Zoot Zappa in New

Fury Allures York
(1975) (1976) (1978)
Singles from Zoot Allures
1. "Find Her Finer"

Released: 1976
2. "Disco Boy"
Released: 1976
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi [2]

(5/10)
Zoot Allures is a 1976 rock album by Frank Zappa. This was Zappa's only release on the Warner Bros. Records
label. Due to a lawsuit with his former manager Herb Cohen Frank Zappa's recording contract was temporarily
re-assigned from DiscReet Records to Warner Bros.
The title is a pun on the French expression "Zut alors!" which, though it has no direct translation, conveys mild
surprise and may be approximated by "Damn it!".
The album was originally conceptualized as a double LP, but for unknown reasons Zappa rearranged, edited, and
shortened the track listing to what was eventually released as a single LP.[3] Zappa played a test pressing of the
original album for Circus magazine in 1976, which reported a radically different, though slightly erroneous track
listing that included "Sleep Dirt", "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution", "Filthy Habits", and "Night of the Iron
Sausage". The former three tracks eventually surfaced on the 1979 Sleep Dirt and the posthumous Läther; "Night of
the Iron Sausage" remains unreleased, but was seemingly intended to be a guitar solo of fair length. "Wind Up
Workin' in a Gas Station" and "Zoot Allures" were notably absent from test pressings.
"Black Napkins", one of several guitar-driven pieces on Zoot Allures, began life accompanied by themes that would
later make up the unique piece known as "Sleep Dirt".[4] The performance heard on the album was culled from
Zappa's February 3, 1976 performance in Osaka, Japan, though it was edited for the official release.[5] Along with
"Zoot Allures" and "The Torture Never Stops", "Black Napkins" became a signature piece for Zappa, featuring
heavily in nearly every subsequent tour and several official releases.
"Wonderful Wino" was originally released on Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up. The album,
produced partially by Zappa (though credited as "La Marr Bruister"), also included the titular track, which later
appeared on 1979's Joe's Garage.
Zappa notes in the liner notes to 1979's Sheik Yerbouti that "Friendly Little Finger" from this album was created
using xenochrony.
Track listing
All tracks written by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Side one
1. "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" – 2:29
2. "Black Napkins" – 4:15
3. "The Torture Never Stops" – 9:45
4. "Ms. Pinky" – 3:40
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Side two
1. "Find Her Finer" – 4:07
2. "Friendly Little Finger" – 4:17
3. "Wonderful Wino" (Simmons, Zappa) – 3:38
4. "Zoot Allures" – 4:12
5. "Disco Boy" – 5:11
Release history
Country Date Label Format Catalog
United States October 20, 1976 Warner Brothers LP BS 2970

Canada
United Kingdom December 1976 Warner Brothers LP K 56298
United States May 1990 Rykodisc CD RCD 10160
United Kingdom May 1990 Zappa Records CD CDZAP22
United States May 2, 1995 Rykodisc CD RCD 10523
United States August 28, 2012 Universal Music CD ZR3855
Rykodisc CD release
Zoot Allures on compact disc, released by Rykodisc, is mixed differently than the original vinyl. The vinyl also
contains a longer edit of "Disco Boy" including a count-off by a drum machine (the first three seconds) and a longer
fade-out making the track's duration 5:27, as opposed to the CD duration of 5:11.
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa –guitar (all tracks), synthesizer (1, 4, 5, 9), bass (1, 3–7, 9), keyboards (3, 5, 7, 9), lead vocals (1, 3,
4, 5, 7, 9)
• Terry Bozzio – drums, backing vocals (5, 9)
• Davey Moiré – lead vocals (1), backing vocals (1, 9), engineer
• Andre Lewis – organ (2), vocals (2), backing vocals (5, 9)
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar (2), vocals (2), backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 9)
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone & vocals (2)
• Ruth Underwood – synthesizer (4, 7), marimba (6, 8)
• Captain Beefheart – harmonica (5) (credited as "Donnie Vliet")
• Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals (5)
• Dave Parlato – bass guitar (8)
• Lu Ann Neil – harp (8)
• Sparky Parker – backing vocals (9)
Keyboardist Eddie Jobson and bassist Patrick O'Hearn, who by the time of Zoot Allures' release were members of
Zappa's band, appear on the album's cover but do not perform on any tracks.
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Production staff
• Arnie Acosta – mastering
• Amy Bernstein – layout design
• Gary Heery – photography
• Cal Schenkel – design
• Bob Stone – digital remastering
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1976 Pop Albums [6]

61
References
[1] Couture, François (2011 [last update]). "Zoot Allures – Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22647). allmusic. .
Retrieved June 26, 2011.
scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html). scaruffi.com. . Retrieved June 26, 2011.
[3] "ARF The Home of Frank Zappa Heritage Studies" (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Zoot/ app. html). . Retrieved December 10, 2007.
[4] "Information Is Not Knowledge" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ songs/ Black_Napkins. html). . Retrieved December 10, 2007.
[5] "the zappa patio" (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ ). . Retrieved December 10, 2007.
[6] "Charts and Awards for Zoot Allures" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22647). Allmusic. . Retrieved August 22, 2008.
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Zoot_Allures.html)
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/zoot_allures.html)
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Studio Tan
Studio Tan
Recorded 1969, 1974 – 1976 at The Record Plant, LA; Royce Hall, UCLA and Caribou Studios, Nederland, Colorado
Genre Experimental rock, jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length 39:18
Label DiscReet
Zappa in New Studio Sleep

York Tan Dirt
(1978) (1978) (1979)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Studio Tan is an album by Frank Zappa, first released in September 1978 on his own DiscReet Records label. It
reached #147 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The album's creation was spurred by Warner Bros.' rejection of Zappa's Läther album. After demanding more
albums than Zappa was contractually obliged to provide and reediting the live album Zappa in New York, a lawsuit
ensued, during which, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites were issued without Zappa's permission.
Studio Tan is derived from two complete sides of Läther. After Zappa gained the rights to his back catalog, Studio
Tan was reissued, containing a remixed version of "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary".
Background
In early 1976, Zappa's relationship with manager and business partner Herb Cohen ended in litigation. Zappa and
Cohen's company DiscReet Records was distributed by Warner Bros. Records. When Zappa asked for a
re-assignment of his contract from DiscReet to Warner in order to advance the possibility of doing special projects
without Cohen's involvement, Warner briefly agreed. This led to the 1976 release of Zoot Allures on Warner. Early
in 1977, Zappa delivered the master tapes for a quadruple-LP set, entitled Läther, which he intended as his "swan
song" for Warner Bros.[2] However, Warner changed its position following legal action from Cohen, and refused to
release the album, claiming that Zappa was contractually bound to deliver four more albums to Warner for the
DiscReet label.
During 1977 Zappa created the individual albums Zappa In New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral
Favorites by re-editing recordings from same batch of tapes that made up the 4-LP configuration.[3] After Warner
Bros. released Zappa In New York, they told him that he still owed them four more albums. He then attempted to get
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a distribution deal with Phonogram to release Läther on the new Zappa Records label. This led Warner to threaten
legal action, preventing the release of Läther and forcing Zappa to shelve the project. In 1978 and 1979 Warner
finally decided to release the three remaining individual albums they still held, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral
Favorites. As Zappa had delivered the tapes only, these three individual albums were released with no musical
credits.[4] Warner also commissioned sleeve art by Gary Panter, which was not approved by Zappa. When this
material was first released on CD in 1991 Zappa chose to release the individual albums (along with the Panter
artwork.) Much of the material on Studio Tan was made available to the public again in a different form when Läther
was finally officially released to the public in 1996 after Zappa's death.
Content
All four tracks were originally intended for the shelved Läther album. "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" is
presented in a very different mix and edit on the CD edition of Studio Tan. Läther presented an almost complete edit,
containing several seconds of music that were edited out of the CD remix and the original mix, but a completely
different ending. The remix from the Studio Tan CD contained a short note ending the piece, while Läther ends by
cutting to a guitar squeal, the voice of Terry Bozzio saying the word "leather", and two marimba hits, conceptually
tying the conclusion of the original Läther album with several pieces of avantgarde dialogue. The vinyl release of
Studio Tan avoids both the Läther ending by fading out before the keyboard notes and orchestral arrangement that
ended the piece's original Läther edit and the remix released on the CD reissue of Studio Tan.
The CD, in addition to using a new remixed version of Greggery Peccary changed the running order of the album,
switching tracks 2 & 3. Later CD editions have a severe dropout during RDNZL that is not present on any LP
pressing or on the initial CD edition (Barking Pumpkin; ZAX Capitol matrix).
An excerpt from an unreleased alternate version of "Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra" appears
on the 1987 compilation The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, with drum overdubs by Chad Wackerman.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" 20:40
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Let Me Take You to the Beach" 2:44
2. "Revised Music for Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra" 7:36
3. "RDNZL" 8:12
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Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, percussion
• George Duke – keyboards
• John Berkman – piano
• Terry Bozzio – drums
• Davey Moire – vocals
• Eddie Jobson – keyboards, yodeling
• Max Bennett – bass guitar
• Paul Humphrey – drums
• Don Brewer – bongos
• James "Bird Legs" Youmans – bass guitar
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, synthesizer
• Michael Zearott – conductor
• Pamela Goldsmith – viola
• Murray Adler – violin
• Sheldon Sanov – violin
• Jerry Kessler – cello
• Edward Meares – upright bass
• Don Waldrop – trombone
• Jock Ellis – trombone
• Dana Hughes – bass trombone
• Earle Dumler – oboe
• JoAnn Caldwell McNab – bassoon
• Mike Altschul – flute
• Graham Young – trumpet
• Jay Daversa – trumpet
• Malcolm McNab – trumpet
• Ray Reed – flute
• Victor Morosco – saxophone
• John Rotella – woodwind instruments
• Alan Estes – percussion
• Emil Richards – percussion
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Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Studio Tan - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22649/ review). allmusic.com.
. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=wAcEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA15& dq=zappa+ lather& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=0dggT8uvO6bMsQLxlsDDCQ& ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=zappa%20lather& f=false
[3] Gail Zappa's liner notes for Läther
[4] FZ vs. Warner Brs. Story or Lather/Laether/Leather (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Ziny/ append. html), Zappa in New York, Arf.ru
[5] "Charts and Awards for Studio Tan" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22649/ charts-awards/ billboard-album). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2008-08-22.
Sleep Dirt
Sleep Dirt
Released January 19, 1979
Recorded December 1974 and 1976 at The Record Plant, LA and Caribou Studios, Nederland, Colorado
Genre Jazz fusion, experimental rock, instrumental rock, progressive rock
Length 39:13 (vinyl)

38:39 (CD)
Label DiscReet
Studio Sleep Sheik

Tan Dirt Yerbouti
(1978) (1979) (1979)
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

B−
Sleep Dirt is an album by Frank Zappa released in January, 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. It reached
#175 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Background
In early 1976 Zappa's relationship with manager and business partner Herb Cohen ended in litigation. Zappa and
DiscReet label.
artwork.) Much of the material on Sleep Dirt was made available to the public again in a different form when Läther
Content
Six of the album's seven tracks were intended for the shelved album Läther. "Flambay" and "The Ocean Is the
Ultimate Solution" originally appeared in significantly shortened versions, but are presented in their original edits on
the released Sleep Dirt. Zappa's intended title for the album was Hot Rats III. The change in title by Warner was
also in violation of Zappa's contract. When Zappa re-issued the recordings he did not change the title. The 1979 LP
version of Sleep Dirt was entirely instrumental. However, with the CD release in 1991 Zappa added new overdubs to
the recordings.
Zappa asked singer Thana Harris to add vocals to 3 songs. Zappa had originally envisioned Flambay, Spider of
Destiny, and Time Is Money as part of his abandoned 1972 musical, Hunchentoot, and thus, these songs were
originally intended to be sung.
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Chad Wackerman also overdubbed drums on Flambay, Spider of Destiny and Regyptian Strut. Wackerman's parts
replaced the original drum tracks. The first Barking Pumpkin CDs retained the original version of Regyptian Strut,
but this was changed for later releases. Both versions of the track can now be found on the Läther CD. Wackerman
did not overdub drums on Time is Money even though he is credited for this in the CD notes. The 2012 Universal
Music reissue reverts to the original vinyl version of the album.
The creature shown on the cover is Hedorah from the Godzilla films.[6]
Track listing
All songs written by Frank Zappa.
Side one
1. "Filthy Habits" – 7:33
2. "Flambay" – 5:02
3. "Spider of Destiny" – 2:54
4. "Regyptian Strut" – 4:15
Side two
1. "Time Is Money" – 2:52
2. "Sleep Dirt" – 3:20
3. "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution" – 13:20
CD (Barking Pumpkin and Rykodisc editions)

2. "Flambay" – 4:54
3. "Spider of Destiny" – 2:33
4. "Regyptian Strut" – 4:12
5. "Time Is Money" – 2:49
7. "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution" – 13:17
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, keyboards, synthesizer
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar
• Bruce Fowler – brass
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering, equalization
• Gary Panter – art director
• Dave Parlato – bass guitar
• Bob Stone – mastering, remastering, equalization
• Chester Thompson – drums
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, keyboards
• James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass guitar, rhythm guitar
• Thana Harris – vocals (CD remix)
• Chad Wackerman – drum overdubs (CD remix)
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Charts
Year Chart Position
1979 Pop Albums [7]

175
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Sleep Dirt - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22650/ review). allmusic.com. .
[6] Aiken, Keith. "Long Evolution of Godzilla 3D" (http:/ / www. scifijapan. com/ articles/ 2007/ 08/ 07/ the-long-evolution-of-godzilla-3-d/ ).
Long Evolution of Godzilla 3D. SciFi Japan. . Retrieved 19 September 2011.
[7] "Charts and Awards for Sleep Dirt" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22650/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Sheik Yerbouti
Sheik Yerbouti
Live album with studio elements by Frank Zappa
Recorded Mostly:
Jan. 24–28 & Feb. 24–28 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London;
Oct. 28–31, 1977 - The Palladium, New York
Genre Progressive rock, Comedy rock, punk rock, parody of disco music
Length 72:33
Label Zappa Records
Sleep Sheik Orchestral

Dirt Yerbouti Favorites
(1979) (1979) (1979)
Singles from Sheik Yerbouti
1. "Dancin' Fool"
Released: 1979
2. "Bobby Brown"
Released: 1979
Sheik Yerbouti is a live double album with studio elements[1][2][3] by Frank Zappa made up of material recorded in
1977 and 1978. It was first released on March 3 1979 as the first release on Zappa Records and re-issued on compact
disc, first in unauthorized form by EMI in 1986, then by Rykodisc in 1990 and 1995 and then by Universal Music in
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2012. All Rykodisc CDs have a version of "I'm So Cute" in which the coda is removed so that the song segues
smoothly into the following song.
(song sample, 600Kb)
Background
Sheik Yerbouti represented a major turning point in Zappa's career. The first album to be released on his own
eponymous label after his departure from Warner Bros. Records, it emphasized the comedic aspect of his lyrics more
than ever before, beginning a period of increased record sales and mainstream media attention. Sheik Yerbouti
remains Zappa's biggest selling album worldwide with over 2 million units sold to date.
Inspiration
The title is a play on words; Zappa appears on the cover in character in Arab headdress, and the name, meant to
resemble an Arabic transcription, is pronounced like the title of KC and the Sunshine Band's 1976 disco hit "Shake
Your Booty".
The album featured more of Zappa's satirical and otherwise humorous or offensive material. "Bobby Brown" is
well-known worldwide, except for the USA, where it was banned from airplay due to its sexually explicit lyrics. "I
Have Been in You" pokes fun at Peter Frampton's 1977 hit "I'm in You" while maintaining a sexually driven
structure. "Dancin' Fool", a Grammy nominee, became a popular disco hit despite its obvious parodical reflection of
disco music. "Flakes" includes a parody of Bob Dylan about the lousiness of laborers in California. "Jewish
Princess", a humorous look at Jewish stereotyping, attracted attention from the Anti-Defamation League, to which
Zappa denied an apology, arguing: "Unlike the unicorn, such creatures do exist — and deserve to be 'commemorated'
with their own special opus".[4]
Some of Zappa's solos from the album began life as improvisations from Zappa's earlier work. "Rat Tomago" was
edited from a performance of "The Torture Never Stops", which originally appeared on Zoot Allures; "The Sheik
Yerbouti Tango" likewise from a live "Little House I Used to Live In", originally a Burnt Weeny Sandwich track.
The song "City of Tiny Lites" featured an animation video made by Bruce Bickford which was featured on the Old
Grey Whistle Test.
Writing and recording

Most of the tracks were recorded live, then extensively overdubbed in the studio. "Rat Tomago" is bookended by two
brief pieces of musique concrète, constructed of studio dialogue, sound effects, and assorted musical fragments. In
making "Rubber Shirt", Zappa combined a track of Terry Bozzio playing drums in one musical setting with one of
Patrick O'Hearn playing bass in another, and totally different, musical setting. The tracks differed in time signature
and in tempo. Zappa referred to this technique as xenochrony. Nearly every song on the album features numerous
overdubs.
The album was also notable for being the career break of noted producer and engineer Joe Chiccarelli.[5] In an
interview with HitQuarters, Chiccarelli said: "[Zappa's] engineer couldn’t make the session and so he decided to take
a chance on me. I’m so thankful ever since that day because he gave me a career."[5]
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [6]
Rolling Stone [7]

(favorable)

(C)
Reception
Initially, the album was met with mixed reviews, due to the controversy of its lyrical content. The album remains a
cult favorite among Zappa fans to this day. According to Zappa (cited from several interviews) the song "Bobby
Brown" was so popular in Norway that it was a #1 hit on the Norse radio charts (for a multitude of weeks), and Sheik
Yerbouti and Zappa were voted album and artist of the year there in 1979. Zappa was reportedly so astounded by its
success, that he hired a sociologist to study why the song became such a big hit in Norway.
Track listing
All songs composed, written and arranged by Frank Zappa except where noted. Dates & venues infos from
Information Is Not Knowledge [9]
Side one
No. Title Recording dates and venues Length
1. "I Have Been in You" January 25, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 3:33
2. "Flakes" January 25, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 6:41
3. "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" January 27, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 3:42
4. "I'm So Cute" January 24–28 or February 27–28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 4:27
Side two
5. "Jones Crusher" October 31, 1977 - The Palladium, NYC 2:49
6. "What Ever Happened to All the Fun in 0:33

the World"
7. "Rat Tomago" Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops played live on February 15, 1978 - 5:17
Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
8. "Wait a Minute [10]" 0:31
9. "Bobby Brown (Goes Down) [11]" January 24–28 or February 27–28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 2:49
10. "Rubber Shirt" (Bozzio/O'Hearn/Zappa) Bass part: September 25, 1974 - Goteborg, Sweden 2:45
11. "The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" Guitar solo from The Little House I Used To Live In played live on February 15, 1978 - 3:56
Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
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Side three
12. "Baby Snakes" February 28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 1:50
13. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" January 24–28 or February 27–28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 3:31
14. "City of Tiny Lites" January 24–28 or February 27–28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 5:32
15. "Dancin' Fool" February 28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 3:43
16. "Jewish Princess" October 30, 1977 - The Palladium, NYC 3:16
Side four
17. "Wild February 28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 4:09

Love"
18. "Yo' Vocal sections February 28, 1978 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK; Guitar solo: February 25, 1978 - 12:36
Mama" Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany; Part of the backing track for the solo: January 27, 1978 -
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – Lead Guitar, Vocals, Arranger, Composer, Producer, Remixing
• Adrian Belew – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Bob Dylan impersonation
• Patrick O'Hearn – Bass, Vocals
• Terry Bozzio – Drums, Vocals
• Davey Moire – Vocals, Engineer
• Ed Mann – Percussion, Vocals
• Tommy Mars – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Andre Lewis – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – Backing Vocals
• Randy Thornton – Backing Vocals
• Peter Wolf – Keyboards, Butter, Flora Margarine
• David Ocker – Clarinet
Production staff
• Bob Stone – Digital Remastering
• Joe Chiccarelli – Remixing, Overdub Engineer
• Lynn Goldsmith – Photography, Cover Photo
• Peter Henderson – Engineer
• Bob Ludwig – Mastering Engineer
• Kerry McNabb – Engineer
• John Williams – Art Direction
• Gail Zappa – Photography
• Amy Bernstein – Artwork, Layout Design
• Barbara Isaak – Assistant
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Charts
Year Chart Position
1979 Pop Albums [12]

21
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA141& dq=sheik+ yerbouti+ live& hl=en& sa=X&
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[4] The real Frank Zappa book (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=FB0O_HCpBy0C& pg=RA1-PA226& lpg=RA1-PA226& dq=unlike+
unicorns+ zappa& source=bl& ots=crvc9_4kuI& sig=9AQgEIdE3biqvVF1wERinn3a7k0& hl=en& ei=QhIwTKnvLOTtnQfLhcD2Aw&
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[5] "Interview with Joe Chicarelli" (http:/ / www. hitquarters. com/ index. php3?page=intrview/ opar/ intrview_Joe_Chiccarelli_Interview. html).
HitQuarters. 14 June 2010. . Retrieved Aug 19, 2010.
[6] Huey, S. (2011 [last update]). "Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22655). allmusic.com. .
[7] Fricke, D. (2011 [last update]). "Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/
20090525130504/ http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 105939/ review/ 5946006/ sheik_yerbouti).
[9] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ Sheik_Yerbouti. html
[10] Originally titled "We've Got to Get into Something Real" on vinyl releases of Sheik Yerbouti.
[11] Originally titled "Bobby Brown" on vinyl releases of Sheik Yerbouti.
[12] "Charts and Awards for Sheik Yerbouti" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22655). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
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Joe's Garage
Joe's Garage
Original cover art for the single LP release Joe's Garage Act I, depicting Zappa in blackface.
Released September 17/November 19, 1979
Recorded March — June 1979 at Village Recorders "B", LA
Genre Rock opera
Length 1:55:14
Label Zappa Records
Orchestral Joe's Tinsel Town

Favorites Garage Rebellion
(1979) (1979) (1981)
Singles from Joe's Garage
1. "Joe's Garage"
Released: October 29, 1979
2. "Stick It Out"
Released: 1979
Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa originally released as two separate studio albums on Zappa
Records. The project was later remastered and reissued as a triple album box set, Joe's Garage, Acts I, II & III, in
1987. The story is told by a character identified as the "Central Scrutinizer", narrating the story of Joe, an average
adolescent male, who forms a garage rock band, gives all of his money to a government assisted but insincere
religion, explores unusual sexual activities with appliances, and is imprisoned. After being released from prison into
a dystopian society in which music itself has been criminalized, he lapses into insanity.
The album encompasses a large spectrum of musical styles, while its lyrics often feature satirical or humorous
commentary on American society and politics. It addresses themes of individualism, free will, censorship, the music
industry and human sexuality, while criticizing government and religion, and satirizing Catholicism and Scientology.
Joe's Garage is noted for its use of xenochrony, a recording technique that takes guitar solos from older live
recordings and overdubs them onto new studio recordings. All of the guitar solos on the album are xenochronous
except for "Watermelon in Easter Hay", a signature song that Zappa has described as the best song on the album, and
according to his son Dweezil, the best guitar solo his father has ever played.
The album initially received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising its innovative and original music, but
criticizing the scatological, sexual and profane nature of the lyrics. Since its original release, Joe's Garage has been
reappraised as one of Zappa's best works.
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Background
After being released from his contractual obligations with Warner Bros. Records, Frank Zappa formed Zappa
Records, an independent label. He released the successful double live album Sheik Yerbouti (1979, recorded
8/1977-2/1978), and began working on a series of songs for a followup album.[1][2]:370 The songs "Joe's Garage" and
"Catholic Girls" were recorded with the intention that Zappa would release them as a single.[1][3] Throughout the
development of Joe's Garage, Zappa's band recorded lengthy jams which Zappa later formed into the album.[4]:331
The album also continued the development of xenochrony, a technique Zappa first featured on Zoot Allures (1976),
in which aspects of older live recordings were utilized to create new compositions by overdubbing them onto studio
recordings,[5][6] or, alternatively, selecting a previously recorded solo and allowing drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to
improvise a new drum performance, interacting with the previously recorded piece.[6]
Midway through recording the new album, Zappa decided that the songs connected coherently, and wrote a story,
changing the new album into a rock opera.[1]:149 Joe's Garage was the final album Zappa recorded at a commercial
studio.[6] Zappa's own studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, built as an addition to Zappa's home, and
completed in late 1979, was used to record and mix all of his subsequent releases.[6]
Style and influences
Lyrics and story themes

"Eventually it was discovered, that God did not want us to be all the same. This was Bad News for the Governments of The World,
as it seemed contrary to the doctrine of Portion Controlled Servings. Mankind must be made more uniformly if The Future was
going to work. Various ways were sought to bind us all together, but, alas, same-ness was unenforceable. It was about this time, that
someone came up with the idea of Total Criminalization. Based on the principle, that if we were all crooks, we could at last be
uniform to some degree in the eyes of The Law. [...] Total Criminalization was the greatest idea of its time and was vastly popular
except with those people, who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws, so, of course, they had to be Tricked Into It... which is one of the
reasons, why music was eventually made Illegal."
- Joe's Garage Acts II & III liner notes, 1979.
The lyrical themes of Joe's Garage involve individualism, sexuality, the danger of large government, and "the
foolishness of white males", according to Kelly Fisher Lowe in The Words and Music of Frank Zappa.[1]:149 The
album is narrated by a government employee identifying himself as The Central Scrutinizer, who delivers a
cautionary tale about Joe, a typical adolescent male who forms a band as the government prepares to criminalize
music.[1]:150 The Central Scrutinizer explains that music leads to a "slippery slope" of drug use, disease, unusual
sexual practices, prison, and eventually, insanity.[1]:150 According to Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz, Zappa's
narrative of censorship reflected the censorship of music during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, where rock music
was made illegal.[2]:370
The title track is noted as having an autobiographical aspect, as the character of Larry (as performed by Zappa
himself) sings that the band plays the same song repeatedly because "it sounded good to me".[1]:150 In real life,
Zappa said he wrote and played music for himself, his sole intended audience.[1]:150 The song also takes lyrical
inspiration from bands playing in bars like The Mothers of Invention once had, and shady record deals Zappa had
experienced in the past.[1]:150 In "Joe's Garage", Joe finds that the music industry is "not everything it is cracked up
to be".[1]:151 The song refers to a number of music fads, including new wave, heavy metal, disco and glitter rock, and
is critical of the music industry of the late 1970s.[1]:151
"Catholic Girls" is critical of the Catholic Church, and satirizes "the hypocrisy of the myth of the good Catholic
girl."[1]:151 While Zappa was in favor of the sexual revolution, he regarded himself as a pioneer in publicly
discussing honesty about sexual intercourse, stating
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American sexual attitudes are controlled as a necessary tool of business and government in order to
perpetuate themselves. Unless people begin to see through that, to see past it to, what sex is really all
about, they're always going to have the same neurotic attitudes. It's very neatly packaged. It all works
hand-in-hand with the churches and political leaders at the point, where elections are coming up.[7]
This view inspired the lyrical content of "Crew Slut", in which Mary, Joe's girlfriend, falls into the groupie
lifestyle.[7][8]
"Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" was written in the summer of 1978.[9] Zappa's road manager, Phil Kaufman,
alleged, that the song was written after Kaufman had asked that very question; within the context of the album's
storyline, it is sung by Joe after he receives a sexually transmitted disease from Lucille, "a girl, who works at the
Jack in the Box".[9] The Central Scrutinizer continues to express the hypothesis that "girls, music, disease, heartbreak
[...] all go together."[1]:155 Halfway through the album's libretto, Zappa expressed the belief, that governments
believe, that people are inherently criminals, and continue to invent laws, which gives states the legal grounds to
arrest people, leading to the fictional criminalization of music, which occurs towards the end of the album's
storyline.[1]:155
"A Token of My Extreme" satirizes Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, as well as new age beliefs and the sexual
revolution.[1]:155[10]:114 It describes an insincere religion, which co-operates with a "malevolent totalitarian
regime."[11] "Stick It Out" contains lyrical references to Zappa's songs "What Kind Of Girl", "Bwana Dik" and
"Dancin' Fool".[12] "Dong Work For Yuda" was written as a tribute to Zappa's bodyguard, John Smothers, and
features Terry Bozzio imitating Smothers' dialect and speech.[13] "Keep It Greasy" is a lyrical tribute to anal
sex.[1]:157 Following Joe's imprisonment and release, the libretto describes a dystopian future, accompanied
musically by long guitar solos, which Joe imagines in his head.[1]:159 "Packard Goose" criticizes rock journalism,
and features a philosophical monologue delivered by the character Mary, who had been absent since the first
act.[1]:158-159
Music and performance

The music of Joe's Garage encompassed a variety of styles, including
blues, jazz, doo wop, lounge, orchestral, rock, pop and reggae.[1]
"Catholic Girls" makes musical reference to Zappa's controversial song
"Jewish Princess", as a sitar plays the melody of the earlier song during
the fadeout of "Catholic Girls".[1] "Crew Slut" is performed as a slow
blues song, with slide guitar riffs and a harmonica solo.[1]:152-153[4]:333
According to Kelly Fisher Lowe, the song is "more Rolling Stones or
Aerosmith than it is Gatemouth Brown or Guitar Watson".[1]:152-153
Joe's Garage is noted for its extensive
The extended, more than three and a half minute, two-part guitar solo guitar-oriented work, including live
in "Toad-O-Line" is taken from Zappa's earlier song "Inca improvisations which were incorporated into new
Roads"/"Occam's Razor".[14] studio compositions using xenochrony.
"A Token Of My Extreme" originated as an instrumental, which

opened Zappa's concerts in 1974; a recording of the original version of this piece was released under the title "Tush
Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme)" on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2.[1]:155
"Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" first appeared on Jeff Simmons' album of the same name.[15] The Joe's Garage
arrangement is radically different, and is played as a reggae song.[15] "Stick It Out" originated as part of the Mothers
of Invention's "Sofa" routine in the early 1970s.[1]:120 The Joe's Garage version is musically influenced by funk and
disco, with its lyrics performed first in German, and then in English.[1]:156[16]:270 "Sy Borg" derives from funk,
reggae and R&B.[1]:154, 156
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"Keep It Greasy" had been performed by Zappa since 1975; the Joe's Garage album version features a guitar solo
from a March 1979 live performance of the song "City of Tiny Lights".[1] Another March 1979 guitar solo from
"City of Tiny Lights" is incorporated into the song "Outside Now" using the same recording technique.[1] "Packard
Goose" also uses xenochrony, with its guitar solo taken from a March 1979 performance of "Easy Meat".[1]
The album concludes with a long guitar instrumental, "Watermelon in Easter Hay", the only guitar solo recorded for
the album; every other guitar solo on the album was xenochronous—overdubbed from older live
recordings.[1]:154[8]:381 In their review of the album, Down Beat magazine criticized the song,[8]:376 but subsequent
reviewers have championed the song as Zappa's masterpiece. Lowe called it the "crowning achievement of the
album" and "one of the most gorgeous pieces of music ever produced".[1]:159 Zappa told Niel Slaven that he thought
it was "the best song on the album".[8]:376 After Zappa died, "Watermelon in Easter Hay" became known as one of
his signature songs, and his son, Dweezil Zappa, later referred to it as "the best solo Zappa ever played".[17]:90-91
The song is followed by "A Little Green Rosetta", which was originally intended to appear on Zappa's shelved
Läther album.[1]:159[18]
Release
Joe's Garage was initially released in separate units, beginning with the single LP Act I in September 1979. For the
album artwork, Zappa was photographed in blackface, holding a mop.[8]:381 The gatefold sleeve of Act I was
designed by John Williams, and featured a collage, which included a naked Maya, vague technical drawings,
pyramids and fingers on the fret of a guitar.[8]:381 The lyric insert featured similar illustrations, which related to the
content of the songs and storyline.[8] The title track was released as a single, with "The Central Scrutinizer" as its
B-side. It did not chart.[19]
Act I peaked at #27 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.[20] It was followed by the double album Acts II & III in
November.[1] The gatefold of Acts II & III featured collages taken from a medical journal, while the cover for Acts II
& III featured a makeup artist applying blackface makeup to Zappa's face.[8]:381 Acts II & III peaked at #53 on the
Pop Albums chart.[21]
Joe's Garage was reissued in 1987 as a triple album, combining Acts I, II & III into a single box set, and as a double
album on compact disc.[1] The song "Wet T-Shirt Night" received two alternate titles, when the album was released
on CD: the libretto referred to the song as "The Wet T-Shirt Contest", while the back cover referred to the song as
"Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt".[22] In an interview, Zappa explained that the "fembot" was the name given to a female
robot in an episode of the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.[22] Additionally, the instrumental "Toad-O Line"
was renamed "On the Bus".[23] The Central Scrutinizer monologue at the end of "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up",
which concludes the story's first act, was indexed as its own track on the CD reissue, under the title "Scrutinizer
Postlude".[15]
Reception and legacy

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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic (Acts I, II & III) [24]
Allmusic (Act I) [25]
Allmusic (Acts II & III) [26]
Rolling Stone [27]

(favorable)
Joe's Garage received mixed to positive reviews upon release, with criticisms aimed at its profane lyrical content,
but has since been reappraised as a landmark album.[1] Allmusic writer William Ruhlmann gave 3 out of 5 stars for
the individual releases Act I and Acts II & III.[25][26] Ruhlmann wrote of Act I, "although his concern with
government censorship would see a later flowering in his battles with the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC),
here he wasn't able to use it to fulfill a satisfying dramatic function."[25] Ruhlmann also felt that Acts II & III "seems
so thin and thrown together, musically and dramatically".[26]
Reviewing the album for Rolling Stone, Don Shewey wrote, "If the surface of this opera is cluttered with cheap gags
and musical mishmash, its soul is located in profound existential sorrow. The guitar solos that Zappa plays in Joe's
imagination burn with a desolate, devastating beauty. Flaws and all, Joe's Garage is Frank Zappa's Apocalypse
Now."[27] The collected Acts I, II & III release received 4.5 out of 5 stars from Allmusic's Steve Huey, who wrote "in
spite of its flaws, Joe's Garage has enough substance to make it one of Zappa's most important '70s works and
overall political statements, even if it's not focused enough to rank with his earliest Mothers of Invention
masterpieces."[24]
For his performance on Joe's Garage, Vinnie Colaiuta was named "the most technically advanced drummer ever" by
Modern Drummer, which ranked the album as one of the top 25 greatest drumming performances of all time.[28]:58
On September 26, 2008, Joe's Garage was staged by the Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles, in a
production authorized by the Zappa Family Trust.[29]
Track listing
Act I
No. Title Length
1. "The Central Scrutinizer" 3:28
2. "Joe's Garage" 6:10
3. "Catholic Girls" 4:26
4. "Crew Slut" 6:31
5. "Wet T-Shirt Nite" 4:45
6. "Toad-O Line" 4:19
7. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" 2:36
8. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" 7:17
Total length: 33:49

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Act II
No. Title Length
1. "A Token of My Extreme" 5:30
2. "Stick It Out" 4:34
3. "Sy Borg" 8:56
4. "Dong Work for Yuda" 5:03
5. "Keep It Greasey" 8:22
6. "Outside Now" 5:50
Total length: 38:15
Act III
No. Title Length
1. "He Used to Cut the Grass" 8:35
2. "Packard Goose" 11:34
3. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" 9:09
4. "A Little Green Rosetta" 8:15
Total length: 37:33
Personnel
Cast
• Frank Zappa – Central Scrutinizer, Larry, L. Ron Hoover, Father Riley & Buddy Jones
• Ike Willis – Joe
• Dale Bozzio – Mary
• Denny Walley – Mrs. Borg
• Al Malkin – Officer Butzis
• Warren Cuccurullo & Ed Mann – Sy Borg
• Terry Bozzio – Bald-Headed John
• Al Malkin, Warren Cucurullo, Dale Bozzio, Geordie Hormel, Barbara Issak & most of the people who work at
Village Recorders (circa 1979) – The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen Chorus
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – Vocals, guitar
• Warren Cuccurullo – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Organ, Guitar
• Denny Walley – Vocals, Slide Guitar, Guitar
• Craig Twister Steward – Harmonica
• Jeff – Sax (Tenor)
• Marginal Chagrin – Sax (Baritone)
• Patrick O'Hearn – Wind, Bass
• Peter Wolf – Keyboards
• Stumuk – Sax (Baritone), Sax (Bass)
• Tommy Mars – Keyboards
• Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums, Percussion
• Arthur Barrow – Vocals, Bass
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• Ed Mann – Vocals, Percussion

• Dale Bozzio – Vocals
• Al Malkin – Vocals
• Ike Willis – Vocals
• Barbara Isaak – Choir, Chorus, Assistant
• Geordie Hormel – Choir, Chorus
• Terry Bozzio – Guest Vocals
Production staff
• Ferenc Dobronyi – Cover Design
• Steve Alsberg – Project Coordinator
• Joe Chiccarelli – Engineer, Mixing, Recording
• Norman Seeff – Photography, Cover Photo
• John Williams – Artwork
• Steve Nye – Remixing
• Mick Glossop – Remixing
• Stan Ricker – Mastering
• Jack Hunt – Mastering
• Thomas Nordegg – Assistant
• Tom Cummings – Assistant
Charts
Joe's Garage Act I
Year Chart Position
Joe's Garage Acts II & III
Year Chart Position
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Publishing Group. ISBN 0313338477. .
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pg=PA254). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0313358060. .
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audio_mothers_sound/ ). Mix. . Retrieved 21 February 2012.
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ISBN 080211783X. .
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Music Sales Group. ISBN 0857120433. .
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2012-02-19.
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Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
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[26] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Joe's Garage: Acts II & III - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53159/
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20090525130549/ http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 244234/ review/ 6211828/ joes_garage_acts_i_ii__iii).
web.archive.org. Archived from the original (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 244234/ review/ 6211828/
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[29] Morris, Stephen Leigh (2008), " Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage Gets Its Premiere 29 Years On (http:/ / www. laweekly. com/ 2008-09-18/
stage/ racy-against-time/ )", LA Weekly.
Further reading
• Davis, Michael (February 1980). "Zappa Busy As Ever While Coming Out of Joe's Garage". Record Review.
You Are What You Is

You Are What You Is
Recorded July - September, 1980

UMRK
Genre Hard rock, comedy rock, progressive rock
Length 67:11
Label Barking Pumpkin
Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer You Are What You Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning
Guitar Is Witch
(1981) (1981) (1982)
Singles from You Are What You Is
1. "Harder Than Your Husband"

Released: 1981
2. "You Are What You Is"
Released: 1981
3. "Goblin Girl"
Released: 1981
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
You Are What You Is is a double album by Frank Zappa. It was originally released as a two-record set in 1981 and
later by Rykodisc as a 20-song CD.
Production
After the release of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and
planned to release a triple LP live album called Warts and All. As Warts and All reached completion, Zappa found
the project to be "unwieldy" due to its length, and scrapped it, later conceiving Crush All Boxes.[2][3] Crush All Boxes
would have been a single LP containing the studio recordings "Doreen" and "Fine Girl", and "Easy Meat", a live
recording with studio overdubs, on the first side, with the second side being occupied by a suite consisting of the
songs "Society Pages", "I'm A Beautiful Guy", "Beauty Knows No Pain", "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Any
Downers?" and "Conehead".[3]
During the production of Crush All Boxes, Zappa decided to scrap the album and conceive a set of releases drawing
from both Warts and All and Crush All Boxes, which would emphasize different aspects of his multiple talents,
formatting the two albums into You Are What You Is, Tinseltown Rebellion and two series of live albums, Shut Up 'N
Play Yer Guitar and You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore.[3]
Music and lyrics

Much like a concept album, some of the tracks are bound together, although the album lacks an overall storyline.
The title track "You Are What You Is" is an up-tempo pop rock style song that was released as a music video in
1984. Critics claims it was his most political album since "We're Only In It For The Money." [4]
Release history
The album was first issued on LP by Barking Pumpkin Records (distributed by CBS) in 1981. It received a
worldwide release on both Ryko and Zappa Records CD in 1990, and was standardized under the Ryko banner in
1995. However, the digital master prepared for both the original Ryko/Zappa release and the later Ryko 1995 release
suffered from several severe audio problems that appear to be caused by an overuse of digital techniques like
compression and reverb and also contained a shortened version of the track "Dumb All Over." In 1998, the problems
of these previous CD issues were fixed in an unannounced reissue, including a near-complete restoration of the
guitar solo from "Dumb All Over".
Track listing
Side one
1. "Teen-Age Wind" – 3:02
2. "Harder Than Your Husband" – 2:28
3. "Doreen" – 4:44
4. "Goblin Girl" – 4:07
5. "Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear" – 3:34
Side two
1. "Society Pages" – 2:27
2. "I'm a Beautiful Guy" – 1:56
3. "Beauty Knows No Pain" – 3:02
4. "Charlie's Enormous Mouth" – 3:36
5. "Any Downers?" – 2:08
6. "Conehead" – 4:24
Side three
1. "You Are What You Is" – 4:23
2. "Mudd Club" – 3:11
3. "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" – 3:10
4. "Dumb All Over" – 5:45
Side four
1. "Heavenly Bank Account" – 3:44
2. "Suicide Chump" – 2:49
3. "Jumbo Go Away" – 3:43
4. "If Only She Woulda" – 3:48
5. "Drafted Again" – 3:07
Personnel
Musicians
• Arthur Barrow – bass guitar
• Jimmy Carl Black – vocals
• Bob Harris – Boy Soprano, trumpet
• David Logeman – drums
• Ed Mann – percussion
• Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals
• David Ocker – bass clarinet, clarinet
• Mark Pinske – vocals
• Motorhead Sherwood – tenor saxophone, vocals
• Craig "Twister" Stewart – harmonica
• Steve Vai – guitars[5]
• Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
• Ray White – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ahmet Zappa – vocals
• Frank Zappa – composer, arranger, vocals, guitar
• Moon Unit Zappa – vocals
Production staff
• Amy Bernstein – artwork
• George Douglas – assistant engineer
• Jo Hansch – mastering
• John Livzey – photography, cover photo
• Thomas Nordegg – engineer
• Mark Pinske – engineer
• Santi Rubio – ?
• Allen Sides – engineer
• Dennis Sager – digital engineer
• Bob Stone – remixing, digital remastering
• John Vince – artwork, graphic design
• Frank Zappa – producer
Charts
Year Chart Position
1981 Pop Albums [6]

93
References
[1] Huey, S. (2011 [last update]). "You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53163/ review).
allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 July 2011. "Zappa"
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ei=FswgT5vvLZTjsQLLqtyHCQ& ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA
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ei=2MYgT_vbKa-A2QXNsvSWCQ& ved=0CE0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=zappa%20warts%20all& f=false
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source=bl& ots=VI5AkQ-IXO& sig=gy23h5ZqMMK4f0htlkqN6z-7I9s& hl=en& sa=X& ei=hItSUPmuIYLu9ASTmIDgDA&
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[5] credited as "Strat Abuse"
[6] "Charts and Awards for You Are What You Is" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53163/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2008-08-22.
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
Recorded September 1981 – early 1982 Live and at UMRK (studio tracks)
Genre Hard rock, comedy rock, progressive rock, art rock
Length 34:18
You Are What You Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning The Man from
Is Witch Utopia
(1981) (1982) (1983)
Singles from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
1. "Valley Girl"
Released: 1982
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch is an album by Frank Zappa, released in May 1982 and digitally
remastered in 1991. It features five tracks composed by Zappa, and one song, "Valley Girl", co-written with Moon
Unit Zappa, his daughter, who provided the spoken monologue mocking some of the Valley girls at her school
including "Gag me with a spoon!".[1]
The album's first half consists of studio recordings, while the second half consists of live recordings; its vinyl
configuration presented the studio recordings on the first side, while the second side was live.
Production
Most of Side 1 was recorded at Zappa's Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio at his home in Los Angeles; while
the majority of the material on Side 2 was extracted from live performances during tours in 1981 and 1982. The live
material was originally intended for an unreleased album titled Chalk Pie, which was scrapped after it had been
bootlegged.
The cover art for the album shows the classic Droodle (from which the album gets its name), whose shapes also
suggest the letters 'ZA' (and 'P', sideways), as in 'Zappa'.
The song "Drowning Witch" is one of the most complex instrumentals that Zappa ever wrote, featuring musical
quotations from The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and the Dragnet TV theme.
Release history
The original LP release contained a note that reads "This album has been engineered to sound correct on JBL 4311
speakers or an equivalent. Best results will be achieved if you set your pre-amp tone controls to the flat position with
the loudness control in the off position. Before adding any treble or bass to the sound of the album, it would be
advisable to check it out this way first. F.Z."
The LP also featured a "letter from FZ" advertising the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar box set, which had previously
only been made available separately in the U.S. and, at the time Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
was released, was being made available for the first time in Europe. To promote the release of the UK box set, the
first pressing of the UK edition of this album contained a 4-song 7" EP with tracks from the box set.
It was issued on CD by EMI with The Man from Utopia on the same disc, and separately by Barking Pumpkin, and
later Rykodisc.
Reception
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
"Valley Girl" was one of Zappa's most successful singles.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "No Not Now" 5:50
2. "Valley Girl" 4:49
3. "I Come from Nowhere" 6:13
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Drowning Witch" 12:03
2. "Envelopes" 2:46
3. "Teen-Age Prostitute" 2:43
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – Lead Guitar, Vocals
• Steve Vai – Guitar (credited as "Impossible Guitar Parts")
• Ray White – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
• Bobby Martin – Keyboards, Sax, Vocals
• Ed Mann – Percussion
• Scott Thunes – Bass on "Drowning Witch", "Envelopes", "Teen-age Prostitute", and "Valley Girl"
• Arthur Barrow – Bass on "No Not Now" and the first part of "I Come From Nowhere"
• Patrick O'Hearn – Bass on the guitar solo in "I Come From Nowhere"
• Chad Wackerman – Drums
• Roy Estrada – Vocals
• Ike Willis – Vocals
• Bob Harris – Vocals
• Lisa Popeil – Vocals on "Teen-Age Prostitute"
• Moon Unit Zappa – Vocal on "Valley Girl"
Charts
Album
Billboard (United States)
Year Chart Position
1982 Pop Albums [3]

23
Singles
Song Chart Peak

position
"Valley Girl" Mainstream Rock [3]

12
Pop Singles [3]

32
References
[1] "Valley Girl: No Way Rocker's Daughter Talks Like the Record" (http:/ / news. google. com/ newspapers?id=DSYuAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=384FAAAAIBAJ& pg=2231,796390& dq=ship-arriving-too-late-to-save-a-drowning-witch+ review& hl=en). The Palm Beach Post. AP:
p. B12. September 2, 1982. .
[2] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ r22660/ review). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[3] "Charts and Awards for Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22660/ charts-awards).
External links
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/drowning_witch.html)
The Man from Utopia

The Man from Utopia
Recorded October 1980 - October 1982
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, comedy rock
Length 40:21
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning The Man from Baby
Witch Utopia Snakes
(1982) (1983) (1983)
Singles from The Man from Utopia
1. "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou"

Released: 1983
2. "Cocaine Decisions"
Released: 1983
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald
and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".[2]
Production
"The Dangerous Kitchen", "Mōggio" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" were all prepared for Zappa's unreleased
album Chalk Pie, which was scrapped after it had been bootlegged.
The sleeve art features the work of RanXerox artist Tanino Liberatore. It portrays Zappa on stage trying to kill
mosquitos. That is a reference of a concert held in Italy in 1982, the year before the release of the album, on the 7th
of July at Parco Redecesio (which is also referred in a street sign on the album cover) in Segrate, near Milan. While
Zappa was playing a huge number of mosquitos began flying on stage and gave the band a hard time. The back cover
shows the audience as seen from the stage. The album was the second of two to credit Steve Vai with "impossible
guitar parts" (the first being Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch).
Music and lyrics

The album's opening track "Cocaine Decisions", with its groove redolent of skiffle washboards, is an angry,
disgusted attack on drug-influenced businessmen and features an ironically cheerful harmonica. "The Dangerous
Kitchen" satirizes dirty, unkempt kitchens, specifically the one in the Zappa household at the time. "Stick Together"
is a deeply passionate attack on all unions in general, especially those controlled by organized crime. "The Radio Is
Broken" satirizes 1950's sci-fi B-movies. "SEX" is a blunt, crude song which unabashedly celebrates the title topic;
lyrics include "Maybe you could use a protein surprise" and "The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'". The
"Mary Lou/Man From Utopia" medley finds Zappa returning to his beloved doo-wop roots in a completely sincere
style; no satire included.
"Kitchen", "Radio", and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" all feature Zappa's "meltdown" style of generally
pre-written but sometimes improvised singing/speaking. For "Jazz" and "Kitchen", Zappa had guitarist Steve Vai
overdub complex guitar parts for the entire length of the songs, which perfectly copied Frank's every word and
syllable. Vai considers it to be one of his most difficult assignments as a musician; it required him to detune his
guitar at times to match Frank's varying pitches. This unique type of overdub was a one-time experiment that Zappa
never repeated. Peter Eötvös composer said in an interview:[3]
"Dangerous Kitchen", off the album "The Man From Utopia", grew to become a basic piece for me,
especially in later years, after I began working on operas. The technique that he uses in this particular
song is very interesting: it's this half-sung, half-spoken performing method that's not quite like
Sprechgesang, but what makes it so interesting is that he accompanies it with an instrumental solo. I
was very surprised to find out that the guitar part was recorded separately. As it seemed so
synchronous, I was convinced that Zappa had sung and played at the same time. Nevertheless the
technique itself, the idea of "the singing instrument" comes from "Dangerous Kitchen".
"Jazz" became semi-infamous in Zappa circles for its extremely scatological subject matter: certain substances found
in a woman's discarded underwear, and what certain band members did with those substances while at a hotel pool
late one night in Albuquerque, NM. The song was written to humorously explain to audiences the origin of why
certain band members occasionally wore underwear on their heads onstage.

The original album had instrumentals ending each side: the complex yet catchy "Mōggio", and the mellifluous "We
Are Not Alone," featuring Marty Krystall on overdubbed baritone saxophones. A third instrumental, "Tink Walks
Amok", gets its clever name from bass player Arthur Barrow's nickname (Tink), and a term (walking amok) for what
'out of control robots' do in old sci-fi films, hence its thematic sequencing next to "Radio". 'Walk' in the title has
additional significance because it musically refers to a style of bass playing, and since Barrow plays multiple and
highly unusual bass parts on the song, he is indeed "walking amok" at times.
Release history
The album was originally released on vinyl in 1983. An unauthorized CD of this edition (with the exception of a
remixed "Moggio") was issued by EMI in the UK in 1986. The album was issued (in remixed and resequenced form)
on CD in 1993 by Barking Pumpkin. The later 1995 Rykodisc edition is identical.
Track listing
All songs were written by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Original release
Side one
1. "Cocaine Decisions" – 2:56
2. "The Dangerous Kitchen" – 2:51
3. "Tink Walks Amok" – 3:40
4. "The Radio is Broken" – 5:52
5. "Mōggio" – 3:05
Side two
1. "The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou" (Donald and Doris Woods, Obie Jessie) – 3:19
2. "Stick Together" – 3:50
3. "SEX" – 3:00
4. "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" – 4:30
5. "We Are Not Alone" – 3:31
Re-release
2. "SEX" – 3:44
3. "Tink Walks Amok" – 3:39
4. "The Radio is Broken" – 5:51
5. "We Are Not Alone" – 3:18
7. "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou" – 3:22
8. "Stick Together" – 3:14
9. "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" – 4:29
10. "Luigi & the Wise Guys" (bonus track) – 3:25
11. "Mōggio" – 2:35
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, drum machine, ARP 2600
• Steve Vai – guitar, acoustic guitar
• Ray White – guitar, vocals
• Roy Estrada – vocals
• Bob Harris – boy soprano
• Ike Willis – vocals
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals
• Tommy Mars – keyboards
• Arthur Barrow – keyboards, bass, micro bass, rhythm guitar
• Scott Thunes – bass
• Chad Wackerman – drums
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Craig Twister Steward – harmonica
• Dick Fegy – mandolin
• Marty Krystall – saxophone
Charts
Year Chart Position
1983 Pop Albums [4]

153
References
[1] Allmusic review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22604/ review)
[2] (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ The_Man_From_Utopia. html#Utopia)
[3] We share the same background (http:/ / www. zappa. hu/ ?q=en/ eotvosonzappa) - Peter Eötvös remembers Frank Zappa (zappa.hu)
[4] "Charts and Awards for The Man from Utopia" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22604/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2008-08-22.
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Them or Us
Them or Us
Recorded November 1981 - June 1984 (except "Planet Of My Dreams": 1974)
Length 70:45
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Them or Thing-Fish

Stranger Us (1984)
(1984) (1984)
Singles from Them or Us
1. "Baby Take Your Teeth Out"

Released: 1984
2. "In France"
Released: 1984
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Them or Us is an album by Frank Zappa, released in October 1984. Its opening and closing tracks are covers: "The
Closer You Are", which was written by Earl Lewis and Morgan Robinson and originally released by The Channels;
and "Whippin' Post", originally recorded by The Allman Brothers Band.
Release
Following distribution problems with Zappa's album Thing-Fish, which former Barking Pumpkin distributor MCA
Records refused to distribute,[1][2] Zappa made a deal with EMI Records, which would allow Them Or Us and
Thing-Fish to be distributed by Capitol Records in the United States.[1][2] Zappa wrote a "warning" which appeared
on the inner sleeves of these albums, as well as Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, which stated that the
albums contained content "which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress", and a "guarantee" which
stated that the lyrics would not "cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick
conducts his business."[1][2]
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Track listing
Side one
1. "The Closer You Are" (Earl Lewis, Morgan "Bobby" Robinson) – 2:55
2. "In France" – 3:30
3. "Ya Hozna" – 6:26
4. "Sharleena" – 4:33
NOTE: "Ya Hozna" is actually a forward basic track with vocal taken from "Sofa No. 2" (from "One Size Fits All",
1975), "Lonely Little Girl" (from "We're Only In It For The Money", 1968) and unreleased outtakes of "Valley Girl"
(vocals by Moon Zappa) played backwards.
Side two
1. "Sinister Footwear II" – 8:39
2. "Truck Driver Divorce" – 8:59
Side three
1. "Stevie's Spanking" – 5:23
2. "Baby, Take Your Teeth Out" – 1:54
3. "Marqueson's Chicken" – 7:33
4. "Planet of My Dreams" – 1:37
Side four
1. "Be in My Video" – 3:39
2. "Them or Us" – 5:23
3. "Frogs with Dirty Little Lips" (Frank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa) – 2:42
4. "Whippin' Post" (Gregg Allman) – 7:32
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards, vocals, arranger, producer, main performer, assistant
• Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals, soloist
• Patrick O'Hearn – wind, bass guitar
• Scott Thunes – vocals, Minimoog, synthesizer, bass guitar
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals, guitar
• Ray White – guitar, vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
• Moon Unit Zappa – vocals
• Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals
• Ike Willis – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals, harmony vocals, harmony
• Brad Cole – piano
• Roy Estrada – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony, bass guitar
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• Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals, harmony vocals

• Thana Harris – vocals, harmony
• Steve Vai – guitar, soloist, fills
• Dweezil Zappa – soloist, guitar
• George Duke – keyboards, vocals, piano
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals, falssetist, harmony vocals, harmonica
Production staff
• John Matousek – mastering
• Gabrielle Raumberger – artwork, graphic design
• Steve Schapiro – photography
• Bob Stone – engineer
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Them or Us - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53171/ review). allmusic.com.
External links
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/them-or-us.html)
Thing-Fish
Thing-Fish
Recorded 1976, 1980-1983
Genre Rock, Opera
Length 90:58
Them or Thing-Fish Francesco

Us (1984) Zappa
(1984) (1984)
Thing-Fish is an album by Frank Zappa, originally released as a triple album box set on Barking Pumpkin Records
in 1984. It was billed as a cast recording for a proposed musical of the same name, which was ultimately not
produced by Zappa, but later performed in 2003, ten years after his death.
The album's storyline is inspired by Broadway theatre, AIDS, eugenics, conspiracy theories, feminism,
homosexuality and African American culture. It involves an evil, racist prince/theater critic who creates a disease
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intended to eradicate African Americans and homosexuals. The disease is tested on prisoners who are turned into
"Mammy Nuns" led by the story's narrator, Thing-Fish. The story within a story is a satire of a White Anglo-Saxon
Protestant couple, Harry and Rhonda, who attend a play performed by the "Mammy Nuns", and find themselves
confronted with their pasts: Harry presented as a homosexual boy, Rhonda presented as a sex doll brought to life.
The story was constructed during the recording sessions, which included producing new overdubs for recordings
which previously appeared on Zappa's albums Zoot Allures, Tinseltown Rebellion, You Are What You Is and Ship
Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch. The release of the album was delayed when Barking Pumpkin
Records' previous distributor, MCA, refused to distribute the album. It was instead released by Capitol Records in
the United States, accompanied by a "Warning/Guarantee" written by Zappa himself. Thing-Fish was initially
received poorly by critics, who criticized the use of previously recorded material, but has since been reappraised for
its highly satirical content.
Background
Before leaving for London to record with the London Symphony Orchestra, Frank Zappa was home during
Christmas season in 1982, and kept busy by writing, producing treatments for three films and a Broadway musical
called Thing-Fish.[1] Between 1981 and 1982, Broadway theatre had shifted from conservative musicals to
experimental plays that were viewed as either being pretentious or vulgar.[2] Thing-Fish satirized statements made by
theater critics at the time, as well as arguing against the "dumbing down" of American culture.[2] Previously, Zappa
unsuccessfully attempted to stage two musicals on Broadway, Hunchentoot, which formed the basis for the compact
disc reissue of Sleep Dirt, and a musical adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.[2] Thing-Fish also drew
conceptual themes from AIDS, feminism, gay chic, conspiracy theories and issues of class, greed and race.[2]
The script was developed by recording songs beforehand; much of the songs in the play were previously recorded for
other albums, including Zoot Allures, Tinseltown Rebellion, You Are What You Is and Ship Arriving Too Late To
Save A Drowning Witch.[3] New vocals were combined with previously released tracks and new Synclavier music. In
addition to the new songs, the previously recorded songs include new overdubs moving this storyline forward.[4] As
the recording process continued, Zappa brought in revised scripts and improved the work by editing or changing
aspects he was unsatisfied with.[3]
Zappa attempted to produce Thing-Fish as a Broadway production.[1] In promotion of the planned musical, a photo
sequence based upon the "Briefcase Boogie" scene was shot for the pornographic magazine Hustler, accompanied by
plot excerpts from the scene.[5] The sequence was 28 pages long.[6] While the album was released, Zappa was unable
to raise the $5 million budget in order to produce the play, and shelved the project.[1] Subsequently, Thing-Fish
dialogue appeared on the album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, during the piece "Porn Wars".[7] The
album was adapted for a limited stage production that took place in England in 2003. Many elaborate details were
changed due to the small scale of the production.[8]
Style and influences
Lyrics and story themes

"The simple thought behind Thing-Fish is that somebody manufactured a disease called AIDS and they tested it. They were
developing it as a weapon and they tested it on convicts, the same way as they used to do experiments on black inmates, using
syphilis. That's documented. They used to do these experiments with syphilis on black inmates in US prisons. That's fact. So we take
it one step further and they're concoting the special disease which is genetically specific to get rid of 'all highly rhythmic individuals
[3]
and sissy boys.' So I postulate that they do this test in a prison and part of the test backfires and these mutants are created."
- Frank Zappa
The Thing-Fish characterization was performed by Ike Willis, who helped shaped the dialogue himself using African
American Vernacular English.[3] According to Willis, "in my family, we sort of joke around with dialects, and what
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it sounded like to me was [the poet] Paul Laurence Dunbar. [...] I asked Frank if he had ever heard of this guy, and
he said, 'No,' so I started giving him examples of Dunbar's work, and eventually, that ended up being a big influence
on the Thing-Fish dialect."[3]
Minstrel shows served as a source of satire within the storyline.[4] The Thing-Fish characterization is also seen as
satirizing Amos 'n' Andy, a successful radio series and controversial television series which drew protests from the
NAACP, who perceived the dialect spoken by the main characters and supporting character Kingfish as being
portrayed as being "too dumb to speak English."[2] Additionally, Zappa satirized the Mammy archetype; the
AIDS-like disease in the storyline turns prisoners into "Mammy Nuns" which are round and dress like Aunt
Jemima.[2] The Mammy archetype derives from the fictional character Mammy, as portrayed by Hattie McDaniel in
the film Gone With The Wind.[2]
Thing-Fish is delivered as a story within a story, focusing on a spoiled White Anglo-Saxon Protestant couple, Harry
and Rhonda, who attend a play that initially begins as being about and starring the Mammy Nuns. The story
ultimately ends up following these characters through a series of ideological fads.[2] It is revealed that Harry had
become a homosexual as a result of the women's liberation movement, which caused him to lose all sexual desire for
women; the younger versions of the characters are portrayed in the characters "Harry-As-A-Boy" and "Artificial
Rhonda", with the young Rhonda being portrayed as a rubber sex doll, while her older counterpart becomes
increasingly fascistic and feminist towards the end of the story.[2]
Music and performance

The prologue is delivered as a spoken monologue over an instrumental
piece with a heavy rock guitar riff.[9] It is followed by the song "The
Mammy Nuns", which originated as a hard rock instrumental, which
appears in a live recording as "The Mammy Anthem" on You Can't Do
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, and opened performances in June and
July 1982.[4] "Galoot Up-Date" is an altered version of the recording
"The Blue Light", which appeared on Zappa's album Tinseltown
Rebellion.[10] As Harry and Rhonda express admiration for the
"performance" of the Evil Prince, an early version of Zappa's
The concept of Thing-Fish satirized minstrel
Synclavier composition "Amnerika" is heard.[11] "Clowns on Velvet"
shows. "Mammy Nuns" resemble blackface
performers. was performed live as a "spirited, playful instrumental".[4] A recording
of the instrumental version featuring guitarist Al DiMeola was planned
for release on the album Tinseltown Rebellion, but DiMeola refused its release.[4]
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, appearing as the character Brown Moses, delivered running commentary in the song "He's
So Gay",[12] and sung the song "Brown Moses", which was influenced by soul and gospel music.[13] The play's first
act is concluded with "Artificial Rhonda", a rewrite of the song "Ms. Pinky", which appeared on Zoot Allures.[14]
The next track begins with early Synclavier music by Zappa, and the computerized voice of "The Crab-Grass
Baby",[15] followed by the Mammy Nuns singing "The White Boy Troubles".[16] The Evil Prince, defeated at his
own hands, delivers a soliloquy in the form of a Broadway piano ballad, "Wistful Wit a Fist-Full".[17]
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Release
The Thing-Fish album was identified as an "original cast recording". Barking Pumpkin Records prepared to release
the album with distribution by MCA Records.[1][18] MCA produced a test pressing of the triple LP set, but withdrew
their distribution after a woman in their quality control department became offended and upset by the album's
content.[1][18]
A deal was quickly made with EMI Records, which would allow Them Or Us and Thing-Fish to be distributed by
Capitol Records in the United States.[1][18] Zappa wrote a "warning" which appeared on the inner sleeves of these
albums, as well as Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, which stated that the albums contained content
"which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress", and a "guarantee" which stated that the lyrics would not
"cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business."[1][18]
Thing-Fish was later reissued as a double compact disc by Rykodisc.[4]
Reception
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [4]
Thing-Fish was poorly received by critics upon initial release; a common thread of criticism was that many of the
songs on this album derived from previously released recordings, and some detractors considered it to be nothing
more than a compilation album.[4] Barry Miles found it to be one of his "least substantive" works.[1]
Concurrently, the album has been reappraised, described by Kevin Courrier in Dangerous kitchen: the subversive
world of Zappa as "a compendium of Zappa's most explicit attacks on political and sexual hypocrisy in American
culture collected together in one huge volley."[19] In Frank Zappa and musical theatre: ugly ugly o'phan Annie and
really deep, intense, thought-provoking Broadway symbolism, Thing-Fish is described as "an extraordinary example
of bricolage".[20] As reviewed by François Couture for the website Allmusic, Couture described Thing-Fish as
Zappa's "most controversial, misunderstood, overlooked album", stating that it was not a masterpiece, but "more than
rehashed material".[4]
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Prologue" 2:56
2. "The Mammy Nuns" 3:50
3. "Harry & Rhonda" 3:36
4. "Galoot Up-Date" 5:29
Total length: 15:51

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Side two
No. Title Length
1. "The 'Torchum' Never Stops" 10:32
2. "That Evil Prince" 1:17
3. "You Are What You Is" 4:31
Total length: 16:20
Side three
No. Title Length
1. "Mudd Club" 3:17
2. "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" 3:14
3. "Clowns On Velvet" 1:38
4. "Harry-As-A-Boy" 2:51
5. "He's So Gay" 2:48
Total length: 13:48
Side four
No. Title Length
1. "The Massive Improve'lence" 5:07
2. "Artificial Rhonda" 3:30
3. "The Crab-Grass Baby" 3:48
4. "The White Boy Troubles" 3:35
Total length: 16:00
Side five
No. Title Length
1. "No Not Now" 5:50
2. "Briefcase Boogie" 4:10
3. "Brown Moses" 3:02
Total length: 13:02

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Side six
No. Title Length
1. "Wistful Wit a Fist-Full" 3:53
2. "Drop Dead" 7:56
3. "Won Ton On" 4:20
Total length: 16:09
Personnel
The libretto which accompanied the album only credits "cast members".
Cast
• Ike Willis — Thing-Fish
• Terry Bozzio — Harry
• Dale Bozzio — Rhonda
• Napoleon Murphy Brock — The Evil Prince
• Bob Harris — Harry-As-A-Boy
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson — Brown Moses
• Ray White — Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon
References
[1] Zappa: A Biography - Barry Miles - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC& pg=PA317)
[2] The Words and Music of Frank Zappa - Kelly Fisher Lowe - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC&
pg=PA188)
[3] Electric Don Quixote: the definitive story of Frank Zappa - Niel Slaven - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=0lyCSdW78-sC& pg=PA338)
[4] The Mammy Nuns | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ the-mammy-nuns-t6016415)
[5] Rock: the rough guide - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC& pg=PA2244)
[6] Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine - Allan MacDonell - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=3QJsiE8qZQkC& pg=PA79)
[7] SPIN - Google Boeken (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=O8JuDPDsl1gC& pg=PA11)
[8] Thing-Fish – The Return of Frank Zappa (http:/ / www. britishtheatreguide. info/ otherresources/ interviews/ Thing-Fish. htm), The British
Theatre Guide, . Retrieved on December 11, 2007.
[9] Prologue | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ prologue-t6016414)
[10] Galoot Up-Date | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ galoot-up-date-t6016417)
[11] That Evil Prince | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ that-evil-prince-t6016419)
[12] He's So Gay | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ hes-so-gay-t6016425)
[13] Brown Moses | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ brown-moses-t6016432)
[14] Artificial Rhonda | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ artificial-rhonda-t6016427)
[15] The Crab-Grass Baby | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ the-crab-grass-baby-t6016428)
[16] The White Boy Troubles | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ the-white-boy-troubles-t6016429)
[17] Wistful Wit a Fist-Full | AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ wistful-wit-a-fist-full-t6016433)
[18] Zappa, Frank with Occhiogrosso, Peter (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press. pp. 278–279.
ISBN 0-671-63870-X.
[19] Dangerous kitchen: the subversive world of Zappa - Kevin Courrier - Google Books (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=QjkUAQAAIAAJ& q=thing-fish+ zappa& dq=thing-fish+ zappa& hl=en& sa=X& ei=zBNAT8-DEcmw2QWx4rmkCA&
ved=0CFMQ6AEwBTgU)
[20] Carr, Paul; Hand, Richard J. (2007), "Frank Zappa and musical theatre: ugly ugly o'phan Annie and really deep, intense, thought-provoking
Broadway symbolism" (http:/ / www. atypon-link. com/ INT/ doi/ abs/ 10. 1386/ smt. 1. 1. 41_1?cookieSet=1& journalCode=smt), Studies in
Musical Theatre 1 (1): 44–51., doi:10.1386/smt.1.1.41/1, Full article available by free login only. Retrieved on July 28, 2008.
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention

Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
Released November 21, 1985

May 16, 1995 (reissue)
Recorded November 1981–September 1985
Genre Computer music, Experimental rock
Length 43:46 (reissue)
The Old Masters Box Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Does Humor Belong in
I Prevention Music?
(1985) (1985) (1986)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention is a 1985 album by Frank Zappa. It was originally released in two
slightly different versions in the US and Europe. The two versions were later combined and reissued on a compact
disc: first in the US on Rykodisc in 1986 (although this version omitted the track "H.R. 2911"), then on the European
"Zappa Records" disc released in 1990, and finally on the Rykodisc reissue in 1995.
The album's title is a reference to the lobby group, the PMRC, who were campaigning to require record companies to
put warning stickers on albums they considered offensive, and to Zappa's former band, The Mothers of Invention.
The original US version of the album contains the track, "Porn Wars" — a sound collage featuring excerpts from
PMRC hearings. This track was omitted from non-US versions, and replaced with three other pieces: "I Don't Even
Care", co-written by Zappa and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and two instrumental tracks — "One Man, One Vote" (a
Synclavier composition) and "H.R. 2911", which collates some of the backing music from "Porn Wars", without the
PMRC hearing excerpts and other dialogue.
Release
Following distribution problems with Zappa's album Thing-Fish, which former Barking Pumpkin distributor MCA
Records refused to distribute,[2] Zappa made a deal with EMI Records, which would allow Them Or Us and
Thing-Fish to be distributed by Capitol Records in the United States.[2] Zappa wrote a "warning" which appeared on
the inner sleeves of these albums, as well as Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, which stated that the
albums contained content "which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress", and a "guarantee" which
stated that the lyrics would not "cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick
conducts his business."[2]
Track listing
US version
Side one
1. "We're Turning Again" – 4:55
2. "Alien Orifice" – 4:03
3. "Yo Cats" (Zappa, Tommy Mars) – 3:31
4. "What's New in Baltimore?" – 5.21
Side two
1. "Little Beige Sambo" – 3:02
2. "Porn Wars" – 12:04
3. "Aerobics in Bondage"– 3:16
European version
Side one
1. "We're Turning Again" – 4.55
2. "Alien Orifice" – 4.03
3. "Yo Cats" (Zappa, Mars) – 3.31
4. "What's New in Baltimore?" – 5.21
Side two
1. "I Don't Even Care" (Zappa, Watson) – 4:39
2. "One Man, One Vote" – 2:35
3. "H.R. 2911" – 3:35
5. "Aerobics in Bondage" – 3:16
European CD
The first European CD issue, released in 1986, contained the European version of the album coupled with Jazz From
Hell on a two-for-the-price-of-one CD. The 1990 CD reissue (without Jazz From Hell) was the first to compile all of
the tracks on one disc. That CD had this track listing:
1. "Porn Wars"
2. "We're Turning Again"
3. "Alien Orifice"
4. "Aerobics in Bondage"
• The song is shortened on this European release; 47 seconds of Johnny "Guitar" Watson adlibs are missing.
6. "Little Beige Sambo"
7. "What's New in Baltimore?"
8. "One Man, One Vote"
9. "H.R. 2911"
10. "Yo Cats" (Zappa, Mars)
1986 US CD/1995 CD reissue

2. "One Man, One Vote" – 2:35
4. "Aerobics in Bondage" – 3:16
7. "Yo Cats" (Zappa, Mars) – 3:33
8. "What's New in Baltimore?" – 5:20
9. "Porn Wars" – 12:05
10. "H.R. 2911" – 3:35 (1995 CD only)
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, synclavier, producer
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals, guitar on "I Don't Even Care"
• Ike Willis – vocals, guitar
• Ray White – vocals, guitar
• Bobby Martin – vocals, keyboards
• Steve Vai – guitar
• Scott Thunes – bass
• Moon Zappa – vocals
• Dweezil Zappa – vocals
• John Danforth – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• Ernest Hollings – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• Paul S. Trible, Jr. – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• Paula Hawkins – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• J. James Exon – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• Al Gore – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
• Tipper Gore – voice excerpts on "Porn Wars"
Charts
Year Chart Position
1986 Billboard 200 153[3]
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
[3] "Charts and Awards for The Man from Utopia" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22616/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2008-08-22.
External links
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/m-o-p.html)
Jazz from Hell

Jazz from Hell
Recorded 1985–1986 at UMRK (except "St. Etienne", 1982 at Palais des Sports, St. Etienne, France)
Genre Computer music, jazz fusion
Length 34:26
The Old Masters Box Jazz from London Symphony Orchestra, Vol.
II Hell II
(1986) (1986) (1987)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

(favorable)
Jazz from Hell is a Grammy Award–winning instrumental album from Frank Zappa. It was released in 1986 by
Barking Pumpkin Records (vinyl) and by Rykodisc (CD).
Album information
All compositions were executed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS with the exception of "St. Etienne", a guitar
solo excerpted from a live performance of "Drowning Witch" from a concert in Saint-Étienne, France on Zappa's
1982 tour.
"While You Were Art II" is a Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's improvised guitar solo on
the track "While You Were Out" from the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar album. The unreleased original Synclavier
performance was done using only the unit's FM synthesis, while the recording found here was Zappa's "deluxe"
arrangement featuring newer samples and timbres.
In the initial Europe CD release, the album was featured as the second album on a "two for the price of one
compilation," with nine tracks from Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention on the same disc.
Zappa won a 1988 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for this album.
"Night School" was possibly named for a late-night show that Zappa pitched to ABC; the network did not pick it up.
A music video was made for the song.
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"G-Spot Tornado," assumed by Zappa to be impossible to play by humans, would be performed by Ensemble
Modern on the concert recording The Yellow Shark.
Although this is an instrumental album, there is an unconfirmed report that the Fred Meyer chain of stores sold Jazz
from Hell in their Music Market department featuring an RIAA Parental Advisory sticker. This could have been the
result of Zappa's feud with the PMRC, an objection to the use of the word "hell" in the album title, or in reference to
the track "G-Spot Tornado", describing the sexual area in human anatomy commonly known as the G-Spot.[3]
Track listing
All compositions written and arranged by Frank Zappa.
Side one
1. "Night School" – 4:47
2. "The Beltway Bandits" – 3:25
3. "While You Were Art II" – 7:17
4. "Jazz from Hell" – 2:58
Side two
• "G-Spot Tornado" – 3:17

2. "Damp Ankles" – 3:45
3. "St. Etienne" – 6:26
4. "Massaggio Galore" – 2:31
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – lead guitar, synclavier, keyboards, production
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone
• Scott Thunes – bass guitar, keyboards
• Steve Vai – rhythm guitar
• Ray White – rhythm guitar
Technical personnel
• Greg Gorman – cover photo
• Bob Rice – computer assistant
• Bob Stone – engineering
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References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Jazz from Hell - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53181). allmusic.com. .
[2] Fricke, D. (2011 [last update]). "Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/
20090525130533/ http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/ 209018/ review/ 5943103/ jazz_from_hell).
[3] Nuzum, Eric. "Censorship Incidents: 1980s" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20070621101157/ http:/ / ericnuzum. com/ banned/ incidents/
80s. html). Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America. Archived from the original (http:/ / ericnuzum. com/ banned/ incidents/ 80s.
html) on 2007-06-21. . Retrieved 2010-10-02.
Civilization Phaze III

Civilization Phaze III
Recorded 1967, 1991 and 1992 at Apostolic Studio, NYC (1967), UMRK and "Joe's Garage", Hollywood (1991/1992)
Genre 20th century classical music
Length 113:40
The Yellow Civilization Phaze The Lost

Shark III Episodes
(199e) (1994) (1996)
Civilization Phaze III is the sixty-third album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously as a double album on October
31, 1994.
The album marks the third part of a conceptual continuity that started with We're Only in It for the Money (1968),
with the second part being a reedited version of Zappa's 1967 album Lumpy Gravy. The storyline of Civilization
Phaze III involves a group of people living inside a piano, and the menacing reality of the outside world. The
album's themes include personal isolation and nationalism.
Much of the album's improvised dialogue was originally recorded as part of sessions which produced We're Only in
It for the Money and Uncle Meat, which contained some dialogue by the same speakers, and some of the dialogue on
this album previously appeared on the reedited version of Lumpy Gravy released in 1968. New dialogue was
recorded by Zappa in 1993, and includes similarly improvised dialogue by members of the Ensemble Modern
orchestra, Zappa's daughter Moon Unit and actor Michael Rapaport.
Civilization Phaze III has been acclaimed as one of Zappa's best works, and has been appraised for its challenging,
complex music, largely composed on, and performed by Synclavier.
Background
In 1967, while recording We're Only in It for the Money with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa discovered that
the strings of Apostolic Studios' grand piano would resonate if a person spoke near those strings. The "piano people"
experiment involved Zappa having various speakers improvise dialogue using topics offered by Zappa. Various
people contributed to these sessions, including Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Tim Buckley.[1] The "piano people"
voices primarily consisted of Mothers of Invention bandmembers Motorhead Sherwood and Roy Estrada, Spider
Barbour (leader of the rock band Chrysalis), All-Night John (the manager of the studio) and Louis Cuneo, who was
noted for his laugh, which sounded like a "psychotic turkey".[2]
In 1992, Zappa recorded The Yellow Shark with the Ensemble Modern orchestra, and sampled their instrumentation
with his Synclavier. After revisiting his archives, he decided to create an album which would combine the 1967
"piano people" dialogue, Synclavier music, performances by the Ensemble Modern, and newly recorded
dialogue.[3][4] The project began under the title Lumpy Gravy, Phase 3 (with phase one being We're Only in It for the
Money and phase two being the 1968 version of Lumpy Gravy), but was later changed to Civilization Phaze III.[5]
Zappa recorded new dialogue segments to accompany the original "piano people" recordings. The new dialogue
speakers included members of the Ensemble Modern,[6] Moon Zappa,[7] Dweezil Zappa[8] and actor Michael
Rapaport.[7]
Concept and music

The album's storyline was conceived via improvised dialogue involving a series of randomly chosen words, phrases
and concepts, which included motors, pigs, ponies, dark water, nationalism, smoke, music, beer and personal
isolation.[9] The music was conceived as an opera pantomime,[10] and is dark and ominious.[11] The Ensemble
Modern samples allowed the Synclavier to produce richer-sounding music than Zappa's previous works using the
machine, which produced the cruder-sounding music on albums such as Jazz From Hell.[10]
Release
Frank Zappa died after the album's completion.[12] It was released posthumously by Barking Pumpkin Records on
October 31, 1994, solely as a mail order album, with no advertising or promotion; the album subsequently received a
strong number of orders from Zappa's fanbase.[11][13] Rykodisc was given the option of distributing the album
nationally,[11] but the label ultimately did not distribute the album.
Reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [10]
Rolling Stone [14]
The album was well received as one of Zappa's best works. Allmusic reviewer François Couture wrote, "It belongs to
his corpus of 'serious music.' [...] The original artwork and packaging are stunning and luxurious, a match for the
music, some of the most compelling Zappa wrote outside of the rock realm."[10] However, some critics felt that the
"piano people" narrative did not hold up for a double album.[4]
Track listing
Act I
No. Title Length
1. "This Is Phaze III" 0:47
2. "Put a Motor in Yourself" 5:13
3. "Oh-Umm" 0:50
4. "They Made Me Eat It" 1:48
5. "Reagan at Bitburg" 5:39
6. "A Very Nice Body" 1:00
7. "Navanax" 1:40
8. "How the Pigs' Music Works" 1:49
9. "Xmas Values" 5:31
10. "Dark Water!" 0:23
11. "Amnerika" 3:03
12. "Have You Heard Their Band?" 0:38
13. "Religious Superstition" 0:43
14. "Saliva Can Only Take So Much" 0:27
15. "Buffalo Voice" 5:12
16. "Someplace Else Right Now" 0:32
17. "Get a Life" 2:20
18. "A Kayak (On Snow)" 0:28
19. "N-Lite" 18:00
Total length: 56:03
Act II
No. Title Length
1. "I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back" 0:14
2. "Secular Humanism" 2:41
3. "Attack! Attack! Attack!" 1:24
4. "I Was in a Drum" 3:38
5. "A Different Octave" 0:57
6. "This Ain't CNN" 3:20
7. "The Pigs' Music" 1:17
8. "A Pig with Wings" 2:52
9. "This Is All Wrong" 1:42
10. "Hot & Putrid" 0:29
11. "Flowing Inside-Out" 0:46
12. "I Had a Dream About That" 0:27

13. "Gross Man" 2:54
14. "A Tunnel into Muck" 0:21
15. "Why Not?" 2:18
16. "Put a Little Motor in 'Em" 0:50
17. "You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You!" 2:13
18. "Cold Light Generation" 0:44
19. "Dio Fa"[15]" 8:18
20. "That Would Be the End of That" 0:35
21. "Beat the Reaper" 15:23
22. "Waffenspiel" 4:05
Total length: 57:37
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – producer, compiler, editor, composer, performer, conductor, liner notes
• Ensemble Modern – orchestra
• Dick Kunc – engineer (1967)
• David Dondorf – engineer (1991)
• Todd Yvega – engineer (1991)
• Spencer Chrislu – engineer (1991)
• Uri Balashov – cover design
• Command A Studios – art direction
1967 voices
• Spider Barbour
• All-Night John
• Frank Zappa
• Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood
• Roy Estrada
• Louis "The Turkey" Cuneo
• Monica
• Gilly Townley
• Unknown Girl #1
• Unknown Girl #2
1991 voices
• Moon Unit Zappa
• Michael Rapaport
• Ali N. Askin
• Catherine Milliken
• Walt Fowler
• Todd Yvega
• Michael Svoboda
• Michael Gross
• William Formann
• Uwe Dierksen
• Stefan Dohr
• Daryl Smith
• Franck Ollu
• Hermann Kretzschmar
• Dweezil Zappa
Note and references

Note
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA59
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=0lyCSdW78-sC& pg=PA84
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=sgDJKVXraE0C& pg=PA597
[4] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=ayT5T59ckzIC& pg=PA1067
[6] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=lohHVBYiML4C& pg=PA176
[7] Zappa, Frank (1994). "General notes". Civilization Phaze III (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Barking Pumpkin Records.
[8] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=CzWE_J3ZZfoC& pg=PA375
[9] Zappa, Frank (1994). "Scenario". Civilization Phaze III (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Barking Pumpkin Records.
[11] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=vgsEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA93
[12] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=o2w6AQAAIAAJ& q=civilization+ phaze+ iii& dq=civilization+ phaze+ iii& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=DlJJT7D9GI6DsALAhfDqCA& ved=0CEYQ6AEwBDgU
[13] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=pCYIAQAAMAAJ& q=civilization+ phaze+ iii& dq=civilization+ phaze+ iii& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=xk5JT770BqSHsALr9onrCA& ved=0CGEQ6AEwCA
[14] Rolling Stone review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ albumreviews/ civilization-phaze-iii-19950824)
[15] An Italian slang profanity, meaning "God damn"
References
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Live albums
Fillmore East – June 1971

Fillmore East – June 1971
Live album by The Mothers
Recorded Fillmore East, New York City,

June 5–6, 1971
Genre Comedy rock, jazz fusion, hard rock, progressive rock
Length 43:11
Chunga's Fillmore East – June 200

Revenge 1971 Motels
(1970) (1971) (1971)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

C−
Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1971. It was the twelfth album by Frank
Zappa. It was produced by Frank Zappa, and mixed by Toby Foster.
History
Fillmore East - June 1971 was a live concept-like album. It was a peek-behind-the-curtain of the life of a rock band
on the road as narrated by Frank Zappa, and contains many thematic elements that, because of time and budget
constraints, couldn't be included in the similar movie 200 Motels. The most famous part of the album is "The Mud
Shark", a telling of a story told to Mother Don Preston by some members of Vanilla Fudge about a hotel, Seattle's
Edgewater Inn, where guests could fish from their rooms. In the tale, a mud shark is caught by one of the members
of Vanilla Fudge or its crew and, when combined with a groupie and a movie camera, depravity ensues. Although
not stated in "The Mud Shark," this 1969 incident, now referred to as "the Shark episode," also involved Led
Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham and road manager Richard Cole, with Vanilla Fudge's singer/keyboardist Mark
Stein operating the movie camera.
Frank and the Mothers then portray stereotypically egotistical members of a rock band "negotiating" with a groupie
and her girlfriends for a quick "roll in the hay." The girls are insulted that the band thinks they are groupies and that
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they would sleep with the band just because they are musicians. They have standards; they will only have sex with a
guy in a group with a "big, hit single in the charts – with a bullet!" and a "dick that’s a monster." In "Bwana Dik",
singer Howard Kaylan assures the girls that he is endowed beyond their "wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies." And,
not to be put off by the standards of these groupies, the band sings the girls the Turtles (of which Kaylan, Volman,
and Pons had been members) hit "Happy Together", to give them their "bullet". The album ends with an encore
excerpt including both Zappa's familiar "Peaches en Regalia" and what was possibly his most successful early-rock
and roll pastiche, "Tears Began to Fall" (also issued as a single).
When this album was reissued on compact disc by Rykodisc, "Willie the Pimp, Pt. 2" was omitted from the track
line-up. It was finally released on CD on the 2012 reissue of the album.[3] Also, in the CD edition, the last minute of
"Latex Solar Beef" was placed at the beginning of "Willie The Pimp Part One", making it longer. It is unclear if this
was intentional or not.[4]
As an encore on one of the two nights of this Fillmore East appearance John Lennon and Yoko Ono emerged from
the wings to play a half hour set with the band. This part of the show was released under Lennon's name on a disc
called "Live Jam", which was included as a bonus disc with Lennon's album "Some Time in New York City".
Lennon used a copy of the cover of the Zappa album (adding his own red-inked credits to the album's black-ink
handwritten ones) to provide liner notes for Live Jam.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East, June 5, 1971,

during recording of the album
Side one
1. "Little House I Used to Live In" 4:58
2. "The Mud Shark" 5:16
3. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" 4:51
4. "Bwana Dik" 2:27
5. "Latex Solar Beef" 4:22
6. "Willie the Pimp, Part One" 2:50
Side two
7. "Willie the Pimp, Part Two" 1:54
8. "Do You Like My New Car?" 7:08
9. "Happy Together" Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon 2:57
10. "Lonesome Electric Turkey (encore excerpt featuring Don Preston on Minimoog)" 2:34
12. "Tears Began to Fall" 2:46
Compact Disc
1. "Little House I Used to Live In" 4:41
2. "The Mud Shark" 5:22
3. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" 4:17
4. "Bwana Dik" 2:21
5. "Latex Solar Beef" 2:38
6. "Willie the Pimp, Part One" 4:03
7. "Do You Like My New Car?" 7:08
8. "Happy Together" Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon 2:57
9. "Lonesome Electric Turkey" 2:57
11. "Tears Began to Fall" 2:45

Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, dialogue, vocals
• Ian Underwood – woodwinds, keyboards, vocals
• Howard Kaylan – lead vocals, dialogue
• Jim Pons – bass, vocals, dialogue
• Bob Harris - keyboards, vocals
• Mark Volman – lead vocals, dialogue
• Don Preston – Mini-Moog
Production
• Engineer: Barry Keene
• Mixing: Toby Foster
• Mastering: Toby Foster
• Digital remastering: Bob Stone
• Repackaging: Ferenc Dobronyi
Charts
Year Chart Position
1971 Pop Albums 38
References
[1] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Fillmore East: June 1971 - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
r78690). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 12 July 2011.
[3] [http://theseconddisc.com/2012/07/30/would-you-go-all-the-way-zappa-reissues-arrive-and-details-emerge-next-batch-announced/
[4] Release details (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ vinylvscds/ fillmore. html)
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Fillmore_East_June_1971.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/fillmore.html)
Just Another Band from L.A.

Just Another Band from L.A.
Live album by The Mothers
Recorded August 7, 1971
Genre Comedy rock, hard rock
Length 45:18
200 Just Another Band from Waka/Jawaka

Motels L.A. (1972)
(1971) (1972)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

(C)
Piero Scaruffi [3]

(6/10)
Just Another Band from L.A. is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music). It was recorded
live on August 7, 1971 in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. A notable inclusion on this
album is Billy the Mountain, Zappa's long, narrative parody of rock operas, which were gaining popularity at that
time. Often overlooked by reviewers, this album marks an important period in the band's career due to the extensive
use of the Turtles band, soon to be dissolved with Zappa's stage fall. The song "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" refers to
Edward Nalbandian.
The album was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Rykodisc in 1990 and in 1995. All CD editions
remove the composition credits.
Track listing
Side one
1. "Billy the Mountain" (Zappa) – 24:47
• Interpolates sections of "Johnny's Theme" by Paul Anka and Johnny Carson, and of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by
Stephen Stills.
Side two
1. "Call Any Vegetable" (Zappa) – 7:22
2. "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" (Kaylan, Seiler, Volman, Zappa) – 3:10
3. "Magdalena" (Kaylan, Zappa) – 6:24
4. "Dog Breath" (Zappa) – 3:39
The missing tracks from this concert are as follows:
• "Peaches En Regalia"
• "Tears Began To Fall"
• "Half A Dozen Provocative Squats/She Pained Up Her Face/Shove It Right In"
• "Give Me Some Floor Covering Under This Fat, Floating Sofa"
• "Little House I Used To Live In"
• "Mud Shark/What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?"
• "Bwana Dik/Latex Solar Beef"
• "Willie The Pimp"
• "Do You Like My New Car?"
• "Happy Together"
• "Lonesome Cowboy Burt"
• "200 Motels Finale"
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
• Mark Volman – lead vocals
• Howard Kaylan – lead vocals
• Ian Underwood – woodwinds, keyboards, vocals
• Jim Pons – bass guitar, vocals
Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Just Another Band from L.A. - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
[4] "Charts and Awards for Just Another Band from L.A." (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22668/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved
2008-08-22.
Roxy & Elsewhere

Roxy & Elsewhere
Live album by Frank Zappa & The Mothers
Recorded December 10,11 and 12 of 1973 + May 8 & 11, 1974
Genre Jazz fusion, progressive rock, hard rock
Length 68:04
Label DiscReet
Frank Zappa & The Mothers chronology
Apostrophe Roxy & One Size Fits

(') Elsewhere All
(1974) (1974) (1975)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

C+
Rolling Stone [3]

(unfavorable)
Piero Scaruffi [4]

(7/10)
Amazon.com [5]
Roxy & Elsewhere is a live album by Frank Zappa & The Mothers which was released in 1974. Most of the songs
were recorded at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California on December 8, 9 and 10, 1973. The material taken
from the Roxy concerts was later amended with some overdubs in the studio, while the "Elsewhere" tracks ("Son of
Orange County" & "More Trouble Every Day") were recorded on May 8, 1974 at the Edinboro State College,
Edinboro, Pennsylvania (and parts of "Son of Orange County" on May 11, 1974 at the Auditorium Theatre in
Chicago, Illinois (late show) and do not contain overdubbed material.
Music
This album is considered a high-watermark recording of one of the most celebrated incarnations of the Mothers. It
features an array of highly challenging instrumentals such as "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", "Don't You Ever Wash That
Thing?", and the opening theme of "Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church)". It also features "Cheepnis",
Zappa's tribute to low-budget monster movies, and reworks of earlier tracks such as "More Trouble Every Day" and
"Son of Orange County" (excerpted from the song "Oh No" and given an extended guitar solo). "Village of the Sun"
is about Sun Village, California, an unincorporated area near Palmdale, and also makes references to Lancaster,
California, twin city to Palmdale and Zappa's hometown.
History
Album
The album primarily comprised recordings from three shows at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, and featured tracks
never before or thereafter released on any Zappa/Mothers album. Material from the Roxy performances were
partially overdubbed. The other tracks came from the second show on Mothers Day 1974 in the Chicago Auditorium
Theatre and the May 8th Show in Edinboro State College (also 1974).
The opening track, "Penguin in Bondage" is edited together from performances at the Roxy and the Chicago date.
The guitar solo on "Son of Orange County" is one of the few Zappa guitar solos edited together from more than one
concert, in this case the Edinboro and Chicago dates.
Some of the unused tracks from the Roxy shows are floating around in audience recording trading circles, as well as
the entirety of the Edinboro show. Other tracks were released on Volumes One and Three of the You Can't Do That
On Stage Anymore series. On a side note, Zappa can be heard, on the released and unreleased Roxy tapes, speaking
of the making of a 'film' that could potentially be "broadcast on television," as well as reminding the audience not to
be "uncomfortable around the intimidatingly large 16 mm cameras."
A four-channel Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released.
Unreleased DVD
There was a 3 minute trailer released in the new millennium advertising a Roxy DVD which could potentially
contain the footage from all three nights. The trailer was later included on the Baby Snakes DVD as a bonus feature.
Joe Travers has stated that "It's sitting in the vault. Waiting for a budget to do it properly. Basically the film footage,
the negatives were transferred by Frank in the '80s using '80s technology. What we want to do is go back to the
original negatives and do it in High Definition and then create a 5.1 mix from the original masters so that we have
surround sound as well as Frank's 2 channel stereo mix. Once we get all that together, then we need to cut the
program. Edit the program together, camera angles, what shows, what we are going to include from what shows or
include all the shows. I have no idea what Dweezil and Gail want to do. It's great stuff, but the process of just getting
to that point is going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time." [6] Two songs from the unreleased film
("Montana" and "Dupree's Paradise") were used as opener for the Zappa Plays Zappa concerts in 2006.
On April 1, 2007, Zappa.com unveiled a redesigned website, which included the 30-minute segment from the Roxy
performances, which had been used at the Zappa Plays Zappa concerts, on its new videos page.
The clip for "Montana" was included as a bonus feature of the Classic Albums: Apostrophe(')/Over-Nite Sensation
DVD, which was released on May 1, 2007.
Track listing
All selections composed by Frank Zappa and performed by Frank Zappa & the Mothers, except "Dummy Up"
composed by Brock, Simmons, and Zappa. All tracks recorded at the Roxy, except "Son of Orange County", "More
Trouble Every Day" and parts of "Penguin in Bondage".
The durations below do not match the durations on the vinyl release. Closest match are two seconds different, worst
match more than two minutes.
Side one
1. "Penguin in Bondage" – 6:48
2. "Pygmy Twylyte" – 2:13
3. "Dummy Up" – 6:02
Side two
1. "Village of the Sun" – 4:17
2. "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" – 3:52
3. "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" – 9:40
Side three
1. "Cheepnis" – 6:33
2. "Son of Orange County" – 5:53
3. "More Trouble Every Day" – 6:00
Side four
1. "Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)" – 16:41
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, producer
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – flute, tenor saxophone, vocals
• Robert "Frog" Camarena – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Debbie – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Lynn - backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• George Duke – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
• Bruce Fowler – trombone, dancer
• Walt Fowler – trumpet, bass trumpet
• Don Preston – synthesizer
• Jeff Simmons – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production staff
• Stephen Marcussen – digital remastering
• Kerry McNabb – engineer, remixing
• Wally Heider – engineer
• Coy Featherstone, Steve Magedoff – photography
• Cal Schenkel – graphic design, design
Charts
Year Chart Position
1974 Pop Albums [7]

27
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22644/
[3] Niester, Alan (2011 [last update]). "Roxy Elsewhere by Frank Zappa | Rolling Stone Music | Music Reviews" (http:/ / www. rollingstone.
com/ music/ albumreviews/ roxy-elsewhere-19750102). rollingstone.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
com/ vol1/ zappa. html). scaruffi.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011. "iero Scaruffi"
[5] "Roxy & Elsewhere" (http:/ / www. amazon. com/ Roxy-Elsewhere-Frank-Zappa/ dp/ B0000009SK/ ref=pd_sim_m_5). . Retrieved 26 July
2012.
[6] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ videography/ roxy. html
[7] "Charts and Awards for Roxy & Elsewhere" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22644/ charts-awards/ billboard-album). Allmusic. .
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Roxy_and_Elsewhere.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/roxy.html)
Bongo Fury 155
Bongo Fury
Bongo Fury
Live album by Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart/The Mothers of Invention
Recorded May 20 & 21, 1975 (mostly live) & January 1975 (studio)
Genre Hard rock, blues-rock
Length 38:55
Label DiscReet
One Size Fits Bongo Zoot

All Fury Allures
(1975) (1975) (1976)
Captain Beefheart chronology
Bluejeans & Bongo Shiny Beast (Bat Chain

Moonbeams Fury Puller)
(1974) (1975) (1978)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

B
Rolling Stone [3]

(unfavorable)
Piero Scaruffi [4]
Amazon.com [5]
Bongo Fury is an album released by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart in 1975. The live portions were recorded on
May 20 & 21, 1975 at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Studio tracks were recorded in January
1975 (during the sessions which produced One Size Fits All and much of Studio Tan).
The album is a notable entry in Zappa's discography because it was the last to feature a majority of his early 1970s
band, which appeared on Apostrophe (') and Roxy & Elsewhere. Napoleon Murphy Brock's vocals are featured both
on the sprawling "Advance Romance" as well as on the three-part harmonies of "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy".
Captain Beefheart, in his only tour with Zappa's band, delivers vocals on several tracks, including his two short prose
readings "Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top" and "Man With the Woman Head." Bongo Fury also marks the
first appearance of Terry Bozzio, who would become Zappa's featured drummer between 1975 and 1978.
Bongo Fury 156
Track listing
All tracks performed by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart; all tracks composed by Zappa, except tracks 3 on each
side by Van Vliet.
Side one
1. "Debra Kadabra" (live) – 3:54
2. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" (live) – 5:59
3. "Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top" (live) – 2:51
4. "Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead" (live) – 3:03
5. "200 Years Old" – 4:32
Side two
1. "Cucamonga" – 2:24
2. "Advance Romance" (live) – 11:17
3. "Man with the Woman Head" (live) – 1:28
4. "Muffin Man" (live) – 5:34
NOTE - This is the last original Frank Zappa album on which the band name "[The] Mothers [of Invention]" is used.
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
• Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
• Tom Fowler – bass, dancer
• Captain Beefheart – vocals, saxophone, harmonica
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals
• Bruce Fowler – trombone, dancer
Production staff
• Frank Hubach – engineer
• Kelly Kotera – engineer
• Kerry McNabb – engineer
• Davey Moire – engineer
• Cal Schenkel – design
• John Williams – photography, cover photo
• Mike Stone – engineer
Bongo Fury 157
Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)
Year Chart Position
1975 Pop Albums [6]

66
References
[2] Robert Christgau review (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=4155)
[3] Rolling Stone review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ music/ albumreviews/ bongo-fury-19760101)
[4] Piero Scaruffi review (http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html)
[5] (http:/ / www. amazon. com/ Bongo-Fury-Frank-Zappa/ dp/ B0000009SO/ ref=pd_sim_m_8)
[6] "Charts and Awards for One Size Fits All" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22645/ charts-awards). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Zappa in New York

Zappa in New York
Live album by Frank Zappa
Recorded December 26–29, 1976

Palladium, New York City
Genre Jazz fusion, comedy rock, hard rock, progressive rock
Label DiscReet
Zoot Zappa in New Studio

Allures York Tan
(1976) (1978) (1978)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Zappa in New York is a live double album by Frank Zappa. It was recorded at a series of concerts at the Palladium
in New York City in December 1976. The creation of this album spurred from Warner Bros.' rejection of his Läther
album, leading Zappa to re-edit the 4-LP set into four separate albums to fulfill his contract, which stated that he
owed Warner Bros. four more albums.
Zappa in New York was released by Zappa's DiscReet Records label in 1977, then quickly withdrawn. A second
version was re-released in March 1978 with changes ordered by DiscReet's distributor, Warner Bros. Records. The
1978 edition reached #57 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Background
without Cohen's involvement, Warner briefly agreed. This led to the 1976 release of Zoot Allures on Warner.
Early in 1977, Zappa delivered the master tapes for a quadruple-LP set, entitled Läther, which he intended as his
"swan song" for Warner Bros.[2] However, Warner changed its position following legal action from Cohen, and
refused to release the album, claiming that Zappa was contractually bound to deliver four more albums to Warner for
the DiscReet label.
legal action, preventing the release of Läther and forcing Zappa to shelve the project.
Musical and lyrical content

Immediately following the 1976 concerts Zappa spent time in the studio adding a significant number of overdubs to
the live recordings. Several of these recordings were originally intended for the shelved album Läther, including
"The Illinois Enema Bandit" (originally titled "The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit"), "The Black Page #1",
"Big Leg Emma", "Punky's Whips", "The Purple Lagoon" and "I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth" (originally
titled "Läther").
The album is notable for the presence of members of the Saturday Night Live band, including Lou Marini and Tom
Malone, as well as the Brecker Brothers. In addition, Don Pardo was invited by Zappa to the Palladium concert, and
he provides introductory narrations to Punky's Whips and The Illinois Enema Bandit. On the CD version Pardo also
delivers a verse of I'm the Slime (he did the same for Zappa's 1976 Saturday Night Live appearance).
The lyrics of Punky's Whips were intended as an inside joke regarding drummer Terry Bozzio's purported infatuation
with Punky Meadows, lead guitarist of the band Angel. Titties and Beer also features Bozzio in the role of the Devil,
with whom Zappa tries to negotiate in order to reacquire the titular possessions. The song references "Milhous
Nixon" and "Agnew" whose souls are supposedly taken by the Devil. This is a clear re-interpretation of Histoire du
soldat by Igor Stravinsky, one of Zappa's favorite classical composers.
The "favorite group" of the girl portrayed in "Honey Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" is said to be Helen Reddy. In
concert performances from the 1980s Zappa would change the name to Twisted Sister or Echo & the Bunnymen.
The lyrics of The Illinois Enema Bandit are based on facts about the criminal actions of Michael H. Kenyon.
Alongside humorous lyrics, Zappa presented many musically complex instrumental passages which stretched the
band's skill to the absolute limit. Among the most complicated parts are the instrumentals The Black Page and Manx
Needs Women. This title references the 1967 science fiction B-movie Mars Needs Women. The Purple Lagoon is an
extended instrumental which takes up an entire side of vinyl. It features a complicated opening theme (based on
Zappa's earlier composition Approximate) and jazz-like solos from the Brecker Brothers, bassist Patrick O'Hearn and
saxophonist Ronnie Cuber.
Release history
Zappa in New York was first released in early 1977 with Zappa's original intended track listing. A small number of
LP copies reached stores in England before the album was quickly withdrawn. In 1978 some original cassette copies
also appeared in the United States, though, apparently this was by mistake. Before re-issuing the album Warner
removed one of the longest songs, Punky's Whips. This reduced the playing time of side one to a mere ten minutes.
Warner also re-sequenced some of the remaining songs and edited Titties & Beer. This also violated Zappa's
contract, which gave him complete artistic control over album content.
When Zappa's distribution agreement with Warner ended in 1982 all release rights reverted to him. Zappa re-issued
Zappa in New York as a double CD in 1991 with the addition of 4 bonus tracks. The CD reissue was remixed to
feature guitar overdubs that were recorded at the time of the album's issue but not included on the original vinyl, and
contained a different recording of Punky's Whips and the full-length Titties & Beer.
Track listing
Original vinyl side one
No. Title Length
1. "Titties & Beer" 5:39
2. "I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth" 2:50
3. "Punky's Whips" 10:51
Original vinyl side two
No. Title Length
4. "Sofa" 3:15
5. "Manx Needs Women" 1:40
6. "The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1" 4:06
8. "Black Page #2" 10:31
Original vinyl side three
No. Title Length
9. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" 4:15
10. "The Illinois Enema Bandit" 12:31

Original vinyl side four
No. Title Length
11. "The Purple Lagoon" 16:57
Total length: 69:05
Censored vinyl side one
No. Title Length
Censored vinyl side two
No. Title Length
4. "Sofa" 3:15
7. "Black Page #2" 10:31
Total length: 59:08
CD 1
No. Title Length
2. "Cruising For Burgers" 9:12
6. "The Illinois Enema Bandit" 12:41
Total length: 48:02
CD 2
No. Title Length
1. "I'm the Slime" 4:24
2. "Pound for a Brown" 3:41
6. "Sofa" 2:56
7. "Black Page #2" 5:36
8. "The Torture Never Stops" 12:35
9. "The Purple Lagoon/Approximate" 16:40

Total length: 54:04
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – conductor, keyboards, lead guitar, vocals, producer
• Eddie Jobson – keyboards, violin, vocals
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar, vocals
• Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, synthesizer, overdubs
• Don Pardo – narration
• Dave Samuels – timpani, vibes
• Randy Brecker – trumpet
• Mike Brecker – tenor saxophone, flute
• Lou Marini – alto saxophone, flute
• Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Tom Malone – trombone, trumpet, piccolo
• John Bergamo – percussion overdubs
• Ed Mann – percussion overdubs
• Lou Anne Neill – osmotic harp overdub
Production staff
• Frank Zappa – Production
• Bob Liftin – NYC live remote engineer
• Davey Moire – NYC live concert mix, studio engineer (overdubs)
• Rick Smith – Studio engineer (overdubs)
• John Williams – Package design
• Dweezil Zappa – Cover photo
• Gail Zappa – Other photos
Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[4] "Charts and Awards for Zappa in New York" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22597). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Released May 11, 1981 (US)
Recorded 1972; February 1976; February 1977 - December 11, 1980
Genre Instrumental rock, hard rock
Length 106:52
Tinsel Town Shut Up 'n Play Yer You Are What You
Rebellion Guitar Is
(1981) (1981) (1981)
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a project consisting of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some
More and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, is a series of albums by Frank Zappa. Released separately
in May 1981 on Barking Pumpkin Records, it was subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982.
As the title implies, the album consists solely of instrumentals and improvised solos, largely performed on electric
guitar. The album series was conceived after Zappa shelved a proposed live album, Warts and All, and two tracks
intended for that album appear on this series.
The individual Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar albums and box set have been well received by critics, and Zappa
subsequently produced two more albums focusing solely on guitar-oriented music: Guitar (1988) and Trance-Fusion
(posthumously released in 2006).
Background
After the release of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and
planned to release a triple LP live album called Warts and All. As Warts and All reached completion, Zappa found
the project to be "unwieldy" due to its length.[1][2] Zappa later conceived the Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar series,
which contained two tracks originally prepared for Warts and All.[2]
Content
The album is entirely instrumental and features mainly guitar solos, hence the title. It is, however, interspersed with
brief verbal comments between tracks, many of which were originally intended for the scrapped album Läther. Each
disc is titled after a variation on the album's name, which is shared with the title track found on each respective disc.
Most solos on the album are culled from performances of another song. The three title tracks are derived from
successive renditions of "Inca Roads"; various other solos were taken from readings of "Conehead", "Easy Meat",
"The Illinois Enema Bandit", "City of Tiny Lites", "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Chunga's
Revenge", and "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus". "Ship Ahoy" was the coda from a performance of "Zoot Allures"
the first part of which appears on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3.
The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc Ponty on baritone
violin dating from a 1972 studio session.
Some of the solos from these albums are featured in The Frank Zappa Guitar Book.
Release history
The album was released in 1981 as three separate volumes. After the album's success, Zappa decided to reissue it as
a box set with different artwork (with the original US LP covers now being used as inner sleeves) and with liner
notes including a review of the original three-volume edition. It was issued on CD by Rykodisc in 1986 as a two disc
set and again in 1995 as a three disc box. There is a widely held belief that the order of the tracks "Shut Up 'n Play
Yer Guitar" and "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" were swapped on the two disc set; in fact, this is not the
case. The source of the confusion may be the back cover of the 2-CD set, which lists the two tracks as swapped. The
inside booklet, however, lists the tracks in correct order, and the actual track timings and contents confirm that "Shut
Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" (5:38) is on disc 1 and "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" (6:53) is on disc 2.
Reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic (2 CD) [3]
Allmusic (Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More) [4]
Allmusic (Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar) [5]
The album was well received by critics. Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation for Allmusic, Sean
Westergaard wrote, "Frank Zappa [...] was one of the finest and most underappreciated guitarists around. [...] This is
an album that should be heard by anyone who's into guitar playing."[3] Another writer for the website, Lindsay
Planer, similarly appraised the individual releases Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, writing of Some More, "it is certainly a wonderful place for interested parties to
commence their discovery of the (dare say) many moods Zappa imbued in carefully constructed yet thoroughly
improvised compositions such as the seven found here."[4] In regard to Return of the Son, Planer wrote that Zappa
"saved some of his best offerings [...] Zappa pours his expansive ideas onto the soundscape with a certainty and
purpose that is simply unmatched in terms of passion and inspiration."[5]
Legacy
The album's success led Zappa to produce two more albums solely consisting of guitar solos: Guitar, which was
released in 1988, and Trance-Fusion, released posthumously in 2006. Additionally, Zappa assembled the
compilation The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa for Guitar World magazine. In 1997, Dweezil Zappa
assembled another compilation of Zappa's guitar-based songs and solos, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
Zappa: A Memorial Tribute.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except "Canard Du Jour" which was improvised by Zappa and
Jean-Luc Ponty.
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar side one
No. Title Length
1. "five-five-FIVE" 2:35
2. "Hog Heaven" 2:46
3. "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" 5:35
4. "While You Were Out" 6:09
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "Treacherous Cretins" 5:29
6. "Heavy Duty Judy" 4:39
7. "Soup 'n Old Clothes" 7:53
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More side one
No. Title Length
1. "Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression" 3:56
2. "Gee, I Like Your Pants" 2:32
3. "Canarsie" 6:06
4. "Ship Ahoy" 5:26
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "The Deathless Horsie" 6:18
6. "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" 6:52
7. "Pink Napkins" 4:41
Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar side one
No. Title Length
1. "Beat It With Your Fist" 1:39
2. "Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" 8:45
3. "Pinocchio's Furniture" 2:04
4. "Why Johnny Can't Read" 4:04

Side two
No. Title Length
5. "Stucco Homes" 8:56
6. "Canard Du Jour" 10:12
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa - Lead Guitar, Bouzouki
• Patrick O'Hearn – Bass, Dialogue
• Denny Walley – Rhythm Guitar
• Ray White – Rhythm Guitar
• Bob Harris – Keyboards
• Peter Wolf – Keyboards
• Ed Mann – Percussion
• Ike Willis – Rhythm Guitar
• Arthur Barrow – Bass
• Terry Bozzio – Drums, Dialogue
• Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums
• Warren Cuccurullo – Rhythm Guitar, Electric Sitar
• Roy Estrada – Vocals
• Bob Harris – Keyboards
• Andre Lewis – Keyboards
• Eddie Jobson – Keyboards
• Steve Vai – Rhythm Guitar
• Jean-Luc Ponty – Baritone Violin
Production staff
• Frank Zappa – Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Producer
• Kerry McNabb – Engineer
• Steve Nye – Engineer
• Jo Hansch – Mastering
• John Swenson – Liner Notes
• John Livzey – Photography
• John Vince – Graphic Design
• Bob Stone – Remixing
• Joe Chiccarelli – Engineer, Mixing, Recording
• George Douglas – Engineer
• Tom Flye – Engineer
• Mick Glossop – Engineer
References
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=0lyCSdW78-sC& pg=PA287& dq=zappa+ warts+ all& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=2MYgT_vbKa-A2QXNsvSWCQ& ved=0CE0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=zappa%20warts%20all& f=false
[3] Westergaard, S. (2011 [last update]). "Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar [2 Disc] - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
[4] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
[5] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ r53166). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 July 2011.
Tinseltown Rebellion
Tinsel Town Rebellion
Recorded October 1978 - December 1980 at Berkeley Community Theatre; in Carbondale, Illinois; at the NYC Palladium; Santa Monica Civic
Auditorium and Odeon Hammersmith, London
Genre Comedy Rock, Progressive Rock
Length 67:19
Joe's Garage Acts II & Tinsel Town Shut Up 'n Play Yer
III Rebellion Guitar
(1979) (1981) (1981)
Singles from Tinsel Town Rebellion
1. "Love of My Life"
Released: 1981
Tinsel Town Rebellion is a double live album released by Frank Zappa in 1981. The album was conceived by Zappa
after he scrapped the planned albums Warts and All and Crush All Boxes, and it contains tracks that were intended
for those albums.
The lyrical themes varyingly focus on human sexuality, popular culture and other topics. The title track is a satire of
the punk rock scene, describing a band that adopts the style to get a record deal. The album also contains reworked
recordings of older Zappa songs, including "Love of My Life," "I Ain't Got No Heart," "Tell Me You Love Me,"
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" and the third release of "Peaches En Regalia", appropriately titled "Peaches III".
Production
Tinsel Town Rebellion was formed out of two albums that Zappa initially planned to release following the
establishment of his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, Warts and All and Crush All Boxes. Warts
and All was intended to be a triple live album, while Crush All Boxes would have consisted largely of studio
recordings.[1] As Warts and All reached completion, Zappa found the project to be "unwieldy" due to its length, and
scrapped it, later conceiving Crush All Boxes.[2] During the final stages of Crush All Boxes, Zappa decided to salvage
the scrapped Warts and All album by releasing a series of albums which used the planned material to emphasize his
multiple talents: You Are What You Is, Tinsel Town Rebellion and two series of live albums, Shut Up 'N Play Yer
Guitar and You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore.[1]
The opening track, "Fine Girl" is a studio recording originally intended for the unreleased album Crush All Boxes,
along with an early mix of the live track "Easy Meat".[1] The Tinsel Town Rebellion version of "Easy Meat" featured
much heavier studio overdubs than the version prepared for Crush All Boxes.
The front cover art for Tinsel Town Rebellion retains the Crush All Boxes title, with the new album title spray painted
over it. The sleeve and interior was designed by Cal Schenkel, and contains still images from the film Freaks,
directed by Tod Browning.
The majority of Tinsel Town Rebellion consists of overdub-free live recordings from the 1979 and late 1980 concert
tours. This album marks the first appearance by guitarist Steve Vai. The album also introduces drummer David
Logeman, who played drums from March through July on the 1980 tour, on the tracks "Fine Girl" and "Easy Meat".
He would also play drums entirely on the album You Are What You Is.
Release history
It was reissued on a single CD by Rykodisc in 1990. (An unauthorized CD had been previously issued by EMI in
England in 1987.) Complaints regarding the significantly inferior sound quality (mastered by Bob Stone) led to a
remaster by Spencer Chrislu in 1998.
Reception
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [3]
Allmusic writer Steve Huey praised the album's instrumental work and the reworked versions of older songs, but
described the sexually-themed lyrics as "problematic".[3]
Track listing
1. "Fine Girl" – 3:31
2. "Easy Meat" – 9:19
3. "For the Young Sophisticate" – 2:48
4. "Love of My Life" – 2:15
5. "I Ain't Got No Heart" – 1:59
6. "Panty Rap" – 4:35
7. "Tell Me You Love Me" – 2:07
8. "Now You See It- Now You Don't" – 4:54
9. "Dance Contest" – 2:58
10. "The Blue Light" – 5:27
11. "Tinsel Town Rebellion" – 4:35
12. "Pick Me, I'm Clean" – 5:07
13. "Bamboozled by Love" – 5:46
14. "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" – 7:14
15. "Peaches III" – 5:01
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
• Arthur Barrow – bass & vocals
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar & vocals
• Bob Harris – keyboards, trumpet & high vocals
• David Logeman – drums on "Fine Girl" and first half of "Easy Meat"
• Tommy Mars – keyboards & vocals
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass on "Dance Contest"
• Steve Vai – rhythm guitar & vocals
• Denny Walley – slide guitar & vocals
• Ray White – rhythm guitar & vocals
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar & vocals
• Peter Wolf – keyboards
Production staff
• Frank Zappa – arranger, producer
• Joe Chiccarelli – engineer
• George Douglas – engineer
• Tommy Fly – engineer
• Jo Hansch – mastering
• Thomas Nordegg – everything remote
• Cal Schenkel – cover art
• Allen Sides – engineer
• Bob Stone – remixing, remastering, digital remastering (1990 edition)
• Spencer Chrislu - digital remastering (1996 edition)

• John Williams – graphics
Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=0lyCSdW78-sC& pg=PA294& dq=crush+ all+ boxes& hl=en& sa=X&
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[3] Huey, S. (2011 [last update]). "Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22658/ review).
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Broadway the Hard Way

Broadway the Hard Way
Released October 14, 1988 (LP)

May 25, 1989 (CD)
Recorded February 9– June 9, 1988
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, jazz fusion
Length 71:03 (CD)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. Broadway the Hard You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
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Broadway the Hard Way is a Frank Zappa live album recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It
was first released as a 9-track vinyl through Zappa's mail order label Barking Pumpkin in October 1988, and
subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989.
Music and lyrics

This album was compiled from Zappa's last tour in 1988, in a band format. Broadway is mostly focused on acute
satire of contemporary figures, both political and social. Throughout the album Zappa's individual targets include
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan on "Dickie's Such An Asshole", Jesse Jackson on "Rhymin' Man", Jim and
Tammy Faye Bakker and Pat Robertson on "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk", and Michael Jackson and his family on
"Why Don't You Like Me?"
The album contains a relatively large number of covers, from the jazz standard "Stolen Moments" to the The Police
song "Murder by Numbers" (with a guest appearance by Sting himself). "Outside Now" is from Joe's Garage, and
"Why Don't You Like Me" can be easily recognized as a remake of Zappa's "Tell Me You Love Me". "Rhymin'
Man" is filled with melodic quotes from evergreens such as "Happy Days Are Here Again", "Hava Nagila", "La
Cucaracha" and "Frère Jacques". In "What Kind of Girl" there is a line from "Strawberry Fields Forever" and also
includes a part from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" while "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" quotes "Louie Louie",
"Rock of Ages" and Marius Constant's Theme from The Twilight Zone.
Track listing
All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Original LP
Side one
1. "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" – 2:24
2. "Planet of the Baritone Women" – 2:48
3. "Any Kind of Pain" – 5:42
4. "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" – 9:15
Side two
1. "Dickie's Such an Asshole" – 6:37
2. "When the Lie's So Big" – 3:38
3. "Rhymin' Man" – 3:51
4. "Promiscuous" – 2:03
5. "The Untouchables" (Nelson Riddle, Zappa) – 3:05
CD version
1. "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" – 2:24
2. "Planet of the Baritone Women" – 2:48
3. "Any Kind of Pain" – 5:42
5. "When the Lie's So Big" – 3:38
6. "Rhymin' Man" – 3:50
7. "Promiscuous" – 2:02
8. "The Untouchables" (Riddle) – 2:26
9. "Why Don't You Like Me?" – 2:57
10. "Bacon Fat" (Andre Williams, Dorothy Brown, Zappa) – 1:29
11. "Stolen Moments" (Oliver Nelson) – 2:57
12. "Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Andy Summers) – 5:37
13. "Jezebel Boy" – 2:27
14. "Outside Now" – 7:49
15. "Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel" – 6:40
16. "What Kind of Girl?" – 3:17
17. "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" – 9:15
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, producer, main performer, vocals
• Kurt McGettrick – baritone saxophone
• Scott Thunes – bass guitar
• Albert Wing – tenor saxophone
• Ike Willis – guitar, vocals
• Eric Buxton – vocals
• Paul Carman – alto saxophone
• Walt Fowler – trumpet
• Mike Keneally – synthesizer, vocals, guitar
• Sting – lead vocal on "Murder By Numbers"
• Robert Martin – keyboards, vocals
References
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The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life

The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
Released April 16, 1991

Recorded February 14– June 6, 1988 at Munich, Würzburg, Allentown/PA, Rotterdam, Brighton, Strasbourg, Binghamton/NY, Grenoble, Linz,
Modena, Philadelphia/PA, London/England, Pittsburgh/PA, Teaneck/NJ, Poughkeepsie/NY, Syracuse/NY, Detroit/MI, Vienna and
Florence
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion, experimental rock
Length 131:13
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Make a Jazz Noise
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The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa, released in 1991 (see
1991 in music). The album was one of three to be recorded during the 1988 world tour, along with Broadway the
Hard Way and Make a Jazz Noise Here. Each of these three accounts of the legendary '88 tour has a different focus:
Broadway the Hard Way mostly showcases new compositions, Make a Jazz Noise Here features a sampler of classic
instrumental Zappa tunes, and this album devotes itself to covers, some unlikely such as "Stairway to Heaven" by
Led Zeppelin, as well as Zappa's extensive back catalogue, focusing mainly on Zappa's mid-1970s output but with
some material from the Mothers of Invention's late 1960s recordings and one song ("Lonesome Cowboy Burt") from
200 Motels. It was re-issued in 1995 along with his entire catalogue.
Cover Artwork
The current version was issued with cover shown on this page, as created by long-time Zappa artist Cal Schenkel.
Zappa had the original cover art replaced when he discovered that he did not own the rights to the photograph used
for the original (in addition, a third cover exists with the original album graphics; but with a blank space replacing
the band shot). The Japanese kanji at the top of the sign do not together form any meaningful sentence to a speaker
of Japanese, but can be read with the on readings of fu-ran-ku-za-pa, an approximation of Frank Zappa in Japanese
sounds.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "Heavy Duty Judy" – 6:04
2. "Ring of Fire" (Merle Kilgore, June Carter) – 2:00
3. "Cosmik Debris" – 4:32
5. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" – 2:40
6. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George C. Cory, Jr., Douglas Cross) – 0:36
7. "Zomby Woof" – 5:41
8. "Boléro" (Maurice Ravel) – 5:19
• Removed from some European releases of the album
10. "Mr. Green Genes" – 3:40
12. "Andy" – 5:51
13. "Inca Roads" – 8:19
14. "Sofa No. 1" – 2:49
Disc two
1. "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix) – 2:27
2. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton) – 2:30
3. "Let's Move to Cleveland" – 5:51
4. "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (Ernest Ball, George Graff, Chancellor Olcott) – 0:46
5. ""Godfather Part II" Theme" (Nino Rota) – 0:30
6. "A Few Moments with Brother A. West" (Brother A. West, Zappa) – 4:00
7. "The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 1" – 5:19
8. "Theme from "Bonanza"" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 0:28
9. "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" (Swaggart version) – 4:54
10. "The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 2" – 10:47
11. "More Trouble Every Day" (Swaggart version) – 5:28
12. "Penguin in Bondage" (Swaggart version) – 5:05
13. "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" – 9:18
14. "Stairway to Heaven" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 9:19
The original European release of this album omits Bolero due to the estate of Maurice Ravel objecting to Zappa's
treatment of the piece.
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Paul Carman – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Walt Fowler – synthesizer, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Mike Keneally – synthesizer, guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ed Mann – percussion, marimba, vibraphone, electronic percussion
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals
• Kurt McGettrick – saxophone, baritone saxophone, E flat clarinet
• Scott Thunes – synthesizer, bass guitar, electric bass, vocals, Minimoog
• Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals, electronic percussion
• Ike Willis – synthesizer, guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Production
• Frank Zappa – production, editing, arranging, compilation
• Bob Stone – engineering supervision
References
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• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/best_band.html)
Make a Jazz Noise Here

Make a Jazz Noise Here

Recorded February 9– June 7, 1988
Genre jazz rock, progressive rock, art rock
Length 136:44
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Make a Jazz Noise You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
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Make a Jazz Noise Here is a live double album by Frank Zappa. It was first released in June 1991, and was the third
Zappa album to be compiled of recordings from his 1988 world tour, following Broadway the Hard Way (1988) and
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (1991).
The album is made up mostly of instrumentals, featuring Zappa's own compositions, with some arrangements of Igor
Stravinsky and Béla Bartók themes by his bassist, Scott Thunes. The album showcases Mike Keneally on guitar and
keyboards. Chad Wackerman appears on drums, known for his abilities in the jazz world (he has frequently played
with jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth). A notable contribution to the mix is made by the brass section of the group:
Walt Fowler (trumpet), Bruce Fowler (trombone), and saxophonists Paul Carman, Albert Wing and Kurt
McGettrick. Ike Willis plays guitar and sings along with keyboardist Bobby Martin. Ed Mann provides all the
percussion and various other sounds, complementing the addition of the Synclavier, which Zappa brought on tour for
the first time. In the liner notes, Zappa states that the album features no overdubs.
As is often the case, there are also many references to previous Zappa material which a first-time listener might not
catch.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "Stinkfoot" – 7:39
2. "When Yuppies Go to Hell" – 13:28
3. "Fire and Chains" – 5:04
4. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" – 1:36
5. "Harry, You're a Beast" – 0:47
6. "The Orange County Lumber Truck" – 0:41
7. "Oh No" – 4:43
8. "Theme from Lumpy Gravy" – 1:11
11. "Big Swifty" – 11:12
12. "King Kong" – 13:04
13. "Star Wars Won't Work" – 3:40
Disc two
1. "The Black Page (new age version)" – 6:45
2. "T'Mershi Duween" – 1:42
3. "Dupree's Paradise" – 8:34
4. "City of Tiny Lights" – 8:01
5. "Royal March from L'Histoire du Soldat" (Igor Stravinsky) – 0:59
6. "Theme from the Bartok Piano Concerto #3" (Béla Bartók) – 0:43
7. "Sinister Footwear 2nd mvt." – 6:39
10. "Cruisin' for Burgers" – 8:27
11. "Advance Romance" – 7:43
12. "Strictly Genteel" – 6:36
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – lead guitar, producer, main performer, vocals
• Paul Carman – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Kurt McGettrick – baritone saxophone, contrabass clarinet,
• Scott Thunes – bass guitar, mini Moog
• Ed Mann – vibes, marimba, electronic percussion
• Chad Wackerman – drums, electronic percussion
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar, synth, vocals
• Walt Fowler – trumpet, flugel horn, synth
• Mike Keneally – synth, vocals, rhythm guitar
• Bob 'Mink' Martin – keyboards, vocals
References
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Playground Psychotics
Live album by Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention

Recorded Various locations September 1970 – December 10, 1971
Genre Progressive rock, art rock, comedy rock
Length 132:35
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. Playground Ahead of Their

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Playground Psychotics is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It was originally
released in 1992 through his mail order label, Barking Pumpkin, and was re-released in 1995 through Rykodisc. The
album features recordings of Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention around the time of the film, 200 Motels.
The live material on Playground Psychotics is interspersed with excerpts from taped conversations among band
members whilst on tour, and the release includes three conceptual sections: A Typical Day on the Road, Part 1, a
collage of dialogue which opens the first disc; A Typical Day on the Road, Part 2, which opens the second disc and
The True Story of 200 Motels, which appears at the end of disc two. The album also includes a live session with John
Lennon and Yoko Ono — an alternate mix of which appears on Lennon's Some Time in New York City (1972).
Track listing
Disc one
A Typical Day on the Road, Part 1 incorporates tracks 1 to 11. Tracks 22 to 26 were recorded at the Fillmore East,
New York City on June 6, 1971.
1. "Here Comes the Gear, Lads" – 1:00
2. "The Living Garbage Truck" – 1:20
3. "A Typical Sound Check" – 1:19
4. "This Is Neat" – 0:23
5. "The Motel Lobby" – 1:21
6. "Getting Stewed" – 0:55
7. "The Motel Room" – 0:29
8. "Don't Take Me Down" – 1:11
9. "The Dressing Room" – 0:24
10. "Learning "Penis Dimension"" – 2:02
11. "You There, with the Hard On!" – 0:25
12. "Zanti Serenade" (Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Zappa) – 2:40
13. "Divan" – 1:46
14. "Sleeping in a Jar" – 1:30
15. "Don't Eat There" – 2:26
16. "Brixton Still Life" – 2:59
17. "Super Grease" (Mothers of Invention, Zappa) – 1:39
18. "Wonderful Wino" (Jeff Simmons, Zappa) – 4:52
21. "Diphtheria Blues" (Mothers of Invention) – 6:19
22. "Well" (Walter Ward) – 4:43
23. "Say Please" (John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Zappa) – 0:57
24. "Aaawk" (Lennon, Ono, Zappa) – 2:59
25. "Scumbag" (Lennon, Ono, Howard Kaylan, Zappa) – 5:53
26. "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono" (Lennon, Ono) – 6:07
• Note: An alternate mix of tracks 22 through 26, at times with different titles, appears on the John Lennon and
Yoko Ono album, Sometime in New York City.
Disc two
A Typical Day on the Road, Part 2 occupies tracks 1 to 10; The True Story of 200 Motels runs from track 20 to track
31.
1. "Beer Shampoo" – 1:39
2. "Champagne Lecture" – 4:29
3. "Childish Perversions" – 1:31
4. "Playground Psychotics" – 1:08
5. "The Mudshark Interview" – 2:39
6. "There's No Lust in Jazz" – 0:55
7. "Botulism on the Hoof" – 0:47
8. "You Got Your Armies" – 0:10
9. "The Spew King" – 0:24

10. "I'm Doomed" – 0:25
11. "Status Back Baby" – 2:49
12. "The London Cab Tape" (Mothers of Invention) – 1:24
13. "Concentration Moon, Part One" – 1:20
14. "The Sanzini Brothers" (Underwood, Mark Volman, Kaylan) – 1:33
15. "It's a Good Thing We Get Paid to Do This" – 2:45
16. "Concentration Moon, Part Two" – 2:04
17. "Mom & Dad" – 3:16
18. "Intro to Music for Low Budget Orchestra" – 1:32
19. "Billy the Mountain" – 30:25
20. "He's Watching Us" – 1:21
21. "If You're Not a Professional Actor" – 0:23
22. "He's Right" – 0:14
23. "Going for the Money" – 0:12
24. "Jeff Quits" – 1:33
25. "A Bunch of Adventures" – 0:56
26. "Martin Lickert's Story" – 0:39
27. "A Great Guy" – 0:30
28. "Bad Acting" – 0:10
29. "The Worst Reviews" – 0:20
30. "A Version of Himself" – 1:02
31. "I Could Be a Star Now" – 0:36
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Playground Psychotics - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
r77909/ review). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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Ahead of Their Time

Ahead of Their Time
Live album by The Mothers of Invention
Recorded October 25, 1968
Genre Jazz fusion, progressive rock, art rock, experimental rock
Length 67:39
Playground Ahead of Their The Yellow

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Ahead of Their Time is a live album by The Mothers of Invention. It was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall,
London, England, on October 25, 1968 (although the notes say 28),[2] and released in 1993 on CD by Barking
Pumpkin. It was subsequently reissued on Rykodisc in 1995.
The first part of the set is a one-off performance of a musical play retrospectively entitled Progress?, and featuring
members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Portions of this performance originally found their way on to the
Mystery Disc contained on the second box of The Old Masters and the Honker Home Video release of Uncle Meat.
Much of the humor and storyline of the play is lost to the casual listener due to primitive recording techniques and
the visual nature of some of the performance, necessitating extensive liner notes by Zappa. The remainder of the set
is "A fair – not outstanding – 1968 Mothers of Invention rock concert performance" (Frank Zappa – Ahead of Their
Time liner notes). Different edits of snatches from the second part of the performance ("The Orange County Lumber
Truck" and "Prelude To The Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask") were originally released on Weasels
Ripped My Flesh.
Track listing
1. "Prologue" – 3:07
2. "Progress?" – 4:44
3. "Like It or Not" – 2:21
4. "The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson " – 2:01
5. "Holding The Group Back" – 2:00
6. "Holiday in Berlin" – 0:56
7. "The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage" – 2:55
8. "Undaunted, the Band Plays On" – 4:34
9. "Agency Man" – 3:17
10. "Epilogue" – 1:52
11. "King Kong" – 8:13
12. "Help, I'm a Rock" – 1:38
13. "Transylvania Boogie" – 3:07
14. "Pound for a Brown" – 6:50
18. "The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I)" – 0:46
19. "Oh No" – 3:22
20. "The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part II)" – 10:36
Personnel
• Frank Zappa
• Ian Underwood
• Bunk Gardner
• Roy Estrada
• Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood
• Don Preston
• Arthur Dyer Tripp III
• Jimmy Carl Black
• Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
References
[2] Frank Zappa Gig List (http:/ / members. shaw. ca/ fz-pomd/ giglist/ )
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Guitar
Guitar

May 2, 1995
Recorded March 31, 1979 – December 18, 1984
Genre Instrumental rock, hard rock
Length 80:58 (vinyl)

131:38 (reissue)
The Old Masters Box Guitar You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
III (1988) 1
(1987) (1988)
Singles from Guitar
1. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace"

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Guitar is a 1988 album by Frank Zappa. It is the follow-up to 1981's Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar; like that album it
features Zappa's guitar solos excerpted from live performances, recorded between 1979 and 1984. It garnered Zappa
his 6th Grammy nomination for "Best Rock Instrumental Performance".[2]
Background
Guitar was originally intended to be a 3-record box set (like Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar), but Zappa decided, with
this release, to start using compact discs as his primary media rather than records. As such, it was Zappa's first album
to be released simultaneously on vinyl and CD. The double CD, released on Rykodisc in the US and Zappa Records
in Europe, contained all 32 tracks while the double LP was pared down to 19 tracks and released on Zappa's Barking
Pumpkin label .
Aside from "Watermelon in Easter Hay", "Sexual Harassment In The Workplace" and "Outside Now," all tracks
were derived from performances of other songs, as on Shut Up 'n Play Your Guitar. Other solos were excerpted from
"The Black Page", "Let's Move to Cleveland", "Drowning Witch", "Zoot Allures", "Whipping Post", "City of Tiny
Lites", "Advance Romance", "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel", "King Kong", "Easy Meat", "Ride My Face to
Chicago", "Sharleena", "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus", and "Inca Roads".
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Track names, though ostensibly unrelated to the actual compositions, make many references to popular culture and
world history. "Do Not Pass Go" refers to the Monopoly phrase that appears to prevent players from collecting a
monetary bonus; "Jim & Tammy's Upper Room" recalls televangelists Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye
Messner; "Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?", "Sunrise Redeemer" and "Hotel Atlanta Incidentals" are
references to the locations of the venues in which the pieces were played; "Move It or Park It" is a colloquialism that
could express frustration with an apprehensive driver of a motor vehicle; "Orrin Hatch on Skis" refers to Utah
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch; "But Who Was Fulcanelli?" refers to an alias apparently used by a 19th-century
French alchemist and author; "For Duane", one of Zappa's many readings of "Whipping Post", references Duane
Allman; "GOA" is unclear in its reference, and knowledge of the title's origin likely died with the composer; "Do
Not Try This at Home" refers to the disclaimer often associated with dangerous or risky feats on television or video.
"Chalk Pie" was Zappa's planned title for a 1982 release of which its tracks eventually appeared on Ship Arriving
Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and The Man from Utopia.[3]
"In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky" refers both to Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and 20th century composer Igor
Stravinsky, one of Zappa's influences. During the piece, bassist Scott Thunes plays the well-known motif from
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", while Zappa plays a line from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. "Taps" is also quoted by
Thunes.[4]
"Variations on Sinister #3", though derived from a version of "Easy Meat", gained its name from the interpolation of
themes from "Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear" from You Are What You Is.
"Canadian Customs" almost certainly refers to the Canada Border Services Agency. Zappa is said to have
experienced problems with the CBSA and created a routine around them with Napoleon Murphy Brock and André
Lewis circa 1975.[5]
"It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary" is a portmanteau of "It Ain't Necessarily So", written by George and
Ira Gershwin with libretto by DuBose Heyward for Porgy and Bess and "St. James Infirmary Blues", a composition
with no officially recorded writer, famously recorded by Louis Armstrong and later by Cab Calloway. Guitar credits
the latter to Joe Primrose, but the song's author is unverified. Both songs are quoted on the track.[6]
The Real Frank Zappa Book, Zappa's autobiography, contains the following statement, which most likely accounts
for the track name "Winos Do Not March":[7][8]
“
I have a theory about beer: Consumption of it leads to pseudo-military behavior. Think about it-winos don't march.
”
Longer edits of "But Who Was Fulcanelli?" and "For Duane" and a shorter edit of "Things That Look Like Meat"
appear on the 1987 compilation The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa. One of its tracks, "A Solo from
Heidelberg", derived from "Yo' Mama", was originally intended to appear on Guitar.
Similar albums: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Trance-Fusion, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A
Memorial Tribute, The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa.
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Track listing
All tracks composed by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Disc one
1. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" – 3:42 (1981-12-12)
2. "Which One Is It?" – 3:04 (1982-06-26)
3. "Republicans" – 5:07
4. "Do Not Pass Go" – 3:36
5. "Chalk Pie" – 4:51 (1981-12-07)
6. "In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky" – 2:50 (1984-11-25)
7. "That's Not Really Reggae" – 3:17
8. "When No One Was No One" – 4:48
9. "Once Again, without the Net" – 3:43
10. "Outside Now (Original Solo)" – 5:28
11. "Jim & Tammy's Upper Room" – 3:11
12. "Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?" – 2:49
13. "That Ol' G Minor Thing Again" – 5:02
14. "Hotel Atlanta Incidentals" – 2:44 (1984-11-25)
15. "That's Not Really a Shuffle" – 4:23 (1982-05-11)
16. "Move It or Park It" – 5:43
17. "Sunrise Redeemer" – 3:58
Disc two
1. "Variations on Sinister #3" – 5:15 (1984-08-11)
2. "Orrin Hatch on Skis" – 2:12 (1984-11-30)
3. "But Who Was Fulcanelli?" – 2:48
4. "For Duane" – 3:24
5. "GOA" – 4:51
6. "Winos Do Not March" – 3:14
7. "Swans? What Swans?" – 4:23 (1981-12-12)
8. "Too Ugly for Show Business" – 4:20 (1981-12-10)
9. "Systems of Edges" – 5:32
10. "Do Not Try This at Home" – 3:46 (1982-07-07)
11. "Things That Look Like Meat" – 6:57
12. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" – 4:02
13. "Canadian Customs" – 3:34 (1984-12-18)
14. "Is That All There Is?" – 4:09 (1982-05-22)
15. "It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward, Primrose) – 5:15 (1982-07-08)
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Vinyl version
Side one
1. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" – 3:42 (1981-12-12)[9]
2. "Republicans" – 5:08 (1984-11-10)
3. "Do Not Pass Go" – 3:37 (1982-06-19)
4. "That's Not Really Reggae" – 3:17 (1984-09-25)
5. "When No One Was No One" – 4:41 (1982-05-21)
Side two
1. "Once Again, without the Net" – 3:58 (1984-12-20)
2. "Outside Now (Original Solo)" – 5:29 (1979-03-31)
3. "Jim & Tammy's Upper Room" – 3:11 (1982-06-01)
4. "Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?" – 2:50 (1984-12-10)
5. "That Ol' G Minor Thing Again" – 4:39 (1982-06-24)
Side three
1. "Move It or Park It" – 5:43 (1982-06-11)
2. "Sunrise Redeemer" – 3:53 (1984-11-30)
3. "But Who Was Fulcanelli?" – 2:58 (1982-05-21)
4. "For Duane" – 3:25 (1984-11-25)
5. "GOA" – 4:46 (1984-11-23)
Side four
1. "Winos Do Not March" – 3:14 (1984-12-04)
2. "Systems of Edges" – 5:32 (1979-03-27)
3. "Things That Look Like Meat" – 6:55 (1981-12-07)
4. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" – 4:00 (1984-08-16)
Personnel
• Frank Zappa - guitar
• Ray White - guitar
• Steve Vai - guitar
• Tommy Mars - keyboards
• Bobby Martin - keyboards
• Ed Mann - percussion
• Scott Thunes - bass guitar
• Chad Wackerman - percussion
• Ike Willis - guitar
• Alan Zavod - keyboards
• Denny Walley - guitar
• Warren Cuccurullo - guitar
• Arthur Barrow - bass guitar
• Vinnie Colaiuta - percussion
• Peter Wolf - keyboards
Guitar 186
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Guitar - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53184). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22
July 2011.
[2] 1989 Grammy Awards (http:/ / www. rockonthenet. com/ archive/ 1989/ grammys. htm) at rockonthenet.com – retrieved on 3 June 2009
[3] ARF: Notes and Comments: GUITAR: Chalk Pie (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Guitar/ chp. html)
[4] ARF: Notes and Comments: GUITAR: In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Guitar/ inagas. html)
[5] ARF: Notes and Comments: GUITAR: Canadian Customs (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Guitar/ canc. html)
[6] ARF: Notes and Comments: GUITAR: It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary (Gershwin/Gershwin/Primrose) (http:/ / www. arf. ru/
Notes/ Guitar/ sainj. html)
[7] Zappa, Frank and Peter Occhiogrosso. (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press. ISBN 0-671-63870-X
[8] ARF: Notes and Comments: GUITAR: Winos Do Not March (http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Guitar/ winosn. html)
[9] Guitar (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ Guitar. html)
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1

Recorded 1969-1984
Genre Comedy rock, hard rock, progressive rock, art rock
Length 137:23
Label Rykodisc
Guitar You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
(1988) 1 2
(1988) (1988)
Singles from Remain in Light
1. "Zomby Woof"
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 is a double disc set of live tracks by Frank Zappa. It was released in
1988 (see 1988 in music) under the label Rykodisc.
Track listing
All songs by Zappa unless otherwise noted.
Disc one
1. "The Florida Airport Tape" (Kaylan, Volman, Zappa) – 1:03
• Recorded at an airport in Florida, June 1970.
2. "Once Upon a Time" – 4:37
• Recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK December 10, 1971
3. "Sofa #1" – 2:53
• Recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK December 10, 1971
4. "The Mammy Anthem" – 5:41
• Recorded at Le Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva, Switzerland July 1, 1982 & Stadio Communale, Palermo, Sicily
July 14, 1982
5. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" – 3:39
• Recorded at the Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany July 3, 1980
6. "Diseases of the Band" – 2:22
• Recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK February 19, 1979
7. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" – 3:44
• Recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK February 18, 1979, 2nd show
8. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black/Harry, You're a Beast/The Orange County Lumber Truck" – 3:27
• Recorded at The Ballroom, Stratford, Connecticut February 16, 1969
9. "The Groupie Routine" – 5:41
• Recorded at Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, California August 7, 1971
10. "Ruthie-Ruthie" (Berry, Brock) – 2:57
• Recorded at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey November 8, 1974
11. "Babbette" – 3:35
• Recorded at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey November 8, 1974
12. "I'm the Slime" – 3:13
• Recorded at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA December 8–10, 1973
13. "Big Swifty" – 8:46
• Recorded at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA December 8–10, 1973
14. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Nanook Rubs It/St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast/Father O'Blivion/Rollo" – 20:16
• Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo (Hammersmith Odeon), London, UK February 18, 1979, 2nd show
Disc two
1. "Plastic People" (Berry, Zappa) – 4:38
• Recorded at The Factory, The Bronx, NYC February 13, 1969
• Unknown venue, 1978
3. "Fine Girl" – 2:55
• Recorded at Parco Redecesio, Milan July 7, 1982
4. "Zomby Woof" – 5:39
• Recorded at Parco Redecesio, Milan, Italy July 7, 1982 Guitar solo: Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK June
19, 1982; late show
5. "Sweet Leilani" (Owens) – 2:39
6. "Oh No" – 4:34
• Recorded at The Pier, NYC August 26, 1984
8. "The Deathless Horsie" – 5:29
10. "Dumb All Over" – 4:20
• Recorded at The Palladium, NYC October 31, 1981; early show
11. "Heavenly Bank Account" – 4:05
12. "Suicide Chump" – 4:55
• Recorded at Stadio Communale, Pistoia, Italy July 5, 1982
14. "Sofa #2" – 3:00
• Recorded at Stadio Communale, Pistoia, Italy July 8, 1982"
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – engineer, keyboards, vocals, producer, main performer, guitar
• Chad Wackerman – vocals
• Lowell George – guitar, vocals
• Adrian Belew – guitar, vocals
• Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, organ
• Ian Underwood – guitar, wind, keyboards
• Dweezil Zappa – guitar

• Denny Walley – slide guitar, vocals
• Jim Sherwood – guitar, wind, vocals
• Scott Thunes – bass guitar, synthesizer, vocals
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar, vocals
• Jeff Simmons – bass guitar
• Patrick O'Hearn – wind, bass guitar
• Arthur Barrow – keyboards, bass guitar
• Allan Zavod – keyboards
• Ruth Underwood – keyboards, percussion
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, vocals, saxophone
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone saxophone
• Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone, trumpet
• Art Tripp – drums
• David Logerman – drums
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, percussion
References
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/
You_Can't_Do_That_On_Stage_Anymore_Vol_1.html)
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Recorded Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland September 22–September 23, 1974
Genre Comedy rock, progressive rock, art rock, jazz fusion
Length 116:42
Label Rykodisc
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. Broadway the Hard
1 2 Way
(1988) (1988) (1988)
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki
Concert," the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled from two (and possibly three) different
concerts performed in Helsinki in 1974. The working title for this album was The Helsinki Tapes, a title more
accurately reflecting the fact that the album was composed of performances from more than one show.
The track listing is similar to that of Roxy & Elsewhere, as are the core band personnel. The performance includes a
double-speed version of "Village of the Sun", sandwiched between a later version of "RDNZL," the first being
recorded in 1972, and "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", and "Montana (Whipping Floss)" — a spontaneously rewritten
version of "Montana", following an audience member's request for The Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post".
The guitar solo in the One Size Fits All version of "Inca Roads" is an edited extract of the solo presented here.
Zappa has considered these performances as some of the best in his career. This particular line-up was one of his
favorites.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme)" – 2:48
3. "Inca Roads" – 10:54
4. "RDNZL" – 8:43
6. "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" – 3:30
7. "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" – 4:56
8. "Pygmy Twylyte" – 8:22
9. "Room Service" – 6:22
10. "The Idiot Bastard Son" – 2:39
11. "Cheepnis" – 4:29
Disc two
1. "Approximate" – 8:11
3. "Satumaa (Finnish Tango)" (Mononen) – 3:51
5. "The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:38
6. "Uncle Meat" – 2:28
7. "Building a Girl" – 1:00
8. "Montana (Whipping Floss)" – 10:15
9. "Big Swifty" – 2:17
Personnel
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, flute, vocals
References
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Recorded Various recordings from December 10, 1971 – December 23, 1984
Length 135:03
Label Rykodisc
Broadway the Hard You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your
Way 3 Life
(1988) (1989) (1991)
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 is a double disc collection of live recordings by Frank Zappa,
spanning from December 10, 1971 to December 23, 1984. "Sharleena" had been previously issued as a flexi disc in
"Guitar Player" magazine. All the songs on disc one are by the 1984 band. It was released in 1989 (see 1989 in
music).
Track listing
All songs by Frank Zappa except where noted.
Disc one
2. "Bamboozled by Love (including the guitar riff from Owner of a Lonely Heart)" – 6:06
3. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" – 2:52
5. "Bobby Brown Goes Down" – 2:44
6. "Keep It Greasey" – 3:30
7. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" – 4:16
8. "In France" – 3:01
9. "Drowning Witch" – 9:22
10. "Ride My Face to Chicago" – 4:22
11. "Carol, You Fool" – 4:06
12. "Chana in de Bushwop" – 4:52
13. "Joe's Garage" – 2:20

14. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" – 3:07
Disc two
2. "Hands With a Hammer" (Bozzio) – 3:18
4. "Society Pages" – 2:32
5. "I'm a Beautiful Guy" – 1:54
6. "Beauty Knows No Pain" – 2:55
7. "Charlie's Enormous Mouth" – 3:39
9. "Nig Biz" – 4:58
10. "King Kong" – 24:32
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – arranger, editing, keyboards, lyricist, vocals, producer, main performer, liner notes, guitar,
compilation
• Lowell George – guitar
• Denny Walley – guitar
• Dweezil Zappa – guitar
• Jim Sherwood – guitar, vocals, wind
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ian Underwood – guitar, wind, alto saxophone, keyboards
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar, wind
• Scott Thunes – bass guitar, vocals, synthesizer
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar, trombone
• Andre Lewis – keyboards
• Don Preston – keyboards, electronics
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, vocals, saxophone
• Bunk Gardner – horn, wind

• Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, percussion
• Terry Bozzio – drums, soloist, lyricist
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, keyboards
• Diva Zappa – lyricist
• Bob Stone – engineer, engineering supervisor, remixing, supervisor
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22625/ review
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Recorded Various locations, 1969 – 1988
Length 134:03
Label Rykodisc
Make a Jazz Noise You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
Here 4 5
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1969 and 1988, and released in 1991.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "Little Rubber Girl" - (2:56)
• (Zappa, Denny Walley)
• Intro recorded at Bismarck Theater, Chicago, Illinois November 23, 1984; song recorded at The Palladium,
New York City October 31, 1978
2. "Stick Together" - (2:04)
• Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver December 18, 1984
3. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" - (3:19)
• Universal Amphitheater, Universal City, California December 23, 1984
4. "Willie the Pimp" - (2:06)
5. "Montana" - (5:46)
• The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles December 8–10, 1973 and Universal Amphitheater, Universal City, California
December 23, 1984
6. "Brown Moses" - (2:37)
7. "The Evil Prince" - (7:11)
• Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver December 18, 1984; except guitar solo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
September 24–26, 1984
• (NB: this is not the song "That Evil Prince" but the "somewhere over there" segment from "The Torchum
Never Stops")
8. "Approximate" - (1:49)
• Stadio Communale, Pistoia, Italy July 8, 1982
9. "Love of My Life" - (1:58)
• Mudd Club, New York City May 8, 1980
10. "Let's Move to Cleveland" - (7:10)
• (solos, 1984) (Featuring Archie Shepp)
• Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts October 28, 1984 with Intro from an unknown concert
in 1974
11. "You Call That Music?" - (4:07)
• McMillin Theater, Columbia University, New York City February 14, 1969
12. "Pound for a Brown" - (6:29)

• (solos, 1978)
• The Palladium, New York City October 28, 1978
13. "The Black Page" - (5:14)
• (1984 version)
• Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver December 18, 1984; except guitar solo: The Pier, New York City August
26, 1984
14. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - (3:01)
• (Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer)
• Pabellón de los Deportes de La Casilla, Bilbao, Spain May 13, 1988
15. "Filthy Habits" - (5:39)
• Pabellón de los Deportes de La Casilla, Bilbao, Spain May 13, 1988 and Le Summum, Grenoble, France May
19, 1988
16. "The Torture Never Stops - Original Version" - (9:14)
• (vocal by Captain Beefheart)
• Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, Texas May 21, 1975
Disc two
1. "Church Chat" - (1:59)
• Parc des Expositions, Metz, France June 22, 1982
2. "Stevie's Spanking" - (10:50)
• Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome, Hammersmith Apollo (Hammersmith Odeon), London, UK June 18, 1982
Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome, Italy July 9, 1982 and Unknown location c. May–June 1982
3. "Outside Now" - (6:09)
• Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania November 10, 1984
4. "Disco Boy" - (2:59)
• Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany June 26, 1982
5. "Teen-Age Wind" - (1:54)
• Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany June 26, 1982
6. "Truck Driver Divorce" - (4:46)
• Hammersmith Odeon, London September 24–26, 1984 and Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December
17, 1984; except guitar solo: Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany June 26, 1982
7. "Florentine Pogen" - (5:09)
• probably Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland September 22, 1974 and Hammersmith Odeon, London, England
February 18, 1979
8. "Tiny Sick Tears" - (4:29)
• The Factory, The Bronx, New York City February 13, 1969
9. "Smell My Beard" - (4:30)
• (George Duke, Zappa)
• Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey November 8, 1974
10. "The Booger Man" - (2:46)
• (Duke, Napoleon Brock, Zappa)
• Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey November 8, 1974
11. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" - (6:27)
• Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December 17, 1984 and unidentified place and date, 1984
12. "Are You Upset?" - (1:29)
• Fillmore East, New York City February 21, 1969
13. "Little Girl of Mine" - (1:40)
• (Morris Levy, Herbert Cox)
• Detroit, Michigan August 21, 1984 (late show)
14. "The Closer You Are" - (2:04)
• (Earl Lewis, Morgan Robinson)
• Bayfront Center Arena, St. Petersburg, Florida December 1, 1984 and Detroit, Michigan August 24, 1984
15. "Johnny Darling" - (0:51)
• (Louis Statton, Johnny Statton)
• Detroit, Michigan August 24, 1984
16. "No, No Cherry" - (1:25)
• (L. Caesar, J. Gray)
• Detroit, Michigan August 24, 1984
17. "The Man from Utopia" - (1:15)
• (Donald Woods, Doris Woods)
• Stadio Comunale, Pistoia, Italy July 8, 1982
18. "Mary Lou" - (2:15)
• (Obie Jessie)
• Stadio Comunale, Pistoia, Italy July 8, 1982
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – vocals on tracks 1-01, 1-02, 1-04 to 1-06, 1-08, 1-09, 2-04 to 2-07, 2-08 (sensitive vocal), 2-10 to
2-12, 2-16, and 2-18, lead guitar on tracks 1-04, 1-05, 1-07, 1-10 to 1-16, 2-01 (1st solo), 2-02, 2-03, 2-06, 2-07,
2-10, and 2-11
• Ray White – guitar on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-09, 1-13, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18, vocals on tracks Ray
White 1-02, 1-04 to 1-09, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18
• Ike Willis – guitar on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-07, 1-09, 1-10, 1-13, 1-15, 2-03, 2-06, 2-11, and 2-16, vocals on
tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-07, 1-09, 1-14, 2-03, 2-06, 2-07, 2-11, and 2-16
• Steve Vai – guitar on tracks 1-08, 2-01 (2nd solo), 2-02, 2-04, 2-05, and 2-18
• Lowell George – guitar on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12, vocals on tracks 2-01, 2-08, and 2-12, percussion on track
2-01
• Mike Kenneally – guitar on tracks 1-14, and 1-15
• Warren Cuccurullo – guitar on track 2-07
• Denny Walley – slide guitar on tracks 1-12, 1-16, and 2-07, vocals on tracks 1-01, and 2-07
• Scott Thunes – bass on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-08, 1-10, 1-13 to 1-15, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18
• Arthur Barrow – bass on tracks 1-01, 1-09, 1-12, and 2-07
• Roy Estrada – bass on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12, vocals on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12, keyboards on track 1-09
• Tom Fowler – bass on tracks 1-05, 1-16, and 2-10
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass on tracks 1-01, and 1-12, vocals on track 1-01
• Bobby Martin – keyboards on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-08, 1-10, 1-13 to 1-15, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18,
saxophone on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-08, 1-10, 1-13, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18, vocals on tracks 1-02,
1-04 to 1-08, 2-02 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18

• Alan Zavod – keyboards on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-07, 1-10, 1-13, 2-03, 2-06, 2-11, and 2-16
• Tommy Mars – keyboardson tracks 1-01, 1-08, 1-09, 1-12, 2-01, 2-02, 2-04, 2-05, 2-07, and 2-18, vocals on
tracks 1-08, 1-12 (2nd solo), 2-01, 2-02, 2-04, 2-05, 2-07, and 2-18
• Don Preston – keyboards on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• George Duke – keyboards on tracks 1-05, 1-16, and 2-10, vocals on tracks 1-05, and 2-10
• Peter Wolf – keyboards on tracks 1-01, and Mini-moog solo on track 1-12
• Mike Kenneally – synthesizer on tracks 1-14, and 1-15
• Don Preston – synthesizer on tracks 2-08, and 2-12
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone on tracks 1-05, 1-16, and 2-10, vocals on tracks 1-05, and 2-10
• Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• Albert Wing – tenor saxophone on tracks 1-14, and 1-15
• Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone solo on track 1-10
• Ian Underwood – alto saxophone on tracks 2-08, and 2-12, clarinet on track 1-11
• Paul Carman – alto saxophone on tracks 1-14, and 1-15
• Kurt McGettrick – baritone saxophone on tracks 1-14, and 1-15
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone saxophone on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• Buzz Gardner – trumpet on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• Walt Fowler – trumpet on tracks 1-14, and 1-15, vocals on track 1-14
• Bruce Fowler – trombone on tracks 1-05, and 1-14 to 1-16
• Captain Beefheart – harmonica and vocals on track 1-16
• Chad Wackerman – drums on tracks 1-02, 1-04 to 1-08, 1-10, 1-13 to 1-15, 2-01 to 2-06, 2-11, 2-16, and 2-18
• Arthur Dyer Tripp III – drums on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on tracks 1-01, 1-12, and 2-07
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums on tracks 1-11, 2-08, and 2-12
• Chester Thompson – drums on tracks 1-05, and 2-10
• Ralph Humphrey – drums on track 1-05
• David Logeman – drums on track 1-09
• Terry Bozzio – drums on track 1-16
• Ed Mann – percussion on tracks 1-01, 1-08, 1-12, 1-14, 1-15, 2-01, 2-02, 2-04, 2-05, 2-07, and 2-18
• Ruth Underwood – percussion on tracks 1-05, and 2-10
• Dave Samuels – percussion soloist on vibes on track 1-11
Production
• Frank Zappa – producer, liner notes, editing
• Bob Stone – remix engineer, and e engineering supervision
• Kathleen Philpott – package design
References
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Recorded 1966–1969 (Disc one);

May 30–July 14, 1982 (Disc two)
Genre Hard rock, jazz fusion, rock and roll, experimental rock
Length 140:45
Label Rykodisc
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 is a double compact disc collection of live recordings (except for
"German Lunch" and "My Guitar" which are studio recordings) by Frank Zappa. Disc one comprises performances
by the Mothers of Invention spanning the period from 1966 to 1969. "My Guitar" had been previously released as a
single in 1969. Disc two comprises performances from the summer 1982 tour of Europe. It was released in 1992 (see
1992 in music) under the label Rykodisc.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "The Downtown Talent Scout" – 4:01
2. "Charles Ives" – 4:37
3. "Here Lies Love" (Martin, Dobard) – 2:44
4. "Piano/Drum Duet" – 1:57
5. "Mozart Ballet" (Zappa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) – 4:05
6. "Chocolate Halvah" (Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Zappa) – 3:25
7. "JCB & Kansas on the Bus #1" (Kanzus, Black, Kunc, Barber) – 1:03
8. "Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme" – 1:16
9. "The Little March" – 1:20
10. "Right There" (Estrada, Zappa) – 5:10
11. "Where Is Johnny Velvet?" – 0:48

12. "Return of the Hunch-Back Duke" – 1:44
13. "Trouble Every Day" – 4:06
14. "Proto-Minimalism" – 1:41
15. "JCB & Kansas on the Bus #2" (Kanzus, Black, Kunc, Barber) – 1:06
16. "My Head?" (MOI) – 1:22
17. "Meow" – 1:23
18. "Baked-Bean Boogie" – 3:26
19. "Where's Our Equipment?" – 2:29
20. "FZ/JCB Drum Duet" – 4:26
21. "No Waiting for the Peanuts to Dissolve" – 4:45
22. "A Game of Cards" (Zappa, Motorhead Sherwood, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood) – 0:44
23. "Underground Freak-Out Music" – 3:51
24. "German Lunch" (MOI) – 6:43
25. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" – 2:11
Disc two
1. "Easy Meat" – 7:38
2. "The Dead Girls of London" (Zappa, L. Shankar) – 2:29
3. "Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?" – 1:44
4. "What's New in Baltimore?" – 5:03
5. "Moggio" – 2:29
6. "Dancin' Fool" – 3:12
7. "RDNZL" – 7:58
9. "City of Tiny Lites" – 10:38
10. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" – 8:38
11. "Doreen" – 1:58
12. "Black Page, No. 2" – 9:56
13. "Geneva Farewell" – 1:38
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – conductor, guitar, lyricist, remixing, producer, main performer, liner notes, vocals
• Dick Kunc – vocals, voices, engineer
• Kanzus J. Kanzus – vocals, voices
• Dick Barber – vocals, voices, sound effects
• Lowell George – guitar, vocals
• Elliot Ingber – guitar
• Don Preston – electronics, keyboards
• Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone, trumpet
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone saxophone, vocals
• Bobby Martin – saxophone, vocals, keyboards

• Ian Underwood – clarinet, alto saxophone, electric piano, piano
• Billy Mundi – drums
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals, voices
• Ray Collins – tambourine
• Noel Redding – dancer
• John Judnich – engineer
• Bob Stone – remixing
References
External links

Recorded 1970 - 1988
Genre Hard rock, jazz fusion, rock and roll, experimental rock
Length 137:26
Label Rykodisc
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. Playground
5 6 Psychotics
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double disc collection volumes of live performances
by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. It was released
on October 23, 1992 (see 1992 in music) under the label Rykodisc.
Track listing
Disc one
1. "The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath" – 3:01
2. "The Poodle Lecture" – 5:02
3. "Dirty Love" – 2:39
4. "Magic Fingers" – 2:21
5. "The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival" – 2:44
7. "Father O'Blivion" – 2:21
8. "Is That Guy Kidding or What?" – 4:02
9. "I'm So Cute" – 1:39
10. "White Person" – 2:07
11. "Lonely Person Devices" – 3:13
12. "Ms. Pinky" – 2:00
13. "Shove It Right In" (comprising "She Painted Up Her Face", "Half A Dozen Provocative Squats" and "Shove It
Right In") – 6:45
15. "Make a Sex Noise" – 3:09
16. "Tracy Is a Snob" – 3:54
17. "I Have Been in You" – 5:04
18. "Emperor of Ohio" – 1:31
19. "Dinah-Moe Humm" – 3:16
20. "He's So Gay" – 2:34
21. "Camarillo Brillo" – 3:09
22. "Muffin Man" – 2:25
Disc two
1. "NYC Halloween Audience" – 0:46
2. "The Illinois Enema Bandit" – 8:04
3. "Thirteen" – 6:08
4. "Lobster Girl" – 2:20
8. "Catholic Girls" – 4:04
9. "Crew Slut" – 5:33
11. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" – 3:46
12. "Lisa's Life Story" – 3:05
13. "Lonesome Cowboy Nando" – 5:15
14. "200 Motels Finale" – 3:43
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – conductor, main performer, guitar, vocals, synthesizer, producer
• Denny Walley – slide guitar, vocals
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, vocals
• Adrian Belew – guitar, vocals
• Warren Cuccurullo – guitar
• Mike Keneally – guitar, synthesizer, vocals
• Jeff Simmons – bass guitar
• Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals
• Lisa Popeil - vocals
• Ian Underwood – keyboards, alto saxophone
• Michael Brecker - Tenor saxophone on Black Napkins
• Paul Carman – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Walt Fowler – flugelhorn, synthesizer, trumpet

• Kurt McGettrick – contrabass clarinet, bass saxophone, baritone saxophone
• L. Shankar - Violin
• Chad Wackerman – drums, electronic percussion
• Ed Mann – electric percussion, percussion, backing vocals, marimba
• Lady Bianca - keyboards, vocals on "Wind up Workin' in a Gas Station"
• George Douglas – engineer
References
External links
FZ:OZ
FZ:OZ
Recorded Hordern Pavilion, Sydney January 20, 1976
Genre Progressive rock, art rock, experimental rock
Length 146:56
Label Vaulternative
Producer Dweezil Zappa
EIHN (Everything Is Healing FZ:OZ Halloween

Nicely) (2002) (2003)
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FZ:OZ (pronounced "eff-zee oh-zee"; in imitation of "Aussie") is a live album by Frank Zappa, released in 2002 as a
two-CD set and is the first release on the Vaulternative Records label from the Zappa Family Trust. It contains
almost all of a January 20, 1976 concert at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia.
Only one reel-to-reel tape machine was available to record the concert, however, resulting in gaps in some songs as
the tape needed to be changed. These gaps have been filled in with bootleg recordings from the same tour. As a
result there is a drop in sound quality during these sections, but the concert is preserved almost in its entirety.
Much of the featured material had not been released at the time of the recording, including "Canard Toujours", which
later became "Let's Move to Cleveland", then later changed to Kreega Bondola, which was included on Does Humor
Belong in Music? (1986) and several tracks that would later appear on Zoot Allures (1976). One song, "Kaiser
Rolls", appears for the first time on FZ:OZ, and in two versions—the recording from the concert, which has had a
missing section edited in, and a rehearsal version recorded before the start of the tour which is included at the end of
disc two, entitled "Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)". "Zoot Allures" contains long wah-wah guitar solo subsequently entitled
as "Ship Ahoy" however it wasn't separated into own track.
Track listing
All tracks by Frank Zappa.
Disc one
1. "Hordern Intro (Incan Art Vamp)" – 3:10
2. "Stink-Foot" – 6:35
6. "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" – 3:27
8. "I'm Not Satisfied" – 1:54
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Disc two
1. "Canard Toujours" – 3:22
2. "Kaiser Rolls" – 3:17
4. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" – 6:12
5. "Lonely Little Girl" – 2:39
7. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" – 1:07
8. "Chunga's Revenge" – 15:41
10. "Keep It Greasy" – 4:40
13. "Muffin Man" – 3:41
14. "Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)" – 3:00
Personnel
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – tenor saxophone, vocals
• Andre Lewis – keyboards, vocals
• Norman Gunston – harmonica (on "The Torture Never Stops")
References
[1] Dryden, K. (2011 [last update]). "FZ: OZ - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r608867/ review). allmusic.com. .
Retrieved 21 July 2011. "Zappa"
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/FZ_OZ.html)
• Release history (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/oz.html)
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Halloween
Halloween
Released February 4, 2003
Recorded The Palladium, New York City, October 27–31, 1978
Genre Rock
Length 70:22
Label Vaulternative
FZ:OZ Halloween Joe's

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Halloween is a live album by Frank Zappa, released in DVD-Audio format by Vaulternative Records in 2003. It
features recordings compiled from various shows at The Palladium, New York City in late October 1978—including
a Halloween show on October 31—along with some video content from the same period. The set includes a
performance of "Ancient Armaments", which appears on the album for the first time in digital form, having
previously been included as the B-side to "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" in 1980. The album cover art resembles the
cover art of 1969's Hot Rats.
Track listing
Audio content
1. "NYC Audience" – 1:17
2. "Ancient Armaments" – 8:23
4. "Easy Meat" – 6:03
6. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" – 2:24
7. "Conehead" – 4:02
8. "Zeets" (Vinnie Colaiuta) – 2:58
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12. "Muffin Man" – 3:32
13. "Black Napkins (The Deathless Horsie)" – 16:56
Track 5, "Magic Fingers", is edited together from versions from the Halloween show on October 31, 1978 and from
the two shows which took place on October 27. The other tracks were taken from the following shows:
• October 27, first show — tracks 10–12
• October 27, second show — track 4
• October 28, first show — track 7
• October 31 — tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 and 13
Additional content
• "Suicide Chump" – 9:31
• Video in Black and White, recorded at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey October 13, 1978
• "Dancin' Fool" – 3:48
• Color video taken from Zappa's appearance on Saturday Night Live, in New York City October 21, 1978
• Radio interview – 9:41
• Audio only; conducted at WPIX with Mark Simone, October 30, 1978
Personnel
• Denny Walley – guitar, vocals
• L. Shankar – violin
References
[1] Dryden, K. (2011 [last update]). "Halloween - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r623158). allmusic.com. .
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Halloween.html)
• Halloween at zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/fz/albums/halloween/)
Imaginary Diseases
Imaginary Diseases
Released January 13, 2006 (limited release)

January 30, 2007 (wide release)
Recorded October 27, 1972–December 15, 1972
Genre Jazz, Fusion, Progressive rock
Length 63:14
Label Zappa
Joe's Imaginary MOFO (Deluxe

Xmasage Diseases 4-Disc)
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Imaginary Diseases is an album of material by Frank Zappa from the Petit Wazoo tour of 1972. It is one of two
finished CD projects from the tour containing material mastered by Zappa before his death.
Track listing
1. "Oddients" – 1:13 (Montreal, Canada, 1972-10-27)
2. "Rollo" – 3:21 (Philadelphia, PA, 1972-11-11, Show 1)
3. "Been to Kansas City in A Minor" – 10:15 (Kansas City, MO, 1972-12-02)
4. "Farther O'Blivion" – 16:02 (unknown)
5. "D.C. Boogie" – 13:27 (Washington, D.C., 1972-11-11, Show 1)
6. "Imaginary Diseases" – 9:45 (Waterbury, CT, 1972-11-01)
7. "Montreal" – 9:11 (Montreal, Canada, 1972-10-27)
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – Conductor, Guitar, Vocals
• Malcolm McNabb – Trumpet
• Gary Barone – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Tom Malone – Tuba, Saxes, Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet
• Earl Dumler – Woodwinds
• Glenn Ferris – Trombone
• Bruce Fowler – Trombone
• Tony Duran – Slide Guitar
• Dave Parlato – Bass
• Jim Gordon – Drums
Composed/Produced/Performed/Edited/Mixed/Tweaked by Frank Zappa
Vaultmeistered by Joe Travers. Mastered by Doug Sax & Robert Hadley
Liner notes by Steve Vai.
References
[1] Dryden, K. (2011 [last update]). "Imaginary Diseases - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r828698).
External links
• Imaginary Diseases at Zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/flash/id/)
Trance-Fusion
Trance-Fusion
Recorded 1977—1988
Genre Instrumental rock
Length 61:40
Label Zappa
MOFO Trance-Fusion Buffalo

(2-Disc) (2006) (2007)
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Trance-Fusion is the name of an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not
released until 2006.[2] The album had previously been announced for release in 1999,[3] and 2003[4] and again
announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through
bootlegs.[5]
Zappa had previously released several other albums consisting entirely of guitar solos - Guitar, the Shut Up 'n Play
Yer Guitar series, the cassette-only The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, and the posthumous Frank Zappa
Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute.
Track listing
1. "Chunga's Revenge" - 7:01
• Performed at Wembley Arena, London, UK: April 19, 1988. Features Dweezil Zappa
2. "Bowling on Charen" - 5:03
• Guitar solo from Wild Love, performed at The Palladium, NYC: October 28, 1977 (early show)
• Originally called The Squirm
3. "Good Lobna" - 1:39
• Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee: December
4, 1984
• Refers to an episode of The Simpsons: "New Kid on the Block," in which Bart says this line. Series creator
Matt Groening is a Zappa fan.
4. "A Cold Dark Matter" - 3:31
• Guitar solo from Inca Roads, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
• Refers to cold dark matter, a term from cosmology and particle physics.
5. "Butter or Cannons" - 3:24
• Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland, performed at The Pier, NYC: August 25, 1984
6. "Ask Dr. Stupid" - 3:20
• Guitar solo from Easy Meat, performed at Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, Germany: March 21, 1979
• Refers to a recurring segment from The Ren and Stimpy Show. Series creator John Kricfalusi is also a Zappa
fan, and Zappa provided the voice of "The Pope" on one episode of the series.
7. "Scratch & Sniff" - 3:56
• Guitar solo from City Of Tiny Lights, performed at Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK: April 16, 1988
8. "Trance-Fusion" - 4:19
• Guitar solo from Marque-Son's Chicken, performed at Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany: May 24, 1988
9. "Gorgo" - 2:41
• Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm: May 1, 1988
• May refer to the 1961 science fiction film (Zappa is known to be a fan of monster movies), or Gorgonzola, the
Zappa family's cat. Most likely refers to Gorgo (presumably a roadie or security guard) as listed in the liner
notes.
10. "Diplodocus" - 3:22
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• Guitar solo from King Kong, performed at Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island: October 26, 1984
11. "Soul Polka"' - 3:17
• Guitar solo from Oh No, performed at Memorial Hall, Allentown, Pennsylvania: March 19, 1988
12. "For Giuseppe Franco" - 3:48
• Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle,
Washington: December 17, 1984 (late show)
13. "After Dinner Smoker" - 4:45
• Guitar solo from The Torture Never Stops, performed at Palasport, Genoa, Italy: June 9, 1988
14. "Light is All That Matters" - 3:46
• Guitar solo from Let's Move To Cleveland,performed at Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington December
17, 1984 (late show)
15. "Finding Higgs' Boson" - 3:41
• Guitar solo from Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, performed at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria: May 8,
1988
• Refers to the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the
Standard Model of particle physics.
16. "Bavarian Sunset" - 4:00
• Guitar solo from post-I Am The Walrus jam, performed at Rudi-Sedlmeyer Sporthalle, Munich, Germany:
May 9, 1988
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, all tracks
• Dweezil Zappa – guitar on tracks 1 and 16
• Mike Keneally – rhythm guitar and keyboards on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Bobby Martin – keyboards on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Ed Mann – percussion on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Walt Fowler – trumpet, flugelhorn and keyboards on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Bruce Fowler – trombone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Paul Carmen – alto, soprano, and baritone saxophone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Albert Wing – tenor saxophone on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Kurt McGettrick – baritone, bass saxophone and contrabass clarinet on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16
• Scott Thunes – bass and mini-Moog on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Chad Wackerman – drums and percussion on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• Ray White – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Allan Zavod – keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 10, 12, and 14
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar on track 6
• Denny Walley – slide guitar on track 6
• Tommy Mars – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
• Peter Wolf – keyboards on tracks 2 and 6
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on track 6
• Adrian Belew – rhythm guitar on track 2
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass on track 2
• Terry Bozzio – drums on track 2
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Notes
[1] Westergaard, S. (2011 [last update]). "Trance-Fusion - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r928086).
[2] Upcoming Releases - October 24, 2006 @ rykodistribution.com (http:/ / www. rykodistribution. com/ download. php?filename=99&
dir=docs& ext=pdf#search=""October 24, 2006" zappa -"zappa plays zappa"")
[3] "Re: 'Trans fuzion' and 'Dance me this'" (http:/ / groups. google. se/ group/ alt. fan. frank-zappa/ msg/ 83009a04d8e620fc), Bossk (R),
alt.fan.frank-zappa, Usenet, 26 April 2000]
[4] Zappa.com FAQ (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ cheezoid/ whatsnew/ FAQ/ index. php)
[5] Info about the Trance-Fusion bootleg can be found at the Zappa Patio (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ bootlegs/ counterfeits.
html#trancefusiondemos)
External links
• Trance-Fusion at Zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/flash/trance-fusion/)
References
1. "Information Is Not Knowledge: FZ Discography" (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Trance-Fusion.
html). Retrieved October 27, 2006.
Buffalo
Buffalo
Recorded The Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New

York
October 25, 1980
Genre Rock
Label Vaulternative

Gail Zappa
Joe Travers
Trance-Fusion Buffalo The Dub Room

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Buffalo is a live album by Frank Zappa, released in 2007 as a two-CD set. It is the second installment on the
Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete live shows of Zappa's (the first
release being FZ:OZ).[2] This concert was recorded on October 25, 1980 in Buffalo, New York with a band that has
previously been heard on Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981) and Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981).
Track listing
Disc 1
1. "Chunga’s Revenge" – 8:34
2. "You Are What You Is" – 4:12
3. "Mudd Club" – 3:02
6. "Keep It Greasy" – 2:58
7. "Tinsel Town Rebellion" – 4:19
8. "Buffalo Drowning Witch" – 2:44
9. "Honey, Don’t You Want a Man Like Me?" – 4:36
10. "Pick Me, I’m Clean" – 10:15
11. "Dead Girls Of London" – 3:02
12. "Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?" – 1:36
Disc 2
1. "Easy Meat" – 9:26
2. "Ain’t Got No Heart" – 2:00
4. "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" – 3:39
5. "I’m So Cute" – 1:38
6. "Andy" – 8:14
7. "Joe’s Garage" – 2:12
9. "The “Real World” Thematic Extrapolations" – 8:53
10. "Stick It Out" – 5:36
11. "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" – 2:48
12. "Bobby Brown" – 2:42
13. "Ms Pinky" – 3:48
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Musicians
• Frank Zappa: Lead Guitar & Vocals
• Steve Vai: Stunt Guitar & Background Vocals
• Ray White: Vocals & Rhythm Guitar
• Ike Willis: Vocals & Rhythm Guitar
• Tommy Mars: Keyboards & Vocals
• Bob Harris: Keyboards, Trumpet & High Vocals
• Arthur Barrow: Bass & Vocals
• Vinnie Colaiuta: Drums, Vocals
Frank Zappa and band during the concert,
Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY. Oct 25, 1980
Album credits
• Frank Zappa: Music, Performance, Band & Recordings
• Gail Zappa & Joe Travers: CD Production
• Frank Filipetti: Mix
• John Polito: Mastering
• George Douglas: Original Recording Engineer
• Gail Zappa: Art Direction/Concept & Text
• Keith Lawler: Design, Layout & Art Execution
• Kaushal Parekh: Cover Photo
Notes
[2] Zappa, Gail. Liner Notes. Buffalo, VR 2007-1.
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Wazoo
Wazoo
Recorded Boston Music Hall,

September 24, 1972
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 51:35 (Disc 1)

44:30 (Disc 2)
Label Vaulternative
The Dub Room Wazoo One Shot

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Wazoo is a live album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released on October 30, 2007.
It is a 2-CD set consisting of the complete concert given by "The Mothers of Invention/Hot Rats/Grand Wazoo"
20-piece big band on September 24, 1972 at the Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
It is the last concert of a brief series of shows that marked Zappa's return to the stage after his forced temporary
retirement from the touring scene due to the injuries he suffered from an assault during a concert at the Rainbow
Theater in London on December 10, 1971.
The material showcases Zappa's endeavors into jazz-based music, and many of the compositions were featured on
the 1972 studio albums The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka and on the 1978 studio album Studio Tan. Rehearsals
leading to these albums and concerts are documented on Joe's Domage (2004), while Imaginary Diseases (2006)
presents live recordings with a stripped-down version of the big band named "Petite Wazoo."
Wazoo is the third installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of
complete Zappa concerts, following the releases of FZ:OZ (2002) and Buffalo (2007).
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Track listing
Disc one
1. "Intro Intros" – 3:19
2. "The Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)" – 17:21
3. "Approximate" – 13:35
4. "Big Swifty" – 11:49
Disc two
1. "Ulterior Motive" – 3:19
2. "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" – 32:37
1. "Movement I" – 4:50
2. "Movement II" – 9:07
3. "Movement III" – 12:33
4. "Movement IV – The New Brown Clouds" – 6:07
3. "Penis Dimension" – 3:35
4. "Variant I Processional March" – 3:28
Note
At the concert, "Big Swifty" was played between "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" and "Penis Dimension".[3]
Musicians
The Mothers of Invention / Hot Rats / Grand Wazoo:
• Frank Zappa – guitar and white stick with cork handle
• Tony Duran – slide guitar
• Ian Underwood – piano and synthesizer
• Dave Parlato – bass
• Jerry Kessler – electric cello
• Jim Gordon – drums
• Mike Altshul – piccolo, bass clarinet and other winds
• Jay Migliori – flute, tenor sax and other winds
• Earl Dulmer – oboe, contrabass sarrusophone and other winds
• Ray Reed – clarinet, tenor sax and other winds
• Charles Owens – soprano sax, alto sax and other winds
• Joann McNab – basoon
• Malcolm McNab – trumpet in D
• Sal Marquez – trumpet in Bb
• Tom Malone – trumpet in Bb, also tuba
• Glen Ferris – trombone and euphonium
• Kenny Shroyer – trombone and baritone horn
• Bruce Fowler – trombone of the upper atmosphere
• Tom Raney – vibes and electric percussion
• Ruth Underwood – marimba and electric percussion
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Notes
[1] "allmusic ((( Wazoo! > Overview )))" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r1265200). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 2009-11-27.
[2] "Frank Zappa: Zappa/Wazoo : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ frankzappa/ albums/ album/
17482344/ review/ 17489157/ zappawazoo). rollingstone.com. . Retrieved 2009-11-27.
[3] http:/ / www. zappateers. com/ fzshows/ 72. html.
External links
• The Official Frank Zappa Site (http://www.zappa.com/)
• Progarchives listing for Zappa Wazoo (http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=17246/)
One Shot Deal

One Shot Deal
Recorded Various locations 1972-1981
Genre Rock, progressive rock, instrumental
Length 51:51
Label Zappa
Producer Gail Zappa, Frank Zappa, Joe Travers
Wazoo One Shot Joe's

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One Shot Deal is an album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released on June 13, 2008.
The track "Occam's Razor" is a guitar solo extract from a live version of the song "Inca Roads". The solo was used in
the song "On The Bus" from the album Joe's Garage. This is an example of Zappa's xenochrony technique. Tracks 3
and 9 feature the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra.
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Track listing
1. "Bathtub Man" – 5:43
• Sep. 26, 1974 Palais des Sports, Paris, France
2. "Space Boogers" – 1:24

• Nov. 8, 1974 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (late show)
3. "Hermitage" – 2:00
• Sep. 18, 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
4. "Trudgin' Across the Tundra" – 4:01

• Nov. 11, 1972 DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC (early show)
5. "Occam's Razor" – 9:11

• Mar. 21, 1979 Rhein-Neckarhalle, Eppelheim, DEU = guitar solo from "Inca Roads"
6. "Heidelberg" – 4:46
• Feb. 24, 1978 Rhein-Neckar Stadion, Eppelheim, DEU = guitar solo from "Yo' Mama"

• Oct. 31, 1981 The Palladium, New York, NY (late show)
8. "Australian Yellow Snow" – 12:26

• Jun. 25, 1973 Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, AUS
9. "Rollo" – 2:57
• Sep. 18, 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
All songs written by Frank Zappa, except "Bathtub Man" by Brock/Duke/Zappa
Personnel
1. "Bathtub Man"
• Frank Zappa — guitar
• Napoleon Murphy Brock — vocals, saxophone
• George Duke — keyboards, vocals
• Tom Fowler — bass
• Chester Thompson — drums
• Ruth Underwood — percussion
2. "Space Boogers"
• Frank Zappa — guitar
• George Duke — keyboards
• Chester Thompson — drums
3. "Hermitage"
• Frank Zappa — guitar, composer
• Ralph Grierson, Mike Lang, Ian Underwood — keyboards
• Bill Mays — clavinet
• Bobby Dubow, John Wittenberg — violin
• Pamela Goldsmith — viola
• Jerry Kessler — cello
• Lou Anne Neill — harp
• Gene Goe, Malcolm McNab, Roy Poper — trumpet
• Jock Ellis, Bruce Fowler, Kenny Shroyer — trombone
• Dana Hughes — bass trombone
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• Don Waldrop — tuba and contrabass trombone

• Arthur Briegleb, David Duke, Bob Henderson, Todd Miller — French horn
• Dave Shostac — flute, tenor sax
• Gary Foster — 2nd flute (and doubles)
• Ray Reed — flute, alto sax
• Vic Morosco — clarinet, alto sax
• Jay Migliori — clarinet, tenor sax
• Mike Altschul — bass clarinet, baritone sax
• Earle Dumler — oboe, English horn, bass oboe
• John Winter — oboe, English horn
• David Sherr — 2nd oboe and tenor saxophone
• JoAnn Caldwell — bassoon
• Bobby Tricarico — bassoon, contra bassoon
• Dave Parlato — bass
• Terry Bozzio — drums
• Alan Estes, John Bergamo, Emil Richards, Tom Raney — percussion
4. "Trudgin' Across the Tundra"
• Frank Zappa — conductor, guitar
• Tony Duran — slide guitar
• Malcolm McNab — trumpet
• Gary Barone — trumpet (solo)
• Tom Malone — trumpet, trombone, tuba, piccolo, saxophone
• Bruce Fowler — trombone
• Glenn Ferris — trombone
• Earle Dumler — oboe, saxophone, sarrusophone
• Dave Parlato — bass
• Jim Gordon — drums, steel drums
5. "Occam's Razor"
• Frank Zappa — guitar solo
• Warren Cuccurullo — guitar
• Denny Walley — guitar, backing vocal
• Ike Willis — backing vocal
• Tommy Mars — keyboards
• Peter Wolf — keyboards
• Arthur Barrow — bass
• Vinnie Colaiuta — drums
• Ed Mann — percussion
6. "Heidelberg"
• Frank Zappa — guitar solo
• Adrian Belew — guitar
• Peter Wolf — keyboards
• Patrick O'Hearn — bass
• Terry Bozzio — drums
7. "The Illinois Enema Bandit"
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• Frank Zappa — guitar, vocals

• Ray White — vocals, guitar
• Steve Vai — guitar
• Robert Martin — keyboards, vocals
• Scott Thunes — bass
• Chad Wackerman — drums
8. "Australian Yellow Snow"
• Frank Zappa — guitar, vocals
• George Duke — keyboards, vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty — violin
• Sal Marquez — trumpet, vocals
• Ian Underwood — woodwinds, synthesizer
• Bruce Fowler — trombone
• Tom Fowler — bass
• Ralph Humphrey — drums
• Ruth Underwood — percussion
9. "Rollo"
• Same as "Hermitage"
Credits
• Bernie Grundman – Mastering
• Michael Mesker — Design, Layout Design
• Melanie Starks — Production Coordination
• Joe Travers — Producer, Vault Research
• Gail Zappa – Producer, Package Concept, Text
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "One Shot Deal - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r1406001). allmusic.com. .
External links
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Philly '76
Philly '76
Recorded October 29, 1976

Spectrum Theater, Philadelphia, PA
Genre Rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion
Label Vaulternative Records
Producer Gail Zappa & Joe Travers
Lumpy Philly Greasy Love

Money '76 Songs
(2009) (2009) (2010)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Prog Archives [2]
Philly '76 is a live album by Frank Zappa, recorded on October 29, 1976 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA, and
released by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records on December 21, 2009 to commemorate Frank
Zappa's 69th birthday. It is the fourth recording of a complete concert released posthumously on the Vaulternative
Records label.
History
The live band featured on the recording included Lady Bianca on vocals, who only toured with Zappa's band for a
few weeks in the fall of 1976. One cut from this concert ("Wind Up Workin' in A Gas Station") was released on You
Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 in 1992. Prior to the release of Philly '76, no other recordings featuring
Lady Bianca had been officially released.
Also appearing for the first time on the album are a cover of "Stranded in the Jungle" (originally recorded in 1956 by
the Jay Hawks, later covered by The Cadets, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen and the New York
Dolls, and included in the non-Zappa Family Trust release "Frank Zappa's Jukebox") and a verse of lyrics in "Titties
'N Beer" not included in previously released versions of the song, which illuminates Zappa's original title for the
song, "Chrissy Puked Twice."
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Track listing
Disc one
1. "The Purple Lagoon" – 3:35
8. "City of Tiny Lights" – 7:47
10. "Manx Needs Women" – 1:44
11. "Chrissy Puked Twice" – 6:48
Disc two
4. "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink" – 2:20
5. "Would You Go All the Way?" – 2:04
6. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" – 2:05
7. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" – 4:55
9. "Stranded in the Jungle" – 3:10
12. "Muffin Man" – 6:53
Musicians
• Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals
• Lady Bianca - vocals, keyboards
• Ray White - rhythm guitar, vocals
• Eddie Jobson - keyboards, violin
• Patrick O'Hearn - bass, vocals
• Terry Bozzio - drums, vocals
References
[1] "allmusic ((( Philly '76 > Overview )))" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r1716893). www.allmusic.com. . Retrieved 2010-03-15.
[2] Philly '76 review (http:/ / www. progarchives. com/ Review. asp?id=257280) at Prog Archives
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Soundtracks
200 Motels
200 Motels
Soundtrack album by Frank Zappa
Recorded January 28–February 5, 1971 at Pinewood Studios, UK; Overdubs: April, 1971 at Whitney Studios, Glendale
Genre Rock, jazz, orchestra, comedy
Length 91:49
Label United Artists
Fillmore East – June 200 Just Another Band from

1971 Motels L.A.
(1971) (1971) (1972)
Singles from 200 Motels
1. "Magic Fingers"
Released: 1971
2. "What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning"
Released: 1971
The soundtrack to Frank Zappa's film 200 Motels was released by United Artists Records in 1971 and features a
combination of rock and jazz songs, orchestral music and comedic spoken dialogue.[1] The album, like the film,
covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville, and bassist Jeff
quitting the group, as did his real life counterpart, Jeff Simmons, who left the group before the film began shooting
and was replaced by actor Martin Lickert for the film.[1]
The album peaked at #59 on the Billboard 200,[2] though reviewers deemed it a peripheral part of Zappa's catalog.[1]
Music and lyrics

The rock and comedy songs "Mystery Roach", "Lonesome Cowboy Burt", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", "What Will
This Evening Bring Me This Morning" and "Magic Fingers", and the finale "Strictly Genteel", which mixes
orchestral and rock elements, were noted as highlights of the album by reviewer Richie Unterberger.[1] François
Couture, a reviewer for Allmusic, said that "Mystery Roach" contains multiple meanings, all of which have a
connection to lyrical subject matter in Zappa's discography.[3] These include the freshwater fish, as the Mothers of
Invention live album Fillmore East - June 1971 contained a song referring to the mud shark, a cannabis cigarette
butt, which causes the character Jeff to go crazy within the context of the film's storyline, and a combed roll
hairstyle, which connects the song lyrically to "Jelly Roll Gumdrop", a song from Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.[3]
The version featured on the album is different from the version featured in the film, as it is missing small electric
guitar solos by Zappa, and was not scripted as part of the film in its electric arrangement, having originally been
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written in three separate, unused acoustic blues-oriented arrangements.[3] The song was not performed live.[3]
"Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers" is an orchestral piece originally intended to be paired with "Touring Can
Make You Crazy" as part of an early scene in which the band arrives in Centerville and is greeted by music
journalists, but only part of the sequence, depicting a mannequin of Zappa being torn apart by the journalists,
appeared in the final film,[4] due to timing and budget restraints, and the "Touring Can Make You Crazy" sequence
was not shot and does not appear in the film.[5] Regarding "Touring", Couture writes that "The long double-bass
notes and the overall dark atmosphere and slow tempo suggest a tiring trip."[5]
The album features five segments which form the suite "This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich": a prologue, the
"Tuna Fish Promenade", "Dance of the Just Plain Folks", a reprise of the main melody, and the conclusion "The
Sealed Tuna Bolero". Only the final bolero was featured in the film.[6] The "Tuna Sandwich" suite was scripted as
being proceeded by the sequence and composition "Centerville".[7] "Would You Like A Snack?" is a vocal version
of Zappa's composition "Holiday in Berlin", which reappears throughout the album and film in different
arrangements, including the "Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture".[8] The lyrics of "Would You Like
A Snack?" are similar to the theater piece on Zappa's live album Ahead of Their Time.[8] Zappa earlier recorded an
unrelated song of the same name, which features members of the Mothers of Invention and Jefferson Airplane singer
Grace Slick.[8]
"Redneck Eats" begins and ends with spoken dialogue featuring the character Lonesome Cowboy Burt (played by
Jimmy Carl Black) heckling the orchestra, which is performing a Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varese-influenced
composition.[9] "Janet's Big Dance Number" is about one of the film's two groupie characters and features "Slow
piano chords [...] played over sustained contrabass notes. The choir enters late in the piece, picking up the
Stravinskian melody sketched by the chords."[10] "Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist", follows the other groupie
character, and features "a soft melody, followed by a rhythm break and a tympany roll" and a faster reprise of the
"Janet" melody.[11] The album pairs "Lucy" with the film's "Postlude", which appears during the ending credits, and
is played on a harpsichord.[11]
The second half of the album begins with the suite "Dental Hygiene Dilemma", which begins with "I'm Stealing The
Towels", for which the corresponding film sequence was scripted and partially shot, before it was determined that
the footage was unusable, and the sequence was cut.[12] The main part of the suite, "Dental Hygiene Dilemma",
appeared in the film as an animated cartoon by Charles Swenson, who later directed the film Down and Dirty Duck
with Mothers of Invention bandmembers and 200 Motels stars Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan.
The main part of the suite, "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" incorporates elements of rock band, orchestra and spoken
dialogue,[13] and depicts Jeff smoking a marijuana cigarette which had been dipped in Don Preston's "foamy liquids"
and imagining Donovan appearing to him on a wall-mounted television as his "good conscience" and asking him not
to steal the towels, while Studebacher Hoch appears to him as his evil conscience, "dressed as Jim Pons", and
convinces Jeff to quit the Mothers of Invention, start his own hard rock band and play music like Grand Funk
Railroad or Black Sabbath.[13] In real life, Simmons started his own blues rock band after leaving Zappa's band, and
released the album Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up for Straight Records, which Zappa produced.[13] In "Dilemma",
Volman exclaims "We got to get him back to normal before Zappa finds out and steals it and makes him do it in the
movie!"[13]
"A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes" is the first part of a suite for soprano voice, chorus, and orchestra called "I
Have Seen the Pleated Gazelle".[14] The suite criticizes organized religion and references dental floss, connecting the
suite to Zappa's later song "Montana", appearing on the album Over-Nite Sensation.[14] In the film, "A Nun Suit"
proceeds the "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" cartoon, but is placed before the rock song "Magic Fingers" on this album,
removing the context of the line "Want to watch a dental hygiene movie?"[14] The "Gazelle" suite continues with
"Motorhead's Midnight Ranch", "Dew on the Newts We Got" and "The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts", for
which the corresponding film sequence was only partially shot.[15]
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi [16]
200 Motels charted at #59 on the Billboard 200.[2] The album was not released on compact disc until 1997, in
correspondence with a theatrical reissue of the film.[17] The CD edition contained extensive liner notes and artwork
as well as a small poster for the film, and bonus tracks consisting of radio promos for the film and the single edit of
the song "Magic Fingers".[1]
The album was deemed to be a peripheral album in Zappa's catalog by music critics.[1] Allmusic's Richie
Unterberger critiqued what he referred to as the "growing tendency to deploy the smutty, cheap humor that would
soon dominate much of Zappa's work", but said that "Those who like his late-'60s/early-'70s work [...] will probably
like this fine".[1] Italian critic Piero Scaruffi described the album as "ambitious and monumental", and described it as
a standout from other albums Zappa released during this period, which Scaruffi deemed to be juvenile and
uncreative.[16]
Track listing
LP side one
No. Title Length
1. "Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture" 2:01
2. "Mystery Roach" 2:32
3. "Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers" 0:48
4. "This Town Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" (Prologue) 0:55
5. "Tuna Fish Promenade" 2:29
6. "Dance of the Just Plain Folks" 4:40
7. "This Town Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" (Reprise) 0:58
8. "The Sealed Tuna Bolero" 1:40
9. "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" 3:54

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LP side two
No. Title Length
1. "Touring Can Make You Crazy" 2:54
2. "Would You Like a Snack?" 1:23
3. "Redneck Eats" 3:02
4. "Centerville" 2:31
5. "She Painted up Her Face" 1:41
6. "Janet's Big Dance Number" 1:18
7. "Half a Dozen Provocative Squats" 1:57
8. "Mysterioso" 0:48
9. "Shove It Right In" 2:32
10. "Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist & Postlude" 4:01
LP side three
No. Title Length
1. "I'm Stealing the Towels" 2:15
2. "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" 5:11
3. "Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?" 2:59
4. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" 3:11
5. "Penis Dimension" 4:37
6. "What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning" 3:29
LP side four
No. Title Length
1. "A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes" 1:08
2. "Magic Fingers" 3:53
3. "Motorhead's Midnight Ranch" 1:28
4. "Dew on the Newts We Got" 1:09
5. "The Lad Searches the Night for His Newts" 0:41
6. "The Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth" 1:10
7. "The Girl's Dream" 0:54
8. "Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce" 1:00
9. "Strictly Genteel (The Finale)" 11:08

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Compact disc bonus tracks
No. Title Length
1. "Coming Soon!" (Cut 1) 0:56
2. "The Wide Screen" (Cut 2) 0:57
3. "Coming Soon!" (Cut 3) 0:31
4. "Frank Zappa's 200 Motels" (Cut 4) 0:11
5. "Magic Fingers" (Single Edit) 2:57
6. "Original Theatrical Trailer" (ENHANCED TRACK) 3:28
Personnel
• Bob Auger – Engineer
• Theodore Bikel – Narrator
• Jimmy Carl Black – Vocals
• George Duke – Trombone, Keyboards
• Aynsley Dunbar – Drums
• Howard Kaylan – Vocals
• Barry Keene – Overdubs, Remixing
• Martin Lickert – Bass (Basic tracks recorded at Pinewood only during filming – many of which were redubbed
by Zappa)
• David McMacken – Design, Illustrations
• Patrick Pending – Liner Notes
• Jim Pons – Voices
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Cal Schenkel – Design
• Ian Underwood – Keyboards, Woodwind
• Ruth Underwood – Percussion
• Mark Volman – Vocals, Photography
• Frank Zappa – Bass, Guitar, Producer, Orchestration
Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[1] Richie Unterberger. "200 Motels - Frank Zappa" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ album/ 200-motels-r109870/ review). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[2] "200 Motels - Frank Zappa" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ album/ 200-motels-r109870/ charts-awards). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[3] François Couture. "Mystery Roach" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ mystery-roach-t3134399). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[4] François Couture. "Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ dance-of-the-rock--roll-interviewers-t3134400).
Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[5] François Couture. "Touring Can Make You Crazy" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ touring-can-make-you-crazy-t3134407). Allmusic. .
Retrieved 21 August 2011.
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[6] François Couture. "This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/
this-town-is-a-sealed-tuna-sandwich-prologue-t3134401). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[7] François Couture. "Centerville" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ centerville-t3134410). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[8] François Couture. "Would You Like a Snack?" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ would-you-like-a-snack-t3134408). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21
August 2011.
[9] François Couture. "Redneck Eats" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ redneck-eats-t3134409). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[10] François Couture. "Janet's Big Number" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ janets-big-dance-number-t3134412). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August
2011.
[11] François Couture. "Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist & Postlude" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/
lucys-seduction-of-a-bored-violinist--postlude-t3134416). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[12] François Couture. "I'm Stealing the Towels" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ im-stealing-the-towels-t3134417). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21
August 2011.
[13] François Couture. "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ dental-hygiene-dilemma-t3134418). Allmusic. . Retrieved 21
August 2011.
[14] François Couture. "A Nun Suit Painted on Some OldBoxes" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ a-nun-suit-painted-on-some-oldboxes-t3134423).
Allmusic. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[15] François Couture. "Motorhead's Midnight Ranch" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ song/ motorheads-midnight-ranch-t3134425). Allmusic. .
Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[16] Piero Scaruffi. "The History of Rock" (http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html#chu). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[17] "Zappa Movie Re-Released" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20011031145229/ http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ newsarticle.
asp?nid=1665& cf=338). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[18] "Charts and Awards for 200 Motels" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r109870). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Baby Snakes
Baby Snakes
Live album soundtrack by Frank Zappa
Recorded October 28–31, 1977 at The Palladium, NYC
Length 36:13
The Man from Baby London Symphony Orchestra, Vol.

Utopia Snakes I
(1983) (1983) (1983)
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Professional
ratings
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Baby Snakes is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's film of the same name. It features several of the songs from the film
and was originally released as a picture disc. The track "Baby Snakes" is the studio recording which appears on Sheik
Yerbouti, but omits the opening riff (instead starting at the first verse). All others are live recordings, unique to this
album and the film.
Track listing
Side one
1. "Intro Rap/Baby Snakes" – 2:22 (CD Edition only)
2. "Titties & Beer" – 6:13
3. "The Black Page #2" – 2:50
4. "Jones Crusher" – 2:53
5. "Disco Boy" – 3:51
Side two
2. "Punky's Whips" – 11:29
Credits
• Roy Estrada – vocals, voices
• Frank Zappa – director, keyboards, vocals, guitar
• Adrian Belew – vocals, guitar
• Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals on "Titties And Beer"
Production
• Arranged & Produced By Frank Zappa
• Engineered & Mixed By Joe Chiccarelli
• Mastered By Bob Stone
• Norman Seeff – photography
• Lynn Goldsmith – photography
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References
The Dub Room Special

Live album soundtrack by Frank Zappa

October 31, 1981
Genre Rock
Length 64:28
Label Zappa
Buffalo The Dub Room Wazoo

(2007) Special (2007)
(2007)
Professional
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The Dub Room Special is an album by Frank Zappa, released in August 2007. It is a soundtrack for the film of the
same name, and combines recordings from a TV-show performance on August 27, 1974, and from a concert in New
York City on October 31, 1981. The album, originally prepared for vinyl release by Zappa, was first sold at Zappa
Plays Zappa shows in the United States during August 2007. Shortly thereafter, it became available for mail order.
Each copy of the CD contains a small souvenir piece of tape from Zappa's Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio.
The album has liner notes by John Frusciante.
Musicians
August 1974 band

• Frank Zappa - Guitar, vocals and percussion
• George Duke - Keyboards and vocals
• Ruth Underwood - Percussion
• Chester Thompson - Drums
• Tom Fowler - Bass
• Napoleon Murphy Brock - Flute, saxophone and vocals
October 1981 band

• Frank Zappa - Lead guitar and vocals
• Ray White - Guitar and vocals
• Steve Vai - Guitar and vocals
• Tommy Mars - Keyboards and vocals
• Bobby Martin - Keyboards, saxophone and vocals
• Ed Mann - Percussion and vocals
• Scott Thunes - Bass and vocals
• Chad Wackerman - Drums
Track listing
1. "A Token of My Extreme (Vamp)" – 2:29
3. "The Dog Breath Variations" – 1.42
6. "Easy Meat" – 6:51
7. "Montana" – 4:24
9. "Room Service" – 9:15
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Dub Room Special - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r1212960). allmusic.com.
Does Humor Belong in Music?


Recorded October 8, 1984 – December 23, 1984
Length 61:41
Label EMI
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Does Humor Belong in The Old Masters Box
Prevention Music? II
(1985) (1986) (1986)
Alternative cover
Cover for the 1995 reissue, by Cal Schenkel.
Professional
ratings
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Does Humor Belong in Music? is a live album by Frank Zappa. It features concert recordings from
October–December 1984. It was the first album by Zappa to be released on CD only (although it was bootlegged on
vinyl for listeners who did not own CD players).[2]
A home video (later reissued on DVD) of the same name was released. "Tinsel Town Rebellion", "Trouble Every
Day" and "Whipping Post" appear on both, but are different performances. Fragments of "Hot-Plate Heaven" also
appear in the video (with only the verses of the song left intact). The cover art of the original CD release and video
release, however, are the same.
Track listing
All tracks by Frank Zappa except as noted.
2. "Tinsel-Town Rebellion" – 4:44
4. "Penguin in Bondage" – 6:45
5. "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel" – 6:43
6. "What's New in Baltimore" – 4:48
7. "Cock-Suckers' Ball" (traditional, arr. Frank Zappa) – 1:05
8. "WPLJ" (Ray Dobard) – 1:31
9. "Let's Move to Cleveland" – 15:43 (EMI)/16:44 (Ryko)
10. "Whipping Post" (Gregg Allman) – 8:23
Personnel
• Ike Willis – rhythm guitar, vocal
• Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocal, french horn
• Alan Zavod – keyboards
• Dweezil Zappa – lead guitar on "Whipping Post"
Notes
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Does Humor Belong in Music? - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53180/
[2] Info for Does Humor Belong in Music? at the Zappa Patio (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ vinylvscds/ humor. html)
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Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat
Recorded October 1967 – September 1968 at Apostolic Studios, NYC and Sunset Studios, LA
Genre Experimental, jazz, rock
Length 75:57 (LP)

120:44 (CD)
Cruising with Ruben & the Uncle Hot

Jets Meat Rats
(1968) (1969) (1969)
Cruising with Ruben & the Uncle Mothermania

Jets Meat (1969)
(1968) (1969)
Uncle Meat is the fifth studio album by the Mothers of Invention, released as a double album in 1969. Uncle Meat
was originally developed as a part of No Commercial Potential, a project which spawned three other albums sharing
a conceptual connection: We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.
The album also served as a soundtrack album to a proposed science fiction film which would not be completed,
though a direct-to-video film containing test footage from the project was released by Zappa in 1987. The music is
diverse in style, drawing from orchestral, jazz, blues and rock music. Uncle Meat was a commercial success upon
release, and has been highly acclaimed for its innovative recording and editing techniques, including experiments in
tape speed and overdubbing, and diverse sound.
Background
Frank Zappa, who had been interested in film since high school, decided to develop a film vehicle for The Mothers
of Invention, entitled Uncle Meat. The proposed film would combine elements of science fiction and road stories
inspired by the band's sexual escapades.[1] Subsequently, Zappa began working on a project called No Commercial
Potential, which eventually became the albums We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben
& the Jets and Uncle Meat. Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and
if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different
order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and
reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely
related."[2]
According to artist Cal Schenkel, "I started working on the story of Ruben and the Jets that is connected with the
Uncle Meat story, which is this old guy turns this teenage band into these dog snout people [...] We started that
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before it actually became Ruben and the Jets. That came out of my love for comics and that style, the
anthropomorphic animals, but also it was part of a running story line."[2]
Recording
For the recording sessions, Zappa utilized 12 track recording technology, as well as a variety of techniques which
realized his vision, including a large number of overdubs, playing unconventional instruments through studio effects,
and speeding up or slowing down recordings for artistic effect.[1] Zappa wanted to make an album that would
challenge the complacency of contemporary music fans, as he felt that his fanbase was "accoustomed to accepting
everything that was handed to them [...] politically, musically, socially -- everything. Somebody would just hand it to
them and they wouldn't question it. It was my campaign in those days to do things that would shake people out of
that complacency, or that ignorance and make them question things."[1]
Music and lyrics

Uncle Meat featured a variety of music styles, including orchestral symphonies, free jazz, blues, doo wop and rock
and roll.[1] The album also contains spoken word segments featuring Suzy Creamcheese, and features a stronger
focus on percussion instrumentation than previous works by Zappa, as well as emphasizing his strengths as a
composer and arranger.[1]
"Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" is melodically formless rooted in percussion instrumentation, and features a
guitar solo that was sped up in post production.[1] "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" is delivered as a rock and
roll song, with the same theme being repeated as an instrumental later in the album, performed by keyboards,
percussion and acoustic guitar. The rock and roll version features three verses with the first verse being delivered by
opera singer Nelcy Walker, and the second featuring sped up vocals. After the third verse, the song becomes an avant
garde orchestral piece performed by trumpets, percussion and keyboards.[1]
In addition to the studio recordings, Uncle Meat featured live recordings made at the Royal Albert Hall, including a
recording of Don Preston playing "Louie Louie" on the Albert Hall pipe organ, at the end of which Zappa announces
it as having been performed by the "London Philharmonic Orchestra." The doo wop-influenced "Electric Aunt
Jemima" refers to Zappa's guitar amplifier, equating it with the advertising character Aunt Jemima.[1] Zappa
explained, "I get kind of a laugh out of the fact that other people are going to try to interpret that stuff and come up
with some grotesque interpretations of it. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction."[1]
The album concludes with the piece "King Kong", although the instrumental's prelude, a free jazz improvisation in
triple time signatures, occurs much earlier in the album. Six variations of the melody appear as the album's finale,
with the first establishing its simple melody, the second being a keyboard solo by Preston, the third showcasing
saxophone solos by Motorhead Sherwood, and the fourth featuring Bunk Gardner playing a clarinet through various
electronic effects. Two more variations conclude the piece, which include a version with sped up instrumentation
and a live recording of the song.[1]
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Uncle Meat was released as a double album by Bizarre and Reprise Records, subtitled "Most of the music from the
Mother's movie of the same name which we haven't got enough money to finish yet."[1] Despite the album's
experimental nature, it peaked at #43 on the Billboard charts.[1]
Critical reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [3]
Piero Scaruffi [4]
Contemporary reviews of the album were highly favorable, recognizing it as a blueprint in Zappa's discography. The
New Rolling Stone Album Guide described the album as an "inspired monstrosity [...] [an] assault of glorious
noise."[1] Allmusic writer Steve Huey wrote, "despite the absence of a conceptual framework, the unfocused sprawl
of Uncle Meat is actually a big part of its appeal. It's exciting to hear one of the most creatively fertile minds in rock
pushing restlessly into new territory, even if he isn't always quite sure where he's going."[3] Piero Scaruffi gave the
album a nine out of ten rating.[4]
Legacy
In 1987, a completed Uncle Meat film was released on home video, and the Uncle Meat album was subsequently
reissued as a double CD which included a song recorded in 1982, "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta", sung in Italian by
Massimo Bassoli, who identifies the song as being translated as "I've Got a Big Bunch Of Dick", and over 40
minutes' worth of soundbites and dialogue from the film. The track listing programs the new tracks at the beginning
of the second disc, placing the material between the album's original third and fourth sides.
Track listing
Side one
1. "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" 1:56
2. "The Voice of Cheese" 0:26
3. "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" 6:00
4. "Zolar Czakl" 0:54
5. "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" 3:59
6. "The Legend of the Golden Arches" 3:28
7. "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" Richard Berry 2:19
8. "The Dog Breath Variations" 1:48

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Side two
No. Title Length
9. "Sleeping in a Jar" 0:50
10. "Our Bizarre Relationship" 1:05
11. "The Uncle Meat Variations" 4:46
12. "Electric Aunt Jemima" 1:46
13. "Prelude to King Kong" 3:38
14. "God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go)" 1:10
15. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" 1:29
16. "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)" 5:05
Side three
No. Title Length
17. "Mr. Green Genes" 3:14
18. "We Can Shoot You" 2:03
19. ""If We'd All Been Living in California..."" 1:14
20. "The Air" 2:57
21. "Project X" 4:48
22. "Cruising for Burgers" 2:18
Side four
No. Title Length
23. "King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" 0:49
24. "King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" 1:21
25. "King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)" 1:44
26. "King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)" 6:17
27. "King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" 0:34
28. "King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival . . . the Underwood ramifications)" 7:24
Total length: 75:57
CD bonus tracks
No. Title Length
1. "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1" 37:34
2. "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" 3:46
3. "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2" 3:50
Total length: 120:44

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Personnel
Musicians
THE MOTHERS – at the time of this recording were:
• Frank Zappa – guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
• Ray Collins – left the group in May 1968 swell vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums, droll humor, poverty
• Roy Estrada – electric bass, cheeseburgers, Pachuco falsetto
• Don (Dom De Wild) Preston – electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
• Billy (The Oozer) Mundi – drums on some pieces before he quit in December 1967 to join Rhinoceros
• Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner – piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all
of these electric and/or no-electric depending)
• Ian Underwood – electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special
assistant, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal
• Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp – drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small
chimes, cheerful outlook & specific inquiries
• Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood – pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography,
obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies
Special thanks to:
• Ruth Komanoff – who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and
• Nelcy Walker – the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on "Dog Breath" & "The Uncle Meat Variations."
Uncredited:
• Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese
Production
• Jerry Hansen – engineer
• Euclid James Sherwood – equipment technician, choreographer
• Art Tripp – adviser
• Cal Schenkel – package design
• Roy Estrada – prop design
• Ian Underwood – copyist, public relations, special assistance
Charts
Year Chart Position
1969 Pop Albums 43
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA64
[3] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Uncle Meat - The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r69741/ review).
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Classical music
Orchestral Favorites
Orchestral Favorites
Recorded Royce Hall, UCLA

September 19, 1975
Genre Classical music
Length 33:57
Label DiscReet
Sheik Orchestral Joe's Garage Act

Yerbouti Favorites I
(1979) (1979) (1979)
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Orchestral Favorites is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May, 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label.
The album is instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony
Orchestra.
Background
DiscReet label.
artwork.) Much of the material on Studio Tan was made available to the public again in a different form when Läther
Content
Four of the album's five tracks were intended for the shelved Läther album. The music was performed by the
37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra with Terry Bozzio on drums. The material included is
primarily sourced from live performances recorded at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in September, 1975; with
additional studio overdubs to correct performance errors. This was the third album by Zappa to use a full orchestra,
following Lumpy Gravy and 200 Motels. The album contains an instrumental version of the track The Duke of
Prunes originally from the 1967 album Absolutely Free. Zappa plays an electric lead guitar solo with the orchestra
on this track. Strictly Genteel was heard earlier as part of the 200 Motels film and soundtrack album. Bogus Pomp is
also made up of themes that were used in 200 Motels.
Orchestral Favorites was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991. On the CD
version the left and right channels reversed, due to an error in audio mastering. (It seems most likely that the error
was on the LP version, and that this was corrected for the CD.) This CD was reissued again in 1995 by Ryko. Much
of the material on the album was made available to the public again when Läther was finally officially released to
the public in 1996 after Zappa's death. In 2012, under a new distribution agreement between Gail Zappa (Frank's
widow) and Universal Music Group, the CD was reissued yet again under the Zappa Records imprint.
Track listing
All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Strictly Genteel" 7:04
2. "Pedro's Dowry" 7:41
3. "Naval Aviation in Art?" 1:22

Side two
No. Title Length
1. "The Duke Of Orchestral Prunes" 4:20
2. "Bogus Pomp" 13:27
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Charts
Year Chart Position
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Orchestral Favorites - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22651/ review).
[5] "Charts and Awards for Orchestral Favorites" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22649/ charts-awards/ billboard-album). Allmusic. .
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1

Recorded Twickenham Film Studios, London January 12–14, 1983
Genre 20th century classical
Length 52:33
Baby London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect
Snakes 1 Stranger
(1983) (1983) (1984)
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London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It features the London Symphony Orchestra's
renditions of four of Zappa's compositions — "Sad Jane", "Pedro's Dowry", "Envelopes", and "Mo 'n Herb's
Vacation" — from sessions recorded in January 1983. The album was Zappa's third to employ an orchestra,
following 1967's Lumpy Gravy, and 1979's Orchestral Favorites. In 1995, the album was combined with its
successor, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1987), and re-released on a Rykodisc CD as London Symphony
Orchestra Vol. 1 & 2. The original album was heavily tweaked in the studio to hide out-of-tune and wrong notes as
well as to add in a sheen of reverb to further obscure parts. These enhancements were removed for the compact disc
re-issue in 1995.
The heavy editing of the record was made possible by using a digital multitrack recorder. This was one of the first
digital multitrack recordings of an orchestra ever. By recording the orchestra in groups of instruments, the album
sounds more detailed than possible with previous stereo recording techniques.
Track listing
Side one
1. "Sad Jane" – 10:05
2. "Pedro's Dowry" – 10:26
3. "Envelopes" – 4:11
Side two
1. "Mo 'n Herb's Vacation, First Movement" – 4:50
2. "Mo 'n Herb's Vacation, Second Movement" – 10:05
3. "Mo 'n Herb's Vacation, Third Movement" – 12:56
Personnel
Musicians
• The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano
• David Ocker – clarinet
Production staff
• Mark Pinske – recording engineer
• John Vince – cover design
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
External links
• Album details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/London_Symphony_Orchestra.html)
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/lso.html)

Recorded Twickenham Film Studio, London January 12–14, 1983
Length 43:37
Jazz from London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. The Old Masters Box
Hell II III
(1986) (1987) (1987)
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London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 is a 1987 album featuring Frank Zappa's music performed by the London
Symphony Orchestra. It is the follow-up to 1983's London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1, and was recorded at the
same sessions, in January 1983. The two albums were later combined, and re-released on a Rykodisc CD as London
Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1 & 2 (1995).
Track listing
Side one
1. "Bogus Pomp" – 24:32
Side two
1. "Bob in Dacron" – 12:12
Personnel
Musicians
• The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano
Production staff
• Mark Pinske – recording engineer
• James Stagnita – graphic design
• Mark Hanauer – cover photo
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
External links
• Album details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/London_Symphony_Orchestra.html)
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/lso.html)
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger

Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
Recorded January – April 1984 at IRCAM (Paris) and UMRK
Genre Electronic, classical
Length 36:53
Label Angel
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Them or
1 Stranger Us
(1983) (1984) (1984)
Singles from Remain in Light
1. "The Girl in the Magnesium Dress"

Released: 1984
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Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger is a 1984 album featuring the music of Frank Zappa, conducted, in
part, by Pierre Boulez. It is also known as, simply, The Perfect Stranger. It was issued on vinyl in 1984 and on CD
in 1985 by Angel, and then in remixed and resequenced form on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991.
Boulez conducts three tracks — "The Perfect Stranger", "Naval Aviation in Art?" and "Dupree's Paradise" — which
were recorded at IRCAM, Paris on January 10 and January 11, 1984, and are performed by Boulez' Ensemble
InterContemporain. The title track was also commissioned by Boulez, and contains references to Zappa's 1971 film,
200 Motels. The remaining four tracks are credited to 'The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort'; in fact,
Zappa's Synclavier. "Outside Now Again" is a Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa's guitar
solo in the song "Outside Now" from the 1979 Joe's Garage album.
Track listing
Side one
1. "The Perfect Stranger" – 12:42
2. "Naval Aviation in Art?" – 2:28
3. "The Girl in the Magnesium Dress" – 3:27
Side two
1. "Outside Now Again" – 4:06
2. "Love Story" – 1:00
4. "Jonestown" – 7:07
All Compositions by Frank Zappa
CD (Barking Pumpkin and Rykodisc editions)

1. "The Perfect Stranger" – 12:44
5. "Love Story" – 0:59
6. "Outside Now Again" – 4:06
7. "Jonestown" – 5:27
All Compositions by Frank Zappa
Please note that different track timings are probably due to mislisting. There are no reports of tracks being longer or
shorter on the original vinyl
Personnel
• Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Piano
• Guy Arnaud – Clarinet (Bass)
• Lawrence Beauregard – Flute
• Pierre Boulez – Conductor, Direction
• Daniel Ciampolini – Percussion
• Antoine Curé – Trumpet
• Ensemble InterContemporain – Orchestra
• Péter Eötvös – Musical Director
• Jacques Ghestem – Violin
• Don Hunstein – Photography
• Marie-Claire Jamet – Harp
• The London Symphony Orchestra
• John Matousek – Mastering
• Paul Meyer – Clarinet
• Jerôme Naulais – Trombone
• David Ocker – Programming
• Bob Stone – Remixing
• Frank Zappa – Synclavier, Producer, Liner Notes
References
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ r77904). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
External links
• Album information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Perfect_Stranger.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/perfect_stranger.html)
Francesco Zappa 250
Francesco Zappa
Francesco Zappa
Recorded UMRK, February – April 1984
Genre Chamber music, electronic
Length 37:29
Thing-Fish Francesco The Old Masters Box

(1984) Zappa I
(1984) (1985)
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Francesco Zappa is a 1984 album by Frank Zappa. It features chamber music by the Italian composer Francesco
Zappa, who composed between 1763 and 1788. David Ocker played a piece of Francesco Zappa's music for Frank
Zappa because it was popular with some college music students. Because Francesco Zappa's music was not
published and could only be found in the Mormon library, Frank Zappa decided to publish it. He then decided to
program some of these pieces into his new Synclavier synthesizer.[2]
Frank Zappa found an entry for him in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and then researched his sheet
music in the library at UC Berkeley. The two musicians are not related.
Francesco Zappa was the first album that Frank Zappa used the Synclavier on,[3] but it was not the first one he
released, as synclavier pieces performed by him appear on "The Perfect Stranger" and on "Thing-Fish" as well.
Francesco Zappa 251
Track listing
All selections composed by Francesco Zappa and performed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier.
Side one
1. "Opus I: No. 1 First Movement: Andante" – 3:32
2. "No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro con brio" – 1:27
3. "No. 2 1st Movement: Andantino" – 2:14
4. "No. 2 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso" – 2:04
5. "No. 3 1st Movement: Andantino" – 1:52
6. "No. 3 2nd Movement: Presto" – 1:50
7. "No. 4 1st Movement: Andante" – 2:20
8. "No. 4 2nd Movement: Allegro" – 3:04
9. "No. 5 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso" – 2:29
10. "No. 6 1st Movement: Largo" – 2:08
11. "No. 6 2nd Movement: Minuet" – 2:03
Side two
1. "Opus IV: No. 1 1st Movement: Andantino" – 2:47
2. "No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro assai" – 2:02
3. "No. 2 2nd Movement: Allegro assai" – 1:20
4. "No. 3 1st Movement: Andante" – 2:24
5. "No. 3 2nd Movement: Tempo di minuetto" – 2:00
6. "No. 4 1st Movement: Minuetto" – 2:10
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Francesco Zappa - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r53176/ review).
[2] "The Complete Mark Pinske Interview - Day Three - Part Two" (http:/ / mixonline. com/ mag/ audio_complete_mark_pinske_3/ index. html).
Mixonline.com. 2003-01-01. . Retrieved 2012-07-11.
[3] "The Complete Mark Pinske Interview - Day Two" (http:/ / mixonline. com/ mag/ audio_complete_mark_pinske/ index. html).
Mixonline.com. 2003-01-01. . Retrieved 2012-07-11.
External links
• Album details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Francesco_Zappa.html)
• Release information (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/francesco.html)
The Yellow Shark

The Yellow Shark
Recorded September 17–28, 1992 at Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Philharmonie, Berlin and Konzerthaus, Vienna
Length 72:02
Ahead of Their The Yellow Civilization Phaze

Time Shark III
(1993) (1993) (1994)
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The Yellow Shark is an album of orchestral music by Frank Zappa, released in 1993. It features live recordings from
the Ensemble Modern's 1992 performances of Zappa's compositions. It was the last Zappa album released before his
death. In the album's notes, Zappa describes The Yellow Shark as one of the most fulfilling projects of his career, and
as the best representation of his orchestral works.
Singer Tom Waits has listed it as one of his favourite albums, commenting: "The ensemble is awe-inspiring. It is a
rich pageant of texture in colour. It's the clarity of his perfect madness, and mastery. Frank governs with Elmore
James on his left and Stravinsky on his right. Frank reigns and rules with the strangest tools."[2]
History
In 1991, Zappa was chosen to be one of four featured composers at the Frankfurt Festival in 1992 (the others were
John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Alexander Knaifel).[3] Zappa was approached by the German chamber
ensemble, Ensemble Modern, which was interested in playing his music for the event. Although ill, Zappa invited
them to Los Angeles for rehearsals of new compositions and new arrangements of older material.[4] In addition to
being satisfied with the ensemble's performances of his music, Zappa also got along with the musicians, and the
concerts in Germany and Austria were set up for the fall. [4] The choreographer Édouard Lock and his company La
La La Human Steps were part of the show. [5][6] In September 1992, the concerts went ahead as scheduled, but
Zappa could only appear at two in Frankfurt due to illness. At the first concert, he conducted the opening "Overture",
and the final "G-Spot Tornado" as well as the theatrical "Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992" and
"Welcome to the United States" (the remainder of the program was conducted by the ensemble's regular conductor
Peter Rundel). Zappa received a 20-minute ovation.[7] It would become his last professional public appearance, as
the cancer was spreading to such an extent that he was in too much pain to enjoy an event that he otherwise found
"exhilarating".[7] Recordings from the concerts appeared on The Yellow Shark, Zappa's last release during his
lifetime.
The posthumous album Everything Is Healing Nicely, released in 1999, contains recordings from around the same
time, made in preparation for the performances documented on The Yellow Shark.
Track listing
1. "Intro" – 1:43
2. "Dog Breath Variations" – 2:07
4. "Outrage at Valdez" – 3:27
5. "Times Beach II" – 7:31
6. "III Revised" – 1:45
8. "Be-Bop Tango" – 3:43
9. "Ruth Is Sleeping" – 5:56
10. "None of the Above" – 2:17
11. "Pentagon Afternoon" – 2:28
12. "Questi Cazzi Di Piccione"[8] – 3:03
13. "Times Beach III" – 4:26
14. "Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992" – 2:52
15. "Welcome to the United States" – 6:39
17. "Exercise, No. 4" – 1:37
18. "Get Whitey" – 7:00
19. "G-Spot Tornado" – 5:17
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – conductor, producer, performer
• Peter Rundel – conductor, violin
• Dietmar Wiesner – flute
• Catherine Milliken – oboe, english horn, bass oboe,[9] didjeridu
• Roland Diry – clarinet
• Wolfgang Stryi – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet
• Veit Scholz – bassoon, contrabassoon
• Franck Ollu, Stefan Dohr – french horn
• William Formann, Michael Gross – cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, trumpet
• Uwe Dierksen – trombone, soprano trombone
• Michael Svoboda – trombone, euphonium, didjeridu, alphorn
• Daryl Smith – tuba
• Herman Kretzschmar – celeste, harpsichord, voices, piano
• Ueli Wiget – celeste, harpsichord, harp, piano
• Rumi Ogawa-Helferich – cymbalom, percussion
• Andreas Böttger – percussion
• Detlef Tewes – mandolin
• Jürgen Ruck – banjo, guitar
• Ellen Wegner – harp

• Mathias Tacke, Claudia Sack – violin
• Hilary Sturt – violin, voices
• Friedemann Dähn – violoncello
• Thomas Fichter- contrabass, Fichter electric upright bass
• Ensemble Modern – main performer
Technical staff
• Todd Yvega – synclavier assistance
• Spencer Chrislu – engineer, mixing
• Harry Andronis – engineer
• Brian Johnson – art direction, design
• Hans Jörg Michel – photography
• Henning Lobner – photography
• Dave Dondorf – engineer, coordination
• Jesse Di Franco – art direction, design
• Ali N. Askin – arranger
• Fritz Brinckmann – photography
Charts
Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1993 Top Classical Crossover [10]

2
References
• Miles, Barry (2004). Frank Zappa. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-092-4.
Notes
[1] Couture, F. (2011 [last update]). "Zappa: The Yellow Shark - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r199900).
[2] Waits, Tom (March 22, 2005). "It's perfect madness" (http:/ / www. guardian. co. uk/ music/ 2005/ mar/ 20/ popandrock1). The Guardian
(London). .
[3] Menn, Don, ed. (1992), "Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser — Preparing the Ensemble Modern for the Frankfurt Festival", Zappa! Guitar Player
[5] Howe-Beck, Linde. "Édouard Lock" (http:/ / www. webcitation. org/ 69EA4Emfm). The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original
(http:/ / www. thecanadianencyclopedia. com/ articles/ edouard-lock) on 2012-07-17. . Retrieved 2012-07-17.
[6] "Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark Dance" (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=CmKK6RLGp1k). youtube.com. . Retrieved 2012-07-17.
[8] Zappa intended to mean "These fucking pigeons," a concept conveyed in Italian using a slang term for penis, but his title is grammatically
incorrect, mixing plural penises with a single pigeon. The correct Italian would be "Questi Cazzo Di Piccioni."
[9] bass oboe uncredited, but visible on ARTE TV broadcast ("Get Whitey" segment)
[10] "Charts and Awards for The Yellow Shark" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r199900). Allmusic. . Retrieved 2008-08-22.
External links
• The Yellow Shark (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Yellow_Shark.html)
Everything Is Healing Nicely

EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely)
Recorded July 1991
Length 68:32
Label UMRK
Mystery EIHN (Everything Is Healing FZ:OZ

Disc Nicely) (2002)
(1998) (1999)
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EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely) is an album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released through the Zappa
Family Trust in December 1999. It features recordings made with the Ensemble Modern in preparation for The
Yellow Shark (1993).
Track listing
1. "Library Card" – 7:42
2. "This Is a Test" – 1:35
3. "Jolly Good Fellow" – 4:34
4. "Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo" – 5:56
5. "Master Ringo" – 3:35
7. "Nap Time" – 8:02
8. "9/8 Objects" – 3:06
9. "Naked City" – 8:42
10. "Whitey (Prototype)" – 1:12
11. "Amnerika Goes Home" – 3:00
12. "None of the Above (Revised & Previsited)" – 8:38
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13. "Wonderful Tattoo!" – 10:01
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Everything Is Healing Nicely - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r536645).
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Everything_Is_Healing_Nicely.html)
• Release history (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/healing_nicely.html)
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Mothermania
Mothermania
Greatest hits album by The Mothers of Invention
Genre Experimental rock, progressive rock
Label Bizarre/Verve
Uncle Mothermania Hot

Meat (1969) Rats
(1969) (1969)
Mothermania (1969), subtitled The Best of the Mothers, is a compilation album by The Mothers of Invention. While
the songs were previously released on Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only in It for the Money, the
compilation contains unique mixes or edits done specifically for this compilation.
Background
After The Mothers of Invention's contract with MGM and Verve Records expired, Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen
negotiated to form a semi-independent record label Bizarre Records, with Verve releasing three Bizarre releases with
distribution by MGM: a new Mothers of Invention album, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, the compilation
Mothermania, and an album by Sandy Hurvitz, Sandy's Album is Here at Last.[1][2] Mothermania was prepared in
order to recoup money which Verve felt it lost funding the Mothers of Invention albums Freak Out!, Absolutely Free
and We're Only in It for the Money.[3] Frank Zappa prepared the masters for the release, remixing and sequencing the
track listing, as well as overseeing its packaging.[2][3] The compilation was notable for featuring unique versions of
the songs compiled for its release, including an uncensored version of "Mother People", which previously appeared
on We're Only in It for the Money in a censored version, and a radically different mix of "The Idiot Bastard
Son".[3][4]
Release, reception and aftermath

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Mothermania was released shortly before the release of the Mothers of Invention's fifth studio album, Uncle Meat, a
releasing tactic that Frank Zappa felt was intentional on the behalf of Verve.[3][4] Zappa subsequently disowned the
compilation following its release.[3] Allmusic reviewer William Ruhlmann described the compilation as being
"redundant", giving it three out of five stars.[5] Verve would go on to produce further compilations, without Zappa's
involvement.[3]
Mothermania has never been officially released on compact disc.[3] In 2009, the compilation was officially reissued
as a digital download.[6]
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" 7:26
3. "Duke of Prunes" 5:09
4. "Call Any Vegetable" 4:31
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "It Can't Happen Here" 3:13
7. "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" 3:37
8. "Who Are The Brain Police?" 3:22
9. "Plastic People" 3:40
10. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" 3:27
11. "America Drinks and Goes Home" 2:43
Total length: 40:34

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Personnel
• Frank Zappa – guitar, conductor, piano, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums
• Bunk Gardner – wind
• Don Preston – bass, keyboards
• Euclid James Sherwood – guitar, vocals, wind
• Art Tripp
• Ian Underwood
Production
• Producers: Frank Zappa, Tom Wilson
• Director of engineering: Val Valentin
• Engineer: Ami Hadani, Tom Hidley, Gary Kelgren and Dick Kunc.
References
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA71#v=onepage& q& f=false
[6] "Product information for Mothermania" (http:/ / barfkoswill. shop. musictoday. com/ Dept. aspx?cp=971_9233). Barfko-Swill. . Retrieved
2009-05-17.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Recorded August 1967 – July 1969
Genre Jazz fusion, experimental rock
Length 41:07
Hot Burnt Weeny Weasels Ripped My

Rats Sandwich Flesh
(1969) (1970) (1970)
Singles from Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1. "WPLJ"
Released: 1969
2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention
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Burnt Weeny Sandwich is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1970. It consists of
both studio album and live elements.[1][2][3][4] In contrast to Weasels Ripped My Flesh, which is predominately live
and song-oriented, most of Burnt Weeny Sandwich focuses on studio recordings and tightly arranged compositions.
The LP included a large triple-folded black and white poster ("The Mothers Of Invention Sincerely Regret To Inform
You") which has never been reproduced in any of the CD reissues. Until the 2012 Zappa Family Trust reissue
campaign, CD editions had a severe dropout at the beginning of 'Little House I Used To Live In' that wasn't present
on the original LP pressing.
Title
The album's rather unusual title, Zappa would later say in an interview, comes from an actual snack that he enjoyed
eating, consisting of a burnt Hebrew National hot dog sandwiched between two pieces of bread with mustard.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh were also reissued together on vinyl as 2 Originals of the
Mothers of Invention, with the original covers used as the left and right sides of the inner spread, and the front cover
depicting a pistol shooting toothpaste onto a toothbrush.
Album Information
The album was essentially a 'posthumous' Mothers release having been released after Frank Zappa dissolved the
band.[5]
Ian Robertson Underwood's contributions are significant on this album. The album, like its counterpart Weasels
Ripped My Flesh, comprises tracks from the Mothers vault that were not previously released. Whereas Weasels
mostly showcases the Mothers in a live setting, much of Burnt Weeny Sandwich features studio work and structured
Zappa compositions, like the centerpiece of the album, Little House I Used To Live In, which consists of several
movements and employs compound meters such as 11/8 with an overlaid melody in 10/8. The 8 minute plus violin
solo section featuring Sugarcane Harris is purported to actually be an outtake from the Hot Rats album sessions.
The guitar solo portion of the Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwhich is an outtake from an unused extended version
of Lonely Little Girl from the 1967 sessions for the We're Only In It For The Money lp. Zappa and Art Tripp later
added multiple percussion overdubs for the released version.
Valerie was originally intended to be released as a single coupled with My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama.
However, either Zappa or his label, Reprise Records, cancelled its release; resulting in its inclusion on the lp.
"Igor's Boogie" is a reference to a major Zappa influence, composer Igor Stravinsky.[6]
Track listing
Side One
1. "WPLJ (Four Deuces)" 3:02
2. "Igor's Boogie, Phase One" 0:40
3. "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin" 1:29
4. "Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich" 4:35
5. "Igor's Boogie, Phase Two" 0:35
6. "Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" 6:27
7. "Aybe Sea" 2:45

Side Two
No. Title Length
8. "Little House I Used to Live in" 18:42
9. "Valarie (Jackie and the Starlites)" 3:14
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – organ, guitar, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums
• Roy Estrada – bass, backing vocals, Pachuco rap on "WPLJ"
• Janet Ferguson – backing vocals on "WPLJ"
• Bunk Gardner – horn, wind
• Buzz Gardner - trumpet
• Billy Mundi - Drums (Uncredited, left group in December 1967)
• Ray Collins - vocals, tambourine (Uncredited, left group in August 1968
• Lowell George – guitar
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "Little House I Used To Live In"
• Don Preston – bass, piano, keyboards
• Jim Sherwood – guitar, vocals, wind
• Art Tripp – drums, percussion
• Ian Underwood – guitar, piano, keyboards, wind
• Max Bennett - likely bassist during violin solo section on "Little House" (uncredited)
• Paul Humphrey - likely drummer during violin solo section on "Little House" (uncredited)
Production
• Engineer: Dick Kunc
• Design: John Williams
• Cover art: Cal Schenkel
• CD package design: Ferenc Dobronyl
• CD art adaptation: Cal Schenkel
Charts
Year Chart Position
1970 Pop Albums 94
References
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA77& dq=Burnt+ Weeny+ Sandwich& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=_34YT8u9BOqNsQLhzZTECw& ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q=Burnt%20Weeny%20Sandwich& f=false
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=NBfhgQf1-QwC& pg=PA138& dq=Burnt+ Weeny+ Sandwich& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=_34YT8u9BOqNsQLhzZTECw& ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage& q=Burnt%20Weeny%20Sandwich& f=false
[4] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA133& dq=Burnt+ Weeny+ Sandwich& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=_34YT8u9BOqNsQLhzZTECw& ved=0CFgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage& q=Burnt%20Weeny%20Sandwich& f=false
[5] James, Billy (2002). Necessity Is . . .: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC) (2nd ed.). SAF Publishing Ltd. p. 133. ISBN 0-946719-51-9. ., Extract of page 133 (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA133)
[6] Watson, Ben (1994). Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play. Quartet Books Ltd. p. 9. ISBN 0-7033-7066-2 .
Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Cover art by Neon Park
Recorded December 1967 – August 1969
Genre Jazz fusion, experimental rock, avant-garde
Length 43:03
Label Bizarre, Reprise
Burnt Weeny Weasels Ripped My Chunga's

Sandwich Flesh Revenge
(1970) (1970) (1970)
Alternative covers
German album cover
2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention
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Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

B+
Piero Scaruffi [3]

(8/10)
Weasels Ripped My Flesh is an album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released in 1970. It is the
second posthumous Mothers album released after the band disbanded in 1969,[4] preceded by Burnt Weeny
Sandwich. In contrast to its predecessor, which predominately focused on studio recordings of tightly arranged
compositions, Weasels Ripped My Flesh largely consists of live recordings, and is song-oriented.
Album information
Given Zappa's already stated penchant for expressing his music in "phases"—We're Only in It for the Money was
written up as "phase one of Lumpy Gravy"—conceptually, Zappa fans occasionally label this album Phase Two of
Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Both albums consist of previously unreleased Mothers tracks released after Frank Zappa
disbanded the original group in 1969. Whereas all but one of the pieces on Burnt Weeny Sandwich have a more
planned feel captured by quality studio equipment, five tracks from Weasels Ripped My Flesh capture the Mothers
on stage, where they employ frenetic and chaotic improvisation characteristic of avant-garde free jazz. The album's
much-discussed closer and title track consists of every player on stage producing as much noise and feedback as they
can for two minutes. An audience member is heard yelling for more at its conclusion. The All-Music Guide
concludes that the track is "perfectly logical in the album's context." The album also contains Don "Sugarcane"
Harris's straight-ahead blues violin and vocal performance of "Directly From My Heart to You" (which is actually an
outtake from the sessions for the Hot Rats album).
The Rykodisc CD reissue of the album features different versions of "Didja Get Any Onya?" and "Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask", which featured music edited out of the LP versions. Some of this extra
music was used (in a different studio recording) as the backing track for "The Blimp" on the Captain Beefheart
album Trout Mask Replica, produced by Frank Zappa. The 2012 Universal Music reissue reverts to the original LP
versions.[5]
Album cover
Frank Zappa recruited artist Neon Park to create a subversive image based on a cover story from the September 1956
issue of Man's Life, a Men's adventure magazine. After showing Neon a copy of the magazine, Zappa inquired, "This
is it. What can you do that's worse than this?"[6] Neon's answer was to craft a parody of an advertisement for Schick
brand electric razor based on the "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" theme.[6] The record company released the album
despite its reservations about the album cover.[7]
The Man's Life cover had been given to Zappa by a youthful acolyte, Dan O'Brien, who had acquired it from his
brother, a musician and aspiring Zappa protégé who had found it during his day job at a pornographic publishing
house. Dan also was the originator of the term "chunga" which he had used in a song to describe mutants after the
Hiroshima blast.
German releases of the album featured an album cover showing a metal baby caught in a rat trap. This cover was not
approved by Zappa.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh were also reissued together on vinyl as 2 Originals of the
Mothers of Invention, with the original covers used as the left and right sides of the inner spread, and the front cover
depicting a pistol shooting toothpaste onto a toothbrush.
Reception
Contemporary reviews of the record call it "far-out" (Billboard, August 29, 1970) and a "random collection of
editing room snippets recorded at the Mothers' concerts" (Rolling Stone, October 1, 1970). Now placed in its
historical context, modern reviewers tend to appreciate it more critically. A typical example of such appreciation is
Christgau's Record Guide (from 1981), which grades the album a B+. In a retrospective review, Allmusic gave it 4.5
stars out of 5, calling it a "fascinating collection", and stating that "Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance
between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating"[8] In his book Viva Zappa!,
Dominique Chevalier wrote that the album is "one of Zappa's most aggresivley bizarre works, full of
cross-references to free jazz and modern classical musicians such as Luciano Berio. He also said that the best piece
was undoubtedly "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue", calling it "the cleverest tribute that could have been paid to
him".[9]
Track listing
Side 1
No. Title Recorded Length
1. "Didja Get Any Onya?" March 2, 1969, Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia 3:42
2. "Directly From My Heart To You" (Richard Wayne July 1969, TTG Recording Studios, Hollywood 5:16
Penniman)
3. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas October 25, 1968, Royal Festival Hall, London 3:47
Mask"
4. "Toads of the Short Forest" August 1969, Whitney Studios, Glendale and February 7–8, 1969, Thee 4:47
Image, Miami
5. "Get a Little" February 13, 1969, The Factory, New York 2:31
Side 2
No. Title Recorded Length
6. "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" June 1969, A&R Studios, New York 6:52
7. "Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf December 1967-February 1968, Apostolic Studios, New York 2:12
Nebula"
8. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" February 1969, Criteria Studios, Miami and August–September 1969, T.T.G. 3:32
Studios, Hollywood
9. "Oh No" December 1967-February 1968, Apostolic Studios, New York 1:45
10. "The Orange County Lumber Truck" October 25, 1968, Royal Festival Hall, London 3:21
11. "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" May 30, 1969, Town Hall, Birmingham 2:08
Notes:
• "Directly From My Heart To You?" is actually an outtake from the Frank Zappa solo album Hot Rats, released in
1969.
• "Didja Get Any Onya?" is 6:51 on the Rykodisc CD version and includes the previously unreleased pieces 'The
Jelly' and 'Charles Ives' (the same recording of the latter was previously used as the backing track to 'The Blimp'
on the Captain Beefheart 1969 album "Trout Mask Replica".
• "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" pays tribute to (and is played in the style of) Eric Dolphy, an American
avant-garde jazz musician.
Personnel
• Jimmy Carl Black – drums
• Ray Collins – vocals
• Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone
• Lowell George – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – vocals, electric violin
• Don Preston – organ, electronic effects
• Buzz Gardner – trumpet and flugel horn
• Motorhead Sherwood – baritone saxophone, snorks
• Ian Underwood – alto saxophone
Production
• Art Direction: John Williams
• Cover art: Neon Park
• Photography: John Williams
• Digital art: Bob Stone
Charts
Year Chart Position
1970 Pop Albums 189
References
[1] Huey, Steve (2011 [last update]). "Weasels Ripped My Flesh - The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
weasels-ripped-my-flesh-r22638). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 11 July 2011.
[4] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Frank_Zappa#Disbanding_the_original_Mothers_of_Invention_. 281969. 29
[5] (http:/ / theseconddisc. com/ 2012/ 07/ 30/ would-you-go-all-the-way-zappa-reissues-arrive-and-details-emerge-next-batch-announced/ )
[6] "the big nOte files" (http:/ / www. united-mutations. com/ 123/ big_note_files200504. htm). Black Page. April 2005. . Retrieved 2006-06-13.
[7] Thorgerson, Storm; Powell, Aubrey (1999). 100 Best Album Covers: The Stories Behind the Sleeves. Dorling Kindersley. pp. 152.
ISBN 0-7513-0706-8.
[8] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ weasels-ripped-my-flesh-r22638/ review allmusic review
[9] Viva Zappa 1986 Chevalier, Dominique Page 64
The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa

The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa
Compilation album by Frank Zappa
Released 1987
Genre Instrumental rock
Length 32:08
Mothermania The Guitar World According to Frank Strictly

(1969) Zappa Commercial
(1987) (1995)
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The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa is a 1987 compilation album featuring guitar solos by Frank Zappa. It
was issued as a cassette from Guitar World magazine, and has also been available in bootlegged versions as Guitar
Hernia and Solo on Guitar. The compilation has never been made available officially in other formats (compact
discs, etc.), but the cassette contains some unique material, including an unreleased guitar solo and an excerpt from
an unreleased remix of "Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra" from the Studio Tan album, featuring
drum overdubs by Chad Wackerman.
Similar compilations of Zappa guitar solos include Guitar, Trance-Fusion, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar.
Track listing
Side one
• From the Sleep Dirt album.
2. "Friendly Little Finger" – 4:17
• From the Zoot Allures album.
3. Excerpt from "Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra" – 1:45 [booklet lists incorrectly 2:21]
• Unreleased remix with drum overdubs from 1984.
4. "Things That Look Like Meat" – 6:06
• Shortened version of a track later released on the Guitar album.
Side two
1. "Down in de Dew" – 2:54
• Later released as part of the Läther box set.
2. "A Solo from Heidelberg" – 5:26
• Later released on the One Shot Deal album.
3. "A Solo from Cologne" – 5:11
• Longer version of a track later released on the Guitar album.
4. "A Solo from Atlanta" – 4:05
• Longer version of a track later released on the Guitar album.
References
[1] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
External links
• Compilations discography (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/compilations/Guitar_World.html)
• Weirdo discography (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/weirdo/weirdo.html#guitarworld)
Strictly Commercial
Strictly Commercial
Greatest hits album by Frank Zappa
Recorded 1966–1988
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, comedy rock, experimental rock, Jazz fusion
Length 76:45 (American CD)
Label Rykodisc
Producer Tom Wilson
The Guitar World According to Frank Strictly Strictly

Zappa Commercial Genteel
(1987) (1995) (1997)
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Strictly Commercial is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1995 (see 1995 in music), two years
after his death.
Track listing
Strictly Commercial
Vinyl release
Side one
2. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" (single version)
3. "Dancin' Fool" (12" disco mix)
• The American and European CD issues had the album mix instead of the 12" disco mix.
4. "San Ber'dino"
5. "Let's Make The Water Turn Black"
Side two
1. "Dirty Love"
2. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
3. "Cosmik Debris"
4. "Trouble Every Day"
5. "Disco Boy"
Side three
1. "Bobby Brown (Goes Down)"
2. "I'm the Slime"
3. "Joe's Garage" (single version)
4. "Fine Girl"
5. "Planet of the Baritone Women"
Side four
2. "Montana" (single version)
3. "Valley Girl"
4. "Be in My Video"
5. "Muffin Man"
American CD release
1. "Peaches en Regalia" – 3:37
2. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" (single version) – 3:34
9. "Disco Boy" – 5:08
10. "Fine Girl" – 3:29
11. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" – 3:42
13. "I'm the Slime" – 3:34
14. "Joe's Garage" (single version) – 4:08
16. "Montana" (single version) – 4:47
17. "Valley Girl" – 4:50
19. "Muffin Man" – 5:32
On the European CD, "Tell Me You Love Me" was replaced by "Bobby Brown Goes Down," which was Zappa's
biggest hit in Europe, but extremely controversial in the United States, and never aired on the radio. A version
released in Australia and New Zealand was identical to the US CD, but included the track "Elvis Has Just Left the
Building" on a separate disc.
Japanese CD release
3. "San Ber'dino"
4. "Dirty Love"
6. "Who Are the Brain Police?"
• The American and European CD issues had "Cosmik Debris" instead of this track.
8. "Disco Boy"
9. "Fine Girl"
12. "I'm the Slime"

16. "Valley Girl"
17. "Be in My Video"
18. "Muffin Man"
• The American and European CD issues had the album mix instead of the 12" disco mix.
Japanese CD paper sleeve re-release
Disc 1
4. "San Ber'dino"
6. "Dirty Love"
8. "Cosmik Debris"
10. "Disco Boy"
Disc 2
1. "Bobby Brown Goes Down"
2. "I'm the Slime"
4. "Fine Girl"
5. "Planet Of The Baritone Women"
9. "Valley Girl"
11. "Muffin Man"
The Best of Frank Zappa

2. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" (single version) – 3:34
8. "Disco Boy" – 5:08
9. "Fine Girl" – 3:29
10. "I'm the Slime" – 3:34
11. "Joe's Garage" (single version) – 4:08

13. "Montana" (single version) – 4:48
14. "Valley Girl" (Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa) – 4:50
15. "Muffin Man" – 5:33
Personnel
• Frank Zappa – composer, producer, vocals, main performer, guitar
• Tom Wilson – producer
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar
• Dan Ouellette – liner notes
• Bruce Fowler – drums
• Captain Beefheart – vocals, soprano sax
• Terry Gilliam – liner notes
• Cal Schenkel – photography
• Ebet Roberts – photography
• Michael Hochanadel – photography
• Baron Wolman – photography
• Jean-Pierre Leloir – photography
• Joseph Sia – photography
• Ann Rhoney – photography
• Norman Seeff – photography
• Dr. Toby Mountain – mastering
• Joe Chiccarelli – mixing, recording
• Steven Jurgensmeyer – package design
References
[1] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011 [last update]). "Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www.
The Lost Episodes

The Lost Episodes
Genre Experimental rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion, hard rock
Length 71:14
Label Rykodisc
Civilization Phaze The Lost Läther

III Episodes (1996)
(1994) (1996)
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The Lost Episodes is a 1996 posthumous album by Frank Zappa which compiles previously unreleased material.
Much of the material covered dates from early in his career, and as early as 1958, into the mid-1970s. Zappa had
been working on these tracks in the years before his death in 1993.
The album is also notable for its five tracks which feature Captain Beefheart (known in early recordings by his birth
name, Don Vliet, and later Don Van Vliet): "Lost in a Whirlpool", a blues parody from around 1958–59 in which
Beefheart sings of being flushed down the toilet; "Tiger Roach", a rhythm and blues track from around three years
later; "I'm a Band Leader" from 1969, a spoken word piece written by Zappa and read by Beefheart; "Alley Cat", a
blues number in which Zappa plays guitar with two members of Beefheart's Magic Band, and "The Grand Wazoo", a
spoken word piece recorded in 1969, to which Zappa added a Synclavier track in 1992 [3]. Dan Glaister, writing in
The Guardian, judged the first to be "a passable Bessie Smith cover", adding, "while "Alley Cat" could be a missing
track from Clear Spot."
Elsewhere on the disc are included a number of alternate, earlier versions of compositions which were later released
on Zappa's studio albums. The Lost Episodes' version of "Any Way the Wind Blows", for instance, was recorded in
Cucamonga in around 1963—three years before its appearance on Freak Out! (1966). And the version of "Fountain
of Love" here was recorded around the same time, but not released until Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968).
Track listing
1. "The Blackouts" – 0:22
2. "Lost in a Whirlpool" (Van Vliet, Zappa) – 2:46
3. "Ronnie Sings?" – 1:05
4. "Kenny's Booger Story" – 0:33
5. "Ronnie's Booger Story" – 1:16
6. "Mount St. Mary's Concert Excerpt" – 2:28
8. "Tiger Roach" (Van Vliet, Zappa) – 2:20
9. "Run Home Slow Theme" – 1:25
10. "Fountain of Love" (Zappa, Ray Collins) – 2:08
11. "Run Home Cues, #2" – 0:28
12. "Any Way the Wind Blows" – 2:14
13. "Run Home Cues, #3" – 0:11
14. "Charva" – 1:59
15. "The Dick Kunc Story" – 0:46
16. "Wedding Dress Song" (Trad., arr. Zappa) – 1:14
17. "Handsome Cabin Boy" (Trad., arr. Zappa) – 1:21
18. "Cops & Buns" – 2:36
19. "The Big Squeeze" – 0:43
20. "I'm a Band Leader" – 1:14
21. "Alley Cat" (Van Vliet, Zappa) – 2:47
23. "Wonderful Wino" (Zappa, Jeff Simmons) – 2:47
24. "Kung Fu" – 1:06
25. "RDNZL" – 3:49
26. "Basement Music #1" – 3:46
27. "Inca Roads" – 3:42
28. "Lil' Clanton Shuffle" – 4:47
29. "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" – 3:24
30. "Sharleena" – 11:54
Personnel
• Arthur Barrow – bass, bass guitar
• Max Bennett – bass, bass guitar
• Dale Bozzio – vocals
• Terry Bozzio – vocals
• Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – vocals
• Ray Collins – vocals
• Erroneous – bass, bass guitar
• Roy Estrada – bass, bass guitar
• Chuck Foster – trumpet
• Bruce Fowler – bass, trombone

• John French – drums
• John Guerin – drums
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin, vocals, electric violin
• Danny Helferin – piano
• Elliot Ingber – slide guitar
• Ricky Lancelotti – vocals
• Elwood Madeo, Jr. – guitar
• Tony Rodriguez – alto sax
• Art Tripp – marimba, background vocals, vibraphone
• Ian Underwood – percussion, keyboards, saxophone, woodwind, fender rhodes
• Ray White – vocals
• Kenny Williams – vocals
• Ronnie Williams – vocals
• Ronny Williams – vocals
• Ike Willis – vocals
• Terry Wimberly – piano
• Bobby Zappa – guitar, rhythm guitar
• Frank Zappa – synthesizer, guitar, percussion, piano, celeste, drums, bass guitar, kazoo, vocals, background
vocals, synclavier
Production
• Paul Buff – engineer
• Spencer Chrislu – remixing
• Gabor Csupo – artwork
• Steven Jurgensmeyer – design
• Gary Kellgren – engineer
• Rip Rense – liner notes
• Bob Stone – engineer, remixing
• Hal Wilson – photography
• Frank Zappa – arranger, producer, engineer
References
[1] Unterberger, R. (2011 [last update]). "Lost Episodes - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r231904). allmusic.com.
[2] Glaister, D. (2011 [last update]). "The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - The Lost Episodes" (http:/ / www. beefheart. com/ datharp/ reviews/
lostepisodes. htm). beefheart.com. . Retrieved 22 July 2011.
[3] http:/ / www. beefheart. com/ datharp/ albums/ official/ lostepisodes. htm
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Lost_Episodes.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/lost_episodes.html)
Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A

Memorial Tribute
Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute
Released October 1996
Genre Progressive rock, art rock, hard rock, instrumental rock
Length 54:04
Läther Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Have I Offended
(1996) Tribute Someone?
(1996) (1997)
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Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute is a posthumous album by Frank Zappa.
According to the liner notes, Frank's son Dweezil talked with his father shortly before Frank's death about the songs
Frank had written that he would consider to be his "signature" tunes. These were "Zoot Allures", "Black Napkins"
and "Watermelon in Easter Hay". The album compiles the original album versions of these three pieces, along with
an alternate, live take of each, and the track "Merely a Blues in A", a blues improvisation recorded in Paris in 1974.
It was released by The Zappa Family Trust and is only available online from Barfko-Swill—the mail-order section
on zappa.com [2].
Similar albums: Guitar, Trance-Fusion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa.
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Track listing
2. "Black Napkins" (Zoot Allures album version) – 4:15
4. "Merely a Blues in A" – 7:27
5. "Zoot Allures" (Zoot Allures album version) – 4:05
7. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" (Joe's Garage album version) – 8:42
Personnel
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – tenor saxophone, vocals
• Norma Bell – vocals
• André Lewis – keyboards, vocals
• Dave Parlato – bass guitar
• Ruth Underwood – marimba
• Lou Anne Neill – harp
• Adrian Belew – rhythm guitar
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums-optometric abandon
• Arthur Barrow – bass
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar
References
[1] Dryden, K. (2011 [last update]). "Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ /
www. allmusic. com/ album/ r516200). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 July 2011.
[2] http:/ / www. zappa. com/
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/FZ_Plays_The_Music_Of_FZ.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/fzptmofz.html)
Have I Offended Someone?

Have I Offended Someone?
Length 63:45
Label Rykodisc
Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Have I Offended Mystery
Tribute Someone? Disc
(1996) (1997) (1998)
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Have I Offended Someone? is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, and was posthumously
released in 1997. As indicated by the title, it compiles a number of Zappa's songs that have gained notoriety as being
particularly offensive, and often satirical or parodic. Most of the tracks on the collection were previously available
on other albums, but nearly all appear here in remixed form. The live version of "Dumb All Over" is a premiere
recording. The 1984 recording of "Tinsel Town Rebellion" is listed as a premiere recording, as well, though it had
previously appeared in the home video release Does Humor Belong in Music?.
The cover art was illustrated by alternative painter Ralph Steadman.
Track listing
1. "Bobby Brown Goes Down" – 2:43 / remixed Sheik Yerbouti version
2. "Disco Boy" – 4:23 / reconstructed & remixed from Zoot Allures version
3. "Goblin Girl" – 4:19 / remixed & slowed down You Are What You Is version
4. "In France" – 3:30 / remixed Them Or Us version
5. "He's So Gay" – 2:45 / remixed Thing-Fish version
6. "SEX" – 3:44 / The Man From Utopia version
7. "Titties 'n Beer" – 4:37 / edited Zappa In New York version
8. "We're Turning Again" – 4:56 / remixed Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention version
9. "Dumb All Over" – 5:43 / previously unreleased live version
10. "Catholic Girls" – 3:51 / edited Joe's Garage version
11. "Dinah-Moe Humm" – 7:14 / remixed & edited Over-Nite Sensation version
12. "Tinsel Town Rebellion" – 4:24 / Does Humor Belong In Music? video version
13. "Valley Girl" – 4:50 (Frank Zappa/Moon Unit Zappa) Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
version
14. "Jewish Princess" – 3:15 Sheik Yerbouti version
15. "Yo Cats" – 3:32 (Frank Zappa/Tommy Mariano) / remixed Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention
version
References
[1] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011 [last update]). "Have I Offended Someone? - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/
External links
• Track-by-track runthrough (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/offended.html) ~ all the details
about the remixes.
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Have_I_Offended_Someone.html)
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Strictly Genteel
Strictly Genteel
Released May, 1997
Length 66:47
Label Rykodisc
Have I Offended Strictly Cucamonga

Someone? Genteel (1998)
(1997) (1997)
Strictly Genteel is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It focuses more on Zappa's "classical" and "serious"
compositions, and as such is something of a companion to the previous Rykodisc-produced compilation, Strictly
Commercial, which focused more on "rock" songs with vocals. It was released in 1997.
Track listing
1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme (01:55)
2. Regyptian Strut (04:13)
3. Pedro's Dowry (07:41)
4. Outrage at Valdez (03:09)
5. Little Umbrellas (03:03)
6. Run Home Slow Theme (01:25)
7. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula (02:12)
8. Dupree's Paradise (07:53)
9. Opus 1 - #3: 2nd movement - Presto (01:50)
10. The Duke of Prunes (04:20)
11. Aybe Sea (02:47)
12. Naval Aviation in Art? (02:42)
13. G-Spot Tornado (03:17)
14. Bob In Dacron (05:36)
15. Opus 1 - #4: 2nd movement - Allegro (03:01)
16. Dog Breath Variations (02:06)
17. Uncle Meat (02:51)
18. Strictly Genteel (06:57)
Mystery Disc 281
Mystery Disc
Mystery Disc
Genre Experimental rock, hard rock, progressive rock, art rock
Length 77:44
Label Rykodisc
Have I Offended Mystery EIHN (Everything Is Healing

Someone? Disc Nicely)
(1997) (1998) (1999)
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Mystery Disc is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was released on CD in 1998, compiling tracks that were
originally released on two separate vinyl records and included in the mail order Old Masters box sets, which were
released in three volumes between 1985 and 1987. (These box sets, issued on Barking Pumpkin, contained
repressings of Zappa's albums from Freak Out! (1966) to Zoot Allures (1976), along with a 'Mystery Disc' in boxes
one and two.) The CD omits two tracks from the box sets, "Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?" and "Big Leg Emma",
both of which were included on the CD version of Absolutely Free (1967).
The recordings featured on Mystery Disc cover the early stages of Zappa's career, and were made between 1962 and
1969 (with the exception of "The Story of Willie the Pimp", a 1972 'field recording'). The material overlaps in places
with that of You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 (1992), Ahead of Their Time (1993) and The Lost Episodes
(1996). A number of the earlier tracks—"I Was a Teen-Age Malt Shop", "The Birth of Captain Beefheart" and
"Metal Man Has Won His Wings", all likely recorded in 1964—feature Captain Beefheart on vocals. These are three
light-hearted collaborations; "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" has Beefheart reading the lyrics directly from an
advert for a comic book.[2]
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Track listing
1. "Theme from Run Home Slow" – 1:23
2. "Original Duke of Prunes" – 1:17
3. "Opening Night at "Studio Z" (Collage)" – 1:34
4. "The Village Inn" – 1:17
5. "Steal Away" (Jimmy Hughes) – 3:43
6. "I Was a Teen-Age Malt Shop" – 1:10
7. "The Birth of Captain Beefheart" – 0:18
8. "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" – 3:06
9. "Power Trio from The Saints 'n Sinners" – 0:34
10. "Bossa Nova Pervertamento" – 2:15
11. "Excerpt from The Uncle Frankie Show" – 0:40
12. "Charva" – 2:01
13. "Speed-Freak Boogie" – 4:14
14. "Original Mothers at The Broadside (Pomona)" – 0:55
15. "Party Scene from Mondo Hollywood" – 1:54
16. "Original Mothers Rehearsal" – 0:22
18. "Band introductions at The Fillmore West" – 1:10
19. "Plastic People" (Richard Berry, Zappa) – 1:58
20. "Original Mothers at Fillmore East" – 0:50
22. "Don Interrupts" – 4:39
23. "Piece One" – 2:26
24. "Jim/Roy" – 4:04
25. "Piece Two" – 6:59
26. "Agency Man" – 3:25
27. "Agency Man (Studio Version)" – 3:27
28. "Lecture from Festival Hall Show" – 0:21
29. "Wedding Dress Song/The Handsome Cabin Boy" (Trad., arr. Zappa) – 2:36
30. "Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit" – 2:57
31. "The Story of Willie the Pimp" – 1:33
32. "Black Beauty" – 5:23
33. "Chucha" – 2:47
34. "Mothers at KPFK" – 3:26
35. "Harmonica Fun" – 0:41
The tracks were separated across the original 'mystery discs' thus:
• Mystery Disc #1: tracks 1–20, plus "Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?" and "Big Leg Emma"
• Mystery Disc #2: tracks 21–35
Mystery Disc 283
References
[2] http:/ / members. shaw. ca/ francescoz/ biffyshrew/ metal. html
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Mystery_Disc.html)
• Release details:
• as Mystery Disc (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/mysterydisc.html)
• as part of The Old Masters box sets (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/oldmasters.
html#3)
Cucamonga 284
Cucamonga
Cucamonga
Released February 17, 1998/September 14, 2004
Genre Surf music, doo-wop, garage rock, rock and roll
Label Del-Fi Records/Rhino Records
Strictly Cucamonga Cheap

Genteel (1998) Thrills
(1997) (1998)
Cucamonga is a compilation album consisting of songs recorded with the involvement of Frank Zappa and Paul
Buff at Pal Recording Studio in 1963-1964. In 2004, Rhino Records re-released the album with extra tracks and a
new track order, after acquiring Del-Fi. The two songs performed by Paul Buff and the two songs performed by the
Pauls have no Zappa invovlement.[1]
Track listing 1998 version

1. Dear Jeepers - Bob Guy
2. World's Greatest Sinner - Baby Ray & The Ferns
3. How's Your Bird - Baby Ray & The Ferns
4. Every Time I See You - The Heartbreakers
5. Cradle Rock - The Heartbreakers
6. Slow Bird - Paul Buff
7. Blind Man's Buff - Paul Buff
8. Mr. Clean - Mr. Clean
9. Jesse Lee - Mr. Clean
10. Cathy My Angel - The Pauls
11. 'Til September - The Pauls
12. Heavies - The Rotations
13. The Cruncher - The Rotations
14. Letter From Jeepers - Bob Guy
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Track listing 2004 version

1. Dear Jeepers - Bob Guy
2. Memories of El Monte - The Penguins
3. How's Your Bird? - Baby Ray & The Ferns
4. World's Greatest Sinner - Baby Ray & The Ferns
5. Everytime I See You - The Heartbreakers
6. Cradle Rock - The Heartbreakers
7. Slow Bird - Paul Buff
8. Blind Man's Buff - Paul Buff
9. Tijuana Surf - The Hollywood Persuaders
10. Grunion Run - The Hollywood Persuaders
11. Mr. Clean - Mr. Clean
12. Jessie Lee - Mr. Clean
13. Cathy My Angel - The Pauls
14. 'Til September - The Pauls
15. Heavies - The Rotations
16. The Cruncher - The Rotations
17. Letter From Jeepers - Bob Guy
References
[1] "Cucamonga-Era Compilations" (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ weirdo/ cucamonga. html#cucamongayears). Lukpac.org. .
Cheap Thrills
Cheap Thrills
Label Rykodisc
Cucamonga Cheap Mystery

(1998) Thrills Disc
(1998) (1998)
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Cheap Thrills is a compilation album by Frank Zappa, with material from previously released albums.
• Original recordings produced by FZ.
• Compiled by the original Joe Black.
• Intramural sports by David Greenberg.
• Sampler mastered by Toby Mountain.
• Pre-taping audience warm-up by David Baker.
• 'Artwerks' by Cal Schenkel.
See also: Son of Cheep Thrills.
Track listing
1. "I Could Be a Star Now" (from The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels / Playground Psychotics)
2. "Catholic Girls [Live]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6)
3. "Bobby Brown Goes Down [Live]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3)
4. "You Are What You Is" (from Thing-Fish)
5. "We Are Not Alone" (from The Man From Utopia)
6. "Cheap Thrills" (from Cruising With Ruben & The Jets)
7. "The Mudshark Interview" - Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention (from Playground Psychotics)
8. "Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel" (from Broadway the Hard Way / Does Humor Belong in Music?)
9. "Zomby Woof [Live]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1)
10. "The Torture Never Stops [Original Version]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4)
11. "Joe's Garage [Live]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3)
12. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama [Live]" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4)
13. "Going for the Money" (from The True Story Of 200 Motels / Playground Psychotics)
References
[1] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2012 [last update]). "Cheap Thrills - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r348835).
allmusic.com. . Retrieved 24 February 2012.
Son of Cheep Thrills

Son of Cheep Thrills
Released April 1999
Label Rykodisc
Mystery Son of Cheep Joe's

Disc Thrills Corsage
(1998) (1998) (2004)
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Son of Cheep Thrills is a compilation album by Frank Zappa, with material from previously released albums.
• Original recordings produced by FZ.
• Compiled by the original Joe Black.
• Intramural sports by David Greenberg.
• Sampler mastered by Toby Mountain.
• Pre-taping audience warm-up by David Baker.
• 'Artwerks' by Cal Schenkel.
See also: Cheap Thrills.
Track listing
1. "WPLJ" (Dobard/McDaniels) – 2:52 (from Burnt Weeny Sandwich)
2. "Twenty Small Cigars" – 2:17 (from Chunga's Revenge)
3. "The Legend of the Golden Arches" – 3:27 (from Uncle Meat)
4. "Ya Hozna" – 6:26 (from Them Or Us)
5. "It Just Might be a One-Shot Deal" – 4:16 (from Waka/Jawaka)
6. "Love of My Life (live version)" – 2:15 (from Tinsel Town Rebellion)
7. "Disco Boy (live soundtrack version)" – 3:51 (from Baby Snakes)
8. "Night School" – 4:47 (from Jazz From Hell)
9. "Sinister Footwear 2nd Mvt. (live version)" – 6:26 (from Make A Jazz Noise Here)
10. "The Idiot Bastard Son (live version)" – 2:39 (from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2)
11. "What's New in Baltimore?" – 5:20 (from Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention)
References
[1] Huey, Steve (2012 [last update]). "Son of Cheep Thrills - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r413978).
allmusic.com. . Retrieved 24 February 2012.
Joe's Corsage
Joe's Corsage
Genre Rock and roll
Length 35:39
Label Vaulternative
Producer Joe Travers
Halloween Joe's Joe's

(2003) Corsage Domage
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Uncut [2]
Joe's Corsage is a CD of material recorded by Frank Zappa with The Mothers of Invention in the mid-1960s, before
the recording of their debut album Freak Out! (1966). The album was compiled by archivist Joe Travers, and its title
is a play on Zappa's 1979 work Joe's Garage.
A number of the recordings featured on Joe's Corsage are demo versions of songs that would later appear on Freak
Out!. The first set of demos, probably recorded in 1965, feature the guitar of Henry Vestine, who would later be a
member of Canned Heat. Also included are covers of the Righteous Brothers' "My Babe", and Marvin Gaye's "Hitch
Hike".
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Track listing
1. "Pretty Pat" – 0:33
2. "Motherly Love" – 2:21
3. "Plastic People" (Richard Berry, Zappa) – 3:05
4. "Anyway the Wind Blows" – 2:55
6. "The Phone Call"/"My Babe" (Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley) – 4:06
7. "Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy" (Trad.) – 1:02
8. "Hitch Hike" (William "Mickey" Stevenson, Clarence Paul, Marvin Gaye) – 2:54
9. "I'm So Happy I Could Cry" – 2:43
10. "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder" (Zappa, Ray Collins) – 3:29
12. "We Made Our Reputation Doing It That Way..." – 5:34
Personnel
• Ray Collins – vocals, tambourine, harmonica (tracks 6–8)
• Henry Vestine (tracks 2–5) – guitar
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Joe's Corsage - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r699616). allmusic.com. .
[2] "Frank Zappa - Joe's Corsage - Review - Uncut.co.uk" (http:/ / www. uncut. co. uk/ music/ frank_zappa/ reviews/ 8261). uncut.co.uk. 2011
[last update]. . Retrieved 22 July 2011.
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Joe's_Corsage.html)
• Joe's Corsage at zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/flash/Joes-Corsage/)
Quaudiophiliac 290
Quaudiophiliac
QuAUDIOPHILIAc
Recorded March 1, 1970–1978
Genre Jazz fusion, hard rock, experimental rock
Length 50:36
Producer Frank Zappa,

Dweezil Zappa
Joe's QuAUDIOPHILIAc Joe's

Domage (2004) Xmasage
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QuAUDIOPHILIAc is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, released in 2004 by the Zappa Family
Trust. It compiles recordings he made while experimenting with "quadraphonic", or four-channel, sound in the
1970s. Produced by Zappa, and completed by his son, Dweezil Zappa, it is his first foray into surround sound
formatted music. Zappa prepared quadraphonic mixes of a number of his 1970s albums, which were left unreleased
without a suitable format available on which to realize them, and QuAUDIOPHILIAc was billed as the first in a
series of releases to feature this material.
Several of the tracks present on QuAUDIOPHILIAc were previously unreleased, or were only available in edited
form. The recordings date from as early as 1970, with "Chunga Basement", a version of the title track from Chunga's
Revenge (1970). Also included are three tracks from the 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA concerts with the Abnuceals
Emuukha Electric Orchestra which would become Orchestral Favorites (1979).
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Track listing
2. "Lumpy Gravy" – 1:05
3. "Rollo" – 6:00
4. "Drooling Midrange Accountants on Easter Hay" – 2:15
5. "Wild Love" – 4:07
6. "Ship Ahoy" – 5:47
7. "Chunga Basement" – 11:48
8. "Venusian Time Bandits" – 1:54
9. "Waka/Jawaka" – 13:23
10. "Basement Music #2" – 2:43
Personnel
Musicians
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, arranger, conductor
• Mike Altschul – bass clarinet, bass flute, piccolo, bass saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – vocals
• Adrian Belew – guitar
• Max Bennett – bass guitar
• Billy Byers – trombone, baritone horn
• Alex Dmochowski – bass guitar
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar
• Sal Marquez – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Kenny Shroyer – trombone, baritone horn
• Ian Underwood – keyboards
Production
• Frank Zappa – producer, engineer, mixing
• Art Kelm – technical support
• Richard Landers – technical support
• Jeff Levison – production supervisor
• Fred Maher – technical support, artist relations
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Jaime Ramírez – production coordination
• Jeff Skillen – executive producer
• Joe Travers – vault research
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• John "Buddy" Williams – photography, cover photo

• Dweezil Zappa – producer, engineer
• Gail Zappa – executive producer, art direction, photography
• Keith Lawler - package layout, design, photography
References
[1] Westergaard, S. (2011 [last update]). "Quaudiophiliac - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r707568/ review).
External links
• Lyrics and details (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/QuAUDIOPHILIAc.html)
• Quaudiophiliac at zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/QuAUDIOPHILIAc/)
Joe's Xmasage
Joe's Xmasage
Recorded 1963
Genre Progressive rock
Label Vaulternative
QuAUDIOPHILIAc Joe's Imaginary

(2004) Xmasage Diseases
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Joe's Xmasage is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa recorded in 1963, posthumously released in
December, 2005. It is the third in a series of releases put together by archivist Joe Travers which started with Joe's
Corsage (2004).
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Track listing
1. "Mormon Xmas Dance Report" - 1:51
2. "Prelude to "The Purse" - 2:24
3. "Mr. Clean" (Alternate Mix) - 2:04
4. "Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?" - 5:01
5. "The Muthers/Power Trio" - 3:15
6. "The Purse" - 11:38
7. "The Moon Will Never Be the Same" - 1:10
8. "GTR Trio" - 11:21
9. "Suckit Rockit" - 4:11
10. "Mousie's First Xmas" - 0:56
11. "The Uncle Frankie Show" - 11:42
References
[1] Dryden, K. (2011 [last update]). "Joe's Xmasage - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r828697). allmusic.com. .
External links
• Joe's XMASage at Zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/flash/xmasage/)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle

(2006)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle
Genre Rock
Joe's The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday The Frank Zappa aaafnraaa Birthday
Xmasage Bundle Bundle
(2006) (2006) (2008)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle was released as a digital download on iTunes on December 15,
2006. It consists of five previously unreleased tracks performed by Frank Zappa, and six new tracks featuring the
Zappa family. (AAAFNRAA stands for "Anything Anytime Anywhere for No Reason At All", Zappa's motto of
sorts.)
Track listing
1. Tryin' to Grow a Chin (Live '76) by Frank Zappa (4:50) - Sydney, Australia 1-20-76
2. Dead Girls of London (Live '79) by Frank Zappa (2:22) - Odeon Hammersmith, London 2-79
• Words by Frank Zappa/Music by L. Shankar.
3. You Are What You Is (Live '80) (4:14) by Frank Zappa - 12-11-80, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
4. Bamboozled by Love (Live '88) (5:41) by Frank Zappa - 5-8-88, Wien, Austria
5. Fine Girl (Remix) (3:33) by Frank Zappa - 8-20-86 UMRK Remix by FZ with Bob Stone
6. Girlie Woman by Diva Zappa (2:31)
• Lyrics by Diva & Dweezil Zappa/Music by Dweezil Zappa.
7. When the Ball Drops by Diva Zappa (3:53)
• Lyrics by Diva Zappa/Music by Diva & Dweezil Zappa.
8. Bring It Back by Ahmet Zappa (5:21)
• Co-written by Ahmet Zappa & Jason Nesmith.
9. Feel How I Need You by Ahmet Zappa (2:54)
• Co-written by Ahmet Zappa & Jason Nesmith.
10. Rhythmatist by Dweezil Zappa (4:13)
11. Everyone is Going Mad by Moon Zappa & Jellybird (4:07)
• Written by Paul Doucette & Moon Zappa.
External links
• Official Zappa website - album info [1]
• Album page at the iTunes Store [2]
References
[1] http:/ / zappa. com/ flash/ dec212006/ index. html
[2] http:/ / phobos. apple. com/ WebObjects/ MZStore. woa/ wa/ viewAlbum?id=209492520& s=143444
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle

(2008)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle 2008
Genre Rock
Producer Frank Zappa, Joe Travers, Dweezil Zappa, Linda Perry
Joe's The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle Congress Shall Make No
Menage 2008 Law...
(2008) (2008) (2010)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle 2008 was released as a digital download on iTunes on December
21, 2008. It consists of five previously unreleased tracks performed by Frank Zappa, and new tracks featuring
Zappa's children, producer Joe Travers and others. It is the second iTunes album by Frank Zappa, the first being The
Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle (2006). (AAAFNRAA stands for "Anything Anytime Anywhere for No
Reason At All", Zappa's motto of sorts.) The additional A in this release's title stands for "Again".[1]
Track listing
1. Dancin’ Fool (Disco Version) 6:18
• Artist/Writer/Producer: Frank Zappa. Originally released 1979 on a 12” single. Released in 1995 by Rykodisc
on Strictly Commercial
2. More Trouble Every Day 5:48
• Artist/Writer/Producer: Frank Zappa. Recorded live in Wien, Austria, May 8, 1988
3. Gorgeous Inca 3:25
• Artist/Writer/Producer: Frank Zappa. Recorded live in Graz, Austria, March 23, 1979
4. Ancient Armaments 4:09
• Artist/Writer/producer: Frank Zappa. Originally released as a B-side to the single "I Don’t Want To Get
Drafted". Recorded live in New York City, October 31, 1978
5. America The Beautiful 3:35
• (Traditional) Artist/Producer: Frank Zappa. Recorded live in Uniondale, New York, March 25, 1988
6. You’re A Mean One Mr. Grinch 3:12
• Artist/Producer: Dweezil Zappa with Ahmet Zappa (vocals). Writer: Dr. Seuss & Albert Hague. Originally
released in 2000 on the Dweezil Zappa CD Automatic
7. Saturday Girl 2:50
• Artist/Writer/Producer: Dweezil Zappa
8. Alice 5:12
• Artist: Diva Zappa. Producer: Dweezil Zappa
9. Espanoza 3:26
• Artist: Diva Zappa. Producer: Dweezil Zappa
10. Dumb All Over 5:46

• Artist: Melanie Starks. Writer: Frank Zappa. Producer: Joe Travers
11. Twenty Small Cigars 5:49
• Artist/Producer: Joe Travers. Writer: Frank Zappa
12. Lacksadaisial 5:44
• Artist/Writer/Producer: Joe Travers
13. Dirty Love 4:04
• Artist: Cree Summer (Ahmet Zappa, background vocals & Dweezil Zappa, guitar). Writer: Frank Zappa.
Producer: Linda Perry
References
[1] Release artwork.
External links
• Official Zappa website - album info (http://www.zappa.com/fz/aaafnraa/2008aaafnraaa.html)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle

(2010)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010
Genre Rock
Label Zappa
Beat the Boots The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAAAM Birthday Bundle
III 2010 2011
(2009) (2010) (2011)
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010 is a compilation album released as a digital download
through the Zappa Family Trust on Frank Zappa's 70th Birthday, December 21, 2010. It features both recordings
by Zappa himself, as well as various covers of his material.
Track listing
No. Title Performed by Length
1. "Willie the Pimp" DMC, Talib Kweli, MMM & Ahmet Zappa 3:57
2. "Bobby Brown" Ahmet Zappa 3:07
3. "Treacherous Cretins (Live)" Frank Zappa 8:19
4. "The Deathless Horsie (Live)" Dweezil Zappa with Zappa Plays Zappa 6:16
5. "City of Tiny Lites (Live)" Frank Zappa 6:56
6. "Your Mouth" Macy Gray 3:42
7. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (Live)" Frank Zappa 3:34
8. "Jumbo Go Away (Live)" Frank Zappa 5:07
9. "Peaches en Regalia" Dweezil Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa with N.M. Brock & Steve Vai 3:15
10. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" Holland Greco 1:56
11. "The Torture Never Stops" Chloe & Robert Trujillo 10:16
12. "Stairway to Heaven (Live)" Frank Zappa 10:10

External links
Official website [1]
References
[1] http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ aaafnraa/ 2010aaafnraaaa. html
Joe's Domage
Joe's Domage
Recorded 1972
Genre Big band
Length 55:34
Label Vaulternative
Joe's Joe's QuAUDIOPHILIAc

Corsage Domage (2004)
(2004) (2004)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
Joe's Domage is an album featuring music by Frank Zappa, posthumously released on October 1, 2004. It is the
second in a series of releases put together by archivist Joe Travers which started with Joe's Corsage (2004).
Track listing
All tracks written by Frank Zappa.
1. "When It's Perfect..." – 3:18
2. "The New Brown Clouds" – 2:44
3. "Frog Song" – 17:23
4. "It Just Might Be a One Shot Deal" – 1:57
5. "The Ending Line..." – 3:12
6. "Blessed Relief/The New Brown Clouds" – 5:03
7. "It Ain't Real So What's the Deal" – 13:14
8. "Think It Over (some)/Think It Over (some more)" – 5:20
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9. "Another Whole Melodic Section" – 1:53

10. "When It Feels Natural..." – 1:27
Personnel
• Tony Duran – guitar, vocals
• Ian Underwood – organ
• Malcolm McNab – trumpet
• Ken Shroyer – trombone
• Tony Ortega – baritone saxophone
• Alex Dmochowski – bass guitar, vocals
References
[1] "allmusic ((( Joe's Domage > Overview )))" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r720359). www.allmusic.com. . Retrieved 2009-11-27.
External links
• Lyrics and detailed information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Joe's_Domage.html)
• Joe's Domage at zappa.com (http://www.zappa.com/flash/Joes-Domage/)
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Joe's Menage
Joe's Menage
Recorded November 1, 1975

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Genre Rock
Length 45:52
Label Vaulternative
One Shot Joe's Lumpy

Deal Menage Money
(2008) (2008) (2009)
Joe's Menage is a live album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released on October 1, 2008. It contains previously
unreleased material from 1975.[1] It is the fourth album in the "Joe's Corsaga" series, which is devoted to various
rarities compiled by Joe Travers for the Zappa Family Trust.[2] This album contains material from a concert in
Williamsburg on November 1, 1975 (the middle part). It presents for the first time extensive recordings featuring
vocalist and alto saxophonist Norma Jean Bell, who was only in Zappa's touring band for a brief period in late
1975.[3]
The album first germinated in 1978 when Zappa gave fan Ole Lysgaard several cassette tapes, including one of this
1975 concert.[4] In 2004, Lysgaard sent the tapes to Gail Zappa, and she decided to release this particular dub made
by Zappa.[5] It was not possible to retrieve Zappa's original tapes,[5] but the tape reel from which Zappa had
produced the cassette dub was located in the vault. It was restored by Joe Travers and mastered by John Polito.[6]
Track listing
3. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" – 6:02
4. "Lonely Little Girl" – 2:46
6. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" – 1:16
7. "Chunga's Revenge" – 14:18
All compositions and arrangements by Frank Zappa
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Musicians
• Frank Zappa (guitar and vocals)
• Norma Jean Bell (alto saxophone and vocals)
• Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone and vocals)
• Andre Lewis (keyboards and vocals)
• Roy Estrada (bass and vocals)
• Terry Bozzio (drums and vocals)
Album credits
• Original recording and cassette produced by Frank Zappa
• CD Compilation reconstruction and vaultmeisterment: Joe Travers
• Recordist: Davey Moire
• Mastering and audio restoration: John Polito
• Art direction: Gail Zappa
• Title layout: Keith Lawler
• Production manager: Melanie Starks
References
[1] Zappa.com > Joe's Menage (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ flash/ joesmenage/ index. html), zappa.com, September, 2008, . Retrieved on October
1, 2008
[2] Earlier releases in the series are Joe's Corsage (2004), Joe's Domage (2004), and Joe's Xmasage (2005).
[3] Albertos, Román García, FZ chronology, 1973-1975 (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ chronology/ 1973-1975. html), globia.net/donlope, .
Retrieved on November 1, 2008
[4] Lysgaard, Ole M. (2008), "The Laundry", Joe' Menage. Liner Notes (Zappa Family Trust) (VR 20081)
[5] Zappa, Gail (2008), "The Litany", Joe' Menage. Liner Notes (Zappa Family Trust) (VR 20081)
[6] Zappa, Gail (2008), "The Latex (Solar) Beef", Joe' Menage. Liner Notes (Zappa Family Trust) (VR 20081)
Greasy Love Songs

Greasy Love Songs
Recorded 1962 -1969
Genre Doo-Wop
Length 68:26
Label Zappa
Philly Greasy Love Congress Shall Make No

'76 Songs Law...
(2009) (2010) (2010)
Professional
ratings
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Greasy Love Songs is a compilation album by Frank Zappa, released in 2010. The album consists of the original
vinyl mix of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, with bonus material, including previously unreleased tracks from the
original sessions, the single version of "Jelly Roll Gum Drop", and "audio documentary" material. The album is
designated as a "Project/Object Audio Documentary", following MOFO and Lumpy Money.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except as noted.
1. "Cheap Thrills" 2:23
2. "Love Of My Life" Zappa, Ray Collins 3:10
3. "How Could I Be Such A Fool" 3:35
4. "Deseri" Collins, Paul Buff 2:07
5. "I’m Not Satisfied" 4:03
6. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" 2:20
7. "Anything" Collins 3:04
8. "Later That Night" 3:06
9. "You Didn’t Try To Call Me" 3:57
10. "Fountain Of Love" Zappa, Collins 3:01

11. "No. No. No." 2:29
12. "Anyway The Wind Blows" 2:58
13. "Stuff Up The Cracks" 4:35
14. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" (Alternative Mono Mix) 2:18
15. "No. No. No." (Long Version) 3:06
16. "Stuff Up The Cracks" (Mayfair Studios Mix) 6:05
17. "Serious Fan Mail" (Excerpts from FZ Lecture, The New School, Feb 21, 1969 and WMEX 5:11
interview, Jan 31, 1969)
18. "Valerie" (Mono mix) Clarence Lewis, Bobby 3:03

Robinson
19. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" (Single Version - B-side of "Deseri") 2:24
20. "Secret Greasing" (The Story of Ruben & The Jets told by FZ on KPPC, Nov 27, 1969) 3:36
21. "Love Of My Life" ("Cuca Impossible Recordings" Version) 2:06
References
[1] Westergaard, Sean. "Greasy Love Songs: An FZ Audio Documentary Project/Object - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
album/ greasy-love-songs-an-fz-audio-documentary-project-object-r1813720). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 22 October 2011.
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Box sets
The Old Masters

The Old Masters
Box set series by Frank Zappa
Released Box One - April 1985

Box Two - November 1986
Box Three - December 1987
Genre Rock
Francesco The Old Masters Box Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of
Zappa I Prevention
(1984) (1985) (1985)
Does Humor Belong in The Old Masters Box Jazz from

Music? II Hell
(1986) (1986) (1986)
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. The Old Masters Box Guitar

II III (1988)
(1987) (1987)
The Old Masters Box II
The Old Masters Box III
The Old Masters is a box set series by Frank Zappa, released in three volumes on Barking Pumpkin Records from
April 1985 to December 1987, consisting of studio and live albums by Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
originally released from 1966 to 1976 on other labels, as well as "Mystery Discs" which contained previously
unreleased material.
The box sets contained new masters mixed and edited by Zappa in his Utility Muffin Research Kitchen home studio,
prepared for the compact disc format. The albums were remixed and reedited, and are substantially different from
their original releases.
The series was well received by critics, although some criticism was aimed at Zappa's alterations, most notably the
decision to rerecord the rhythm sections of the albums We're Only in It for the Money and Cruising with Ruben & the
Jets, which provoked a lawsuit over unpaid royalties.
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Background
In the 1980s, Frank Zappa had regained the rights to the albums he had released on other labels. He decided to
reissue them as part of a series of three box sets for collectors. Zappa found the quality of the original masters to be
unsatisfactory for release, and decided to prepare new masters, remixing and reediting the original tapes.[1] In the
case of the albums We're Only in It for the Money and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Zappa decided to rerecord the
rhythm tracks, overdubbing newly recorded performances by bassist Arthur Barrow and drummer Chad
Wackerman.[1][2] Barrow stated of the remixing, "I had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, as a musician, I'm
always happy to be employed and doing sessions is always fun. But on the other hand, I did try to talk Frank out of it
the best I could."[1] Zappa told Barrow that he did not like the original performances, by bassist Roy Estrada and
drummer Jimmy Carl Black.[1]
During this period, Zappa also prepared a remix of the second version of his 1967 album Lumpy Gravy, featuring
similar overdubs by Barrow and Wackerman.[3] An excerpt from the remix was included in an Old Masters
promotional sampler intended for radio station managers, but the remix was not released at the time; it appeared on
Lumpy Money in 2008.[4]
Zappa stated in regards to the remixing of the albums, "The master tapes for Ruben and the Jets were in better shape,
but since I liked the results on We're Only in it For the Money, I decided to do it on Ruben too. But those are the only
two albums on which the original performances were replaced. I thought the important thing was the material
itself."[2] After the remixing was announced, a $13 million lawsuit was filed against Zappa by Jimmy Carl Black,
Bunk Gardner and Don Preston, who were later joined by Ray Collins, Art Tripp and Motorhead Sherwood,
increasing the claim to $16.4 million, stating that they had received no royalties from Zappa since 1969.[2]
Zappa told interviewers that the oxide was falling off the tapes, and that he had to replace the drum and bass
performances. Barrow disputed this, stating "how could the oxide be falling off the tape on one track and not on
other tracks? But it's Frank's album. It's his music. He can certainly do what he likes with it. But I think it would be
nice for those of us that like the original version to put that out also [...] As for Ruben & The Jets, I kinda think that's
bad too. Because one of the coolest things about that album originally was the tape loops for the drums. It sounded
like a machine, it was a great sound."[1]
In addition to the new masters, Zappa prepared a "Mystery Disc" for two of the box sets,[5] but not for the third Old
Masters box. Additionally, the third box did not include the albums Zappa in New York, Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan, and
Orchestral Favorites,[6] which Zappa had prepared after Warner Bros. Records had rejected his intended release,
Läther. Zappa in New York, Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan and Orchestral Favorites were subsequently released on compact
disc by Barking Pumpkin,[6] and Läther was released by Rykodisc in 1996.
All of the albums included in this set were subsequently issued on compact disc, in editions that used the masters
which appeared on these boxes;[6][7][8] the "Mystery Discs" were subsequently combined into a single release,
Mystery Disc, released by Rykodisc in 1998. On this release, the tracks "Big Leg Emma" and "Why Don't You Do
Me Right?" were excluded, as they had previously appeared on the compact disc edition of Absolutely Free.
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Track listing
The Old Masters Box I
• Freak Out!
• Absolutely Free
• Lumpy Gravy
• We're Only In It For The Money
• Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
• Mystery Disc
The Old Masters Box II
• Uncle Meat
• Hot Rats
• Burnt Weeny Sandwich
• Weasels Ripped My Flesh
• Chunga's Revenge
• Fillmore East, June 1971
• Just Another Band From L.A.
• Mystery Disc
The Old Masters Box III
• Waka/Jawaka
• The Grand Wazoo
• Over-Nite Sensation
• Apostrophe (')
• Roxy & Elsewhere
• One Size Fits All
• Bongo Fury
• Zoot Allures
Reception
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic Box I [7]
Allmusic Box II [8]
Allmusic Box III [6]
The individual box sets were well received. Allmusic reviewer William Ruhlmann gave each box 4.5 out of 5
stars.[6][7][8] However, the remixing of the albums received some criticism from fans.[2]
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References
[5] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=Iy1eEgLlVQwC& pg=PA42
[7] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Old Masters Box 1 [ABCDE + New] - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic.
com/ album/ r53127). allmusic.com. . Retrieved 21 July 2011.
[8] Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Old Masters Box 2 [FGHJKLMO + New] - Frank Zappa & the Mothers | AllMusic" (http:/ / www.
Beat the Boots

Beat the Boots
Box set by Frank Zappa
Recorded Various locations September 30, 1967 – May 21, 1982
Genre Rock
Length 420:05
Label Rhino
The Old Masters Beat the Beat the Boots

(1985/1986/1987) Boots II
(1991) (1992)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
Beat the Boots is a collection of bootleg recordings by Frank Zappa which were originally distributed illegally but
were released officially by Rhino Entertainment in 1991. The recordings were available as individual CDs and as an
LP or cassette box set. The eight discs span a fifteen-year period from September 30, 1967 ('Tis the Season to Be
Jelly) to May 21, 1982 (two tracks on As an Am).
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Track listing
As an Am
As an Am features recordings from three separate shows. Track 1 is from May 19, 1981 at Rockline, KLOS-FM, Los
Angeles, California; tracks 2 and 3 are from May 21, 1982 at Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany and tracks 4-6 are from
October 31, 1981 at The Palladium, New York City.
1. "That Makes Me Mad" – 0:51
2. "Young & Monde" – 11:24
5. "Black Page #2" – 7:12
The Ark
The Ark documents a show at The Ark, Boston, Massachusetts on July 8, 1968.
1. "Intro" – 0:56
2. "Big Leg Emma" – 3:42
3. "Some Ballet Music" – 7:16
4. "Status Back Baby" – 5:48
5. "Valarie" – (Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson) – 3:30
6. "My Guitar" – 6:46
7. "Uncle Meat/King Kong (Medley)" – 23:49
Freaks & Mother*#@%!

Freaks & Mother*#@%! was recorded at Fillmore East, New York City on November 13, 1970. The original
bootleg version was called Freaks and Motherfuckers.
1. "Happy Together" – (Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon) – 1:25
2. "Wino Man-with Dr. John Routine" (Zappa, Jeff Simmons) – 7:44
3. "Concentration Moon" – 1:18
4. "Pallidan Routine" – 1:14
5. "Call Any Vegetable" – 8:56
6. "Little House I Used to Live In" – 4:26
7. "Mudshark Variations" – 1:10
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Unmitigated Audacity
Unmitigated Audacity was recorded at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana on May 12, 1974.
1. "Dupree's Paradise/It Can't Happen Here" – 3:12
2. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 2:46
3. "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" – 2:44
6. "I'm Not Satisfied" – 2:18
7. "Wowie Zowie" – 3:18
10. "Oh No" – 8:14
12. "Louie Louie" – 1:55
Anyway the Wind Blows

Anyway the Wind Blows was recorded at Nouvel Hippodrome, Paris on February 24, 1979.
Disc one
2. "Dead Girls of London" – 2:38
4. "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" – 7:29
9. "Easy Meat" – 6:40
Disc two
1. "Jumbo Go Away" – 3:44
2. "Andy" – 5:21
8. "Another Cheap Aroma" – 2:38 (Correct title: "For the Young Sophisticate")
9. "Wet T-Shirt Night" – 2:29
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Tis the Season to Be Jelly

'Tis the Season to Be Jelly was recorded at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden on September 30, 1967.
2. "Petroushka" – 0:52 (for copyright reasons not on the European CD version)
3. "Bristol Stomp" – 0:45
4. "Baby Love" – 0:47
5. "Big Leg Emma" – 2:09
6. "No Matter What You Do (Tchaikovsky's 6th)" – 2:41
7. "Blue Suede Shoes" – 0:53
8. "Hound Dog" – 0:14
9. "Gee" – 1:52
10. "King Kong" – 14:18
11. "It Can't Happen Here" – 9:18
Saarbrücken 1978
Saarbrücken 1978 was recorded at Ludwigparkstadion, Saarbrücken, Germany on September 3, 1978.
2. "Easy Meat" – 5:05
10. "Conehead" – 3:33
11. "Flakes" – 5:01
13. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" – 3:52
14. "Nanook Rubs It" – 1:47
15. "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" – 6:42
• comprising:
• "Father O'Blivion"
• "Rollo"
16. "Bamboozled by Love" – 6:45
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Piquantique
Piquantique was recorded at Solliden, Skansen, Stockholm on August 21, 1973, with the exception of track 4, which
is taken from a concert at the Roxy, December 1973.
1. "Kung Fu" – 2:12 (includes the opening theme from "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue")
2. "RDNZL" – 4:26
5. "Farther O'Blivion" – 20:41 (including themes from the "Steno Pool" section of "The Adventures of Greggary
Peccary", "The Be-Bop Tango" and a fast instrumental arrangement of "Cucamonga".)
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Beat the Boots! - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22666/ review).
Links
• Beat the Boots II
• Beat the Boots III
External links
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/beat-the-boots.html)
Beat the Boots II

Beat the Boots II
Box set by Frank Zappa
Recorded Various locations May 3, 1968–September 8, 1978
Genre Rock
Length 415:39
Label Rhino
Beat the Beat the Boots The MOFO

Boots II Project/Object
(1991) (1992) (2006)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Beat the Boots II is a box set by Frank Zappa. It compiles bootleg recordings which were previously available
illegally, and was released through Rhino Entertainment in 1992 as part of Zappa's campaign to dissuade his fans
from buying illegal recordings of his concerts. The set contains material from between 1968 and 1978, including
Swiss Cheese/Fire! which documents a famous 1971 concert at a casino in Montreux where the venue burned down,
inspiring the lyrics of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water".
Track listing
Disconnected Synapses
Disconnected Synapses was recorded at Palais Gaumont, Paris December 15, 1970.
1. "Penis Dimension" – 11:15
2. "The Air" – 3:54
3. "The Dog Breath/Mother People" – 4:22
5. "King Kong" – 31:38
6. "Who Are the Brain Police?" – 6:30
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta

Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Sicilian for "I've got such a big dick") was recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City
November 13, 1970.
1. "Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?" – 0:49
2. "A Pound for a Brown (On the Bus)" – 7:26
3. "Sleeping in a Jar (with extensions)" – 4:34
5. "The Sanzini Brothers" – 0:32
6. "What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?" – 4:35
7. "What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?" – 5:00
8. "Bwana Dik" – 1:45
9. "Latex Solar Beef" – 1:00
10. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" – 2:46
11. "Little House I Used to Live In" – 4:04
13. "Inca Roads/Easy Meat" – 7:16
Electric Aunt Jemima

Electric Aunt Jemima incorporates material from various dates: tracks 1, 2, 5 and 7 are from a show at The Dog,
Denver, Colorado on May 3, 1968; tracks 3 and 6 are from Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, October 20, 1968 and track
4 was recorded at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany on September 28, 1968.
1. "Little House I Used to Live In/Dog Breath Variations/Blue Danube Waltz/Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 14:30
2. "whät" – 3:53
3. "Dog Breath" – 2:10
4. "King Kong" – 16:30
7. "English Tea Dancing Interludes/Plastic People/King Kong/America Drinks/Wipe Out" – 12:00
At the Circus
All tracks on At the Circus were recorded at Circus Krone, Munich on September 8, 1978, except tracks 6 and 7,
recorded for VPRO TV, Uddel, Netherlands June 18, 1970.
2. "Baby Snakes" – 2:05
4. "Easy Meat" – 4:39
6. "Mother People" – 2:40
7. "Wonderful Wino" – 5:41
9. "Seal Call Fusion Music" – 3:12
11. "I'm On Duty" – 1:52
12. "Conehead" – 5:31
Swiss Cheese/Fire!
Swiss Cheese and Fire! were initially produced as two separate bootlegs. Both were recorded at the same show at
Casino, Montreux, Switzerland on December 4, 1971 that inspired Deep Purple's song Smoke On The Water. Swiss
Cheese comprises tracks 1 to 5 and Fire! tracks 6 to 11.
1. "Zanti Serenade" – 14:21
2. "Peaches En Regalia" – 3:27
3. "Tears Began to Fall/She Painted Up Her Face/Half-a-Dozen Provocative Squats" – 5:59
4. "Call Any Vegetable" – 9:55
5. "Anyway the Wind Blows" – 3:44
6. "Magdalena/Dog Breath" – 9:49
7. "Sofa" – 18:06
9. "Wonderful Wino/Sharleena/Cruisin' for Burgers" – 12:37
10. "King Kong" – 1:24
11. "Fire!" – 1:55
Our Man in Nirvana

Our Man in Nirvana, Fullerton, California November 8, 1968.
1. "Feet Light Up" – 1:16
2. "Bacon Fat" (Andre Williams) – 4:58
5. "The Wild Man Fischer Story" (Larry Fischer) – 3:28
6. "I'm the Meany" (Fischer) – 2:02
7. "Valarie" (Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson) – 2:17
8. "King Kong" – 30:59
Conceptual Continuity
Conceptual Continuity was recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan November 19, 1976.
1. "Stink-foot/Dirty Love/Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" – 17:58
2. "The Torture Never Stops/City of Tiny Lites" – 21:09
References
[1] Planer, L. (2011 [last update]). "Beat the Boots!, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r77901).
Links
• Beat the Boots
• Beat the Boots III
External links
• Lyrics:
• Disconnected Synapses (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/disconnected_synapses.html)
• Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/tengo_na_minchia_tanta.html)
• Electric Aunt Jemima (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/electric_aunt_jemima.html)
• At the Circus (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/at_the_circus.html)
• Swiss Cheese/Fire! (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/swiss_cheese_fire.html)
• Our Man in Nirvana (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/our_man_in_nirvana.html)
• Conceptual Continuity (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/btb/conceptual_continuity.html)
• Release details (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/beat-the-boots.html)
Beat the Boots III

Beat the Boots III is a set of digitally downloadable albums by Frank Zappa. It compiles bootleg recordings which
were previously available illegally, released by Zappa Records in 2009 as part of the Zappa's campaign to dissuade
Frank Zappa fans from buying illegal recordings of his concerts.
Track listing
Disc one
(MP3 Download, Zappa Records, January 25, 2009)
1. Vpro Intro - 0:24
2. Status Back Baby - 1:19
3. Ned The Mumbler - 1:46
4. Toads Of The Short Forest - 1:48
5. In Memorium, Hieronymus Bosch - 5:02
6. Oh, In The Sky - 2:27
7. Directly From My Heart To You - 5:45
8. Twinkle Tits - 10:09
9. T'Mershi Duween - 2:18
10. Black Napkins - 4:31
11. Dong Work For Yuda - 2:54
12. Mo's Vacation - 4:09
13. The Black Page #2 - 2:58
14. Suicide Chump - 9:11
Disc two
1. Heavy Duty Judy - 4:40
2. Pick Me, I'm Clean - 3:31
3. Teen-Age Wind - 3:06
4. Harder Than Yer Husband - 2:32
5. Bamboozled By Love - 3:07
6. Falling In Love Is a Stupid Habit - 1:45
7. This Is My Story - 1:21
8. Whipping Post - 6:26
9. Clownz On Velvet - 5:55
10. In France - 3:53
11. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes [Explicit] - 5:47
12. I Am The Walrus - 3:40
13. America The Beautiful - 3:15
14. America Drinks & Goes Home - 0:51
15. Studebacher Hoch (from Billy the Mountain) - 6:07
16. Don't Fuck Around (from Billy the Mountain) [Explicit] - 1:32
17. Too On The Town - 0:22
18. Truck Driver Divorce - 1:26
Disc Three
1. The World's Greatest Sinner - 11:58
2. Spontaneous Minimalist Composition - 2:00
3. Sinister Footwear - 26:08
4. The Black Page - 2:05
5. Pedro's Dowry - 8:27
6. None Of The Above - 6:29
Disc Four
1. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque - 10:15
2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy - 3:39
3. The Wild Man Fischer Story - 3:39
4. I'm The Meany - 1:36
5. Bacon Fat - 3:50
6. King Kong - 29:15
Disc Five
(MP3 Download, Zappa Records, February 1, 2009)
1. The Return Of The Hunchback Duke - 8:39
2. Help, I'm A Rock - 5:20
3. What It Was - 10:10
4. Medley: Son Of Mr. Green Genes/King Kong/Chunga's Revenge - 21:25
5. Watts - 5:19
6. Penguin In Bondage - 5:12
7. T'Mershi Duween - 1:52
8. The Dog Breath Variations - 1:47
9. Uncle Meat - 2:34
10. Rondo Hattom On Guitar - 5:13
Disc Six
(MP3 Download, Zappa Records, February 2, 2009)
1. Ride My Face To Chicago - 3:16
2. I'm The Slime - 4:25
3. Be In My Video - 3:23
4. He's So Gay - 2:27
5. Cocksucker's Ball [Explicit] - 1:03
6. Wplj - 1:37
7. What's New In Baltimore? - 2:49
8. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel - 3:21
9. Carol You Fool - 3:58
10. Chana In The Bushwap - 3:57
11. Kreega Bundola - 15:14
12. I'm The Slime - 3:13
13. The Purple Lagoon - 3:52

14. Peaches En Regalia - 3:23
15. Dancin' Fool - 3:56
16. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - 3:33
17. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast - 4:17
Links
• Beat the Boots
• Beat the Boots II
External links
• Release details [1]
References
[1] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ btb/ beat_the_boots_iii. html
Läther
Läther
Recorded 1969; 1972–1977
Genre Rock, jazz, orchestral
Length 172:56
Label Rykodisc
The Lost Läther Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial
Episodes (1996) Tribute
(1996) (1996)
Läther (pronounced Leather) is the sixty-fifth official album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously as a triple
album on Rykodisc in 1996.
The album was originally delivered to Warner Bros. in 1977. Contractual obligations stipulated that Zappa deliver
four albums for release on DiscReet Records, which necessitated reediting Läther as four separate albums: Zappa in
New York (1977), Studio Tan (1978), Sleep Dirt (1979), and Orchestral Favorites (1979). Läther was ultimately not
released until after Zappa's death.
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Background
Zappa's relationship with long-time manager Herb Cohen ended in 1976. Zappa sued Cohen for skimming more than
he was allocated from DiscReet Records, as well as for signing acts of which Zappa did not approve.[1] Cohen filed a
lawsuit against Zappa in return, which froze the money Zappa and Cohen had gained from an out-of-court settlement
with MGM over the rights of the early Mothers of Invention recordings. It also prevented Zappa having access to
any of his previously recorded material during the trials. Zappa therefore took his personal master copies of the
rock-oriented Zoot Allures (1976) directly to Warner Bros., thereby bypassing DiscReet.[2]
In the mid-1970s Zappa prepared material for Läther (pronounced "leather"), a four-LP project, which he intended as
his "swan song" for Warner Bros.[3] Wary of a quadruple-LP, Warner Bros. Records refused to release it.[4][5]
Contractual obligations stipulated that Zappa would deliver four more albums to DiscReet, thus necessitating
reediting the Läther masters into four individual albums: Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral
Favorites.[6][7][5]
Zappa managed to get an agreement with Phonogram to release Läther in its original configuration, and test
pressings were made targeted at a Halloween 1977 release, but Warner Bros. prevented the release by claiming rights
over the material.[8] Zappa responded by appearing on the Pasadena, California radio station KROQ, allowing them
to broadcast Läther and encouraging listeners to make their own tape recordings.[9] After Warner Bros. censored
Zappa in New York to remove references to Angel guitarist Punky Meadows, and demanding four additional albums,
a lawsuit between Zappa and Warner Bros. followed, during which no Zappa material was released for more than a
year. Eventually, Warner Bros. issued Studio Tan (1978), Sleep Dirt (1979), and Orchestral Favorites (1979)
without Zappa's authorization and limited promotion.[6][7][5]
Music and lyrics

Läther encapsulated all the aspects of Zappa's musical styles — rock tunes, orchestral works, complex instrumentals,
and Zappa's own trademark distortion-drenched guitar solos, assembled in a seemingly random way and linked with
bits of odd dialogue and sound effects.[6] Only six tracks on Läther are precisely the same as the ones released on the
individual DiscReet Records releases Zappa In New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites, the
remaining being either alternative mixes or unique to Läther.[6]
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [5]
The four individual albums were not included in the third Old Masters box set released in 1987.[10] When the music
was first released on CD in 1991, Zappa chose to release the four individual albums. Läther was released
posthumously in 1996.[11] A "mini-LP" CD edition was also released by Rykodisc, with the artwork reformatted to
resemble the sleeve of a vinyl album.[5]
Allmusic writer Richie Unterberger praised the album, but wrote that it would "appeal far more to the Zappa cultist
than the general listener, though the Zappa cult -- which has been craving Läther in its original format for years -- is
a pretty wide fan base in and of itself."[5]
Läther 320
Track listing
CD 1
No. Title Length
1. "Re-gyptian Strut" 4:36
2. "Naval Aviation in Art?" 1:32
3. "A Little Green Rosetta" 2:48
4. "Duck Duck Goose" 3:01
5. "Down in de Dew" 2:57
6. "For the Young Sophisticate" 3:14
7. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" 3:26
8. "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" 4:40
9. "The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit" 12:43
10. "Lemme Take You to the Beach" 2:46
11. "Revised Music for Guitar & Low Budget Orchestra" 7:36
12. "RDNZL" 8:14
Total length: 57:36
CD 2
No. Title Length
2. "The Black Page #1" 1:57
5. "Flambe" 2:05
6. "The Purple Lagoon" 16:22
7. "Pedro's Dowry" 7:45
8. "Läther" 3:50
9. "Spider of Destiny" 2:40
10. "Duke of Orchestral Prunes" 4:21
Total length: 57:17

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CD 3
No. Title Length
1. "Filthy Habits" 7:12
2. "Titties 'n Beer" 5:23
3. "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution" 8:32
4. "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" 21:00
5. "Regyptian Strut" (1993) 4:42
6. "Leather Goods" 6:01
7. "Revenge of the Knick Knack People" 2:25
8. "Time Is Money" 3:04
Total length: 58:24
Personnel
Disc One, Track 1
• Frank Zappa – percussion
• Bruce Fowler – all brass
• James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass
Disc One, Track 2; Disc Two, Track 7 & 10
• Frank Zappa – guitar
• Orchestra conducted by Michael Zearott
Disc One, Track 3 (part One)
• Frank Zappa – vocal
Disc One, Track 3 (Part Two)
• Frank Zappa – lead guitar
• Roy Estrada – bass
• Terry Bozzio - drums
Disc One, Track 4, 7 & 8; Disc Three Track 6
• Eddie Jobson – violin, keyboards
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass
Disc One, Track 5
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• Frank Zappa – all guitars, bass

• Jim Gordon – drums
Disc One, Track 6
• Ricky Lancelotti – vocals
Disc One, Track 9; Disc Two, Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8; Disc Three, Track 2
• Eddie Jobson – violin, keyboards, vocals
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass, vocals
• Ruth Underwood – percussion, synthesizer
• David Samuels – timpani, vibes
• Randy Brecker – trumpet
• Mike Brecker – tenor sax, flute
• Lou Marini – alto sax, flute
• Ronnie Cuber – baritone sax, clarinet
• Tom Malone – trombone, trumpet, piccolo
• Don Pardo – sophisticated narration
Disc One, Track 10
• Davey Moire – vocals
• Eddie Jobson – keyboards, yodeling
• Max Bennett – bass
• Don Brewer – bongos
Disc One, Track 11; Disc Three, Track 4
Disc One, Track 12; Disc Three, Track 8
Disc Two, Track 5 & 9
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Disc Three, Track 1
• Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards
Disc Three, Track 3
• Frank Zappa – guitar, synthesizer
Disc Three, Track 5
• Frank Zappa – percussion
• Bruce Fowler – all brass
• Chad Wackerman – drum overdubs
Production credits
• Digital Mastering & EQ – Spencer Chrislu
• Transfer Engineers – David Dondorf, Spencer Chrislu
• Vaultmeisterment – Joe Travers
• Bonues Section Assembly, Edits & Mastering – Spencer Chrislu
• Cover Concept – Dweezil Zappa
• Forward Motion – Gail Zappa
• Deep-dish Descriptions – Simon Prentis
• Cover Execution & Layout Design – Steven Jurgensmeyer
References
[2] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, p. 253; pp. 258–259.
[5] Unterberger, R. (2011 [last update]). "Läther - Frank Zappa | AllMusic" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r240962/ review).
[6] Zappa, Gail (1996). Läther (Album notes). Frank Zappa. Rykodisc.
[11] It remains debated whether Zappa had conceived the material as a four-LP set from the beginning, or only when approaching
Mercury-Phonogram; see, e.g., Watson, 2005, Frank Zappa. The Complete Guide to His Music, p. 49. In the liner notes to the 1996 release,
however, Gail Zappa states that "As originally conceived by Frank, Läther was always a 4-record box set."
The MOFO Project/Object

The MOFO Project/Object
Released December 5, 2006 (2-CD version)

December 12, 2006 (4-CD limited edition)
Recorded March 9–12, 1966
Genre Experimental rock, avant-garde, progressive rock, rock and roll
Length 115:51 (2-CD version)

183:56 (4-CD version)
Label Zappa
Producer Gail Zappa

Joe Travers
Imaginary The MOFO Project/Object(2006) Trance-Fusion

Diseases (2009)
(2006)
Professional
ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The MOFO Project/Object is an album by Frank Zappa. The album was announced by the Zappa Family Trust in
mid-2006. It commemorates the 40th anniversary of and features previously unreleased material from Zappa's first
album, Freak Out! It was first issued as a limited edition 2-CD set (official release #77) available only through the
official Zappa website, followed by a 4-CD set (official release #78).
Track listing
2-CD version
Disc 1:
Original 1966 Stereo LP Mix of Freak Out![2]
Disc 2:
1. Trouble Every Day (Basic Tracks)
2. Who Are the Brain Police?[3]
3. I Ain't Got No Heart (Basic Tracks)
4. You Didn't Try to Call Me (Basic Tracks)
5. How Could I Be Such a Fool?[3]
6. Anyway the Wind Blows - 1987 FZ Remix
7. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder (Vocal Overdub Take 2)
8. Motherly Love (Vocal Overdub Master Takes)

9. "Tom Wilson"
10. "My Pet Theory"
11. Hungry Freaks, Daddy|Hungry Freaks Daddy (Basic Tracks)[3]
12. Help, I'm a Rock - 1970 FZ Remix[3]
13. It Can't Happen Here - 1970 FZ Remix[3]
14. Freak Out Drum Track w/ Timp. & Lion
15. Watts Riot Demo[3]/Fillmore Sequence
16. Freak Out Zilofone[3]
17. "Low Budget Rock & Roll Band"
4-CD version
Disc 1:
Original 1966 Stereo LP Mix of Freak Out!
Disc 2:
None of these tracks have previously appeared in any format outside the Vault other than the configuration
offered herein.
1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy - Vocal Overdub Take 1
2. Anyway the Wind Blows - Vocal Overdub
3. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder - Vocal Overdub Take 2
4. I Ain't Got No Heart - Vocal Overdub Master Take
5. Motherly Love - Vocal Overdub Master Takes
6. I'm Not Satisfied - 2nd Vocal Overdub Master, Take 2 (Rough Mix)
7. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here - Vocal Overdub Take 1 (Incomplete)/Take 2 (Incomplete)
8. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here - Basic Tracks
9. Who Are the Brain Police? - Basic Tracks
10. How Could I Be Such a Fool? - Basic Tracks
11. Anyway the Wind Blows - Basic Tracks
12. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder - Basic Tracks
13. I Ain't Got No Heart - Basic Tracks
14. You Didn't Try to Call Me - Basic Tracks
15. Trouble Every Day - Basic Tracks
16. Help, I'm a Rock - FZ Edit
17. Who Are the Brain Police? (Section B) - Alternate Take
18. Groupie Bang Bang
19. Hold On to Your Small Tiny Horsies...
Disc 3:
1. Objects
2. Freak Trim (Kim Outs A Big Idea)
3. Percussion Insert Session Snoop
4. Freak Out Drum Track w/ Timp. & Lion
5. Percussion Object 1 & 2
6. Lion Roar & Drums From Freak Out!
7. Vito Rocks the Floor (Greek Out!)
8. "Low Budget Rock & Roll Band"
9. "Suzy Creamcheese (What's Got Into You?)"
10. Motherly Love [Live]

11. You Didn't Try to Call Me [Live]
12. I'm Not Satisfied [Live]
13. Hungry Freaks, Daddy [Live]
14. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder [Live]
Disc 4:
1. Wowie Zowie
2. Who Are the Brain Police? (Section A, C, B)
3. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
4. Cream Cheese (Work Part)
5. Trouble Every Day
6. It Can't Happen Here (Mothermania version)
7. "Psychedelic Music"
8. "MGM"
9. "Dope Fiend Music"
10. "How We Made It Sound That Way"
11. "Poop Rock"
12. "Machinery"
13. "Psychedelic Upholstery"
14. "Psychedelic Money"
15. Who Are the Brain Police?
16. Any Way the Wind Blows
17. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
18. "The 'Original' Group"
19. "Necessity"
20. "Union Scale"
21. "25 Hundred Signing Fee"
22. "Tom Wilson"
23. "My Pet Theory"
24. "There is No Need"
Credits
• Arthur Maebe
• Benjamin Barrett
• Bob Stone - Remixing
• Carl Franzoni
• Carol Kaye
• Chris Riess - Liner Notes
• Dave Wells
• David Anderle
• David Fricke - Liner Notes
• Doug Sax - Remastering
• Edgard Varèse - Author
• Elliot Ingber - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
• Emmet Sargeant
• Eugene Dinovi
• Frank Zappa - Arranger, Art Direction, Author, Conductor, Executive Producer, Orchestration, Percussion,
Producer, Remixing, Text
• Gail Zappa - Producer
• Gene Estes - Percussion
• George Price
• Jack Anesh - Cover Design
• Jim Black - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
• Joe Travers - Producer, Vault Research
• John "Snakehips" Johnson
• John Polito - Audio Restoration, Mastering
• John Rotella
• Joseph Saxon
• Ken Watson - Percussion
• Kim Fowley
• Kurt Reher
• Melanie Starks - Production Coordination
• Mothers Auxiliary
• Neil Levang
• Paul Bergstrom
• Plas Johnson
• Ray Collins - Finger Cymbals, Hair Stylist, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vocals
• Ray Leong - Cover Photo
• Raymond Kelley (cello)
• Roy Caton
• Roy Estrada - Bass, Guitarron, Soprano (Vocal)
• Sangwook "Sunny" Nam - Remastering
• Stan Agol - Remixing
• Terry Gilliam
• Tom Wilson - Producer
• Tracy Veal - Art Direction, Layout Design
• Val Valentine - Engineering Director
• Virgil Evans
Notes and references

[2] "MoFo: The Making of Freak Out!" (http:/ / www. lukpac. org/ ~handmade/ patio/ vinylvscds/ mofo. html). The Zappa Patio. . Retrieved
2007-03-31.
[3] This is one of seven tracks appearing on the two-disc edition of MOFO but not on the four-disc box set.
External links
• Official Zappa website - album info (http://www.zappa.com/flash/mofo/)
• The Zappa Patio - Detailed analysis and fanatical opinions (http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/
vinylvscds/mofo.html)
The Lumpy Money Project/Object

Lumpy Money
Recorded 1967&1968
Genre Rock, orchestral, experimental
Length 205:29
Label Zappa
Producer Gail Zappa

Joe Travers
Joe's Lumpy Philly

Menage Money '76
(2008) (2009) (2009)
The Lumpy Money Project/Object is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously on January 23,
2009, it compiles the releases Lumpy Gravy and We're Only in It for the Money with previously unreleased material,
with the overall package serving as a audio documentary of the production of the two albums, which share
conceptual continuity themes.
Content
The first disc consists of the 1967 version of Lumpy Gravy, as it had been released on Capitol Records, and the 1968
mono mix of We're Only in It for the Money. The second disc consist of two remixes prepared by Zappa in 1984,
with overdubs by drummer Chad Wackerman and bassist Arthur Barrow. The Lumpy Gravy remix derives from the
1968 edit; this third version of the album had not been released in full; an excerpt appeared in a sampler for The Old
Masters box set.[1] The second remix, of We're Only in It for the Money had previously been released on compact
disc in 1986.[1] The third disc consists of studio assembly material and interviews with Zappa discussing the albums,
as well as the single version of "Lonely Little Girl".
Track listing
Disc I: Lumpy Gravy (Primordial). Frank Zappa’s original mono edit for Capitol Records. Original tracking sessions at Capitol Studios,
Produced by Nick Venet
No. Title Length
1. "Sink Trap" 2:45
2. "Gum Joy" 3:44
3. "Up and Down" 1:52
4. "Local Butcher" 2:36
5. "Gypsy Airs" 1:41
6. "Hunchy Punchy" 2:06
7. "Foamy Soaky" 2:34
8. "Let's Eat Out" 1:49
9. "Teenage Grand 3:30

Finale"
We’re Only In It For The Money 1968 Original mono mix, Produced by Frank Zappa.
No. Title Length
13. "Mom & Dad" 2:16
14. "Telephone Conversation" 0:49
20. "Hot Poop" 0:26
24. "Lonely Little Girl" 1:10
Total length: 61:52

Disc II: Lumpy Gravy. 1984 UMRK Remix (stereo)
No. Title Length
1. "Lumpy Gravy - Part One" 15:57
2. "Lumpy Gravy - Part Two" 17:15
We’re Only In It For The Money. 1984 UMRK Remix (stereo)
No. Title Length
6. "Mom & Dad" 2:16
7. "Telephone Conversation" 0:49
13. "Hot Poop" 0:29
17. "Lonely Little Girl" 1:12
Total length: 74:24
Disc III
No. Title Length
1. "How Did That Get In Here?" 25:01
2. "Lumpy Gravy "Shuffle" 0:30
3. "Dense Slight" 1:42
4. "Unit 3A, Take 3" 2:24
5. "Unit 2, Take 9" 1:10
6. "Section 8, Take 22" 2:39
7. "My Favorite Album" 0:59
8. "Unit 9" 0:41
9. "N. Double A, AA" 0:55

10. "Theme From Lumpy Gravy" 1:56
11. "What The Fuck’s Wrong With Her?" 1:07
12. "Intelligent Design" 1:11
13. "Lonely Little Girl" (Original Composition - Take 24) 3:35
14. "That Problem With Absolutely Free" 0:30
15. "Absolutely Free" (Instrumental) 3:59
16. "Harry, You’re A Beast" (Instrumental) 1:16
17. "Reprise/Instrumental" 2:01
18. "Creationism" 1:11
19. "Idiot Bastard Snoop" 0:47
20. "The Idiot Bastard Son" (Instrumental) 2:48
21. "What’s Happening Of The Universe" 1:37
22. "The World Will Be A Far Happier Place" 0:21
23. "Lonely Little Girl" (Instrumental) 1:26
24. "Mom & Dad" (Instrumental) 2:16
25. "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" (instrumental) 2:51
26. "Really Little Voice" 2:28
27. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" (Instrumental) 1:24
28. "Lonely Little Girl - The Single" 2:45
29. "In Conclusion" 0:25
Total length: 71:54
Credits
All Music produced/composed & performed/conducted by Frank Zappa.
The Lumpy Money Project/Object Compiled & Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers
Liner notes: David Fricke
Conceptual & Continuous Stuff & Text: Gail Zappa
Production Manager: Melanie Starks
Solar Dominance: Jupiter
Cover Art, Package Design & Layout: Michael Mesker
FZ Portrait Photo: Linda McCartney
Mastering & Audio Restoration engineer, Discs One and Three: John Polito
Mastering, Disc Two: Bernie Grundman
References
332
Songs
"A Token of My Extreme"

"A Token of My Extreme"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Joe's Garage Acts II & III
Recorded Village Recorders, LA

Spring 1979
Genre Rock
Length 5:30
Label Zappa Records
Writer Frank Zappa
Composer Frank Zappa
Joe's Garage Acts II & III track listing
"A Token of My Stick It

Extreme" Out
(1) (2)
"A Token of My Extreme", by Frank Zappa, is a song on the 1979 concept album Joe's Garage [Part II]. The main
character from this triple-album rock-opera has his mind messed-up by Lucille then "finally does something smart"
and "pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover and the First Church of Appliantology."[1][2]
Plot
Appliantology is shown as an insincere religion, which cooperates with a "malevolent totalitarian regime."[2] This is
an apparent reference to Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard.[1][2] Joe, doubting his sanity, asks 'mystical
advisor' L. Ron Hoover what his problem is and is told that he is "a latent appliance-fetishist." Joe asks if it is time
"to come out of the closet," and is told that he should "go into the closet". There, he can have "a lot of fun" achieving
sexual gratification using machines. Joe is informed that the best appliances speak foreign languages, which leads to
the next song, "Stick it out". This song derives from another piece called "Tush Tush Tush" from 1973.[3][4]
"A Token of My Extreme" 333
Analyzed in secondary sources

This song was analyzed in Zappa,[4] and also in Academy Zappa.[5] In their study of Zappa published in the journal
Studies in Musical Theatre, Carr and Hand mention that the song is "a satire of L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86) and the
Church of Scientology".[1] They described the work as "an ironic precursor" to Carlton's Return to the Forbidden
Planet.[1]
References
[1] Carr, Paul; Richard J. Hand (December 2006). "Frank Zappa and musical theatre" (http:/ / www. atypon-link. com/ INT/ doi/ abs/ 10. 1386/
smt. 1. 1. 41_1). Studies in Musical Theatre 1 (1): 41–56. doi:10.1386/smt.1.1.41_1. ISSN 1450-3159. .
[2] Prince, Michael J. (Spring 2005). "The Science Fiction Protocols of Frank Zappa" (http:/ / www. popmatters. com/ chapter/ Issue3/ zappa.
html). Chapter&Verse (PopMatters Media, Inc.). .
[3] Staff (January 1, 1989). "Frank Zappa on CD (and LP), Part I-III" (http:/ / www. stereophile. com/ musicrecordings/ 73/ index5. html).
Stereophile Magazine: pp. Vol. 12., No. 1.. .
[4] Miles, Barry (2004). Zappa. Grove Press. p. 431. ISBN 0-8021-1783-X.
[5] Watson, Ben Leslie (2005). Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology. SAF Publishing
Ltd. pp. 171–187. ISBN 0-946719-79-9.
"Absolutely Free"
"Absolutely Free"
Song by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from the album We're Only in It for the Money
Recorded February 1967, Capitol, LA

Aug-Sept 1967, Mayfair, NYC
October 1967, Apostolic, NYC
Genre Psychedelic rock

Experimental rock
Length 3:25
Label Verve/Bizarre/Rykodisc
Writer Frank Zappa
We're Only in It for the Money track listing
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your "Absolutely "Flower

Body?" Free" Punk"
(8) (9) (10)
"Absolutely Free" is a song written by Frank Zappa and released on the Mothers of Invention album We're Only in
It for the Money in 1968. The song is not to be confused with the Mothers of Invention album of the same name.
Lyrics and censorship

Like many of the songs on We're Only in It for the Money, "Absolutely Free" criticizes the hippie movement and the
Summer of Love. The song's lyrics are a parody of psychedelia, especially the idea of expanding one's consciousness
through the use of drugs. To this end, the song frequently mentions the word "discorporate", which is explained by
Zappa in the spoken introduction to the song ("The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your
body"). The lyrics also reference the song "Mellow Yellow" by singer-songwriter Donovan, who is often associated
with the hippie movement ("The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow").
On some pressings of the album, especially on earlier releases, two lines of the lyrics were censored. The first is the
sentence "I don't do publicity balling for you anymore", uttered at the very beginning of the song by the character of
Suzy Creamcheese. The word "balling" was cut from this line. The other line that was censored ("Flower power
sucks!") was cut entirely [1]
Musical structure
The song starts off with a piano intro, followed by a brief spoken part containing the aforementioned utterances by
Zappa and Suzy Creamcheese. From then on, the song carries on with a 3/4 motif, featuring a celesta, acoustic
guitar, and a heavy use of reverb and other sound effects, which give the song a pseudo-psychedelic feel.
References
[1] Phase 315 of WOIIFTM censorship (http:/ / home. westbrabant. net/ ~hades/ Phase315ofWOIIFTMcensorship. htm). Zappa Vinyl Labels:
Stuff Up the Cracks. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
External links
• AllMusic review of the song (http://www.allmusic.com/song/t365546)
• Explanation and debate about the song's lyrics (http://www.arf.ru/Notes/Woiftm/afree.html)
"Advance Romance"
"Advance Romance"
Song by Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart from the album Bongo Fury
Released 1975
Genre Progressive rock, Blues rock, Experimental
Length 11:17
Writer Frank Zappa
Bongo Fury track listing
"Cucamonga" "Advance Romance" "Man With the Woman

(6) Head"
(8)
"Advance Romance" is a Frank Zappa song originally from his live album with Captain Beefheart, Bongo Fury.
Other versions of the song can be found on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That On
Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, and Make a Jazz Noise Here. It is a humorous parody of typical love songs and is sang by
Napoleon Murphy Brock. "Advance Romance" was commonly played with the song "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy"
in concert. The song was played from 1975 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1988 making the song one of Zappa's most
performed.[1] Almost all of Zappa's lineups after its release on Bongo Fury have played this song in concert.[2]
Lyrics
The song describes a girl who is very good at pleasing the singer in bed. Though she takes advantage of his lust for
her and uses all of his money. It's implied that she's promiscuous as the lyrics state "The way she do me boy, she
might do you too." She takes advantage of the singer's friends as well, such as the mentioned "Potato head bobby"
(This references the main character in another Zappa song "San Ber'dino") and George Duke with the lyrics "Took
Georges watch like they always do. (It was a Timex too!)" [3][4]
Solos
In early versions only Zappa had a guitar solo, but as tours went on more and more of Zappa's band would have
solos. The simple structure of the song allowed a lot improvisation therefore a solo from most instruments fit right
in. One solo was named "Jim and Tammy's Upper Room" and was put on Zappa's 1988 instrumental album
Guitar.[1]
Original personnel
Frank Zappa – guitar
Napoleon Murphy Brock – vocals
Captain Beefheart – backup vocals, harmonica
Tom Fowler – bass
Chester Thompson – drums
George Duke – keyboards, vocals
Denny Walley – slide guitar
References
[1] by François Couture (1975-10-02). "Advance Romance - Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa & the Mothers, Captain Beefheart, The Mothers of
Invention : Listen, Appearances, Song Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ advance-romance-mt0004921026). AllMusic. . Retrieved
2012-09-20.
[2] "The Words and Music of Frank Zappa - Kelly Fisher Lowe - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC&
pg=PA123& lpg=PA123& dq="advance+ romance"+ "frank+ zappa"& source=bl& ots=VI5AgQVz0O&
sig=03CiCjXHSJSi8JxoROUJhcTSf_w& hl=en& sa=X& ei=QlZMUPLWDsfu0gGrwIHwDA& ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&
q="advance romance" "frank zappa"& f=false). Books.google.com. . Retrieved 2012-09-20.
[3] "Frank Zappa - Advance Romance Lyrics" (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ advance-romance-lyrics-frank-zappa. html). Metrolyrics.com. .
[4] "Frank Zappa - San Ber'Dino Lyrics" (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ san-berdino-lyrics-frank-zappa. html). Metrolyrics.com. . Retrieved
2012-09-20.
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary"

"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" is a piece by Frank Zappa, originally released on the album Studio Tan in
1978 and later recompiled into the posthumously released Läther album. An instrumental version now appears on the
Wazoo CD featuring the original Wazoo ensemble and debuted at the Hollywood Bowl on September 10, 1972. On
that CD it is in 4 movements totalling 33.05 minutes. The song is an epic that extended 20 minutes and 33 seconds in
length when first released and later 21 minutes (in a slightly different mix and edit) on Läther, mocking the rock
opera style and reprising the extended story format used in "Billy the Mountain" and, to some extent, the lengthy
adventures outlined in the "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" Suite.
The piece required a large number of personnel to record, and received its basic tracking during the Grand Wazoo
and Waka Jawaka sessions in mid-1972. The piece remained unfinished at the time of release of those two LPs (later
that year). Zappa would return to the recording on and off until its completion during the recording sessions for One
Size Fits All in 1974. The long interludes of avante-garde classical arrangement that are prevalent in the track made
for a much more sophisticated sound than "Billy the Mountain". Nonetheless, Zappa's use of absurdist humor and
political commentary remains prevalent in this piece.
Story
Greggery Peccary is a small peccary, and lives among the peccary population, which ranges from Texas to Paraguay
and sometimes as far west as Catalina. Peccaries are notable for having a white collar pattern on their fur, but
Greggary is part of a "bold new breed" of peccary that also has a wide tie below his collar, distinguishing it as a
particularly exceptional swine.
Greggery owns a red Volkswagen and works in the part of the town where the government buildings are kept at a
corporation known as "Big Swifty and Associates, Trend-mongers". As the name suggests, their line of work
involves conceiving and promoting the many trends and fads within the world using whatever means science has to
offer.
Greggery is popular among the air-headed lady stenographers at his company, who are impressed by Greggery and
taken by his suave and particular cunning as an employer. Together they sing a song advertising the company's many
time-wasting products, thus inspiring Greggery to return to his "ultra-avant, laminated, simulated, replica-mahogany
desk" so that he may conceive a new trend, some "THING" to identify with. Guided by heavenly voices, he invents
the calendar. This is clearly a reference to the Gregorian Calendar with 'Greggery' a play on Pope Gregory XIII who
reformed the calendar with its introduction .
The calendar, upon release, immediately causes chaos, as people suddenly can keep track of time and plan ahead,
thus making life aggravatingly mechanical, and also allowing people to discover how old they were. A group of
hunchmen, just a few of the "very hip young people" of the world, attack Greggery on the way home from his office
one night, enraged at the prospect of birthdays and being aware of their own aging. Greggery is chased by them in
his car, and narrowly escapes into a cave in a conveniently placed and nearby mountain.
The henchmen (and henchwomen) decide to abandon the chase in favour of a "love-in" and a party ensues among
them. Greggery is safe from them, but suddenly discovers that he has parked within no ordinary cave, but the mouth
of Billy the Mountain. Billy hacks up boulders and creates new brown clouds as he laughs, suddenly procuring
Greggery's interest.
Greggery, unaware that he was parked within Billy the Mountain or that Billy had coughed up the clouds, ponders
"who is making those new brown clouds", and makes a phone call to find a "philostopher" for an explanation of the
presence of the brown clouds. He is sent to a man named Quentin Robert DeNameland, supposedly "the greatest
living philostopher known to mankind", who hosts a group assembly. DeNameland's authenticity as a philostopher is
questionable, as he merely proclaims that "time is of affliction" - more specifically, "the eons are closing" - before
soliciting for payment for attendance to his assembly.
The adventure closes with Greggery still pondering the presence of the brown clouds, given DeNameland's lack of
answers. Cynically he concludes: "If you ask a "philostopher" he'll see that you pays!"
Variation
Zappa played a much earlier version of this piece (via an acetate) on 99.1fm WPLR, Connecticut radio on April 23,
1975 . In this version FZ introduces Quentin Robert DeNameland as the greatest living "two headed philostopher”
known to mankind. Quentin’s philosophical spiel (Zappa’s voice effected by a variable speed oscillator a la “Dumb
All Over”) goes on quite a bit longer than the official released Studio Tan versions or the Läther version. The spiel is
specifically colored (a la madrigal style) by the musical accompaniment. Quentin is quite likely a spoof of the
writing and speaking style of beat writer William S. Burroughs . The following is the entire philosophical speech as
noted in the Zappa book, Them Or Us.
Well folks as you can see for yourself the way this clock over here is behaving: time is an affliction.
Now this might be cause for alarm on a portion of you that’s from a certain experience I tend to
proclaim: the eons are closing. Now what does this mean precisely to the layman? Simply this:
Momentarily the need for the construction of the new light will no longer exist. Of course some of you
will think, "Who is he to fell me from this light?" But in all seriousness, ladies and gentlemen, a quick
glance at the erratic behavior of the large precision built time delineating apparatus beside me will show
that it is perhaps only a few moments now… Look how funny it’s going around there! Personally I find
mechanical nature of this to be highly suspicious. When such a device doesn’t go normal, the
implication of such a behavior bodes not well (if you know what I mean). And quite naturally ladies and
gentlemen if the mechanism in question is entrusted with the task of the delineation of time itself and
ahh if such a mechanism goes “On the bum”…. or the fritz… Well, it spells trouble.
The outro music of Greggery Peccary in this version is also quite different from the official CD released versions. In
this version Zappa opts for a tighter, less cluttered bravado sort of ending featuring a cartoonish, cascading marimba
part.
Musical themes
Unlike many of Zappa's previous lyrical compositions, "Greggery Peccary" relies only minimally on repetition and
more or less flows with a somewhat humorous but altogether heavy orchestral arrangement. The story is progressed
by means of both lyrics and instrumental passages, e.g., Greggery's drive to work in "his little red Volkswagen" is
conveyed by a frenetic musical interlude, after which Greggery delivers the punchline "Boy, it's so hard to find a
place to park around here".
The piece is a demonstration of Zappa's mastery of composition much more than of his songwriting, which thus
identifies it among the Läther canon. There are a few key "songs", however, within the piece as a whole. A miniature
jingle accompanies Greggery's introduction and also returns the piece after a long orchestral interlude, taken from a
much earlier instrumental piece, "Some Ballet Music," a piece that had been performed several times by Frank
Zappa and the Mothers of Invention but was never officially released on its own in an album until the release of the
Beat the Boots box set in 1991. It also includes a piece before the Steno Pool section entitled "Join The March",
previously the intro to "Farther O'Blivion." The "Big Swifty's" song during the steno pool sequence is a bizarre yet
sophisticated jazz piece utilizing irrational rhythm. Greggery's pondering of the new brown clouds (a melody first
heard in 1972 on The Grand Wazoo track "For Calvin And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers" appears twice, the latter
time as a finale to the whole piece and, in concept, the Läther album).
Billy the Mountain and Ethel's presence in the story are hinted at early on during Greggery's escape, both by their
identities as a mountain and tree with eyeballs on it, but also with a brief instrumental quote of the musical theme
which accompanies the line "Billy was a mountain, Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder" as Greggery drives
within the cave. Another possible reference to "Billy the Mountain" may be in the bizarre and somewhat atonal
assembly of the calendar, which oddly resembles the passage of time in the former piece.
A key moment occurs during the love-in, in which Zappa overlays several instrumental "pop music" songs with
clever segues, explaining that the young people were listening to several different radios at once, all tuned to entirely
different channels (similar to the aleatoric piece "Imaginary Landscape #4" by John Cage).
The song features a variety of musical quotations. When Zappa talks about "slowly aging very hip young people,"
the music features a quote from Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon". Shortly after, Zappa makes reference to the My
Three Sons television theme during the honkey tonk piano section.
Further References
Part of the story (Greggery driving his little red Volkswagen and hitting Billy the Mountain) is visualized in the
video of the song Baby Snakes.
External links
• Greggery Peccary lyrics [1]
References
[1] http:/ / www. science. uva. nl/ ~robbert/ zappa/ albums/ Studio_Tan/ 01. html
"America Drinks and Goes Home" 340
"America Drinks and Goes Home"

"America Drinks and Goes Home"
Song by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from the album Absolutely Free
Released 1967
Genre Jazz, comedy rock, experimental rock
Length 2:45
Label Verve
Absolutely Free track listing
Brown Shoes Don't Make "America Drinks and Goes

It Home"
(14) (15)
"America Drinks and Goes Home" is a song written by Frank Zappa and recorded in 1966 for the Mothers of
Invention album Absolutely Free. The song actually appears in two different versions on the album at the beginning
of side 2 under the title "America Drinks" and finishing at the end of side 2 under the title "America Drinks and Goes
Home". In between these songs is a sequence containing the songs "Status Back Baby", "Uncle Bernie's Farm", "Son
of Suzy Creamcheese" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It". Zappa's title for the entire piece was "Suite No. 2: The
M.O.I. American Pageant (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios)". The piece was performed many times during
the Mothers of Invention residency at the Garrick Theater in Greenwich Village in New York City during 1967.
Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s. The song
combines a silly love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. The members of The Mothers perform the song in a
very sloppy way on purpose. Many sound effects were creatively added to the recording to give it an authentic
nightclub feel. At the end of the recording lead vocalist Ray Collins says good night to the audience and tells them to
"drink it up, folks."
Soon after the song was released in early 1967 a few other songs appeared which used very similar ideas such as "On
with the Show" by The Rolling Stones (released in 1967), "My Friend" by Jimi Hendrix (recorded in 1968, released
in 1971) and "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" by The Beatles (recorded in 1967 and 1969, released in
1970.)
"Are You Hung Up?" 341
"Are You Hung Up?"

"Are You Hung Up?"

Genre Experimental rock

Musique concrète
Length 1:24
Writer Frank Zappa
"Are You Hung "Who Needs the Peace

Up?" Corps?"
(1) (2)
"Are You Hung Up?" is the opening track on the 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money by Frank Zappa and
The Mothers of Invention.
Song structure
"Are You Hung Up?" is a short montage of dialogue and musique concrète, lasting 1 minute and 24 seconds in
length. It includes stuttering hippie vocals by Eric Clapton, "Uh, out of sight. Are, are you hung up?", engineer Gary
Kellgren whispering about Frank Zappa's mighty, omniscient presence in the control room, a brief guitar lick and
Jimmy Carl Black saying "Hi, boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group." This statement,
a catchphrase used frequently by Black in concert , resurfaces on later recordings by the original Mothers of
Invention .
External links
• Lyrics and information [1]
• Review on allmusic.com [2]
References
[1] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ We're_Only_In_It_For_The_Money. html#Hung
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ t365540
"Billy the Mountain"

"Billy the Mountain"
Song by The Mothers from the album Just Another Band from L.A.
Genre Rock
Length 24:47
Writer Frank Zappa
Just Another Band from L.A. track listing
1. "Billy the Mountain"

2. "Call Any Vegetable"
3. "Eddie, Are You Kidding?"
4. "Magdalena"
5. "Dog Breath"
"Billy the Mountain" is a Frank Zappa song first made available on the album Just Another Band from L.A. in 1972.
The original recording of this song, which took more than a half-hour to perform, was from a live tour performance
on August 7, 1971 in Los Angeles, performed by Zappa with his band The Mothers and prominently featuring
musical duo Flo & Eddie.[1] The album recording had to be reduced to 24 minutes and 47 seconds in order to fit on
one side. An alternate recording of the song was featured on the 1992 album Playground Psychotics.[2]
The song is an intricate and absurd story in a parody of the rock opera style about a talking mountain named Billy
and his wife Ethell, a tree "growing off of his shoulder." The lyrics are a satirical myriad of imagery of popular
culture, the city of Los Angeles, the demise of urban America, and overall absurd juxtapositions of situations. While
many of the details were improvised as the song was performed from town to town, the same general structure of the
song remained the same.[1]
In 2009 Dweezil Zappa and his Zappa Plays Zappa ensemble performed "Billy the Mountain" as part of its "You
Can't Fit on Stage Anymore" tour of small venues in the US.[3]
Story
Billy the Mountain, a typical mountain which poses for postcards, lives between the cities of Rosamond, California
and Gorman, California with his wife Ethell, a tree. The main features on his mountain edifice are two large caves,
resembling eyes, and a cliff for a jaw, which lifts up and down when he talks puffing up dust and boulders.
The story begins when a man in a checkered double-knit suit drives up in a car leased from the Bob Spreen car
dealership in Downey, to deliver Billy's royalty checks from posing for postcards. Billy the Mountain becomes very
excited and accidentally drops a boulder on the man's car, crushing it. The man in the suit then goes looking for a
ride back to the San Fernando Valley. When Billy breaks the news to Ethell, she also becomes excited, and they
immediately plan on taking a well-deserved vacation to New York City, first stopping in Las Vegas.
They set off, moving across the Mojave Desert looking for a Howard Johnson's, leaving a trail of destruction in their
wake. As they cross the desert they soon destroy Edwards Air Force Base, Glendale, California, and cause an "Oh
mein Papa" in the earth's crust,[4] unleashing gas and obsolete germ bombs from an underground dump which are
soon dispersed over Watts in a freak tornado.
The media quickly alerts the public of these phenomena and starts generating false tabloid stories about Billy the
Mountain and Ethell's past lives, claiming them to be involved in a San Joaquin Valley smut ring, a reference to a
police entrapment which resulted in Zappa's conviction on charges of producing pornography. When Billy is drafted
by the military, he does not report for his induction physical, leading the media to go wild, reporting that Ethell is a
communist and that she practices witchcraft.
Finally, a "fantastic new superhero" named Studebacher Hoch, named after the Studebaker Silver Hawk
automobile,[5] is contacted via telephone by an unnamed caller and is asked to defeat Billy the Mountain. Hoch is at
first somewhat in disbelief and uninterested in the reports and briefly goes into casual discussion about family
matters, asking if the unnamed caller has received the album he sent him with "the pencil on the front," referring to
the Zappa album Fillmore East, June 1971. He soon starts taking notes about Billy's path of destruction, and when
he finds out that he's being offered an expense account and per diem to pursue the case he becomes much more
enthusiastic.
It is noted that little is known about Studebacher Hoch, although his personality is said to be "mysterious", and his
powers are said to be dancing, flying, swimming, being able to write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, and
singing like Neil Sedaka. The widely accepted origins of Studebacher are apparently that he was born next to the
frozen beef pies in a supermarket, underneath Joni Mitchell's autographed picture, next to Elliot Roberts' bank book,
next to a boat in which David Crosby was arrested while throwing away his "stash." The beef pies are said to have
been the main influence on Studebacher Hoch. He is also said to resemble then long-tenured LA Philharmonic
maestro Zubin Mehta.
Now with a plan, Studebacher Hoch gathers cardboard boxes, Aunt Jemima syrup, Kaiser broiler foil, and a pair of
scissors, with which he constructs a pair of makeshift wings. He walks to a telephone booth, where he spreads the
syrup onto his legs, attracting a swarm of flies. The flies lift him and the telephone booth out of the parking lot, into
the sky, and to New York in grand musical fanfare.
Studebacher Hoch arrives on the cliff which is Billy the Mountain's jaw and attempts to reason with him. At first he
is friendly, but after Ethell protests, he aggressively threatens Billy and Ethell. Billy just laughs, and as jaw moves,
Hoch loses his balance and falls perilously to his own injury and defeat. The moral of the story is stated in song: "a
mountain is something you don't want to fuck with, don't fuck around."
Musical structure
Like most of Frank Zappa's longer compositions, Billy the Mountain relies less on predictable song structure with
repeated sections and instead continually introduces new musical ideas and material similar to an opera or oratorio.
Nonetheless, there are a few recurring themes, including the repeated melody set to the lyrics "Billy was a mountain,
Ethell was a tree growing off of his shoulder." This theme later introduces Billy and Ethell in The Adventures of
Greggery Peccary, a similar composition in which the characters make a cameo appearance.
There is also a recurring "chorus" to the song, which appears four times. It is first sung as a lament of the man in the
double-knit checkered suit when his car is destroyed. Moments later it is sung by Billy to announce his intentions of
taking Ethell to Las Vegas. Just a few moments later it is sung again by Billy summing up the trip to Las Vegas
using nearly the same lyrics as the previous chorus but in past tense. The chorus makes its final appearance at the
end of the song as a third-person statement of the moral whereupon it is developed further and concludes with a
reprise of the song's introduction.
While there are several sections of Billy the Mountain that are sung, much of the lyrical content is spoken-word
based and many sections are ad-libbed with jokes and references pertaining to the specific locale in which the piece
was performed. Because of this, a few portions of the piece are almost entirely atonal and are more reminiscent of a
radio play than a musical piece in their performance.
Allusions
Zappa and his band repeatedly quote various other songs throughout the lengthy composition, mostly in the spirit of
parody.
The theme from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is quoted several times throughout the song, initially as a
cue when Billy announces his interest in visiting New York City. At the time that the piece was first performed in
1971, NBC’s The Tonight Show was still produced at the GE Building in Rockefeller Center in New York only to
move to Burbank the following year in 1972.
During the tornado sequence, the song alludes to The Wizard of Oz and the musical number, "Over the Rainbow",
which is sung by the Howard Kaylan character, while Mark Volman calls out for "Toto."
Towards the middle of the song, the band breaks out into a parody of the coda of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
song "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", substituting the original Spanish lyrics with a series of rumors about the life of
Studebacher Hoch. The famous "doot doot" backing vocals remain intact.
Notes
[1] Ulrich, Charles. "The Planet of My Dreams" (http:/ / members. shaw. ca/ fz-pomd/ vaudeville/ btm. html). The Planet of My Dreams. .
[2] Albertos, Román García. "Billy the Mountain" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ songs/ Billy_The_Mountain. html). Information is Not
Knowledge. . Retrieved 2011-04-19.
[3] "Zappa Plays Zappa plays Billy the Mountain" (http:/ / radiodupree. blogspot. com/ 2008/ 10/ zappa-plays-zappa-plays-billy-mountain. html).
Radio Dupree. October 9, 2008. . Retrieved 2011-04-19.
[4] A reference to the song by Eddie Fisher whose last name resembles the word "fissure".
[5] The proper spelling of his name can be seen on the album liner of Just Another Band from L.A. (1972).
External links
• Billy the Mountain Lyrics (http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Just_Another_Band_From_L.
A./01.html)
• Changes and Improvisation in the Billy the Mountain Script between live performances (http://members.shaw.
ca/fz-pomd/vaudeville/btm.html)
"The Black Page"

"The Black Page" is a piece by American composer Frank Zappa known for being extraordinarily difficult to play.
Originally written for the drum kit and melodic percussion, the piece was later rearranged in several versions,
including a disco and a so-called New Age version.
Drummer Terry Bozzio said of the piece:
He wrote it, because we had done this 40-piece orchestra gig together and he was always hearing the studio
musicians in LA, that he was using on that, talking about the fear of going into sessions some morning and
being faced with 'the black page'. So he decided to write his "Black Page". Then he gave it to me, and I could
play parts of it right away. But it wasn't a pressure thing, it just sat on my music stand and for about 15
minutes every day for 2 weeks, before we would rehearse, I would work on it. And after 2 weeks I had it
together and I played it for him. And he said, "Great!", took it home, wrote the melody and the chord changes,
brought it back in. And we all started playing it.[1]
On the double live album Zappa in New York (recorded 12/1976, released 3/1978), Zappa noted the "statistical
density" of the piece.[2] It is written in common time with extensive use of tuplets, including tuplets inside tuplets. At
several points there is a quarter note triplet in which each beat is counted with its own tuplet of 5, 5 and 6; at another
is a half note triplet in which the second beat is a tuplet of 7, and the third beat is divided into tuplets of 4 and 5. The
song ends with a quarter note triplet composed of tuplets of 5, 5, and 6, followed by two tuplets of 11.
Australian drummer Chris Quinlan explained and demonstrated the polyrhythms, nested polyrhythms (quintuplets
and sextuplets played within a 3:2 polyrhythm), polymeters (5/4 phrases played over 4/4 time signature) and
structure of "The Black Page" on "Melbourne Musos" TV Show, episode 122, aired in 1999 on Australian
Community TV station, C31 Melbourne.
In 2001, Terry Bozzio and Chad Wackerman released the video "Solos and Duets" which features "The Black Page"
played as a duet between the two ex-Zappa drummers with a transcription of the piece scrolling along the bottom of
the screen as it is being played .
In 2006, "The Black Page" was featured on Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour de Frank, an ambitious effort by Dweezil
Zappa to bring Zappa music to the stage again, played by himself and a new band. The 2006 tour also included, as
special guests, Zappa alumni singer & woodwind player Napoleon Murphy Brock, drummer Bozzio, and guitarist
Steve Vai. In the 2006 shows, "The Black Page" was played first as a drum solo by Bozzio and then a second time as
a guitar duet with Steve Vai.
In 2010, "The Black Page" was performed by a young British percussionist Lucy Landymore in the BBC Young
Musician of the Year percussion final [3], which she won.
External links
• Analysis of Zappa's unusual rhythms [4], including some transcriptions and MIDI recordings of "The Black Page"
• Interview by Vinnie Colaiuta for Modern Drummer [5], including a description of Vinnie's audition for Zappa
• The Black Page [6], a sample from the 'Zappa Plays Zappa' tour
• [7] Australian drummer Chris Quinlan played and explained "The Black Page" on "Melbourne Musos" TV Show,
episode 122, aired in 1999.
References
[1] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ songs/ Black_Page. html
[2] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ Zappa_In_New_York. html#Page
[3] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ youngmusician/ sites/ 2010/ pages/ competition. shtml#percussion
[4] http:/ / www. zappa-analysis. com/ irr. htm
[5] http:/ / www. vinniecolaiuta. com/ articles/ moderndrummer82. aspx
[6] http:/ / youtube. com/ watch?v=GDwRJK8bpb4
[7] http:/ / www. chrisquinlanmusic. com/ musolist. html
"Bobby Brown (Goes Down)"

"Bobby Brown"
Single by Frank Zappa
from the album Sheik Yerbouti
Recorded 1978
Genre Comedy rock, Progressive rock
Length 2:49
Label CBS Records
Writer(s) Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa singles chronology
"Dancin' "Bobby Brown (Goes "Joe's

Fool" Down)" Garage"
(1979) (1979) (1979)
"Bobby Brown" ( (song sample, 600Kb)) or Bobby Brown (Goes Down) is a song by Frank Zappa released on
his album Sheik Yerbouti in 1979. One of his best known songs, it was hugely successful in Europe.
The song describes a wealthy, misogynist student named Bobby Brown, "the cutest boy in town", whose life is the
archetypical American Dream until a traumatic sexual encounter with "Freddie", a lesbian involved in the women's
liberation movement, leaves him questioning his sexuality. He eventually turns gay and by the end of the song is a
self-described "sexual spastic" involved in golden showers and S&M, for which he thanks Fred. This song was more
successful in Europe than America and this is why it is only featured on the vinyl and European CD version of
Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial. [1][2]
Track list
Version 1:
A."Bobby Brown" - 2:43
B."Baby Snakes" - 1:50 [3]
Version 2:
A."Bobby Brown" - 2:43
B."Stick It Out" - 4:33 [4]
References
[1] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ Sheik_Yerbouti. html#Bobby Lyrics
[2] http:/ / home. swipnet. se/ bengt-jonsson/ zappaint. htm#Bobby Swedish interview on the song
[3] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Bobby-Brown-Baby-Snakes/ release/ 3119438
[4] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ master/ 92284?text=Frank-Zappa-Bobby-Brown
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It"

"Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
Song by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from the album Absolutely Free
Released 1967
Length 7:30
Label Verve
Producer Frank Zappa, Tom Wilson
"Son of Suzy "Brown Shoes Don't Make "America Drinks and Goes
Creamcheese" It" Home"
(13) (14) (15)
Brown Shoes Don't Make It is a song by The Mothers of Invention, written by band leader Frank Zappa. It is the
14th and penultimate song on their second album Absolutely Free. It is one of his most widely renowned works,
declared by the Allmusic as "Zappa's first real masterpiece".[1]
History
The title was inspired by an event covered by Time Magazine reporter Hugh Sidey in 1966.[2] The reporter correctly
guessed that something was up when the fastidiously dressed President Lyndon B. Johnson made the fashion faux
pas of wearing brown shoes with a gray suit. LBJ flew to Vietnam for a surprise public relations visit later that day.
A live version of this song is featured on the album Tinseltown Rebellion.
Music and lyrics

The lyrics start off as a general attack on suburban American society: TV, greed and conformity are all mocked
openly in the song. It then shifts in tone, dealing with a city hall official fantasizing about having sex with a
thirteen-year-old girl.
The music makes several stylistic shifts, covering hard rock, classical, psychedelic rock, music hall and jazz. It is
cited by Allmusic as being a "condensed two-hour musical". The song lasts 7:30 and is the fourteenth track on
Absolutely Free. According to Zappa, the beginning background music was inspired by Lightnin' Slim's "Have Your
Way".
Reception
The song has received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered by many as "Zappa's first masterpiece". In
a positive review of the album, Dominique Chevalier said "there are snatches of dodecaphonic scales, ballads, rock,
R&B, Beach Boys, soap opera and more...and ensures that this is no piece of easy listening".[3] As well as giving its
parent album 4.5 stars, Allmusic gave a very positive review of the song.[4] It is also included in The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[5]
References
[1] "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ t998763) (song review). . Retrieved 2008-03-03.
[2] Sidey, Hugh (1980-06-30). "The Meaning of the Cordovans" (http:/ / www. time. com/ time/ magazine/ article/ 0,9171,924245-1. 00. html)
(web reprint). Time. . Retrieved 2008-03-03.
[3] Chevalier, Dominique "Viva Zappa!" 1985 Page 62
[4] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ brown-shoes-dont-make-it-t998763 allmusic review
[5] "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll A-C" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20080120174104/ http:/ / www. rockhall. com/
exhibithighlights/ 500-songs-by-name-ac/ ). Archived from the original (http:/ / www. rockhall. com/ exhibithighlights/
500-songs-by-name-ac/ ) on 2008-01-20. . Retrieved 2008-03-03.
External links
• Lyrics (http://www.davemcnally.com/Lyrics/FrankZappa/AbsolutelyFree/)
"Camarillo Brillo" 351
"Camarillo Brillo"
"Camarillo Brillo"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Over-Nite Sensation
Recorded March - June 1973
Genre Prog Rock, Comedy Rock
Length 3:59
Label DiscReet
Writer Frank Zappa
Over-Nite Sensation track listing
"Camarillo "I'm the

Brillo" Slime"
(1) (2)
"Camarillo Brillo" is a song by Frank Zappa and was first included on his 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation. The song's
lyrics make use of many colloquialisms and made-up words. The title itself is a pun; Zappa incorrectly pronounces
Camarillo, the name of a city in California, to rhyme with Brillo, a trade name associated with cleaning pads. "Brio"
is also a musical term meaning "vigor". Camarillo is also the name of a mental institution in Southern California,
usually pronounced the way Zappa sings it. It's likely that a "Camarillo Brillo" is a hairstyle that resembles that of a
mental patient who has recently received Electro-shock therapy. In Italian language, "Camarillo" means "member of
a Camarilla (something like a lobby), and Brillo means "Drunk".
"Camarillo Brillo" is in the key of E major, though the key briefly changes to D major during the chorus. The song
employs liberal use of brass instruments and a wide range of percussion techniques. It ends with a short coda played
on piano. There are two versions of this song, the first being a slower tempo and the second a much shorter up tempo
version played later in Frank Zappa's career. The shorter version can be heard on You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 6. The reason for changing the songs pace was discussed in an interview with Mr. Zappa in which he
states that the song was "boring" so they speed it up in future performances. In 1975, "Muffin Man" was introduced
to Zappa's live repertoire, and "Camarillo Brillo" was subsequently played as a medley with the former.
Performances of this variety appear on several Zappa releases, including FZ:OZ, Halloween, You Can't Do That on
Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, and the concert film Baby Snakes.
This song also references Quadrophonic speakers and the album on which it appeared, Over-Nite Sensation was
recorded and released in quad on the Disc-Reet label.
"Cheepnis" 352
"Cheepnis"
"Cheepnis"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Roxy &
Released 1974
Genre Progressive rock, Experimental
Length 6:33
Writer Frank Zappa
Roxy & track listing
"Don't You Ever Wash That "Cheepnis" "Son of Orange

Thing?" Country"
(6) (8)
Cheepnis is a song by Frank Zappa written for his never-produced musical Hunchentoot, a tribute to B-movies. The
song first appeared on his 1974 album Roxy & Elsewhere, from a live recording. Another live version of the song
was released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2. The beginning of the Roxy & Elsewhere version of the
track has a 2 minute monologue about It Conquered The World and monster movies in general, including Zappa's
comment that "cheapness has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps." The song talks about the
general principle of cheesy special effects in early monster movies, including a monster, named "Frunobulax",
apparently, a very large poodle dog." The poodle is a recurring theme in other Zappa songs and is an illustration of
what he referred to as the "conceptual continuity" of his body of work.
The song is mentioned in the Book of the SubGenius.
External links
• Song info [1]
References
[1] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ songs/ Cheepnis. html
"Cocaine Decisions"
"Cocaine Decisions"
from the album The Man from Utopia
B-side "SEX"
Released 1982
Format 7"
Recorded 1982
Genre Jazz-rock, comedy rock
Length 2:56
"The Man From Utopia Meets Mary "Cocaine Decisions" (1983) "Baby Take Your Teeth
Lou" Out"
(1983) (1984)
"Cocaine Decisions" is a 1983 single by Frank Zappa, from the album The Man from Utopia. A live version was on
the album You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3. It was played in concert from 1981 to 1984.[1]
Meaning
Zappa had many antidrug songs including "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" from We're Only in It for the Money,
"Cosmik Debris" from Apostrophe ('), "Charlie's Enourmous Mouth" from You Are What You Is, and "I Come From
Nowhere" from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Though unlike the hippies, drug dealers, youth,
and junkies the target of this song are instead the rich Wall Street executives, doctors, and lawyers. Specifically the
lyrics "But if you are wasted from the stuff you're stickin' in it. I get madder every day 'cause what you do 'n' what
you say affects my life in such a way. I learn to hate it every minute!" are targeted at Zappa's own producers and
studio executives. The vocals display a tone of hatred making it one of Zappa's more agressive songs. In 2000, the
CMJ Music Marathon magazine jokingly stated that "Cocaine Decisions" was to be a great song to categorize
candidate for president, George W. Bush.[2][3]
Riot
During a concert in Palermo, Italy in 1982, members of the audience brought guns and caused a riot during "Cocaine
Decisions" in which the police had to use teargas to break up.[4] Zappa was reported stating "We played for an hour
and a half with tear-gas in our face and everything else, and when it was all over we went off stage and we were
trapped inside this place". The riot inspired the cover of the album The Man From Utopia.
Track list
A."Cocaine Decisions" - 2:56
B."SEX" - 3:00 [5]
References
[1] by François Couture. "Cocaine Decisions - Frank Zappa : Listen, Appearances, Song Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/
cocaine-decisions-mt0001303223). AllMusic. . Retrieved 2012-09-20.
[2] "Everybody Must Get Stoned: - R.U. Sirius - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=4TBtfiXSEtQC& pg=PT142&
lpg=PT142& dq="cocaine+ decisions"+ frank+ zappa& source=bl& ots=0upq6QF1Z7& sig=klOnB9ny_PHJtyCEOWHPK99-pvU& hl=en&
sa=X& ei=r5tbULPmIKfz0gGTr4D4DQ& ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage& q="cocaine decisions" frank zappa& f=false).
Books.google.com. . Retrieved 2012-09-20.
[3] "CMJ New Music Monthly - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=IyoEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA15& lpg=PA15&
dq="cocaine+ decisions"+ frank+ zappa& source=bl& ots=K9FbAi8vY6& sig=YBA2kfaSvIXTEmDNyFLDJixZg4Y& hl=en& sa=X&
ei=r5tbULPmIKfz0gGTr4D4DQ& ved=0CEkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage& q="cocaine decisions" frank zappa& f=false). Books.google.com. .
[4] "Frank Zappa: the negative dialectics of poodle play - Ben Watson - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=VRcIAQAAMAAJ& q="cocaine+ decisions"+ + riot& dq="cocaine+ decisions"+ + riot& source=bl& ots=ix8wXQoSnx&
sig=lWy2qZtua9AOUE-2H7vJvg4mxs4& hl=en& sa=X& ei=bqFbUIqBN8a_0QHkrIDoCA& ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ). Books.google.com. .
[5] "Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions (Vinyl) at Discogs" (http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Cocaine-Decisions/ release/ 774225).
Discogs.com. . Retrieved 2012-09-20.
"Cosmik Debris" 355
"Cosmik Debris"
"Cosmik Debris"
from the album Apostrophe (')
A-side Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Genre Rock
Length 4:10
Label DiscReet Records

Rykodisc
"I'm the "Cosmik "Don't Eat the Yellow

Slime" Debris" Snow"
(1973) (1974) (1975)
"Cosmik Debris" is a song by American composer Frank Zappa, from his 1974 album Apostrophe (').
It concerns the Mystery Man, a typical guru or psychic, offering to help the narrator reach Nervanna [sic] for a
"nominal service charge," and the narrator's refusal to buy into his act, "Look here, brother, who you jiving with that
cosmik debris?" When the Mystery Man gets pushy, Zappa as the narrator tells how he snatched the crystal ball,
hypnotized the Mystery Man, stole his stuff and blew his mind.[1]
The song was popular on the Dr. Demento Show in the 70s, and in Zappa's concerts, with memorable guitar solos
from Zappa, also featuring George Duke on keyboard and Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax. The song was featured in
the late-2010 Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa tour, where through the magic of video and editing (from 1970s-era
shows), Frank Zappa on a large video screen both sang and played a guitar solo while the ZPZ band provided a live
backing. This song was also a b-side to the single "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow."
Connections to Previous Zappa Songs

References of previous songs are frequent in many Frank Zappa songs. "Cosmik Debris" shares the lyric "Now is
that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?" and also mentions "the toads of the short forest" two references of the
song "Camarillo Brillo" from the previous album "Over-Nite Sensation. "The "dust of The Grand Wazoo" is also
mentioned.[2]
Track list
7"
A."Cosmik Debris" - 4:10
B."Uncle Remus" - 2:49
"Cosmik Debris" 356
Notes and references

[1] Zappa.com > FZ Official Discography > Apostrophe (') (1974) (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ fz/ discography/ 1974apostrophe. html)
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ cosmik-debris-mt0002468016
"Dancin Fool"
"Dancin' Fool"
from the album Sheik Yerbouti
Released 1979
Format 7"
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock, comedy rock, parody of disco music,
Length 3:43
Label CBS Records
"Disco "Dancin' "Bobby Brown (Goes

Boy" Fool" Down)"
(1976) (1979) (1979)
"Dancin' Fool" is a song by Frank Zappa on his 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. It was the first of two singles released
for the album, the second being for Bobby Brown (Goes Down). The song premiered on stage around Halloween in
1975, [1] was only part of the live set for three months and was played with "Approximate" because the two songs we
off such odd contrast (Which Zappa embraced oddities.) Much like Zoot Allures' closing track "Disco Boy", it
mocks the disco culture of the 1970s. Unlike "Disco Boy", the song directly focuses on the dancing aspect of the
culture. Specifically the character Zappa is singing as cannot help but dance, despite how awful is he at it. He refers
to his dancing as "social suicide" and says "the beat goes on and I'm so wrong." Soon it inspired crazy dance moves
to mock disco dancers, this was especially relevant since disco was on it's decine. "Dancin' Fool" charted at 45 on the
U.S. charts, being Zappa's 2nd highest charting single (The highest charting single was Zappa's 1982 song, Valley
Girl.) The song was nominated for best male vocal in 1979, for The Grammy Awards but did not win.[2] It was put
onto Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial.[3] [4]
Saturday Night Live

On October 21, 1978, Frank Zappa was a guest host and musician for the popular skit show, Saturday Night Live.
After the episode, he was banned from the show for being difficult and an attention hog. The entire cast, save John
Belushi, tried to stay as far away as they could from him the entire night. The songs he preformed as musical guest
were "Dancin' Fool", "Meek", and "Rollo". His performance on SNL was possibly where "Dancin' Fool" first got
media attention. [5] [6]
"Dancin Fool" 357
Track list
7"
A."Dancin' Fool" - 3:45
B."Baby Snakes" - 2:02 [7]
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=MQ0EAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA33& lpg=PA33& dq=%22dancin'+ fool%22+ frank+ zappa&
source=bl& ots=3z6rPkyXVG& sig=xgCYBilemFs6aU2cQBcQyyI-VMc& hl=en& sa=X& ei=fKlPUIPGEeHj0QGuyICYDQ&
ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage& q=%22dancin'%20fool%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
[2] http:/ / www. filmreference. com/ film/ 19/ Frank-Zappa. html
[3] http:/ / www. lyricsfreak. com/ f/ frank+ zappa/ dancin+ fool_20056815. html
[4] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ dancin-fool-mt0027022133
[5] http:/ / www. tv. com/ shows/ saturday-night-live/ frank-zappa-113459/
[6] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA146& lpg=PA146& dq=%22dancin'+ fool%22+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=VI5AiR1zUI& sig=S4BjttEKOUBv8Y9YenkrYYKN5nQ& hl=en& sa=X& ei=fKlPUIPGEeHj0QGuyICYDQ&
ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage& q=%22dancin'%20fool%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
[7] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Dancin-Fool/ release/ 3320562
"Disco Boy" 358
"Disco Boy"
"Disco Boy"
from the album Zoot Allures
B-side Ms.Pinky, Bird Walk
Released 1976
Format 7"
Recorded 1976
Genre Rock, hard rock. comedy rock
Length 5:11, 5:28
Label Warner Bros.
"Find Her "Disco "Dancin'

Finer" Boy" Fool"
(1976) (1976) (1979)
Disco Boy is a 1976 single by Frank Zappa from the album Zoot Allures. The single's b-side is the song "Bird Walk"
by Herbie Mann who was Zappa's producer at the time. The song was played live from 1977-1978, 1882, and 1988
and from 1978 on it was usually coupled with the song "Dancin' Fool" It was featured on Frank Zappa's best of
album Strictly Commercial. [1] [2]
Structure and meaning

Like most songs on Zoot Allures, the song's structure is a basic rock song with a dark mood set to it. Zappa gave the
song a more basic radio pop hit guitar line to mock many corporate rock bands. The song adresses the superficialities
and sex crase among the disco culture. The vain tone of the song is setby the lyrics "Leave his hair alone, but you can
kiss his comb." Also the lyrics "Disco boy, do the bump every night, 'til the disco girl who's really right, gonna fall
for your line, and feed you a box full of chicken delight" explain that the disco boy isn't looking for love, but instead
a one night stand. It's possible that these lyrics could be interpreted as something more innocent until the lyric "but
thank the lord that you still got hands, to help you do that jerkin' that'll blot out your disco sorrow" which alludes to
his lust for the disco girl. Besides disco this song is also a commentary on Zappa's dislike of men who find
themselves irresistible to women. [3] [4] [5]
"You never go doody"

In the middle of the song the lyrics "You never go doody, that's what you think." is heard. The underlying meaning
of this line is that everyone is basically the same in one aspect or another. As Zappa bluntly puts it "(We all) eat,
sleep, shit and fuck." This theme is similar to the one is "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" from Sheik Yerbouti, with
the lyrics "Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute." [6] Stating that even females have anuses,
making us all the same. [7]
"Disco Boy" 359
Rykodisc CD release
When put onto Rykodisc, the vocal on "Disco Boy" we mixed differently and the three second drum machine intro
was cut.
Track list
Version 1:
A."Disco Boy" - 5:28
B."Ms.Pinky" - 3:40 [8]
Version 2:
A."Disco Boy" - 5:28
B."Bird Man" (Herbie Mann) - 3:40 [9]
References
[1] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Herbie-Mann-Disco-Boy-Bird-Walk/ release/ 2482194
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ disco-boy-mt0001289906
[3] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ disco-boy-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[5] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=hy_U8_CJ1VIC& pg=PA129& lpg=PA129& dq=%22disco+ boy%22+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=RZJDDxbWz-& sig=2iQR3bFJEPhqq5ASiQ8d9pAKds8& hl=en& sa=X& ei=P6BWUNjqFKuO0QGbxoDgAw&
ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22disco%20boy%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
[6] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ broken-hearts-are-for-assholes-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[7] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=hy_U8_CJ1VIC& pg=PA129& lpg=PA129& dq=%22disco+ boy%22+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=RZJDDxbWz-& sig=2iQR3bFJEPhqq5ASiQ8d9pAKds8& hl=en& sa=X& ei=P6BWUNjqFKuO0QGbxoDgAw&
ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22disco%20boy%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
[9] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Herbie-Mann-Disco-Boy-Bird-Walk/ release/ 2482194
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite"

"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
from the album Apostrophe (')
B-side Cosmik Debris
Released August, 1974
Genre Rock, Experimental, Progressive Rock, Comedy Rock
Length 3:26
Label DiscReet Records

Rykodisc
"Cosmik "Don't Eat The Yellow "Du Bist Mein

Debris" Snow" Sofa"
(1974) (1974) (1975)
The "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite" is made up of the first four tracks of Frank Zappa's album Apostrophe ('),
"Dont Eat the Yellow Snow", "Nanook Rubs It", "St.Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast", and "Father O'Blivion." Each
song in the suite is loosely connected, although the songs are not all connected by one overall story/theme. The suite
was only played in full as was performed from 1973 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. "Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
contains Zappa's percussionist Ruth Underwood on marimba who added a very distinct sound to many of his songs
in the early 70s. [1]
Story
"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" is a song about a man who dreams that he was an Eskimo named Nanook. His mother
warns him "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."[2] song directly transitions into
"Nanook Rubs It." The song is about Nanook encountering a fur trapper who is whipping Nanook's "favorite baby
seal" with a "lead-filled snow shoe." Eventually Nanook get's so mad he rubs husky "wee wee" into the fur trapper's
eyes blinding him. According to Zappa this is supposed to replace "The Mud Shark" (a song from the live album
Fillmore East – June 1971) in Zappa mythology. Zappa then sings in the fur trapper's perspective. The fur trapper
then makes his way to the parish of St. Alfonzo, introducing the next song "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast." [3] In
this song a man attending St.Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast does an assortment of nefarious activities such as stealing
the margarine, wheedling on the bingo cards, and blowing up the latrine. He then see's a lady he finds interest in
who's father is a marine. Then Zappa implies he's having sexual relations with her when he says "As she abused the
sausage pattie, and said why don't you treat me mean?" [4] The final song in the suite, "Father O'Blivion", is about
the man named Father Vivian O'Blivion who makes the pancakes for St.Alfonzo. Randomly the song becomes about
a leprechaun who's masturbating in a sock. The leprechaun feels that St.Alfonzo would be proud of him for doing so.
Then he utters the Latin phrase "Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo." (meaning "The Lord be with you. And with
your spirit.") won't you eat my sleazy pancakes just for Saintly Alfonzo. This could have many implications to why
the pancakes are "sleazy" and is up to the listeners interpretation. The suite barely follows a story and is only treated
as one piece because of the musical transitions, how each song introduces the next, and how later songs reference
previous songs. [5]
Rollo
"Rollo" was a piece of music that went along with the original suite, but Zappa decided against putting the whole
piece in the album. Instead, he decided to add the main theme of "Rollo" as the instrumental 2nd half of "St.
Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast". [6] The only known recording where the entire suite appears in full is on the live
album You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, where it is played at Hammersmith Apollo (Hammersmith
Odeon), in London, on February 18-19, 1979. The piece by itself also appears on his posthumous album
QuAUDIOPHILIAc, and his posthumous live album Imaginary Diseases.
The Single
A disc jockey in Pittsburgh edited the album versions of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and "Nanook Rubs It" to play
on his radio show. While Zappa toured Europe, he learned of this version's success, and decided to create his own
edited version once he returned to the United States, and released it as a single. [7] The version released as a single
contains some of the album version of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", most of "Nanook Rubs It", and the intro to "St.
Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast." The single also appears on Frank Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial which the title
of the album is actually a lyric from the song "Nanook Rubs It."
Track List:
7"
A."Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" – 3:26 (Contains Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Nanook Rubs it and the intro to St.Alfonzo's Pancake
Breakfast)
B."Cosmik Debris" – 4:10 [8]
References
[1] Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa : Listen, Appearances, Song Review : AllMusic (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/
dont-eat-the-yellow-snow-mt0001106926)
[2] Frank Zappa - Don'T Eat The Yellow Snow Lyrics (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ dont-eat-the-yellow-snow-lyrics-frank-zappa. html)
[3] Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs It Lyrics (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ nanook-rubs-it-lyrics-frank-zappa. html)
[4] Frank Zappa - St Alphonzo'S Pancake Breakfast Lyrics (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ st-alphonzos-pancake-breakfast-lyrics-frank-zappa.
html)
[5] Frank Zappa - Father O'Blivion Lyrics (http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ father-oblivion-lyrics-frank-zappa. html)
[6] ZAPPA: St.Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast (Rollo Interior) - YouTube (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=fSmyCuU_pEo)
[7] ^ Quellette, Dan (1995) (liner notes). Strictly Commercial. Rykodisc. ISBN 014431050022
[8] Frank Zappa - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow / Cosmik Debris (Vinyl) at Discogs (http:/ / www. discogs. com/
Frank-Zappa-Dont-Eat-The-Yellow-Snow-Cosmik-Debris/ release/ 544285)
"Duodenum" 362
"Duodenum"
"Duodenum"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Lumpy Gravy
Genre Experimental music
Length 1:32
Label Verve
Writer Frank Zappa
Producer Nick Venet, Frank Zappa
Lumpy Gravy track listing
"The Way I See It, "Duodenum" "Oh

Barry" (2) No"
(1) (3)
"Bwana Dik"
Song by Frank Zappa and The Mothers from the album Fillmore East - June 1971
Genre Comedy rock
Length 2:21
Writer Frank Zappa
Fillmore East - June 1971 track listing
"What Kind of Girl Do You Think We "Bwana "Latex Solar

Are?" Dik" Beef"
(3) (4) (5)
"Duodenum" is a song by Frank Zappa that first appeared as part of "Lumpy Gravy Part One" on the Verve Records
edition of Lumpy Gravy. It is an instrumental (although it contains vocals on the 1984 Lumpy Gravy remix) that runs
for approximately 1:32 and is the second identifiable track on the album, preceded by "The Way I See It, Barry" and
followed by "Oh No".
The duodenum, in anatomy, is part of the digestive system and connects the stomach to the small intestine.
Fillmore East - June 1971, released in 1971, contains a performance of "Duodenum" with added lyrics under the
name "Bwana Dik." The song was used as part of a routine during which the band member most considerably
endowed or popular with groupies was given the moniker "Bwana Dik."
"Duodenum" also appears in its instrumental form on the 1991 live double album Make a Jazz Noise Here as
"Theme from Lumpy Gravy."
The Persuasions, the classic doo-wop a cappella group that Frank Zappa signed to his Bizarre label in the 1960s,
covered "Duodenum" as their album opener on their 2000 Zappa tribute, "Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing
"Duodenum" 363
Zappa."
"Find Her Finder

"Find Her Finer"
from the album Zoot Allures
B-side Zoot Allures
Released 1976
Format 7"
Recorded 1976
Genre Rock, do-wop, blues
Length 3:18
Label Warner Bros.
"Du Bist Mein "Find Her "Disco

Sofa" Finer" Boy"
(1975) (1976) (1979)
Find Her Finer is a 1976 single by Frank Zappa from the album Zoot Allures. The song was recorded with Zappa's
lips extremely close to the microphone, creating an intimate sound.[1] A live and sped up jazz version can also be
found on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life. It was played in concert in 1976 and 1988. [2]
Meaning
According to the song, Zappa feels the best way to win a girl over is to show that you're less intelligent than her.
[3]
His reasoning for this is that women do not care for smart men, but instead a romantic. This parallel's the
stereotypical belief that men prefer unintelligent women. [4]
Track list
7"
A."Find Her Finer" - 3:18
B."Zoot Allures" - 4:18 [5]
"Find Her Finder 364
Lineup
Frank Zappa –guitar, synthesizer, bass, keyboards, lead vocals
Terry Bozzio – drums, backing vocals
Andre Lewis – backing vocals
Roy Estrada – backing vocals
Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals
Captain Beefheart – harmonica (credited as "Donnie Vliet")
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA128& lpg=PA128& dq=%22Find+ Her+ Finer%22+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=VI5AnN-I-O& sig=fz119Ahl7PC12M8oDhdmBr_mhCg& hl=en& sa=X& ei=XKpWUNz4HaXw0gHPvIDAAw&
ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22Find%20Her%20Finer%22%20zappa& f=false
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ find-her-finer-mt0002218813
[3] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ find-her-finer-mt0002218813
[4] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA128& lpg=PA128& dq=%22Find+ Her+ Finer%22+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=VI5AnN-I-O& sig=fz119Ahl7PC12M8oDhdmBr_mhCg& hl=en& sa=X& ei=XKpWUNz4HaXw0gHPvIDAAw&
ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22Find%20Her%20Finer%22%20zappa& f=false
[5] http:/ / www. zappafrenzy. com/ singles/ 1976-Find_Her_Finer-Zoot_Allures/ Find_Her_Finer-Zoot_Allures. html
"I'm the Slime 365
"I'm the Slime

"I'm the Slime"
from the album Over-Nite Sensation
B-side "Montana"
Released 1973
Format 7"
Recorded 1973
Genre Rock
Length 3:02
Label Warner Bros.
"Cletus "I'm the "Cosmik

Awreetus-Awrightus" Slime" Debris"
(1972) (1973) (1974)
I'm the Slime is a 1973 single by Frank Zappa & The Mothers from the album Over-Nite Sensation. Different live
versions can be found on Zappa in New York and You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 which the version
was performed on the same night as the majority of Roxy and Elsewhere. "I'm the Slime" and its b-side version of
Montana was put on Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial. It was performed in concert from 1973 to 1977 and
1984.[1]
Lyrics and meaning

The song contains two parts; the first part is a riddle of insults in the form of "what am I?"
"I am gross and perverted. I'm obsessed 'n deranged. I have existed for years, but very little had changed. I am
the tool of the Government and industry too, for I am destined to rule and regulate you. I may be vile and
pernicious, but you can't look away. I make you think I'm delicious, with the stuff that I say. I am the best you
can get. Have you guessed me yet?"
The second part discusses the evils of the answer to the riddle, the various things seen on television.[2] The song was
said to be the epitome of liberal leaning Americans, though this was not its intent.[3]
"I'm the Slime 366
Ike and Tina Turner

Zappa hired Tina Turner and the Ikettes to sing back up vocals for various songs on Over-Nite Sensation including
"I'm the Slime". Ike Turner insisted that Zappa only pay the Ikettes $25 per song, which to his reluctancy agreed.
After hearing one of the recordings in the studio, Ike, exclaimed "What is this shit?" and later insisted that Tina and
the Ikettes would not be credited on the album.[4]
Saturday Night Live

On his first of two appearances on Saturday Night Live, Zappa performed "I'm the Slime", as well as "Purple
Lagoon" and "Peaches en Regalia". For "I'm the Slime", NBC announcer and occasional guest on SNL, Don Pardo
sang one of the verses. Zappa described this as the "highlight of his [Don Pardo's] career." This led to Zappa using
Pardo to open the lyrics to the first couple of verses in "I'm the Slime", and parts of "Punky's Whips" and "The
Illinois Enema Bandit", all of which appeared on Zappa in New York.[5]
Track list
7"
A."I'm The Slime" - 3:08
B."Montana" - 4:39 [6]
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ im-the-slime-mt0007132059
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ im-the-slime-mt0007132059
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=thWrXUFnUEwC& pg=PA115& lpg=PA115& dq=%22i'm+ the+ slime%22+ frank+ zappa&
source=bl& ots=ei7W9ffoMT& sig=cCcQWh4s9tXSoEjW--CtytQFV2Q& hl=en& sa=X& ei=XAldUKAwsIbRAbq9gRA&
ved=0CEkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage& q=%22i'm%20the%20slime%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
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source=bl& ots=erzN2eKWyi& sig=UqQQ4mR1VZBXsGWkM2ycYWPjhKU& hl=en& sa=X& ei=sBddUNrmNIiw0QH87IF4&
ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q=ike%20turner& f=false
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source=bl& ots=E1ILR37i3N& sig=sAWyjjoCwxUezpg15cLff0_tUc0& hl=en& sa=X& ei=LRxdUITbK-iP0QHN84CwBw&
ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=%22i'm%20the%20slime%22%20%22don%20pardo%22& f=false
[6] http:/ / www. zappafrenzy. com/ singles/ 1973-I'm_The_Slime-Montana/ I'm_The_Slime-Montana. html
"I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"

"I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"
B-side "Ancient Armaments"
Released 1980
Format 7"
Recorded 1980
Genre Rock, Comedy rock
Length 3:10
"Stick It "I Don't Wanna Get "Love of My

Out" Drafted" Life"
(1979) (1980) (1981)
"I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" was a 1980 single by American musician Frank Zappa. It was retitled "Drafted
Again" in 1981 and put on the album You Are What You Is. The record company Zappa was with at the time,
Mercury, refused to release it as a single. Zappa instead created his own record company, Barking Pumpkin, and
released it from there.[1] It peaked at 103 on American charts, but more successfully reached 3 on Swedish Charts.
The single version was later included on Zappa's posthumously released The Lost Episodes.
Meaning
The song was a humorous protest of the reinstatement of the draft by the Carter administration. Lyrics such as
"Roller skates in disco is a lot of fun. I'm too young'n stupid to operate a gun" [2] refers to the opinion that the draft
brings many young people who are not ready and possibly not smart enough for the military. Statements about
women being drafted were brought up as well throughout the song.[3]
Differences between versions

The single versions contains lead vocals from Frank Zappa and a chorus, while on the album some verses are sung
by Ahmet Zappa and Moon Zappa. Frank's vocals aren't as dominant on the album version.[4] The single version is
also much less produced and the album version has been mocked for being too overdubbed. Also the album version
has added lyrics such as the lines "Ya little sumbitch", "Goddamn little communist.", and "LaCelia Jackson! Come
on down! Nancy Butterworth! Come on down! You're the next contestants on SOOOOO WHAT! And, but, also. A
new car! But that's not all..." the latter of the three being quite irrelevant to the rest of the song. Also the album
version closes with a sample of a vocal compilation from "Flower Punk" from We're Only In It For The Money,
including the notable lyric "Leave my nose alone please." [5][6][7]
Controversy
On the album version, the twelve year old Moon Zappa's sings the lyric "I don't want nobody to shoot me in the fox
hole." The sexual innuendo of a twelve year old girl being shot in her "foxhole" was a little too much for the more
conservative crowd.
Track list
A."I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" - 3:10
B."Ancient Armaments" - 4:10 [8]
Line up
Single Version:
Frank Zappa- vocals, guitar
Ike Willis - vocals, guitar
Ray White - vocals guitar
Arthur Barrow - bass, keyboards
Tommy Mars - keyboards
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums [9]
Album Version:
Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
Ike Willis – rhythm guitar, vocals
Ray White – rhythm guitar, vocals
Steve Vai – guitars
Ahmet Zappa – vocals
Moon Unit Zappa – vocals
Arthur Barrow – bass guitar
Bob Harris – trumpet
Tommy Mars – keyboards
David Logeman – drums
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=DL3I9qQWdeAC& pg=PA251& lpg=PA251& dq=%22i+ don't+ wanna+ get+ drafted%22+ zappa&
source=bl& ots=AcSu0FUZBQ& sig=33VoY67UdWdOjlpAhjHH66P52LQ& hl=en& sa=X& ei=PFNSUMCuCKH20gGv-4DoBQ&
ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q=%22i%20don't%20wanna%20get%20drafted%22%20zappa& f=false
[2] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ i-dont-wanna-get-drafted-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=hy_U8_CJ1VIC& pg=PA176& lpg=PA176& dq=%22drafted+ again%22+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=RZJDAz8Zq_& sig=Iyum83ieRt0RhWSpw-F-47wKFIA& hl=en& sa=X& ei=mE9SUKbeCOmR0QG3j4GICg&
ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22drafted%20again%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
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source=bl& ots=wjy8Tl-trB& sig=Tv7H2YdCbwqKTtqQRdMVWxbQS2g& hl=en& sa=X& ei=mE9SUKbeCOmR0QG3j4GICg&
ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=%22drafted%20again%22%20frank%20zappa& f=false
[5] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ drafted-again-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[6] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ i-dont-wanna-get-drafted-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[7] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ i-dont-wanna-get-drafted!-ancient-armaments-mw0000967470
[8] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ master/ 35934?text=Frank-Zappa-I-Dont-Wanna-Get-Drafted
[9] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-I-Dont-Wanna-Get-Drafted/ release/ 751230
"Inca Roads" 369
"Inca Roads"
"Inca Roads"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album One Size Fits All
Genre Progressive Rock, Jazz fusion Experimental
Length 8:45
Label DiscReet
Writer Frank Zappa
One Size Fits All track listing
"Inca "Can't Afford No

Roads" Shoes"
(1) (2)
"Inca Roads" is the opening track of the Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention album in 1975, One Size Fits
All. This song is highly popular among Zappa fans because of its unusual time signatures, lyrics and vocals, and is
known as one of the first Zappa songs to use xenochrony. Zappa's percussionist Ruth Underwood leads the song with
her well-known style of marimba. The song was mainly played in concert from 1973 to 1974 and 1988.[1]
Themes
"Inca Roads" for the most part explores the stereotypes of aliens encountering the Incan civilization. These themes,
like the album cover of One Size Fits All seem to parody the spirituality of many progressive rock albums around the
same era. The lyrics "Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there, just to land in the Andes? Was it round and did
it have a motor or was it something different?" imply that a UFO is landing in the Andes mountains. As the song
progresses, the lyrics become sillier and seem to mock the beginning of the song. An example of this is "...or did
someone build a place or leave a space for Chester's thing to land (Chester's thing... on Ruth). Did a booger-beer
come from somewhere out there..." The non-serious nature of these lyrics and even the music itself seem to be
mocking other progressive rock bands and their possibly forced divine depth.[2][3]
Song Structure
"Inca Roads" uses such time signatures as: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 3/8, 7/8, 3/16, 5/16, 7/16, 11/16, and possibly
others. The song starts with dominant vocals, drums, and marimba, but soon the electric guitar and bass take over for
the majority of the song. Towards the end the vocals come back, but the guitar still keeps its dominancy. After a
short marimba solo "Inca Roads" is back to the beginning feel of the song. The song ends with the lyrics "On Ruth,
on Ruth, that's Ruth!" acknowledging Underwood for her mastery on the marimba.[4][5][6]
"Inca Roads" 370
The Skip
Many early copies contain a skip during "Inca Roads" at approximately 4:40 into the track. This error was a
manufacturing defect not caught during the test pressing stage. The album was recalled after the mistake was caught,
but a significant number had already been sold. The highly complex nature of the music made it difficult to
recognize the error without comparing it to the correct version.
Personnel
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals
George Duke - keyboards, synthesizer, lead vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock - flute, tenor saxophone, vocals
Chester Thompson - drums
Tom Fowler - bass
Ruth Underwood - vibes, marimba, percussion
Captain Beefheart (credited as Bloodshot Rollin' Red) - harmonica [7]
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ inca-roads-mt0010977420
[2] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ inca-roads-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA119& lpg=PA119& dq=%22inca+ roads%22+ + zappa& source=bl&
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ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22inca%20roads%22%20%20zappa& f=false
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[6] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ inca-roads-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
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"Joe's Garage" 371
"Joe's Garage"
"Joe's Garage"
from the album Joe's Garage Act I
Format 7"
Recorded 1979
Length 6:10
Label CBS Records
"Bobby Brown (Goes "Joe's "Stick It

Down)" Garage" Out"
(1979) (1979) (1979)
"Joe's Garage" was a single on Frank Zappa's 1979 album, Joe's Garage Act I. After the introductory track, "The
Central Scrutinizer" this song begins the story of Joe's Garage. Despite the fact it failed to chart, it was one of
Zappa's songs which had the most airplay on FM Radio. This song was played in concert from 1980 to 1988 along
with the song "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" in all tours of Zappa's after the single's release. The single version of
the song lacks many of the special effects that the album version contains. The single version of "Joe's Garage" was
put onto Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial.[1]
The story
The song introduces you to the main character Joe and another band member, Larry Fanoga. It explains that Joe,
Larry, and their friends were in a band together in Joe's garage and would play the same simple song. This was a
mocking commentary on many garage and punk bands of the era (The late 1970s.) They started to play this one song
in a go-go bar and eventually their repetitive music became well enough known where they were offered a record
deal, but for some unexplained reason soon after the band broke up. Eventually they're playing in the garage so loud
a neighbor calls the police on them. Then it's explained that this is "Joe's first confrontation with the law." implying
that later in the story he would have more trouble with the police. The officer lets him off easy and tells him to "stick
to church oriented activities." another commentary about how adults of the era felt religion was a good cleanser of
the evils sins of rock. This line delivered by the Central Scrutinizer also introduces the next song on the album
"Catholic Girls."[2] [3]
"Joe's Garage" 372
Overture
The song foreshadows musical styles to be later used in the album such as sleigh bells more prominent in "Why
Does it Hurt When I Pee?" an odd sounding guitar line used in "He Used to Cut the Grass", and the line "It makes its
own sauce if you add water" is later stated in the song "Crew Slut." These foreshadowings make the song more of an
overture than anything else.
Themes
The underlying themes of the song as well as most of the album was based upon Zappa's hatred for censorship,
corporate abuse, and untalented bands becoming famous. The song was more commercial sounding than most of the
other tracks on the album because it was intended to be a single as well as the main song on the album.[4][5]
Differences live
When played live, the song tended to be played at a faster tempo as well as having inside jokes inserted into it.[6]
Track list
7" Version
A."Joe's Garage" - 6:10
B."Catholic Girls" - 4:26[7]
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ joes-garage-mt0011844497
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ joes-garage-mt0011844497 http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ joes-garage-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
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[5] Lowe, Kelly Fisher (2007). The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4.
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[7] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ master/ 419895?text=Frank-Zappa-Joes-Garage
"Let's Make the Water Turn Black"

"Let's Make The Water Turn Black" is a patter song which first appeared on the 1968 Mothers of Invention album
We're Only in It for the Money and later on the 1995 compilation album Strictly Commercial.
"Let's Make The Water Turn Black" tells the true story of brothers Ronald and Kenneth Williams (referred to as
"Ronnie" and "Kenny" respectively), neighbors of the song's composer Frank Zappa during his youth in Palmdale,
California in 1962.
It claims that while their father was away at work "selling lamps and chairs to San Ber'dino squares" and while their
mother worked at a small café, the brothers occupied their afterschool time with such activities as igniting each
other's flatulence. In the original release, a reference to their mother "in her apron and her pad" was cut from the
record;[1] although the reference was about an order pad, a record executive thought it was a veiled reference to a
sanitary napkin.[2]
Further references can be found in the opening line of the chorus: "Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the
day." "Whizzing" referred to Kenny's need to urinate in jars because he and Mothers of Invention saxophone player
Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood were living in a garage on the Williams property, one which lacked plumbing. The
results were "Kenny's little creatures on display," a reference to what Zappa described in a 1987 interview with
Rolling Stone as "mutant tadpoles" which had appeared over time in the urine and could be seen swimming in it.
"Pasting" is a reference to another part of the song which states that Ronnie saved his "pneumies" on a bedroom
window, described rather bluntly in the song as "dysentery green." During the aforementioned Rolling Stone
interview, Zappa related how the mess was soon discovered by the boys' mother. So thick was the dried mass that
removal required "chisels and Ajax."[3] "Pooting" refers to the act of flatulating.
The song's final verse includes references to the boys' adulthood, namely how Ronnie had joined the military, Kenny
was "taking pills" and how they both yearned "to see a bomber burn." This may have a double meaning both as a
reference to the burgeoning movement against the Vietnam War and as a reference to an African-American
nickname for an exceptionally large marijuana cigarette.[4][5] The final line, "Wait 'til the fire turns green," may be a
final reference to igniting each other's flatulence. While the song itself is up to interpretation Frank Zappa discusses
the song in detail in the book By Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso titled "The Real Frank Zappa Book". The
song title and lyric "Let's make the water turn black" are in reference to Ronnie and Kenny's procedure for producing
alcohol from raisins. The lyric "Ronnie helping Kenny burn his boots away" is another reference to the production of
alcohol. Ronnie would light Kenny's boots on fire "Wait till the fire turns green" then use the burning plastic as a
heat source to heat the raisins prior to the fermenting process. The alcoholic mixtures were then sold by Kenny and
Ronnie to students at Frank Zappa's school or used for their own consumption when Mother and Father Williams
were away at work.[6]
It ends when recording engineer Dick Kunc opens the talkback line to the recording studio to introduce "a little bit of
vocal teenage heaven right here on earth." What follows are several seconds of distorted, guttural vocalizing by
Ronald Williams himself.
The next song on the album "The Idiot Bastard Son" revisits the story of the Williams brothers in a more sedate
style.
References
[1] "Phase 315 of we're only in it for the money censorship" (http:/ / home. concepts. nl/ ~hades/ Phase315ofWOIIFTMcensorship. htm). .
Retrieved July 16, 2006.
[2] *Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). "Boogers from Hell". The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York City: Poseidon Press. pp. 85–87.
ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
[3] http:/ / www. arf. ru/ Notes/ Woiftm/ tblack. html Notes and comments at www.arf.ru
[4] African-American slang dictionary at Fas.org (http:/ / www. fas. org/ news/ reference/ probert/ PA. HTM)
[5] "Dictionary of marijuana-related terms which gives the meaning of "bomber" as simply an alternate name for a standard marijuana cigarette"
(http:/ / www. alternatesmoke. com/ slang/ b. html). Alternatesmoke.com. . Retrieved 2010-10-05.
[6] The Real Frank Zappa Book by By Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
Further reading
• Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). "Boogers from Hell". The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York City:
Poseidon Press. pp. 85–87. ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
"Montana" 375
"Montana"
"Montana"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Over-Nite Sensation
Recorded 1973
Length 6:35
Writer Frank Zappa
Montana is a song composed by Frank Zappa for his 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation. The last track on the album is
one of Zappa's most famous and renowned compositions. Its main features are the drum fills at the beginning and the
appearance of Tina Turner and the Ikettes's backing vocals throughout the entire track, notably on the middle and
ending sections.
Song structure
Montana's structure is intro-verses-chorus-solo-middle section-verses-outro. The lyrics, sung by Zappa in a
humorous manner, talk about a person who decides to go to Montana to grow "a crop of dental floss," mounting a
pony named "Mighty Little." He dreams to become a "dental floss tycoon," by commercialising it. The verses are
filled with pseudo-ranch pronunciation and are intended to be very lighthearted.
At 1:55, right after the chorus, Zappa plays a long guitar solo. Then, there's a complex middle section with vocals
(performed by Tina Turner & The Ikettes, uncredited) backed by percussion, singing some of the verses. Zappa
follows singing the last verses and finally there's the coda, where the line from the chorus ("Moving to Montana
soon...," sung by Tina Turner and the Ikettes) is repeated constantly and answered by a high-pitched
"Yippy-Aye-O-Ty-Ay" (sung by Kin Vassy). This goes on until it fades out towards the six-and-a-half minute mark.
Live
Montana quickly became a fan favorite and was often performed, especially during the 1973-1975, 1982, 1984 and
1988 tours. On stage, Zappa often altered the lyrics of the song and sometimes even the structure, to great extent.
The version featured on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2, ("Whipping Floss") is an example of when he
did this. Before the song starts, a fan asks them to play The Allman Brothers Band's song "Whipping Post." Frank
jokes with the audience that they do not know the tune, Frank (after playing a couple of jokes on the guy and the
audience) chooses to play "Montana" instead, yet he alters the lyrics, which later forces George Duke and Napoleon
Murphy Brock to pay attention with the vocal backing (and they do fumble at one part). Meanwhile, at the beginning
of the song, the band starts playing very fast, which causes Ruth Underwood and Chester Thompson to stumble at
the drum fill, leading to more jokes from the rest of the band. The end of the song is a very long guitar solo, that
around 9:55 turns into some kind of funk jam, and finally segues into a short version of "Big Swifty."
"Montana" 376
Other
The song (with the solo edited out) was the B-Side of "I'm the Slime" (1973) and many years later, put on the Strictly
Commercial compilation.
At the time Zappa was recording this album, Ike and Tina Turner and the Ikettes were recording in the same studio.
Zappa was looking for back-up vocalists and was surprised that Tina and the Ikettes were willing to do the job. It is
often said that Zappa brings out the best in musicians and that's what's happening here. Tina and the Ikettes felt
challenged by the vocal part in the middle of the song... [1]
Zappa: "It was so difficult, that one part in the middle of the song "Montana", that the three girls rehearsed it for a
couple of days. Just that one section. You know the part that goes "I'm pluckin' the ol' dennil floss..."? Right in the
middle there. And one of the harmony singers got it first. She came out and sang her part and the other girls had to
follow her track. Tina was so pleased that she was able to sing this that she went into the next studio where Ike was
working and dragged him into the studio to hear the result of her labour. He listened to the tape and he goes, "What
is this shit?" and walked out". Quoted by Barry Miles in "Zappa: A Biography".
References
[1] "Riffs" (http:/ / www. zappa-analysis. com/ riffs. htm). Zappa-analysis.com. . Retrieved 2012-01-25.
• Allmusic.com review of the song (http://www.allmusic.com/song/t998540)

• Song Lyrics (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Over-Nite_Sensation.html#Montana)
• Lyrics of the Whipping Floss version, including the request that started it (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/
You_Can't_Do_That_On_Stage_Anymore_Vol_2.html#Montana)
• Description of Zappa's bands during 1973-1974 (http://members.shaw.ca/fz-pomd/7374/)
• Zappa commenting about Tina Turner and the Ikettes (Spanish) (http://globalia.net/donlope/zappa/bio/Cap_5.
html#c1)
"Muffin Man" 377
"Muffin Man"
"Muffin Man"
Song by Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart from the album Bongo Fury
Released 1975
Genre Progressive rock

Heavy Metal
Length 5:33
Writer Frank Zappa
Bongo Fury track listing
"Man With the Woman "Muffin Man" none

Head"
(8)
"Muffin Man" is a song recorded live by Frank Zappa. It appears on his 1975 mostly live album Bongo Fury made
with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet). The song begins with studio-recorded spoken word lyrics delivered by
Zappa and is followed by the chorus. Directly after this, a lengthy guitar solo is performed by Frank Zappa and a
repeat of the chorus with backing vocals from Captain Beefheart.
The song closes the album, as well as the compilation Strictly Commercial, and was also used as a finale in concerts
for many years afterwards.
An alternative live version of "Muffin Man" appears on disc one (track 22) of the compilation You Can't Do That on
Stage Anymore, Vol. 6.
This song also appears on the 2009 album released by the Zappa Family Trust Philly '76, the 2002 album FZ:OZ and
the 2003 album Halloween.
Frank Zappa's son, Dweezil, along with his Zappa Plays Zappa (ZPZ) band, have featured "Muffin Man" on many
concert tours. In 2010, they offered video footage of Frank Zappa playing "Muffin Man," along with isolated Frank
Zappa guitar parts, so Dweezil and ZPZ accompanied live Frank Zappa and his extended guitar solo.
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"

"My Guitar"
Single by The Mothers of Invention
from the album Weasels Ripped My Flesh
B-side "Dog Breath"
Released 1969
Format 7"
Recorded June 1969
Genre Hard rock
Length 3:07
"WPLJ" "My "Peaches en

(1969) Guitar" Regalia"
(1969) (1970)
"The Central Scrutinizer"

Song by Frank Zappa from the album Joe's Garage
Genre Comedy rock
Length 3:28
Label Zappa
Writer Frank Zappa
Joe's Garage track listing
"The Central "Joe's

Scrutinizer" Garage"
(1) (2)
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" is a song written by Frank Zappa and originally recorded by The Mothers
of Invention in 1969. The song was included on 1970s Weasels Ripped My Flesh, a compilation LP of sorts that
included various recordings by the band from 1967 to 1969. It was also released as a single on the Bizarre and
Reprise labels as "My Guitar." Despite the more conventional naming, "My Guitar" did not chart.
The single version of the song was recorded in June 1969 and differs from the Weasels Ripped My Flesh recording.
The album version features a longer break before the second verse is reprised, and is roughly half a minute longer. A
shorter edit of the single version has been released on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5.
An a cappella version of the song is included on The Persuasions' 2000 Frank Zappa tribute album, "Frankly A
Capella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa."
The song was also covered by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson on the 1996 G3 tour.[1] "The Central
Scrutinizer," the spoken-word track that opens Act I of Joe's Garage, began as an updated version of "My Guitar
Wants to Kill Your Mama." The two songs' chord progressions are identical.[2]
Track list
1.My Guitar Want's To Kill Your Mama - 3:07
2.Dog Breath - 2:56 [3]
Notes
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ my-guitar-wants-to-kill-your-mama-mt0035330995
[2] Zappa (http:/ / pweb. netcom. com/ ~bigear/ Zappa. html#Joe's Garage)
[3] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Mothers-Of-Invention-My-Guitar/ release/ 1926314
"Plastic People" 380
"Plastic People"
"Plastic People"
Song by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from the album Absolutely Free
Released 1967
Length 3:42
"Plastic The Duke of

People" Prunes
(1) (2)
"Plastic People" is the first track of the Frank Zappa album Absolutely Free. It also was featured on the You Can't
Do That On Stage Anymore (Volume 1) compilation as Track 1 on disc 2, along with a "Louie, Louie/Plastic
People"-like version entitled "Ruthie, Ruthie" as Track 10 on disc 1. It was also featured on the 1998 Mystery Disc
release.
The title was the inspiration for the name of the Czech band Plastic People of the Universe.[1] The tune is loosely
based on the Kingsmen's classic "Louie Louie". The song is a manifesto against conformity and materialistic culture,
with Frank Zappa finally asking, "Go home/and check yourself/you think we're singing 'bout someone else?"
It is sampled throughout the GZA single "Cold World" from the "Liquid Swords" album.[2]
References
[1] Otterman, Sharon; Robert Mackey (27 March 2009). "AC/DC Inspired Czech Leader’s "Road to Hell" Riff" (http:/ / thelede. blogs. nytimes.
com/ 2009/ 03/ 27/ czech/ ?scp=4& sq="Plastic People"& st=cse) (blog). New York Times. . Retrieved 15 September 2009.
[2] http:/ / www. whosampled. com/ sample/ view/ 57744/ GZA%20feat.
%20Inspectah%20Deck-Cold%20World_The%20Mothers%20of%20Invention-Plastic%20People/
"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"

"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"
Song by The Mothers Of Invention from the album Freak Out!
Released 1966

Avant-garde music
Musique concrète
Length 12:17
Label Verve
Freak Out! track listing
It Can't Happen "The Return of the Son of Monster (none)

Here Magnet"
(14) (15)
The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet is a Frank Zappa composition, performed by the Mothers of Invention,
released on the Mothers' debut album, Freak Out!. It is the longest song on the album, at 12:17, consisting of 2 parts:
"Ritual Dance Of The Child-Killer," and "Nullis Pretii (No Commercial Potential)." The composition includes a
musical quote from "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry). The Monster Magnet, which almost certainly inspired the song's
title, was a toy magnet in the shape of a monster, then being heavily advertised on television.[1]
According to Zappa himself, the Freak Out! version of this song is merely a rhythm track and was never finished as
intended. Apparently for budgetary reasons, Verve executives curtailed further recording of the track even after
shelling out $12,000 for rented percussion. Indeed, the subtitle of the track is "an Unfinished Ballet in two
Tableaux." Strangely, though, unlike many of his extended works, Zappa never augmented or completed this piece
when he had the time, money and his own recording studio.
Dr John (Mac Rebennack) appears on piano. Van Dyke Parks was also present at the recording session, but it is
unclear what, if anything, played by him was used for the released version.
According to Beatles author and Zappa biographer Barry Miles, the unreleased Beatles experimental track "Carnival
of Light" which was recorded in January 1967 resembles "The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet," although it is
believed that "Carnival of Light" is more fragmented and abstract than Zappa's effort the previous year.[2]
New Jersey stoner metal band Monster Magnet took their name from the song.
Suzy Creamcheese
The song begins with the follow dialogue:
Male voice: Suzy?
Female voice: Yes?
Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese?
Female voice: Yes?
Male voice: This is the voice of your conscience baby ... uh, I just want to check one thing out with you ... you don't
mind, do ya?
Female voice: What?

Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what's got into ya?
This is the first mention of Suzy Creamcheese on any Mothers album. [3]
References
[1] http:/ / wesclark. com/ am/ monster_magnet. jpg
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ the-return-of-the-son-of-monster-magnet-mt0003693041
[3] Zappa, Frank. Interview. KBEY-FM, Kansas City, MO. October 22, 1971.
Freak Out!, Mothers of Invention, Verve/MGM, 1966, liner notes The Making Of Freak Out!: An FZ Audio
Documentary, Zappa Records, 2006
"Sofa" 383
"Sofa"
"Du Bist Mein Sofa"
from the album One Size Fits All
B-side "Stink-Foot"
Released August 8th, 1975
Format 7"
Recorded 1975
Genre Rock, experimental jazz, jazz fusion
Length 2:38
Label Warner Bros.
"Don't Eat The Yellow "Du Bist Mein "Find Her

Snow" Sofa" Finer"
(1974) (1975) (1976)
"Sofa" is a composition by American musician, Frank Zappa. In 1993, the year of Zappa's death, Steve Vai covered
"Sofa" for Zappa's tribute album Zappa's Universe. The cover won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental
Performance in 1994. This was Vai's first of three grammies.
Appearances
Originally "Sofa" was only performed in concert and was part of a longer composition around the Flo and Eddie era
of Zappa's music where Mark Volman pretended to be a sofa. In 1975 Sofa made it's first album appearance on
Frank Zappa's album One Size Fits All as an instrumental version and a vocal version (Sofa No.1 and Sofa.No2.)
There is a huge sofa in the center of the album cover for "One Size Fits All" and the album's initials, "OSFA" can be
re-arranged to spell "SOFA". In the same year, "Sofa No.2" was released as a single and referred to as "Du Bist
Mein Sofa". The same track as "Sofa No. 1" now only titled "Sofa" appeared on the 1976 live album Zappa in New
York. On the album You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, "Sofa #1" contains the vocals and "Sofa #2" is the
instrumental. On both "One Size Fits All" and "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 1", "Sofa No./#1" is
track 3, while "Sofa No./#2" ends each album. It was also referred to as "Divan" on the album Playground
Psychotics. "Sofa" is one of the most referenced Zappa songs throughout his discography.[1][2][3]
Lyrics and meaning

The vocal version of "Sofa" contains lyrics in both German and English. According to critics because it contains
German it stood out the most on the album.[4] The English lyrics sing about being various parts of nature (The
heavens, the water, the clouds) while the in German describe explain how they are the sofa's chrome dinette and that
they're also "all days and all nights.[5] All in all "Sofa" was a result of Zappa's fascination of the German people as he
toured in Europe.[6][7]
"Sofa" 384
Ya Hozna
"Ya Hozna", from the 1984 album Them Or Us is mostly "Sofa No.2" played backwards. It also contains parts of
"Lonely Little Girl" from We're Only In It For The Money and "Valley Girl" from Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A
Drowning Witch played backwards.[8]
Single track list

7"
A. "Du Bist Mein Sofa" - 2:38
B. "Stink-Foot" - 4:25 [9]
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ one-size-fits-all-mw0000202351
[2] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ translations/ OSFA. html
[3] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA120& lpg=PA120& dq=sofa+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=VI5AmN-F0I& sig=k6LCg--Hs85M7NC9r1HHFeOXUm0& hl=en& sa=X& ei=kyJVUOT6LNCQ0QHyqIC4CA& ved=0CDMQ
[4] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=1-pH4i3jXvAC& pg=PA1266& lpg=PA1266& dq=%22Sofa+ no. 2%22+ frank+ zappa+ OR+
%22du+ bist+ mein+ sofa%22+ frank+ zappa+ single& source=bl& ots=XIgUKRxXFP& sig=_-zxOjWXqavzbcIP_visDSyjVog& hl=en&
sa=X& ei=2hhVUJfyBefG0AGckIDoCA& ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=sofa& f=false
[5] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ one-size-fits-all-mw0000202351
[6] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA120& lpg=PA120& dq=sofa+ frank+ zappa& source=bl&
ots=VI5AmN-F0I& sig=k6LCg--Hs85M7NC9r1HHFeOXUm0& hl=en& sa=X& ei=kyJVUOT6LNCQ0QHyqIC4CA&
ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=sofa%20& f=false
[7] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ translations/ OSFA. html
[8] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=4lNRIZm_baQC& pg=PT453& lpg=PT453& dq=%22ya+ hozna%22+ backwards& source=bl&
ots=wjy8Vj4rAx& sig=aWNua8t-c6cyB7KLH5lxx3FupR4& hl=en& sa=X& ei=ziFVUMecFsiw0QGF0IDwCQ&
ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage& q=%22ya%20hozna%22%20backwards& f=false
[9] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-Du-Bist-Mein-Sofa-Stink-Foot/ release/ 828969
"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"

"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" is a song written by
Frank Zappa and first recorded and released by Frank Zappa & The
Mothers Of Invention on their 1968 album We're Only In It For The
Money. The song was originally recorded as an instrumental by Frank
Zappa in 1961 at Pal Recording Recording Studio.[1]
History
Transcription of Take Your Clothes Off When
The first instance of lyrics being written for the melody is on a 1965 You Dance (1961) (out of copyright)
demo tape by The Mothers Of Invention on which the song is recorded
as "I'm So Happy I Could Cry."[2] The lyrics describe the sincere love of a man to a "...girl he left behind him
when he went out to see this great, big world..." This version, released on the posthumous Frank Zappa album Joe's
Corsage, also contains a bridge section that is not included in any other version of the song, save for the instrumental
version that appears at the end of the "Lumpy Gravy" LP. At one point, the tune (without lyrics) was referred to by a
working title of "Never On Sunday" (coincidentally the title of another very popular and oft-recorded song by
Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis, written around the same time that Zappa wrote his song).
Three years later, in 1968, Zappa wrote entirely new lyrics to the tune and it was finally re-recorded by The Mothers
Of Invention (in a more abbreviated arrangement, with the bridge section excised) as "Take Your Clothes Off When
You Dance" for the album We're Only In It for The Money. The song would be known by this title from that point
on. The lyrics to this version are a satirical look at social classes and the hippie subculture of the sixties.[2]
The song was once again re-recorded by Frank Zappa for his album Lumpy Gravy under the shortened title "Take
Your Clothes Off," this time in its more common instrumental form and, as previously mentioned, with the original
bridge section that was excluded from the "We're Only In It For The Money" version of the track fully
reincorporated. Most live performances of the song by Frank Zappa are instrumental jams. [2]
Song Form
The music itself is somewhat lighthearted, but conforming to the style of most of Zappa's other material from the
same period. It is musically sophisticated and somewhat complex, but based upon a very simple chord progression.
[2]
Versions Recorded By Frank Zappa

The song appears on the following Frank Zappa albums:
• We're Only In It For The Money (Original version. First version released. Length of 1:34)
• Lumpy Gravy (Instrumental. Length of 1:52)
• The Lost Episodes (Instrumental. Length of 3:51)
• FZ:OZ (Live version with vocals. Length of 2:02)
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (Instrumental jam. Length of 3:46)
• Joe's Corsage (As "I'm So Happy I Could Cry". Length of 2:43)
• Joe's Menage (Live version with vocals. Length of 2:10)
References
[1] "The Lost Episodes" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/ The_Lost_Episodes. html#Clothes). . Retrieved 2 June 2012.
[2] "Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - The Complete Guide" (http:/ / www. scribd. com/ doc/ 54780608/
Frank-Zappa-and-The-Mothers-of-Invention-The-Complete-Guide). Page 383. . Retrieved 2 June 2012.
"The Torture Never Stops"

Song by Frank Zappa from the album Zoot Allures
Recorded 1976
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 9:45
Writer Frank Zappa
"The Torture Never Stops" is a song by Frank Zappa from the 1976 album Zoot Allures. Other versions can be
found on Zappa in New York, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 4, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Cheap Thrills, Buffalo, Philly '76, and Hammersmith
Odeon. In the song an evil prince is mentioned, which on the album Thing-Fish, the song is called "The Torchum'
Never Stops", and the main antagonist is named The Evil Prince, referencing the song. "The Torture Never Stops"
was played live from 1975 to 1978 and 1988. [1] [2]
Tone
The song debuted in 1975 under the title "Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him a Pepsi?" in which almost none of the
instrument parts were similar to the album version. For "Zoot Allures", Zappa made the song much darker to a point
where on an album of dark songs, "The Torture Never Stops" is by far the darkest. Disturbing lyrics such as "Flies all
green and buzzin' in dungeon of despair. Who are'll those people that is shut away down there? Are they crazy? Are
they sainted? Are they heroes someone painted?" and a female's moans of pain added a dirty and miserable tone
effect to the song. While singing these lyrics, Zappa comes off as calm yet passive-aggressive. [3] [4] [5] The song has
been thought to references atrocities of World War II concentration camps and if so it's also been said by critics that
the references of "eating a steaming pig" is tasteless on Zappa's part.
Rat Tomago
A live solo from the song, "Rat Tomago" was put on the 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. Like "The Torture Never
Stops", it contains the same basic structure, bass line, and female moaning. "Rat Tomago" was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1979, but lost. [6]
Line up
Frank Zappa - guitar, bass, keyboards, lead vocals
Terry Bozzio - drums
"The Torture Never Stops" 387
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ the-torture-never-stops-mt0028226029
[4] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ the-torture-never-stops-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[5] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA130& lpg=PA130& dq=%22the+ torture+ never+ stops%22+ zappa+ frank&
source=bl& ots=VI5AnOXHWG& sig=NZ1VKbIynXI6Cbb8_5sRnUpXEmU& hl=en& sa=X& ei=LsFWUJuvBs-G0QHF-YDoDw&
ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q=%22the%20torture%20never%20stops%22%20zappa%20frank& f=false
[6] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ rat-tomago-mt0000639930
"Trouble Every Day"

"Trouble Every Day"
Song by The Mothers of Invention from the album Freak Out!
Released 1966
Genre Electric blues, talking blues
Length 5:50
Label Verve
Producer Tom Wilson
Freak Out! track listing
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm "Trouble Every Help, I'm A Rock (Suite In Three
Here Day" Movements)
(11) (12) (13)
"Trouble Every Day" (although labeled in much earlier prints as "Trouble Comin' Every Day") is a song by The
Mothers of Invention, released on their 1966 debut album Freak Out!.
Frank Zappa wrote the song in 1965 at 1819 Bellevue Avenue, Echo Park, Los Angeles (the suburban residence of a
methamphetamine chemist referred to by Zappa as "Wild Bill the Mannequin-Fucker")[1] after watching news
coverage of the Watts Riots.[2] Originally dubbed "The Watts Riot Song,"[2] its primary lyrical themes are racial
violence, social injustice, and sensationalist journalism. The musical style—featuring multiple guitar tracks and a
harmonica—much more closely resembles electric blues than mainstream rock and roll.[3]
Producer Tom Wilson of MGM Records signed the Mothers to a record deal on March 1, 1966, having heard only
this song and believing them to be a "white blues band".[4] Together, they released "Trouble Every Day" as a single
with B-side "Who Are the Brain Police?"[5]
A re-arranged version appeared on the Mothers' 1974 LIVE album Roxy & Elsewhere (and on the 1991 live album
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life) as "More Trouble Every Day."[6] These subsequent versions were
more up-tempo and usually featured a strong horn intro and punctuation.
The UK underground artist Mick Farren covered the song on his album "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" (1978).
The Frank Zappa tribute band Trouble Every Day named itself after this song.[7]
Notes
[1] Zappa, p. 71
[2] Slaven, p. 51
[3] Lowe, p. 33–35
[4] Zappa (1968)
[5] Strong, p. 1241
[6] Lowe, p. 10
[7] Slaven, p. 329
Bibliography
• Lowe, Kelly Fisher (2006). The words and music of Frank Zappa. Greenwood Publishing Group.
ISBN 0-275-98779-5.
• Slaven, Neil (2003). Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa. Omnibus Press.
ISBN 0-7119-9436-6.
• Strong, Charles Martin (2006). The Essential Rock Discography (Edition 8). Open City Books.
ISBN 1-84195-860-3.
• Zappa, Frank (June 1968). "The Incredible History Of The Mothers" (http://www.zappa.com/fz/interviews/
006_19680600.html). Hit Parader. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
• Zappa, Frank; Occiogrosso, Peter (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book. Poseidon Press. ISBN 0-671-63870-X.
External links
• Sputnik Music review (http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=7040)
• Lyrics (http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_zappa/trouble_every_day.html) to Trouble Every Day
"Valley Girl" 390
"Valley Girl"
"Valley Girl"
Single by Frank Zappa and Moon Zappa
from the album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
B-side "No Not Now"

"Teen-Age Prostitute"
"You Are What You Is"
"Valley Girl (fade-out version)"
Released 1982
Format 12"
Recorded 1982
Genre Rock
Length 4:59

Moon Zappa
"Goblin "Valley Girl" (1982) "The Man From Utopia Meets Mary
Girl" Lou"
(1981) (1983)
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch track listing
"No Not "Valley "I Come from

Now" Girl" Nowhere"
(1) (2) (3)
"Valley Girl" is a song by the musician Frank Zappa and his then 14-year-old daughter, Moon Unit Zappa. It was
released on Zappa's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Moon supplied Frank with much
of the content, speaking typical "Valley girl" or "Valspeak" phrases she heard at "parties, bar mitzvahs, and the
Galleria".[1] Zappa intended to lampoon the image, but the single popularized the Valley Girl stereotype
nationwide.[2][3][4] There was a significant increase in "Valspeak" slang usage, whether ironically spoken or not (not
the least of which was the film, Valley Girl). This song was also included in the compilation album Strictly
Commercial.
The song was Zappa's only top 40 single in the United States, peaking at #32 in the Billboard Hot 100, although he
had charted hits in other parts of the world.
The single had varying B-sides. Two of them were from the same album as "Valley Girl:" "No Not Now" and
"Teen-Age Prostitute." Another B-side was "You Are What You Is." One of the versions of the single had "Valley
Girl" on both sides: the A-Side had the full version, while the B-Side had a fade-out version.
"Valley Girl" 391
Charts
Song Chart Peak
position
"Valley Girl" Mainstream Rock [5]

12
Pop Singles [5]

32
References
[1] "Valley Girl: No Way Rocker's Daughter Talks Like the Record" (http:/ / news. google. com/ newspapers?id=DSYuAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=384FAAAAIBAJ& pg=2231,796390& dq=ship-arriving-too-late-to-save-a-drowning-witch+ review& hl=en). The Palm Beach Post. AP:
p. B12. September 2, 1982. .
[2] Demarest, Michael; Stanley, Alessandra (September 27, 1982). "Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley" (http:/ / www. time. com/ time/
printout/ 0,8816,925750,00. html). Time Magazine. .
[3] Goggans, Jan; DiFranco, Aaron (2004). The Pacific Region (Series: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures) (http:/ /
books. google. com/ books?id=8-6c1tgoSZkC& pg=PA281#v=onepage& f=false). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 281.
ISBN 978-0-313-33043-8. . Retrieved 2011-11-14.
[4] Strouse; Moley, Raymond; Muir, Malcolm (1985). "Update" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=qtLjAAAAMAAJ& q=zappa+ galleria&
dq=zappa+ galleria& hl=en& ei=h6HBTreDG6KOigLK-oSOAw& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=2& ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ).
Newsweek 106 (1-9). .(subscription required)
[5] "Charts and Awards for Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ album/ r22660/ charts-awards).
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" 392
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"

"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"


Doo-wop
Length 1:03
Writer Frank Zappa
"Harry, You're a "What's the Ugliest Part of Your "Absolutely

Beast" Body?" Free"
(7) (9) (9)
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" is a song written by Frank Zappa and released on the Mothers of
Invention album We're Only in It for the Money in 1968. The song appears twice on the album: once on side one
(track 9 on the CD version of the album), and once as a reprise on side two (track 17 on the CD).
As suggested in the title of the song, the lyrics ask what the ugliest part of a person's body is. It is quickly revealed
that it is not any physical body part (like the "nose" or the "toes") but, in fact, it is the mind that is the ugliest.
The song title inspired, or was inspired by, a 1960s advertisement for Pretty Feet Deodorant.[1]
The song was covered by Die Ärzte along with "Stick It Out" as a medley for the single of "Friedenspanzer," partly
sung in German. It also has been covered by Chumbawamba (on the 7" compilation EP 'Gay Pride') and Jon Poole
(on his album of Zappa covers "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?").
References
[1] "TexasAdvertising" (http:/ / advertising. utexas. edu/ research/ slogans). . Retrieved 2008-01-22.
Who Are the Brain Police? 393
Who Are the Brain Police?

"Who Are the Brain Police?"
Single by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
from the album Freak Out!
Released 1966
Genre Experimental rock, Psychedelic Rock
Length 3:22
Label Verve
Who Are the Brain Police? is a Frank Zappa song, performed by the Mothers of Invention, released on the Mothers'
debut album, Freak Out!. It was released by Verve Records as a single in 1966.
Covers
The song was covered by Camper Van Beethoven on their 2000 rarities compilation, "Camper Van Beethoven Is
Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven". The song was also covered by the band Monks of Doom on their 1992
EP, "The Insect God." The Molecules covered the song on their 1997 album "Bootleg or Rootleg", and it was one of
the many Frank Zappa songs covered on The Ed Palermo Big Band's 1997 tribute album, "The Ed Palermo Big Band
Plays the Music of Frank Zappa"
"Who Needs the Peace Corps?" 394
"Who Needs the Peace Corps?"

"Who Needs the Peace Corps?"

Genre Psychedelic rock

Comedy rock
Experimental rock
Length 2:34
Writer Frank Zappa
"Are You Hung "Who Needs the Peace "Concentration

Up?" Corps?" Moon"
(1) (2) (3)
"Who Needs the Peace Corps?" is the second track on the 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money by Frank
Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.
The song quickly became dated when the hippie movement faded and was only performed live during the early years
of the Mothers of Invention. It was briefly revived in 1988 however, as can be heard on the live album The Best
Band You Never Heard In Your Life.[1] In this version, Mike Keneally performs the monologue at the end of the song
in a style reminiscent of Johnny Cash's, who, ironically, was very unlike the hippie portrayed in the song.
Lyrics
The lyrics of "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" mock hippies and people who follow the hippie fashion (such as
wearing beads, leather bands and long hair, or "smoking dope") without caring about the social reflections and
political views of the concept. It includes a monologue of a stereotypical "phony hippie" who aspires to find a rock
band and become their road manager in order to become part of the hippie movement.
References
[1] Who Needs the Peace Corps? (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ t365541). Review on allmusic.com. Retrieved February 1st, 2010.
External links
• Lyrics and information (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/We're_Only_In_It_For_The_Money.
html#Peace)
• Review on allmusic.com (http://www.allmusic.com/song/t365541)
"Willie the Pimp"

"Willie the Pimp"
Song by Frank Zappa from the album Hot Rats
Genre Blues rock, hard rock
Length 9:25
Label Bizarre/Rykodisc
Writer Frank Zappa
Hot Rats track listing
"Peaches en "Willie the "Son of Mr. Green

Regalia" Pimp" Genes"
(1) (2) (3)
"Willie the Pimp" is a blues rock song from Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats. It features an idiosyncratic
Captain Beefheart vocal and one of Zappa's classic guitar solos. It is 9 minutes and 16 seconds long on Hot Rats. It is
the only track that is not instrumental on the album, though the track features a long instrumental guitar solo.
The song has also appeared on Zappa's Fillmore East - June 1971 and You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
albums.
The album title Hot Rats comes from a lyric of Willie the Pimp. The origin of the song was explained in a
conversation Zappa recorded in 1969. This interview recording was later released as "The Story of Willie the Pimp"
on the Zappa album Mystery Disc.
The song was ranked number 75 on the list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of Rolling Stone.[1]
Musicians
Hot Rats version

• Frank Zappa - guitar, octave bass, percussion
• Ian Underwood - piano, organus maximus, all clarinets, all saxes
• Captain Beefheart - vocal
• Sugar Cane Harris - violin
• John Guerin - drums
• Max Bennett - bass
Fillmore East
• Frank Zappa - guitar & dialogue
• Mark Volman - lead vocals & dialogue
• Howard Kaylan - lead vocals & dialogue
• Ian Underwood - winds & keyboard & vocals
• Aynsley Dunbar - drums
• Jim Pons - bass & vocals & dialogue
• Bob Harris - 2nd keyboard & vocals
• Don Preston - Minimoog

• Frank Zappa - lead guitar/vocal
• Ike Willis - guitar/vocal
• Ray White - guitar/vocal
• Bobby Martin - keyboards/sax/vocal
• Allan Zavod - keyboards
• Scott Thunes - bass
• Chad Wackerman - drums
Cover versions
• Juicy Lucy covered "Willie the Pimp" on their 1970 release Lie Back and Enjoy It, their version was included in
Andy Votel's compilation Vertigo Mixed, released in 2005.
• Stack Waddy on their 1972 album Bugger Off!
• The band Clouds (with Adam McGrath) on their Legendary Demo on the track "Magic Hater"
• Qui on their 2007 album "Love's Miracle".
• Alex Harvey recorded a version that can be found on the album The Joker is Wild
• Former Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo covered the song on his 1998 album Roadrage.
• New Jersey-based psychedelic/progressive rock quartet Karmic Juggernaut has been known to cover the tune in
their live shows.
• Darryl McDaniels, Talib Kweli, Mixmaster Mike & Ahmet Zappa covered the song on The Frank Zappa
AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010
References
[1] "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20080531001209/ www. rollingstone. com/ news/ coverstory/
20947527/ page/ 31). Rolling Stone. 2008. Retrieved 2011-01-25. "Zappa's guitar improv never sounded more bluesy —or more jubilant—
than it does on this song. His greasy skids and howling-dog tone —and the way he breaks into note-cluster fisticuffs with the rhythm
section— are playfully impulsive. And that deep vocal? Zappa's teenage chum Captain Beefheart."
"Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" 397
"Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station"

"Wind Up Workin' In A Gas
Station"
Genre Rock, hard rock, comedy rock
Length 2:29
Writer Frank Zappa
"Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" is the opening song on Frank Zappa's album Zoot Allures. The song contains a
fake German accent from Zappa as a result of Zappa's fascination with the German culture. In Concert the extensive
repetition of the lines "Show me your thumb if you're really dumb" was given the response by the audience members
putting both thumbs firmly in the air. Despite the lyrics being pessimistic, the song the song became a fan favorite. A
live version can be found on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6.[1][2]
Meaning
The song attacks the American school system explaining that even with the highest education, many people will still
end up with low pay jobs such as working at a gas station. [3]
Lady Bianca controversy

The lead vocals are sang by Bianca Odin, better known as her stage name Lady Bianca, who was only with Zappa's
band in 1976. Odin's reason for leaving was stated in an interview:
"I left Frank Zappa because I am a lady. I did not feel I had to be humiliated by taking off my cloths or letting
frank use me as a prop on his show. I feel that my vocals and musicianship should have sufficed. That is why I
left, it was my choice."
After Lady Bianca left, the song had to be dropped from the set list because Lady Bianca's high vocals were hard to
imitate by anyone else. [4]
References
[1] François Couture. "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station - Frank Zappa : Listen, Appearances, Song Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
song/ wind-up-workin-in-a-gas-station-mt0005584300). AllMusic. . Retrieved 2012-09-17.
[2] "Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century : Styles and Singers ... - Nicholas E. Tawa - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google.
com/ books?id=7VgxtOq1VRcC& pg=PA249& lpg=PA249& dq=wind+ up+ workin'+ in+ a+ gas+ station+ pessimistic& source=bl&
ots=ewtC10XMyJ& sig=W0K3e0xPF7wpl6Nz_xvqoEBXV6g& hl=en& sa=X& ei=XJRWUKzRBuPz0gHFtoGQAg&
ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=wind up workin' in a gas station pessimistic& f=false). Books.google.com. 2005-02-28. . Retrieved
2012-09-17.
[3] "The Words and Music of Frank Zappa - Kelly Fisher Lowe - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC&
pg=PA127& lpg=PA127& dq="Wind+ Up+ Workin'+ in+ a+ Gas+ Station"+ zappa& source=bl& ots=VI5AnM1HVM&
sig=SYBdKuJcf4tkIbaHycm-edJ3KcQ& hl=en& sa=X& ei=eopWULn2K8mu0AGhsYGYCA& ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&
q="Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" zappa& f=false). Books.google.com. . Retrieved 2012-09-17.
[4] François Couture. "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station - Frank Zappa : Listen, Appearances, Song Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/
song/ wind-up-workin-in-a-gas-station-mt0005584300). AllMusic. . Retrieved 2012-09-17.
"WPLJ" 398
"WPLJ"
The Four Deuces were an American rhythm and blues vocal quartet, formed in the mid-1950s in Salinas, California.
The band was started by lead singer Luther McDaniel, and recorded several songs before they broke up in 1959.
While active, the Four Deuces had moderate but short-lived popularity, mainly along the West Coast, mostly due to
the frequent radio airplay of their hit song, "W-P-L-J."
History
The band was formed when Luther McDaniel and a group of army friends from Fort Ord got together and began to
sing gospel songs. They soon moved to rhythm and blues, and began to look for a record deal.
Moving to San Francisco, the band came into contact with Ray Dobard and his company, Music City Records. Once
in the studio, they recorded "W-P-L-J", and a B-side called "Here Lies My Love." This record was released in
February, 1956 (see 1956 in music), and received wide radio airplay across the US. Besides in their home territory of
San Francisco, the Four Deuces were especially popular in Philadelphia.[1]
The Four Deuces returned to the studio later in the year and released another record, which featured "Down it Went"
and "The Goose is Gone", but these were not as popular. The group broke up shortly after.
There has been one more recording released by the group, "Yellow Shoes" / "Pretty Polly" on Everest Records,
however there is some dispute about the authenticity of the record.
"WPLJ"
from the album Burnt Weeny Sandwich
B-side My Guitar
Released [2]
1969
Genre Doo-wop
Length 3:02
Label Bizzare
Rykodisc
"Anyway the Wind "WPLJ" "My

Blows" (1969) Guitar"
(1969) (1969)
"WPLJ" 399
W-P-L-J
They were best known for their song "W-P-L-J", which stands for "White Port and Lemon Juice." This song became
very popular in the US, and later became the jingle for renowned wine producer, Italian Swiss Colony.
Frank Zappa helped the song's enduring success when The Mothers Of Invention covered the song in 1969, which
was released in 1970 on Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Zappa's version was both a satire and a homage to the original, and
he has conceded admiringly that he could not have written a song any more absurd.[3]
The song even prompted a top rock radio station in New York (see WPLJ) to change its call letters to "WPLJ".
Discography
• "W-P-L-J" / "Here Lies My Love" (1956)
• "Down it Went" / "The Goose is Gone" (1956)
• "Yellow Shoes" / "Pretty Polly" (1959)
References
[1] "DooWop Nation" article - "Remembering the Four Deuces" (http:/ / home. earthlink. net/ ~v1tiger/ deuces. html)
[2] http:/ / www. zappafrenzy. com/ singles/ 1970-WPLJ-My_Guitar/ WPLJ-My_Guitar. html
[3] The Words And Music of Frank Zappa - by Kelly Fisher Lowe
External links
• "DooWop Nation" article - "Remembering the Four Deuces" (http://home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/deuces.html)

from the album You Are What You Is
B-side "Pink Napkins"

"Harder Than Your Husband"
"Soup 'N Old Clothes"
Released 1981
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1981
Genre Rock, Comedy rock
Length 4:23
"Harder Than Your Husband" (1980) "You Are What You Is" (1981) "Goblin Girl" (1981)
"You Are What You Is" is a Frank Zappa single from the 1981 album of the same name. The song is known for
going out of its way to use improper English, basically mocking the rest of its context. It was the b-side for 1982
single Valley Girl. This song was also remixed for the 1984 album Thing-Fish. [1]
Meaning
The lyrics tell the listener to be themselves and embrace their culture. the lyrics tell the story of two young men. The
first man is from a middle class family who has a great life, but he pretends to come from a culture of hardship and
sings the blues to be manly. Then the song refers to him as even trying to eat like someone going through hardship.
He begins to talk like the character Kingfish from the radio show Amos and Andy who is known for being a heavily
stereotypical black character. These themes overall relates to Zappa's dislike of poseurs. The second young man "Of
the negro persuasion, Devoted his life to become a caucasian." Like the first man he changes his diet to fit in with the
culture he's looking to join. It goes over stereotype of African Americans eating pork and collard greens. His story is
a commentary on African Americans who are aren't proud of their heritage and feel following the caucasian culture
would bring them more acceptance. Eventually the song goes into a frenzy of racial stereotyped one-liners including
involving a loose story about working at the post office and referencing lyrics in the next song that serves as a segue
until it transitions into the next song "Mudd Club".[2]
Music video
In 1984, Zappa was forced to release a music video. Although the film clip used advanced color graphics on normal
dance and singing type footage, its circulation was restricted due to parts of it where an actor, who was made to look
like Ronald Reagan, was sitting in what looked like an electric chair whilst applying hair creme and singing. This is
also notable for being the only conventional music video that Zappa ever made. The lyrics to the song also contains
the sentence "I ain't no nigger no more", which likely also had an effect on its broadcast. The music video was
banned from ever being aired on MTV.[3][4] This didn't prevent it from being featured on a 1993 episode of the
American television show Beavis and Butt-Head, also aired on MTV.
References to other songs

"You Are What You Is" contains references to other songs throughout his career and on the album itself, commonly
referred as Zappa's "Conceptual Continuity". References include "Gimme a five dollar bill and an overcoat too" from
"Wonderful Wino" on Zoot Allures, "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from "200 Motels" and the song "Harder Than Your
Husband" which is the 2nd song on the album with the lyric "Where's my waitress?". Another reference is "Robbie,
take me to Greek Town" more prominent in "Jumbo Go Away", and "I'm goin' down 'n work the wall 'n work the
floor" from "Mudd Club." [5][6][7][8][9]
Covers
The a cappella group The Persuasions covered "You Are What You Is" on their album Frankly a Cappella.
Tracklist
7"
A. "You Are What You Is" - 4:22
B. "Pink Napkins" - 4:32[10]
12"
A1. "You Are What You Is" - 4:22
A2. "Pink Napkins" - 4:32
B1. "Harder Than You Husband" - 2:29
B2. "Soup 'N Old Clothes" - 7:50 [11]
References
[1] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa--Moon-Zappa-Valley-Girl/ master/ 36106
[2] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ you-are-what-you-is-mt0007205368
[3] http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=Nc2mmqiO8mk
[4] http:/ / www. lyrics007. com/ Zappa%20Frank%20Lyrics/ You%20Are%20What%20You%20Is%20Lyrics. html
[5] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ jumbo-go-away-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[6] http:/ / www. lyrics007. com/ Zappa%20Frank%20Lyrics/ You%20Are%20What%20You%20Is%20Lyrics. html
[7] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ wonderful-wino-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[8] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ harder-than-your-husband-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[9] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ mudd-club-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[10] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-You-Are-What-You-Is/ release/ 3471413
[11] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Frank-Zappa-You-Are-What-You-Is/ release/ 1727088
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Filmography
200 Motels
200 Motels
Directed by Tony Palmer

Frank Zappa
Produced by Herb Cohen

Jerry D. Good
Written by Frank Zappa

Tony Palmer
Starring The Mothers of

Invention
Theodore Bikel
Ringo Starr
Music by Frank Zappa
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) November 10, 1971
Running time 98 minutes
Country United States

United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $679,000
200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony
Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr.[1] The film covers a loose storyline
about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville.[1] A soundtrack album was released in the
same year. As of 2009, 200 Motels was restored / commented on by Tony Palmer and is currently available on an
England-sourced for-retail DVD.
Plot
The film deals loosely with life on the road as a rock musician.[2] The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small
town Centerville, and bassist Jeff quits the group, as did his real life counterpart, Jeff Simmons, who left the group
before the film began shooting and was replaced by actor Martin Lickert for the film.[1] The style of the film has
been dubbed a "surrealistic documentary".[3][4]
History
In 1970, Frank Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers of Invention which included British drummer Aynsley
Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of
The Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and
contractual problems, adopted the stage name "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", or "Flo & Eddie".[5]
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Zappa began writing a film for his new lineup called 200 Motels, and the band debuted on Zappa's next solo album
Chunga's Revenge (1970),[6] which was produced as a preview of the film.[7] Zappa also met conductor Zubin
Mehta. They arranged a May 1970 concert where Mehta conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic augmented by a
rock band. This material served as a second preview of the film. According to Zappa, the music was mostly written
in motel rooms while on tour with The Mothers of Invention. Some of it was later featured in 200 Motels.[8]
Although the concert was a success, Zappa's experience working with a symphony orchestra was not a happy one.[9]
His dissatisfaction became a recurring theme throughout his career; he often felt that the quality of performance of
his material delivered by orchestras was not commensurate with the money he spent on orchestral concerts and
recordings.[10]
Zappa pitched the film to United Artists, using a portfolio including a ten page treatment, two boxes of audio tape,
and newspaper clippings. The film studio gave Zappa US$650,000 to finish the project, which Zappa initially
intended to premiere on Dutch television before his next tour.[7]
Production
Principle scenes of 200 Motels including the London Philharmonic Orchestra were filmed in a week at Pinewood
Studios outside London, and featured The Mothers of Invention, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ringo Starr,
Theodore Bikel, and Keith Moon.[11] Tensions between Zappa and several cast and crew members arose before and
during shooting.[11] However, Director Tony Palmer's comments on his 2009 reissue of 200 Motels claim all
elements of the script derived from Frank Zappa's trunk's worth of material, were completed during production, and
that the film's original video tapes still exist, sitting in front of him while he wrote the DVD liner notes. It was the
first feature film photographed on videotape and transferred to 35 mm film utilizing a Technicolor Film printer
utilized by the BBC, a process which allowed for novel visual effects.[12] Produced by Murakami/Wolf Productions.
Jerry Good, Producer. Charles Swenson, Animation Director.

United Artists' press kit for the film stated "For the audience that already knows and appreciates THE MOTHERS,
[it] will provide a logical extension of our concerts and recordings."[7] The film premiere was shown at Doheny
Plaza Theater in Hollywood, California to mixed reviews.[13]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack to 200 Motels was released by United Artists Records on October 4, 1971, and features a
combination of rock and jazz songs, orchestral music and comedic spoken dialogue.[1] The rock and comedy songs
"Mystery Roach", "Lonesome Cowboy Burt", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", "What Will This Evening Bring Me This
Morning" and "Magic Fingers", and the finale "Strictly Genteel", which mixes orchestral and rock elements, were
noted as highlights of the album by reviewer Richie Unterberger.[1]
The score relied extensively on orchestral music, and Zappa's dissatisfaction with the classical music world
intensified when a concert, scheduled at the Royal Albert Hall after filming, was canceled because a representative
of the venue found some of the lyrics obscene. In 1975, he lost a lawsuit against the Royal Albert Hall for breach of
contract.[14]
200 Motels charted at #59 on the Billboard 200.[15] The album was not released on compact disc until 1997. The CD
edition contained extensive liner notes and artwork as well as a small poster for the film, as well as bonus tracks
consisting of radio promos for the film and the single edit of the song "Magic Fingers".[1]
The album was deemed to be a peripheral album in Zappa's catalog by music critics.[1] Allmusic's Richie
Unterberger critiqued what he referred to as the "growing tendency to deploy the smutty, cheap humor that would
soon dominate much of Zappa's work", but said that "Those who like his late-'60s/early-'70s work [...] will probably
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like this fine".[1] Italian critic Piero Scaruffi described the album as "ambitious and monumental", and described it as
a standout from other albums Zappa released during this period, which Scaruffi deemed to be juvenile and
uncreative.[16]
Legacy
After 200 Motels, the band went on tour; the live album Just Another Band From L.A. included the 20-minute track
"Billy the Mountain", Zappa's satire on rock opera set in Southern California. This track was representative of the
band's theatrical performances in which songs were used to build up sketches based on 200 Motels scenes as well as
new situations often portraying the band members' sexual encounters on the road.[17]
References
[1] Richie Unterberger. "200 Motels - Frank Zappa" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ album/ 200-motels-r109870/ review). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[3] Canby, Vincent (Nov. 11, 1971). "Movie Review: 200 Motels (1971)" (http:/ / movies. nytimes. com/ movie/
review?res=9E03E3DA163DEF34BC4952DFB767838A669EDE). The New York Times. . Retrieved Sep. 17, 2010. "No self-proclaimed
surrealistic documentary can be all bad when it has a score composed by Frank Zappa..."
[4] Norman, Katharine (1996). A Poetry of Reality: Composing with Recorded Sound, Volume 15, Parts 1-2 (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=c-MAIn41xM4C). Psychology Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-3-7186-5932-6. . Retrieved Sep.17, 2010. "Zappa examined the relationship
between rock and classical music in the "surrealist documentary" 200 Motels..."
[7] No commercial potential: the saga of Frank Zappa David Walley p. 136 ISBN 0-306-80710-6
[15] "200 Motels - Frank Zappa" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ album/ 200-motels-r109870/ charts-awards). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
[16] Piero Scaruffi. "The History of Rock" (http:/ / www. scaruffi. com/ vol1/ zappa. html#chu). . Retrieved 21 August 2011.
External links
• 200 Motels (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066732/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of the 2010 DVD release (http://www.sotcaa.net/editnews/200-Motels-On-DVD.html)
Baby Snakes 405
Baby Snakes
Baby Snakes
DVD cover
Directed by Frank Zappa
Produced by Frank Zappa

Bennett Glotzer
Starring Terry Bozzio

Roy Estrada
Adrian Belew
Ed Mann
Patrick O'Hearn
Peter Wolf
Tommy Mars
and New York's Finest Crazy Persons
Distributed by Intercontinental Absurdities
Release date(s) December 21, 1979
Running time 166 min
Language English
Budget $679,000
Baby Snakes is a movie which includes footage from Frank Zappa's 1977 Halloween concert at New York City's
Palladium Theater, backstage antics from the crew, and stop motion clay animation from award-winning animator
Bruce Bickford.
Initially, the film had particular difficulty finding a distributor. Frank Zappa tried to interest United Artists, the
company that released 200 Motels, but they declined. Other studios followed United Artists' lead, fearing that
Zappa's "cinematic style" had lost considerable appeal in post-'70s pop culture, and also declined to distribute the
film.
Several European distributors told Zappa that there might be interest if the running time was cut from its original
168-minute length. The film was cut to 90 minutes, but still, there were no takers.
Even after Bruce Bickford's sequences won first prize at a French animated film competition, there was no interest.
Eventually Zappa took it upon himself to distribute the film independently, via his own production company,
Intercontinental Absurdities. The film ran 24 hours a day at the Victoria Theater in New York City. (This can be
clearly seen in the opening credits to the film,"Eaten Alive," partly filmed in New York at the time Baby Snakes was
playing. You can clearly see the theater marquee in said opening credits}. It made a handsome profit .
The film, in its original version, was released on VHS tape via mail-order directly from Zappa until the mid-90s
when the double-tape set eventually "sold out" and further replication runs were not fulfilled. The 90 minute-version
was briefly made available on home video in the 1980s also. Finally, after many years of being "out of print" Baby
Snakes was released on DVD on December 9, 2003 by Eagle Vision United States with a new 5.1 Surround mix.
This was the first time that the film was made commercially available to the public at large rather than through
limited mailorder directly from Zappa.
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References
External links
• Baby Snakes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078820/) at the Internet Movie Database

Cover of original video release
Editing by Frank Zappa
Distributed by Honker Home Video (video

release)
Eagle Vision (DVD release)
Release date(s) 1982 (original video release)

October 2005 (DVD release)
Language English
The Dub Room Special is a film produced by Frank Zappa for direct-to-video release in October, 1982. The video
combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed
at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. The
video was only available through mail-order, and thus, was unseen by many of Zappa's fans until it was made widely
available on DVD on October 17, 2005. The DVD version was trimmed slightly by Zappa to fit the space limitations
of early laserdiscs. The 1974 footage was originally conceived as a TV special. In 2007 a soundtrack with the same
name was released.
Track listing
1. "Kim?"/The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
2. Room Service
3. Nig Biz
4. Approximate
5. Cosmik Debris
6. Cocaine Decisions
7. "The Massimo Bassoli Instant Italian Lesson"/Montana
8. "In Case You Didn't Know"/Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
9. Florentine Pogen
10. Stevie's Spanking
11. Stink-Foot
12. Flakes
13. Inca Roads
14. Easy Meat
15. "Huh-Huh-Huh"
The following sections were deleted from the original video release:
• Zappa talking about Compact Video (originally preceded Room Service)
• Intermission after Florentine Pogen, with title cards and Zappa talking about bad continuity
Musicians
August 1974 band

• Frank Zappa - Guitar, vocals and percussion
• George Duke - Keyboards and vocals
• Ruth Underwood - Percussion
• Chester Thompson - Drums
• Tom Fowler - Bass
• Napoleon Murphy Brock - Flute, saxophone and vocals
October 1981 band

• Frank Zappa - Lead guitar and vocals
• Ray White - Guitar and vocals
• Steve Vai - Guitar and vocals
• Tommy Mars - Keyboards and vocals
• Bobby Martin - Keyboards, saxophone and vocals
• Ed Mann - Percussion and vocals
• Scott Thunes - Bass and vocals
• Chad Wackerman - Drums
External links
• The Dub Room Special [1] at the Internet Movie Database
• The Dub Room Special [2] at AllRovi
• Info at globalia.net [3]
References
[1] http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0087180/
[2] http:/ / www. allrovi. com/ movies/ movie/ v335811
[3] http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ videography/ Dub_Room_Special. html
Video from Hell 409
Video from Hell

Video from Hell
Produced by Jill Silverthorne
Starring Kyle Richards

Frank Zappa
Running time 60 min.
Country USA
Language English
Video From Hell is a video released in 1987 by Frank Zappa. It is a compilation of pieces of music and video from a
series of projects that Zappa presumably planned to finish and release for home video, including a companion video
for the You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series of albums, but those projects were ultimately never completed.
Many pieces from this video had appeared on a one-hour Night Flight special entitled "You Are What You Watch".
The music video for the song "G-Spot Tornado" features color 8mm footage that Zappa shot at a county fair in the
early 1960s, while the music video for "Night School" features footage from the making of his feature film 200
Motels. It also features the music video for "You Are What You Is" which was banned by MTV. A guitar solo duet
between Zappa and Steve Vai taken from the song "Stevie's Spanking" was later released on You Can't Do That On
Stage Anymore, Vol. 4. As of December 2011, the video has not yet been released on DVD.
External links
• Video From Hell [1] at the Internet Movie Database
References

Does Humor Belong in Music? is a one-hour Frank Zappa concert video composed of live performances at The Pier
in New York City (August 26, 1984) along with a few interview segments. It was released on VHS by MPI Home
Video in 1985 and reissued on DVD in 2003 by EMI. The video has no recorded material in common with the album
of the same name, but some of the tracks were released (in whole or in part) on Volumes One, Three and Six of the
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series.
A laserdisc version was also released in Japan, complete with Japanese subtitles for all spoken and sung material and
featuring a slightly different audio mix than the VHS and DVD versions. This laserdisc version was available as a
bootleg DVD from both the "Digital Underground" label (no association with the rap group of the same name) and
the "Room 101" bootleg label, released a year or so before the official EMI DVD.
For diehard Zappa fans, this video truly represents the talent of the band line-up at that time. Singers Ray White, Ike
Willis and Bobby Martin really make a big impact on the songs and how they were written and played lived. While
muscians in Zappa's bands, that included the likes of the Zappa in New York (live) - the Sheik Yerbouti/Joe's Garage
era, and the outstanding Jazz from Hell and Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life discs may have been the most
technically outstanding line-ups in the views of some, there are no gaps here in this touring ensemble including
flawless technical drumming of Chad Wackerman and solid bass work of Scott Thunes. Only a couple of Zappa
guitar solos are featured here, but they are excellent and the video angles give clues to his technical approach on the
neck and picking techniques. If you are looking for a good video of the era when Zappa was really at his touring
zenith, this is a worthwhile investment.
Line-up: Frank Zappa: Guitar, Vocals; Ray White: Guitar, Vocals; Ike Willis: Guitar, Vocals, Duck Call and other
effects and general lunacy; Bobby Martin: Vocals, Keyboards, French Horn, Sax; Alan Zavon: Keyboards; Scott
Thunes: Bass; Chad Wackerman: Drums
Track listing
1. "Zoot Allures"
2. "Tinsel Town Rebellion"
• City of Tiny Lites (beginning) / interview segment
3. "More Trouble Every Day"
4. "Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel" (edited, and including more interview segments)
• Goblin Girl (beginning) / interview segment
• The Deathless Horsie (ending)
5. "The Dangerous Kitchen"
6. "He's So Gay"
7. "Bobby Brown Goes Down"
8. "Keep It Greasy"
9. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?"
• Carol, You Fool (beginning) / interview segment
10. "Dinah-Moe Humm"
11. "Cosmik Debris"
• (Encore)
13. "Dancin' Fool"
14. "Whippin' Post"
External links
• Does Humor Belong in Music? (video) [1] at the Internet Movie Database
• Information Is Not Knowledge [2]
References
[2] http:/ / www. globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ videography/ Does_Humor_Belong_In_Music. html
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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200
Motels
Produced by Jill Silverthorn
Starring Frank Zappa
Release date(s) • 1988
Running time 59 min
Language English
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film released in 1988 by Frank Zappa, detailing the
making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels.[1] As of December 2011, the video has not yet been released on DVD.
Cast
Appearing as themselves:
• Theodore Bikel
• Jimmy Carl Black
• George Duke
• Aynsley Dunbar
• Janet Ferguson
• Howard Kaylan
• Martin Lickert
• Lucy Offerall
• Don Preston
• Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
• Ringo Starr
• Ian Underwood
• Mark Volman
• Sarina-Marie Volman
• Frank Zappa
References
[1] "The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels" (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0096313/ ). IMDb. . Retrieved 2008-12-31.
External links
• The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096313/) at the Internet Movie
Database
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The Amazing Mr. Bickford

The Amazing Mr.
Bickford
Directed by Bruce Bickford

Frank Zappa

Jill Silverthorne
Starring Bruce Bickford

Frank Zappa
Editing by Booey Kober
Running time 52 min.
Country USA
Language English
The Amazing Mr. Bickford is a video released by Frank Zappa in 1987, containing orchestral pieces by Zappa set to
the clay animation of Bruce Bickford. As of December 2011, the video has not yet been released on DVD.
External links
• The Amazing Mr. Bickford [1] at the Internet Movie Database
• Bruce Bickford's official website [2]
• Cartoon Brew [3]
References
[2] http:/ / www. brucebickford. com/
[3] http:/ / www. cartoonbrew. com/ animators/ the-amazing-mr-bickford/
Uncle Meat 414
Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat
Cinematography Ed Seeman
Haskell Wexler
Release date(s) 1987
Language English
Uncle Meat is a film written and directed by Frank Zappa, released directly to video in 1987. Principal photography
having never been completed, the videocassette is actually a "making of" documentary showing rehearsals and
background footage from 1968 and interviews with people involved with the uncompleted production. To this day,
the video has not yet been released on DVD.
Cast (in alphabetical order)

• Phyllis Smith Altenhaus as Herself/Sheba Flieschman (as Phyllis Altenhaus)
• Dick Barber as Himself
• Massimo Bassoli as Adult Minnesota Tishman
• Rodney Bingenheimer as Himself
• Jimmy Carl Black as Himself
• Ray Collins as Himself/Bill Yards
• Aynsley Dunbar as Himself/Biff Junior
• Roy Estrada as Himself
• Francesca Fisher as The Countess
• Bunk Gardner as Himself
• Buzz Gardner as Himself
• Lowell George as Himself
• Dick Kunc as Himself
• Manfred Lerch as Himself
• C. Mercedes Lewis as Girl Who Was A Sofa
• Sal Lombardo as Himself
• Meredith Monk as Red Face Girl
• Billy Mundi as Rollo
• Janet Neville-Ferguson as Herself
• Don Preston as Himself/ Biff Debris/Uncle Meat
• Fritz Rau as Himself
• Linda Ronstadt as Herself
• Cal Schenkel as Himself
• Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood as Himself
• Stumuk as Elderly Biff Debris
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• Arthur Dyer Tripp III as Himself

• Ian Underwood as Himself
• Haskell Wexler as Himself
• Tom Wilson as Himself
• Annie Zannas as Herself
• Carl Zappa as Young Minnesota Tishman
• Frank Zappa as Himself/The Imaginary Director
External links
• Uncle Meat [1] at the Internet Movie Database
References
The Torture Never Stops

Recorded 1976
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 9:45
Writer Frank Zappa
"The Torture Never Stops" is a song by Frank Zappa from the 1976 album Zoot Allures. Other versions can be
found on Zappa in New York, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 4, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Cheap Thrills, Buffalo, Philly '76, and Hammersmith
Odeon. In the song an evil prince is mentioned, which on the album Thing-Fish, the song is called "The Torchum'
Never Stops", and the main antagonist is named The Evil Prince, referencing the song. "The Torture Never Stops"
was played live from 1975 to 1978 and 1988. [1] [2]
Tone
The song debuted in 1975 under the title "Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him a Pepsi?" in which almost none of the
instrument parts were similar to the album version. For "Zoot Allures", Zappa made the song much darker to a point
where on an album of dark songs, "The Torture Never Stops" is by far the darkest. Disturbing lyrics such as "Flies all
green and buzzin' in dungeon of despair. Who are'll those people that is shut away down there? Are they crazy? Are
they sainted? Are they heroes someone painted?" and a female's moans of pain added a dirty and miserable tone
effect to the song. While singing these lyrics, Zappa comes off as calm yet passive-aggressive. [3] [4] [5] The song has
been thought to references atrocities of World War II concentration camps and if so it's also been said by critics that
the references of "eating a steaming pig" is tasteless on Zappa's part.
Rat Tomago
A live solo from the song, "Rat Tomago" was put on the 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. Like "The Torture Never
Stops", it contains the same basic structure, bass line, and female moaning. "Rat Tomago" was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1979, but lost. [6]
Line up
Frank Zappa - guitar, bass, keyboards, lead vocals
Terry Bozzio - drums
References
[4] http:/ / www. metrolyrics. com/ the-torture-never-stops-lyrics-frank-zappa. html
[5] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC& pg=PA130& lpg=PA130& dq=%22the+ torture+ never+ stops%22+ zappa+ frank&
source=bl& ots=VI5AnOXHWG& sig=NZ1VKbIynXI6Cbb8_5sRnUpXEmU& hl=en& sa=X& ei=LsFWUJuvBs-G0QHF-YDoDw&
ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q=%22the%20torture%20never%20stops%22%20zappa%20frank& f=false
[6] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ song/ rat-tomago-mt0000639930
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Related articles
In popular culture
This is a list of tributes and references to the American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist, Frank
Zappa.
Appearances in media
• Zappa made an appearance on The Steve Allen Show in 1963. This appearance featured Frank demonstrating the
wide scope of percussion by playing the spokes of a spinning bicycle wheel with drum sticks.[1]
• He made a cameo appearance in the 1968 film starring the Monkees, Head, with a talking cow. He also made a
cameo appearance on an episode of the Monkees' TV series entitled "The Monkees Blow Their Minds" (air date:
3/11/68). Here, he was shown "playing" a car by beating it into submission. This is done in a Monkees-style
montage to the Zappa song "Mother People" after being interviewed by Monkee Michael Nesmith. Zappa agreed
to appear on the show provided he could "be" Nesmith; Nesmith, in turn, liked the idea, so long as he could "be"
Zappa. The two wore cheap, exaggerated disguises and the interview was performed as if Mike was Frank and
Frank was Mike, in a manner analogous to Ringo Starr's appearance as "Larry the Dwarf, dressed up like Frank
Zappa" in 200 Motels.
• He appeared on What's My Line? in 1971, during the show's syndicated run, as a mystery guest.
• Zappa was the host and musical guest of a Season Four episode of Saturday Night Live in October 1978. His odd
sense of humor and constant mugging to the camera once led Lorne Michaels to ban this episode. This, however,
proved to be temporary as the Zappa episode has been rerun a few times on NBC. In the same show he portrayed
Connie Conehead's date. He was also part of another skit, entitled "Night of Freak Mountain", in which Zappa
met with a coupleof hippies who offered various drugs to him, which he declined, stating "I don't do drugs." The
hippies regarded his statement in awe and surprise. As part of the musical performance of "I'm the Slime" (on an
earlier episode hosted by Candice Bergen), the transparent screen of a fake television monitor fills up with a slimy
green goo.
• He played Attilla the Hunchback in Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, in the episode titled "The Boy Who
Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" (1984).
• He played drug dealer Mario Fuente in episode 19, "Payback" of the TV show Miami Vice first broadcast 14
March 1986.
• Zappa was the voice of the Pope in the 1992 Ren and Stimpy episode "Powdered Toast Man".
• The Zappa moustache also made an appearance in the popular TV show "SpongeBob SquarePants" episode
"Summer Job".
Portraits
• In 1995 a cast of Zappa was installed in the center of Vilnius, the
capital of Lithuania. Zappa was immortalized by Konstantinas
Bogdanas, the Lithuanian sculptor who had previously cast portraits
of Vladimir Lenin.
• In 2002, a bronze bust was installed in a square in Bad Doberan, a
small town in the north of Germany, where, since 1990, there has
been an annual international festival celebrating the music of Frank
Zappa, the "Zappanale".[2]
Things named after Zappa

In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of
New Guinea Zappa after Zappa, stating that he liked "his music... his
politics and principles" and that "the name itself is a good one for
scientific nomenclature."[3]
Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish Phialella
Frank Zappa-statue by Vaclav Cesak in Bad
zappai[4] in order to get the chance to meet the musician. A Zappa
Doberan
concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero. A
small portion of this concert was released on You Can't Do That On
Stage Anymore: Vol. 6 as "Lonesome Cowboy Nando".[5] Zappa stated, "There is nothing I'd like better than to have
a jellyfish named after me."[6]
Other species named after Zappa include a fossil snail named Amaurotoma zappa and the Cameroonese spider
Pachygnatha zappa, so named because a marking on the female's ventral surface resembles the Zappa mustache.[7] A
gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infection is named zapA (others are named zapB
through zapE).[8]
After his death, an internet campaign to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center led to an
asteroid being named in his honor: 3834 Zappafrank, the asteroid having been discovered by Czech astronomers in
1980.[9][10]
• A playable character from the video game Guilty Gear XX, Zappa, is named after Frank Zappa.
• In late July, 2007, the city of Berlin, at the urging of the MUSIKFABRIK ORWOhaus (musicians community),
renamed Street 13 in the Marzahn district (part of the former East Berlin) the "Frank-Zappa-Straße."[11]
• "Frank Zappa and the Mothers" are mentioned in the lyrics of the well known Deep Purple track "Smoke on the
Water", which is about the 1971 Montreux, Switzerland fire at a Zappa concert.
Notes
[2] See Zappanale website (http:/ / zappanale. de/ ).
[3] Andy Murkin. "A fish called Zappa" (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ fish. html). . Retrieved
2008-05-13.
[4] Phialella zappai (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ jellyfish. html)
[5] Román García Albertos. "Information Is Not Knowledge" (http:/ / globalia. net/ donlope/ fz/ lyrics/
You_Can't_Do_That_On_Stage_Anymore_Vol_6. html#Lonesome). . Retrieved 2008-05-23.
[6] Andy Murkin. "Here's your jelly, Frank!" (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ jellyfish. html). .
[7] Spider of Destiny (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ spider. html)
[8] ZapA (Proteus mirabilis) (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ ZapA. html)
[9] (03834) Minor Planet Name (http:/ / www. klet. org/ names/ view. php3?astnum=3834)
[10] Zappafrank (http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ andymurkin/ Resources/ MusicRes/ ZapRes/ asteroid. html)
[11] "Berlin Names Street After Frank Zappa" (http:/ / www. washingtonpost. com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2007/ 07/ 30/ AR2007073000690.
html)
References
• Slaven, Neil (2003). Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa. London: Omnibus Press.
ISBN 0-7119-9436-6.
Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart
At Convocation Hall, Toronto, in 1974
Birth name Don Glen Vliet
Also known as Captain Beefheart

Bloodshot Rollin' Red
Born January 15, 1941

Glendale, California, U.S.
Died December 17, 2010 (aged 69)

[1]
Arcata, California, U.S.
Genres Avant-garde, rock, free jazz, spoken word, outsider
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician, artist, poet, composer, author, record producer, film director
Instruments Vocals, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet, oboe, french horn, shehnai, recorder, flute, piccolo, trumpet, percussion, guitar, piano
Years active 1964–1982
Labels A&M, Buddah, Blue Thumb, ABC, Reprise, Straight, Virgin, Mercury, DiscReet, Warner Bros., Atlantic, Epic
Associated acts The Magic Band, Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Gary Lucas, The Tubes, Jack Nitzsche, Zoot Horn Rollo, Jeff
Cotton, Rockette Morton, Winged Eel Fingerling, The Mascara Snake, John 'Drumbo' French, Ry Cooder
Don Van Vliet ( /vænˈvliːt/, born Don Glen Vliet;[2] January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American
musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet widely known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work
was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with
whom he recorded 13 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range,[3] Van Vliet also
played the harmonica, saxophone and numerous other wind instruments. His music blended rock, blues and
psychedelia with avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition.[4] Beefheart was also known for
exercising an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians, and for often constructing myths about his
life.[5]
During his teen years in Lancaster, California, Van Vliet developed an eclectic musical taste and formed "a mutually
useful but volatile" friendship with Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated.[6] He began
performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by
Alexis Snouffer, in 1965. The group drew attention with their cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy", which
became a regional hit. It was followed by their acclaimed debut album Safe as Milk, released in 1967 on Buddah
Records. After being dropped by two consecutive record labels, they signed to Zappa's Straight Records. As
producer, Zappa granted Beefheart unrestrained artistic freedom in making 1969's Trout Mask Replica, which ranked
fifty-eighth in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[7] In 1974, frustrated by lack
of commercial success, he released two albums of more conventional rock music that were critically panned; this
move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour, and years of enduring Beefheart's abusive behavior,
led the entire band to quit. Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and
regained contemporary approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978), Doc at the
Radar Station (1980) and Ice Cream for Crow (1982).
Van Vliet has been described as "one of modern music's true innovators" with "a singular body of work virtually
unrivalled in its daring and fluid creativity".[4][8] Although he achieved little commercial or mainstream critical
success,[9] he sustained a cult following as a "highly significant" and "incalculable" influence on an array of New
Wave, punk, post-punk, experimental and alternative rock musicians.[8][10] Known for his enigmatic personality and
relationship with the public, Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music (and from his
Beefheart persona) in 1982. He pursued a career in art, an interest that originated in his childhood talent for
sculpture, and a venture which proved to be his most financially secure. His expressionist paintings and drawings
command high prices, and have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world.[4][11][12] Van Vliet
died in 2010, having suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years.[13]
Biography
Early life and musical influences, 1941–1962

Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service
station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet (née Warfield), who was from Arkansas.[2] He
claimed to have as an ancestor Peter Van Vliet, a Dutch painter who knew Rembrandt. Van Vliet also claimed that
he was related to adventurer and author Richard Halliburton and the cowboy actor Slim Pickens, and said that he
remembered being born.[4][14]
Van Vliet began painting and sculpting at age three.[15] His subjects reflected his "obsession" with animals,
particularly dinosaurs, fish, African mammals and lemurs.[16] At the age of nine he won a children's sculpting
competition organised for the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park by a local tutor, Agostinho Rodrigues.[17] Local
newspaper cuttings of his junior sculpting achievements can be found reproduced in the Splinters book, included in
the Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh boxed CD work, released in 2004.[18] The sprawling park, with its
zoo and observatory had a strong influence on young Vliet, as it was a short distance from his home on Waverly
Drive. The track "Observatory Crest" on Bluejeans & Moonbeams reflects this continued interest. A portrait photo of
the school-age Vliet can be seen on the front of the lyric sheet within the first issue of the US release of Trout Mask
Replica.
For some time during the 1950s Van Vliet worked as an apprentice with Rodrigues, who considered him a child
prodigy. Vliet made claim to have been a lecturer at the Barnsdall Art Institute in Los Angeles at the age of
eleven,[16] although it is likely he simply gave a form of artistic dissertation. Accounts of Van Vliet's precocious
achievement in art often include his statement that he sculpted on a weekly television show.[19] He claimed that his
parents discouraged his interest in sculpture, based upon their perception of artists as 'queer'. They declined several
scholarship offers,[8] including one from the local Knudsen Creamery to travel to Europe with six years' paid tuition
to study marble sculpture.[20] Van Vliet later admitted personal hesitation to take the scholarship based upon the
bitterness of his parents' disencouragement.[21]
Van Vliet's artistic enthusiasm became so fervent, he claimed that his parents were forced to feed him through the
door in the room where he sculpted. When he was thirteen the family moved from the Los Angeles area to the more
remote farming town of Lancaster, near the Mojave Desert, where there was a growing aerospace industry and
testing plant that would become Edwards Airforce Base. It was an environment that would greatly influence him
creatively from then on.[19] Van Vliet remained interested in art; his paintings, often reminiscent of Franz Kline's,[22]
were later featured on several of his own albums. Meanwhile he developed his taste and interest in music, listening
"intensively" to the Delta blues of Son House and Robert Johnson, jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, John
Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, and the Chicago blues of Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.[4][19][23]
During his early teenage years Vliet would sometimes socialize with members of local bands such as The Omens
and The Blackouts, although his interests were still focused upon an art career. The Omens' guitarists Alexis
Snouffer and Jerry Handley would later become founders of "The Magic Band" and The Blackouts' drummer, Frank
Zappa, would later capture Vliet's vocal capabilities on record for the first time.[24][25] This first known recording,
when he was simply 'Don Vliet', is "Lost In A Whirlpool" - one of Zappa's early 'field recordings' made in his college
classroom with brother Bobby on guitar. It is featured on Zappa's posthumously released The Lost Episodes (1996).
He had dropped out of school by that time, and spent most of his time staying at home. His girlfriend lived in the house, and his
grandmother lived in the house, and his aunt and his uncle lived across the street. And his father had had a heart attack; his father
drove a Helms bread truck, part of the time Don was helping out by taking over the bread truck route [and] driving up to Mojave.
The rest of the time he would just sit at home and listen to rhythm and blues records, and scream at his mother to get him a Pepsi.
[26]
Frank Zappa
Van Vliet claimed that he never attended public school, alleging "half a day of kindergarten" to be the extent of his
formal education and saying that "if you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school." His
associates said that he only dropped out during his senior year of high school to help support the family after his
father's heart attack. His graduation picture appears in the school's yearbook.[27] While attending Antelope Valley
High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding
through their interest in Chicago blues and R&B.[19][28] Van Vliet is portrayed in both The Real Frank Zappa Book
and Barry Miles' biography Zappa as fairly spoiled at this stage of his life, the center of attention as an only child. He
spent most of his time locked in his room listening to records, often with Zappa, into the early hours in the morning,
eating leftover food from his father's Helms bread truck and demanding that his mother bring him a Pepsi.[26] His
parents tolerated such behavior under the belief that their child was truly gifted. Vliet's 'Pepsi-moods' were ever a
source of amusement to band members, leading Zappa to later write the wry tune "Why Doesn't Someone Give Him
A Pepsi?" that featured on the Bongo Fury tour.[29]
After Zappa began regular occupation at Paul Buff's PAL Studio in Cucamonga he and Van Vliet began
collaborating, tentatively as "The Soots". By the time Zappa had turned the venue into Studio Z the duo had
completed some songs. These were "Cheryl's Canon", "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" and a Howlin' Wolf styled
rendition of Little Richard's "Slippin' and Slidin'".[30] Further songs, on Zappa's Mystery Disc (1996), "I Was a
Teen-Age Malt Shop" and "The Birth of Captain Beefheart" also provide an insight to Zappa's 'teenage movie' script
titled Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People,[31] the first appearances of the Beefheart name. It has been suggested
this name came from a term used by Vliet's Uncle Alan who had a habit of exposing himself to Don's girlfriend,
Laurie Stone. He would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, would mumble about his
penis, saying "Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine beef heart."[32] In a 1970 interview with Rolling
Stone, Van Vliet requests "don't ask me why or how" he and Zappa came up with the name.[19] He would later claim
in an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman that the name referred to "a beef in my heart against this
society."[20] In the "Grunt People" draft script Beefheart and his mother play themselves, with his father played by
Howlin' Wolf. Grace Slick is penned in as a 'celestial seductress' and there are also roles for future Magic Band
members Bill Harkleroad and Mark Boston.[33]
Van Vliet enrolled at Antelope Valley Junior College as an art major, but decided to leave the following year. He
once worked as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, during which time he sold a vacuum cleaner to the writer
Aldous Huxley at his home in Llano, pointing to it and declaring, "Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks."[34] After
managing a Kinney's shoe store, Van Vliet relocated to Rancho Cucamonga, California, to reconnect with Zappa,
who inspired his entry into musical performance. Van Vliet was quite shy but was eventually able to imitate the deep
voice of Howlin' Wolf with his wide vocal range.[23][35] He eventually grew comfortable with public performance
and, after learning to play the harmonica, began playing at dances and small clubs in Southern California.
Initial recordings, 1962–1969

In early 1965 Alex Snouffer, a Lancaster rhythm and blues guitarist, invited Vliet to sing with a group that he was
assembling. Vliet joined the first Magic Band and changed his name to Don Van Vliet, while Snouffer became Alex
St. Clair (sometimes spelled Claire). Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band signed to A&M and released two singles
in 1966. The first was a version of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy" that became a regional hit in Los Angeles. The
followup, "Moonchild" (written by David Gates) was less well received. The band played music venues that catered
to underground artists, such as the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.[36]
Safe as Milk
After fulfilling their deal for two singles the band presented demos to A&M during 1966 for what would become the
Safe as Milk album. A&M's Jerry Moss reportedly described this new direction as "too negative"[8] and dropped the
band from the label, although still under contract. Much of the demo recording was accomplished at Art Laboe's
Original Sound Studio, then with Gary Marker on the controls at Sunset Sound on 8-track. By the end of 1966 they
were signed to Buddah Records and much of the demo work was transferred to 4-track, at the behest of Krasnow and
Perry, in the RCA Studio in Hollywood, where the recording was finalized. Tracks that were originally laid down in
the demo by Doug Moon are therefore taken up by Cooder's work in the release, as Moon had departed over 'musical
differences' at this juncture.
Drummer John French had now joined the group and it would later (notably on Trout Mask Replica) be his patience
that was required to transcribe Van Vliet's creative ideas (often expressed by whistling or banging on the piano) into
musical form for the other group members. On French's departure this role was taken over by Bill Harkleroad for
Lick My Decals Off, Baby.[37]
Many of the lyrics on the Safe as Milk album were written by Van Vliet in collaboration with the writer Herb
Bermann, who befriended Van Vliet after seeing him perform at a bar-gig in Lancaster in 1966. The song
"Electricity" was a poem written by Bermann, who gave Van Vliet permission to adapt it to music.[38]
Much of the Safe as Milk material was honed and arranged by the arrival of 20-year–old guitar prodigy Ry Cooder,
who had been brought into the group after much pressure from Vliet. The band began recording in spring 1967, with
Richard Perry cutting his teeth in his first job as producer. The album was released in September 1967. Richie
Unterberger of Allmusic called the album "blues–rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful,
twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk–rock influences than he would
employ on his more avant garde outings".
Recognition
Among those who took notice were The Beatles. Both John Lennon and Paul McCartney were known as great
admirers of Beefheart.[39] Lennon displayed two of the album's promotional 'baby bumper stickers' in the sunroom at
his home.[40] Later, the Beatles planned to sign Beefheart to their experimental Zapple label (plans that were
scrapped after Allen Klein took over the group's management). Van Vliet was often critical of the Beatles, however.
He considered the lyric "I'd love to turn you on", from their song "A Day in the Life", to be ridiculous and conceited.
Tiring of their "lullabies",[41] he lampooned them with the Strictly Personal song "Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones",
that featured the sardonic refrain of "strawberry fields, strawberry fields forever". It should also be noted that
'strawberry fields' could also be an oblique reference to a form of LSD circulating at the time. The album's five 'acid
stamps' and first track "Ah Feel like Ahcid" may underline this, while 'Smokin' Stones' is probably a 'pro comment'
on the contrasting rhythm and blues style of the Rolling Stones. Vliet spoke badly of Lennon after getting no
response when he sent a telegram of support to him and wife Yoko Ono during their 1969 "Bed–In for peace". Van
Vliet did meet McCartney in Cannes during the Magic Band's 1968 tour of Europe, though McCartney later claimed
to have no recollection of this meeting.[42]
The flipside of success

Doug Moon left the band because of his dislike of the band's increasing experimentation outside his preferred blues
genre. Ry Cooder told of Moon becoming so angered by Van Vliet's unrelenting criticism that he walked into the
room pointing a loaded crossbow at him, only to be told "Get that fucking thing out of here, get out of here and get
back in your room", which he obeyed.[26] (Other band members have disputed this account, although Moon is likely
to have 'passed through' the studio with a weapon.)[43] Moon was present during the early demo sessions at Original
Sound studio, above the Kama Sutra/Buddah offices. The works Moon laid down did not see the light of day, as he
was replaced by Cooder when they continued on material at Sunset Sound with Marker.[44] Marker then fell by the
wayside when recording was moved by Krasnow and Perry to RCA Studio. This would have a profound effect on
the quality of the Safe as Milk work, as the former studio was 8-track and the subsequent studio a 4-track.
To support the album's release the group had been scheduled to play at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. During this
period Vliet suffered severe anxiety attacks that made him convinced that he was having a heart attack, probably
exacerbated by his heavy LSD use and the fact that his father died of heart failure a few years earlier. At a vital
'warm-up' performance at the Mt. Tamalpais Festival (June 10/11) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival
(June 16/18), the band began to play "Electricity" and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the
ten–foot stage and landed on manager Bob Krasnow. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a
fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.[45] This aborted any opportunity of breakthrough success at Monterey, as
Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,[26] effectively quitting both the event and the
band on the spot. With such complex guitar parts there was no means for the band to find a competent replacement
in time for Monterey. Cooder's spot was eventually filled for a short spell by Gerry McGee, who had played with
The Monkees. According to French the band did two gigs with McGee, one of which was at The Peppermint Twist
near Long Beach. The other was at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 7 August 1967, as opening act to The
Yardbirds.[46] McGee was in the group long enough to have an outfit made by a Santa Monica boutique[46] that also
created the gear worn by the band on the Strictly Personal cover stamps.
Strictly Personal
In August, guitarist Jeff Cotton filled the guitar spot vacated, in turn, by Cooder and McGee. In October and
November 1967 the Snouffer/Cotton/Handley/French line–up recorded material for what was planned to be the
second album. Originally intended to be a double album called It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper for the
Buddah label, it was released later in pieces in 1971 and 1995. After rejection from Buddah, Bob Krasnow
encouraged the band to re–record four of the shorter numbers, to add two more, and make shorter versions of
"Mirror Man" and "Kandy Korn". The music was already weakly recorded with a trebly thin sound; Krasnow then
implemented a strange mix full of "phasing" that by most accounts (including Beefheart's) diminished the music's
strength; this was released in October 1968 as Strictly Personal on Krasnow's Blue Thumb label.[47] Stewart Mason
in his Allmusic review of the album described it as a "terrific album" and a "fascinating, underrated release", "every
bit the equal of Safe as Milk and Trout Mask Replica".[48] Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone called Strictly Personal
"an excellent album. The guitars of the Magic Band mercilessly bend and stretch notes in a way that suggests that the
world of music has wobbled clear off its axis," with the lyrics demonstrating "Beefheart's ability to juxtapose
delightful humor with frightening insights".[49]
Mirror Man
In 1971 some of the recordings done for Buddah were released as Mirror Man, bearing a liner note claiming that the
material had been recorded "one night in Los Angeles in 1965". This was a ruse to circumvent possible copyright
issues; the material was actually recorded in November and December 1967. Essentially a "jam" album, described as
pushing "the boundaries of conventional blues–rock, with a Beefheart vocal tossed in here and there. Some may miss
Beefheart's surreal poetry, gruff vocals, and/or free jazz influence, while others may find it fascinating to hear the
Magic Band simply letting go and cutting loose".[50] The album's 'miss-credit errors' also state band members as
"Alex St. Clare Snouffer" (Alex St. Clare/Alexis Snouffer), "Antennae Jimmy Simmons" (Semens/Jeff Cotton) and
"Jerry Handsley" (Handley). First vinyl was issued in both a die-cut gatefold (revealing a 'cracked' mirror) and a
single sleeve with same image. The UK Buddah issue was part of the Polydor-manufactured 'Select' series.
During his first trip to England in January 1968, Captain Beefheart was briefly represented in the UK by mod icon
Peter Meaden, an early manager of The Who. The Captain and his band members were initially denied entry to the
United Kingdom, because Meaden had illegally booked them for gigs without applying for appropriate work
permits.[51] After returning to Germany for a few days, the group was permitted to re-enter the UK, when they
recorded material for John Peel's radio show and appeared at the Middle Earth venue, introduced by Peel on
Saturday 20 January. By this time, they had terminated their association with Meaden. On January 27, 1968,
Beefheart achieved one of his most memorable live performances, when the band performed in the MIDEM Music
Festival on the beach at Cannes, France.
Alex St. Claire left the band in June 1968 after their return from a second European tour and was replaced by
teenager Bill Harkleroad; bassist Jerry Handley left a few weeks later.
The Mirror Man Sessions and new Buddha

In 1999 the defunct Buddah label emerged with a new look, a correct title spelling and relevant 'deity' image -
replacing the silhouetted 'Shiva' image and Buddah name for Beefheart material. The Bertelsmann Music Group
(BMG) now had the Buddah catalogue, producing both a remastered CD of Safe as Milk and a CD titled The Mirror
Man Sessions, the latter providing an insight to the Mirror Man and Strictly Personal albums, and recordings relating
to the 'Brown Wrapper' project. The tracks are presented as "Original Masters" and provides further insight to the
interpolating material that also appears on It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper. The insert also shows the
entire band in Quaker hats and outfits.
The 'Brown Wrapper' Sessions

After their Euro tour and the Cannes beach performance the band returned to the USA. Moves were already in the air
for them to leave Buddah and sign to MGM and, prior to their May tour - mainly in the UK - they re-recorded some
Buddah material of the partial Mirror Man sessions at Sunset Sound with Bruce Botnick. Beefheart had also been
conceptualizing new band names, including "25th Century Quaker" and "Blue Thumb",[52] while making
suggestions to other musicians that they might get involved. The thought-process of "25th Century Quaker" was that
it would be a 'blues band' alias for the more avant-garde work of the Magic Band. Photographer Guy Webster
actually photographed the band in Quaker-style outfits, and the picture appears in The Mirror Man Sessions CD
insert. It would later transpire that much of this situation was transient and that Buddah's Bob Krasnow was to set up
his own label. The label that was unsurprisingly named Blue Thumb launched with its first release Strictly Personal,
a truncated version of the original Beefheart vision of a double album. Thus "25th Century Quaker" became a track
and a potential band-name became a label.
In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper,
with a 'strictly personal' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content,
pornographic or illicit material; As per the small ads of the time; "It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper". Given
that Krasnow had effectively poached the band from Buddah there were limitations on what material could be
released. Strictly Personal was the result, contained in its enigmatically-addressed parcel sleeve. The raft of material
left behind eventually emerged, firstly on CD as I May Be Hungry, But I Sure Ain't Weird and later on vinyl,
implemented by John French, as It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper (which has two tracks that are missing
from the former release). Both Blue Thumb and the stamps on the cover of Strictly Personal have LSD connotations,
as does the track "Ah Feel Like Ahcid".
Trout Mask Replica, 1969

Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's magnum opus,[53] Trout Mask Replica was released as a 28 track double album in
June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label. First issues, in the USA, were auto-coupled and
housed in the black 'Straight' liners along with a 6-page lyric sheet illustrated by The Mascara Snake. A school-age
portrait of Van Vliet appears on the front of this sheet, while the cover of the gatefold enigmatically shows Beefheart
in a 'Quaker' hat, obscuring his face with the head of a fish. The fish is a carp - arguably a 'replica' for a trout,
photographed by Cal Schenkel. The inner spread 'infra-red' photography is by Ed Caraeff, whose Beefheart vacuum
cleaner images from this session also appear on Zappa's Hot Rats release (a month earlier) to accompany "Willie The
Pimp" lyrics sung by Vliet. Alex St. Clair had now left the band and, after Junior Madeo from The Blackouts was
considered,[54] the role was filled by Bill Harkleroad. Bassist Jerry Handley had also departed, with Gary Marker
stepping in. Thus the long rehearsals for the album began in the house on Ensenada Drive in Woodland Hills,
L.A.,[55][56] that would become the infamous 'Magic Band House'.
The Magic Band began recordings for Trout Mask Replica with bassist Gary 'Magic' Marker at T.T.G. (on
"Moonlight On Vermont" and "Veteran's Day Poppy"),[57] but later enlisted bassist Mark Boston after his departure.
The remainder of the album was recorded at Whitney Studios, with some field recordings made at the house.[55]
Boston was acquainted with French and Harkleroad via past bands. Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to
his band members, so Harkleroad became "Zoot Horn Rollo", and Boston became "Rockette Morton", while John
French assumed the name "Drumbo", and Jeff Cotton became "Antennae Jimmy Semens". Van Vliet's cousin Victor
Hayden, "The Mascara Snake", performed as a bass clarinetist later in the proceedings.[58] Vliet's girlfriend Laurie
Stone, who can be heard laughing at the beginning of "Fallin' Ditch", would also became an audio typist[59] at the
Magic Band house.
Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the Trout Mask Replica album. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult
compositions for eight months, living communally in their small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los
Angeles. With only two bedrooms the band members would find sleep in various corners of one, while Vliet
occupied the other and rehearsals were accomplished in the main living area. Van Vliet implemented his vision by
completely dominating his musicians, artistically and emotionally. At various times one or another of the group
members was "put in the barrel," with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician
collapsed in tears or in total submission.[60] Drummer John French described the situation as "cultlike"[61] and a
visiting friend said "the environment in that house was positively Mansonesque."[4] Their material circumstances
were dire. With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, the group barely survived and were
even arrested for shoplifting food (Zappa bailed them out). French has recalled living on no more than a small cup of
beans a day for a month.[26] A visitor described their appearance as "cadaverous" and said that "they all looked in
poor health." Band members were restricted from leaving the house and practiced for 14 or more hours a day.
Physical assaults were encouraged at times, along with verbal degradation. Beefheart spoke of studying texts on
brainwashing at a public library at about this time, and appeared to be applying brainwashing techniques to his
bandmembers: sleep deprivation, food deprivation, constant negative reinforcement, and rewarding bandmembers
when they attacked each other or competed with each other. At one point Cotton ran from the house and escaped for
a few weeks, during which time Alex Snouffer filled in for him and helped to work up "Ant Man Bee". French, who
had thrown a metal cymbal at Cotton, ran after him yelling that he too wanted to come. Cotton later returned to the
house with French's mother, who took him away for a few weeks, but he later felt compelled to return, as did Cotton.
Mark Boston at one point hid clothes in a field across the street, planning his own getaway.
John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the "talks" which were initiated by his
actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part ("The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)") in his drumming
shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted. French writes of being punched by band
members, thrown into walls, kicked, punched in the face by Beefheart hard enough to draw blood, being attacked
with a sharp broomstick,[62] and eventually of Beefheart threatening to throw him out of an upper floor window. He
admits complicity in similarly attacking his bandmates during "talks" aimed at them. In the end, after the album's
recording, French was ejected from the band by Beefheart throwing him down a set of stairs with violence, telling
him to "Take a walk, man" after not responding in a desired manner to a request to "play a strawberry" on the drums.
Beefheart replaced French with drummer Jeff Bruschel, an acquaintance of Hayden. Referred to as 'Fake Drumbo'
(playing on French's drumset) this final act resulted in French's name not appearing on the album credits, either as a
player or arranger. Bruschel toured with the band to Europe but was replaced by the next recording.
According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an
instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's "maverick
irreverence toward classical tradition",[63] though band members have stated that the songs were written over the
course of about a year, beginning around December 1967. (The band did watch Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½
during the creation of the album). It took the band about eight months to mold the songs into shape, with French
bearing primary responsibility for transposing and shaping Vliet's piano fragments into guitar and bass lines, which
were mostly notated on paper.[64] Harkleroad in 1998 said in retrospect: "We're dealing with a strange person,
coming from a place of being a sculptor/painter, using music as his idiom. He was getting more into that part of who
he was instead of this blues singer."[63] The band had rehearsed the songs so thoroughly that the instrumental tracks
for 21 of the songs were recorded in a single four and a half hour recording session.[64] Van Vliet spent the next few
days overdubbing the vocals. The album's cover artwork was photographed and designed by Cal Schenkel and shows
Van Vliet wearing the raw head of a carp, bought from a local fish market and fashioned into a mask by
Schenkel.[65]
Trout Mask Replica incorporated a wide variety of musical styles, including blues, avant garde/experimental, and
rock. The relentless practice prior to recording blended the music into an iconoclastic whole of contrapuntal tempos,
featuring slide guitar, polyrhythmic drumming (with French's drums and cymbals covered in cardboard), honking
saxophone and bass clarinet. Van Vliet's vocals range from his signature Howlin' Wolf inspired growl to frenzied
falsetto to laconic, casual ramblings.
The instrumental backing was effectively recorded live in the studio, while Van Vliet overdubbed most of the vocals
in only partial synch with the music by hearing the slight sound leakage through the studio window.[66] Zappa said of
Van Vliet's approach, "[it was] impossible to tell him why things should be such and such a way. It seemed to me
that if he was going to create a unique object, that the best thing for me to do was to keep my mouth shut as much as
possible and just let him do whatever he wanted to do whether I thought it was wrong or not."[26]
Van Vliet used the ensuing publicity, particularly with a 1970 Rolling Stone interview with Langdon Winner, to
promulgate a number of myths which were subsequently quoted as fact. Winner's article stated, for instance, that
neither Van Vliet nor the members of the Magic Band ever took drugs, but Harkleroad later contradicted this. Van
Vliet claimed to have taught both Harkleroad and Boston to play their instruments from scratch; in fact the pair were
already accomplished young musicians before joining the band.[66] Last, Van Vliet claimed to have gone a year and
half without sleeping. When asked how this was possible, he claimed to have only eaten fruit.[14]
Critic Steve Huey of Allmusic writes that the album's influence "was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as
a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a
rock context laid the groundwork for countless experiments in rock surrealism to follow, especially during the punk
and New Wave era."[67] In 2003, the album was ranked fifty-eighth by Rolling Stone in their list of The 500 Greatest
Albums of All Time: "On first listen, Trout Mask Replica sounds like raw Delta blues", with Beefheart "singing and
ranting and reciting poetry over fractured guitar licks. But the seeming sonic chaos is an illusion—to construct the
songs, the Magic Band rehearsed twelve hours a day for months on end in a house with the windows blacked out.
(Producer Frank Zappa was then able to record most of the album in less than five hours.) Tracks such as "Ella
Guru" and "My Human Gets Me Blues" are the direct predecessors of modern musical primitives such as Tom Waits
and PJ Harvey".[7] Guitarist Fred Frith noted that during this process "forces that usually emerge in improvisation are
harnessed and made constant, repeatable."[68]
Critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B+, saying that "I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is
just too weird. But I'd like to. Very great played at high volume when you're feeling shitty, because you'll never feel
as shitty as this record".[69] BBC disc jockey John Peel said of the album: "If there has been anything in the history
of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of
art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work."[70] It was inducted into the United States
National Recording Registry in 2011.
Later recordings, 1970–1982
Lick My Decals Off, Baby

Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970) continued in a similarly experimental vein. An album with "a very coherent
structure" in the Magic Band's "most experimental and visionary stage",[71] it was Van Vliet's most commercially
successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number 20. An
early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial was also filmed that
included excerpts from "Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils
as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in
the middle of a road. The video was rarely played but was accepted into the Museum of Modern Art, where it has
been used in several programs related to music.[72][73]
On this LP Art Tripp III, formerly of the Mothers of Invention, played drums and marimba. Lick My Decals Off,
Baby was the first record on which the band was credited as "The Magic Band", rather than "His Magic Band";
journalist Irwin Chusid interprets this change as "a grudging concession of its members' at least semiautonomous
humanity."[66] Robert Christgau gave the album an A-, commenting that "Beefheart's famous five-octave range and
covert totalitarian structures have taken on a playful undertone, repulsive and engrossing and slapstick funny".[69]
Due to licensing disputes, Lick My Decals Off, Baby was unavailable on CD for many years, though it remained in
print on vinyl. It was ranked second in Uncut magazine's May 2010 list of "The 50 Greatest Lost Albums".[74] In
2011, the album became available for download on the iTunes Store.[75]
The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot
The next two records, The Spotlight Kid (simply credited to

"Captain Beefheart") and Clear Spot (credited to "Captain
Beefheart and the Magic Band"), were both released in 1972.
The atmosphere of The Spotlight Kid is "definitely relaxed and
fun, maybe one step up from a jam." And though "things do
sound maybe just a little too blasé," "Beefheart at his worst
still has something more than most groups at their best."[76]
The music is simpler and slower than on the group's two
previous releases, the uncompromisingly original Trout Mask
Beefheart performing in 1974. Replica and the frenetic Lick My Decals Off, Baby. This was
in part an attempt by Van Vliet to become a more appealing
commercial proposition as the band had made virtually no money during the previous two years—at the time of
recording, the band members were subsisting on welfare food handouts and remittances from their parents.[77] Van
Vliet offered that he "got tired of scaring people with what I was doing... I realized that I had to give them something
to hang their hat on, so I started working more of a beat into the music."[78] Magic Band members have also said that
the slower performances were due in part to Van Vliet's inability to fit his lyrics with the instrumental backing of the
faster material on the earlier albums, a problem that was exacerbated in that he almost never rehearsed with the
group.[78] In the period leading up to the recording the band lived communally, first at a compound near Ben
Lomond, California and then in northern California near Trinidad.[79] The situation saw a return to the physical
violence and psychological manipulation that had taken place during the band's previous communal residence while
composing and rehearsing Trout Mask Replica. According to John French, the worst of this was directed toward
Harkleroad.[80] In his autobiography Harkleroad recalls being thrown into a dumpster, an act he interpreted as having
metaphorical intent.[81]
Clear Spot's production credit of Ted Templeman made Allmusic consider "why in the world [it] wasn't more of a
commercial success than it was," and that while fans "of the fully all-out side of Beefheart might find the end result
not fully up to snuff as a result, but those less concerned with pushing back all borders all the time will enjoy his
unexpected blend of everything tempered with a new accessibility." The song "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" is noted
as "a fantastically strange piece of aggression."[82] A Clear Spot song, "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles",
appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers' cult comedy film The Big Lebowski (1998).
Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams

In 1974, immediately after the recording of Unconditionally Guaranteed, which markedly continued the trend
towards a more commercial sound heard on some of the Clear Spot tracks, the Magic Band's original members
departed. Disgruntled and past members worked together for a period, gigging at Blue Lake and putting together
their own ideas and demos, with John French earmarked as the vocalist. These concepts eventually coalesced around
the core of Art Tripp III, Harkleroad and Boston, with the formation of Mallard, helped by finance and UK recording
facilities from Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson.[83] Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the
group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a
house with French in Eureka at the time. At this time Vliet attempted to recruit both French and Harkleroad as
producers for his next album, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Andy Di Martino produced both of these Virgin label
albums.
Vliet was forced to quickly form a new Magic Band to complete support-tour dates, with musicians who had no
experience with his music and in fact had never heard it. Having no knowledge of the previous Magic Band style,
they simply improvised what they thought would go with each song, playing much slicker versions that have been
described as "bar band" versions of Beefheart songs. A review described this incarnation of the Magic Band as the
"Tragic Band", a term that has stuck over the years.[84] Mike Barnes said that the description of the new band
"grooving along pleasantly", was "an appropriately banal description of the music of a man who only a few years
ago composed with the expressed intent of shaking listeners out of their torpor".[85] The one album they recorded,
Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974) has, like its predecessor, a completely different, almost soft rock sound from any
other Beefheart record. Neither was well received; drummer Art Tripp recalled that when he and the original Magic
Band listened to Unconditionally Guaranteed, they "were horrified. As we listened, it was as though each song was
worse than the one which preceded it."[86] Beefheart later disowned both albums, calling them "horrible and vulgar",
asking that they not be considered part of his musical output and urging fans who bought them to "take copies back
for a refund".[87]
Bongo Fury to Bat Chain Puller

By the fall of 1975 the band completed their European tour, with further U.S. dates completed into the New Year of
1976, supporting Zappa along with Dr. John. Van Vliet now found himself stuck in a web of contractual hang-ups.
At this point Zappa had begun to extend a helping hand, with Vliet already having performed incognito as Rollin'
Red on Zappa's One Size Fits All (1975) and then joining with him on the Bongo Fury album and its later support
tour. Two Vliet-penned numbers on the Bongo Fury album are Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top and Man With
The Woman Head. The form, texture and imagery of this album's first track Debra Kadabra, sung by Vliet, has
'angular similarities' to the work he would later produce in his next three albums. On the Bongo Fury album Vliet
also sings "Poofter's Froth, Wyoming Plans Ahead", harmonizes on "200 Years Old" and "Muffin Man" and plays
harmonica and soprano saxophone.
In early 1976 Zappa put on his producer hat and, once again, opened up his studio facilities and finance to Vliet. This
was for the production of an album provisionally titled Bat Chain Puller. The band were John French (drums), John
Thomas (keyboards) and Jeff Moris Tepper and Denny Walley (guitars). Much of the work on this album had been
finalized and some demos had been circulated when fate once again struck the Beefheart camp. In May 1976 the
long association between Zappa and his manager/business partner Herb Cohen ceased. This resulted in Zappa's
finances and ongoing works becoming part of protracted legal negotiations. The Bat Chain Puller project went 'on
ice' and did not see an official release until 2011, when it was announced that the Zappa Family Trust would release
the album.[88][89] After this recording John Thomas joined ex-Magic Band members in Mallard.
Prior to his next album Beefheart appeared in 1977 on the Tubes' album Now, playing saxophone on the song
"Cathy's Clone",[90] and the album also featured a cover of the Clear Spot song "My Head Is My Only House Unless
It Rains". In 1978 he appeared on Jack Nitzsche's soundtrack to the film Blue Collar.[34]
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

Having extricated himself from a mire of contractual difficulties Beefheart emerged with this new album, in 1978, on
the Warner Bros label. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) contained re-workings of the shelved Bat Chain Puller album
and still retained this works' original guitarist, Jeff Moris Tepper. However, he and Vliet were now joined by a whole
new line-up of Richard Redus (guitar, bass and accordion), Eric Drew Feldman (bass, piano and synthesizer), Bruce
Lambourne Fowler (trombone and air bass), Art Tripp (percussion and marimba) and Robert Arthur Williams
(drums). Thus, the album was suffixed Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) and took on new musical directions. It was
co-produced by Vliet with Pete Johnson. Members of this Magic Band and the 'Bat Chain' elements would later
feature on Beefheart's last two albums. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) was described by Ned Raggett of Allmusic to
be "...manna from heaven for those feeling Beefheart had lost his way on his two Mercury albums".[91] Following
Vliet's death, John French claimed the 40-second spoken word track "Apes-Ma" to be an analogy of Van Vliet's
deteriorating physical condition.[92] The album's sleeve features Van Vliet's 1976 painting Green Tom, one of the
many works that would mark out his longed-for career as a painter of note.
Doc At The Radar Station

Doc at the Radar Station (1980) helped establish Beefheart's late resurgence. Released by Virgin Records during the
post-punk scene, the music was now accessible to a younger, more receptive audience. He was interviewed in a
feature report on KABC-TV's Channel 7 Eyewitness News in which he was hailed as "the father of the New Wave.
One of the most important American composers of the last fifty years, [and] a primitive genius"; Van Vliet said at
this period, "I'm doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state... and I think there is one right now."[93]
Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being "generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his
comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica", "even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once
was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present".[94] Van
Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes speaks of "revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have
mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new
material."[4] During this period, Van Vliet made two appearances on David Letterman's late night television program
on NBC, and also performed on Saturday Night Live.
Richard Redus and Art Tripp departed on this album, with slide guitar and marimba duties taken up by the
reappearance of John French. The guitar skills of Gary Lucas also feature on the track "Flavor Bud Living".
Ice Cream for Crow

The final Beefheart record, Ice Cream for Crow (1982), was recorded with Gary Lucas (who was also Van Vliet's
manager), Jeff Moris Tepper, Richard Snyder and Cliff Martinez. This line-up made a video to promote the title
track, directed by Van Vliet and Ken Schreiber, with cinematography by Daniel Pearl, which was rejected by MTV
for being "too weird." However, the video was included in the Letterman broadcast on NBC-TV, and was also
accepted into the Museum of Modern Art.[72][73] Van Vliet announced "I don't want MTV!" during his interview
with Letterman, in reference to MTV's "I want my MTV" marketing campaign of the time.[95] Ice Cream for Crow,
along with songs such as its title track, features instrumental performances by the Magic Band with performance
poetry readings by Van Vliet. Raggett of Allmusic called the album a "last entertaining blast of wigginess from one
of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact"; with
the Magic Band "turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain
Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results".[96] Barnes writes that "the most original and
vital tracks (on the album) are the newer ones", saying that it "feels like an hors-d'oeuvre for a main course that never
came".[4] Promotional work proposed to Beefheart by Virgin Records was as unorthodox as him making an
appearance in the 1987 film Grizzly II: The Predator.[97] Soon after, Van Vliet retired from music and began a new
career as a painter. Gary Lucas tried to convince him to record one more album, but to no avail.
Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh

Released in 2004 by Rhino Handmade in a limited edition of 1,500 copies,[18] this prestigious signed and numbered
box set contains a "Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh" CD of Vliet-recited poetry, the Anton Corbijn film
of Vliet Some YoYo Stuff on DVD and two art books. One book, entitled Splinters, gives a visual 'scrapbook' insight
into Vliet's life, from an early age to his painting in retirement. The second, eponymously titled, book is packed with
art pages of Vliet's work. The first is bound in green linen, the second in yellow. These colors are counterpointed
throughout the package, which comes in a green slipcase measuring 235 × 325 × 70 mm. An onion-skin wallet,
nestling at the package's inner sanctum, contains a matching-numbered Vliet lithograph on hand-rolled paper, signed
by the artist. The two books are by publishers "Artist Ink Editions".
Paintings
Throughout his musical career, Van Vliet remained interested in visual art. He placed his paintings, often
reminiscent of Franz Kline's, on several of his albums.[22] In 1987, Van Vliet published Skeleton Breath, Scorpion
Blush, a collection of his poetry, paintings and drawings.[98]
In the mid 1980s, Van Vliet became reclusive and abandoned music, stating he had gotten "too good at the horn"[99]
and could make far more money painting.[100] Beefheart's first exhibition had been at Liverpool's Bluecoat Gallery
during the Magic Band's 1972 tour of the UK. He was interviewed on Granada regional television standing in front
of his bold black and white canvases.[26] He was inspired to begin an art career when a fan, Julian Schnabel, who
admired the artwork seen on his album covers, asked to buy a drawing from him.[12] His debut exhibition as a
serious painter was at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1985 and was initially regarded as that of "another
rock musician dabbling in art for ego's sake",[15] though his primitive, non-conformist work has received more
sympathetic and serious attention since then, with some sales approaching $25,000.[12] Two books have been
published specifically devoted to critique and analysis of his artwork: Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On
The Arts Of Don Van Vliet (1999) by W.C. Bamberger[101] and Stand Up To Be Discontinued,[102] first published in
1993, a now rare collection of essays on Van Vliet's work. The limited edition version of the book contains a CD of
Van Vliet reading six of his poems: "Fallin' Ditch", "The Tired Plain", "Skeleton Makes Good", "Safe Sex Drill",
"Tulip" and "Gill". A deluxe edition was published in 1994; only 60 were printed, with etchings of Van Vliet's
signature, costing £180.[103]
In the early 1980s Van Vliet established an association with the Michael Werner Gallery.[104] Eric Feldman stated
later in an interview that at that time Michael Werner told Van Vliet he needed to stop playing music if he wanted to
be respected as a painter, warning him that otherwise he would only be considered a "musician who paints".[26] In
doing so, it was said that he had effectively "succeeded in leaving his past behind."[12] Gordon Veneklasen, one of
the gallery's directors in 1995 described Van Vliet as an "incredible painter" whose work "doesn't really look like
anybody else's work but his own."[15] Van Vliet has been described as a modernist, a primitivist, an abstract
expressionist, and an outsider artist.[12] Morgan Falconer of Artforum concurs, mentioning both a "neo-primitivist
aesthetic" and further stating that his work is influenced by the CoBrA painters.[105] The resemblance to the CoBrA
painters is also recognized by art critic Roberto Ohrt,[22] while others have compared his paintings to the work of
Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Antonin Artaud,[12] Francis Bacon,[8][22] Vincent van Gogh and Mark Rothko.[106]
According to Dr. John Lane, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 1997, although Van Vliet's
work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist
and his painting "has that same kind of edge the music has." Lane explained that in contrast to the busied, bohemian
urban lives of the New York abstract expressionists, the rural desert environment Van Vliet was influenced by is a
distinctly naturalistic one, making him a distinguished figure in contemporary art, whose work will survive in
canon.[26] Van Vliet stated of his own work, "I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. I'm trying to
completely bare what I think at that moment"[107] and that "I paint for the simple reason that I have to. I feel a sense
of relief after I do".[106] When asked about his artistic influences he stated that there were none. "I just paint like I
paint and that's enough influence."[15] He did however state his admiration of Georg Baselitz,[12] the De Stijl artist
Piet Mondrian, and Vincent van Gogh; after seeing van Gogh's paintings in person, Van Vliet quoted himself as
saying that "the sun disappoints me so".[108]
Exhibits of his paintings from the late 1990s at both the Anton Kern and Michael Werner Galleries of New York
City received favorable reviews, the most recent of which were held between 2009 and 2010.[109] Falconer stated
that the most recent exhibitions showed "evidence of a serious, committed artist." It was claimed that he stopped
painting in the late 1990s.[105] A 2007 interview with Van Vliet through email by Anthony Haden-Guest, however,
showed him to still be active artistically. He exhibited only few of his paintings because he immediately destroyed
any that did not satisfy him.[99]
Life in retirement
After his retirement from music, Van Vliet rarely appeared in public. He resided near Trinidad, California, with his
wife Janet "Jan" Van Vliet.[99] By the early 1990s he was using a wheelchair as a result of multiple
sclerosis.[4][110][111][112] The severity of his illness was sometimes disputed. Many of his art contractors and friends
considered him to be in good health.[111] Other associates such as his longtime drummer and musical director John
French and bassist Richard Snyder have stated that they had noticed symptoms consistent with the onset of multiple
sclerosis, such as sensitivity to heat, loss of balance, and stiffness of gait, by the late 1970s.
One of Van Vliet's last public appearances was in the 1993 short documentary Some Yo Yo Stuff by filmmaker Anton
Corbijn, described as an "observation of his observations". Around 13 minutes and shot entirely in black and white,
with appearances by his mother and David Lynch, the film showed a noticeably weakened and dysarthric Van Vliet
at his residence in California, reading poetry, and philosophically discussing his life, environment, music and art.[108]
In 2000, he appeared on Gary Lucas' album Improve the Shining Hour and Moris Tepper's Moth to Mouth, and spoke
on Tepper's 2004 song "Ricochet Man" from the album Head Off. He is credited for naming Tepper's 2010 album A
Singer Named Shotgun Throat.[113]
Van Vliet often voiced concern over and support for environmentalist issues and causes, particularly the welfare of
animals. He often referred to Earth as "God's Golfball" and this expression can be found on a number of his later
albums. In 2003 he was heard on the compilation album Where We Live: Stand for What You Stand On: A Benefit
CD for EarthJustice singing a version of "Happy Birthday to You" retitled "Happy Earthday". The track lasts 34
seconds and was recorded over the telephone.[114]
Death
The Michael Werner Gallery announced on Friday, December 17, 2010, that Van Vliet had died at a hospital in
Arcata, California,[1] weeks short of his 70th birthday. The gallery stated him to be "a complex and influential figure
in the visual and performing arts," and "one of the most original recording artists of his time". The cause was named
as complications from multiple sclerosis.[115] Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan commented on his death, praising
him: "Wondrous, secret... and profound, he was a diviner of the highest order."[116]
Dweezil Zappa dedicated the song "Willie the Pimp" to Beefheart at the "Zappa Plays Zappa" show at the Beacon
Theater in New York City on the day of his death, while Jeff Bridges exclaimed "Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!"
at the conclusion of the December 18 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.[117]
Relationship with Frank Zappa

Van Vliet met Frank Zappa when they were both teenagers and shared
an interest in rhythm and blues and Chicago blues.[28] They
collaborated from this early stage, with Zappa's scripts for 'teenage
operettas' such as "Captain Beefheart & The Grunt People" helping to
elevate the Van Vliet persona of Captain Beefheart.[118] In 1963, the
pair recorded a demo at the Pal Recording Studio in Cucamonga as the
Soots, seeking support from a major label. Their efforts were
unsuccessful, as "Beefheart's Howlin' Wolf vocal style and Zappa's
distorted guitar" were "not on the agenda" at the time.[28]
The friendship between Zappa and Van Vliet over the years was
sometimes expressed in the form of rivalry as musicians drifted back
and forth between their groups.[119] Van Vliet embarked on the 1975
Bongo Fury tour with Zappa and The Mothers,[120] mainly because
conflicting contractual obligations made him unable to tour or record
independently. Their relationship grew acrimonious on the tour to the
point that they refused to talk to one another. Zappa became irritated
Van Vliet seated left on stage with Zappa in by Van Vliet, who drew constantly, including while on stage, filling
1975. one of his large sketch books with rapidly executed portraits and
warped caricatures of Zappa. Musically, Van Vliet's primitive style
contrasted sharply with Zappa's compositional discipline and abundant technique. Mothers of Invention drummer
Jimmy Carl Black described the situation as "two geniuses" on "ego trips".[26] Estranged for years afterwards, they
reconnected at the end of Zappa's life, after his diagnosis with terminal prostate cancer.[121] Their collaborative work
appears on the Zappa rarity collections The Lost Episodes (1996) and Mystery Disc (1996). Particularly notable is
their song "Muffin Man", included on the Zappa/Beefheart Bongo Fury album, as well as Zappa's compilation album
Strictly Commercial (1995). Zappa finished concerts with the song for many years afterwards. Beefheart also
provided vocals for "Willie the Pimp" on Zappa's otherwise instrumental album Hot Rats (1969). One track on Trout
Mask Replica, "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to
Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention (the backing track was later
released in 1992 as "Charles Ives" on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 ).[122] Van Vliet also played the
harmonica on two songs on Zappa albums: "San Ber'dino" (credited as "Bloodshot Rollin' Red") on One Size Fits All
(1975) and "Find Her Finer" on Zoot Allures (1976).[123] He is also the vocalist on "The Torture Never Stops
(Original Version)" on Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4.
The Magic Band

The members of the original Magic Band had come together in 1965. At this time Van Vliet was simply the lead
singer of the group, which had been brought together by guitarist Alex St. Clair. As in many emerging groups in
California at the time, there were elements of psychedelia and the foundations of contemporary hippie
counterculture.
Thus, it seemed quite logical to promote the group as "Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band", around the concept
that Captain Beefheart had 'magic powers' and, upon drinking a 'Pepsi', could summon up "His Magic Band" to
appear and perform behind him.[124] The strands of this logic emanating from Vliet's Beefheart persona having been
'written in' as a character in a 'teenage operetta' that Zappa had formulated,[31] along with Van Vliet's renowned
'Pepsi-moods' with his mother Willie Sue and his generally spoilt teenage demeanor.
Beginning
In late 1965, after numerous car-club dances, juke joint gigs, appearances at the Avalon Ballroom and winning the
Teenage Fair 'Battle of the Bands', the group finally bagged a contract for recording two singles with the
newly-created A&M Records label with Leonard Grant as their manager. It was at this time that musical
relationships had also been struck with members of Rising Sons who would later feature in the band's recordings.
The A&M deal also brought some contention between members of the band, torn between a career as an
experimental 'pop' group and that of a purist blues band. Working with young producer David Gates also opened up
horizons for Vliet's skills as a poet-cum-lyricist, with his "Who Do You Think You're Fooling" on the flipside of the
band's first single, a cover of the Ellas McDaniel/Willie Dixon-penned hit, "Diddy Wah Diddy". Fate and
circumstance, not for the first time, would befall the band's success upon its release - which coincided with a singles
cover of the same song by The Remains.[125] The initial line-up of the Magic Band that entered the studio for the
A&M recordings was not that which emerged by the second release, "Moonchild", also backed by a Vliet-penned
number, "Frying Pan". A 12" vinyl 45rpm mono EP was later released in 1987, with the four tracks of the two
singles, plus "Here I Am, I Always Am" as a fifth previously unreleased song. This release was titled The Legendary
A&M Sessions, with a red-marbled cover and (later) members Moon, Blakely, Vliet, Snouffer and Handley seated in
a 'temperance dance band' photo-pose.
The original Magic Band was primarily a rhythm and blues band, led by local Lancaster guitarist Alexis Snouffer,
along with Doug Moon (guitar), Jerry Handley (bass), and Vic Mortenson (drums), the last being rotated with and
finally replaced by Paul Blakely, known as 'P.G. Blakely'. For the first A&M recording Mortenson had been called
up for active service and Snouffer stood in on drums, with a recently recruited Richard Hepner taking up the guitar
role. By the time the single was aired on a pop television show P.G. Blakely was back in the drum seat. He then left
for a career in television and was replaced by John French by the time the band cut their first album, as the first
release on the new Buddah Records label.
Personnel in the Magic Band for Beefheart's first album, Safe as Milk, were Alex St. Clair, Jerry Handley and John
French. Earlier meetings with the Rising Sons had also secured them the guitar and arranging skills of Ry Cooder,
which also brought about input from Taj Mahal on percussion and guitar work from Cooder's brother-in-law Russ
Titelman. Further guests to this line-up included Milt Holland on percussion and the all-important and controversial
theremin work on Electricity by Dr Samuel Hoffman. It was perhaps this track, above the others, which caused
A&M to view the band as 'unsuitable' for their label with what was seen as weird and too psychedelic for popular
consumption. Thus, this album was recorded for Buddah, with the band signed to Kama Sutra, which left them close
to penniless after extricating themselves from A&M. A large proportion of the tracks on this album were co-written
with Van Vliet by Herb Bermann, whom Vliet initially met up with at a bar gig near Lancaster. Part-time Hollywood
television actor and budding scriptwriter Bermann and his then wife Cathleen spent some time in Vliet's company
prior to this release.[38] Bermann would later write for Neil Young and script an early Spielberg-directed television
medical drama. Gary 'Magic' Marker (the "Magic" added by Beefheart) was involved in early session work for this
release, and his involvement with Rising Sons was also instrumental in acquiring the skills of Cooder, upon an
unfulfilled suggestion that Marker might produce the album.[126] Marker would later lay down two uncredited bass
tracks for Trout Mask Replica before being replaced by Mark Boston.
French worked on five more Beefheart albums, while Snouffer worked with Beefheart on and off on three more
albums. Bill Harkleroad joined the Magic Band as guitarist for Trout Mask Replica and stayed with Beefheart
through May 1974.
Beefheart takes the lead

While appearing humorous and kind-hearted in public, by all accounts Van Vliet was a severe taskmaster who
abused his musicians verbally and sometimes physically. Vliet once told drummer John French he had been
diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and thus he would see inexistent conspiracies that explained this
behaviour.[127] The band were reportedly paid little or nothing. French recalled that the musicians' contract with Van
Vliet's company stipulated that Van Vliet and the managers were paid from gross proceeds before expenses, then
expenses were paid, then the band members evenly split any remaining funds—in effect making band members
liable for all expenses. As a result French was paid nothing at all for a 33-city U.S. tour in 1971 and a total of $78 for
a tour of Europe and the U.S. in late 1975. In his 2010 memoir Beefheart: Through The Eyes of Magic French
recounted being "screamed at, beaten up, drugged, ridiculed, humiliated, arrested, starved, stolen from, and thrown
down a half-flight of stairs by his employer".[128]
The musicians also resented Van Vliet for taking complete credit for composition and arranging when the musicians
themselves pieced together most of the songs from taped fragments or impressionistic directions such as "Play it like
a bat being dragged out of oil and it's trying to survive, but it's dying from asphyxiation."[129] John French
summarized the disagreement over composing and arranging credits metaphorically:[130]
If Van Vliet built a house like he wrote music, the methodology would go something like this... The house is
sketched on the back of a Denny's placemat in such an odd fashion that when he presents it to the contractor
without plans or research, the contractor says "This structure is going to be hard to build, it's going to be tough
to make it safe and stable because it is so unique in design." Van Vliet then yells at the contractor and
intimidates him into doing the job anyway. The contractor builds the home, figuring out all the intricacies
involved in structural integrity himself because whenever he approaches Van Vliet, he finds that he seems
completely unable to comprehend technical problems and just yells, "Quit asking me about this stuff and build
the damned house."... When the house is finished no one gets paid, and Van Vliet has a housewarming party,
invites none of the builders and tells the guests he built the whole thing himself.
Post-Beefheart, receiving only a "grumpy" reception from him,[128] the band reformed in 2003 with John French on
lead vocals, Gary Lucas and Denny Walley on guitars, Rockette Morton on bass, and Robert Williams on drums. At
the start of their only European tour, Williams left and was replaced by Michael Traylor. The band released two
albums and toured before disbanding in 2006.
They toured the UK in 2005, playing a selection of small venues. John Peel was initially skeptical about the
re-formed Magic Band. He played a live recording of the band recorded at the 2003 All Tomorrows Parties festival
on his radio show; afterwards he couldn't speak and had to put on another record to regain his composure. Later the
band did a live session for him.[131] The band's albums are Back to the Front (on the London-based ATP Recordings,
2003) and 21st Century Mirror Men (2005). They played over 30 shows throughout the United Kingdom and
Europe, and one in the United States.[132] They have been chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform
at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he will curate in March 2012 in Minehead, England.[133]
Influence
Van Vliet has been the subject of at least two documentaries, the BBC's 1997 The Artist Formerly Known As
Captain Beefheart narrated by John Peel, and the 2006 independent production Captain Beefheart: Under
Review.[134]
According to Peel, "If there has ever been such a thing as a genius in the history of popular music, it's Beefheart... I
heard echoes of his music in some of the records I listened to last week and I'll hear more echoes in records that I
listen to this week."[97] His narration added: "A psychedelic shaman who frequently bullied his musicians and
sometimes alarmed his fans, Don somehow remained one of rock's great innocents".[26] Mike Barnes referred to him
as an "iconic counterculture hero", who with the Magic Band "went on to stake out startling new possibilities for
rock music".[4] Lester Bangs cited Beefheart as "one of the four or five unqualified geniuses to rise from the
hothouses of American music in the Sixties",[135] while John Harris of The Guardian praised the music's "pulses
with energy and ideas, the strange way the spluttering instruments meld together".[9] A Rolling Stone biography
described his work as "a sort of modern chamber music for [a] rock band, since he plans every note and teaches the
band their parts by ear. Because it breaks so many of rock's conventions at once, Beefheart's music has always been
more influential than popular."[53] In this context, it is performed by the classical group, the Meridian Arts
Ensemble.[136] Piero Scaruffi characterized "three basic elements": "the ballad out of tune, with guitar interlaced
with jolting rhythm, vocal miasma and a rogue harmonica".[137] Scaruffi ranked Trout Mask Replica number one on
his list of the greatest rock albums of all time.[137] He says that "the distance between Captain Beefheart and the rest
of rock music is the same distance that there was between Beethoven and the symphonists of his time". Nicholas E.
Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They
Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s,[138]
while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying "deep distrust of modern civilization, a
yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings."[10]
Many artists have cited Van Vliet as an influence, beginning with the Edgar Broughton Band, who covered Dropout
Boogie as Apache Drop Out [139] (mixed with The Shadows' "Apache")[140] as early as 1970 and The Kills coverage
of it 32 years later. The Minutemen were fans of Beefheart, and were arguably among the few to effectively
synthesize his music with their own, especially in their early output, which featured disjointed guitar and irregular,
galloping rhythms. Michael Azerrad describes the Minutemen's early output as "highly caffeinated Captain Beefheart
running down James Brown tunes",[141] and notes that Beefheart was the group's "idol".[142] Others who arguably
conveyed the same influence around the same time or before include John Cale of The Velvet Underground,[143]
Little Feat,[144] Laurie Anderson,[145] The Residents and Henry Cow.[68] Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and
Psychic TV,[146] and poet mystic Z'EV,[147] both pioneers of industrial music, cited Van Vliet along with Zappa
among their influences. More notable were those emerging during the early days of punk rock, such as The
Clash[100] and John Lydon of the Sex Pistols (reportedly to manager Malcolm McLaren's disapproval), later of the
post-punk band Public Image Ltd.[148]
Cartoonist and writer Matt Groening tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking "that it
was the worst thing I'd ever heard. I said to myself, they're not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I
listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn't believe Frank Zappa could do this to me—and because a double
album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound
exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever
heard."[149] Groening first saw Beefheart and the Magic Band perform in the front row at the Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall in the early 1970s.[150] He later declared Trout Mask Replica to be the greatest album ever made. He
considered the appeal of the Magic Band as outcasts who were even "too weird for the hippies".[26] Groening served
as the curator of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that reunited the post–Beefheart Magic Band.[150]
Another devotee from the film industry is Woody Allen, who was found singing along to Beefheart's music in the
audience in New York.[151][152]
Van Vliet's influence on post–punk bands was demonstrated by Magazine's recording of "I Love You You Big
Dummy" in 1978 and the tribute album Fast 'n' Bulbous - A Tribute to Captain Beefheart in 1988, featuring the likes
of artists such as the Dog Faced Hermans, The Scientists, The Membranes, Simon Fisher Turner, That Petrol
Emotion, the Primevals, The Mock Turtles, XTC, and Sonic Youth, who included a cover of Beefheart's "Electricity"
as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album Daydream Nation. Other post-punk bands influenced by
Beefheart include Gang of Four,[9] Siouxsie and the Banshees,[153] Pere Ubu, Babe the Blue Ox and Mark E. Smith
of The Fall.[154] The Fall covered "Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones" in their 1993 session for John Peel. Beefheart is
considered to have "greatly influenced" New Wave artists,[10] such as David Byrne of Talking Heads, Blondie,
Devo, The Bongos, and The B-52s.[145]
Tom Waits' shift in artistic direction, starting with 1983's Swordfishtrombones, was, Waits claims, a result of his
wife Kathleen Brennan introducing him to Van Vliet's music.[155] "Once you've heard Beefheart," said Waits, "it's
hard to wash him out of your clothes. It stains, like coffee or blood."[156] Guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot
Chili Peppers cited Van Vliet as a prominent influence on the band's 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik as well as
his debut solo album Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and stated that during his drug-induced
absence, after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he "would paint and listen to Trout Mask Replica."[157] Black
Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first
writing songs for the band,[158] and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him
among his notoriously eclectic range.[39]
The White Stripes in 2000 released a 7" tribute single, Party of Special Things to Do, containing covers of that
Beefheart song plus "China Pig" and "Ashtray Heart". The Kills included a cover of "Dropout Boogie" on their debut
Black Rooster EP (2002). The Black Keys in 2008 released a free cover of Beefheart's "I'm Glad" from Safe as
Milk.[159] In 2005 Genus Records produced a 20-track tribute to Captain Beefheart titled Mama Kangaroos - Philly
Women Sing Captain Beefheart.[160] Beck included "Safe as Milk" and "Ella Guru" in a playlist of songs as part of
his website's Planned Obsolescence series of mashups of songs by the musicians that influenced him.[161] Franz
Ferdinand cited Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station as a strong influence on their second LP, You Could Have It
So Much Better.[9] Placebo briefly named themselves Ashtray Heart, after the track on Doc at the Radar Station; the
band's album Battle for the Sun contains a track called "Ashtray Heart". Joan Osborne covered Beefheart's "(His)
Eyes are a Blue Million Miles", which appears on Early Recordings. She cited Van Vliet as one of her
influences.[162] PJ Harvey and John Parish discussed Beefheart's influence in an interview together. Harvey's first
experience of Beefheart's music was as a child. Her parents had all of his albums; listening to them made her "feel
ill". Harvey was reintroduced to Beefheart's music by Parish, who lent her a cassette copy of Shiny Beast (Bat Chain
Puller) at the age of 16. She cited him as one of her greatest influences since. Parish described Beefheart's music as a
"combination of raw blues and abstract jazz. There was humour in there, but you could tell that it wasn't [intended
as] a joke. I felt that there was a depth to what he did that very few other rock artists have managed [to
achieve]."[163] Ty Segall covered "Drop Out Boogie" on his 2009 album, Lemons.
Discography
• Safe as Milk (1967) • Clear Spot (1972)

• Strictly Personal (1968) • Unconditionally Guaranteed (1974)
• Trout Mask Replica (1969) • Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974)
• Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970) • Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978)
• Mirror Man (1971) • Doc at the Radar Station (1980)
• The Spotlight Kid (1972) • Ice Cream for Crow (1982)
• Bat Chain Puller (2012)
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Further reading
• Barnes, Mike (2000). Captain Beefheart (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=axuUrjcnX5sC&pg=PA4&
dq=Agostinho+Rodrigues+captain+beefheart&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Agostinho Rodrigues captain beefheart&
f=false). London: Quartet Books. ISBN 1-84449-412-8. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
• Courtier, Kevin (2007). Trout Mask Replica. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-2781-2
• Delville, Michel & Norris, Andrew (2005). Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of
Maximalism. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. ISBN 1-84471-059-9.
• French, John (2010). Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic. ISBN 0-9561212-1-7.
• Harkleroad, Bill (1998). Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience. Interlink Publishing.
ISBN 0-946719-21-7.
• Miles, Barry (2004). Frank Zappa. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-091-6.
• Bamberger, W.C. (1999). Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet. ISBN
978-0-917453-35-9
• Beaugrand, Andreas and various (1994). Stand Up to Be Discontinued. (Paperback) ISBN 3-9801320-2-1.
• Van Vliet, Don (Captain Beefheart) (1987). Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush. (All poems in English, preface in
German and English). Bern-Berlin: Gachnang & Springer. ISBN 978-3-906127-15-6
• Azerrad, Michael (2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground,
1981–1991. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-78753-1.
• Zappa, Frank & Occhiogrosso, Peter; The Real Frank Zappa Book, Poseidon Press (1989), ISBN 0-671-63870-X
External links
• Beefheart.com – The Captain Beefheart Radar Station (http://www.beefheart.com/)
• Captain Beefheart at Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/captain-beefheart/biography)
• Captain Beefheart at Allmusic (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p55418)
• Captain Beefheart (http://www.guardian.co.uk/people/c/captain_beefheart) collected news and commentary
at The Guardian
• Some Yo Yo Stuff by Anton Corbijn (http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/film/corbijn.html)
The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book
Author(s) Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso
Cover artist A. West (concept), Jackie Seow-Pracher (design), Greg Gorman (photography)
Language English
Genre(s) Autobiography, memoir, essays
Publisher Simon & Schuster

Touchstone Books
Publication date 1989
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 352 pp
ISBN 0-671-70572-5
OCLC Number [1]

43484351
The Real Frank Zappa Book is an autobiography/memoir by Frank Zappa, co-written by Peter Occhiogrosso. The
text is copyright 1989 Frank Zappa, and copyright 1990 Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Since 1999, the book has been
published in paperback by Touchstone Books.
Contents
The Book has 19 chapters of varying lengths:
• INTRODUCTION Book? What book?

2. How Weird Am I, Anyway?
3. There Goes the Neighborhood
4. An Alternative to College
5. Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
6. The Log Cabin
7. Send In the Clowns
8. Drool, Britannia
9. All About Music
10. A Chapter for My Dad
11. The One You've Been Waiting For
12. Sticks & Stones
13. America Drinks and Goes Marching
14. All About Schmucks
15. Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
16. "Porn Wars"
17. Church and State
18. Practical Conservatism
19. Failure
20. The Last Word
Reviews
Vanity Fair wrote of the book, "An autobiography of mostly hilarious stories...fireside war tales from the big bad
days of the rockin' sixties...primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few
myths about the man."[2]
The New York Post said, "This book belongs in every home".[3]
References
[1] http:/ / worldcat. org/ oclc/ 43484351
[2] Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book (First Touchstone Edition 1999 ed.). Touchstone. pp. front cover.
ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
[3] Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book (First Touchstone Edition 1999 ed.). Touchstone. pp. back cover.
ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
The Frank Zappa Guitar Book

The Frank Zappa Guitar Book is a book of musical transcriptions of some of Frank Zappa's guitar solos. The
Frank Zappa Guitar Book was distributed by The Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation in 1982, and is currently out
of print. The music was transcribed by Steve Vai. Vai has talked about some of his experiences while transcribing
this book: "Frank gave me these two cassettes filled with wild guitar playing, some of which was released on the
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar records, and some of which has never been released. And the more I transcribed, the
more he piled the stuff on. At the time, I was getting paid $10 a page, and it would take me three days to do one
page!"
Song list
• five-five-FIVE
• Hog Heaven
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
• While You Were Out
• Treacherous Cretins
• Heavy Duty Judy
• Soup 'n Old Clothes
• Variations on The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression
• Gee, I Like Your Pants
• The Deathless Horsie
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More
• Pink Napkins
• Stucco Homes
• Theme from the 3rd movement of Sinister Footwear
• Watermelon in Easter Hay
• Packard Goose
• Outside Now
• He Used To Cut The Grass
• Sheik Yerbouti Tango
• Rat Tomago
• Mo' Mama (unreleased song)
• Black Napkins
Zappa Plays Zappa

Zappa Plays Zappa
Zappa Plays Zappa, North Sea Jazz Festival, Ahoy, Rotterdam, 2008.
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres Rock, experimental, jazz-rock
Years active 2006–present
Labels Razor & Tie
Website [1]
www.Zappa.com/ZPZ
[2]
http:/ / DweezilZappaWorld. com
Members
Dweezil Zappa
Scheila Gonzalez
Billy Hulting
Jamie Kime
Ben Thomas
Joe Travers
Chris Norton
Past members
Aaron Arntz
Pete Griffin
Zappa Plays Zappa is an American tribute act led by Dweezil Zappa, the eldest son of the late American composer
and musician Frank Zappa, devoted to performing the music of Frank Zappa.
History
The band debuted in 2006 with shows in Europe, Canada and the United States during May and June (the tour was
also known as Zappa Plays Zappa: Tour de Frank'). The shows presented a collection of Frank Zappa's
rock-oriented compositions from 1960s to 1980s. Apart from Dweezil Zappa on lead guitar, the band has consisted
of a mix of relatively unknown young musicians and older musicians who previously played with Frank Zappa.
Among those, Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax, flute and vocals) was an integral part of the band, while drummer (and
singer) Terry Bozzio and electric guitarist Steve Vai performed as guests in parts of the shows. At several shows
Frank Zappa himself performed songs posthumously via synchronized audio/video technology, notedly portions of
"Chunga's Revenge", "Dumb All Over", "Cosmik Debris," and "Muffin Man."
After a break, the band played again in the US during the Fall of 2006, including a show in New York on October
31. This revived Frank Zappa's tradition of playing Halloween shows in New York. A DVD documenting the 2006
tour was released in early 2008.[3]

In July and August 2007, the band played a North American tour, with a core line up similar to that of the 2006
band. The band then played in Europe during September and October, before returning to the US, starting with
another Halloween show in New York. Special guest on the tour was vocalist and guitarist Ray White, a Zappa
stalwart performer in the 70s and early 80s.[4] They ended the 2007 tour in Australia in early December before doing
a handful of shows in Japan in January 2008. Steve Vai returned as a guest on those shows. A brief tour of U.S. and
Canadian dates was then scheduled for the Summer of 2008 with the same lineup as the 2007 tour.[5]
At the 51st Grammy Awards in February 2009, Zappa Plays Zappa won best rock instrumental performance for their
performance of the Frank Zappa instrumental classic, "Peaches en Regalia".[6]
Band member Aaron Arntz's final performance with ZPZ was in Santa Rosa, CA on March 7, 2009. Guest performer
Ray White unexpectedly left Zappa Plays Zappa April 1 of 2009.[7] In May 2009, it was announced that Ben Thomas
was to be the new lead singer for the American and European tours after a lengthy audition process.
The band was one of the support acts on Dream Theater's Progressive Nation 09, along with Bigelf and Scale the
Summit. Following a Fall 2009 tour in November, the 2010 tour began in January 2010. The band was renamed
"Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa" (DZPZ); the name change was announced in October 2009.
In May 2010, the band announced the addition of new keyboardist Chris Norton. Prior to joining Zappa Plays Zappa,
he toured with alternative rock act September Hase.[8]
On September 19, 2010, DZPZ played a free street concert in Baltimore, MD after the dedication of a bust of Frank
Zappa, and the proclamation by the mayor of Baltimore of Frank Zappa Day.
DZPZ continued touring in 2010, closing out the year with another US tour, in which they played the classic
Apostrophe (') release in its entirety and in order. The show also again featured audio/visually synchronized numbers
with Frank Zappa singing and playing extended solos.
DZPZ has announced a summer 2011 tour of the US, beginning on July 28 in Bearsville, NY and winding up with a
Seattle show on September 24. DZPZ will be teaming with jazz-fusion supergroup Return to Forever on this tour,
and the July 28 show is promised to feature Frank Zappa colleagues from the Mothers of Invention days, Flo and
Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, respectively). DZPZ also will conduct a tour of the United Kingdom in
late 2011, opening in North Yorkshire on November 17 and concluding in Brighton on December 1. The UK tour
has promised to reprise the "Apostrophe" US tour of late 2010. There have been no announced personnel lineup
changes for either of these tours.
Musicians
Group:
• Dweezil Zappa - guitar
• Scheila Gonzalez - saxophone, flute, keyboards and vocals
• Joe Travers - drums and vocals
• Ben Thomas - lead vocals, trumpet
• Chris Norton - keyboard, violin
• Kurt Morgan - bass
Former Members:
• Aaron Arntz - trumpet, keyboards, and vocals
• Pete Griffin - bass
• Billy Hulting - marimba, mallets and percussions
• Jamie Kime - guitar
Guests on most 2006 shows:
• Napoleon Murphy Brock - vocals, saxophone and flute

• Terry Bozzio - drums and vocals
• Steve Vai - guitar
Guest on 2007, 2008 and some 2009 shows:
• Ray White - vocals and guitar
Guests on some 2010 shows:
• George Duke - vocals and keyboard
• Jeff Simmons - bass and vocals
• Moon Zappa - vocals
Guests on some 2011 shows:
• Mark Volman - vocals
• Howard Kaylan - vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty - violin
• Chick Corea - keyboards
• Frank Gambale - guitar
Guest on 2012 shows:
References
[1] http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/
[2] http:/ / dweezilzappaworld. com/
[3] Zappa Plays Zappa > Videos (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/ videos. html), Zappa.com, , retrieved August 13, 2007
[4] Zappa Plays Zappa > The Players (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/ players. html), Zappa.com, , retrieved May 5, 2007
[5] Zappa Plays Zappa > Tour Dates (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/ tourdates. html), Zappa.com, , retrieved August 13, 2007
[6] The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Winners List (http:/ / www. grammy. com/ Grammy_awards/ 51st_show/ list. aspx#04), Grammy.com,
February 9, 2009, , retrieved February 9, 2009
[7] Zappa, Dweezil (April 1), Zappa Plays Zappa > ZPZ Blog (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/ tourlog/ index. php), Zappa.com, , retrieved
August 08, 2009
[8] Zappa, Dweezil (May 6), New Keyboardist Revealed! > ZPZ Blog (http:/ / dweezilzappaworld. com/ posts/ 306-new-keyboardist-revealed),
Zappa.com, , retrieved May 17, 2010
External links
• Official website (http://www.zappaplayszappa.com/)
• Hidden Track - Review: Zappa Plays Zappa @ The Lincoln Theater (http://www.glidemagazine.com/
hiddentrack/review-zappa-plays-zapppa-the-lincoln/)
List of performers on Frank Zappa records

This is a list of musicians who have performed on officially released Frank Zappa recordings. Note that this list
does not include musicians who have performed as guests musicians on Frank Zappa concerts unless they appear on
official live recordings. Additionally, this list does not include musicians who have only appeared on bootleg
recordings.
A
Name Year(s) Appeared on Instrument
Murray 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Violin

Adler
Phyllis 1987 Uncle Meat Voice

Altenhaus
Mike 1972, 1978–1981, 1996, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Woodwinds
Altschul 2004, 2007, 2008 Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
Jay Anderson 1983–1985 The Man from Utopia, Thing-Fish, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1985 Remix) Bass
Peter Arcaro 1962, 1996 The Lost Episodes Trumpet,

Conductor
Harold Ayres 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin
B
John Balkin 1967–1970 Absolutely Free, Lumpy Gravy, Burnt Weeny Sandwich Bass
Spider 1968, 1985, 1994 We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Voice
Barbour Prevention, Civilization, Phaze III
Philip Barnett 1962, 1996 The Lost Episodes Oboe, English

horn
Gary Barone 1972, 2006, 2008 Imaginary Diseases, One Shot Deal Trumpet,
Flugelhorn
Benjamin 1968 Freak Out! Violin

Barrett
Arthur 1979–1985, 1988, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Bass, Organ,
Barrow 1991–1992, 1996, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Them or Us, Keyboards,
1997, 2003, 2006, Thing-Fish, We're Only in It for the Money (1985 Remix), Cruising with Ruben & the Guitar, Synth,
2007, 2008 Jets (1985 Remix), Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Guitar, You Can't Do Vocals
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You
Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Frank Zappa Plays the
Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?, Halloween,
Trance-Fusion, Buffalo, One Shot Deal
Massimo 1987, 1989 Uncle Meat (1987 Version), You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 Voice, Vocals
Bassoli
Edwin V. 1966 Freak Out! Cello

Beach
Bobby 1966 Freak Out! Vocals

Beausoleil
Adrian Belew 1977–1978, 1983, Sheik Yerbouti, Baby Snakes, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Guitar, Vocals
1988, 1989, 1992, Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Have
1996, 1997, 2004, I Offended Someone?, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
2006, 2008
Norma Jean 1975, 1996 Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute Alto sax,
Bell Vocals
Arnold 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Belnick
Harold G. 1968 Lumpy Gravy Cello

Bemko
Max Bennett 1969, 1970, 1978, Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, Studio Tan, The Lost Episodes, Läther, Bass
1996, 2004 QuAUDIOPHILIAc
John Bergamo 1978, 1978, 1981, Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Percussions
1996, 2004, 2008 QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
Charles 1968 Lumpy Gravy Bass

Berghofer
Paul 1966 Freak Out! Cello

Bergstrom
John Berkman 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Piano
Rodney 1987 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Voice

Bingenheimer
Jimmy Carl 1966–1971, 1981, Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising Drums,
Black 1988, 1966, 1991, with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Trumpet,
1992, 1993, 1996, 200 Motels, You Are What You Is, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Vocals
1997, 2004 Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5,
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Ahead of Their Time, The Lost Episodes,
Have I Offended Someone?, Joe's Corsage
James E. Bond 1968 Lumpy Gravy Bass
Monica Boscia 1968, 1985, 1994 Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Civilization, Phaze III Voice
Andreas 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Percussions
Böttger
Pierre Boulez 1984 Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger Conductor
Dale Bozzio 1979, 1984, 1996, Joe's Garage, Thing-Fish, The Lost Episodes, Läther, Have I Offended Someone? Voice, Vocals
1997
Terry Bozzio 1975–1979, 1981, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Sheik Yerbouti, Drums, Vocals
1984, 1977, 1983, Orchestral Favorites, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar,
1984, 1988, 1989, Baby Snakes, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do
1991, 1992, 1996, That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You
1997, 2002, 2004, Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Läther, Frank Zappa Plays
2006, 2008 the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?, FZ:OZ,
QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
Michael 1976, 1978, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Tenor
Brecker 1996, 1997 Have I Offended Someone? saxophone,
Flute
Randy 1976, 1978, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Trumpet
Brecker 1996, 1997 Have I Offended Someone?
Don Brewer 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Bongos

Arthur E. 1968, 1978, 1979, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, French horn
Briegleb 1981, 1996, 2004, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
2008
Napoleon 1973–1976, 1979, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Sheik Saxophone,
Murphy Brock 1973, 1984, 1988, Yerbouti, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Flute, Vocals
1989, 1991, 1992, Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3,
1996, 1997, 2002, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
2004, 2004, 2007, Vol. 6, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I
2008 Offended Someone?, FZ:OZ, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, The Dub Room Special, One Shot
Deal
Jack Bruce 1974 Apostrophe (') Bass
Phyllis 1971 200 Motels Vocals

Bryn-Julson
Dennis 1968 Lumpy Gravy Guitar

Budimir
Paul C. Buff 1996 The Lost Episodes Fuzz bass
Eric Buxton 1988 Broadway the Hard Way Voice
Bill Byers 1972 Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo Trombone,

Baritone horn
C
Robert 1974–1975 Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury Vocals
Camarena
Frankie 1968 Lumpy Gravy Drums

Capp
Paul 1988, 1991, 1992, Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do Saxophone
Carman 2006 That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 6, Trance-Fusion
Chuck 1985, 1996 The Lost Episodes Saxophone,

Carter Flute
Roy Caton 1966 Freak Out! Saxophone,

Flute
Donald 1968, 1996 Lumpy Gravy, The Lost Episodes Saxophone,

Christlieb Flute
Gene 1968 Lumpy Gravy Woodwinds

Cipriano
Eric 1968 We're Only in It for the Money Voice

Clapton
Lee Clement 1972 The Grand Wazoo Gong
Lisa Cohen 1967 Absolutely Free Voice
Vinnie 1978–1981, 1983, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, The Man from Utopia, Drums, Voice
Colaiuta 1988, 1991, 1992, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage
1996, 1997, 2003, Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes,
2006, 2007, 2008 Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended
Someone?, Halloween, Trance-Fusion, Buffalo, One Shot Deal
Brad Cole 1984 Them or Us Piano
Ray Collins 1965–1970, 1974, Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Tambourine,
1985, 1986, 1992, Meat, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Apostrophe ('), You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Harmonica,
1996, 2004, 2005, Vol. 5, The Lost Episodes, Joe's Corsage, Joe's XMASage Vocals
2006
Ronnie 1976, 1978, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have I Saxophone,
Cuber 1996, 1997 Offended Someone? Clarinet
Warren 1978, 1979, 1981, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Baby Snakes, You Guitar, Electric
Cuccurullo 1983, 1988, 1991, Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, sitar, Vocals
1992, 1996, 1997, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
2006, 2008 Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
Louis Cuneo 1968, 1981, 1994 Lumpy Gravy, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Civilization, Phaze III Voice
D
Friedemann 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Cello
Dähn
Jay Daversa 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Trumpet
Vincent 1968 Lumpy Gravy French horn

DeRosa
Eugene Di 1966 Freak Out! French horn

Novi
Uwe 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Trombone,
Dierksen Voice
Joseph 1968 Lumpy Gravy Viola

DiFiore
Alvin Dinkin 1967 Absolutely Free Viola
Roland Diry 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Clarinet
Alex 1972, 1974, 1996, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe ('), The Lost Episodes, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Bass, Vocals
Dmochowski 2004 Joe's Domage
Stefan Dohr 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely French horn,
Voice
Chuck 1985, 1996 The Lost Episodes Bass

Domanico
Bobby 1978, 1979, 1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Violin
Dubow 1996, 2004, 2008 Shot Deal
David E. 1968, 1978, 1979, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, French horn
Duke 1981, 1996, 2004, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
2008
George Duke 1970–1975, 1978, Chunga's Revenge, 200 Motels, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation, Keyboards,
1979, 1984, 1988, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Vocals
1989, 1991, 1992, Them or Us, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage
1996, 1997, 2004, Anymore, Vol. 2, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage
2007 Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics, The
Lost Episodes, Läther, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute,
Have I Offended Someone?, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Earle 1972, 1978, 1979, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Woodwinds
Dumler 1981, 1996, 2004, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Imaginary Diseases, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
2006, 2007, 2008
Aynsley 1970–1972, 1974, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East - June 1971, 200 Motels, Just Another Band from L.A., Drums,
Dunbar 1972, 1987, 1988, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe ('), Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version), You Can't Percussions,
1989, 1992, 1996, Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Voice
2004 Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics, The Lost Episodes,
QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage
Tony Duran 1972, 1974, 2004, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe ('), Joe's Domage, Imaginary Diseases, Wazoo, Guitar
2006, 2007, 2008 One Shot Deal
E
Jesse 1968 Lumpy Gravy Cello

Ehrlich
Joan 1978, 1979, 1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal Oboe,
Elardo 1996, 2004, 2006 French horn
Don 1967 Absolutely Free Trumpet

Ellis
Jock 1978, 1979, 1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal Trombone
Ellis 1996, 2004, 2006
Alan 1968, 1972, 1978, Lumpy Gravy, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Percussions
Estes 1979, 1981, 1996, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
2004, 2006
Gene P. 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy Percussions

Estes
Roy 1966–1970, Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & Bass,
Estrada 1972, 1976, the Jets, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Zoot Allures, Shut Up 'n Vocals
1982–1984, Play Yer Guitar, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Baby
1988, 1989, Snakes, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That
1991–1997, 2004 on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Ahead of Their Time, Civilization,
Phaze III, Läther, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I
Offended Someone?, FZ:OZ, Joe's Corsage, QuAUDIOPHILIAc
Virgil 1966 Freak Out! Trumpet

Evans
F
Dick Fegy 1983 The Man from Utopia Mandolin
Victor 1968 Lumpy Gravy Percussions

Feldman
Janet-Neville 1970, 1972, 1987 Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Uncle Meat (1987 CD Vocals
Ferguson Hof Version)
Glenn Ferris 2006, 2007, 2008 Imaginary Diseases, Wazoo, One Shot Deal Trombone,
Euphonium
Thomas 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Bass
Fichter
Jim Fielder 1967 Absolutely Free Guitar
Floyd 2005 Joe's XMASage Vocals
William 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Woodwinds
Formann
Chuck Foster 1965, 1996 The Lost Episodes Trumpet
Bruce Fowler 1972–1981, 1988, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Trombone
1989, 1991, 1992, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, You Can't Do That on
1996, 2004, 1992, Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
2007, 2008 Vol. 3, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6,
The Lost Episodes, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Imaginary Diseases, Trance-Fusion,
Wazoo, One Shot Deal
Tom Fowler 1973–1975, 1978, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Studio Tan, You Bass
1988, 1989, 1991, Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2,
1992, 1996, 1997, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
2004, 2007, 2008 Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Läther, Frank
Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?,
QuAUDIOPHILIAc, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Walt Fowler 1974, 1988, 1991, Roxy & Elsewhere, Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Trumpet,
1992, 1994, 1992 Life, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Civilization, Flugel horn,
Phaze III, Trance-Fusion Keyboards,
Voice
Kim Fowley 1966 Freak Out! Hypophone
G
John L. Gardner 1967–1970, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Woodwinds
1988, 1991, Jets, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, You Can't Do That
1992, 1993 on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, Ahead of Their Time
Buzz Gardner 1970, 1988, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Trumpet,
1991, 1992, 1993 Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Vocals
Anymore, Vol. 5
Lowell George 1969–1970, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, You Can't Do That on Stage Guitar,
1988, 1991, 1992 Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Vocals
Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
Jim Getzoff 1967, 1968 Absolutely Free, Lumpy Gravy Violin

Terry Gilliam 1966, 1967 Freak Out!, Absolutely Free Voice,

Noises
Chuck Glave 1996 The Lost Episodes Drums
Susie Glover 1974 Apostrophe (') Vocals
Gene Goe 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Trumpet
1996, 2004, 2008 Shot Deal
Phillip Goldberg 1968 Lumpy Gravy Viola
Pamela 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Viola
Goldsmith 1996, 2004, 2008 Shot Deal
Jim Gordon 1972, 1974, Apostrophe ('), Imaginary Diseases, Wazoo, One Shot Deal Drums, Steel
1996, 2006, drums
2007, 2008
Ralph Grierson 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Keyboards
1996, 2004, 2008 Shot Deal
Michael Gross 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Brass, Voice
John Guerin 1968–1970, Lumpy Gravy, Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, Apostrophe ('), The Lost Episodes Drums
1974, 1996
Norman Gunston 1976 FZ:OZ Harmonica,

(aka Garry Vocals
McDonald)
H
Bruce Hampton 1968 Lumpy Gravy Voice
Bob Harris 1971, 1980–1984, Fillmore East - June 1971, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Keyboards,
1992, 1997, 2007 Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Trumpet,
Utopia, Them or Us, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Vocals
Psychotics, Have I Offended Someone?, Buffalo
Don 1969, 1970, 1974, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Chunga's Revenge, Violin, Organ,
"Sugarcane" 1996 Apostrophe ('), The Lost Episodes Vocals
Harris
Suzannah Harris 1969, 1991 Them or Us, Sleep Dirt (1991 CD Version) Vocals
Jim Haynes 1968 Lumpy Gravy Guitar
Danny Helferin 1996 The Lost Episodes Piano
Bob Henderson 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, French horn
2004, 2008 One Shot Deal
Jeff Hollie 1979 Joe's Garage Saxophone
Geordie Hormel 1979 Joe's Garage Vocals
Dana Hughes 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Bass trombone
2004, 2008 One Shot Deal
Paul Humphrey 1969, 1978, 1996 Hot Rats, Studio Tan, Läther Drums
Ralph Humphrey 1973, 1974, 1988, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, You Can't Do That on Stage Drums
1989, 1991, 1992, Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That
1996, 1997, 2008 on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost
Episodes, Läther, Have I Offended Someone?, One Shot Deal
Huun-Huur-Tu 1994 Civilization, Phaze III Vocals
Harry Hyams 1968 Lumpy Gravy Viola
I
Elliot Ingber 1966, 1968, 1992, Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, The Lost Guitar
1996 Episodes
Barbara 1979 Joe's Garage Vocals

Issak
J
Fred 1972 The Grand Wazoo Woodwinds

Jackson, Jr.
Jules Jacob 1968 Lumpy Gravy Woodwinds
Janschi 1985, 1996 The Lost Episodes Bass
Eddie 1976–1978, 1981, 1992, Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Can't Do That Keyboards, Violin,
Jobson 1996, 1997 on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have I Offended Someone? Vocals
John 1966 Freak Out! Tuba

Johnson
Plas Johnson 1966 Freak Out! Saxophone
Pete Jolly 1968 Lumpy Gravy Keyboards
K
Armand 1967 Absolutely Free Cello

Kaproff
Carol Kaye 1966 Freak Out! 12-string guitar
Howard Kaylan 1970–1972, 1988, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East - June 1971, 200 Motels, Just Another Band Vocals
1989, 1992 from L.A., You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on
Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
Raymond 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy Cello

Kelley
Gary Kellgren 1968 We're Only in It for the Money Voice
Harold Kelling 1968 Lumpy Gravy Voice
Mike Keneally 1988, 1991, 1992, Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Guitar, Keyboards,
2006 Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do Vocals
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Trance-Fusion
Jerome A. 1968, 1978, 1979, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Cello
Kessler 1981, 1996, 2004, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
2007, 2008
Kaigal-ool 1994 Civilization, Phaze III Vocals

Khovalyg
John Kilgore 1968, 1981, 1985, Lumpy Gravy, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Voice
1994 Prevention, Civilization, Phaze III
Pete Kleinow 1972 Waka/Jawaka Pedal steel
Alexander 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Koltun
Hermann 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Piano,
Kretzschmar Harpsichord,
Celeste, Voice
Marty Krystall 1983 The Man from Utopia Saxophone
Bernard 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Kundell
William 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Kurasch
L
Ruben 1974, 1976 Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Zoot Allures Vocals
Ladron de
Guevara
Patrolman 1996 The Lost Episodes Voice

LaFamine
Ricky 1973, 1996 Over-Nite Sensation, The Lost Episodes, Läther Vocals
Lancelotti
Michael A. 1968, 1978–1981, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Keyboards
Lang 1996, 2004, 2008 QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
Neil Le Vang 1966 Freak Out! Guitar
John Lennon 1971, 1992 Playground Psychotics Guitar,

Vocals
André Lewis 1976, 1979, 1981, Zoot Allures, Sheik Yerbouti, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Keyboards,
1989, 1996, 1997, Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Frank Zappa Vocals
2002, 2004, 2008 Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?,
FZ:OZ, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
Mort Libov 2007 The Dub Room Special Vocals
Martin 1971, 1992 200 Motels, Playground Psychotics Bass, Voice

Lickert
David 1981, 1989, 1991 Tinseltown Rebellion, You Are What You Is, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. Drums
Logeman 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
Wayne Lyles 1996 The Lost Episodes Voice

M
Arthur 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy Brass

Maebe
Elwood 1996 The Lost Episodes Voice

Madeo
Leonard 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Malarsky
Al Malkin 1979, 1997 Joe's Garage, Have I Offended Someone? Vocals
Tom 1978, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have I Offended Brass
Malone 1996, 1997, Someone?, Halloween, Imaginary Diseases, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
2003, 2006,
2007, 2008
Ed Mann 1977–1989, Zappa in New York, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Percussions,
1991, 1992, Guitar, You Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Vocals
1996, 1997, Utopia, Baby Snakes, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, Frank
2002, 2004, Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Jazz from Hell, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2,
2006, 2007, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can't Do
2008 That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?, Halloween, QuAUDIOPHILIAc,
Trance-Fusion, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Shelly 1968 Lumpy Gravy Drums

Manne
Lou Marini 1972, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have I Offended Woodwinds
1996, 1997, Someone?, Halloween
2003
Jose 1972–1974, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Zoot Allures, You Can't Brass, Vocals
Salvador 1976, 1992, Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Have I Offended Someone?,
Marquez 1996, 1997, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
2004, 2007,
2008
Tommy 1977–1989, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What Keyboards,
Mars 1991, 1992, You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Baby Snakes, Vocals
1996, 1997, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Uncle Meat (1987 CD
2002, 2004, Version), Jazz from Hell, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do
2006, 2007, That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do
2008 That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost
Episodes, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended
Someone?, Halloween, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Trance-Fusion, Buffalo, The Dub Room Special,
One Shot Deal
Bobby 1981–1989, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Baby Snakes, Them Keyboards,
Martin 1991, 1992, or Us, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong in Saxophone,
1997, 2006, Music?, Jazz from Hell, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, Broadway the Vocals
2007, 2008 Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, The Best Band You Never Heard in
Your Life, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Have I Offended
Someone?, Trance-Fusion, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Lincoln 1968 Lumpy Gravy Keyboards

Mayorga
Bill Mays 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Clavinet
1996, 2004, Deal
2008
Les 1966 Freak Out! Piano

McCann
Lew 1968 Lumpy Gravy Trombone

McCreary
Kurt 1988, 1991, Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Saxophone
McGettrick 1992, 2006 Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6,
Trance-Fusion
JoAnn 1968, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Bassoon
McNab 1978–1981, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, One Shot Deal
1996, 2004,
2008
Malcolm 1968, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Trumpet
McNab 1978–1981, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage, Imaginary Diseases, One Shot Deal
1996, 2004,
2006, 2008
Edward 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Bass

Meares
Jay Migliori 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Clarinet,
1996, 2004, Domage, Wazoo, One Shot Deal Saxophone
2007, 2008
Todd Miller 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's French horn
1996, 2004, Domage, One Shot Deal
2008
Catherine 1993, 1994, The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Oboe, English
Milliken 1999 horn,
Didgeridoo,
Voice
Meredith 1987 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Voice

Monk
Tommy 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Harmonica
Morgan 1996, 2004, Domage, One Shot Deal
2008
Victor 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Clarinet,
Morosco 1996, 2004, Domage, One Shot Deal Saxophone
2008
Billy Mundi 1967–1970, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, You Can't Drums
1992 Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
Ron Myers 1996 The Lost Episodes Trombone
N
Ted Nash 1968 Lumpy Gravy Woodwinds
Lou Anne 1976, 1978–1981, 1996, Zoot Allures, Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Harp
Neill 2004, 2008 Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage, One Shot Deal
O
Patrick O'Hearn 1978–1984, 1988, Zappa in New York, Sleep Dirt, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Bass, Vocals
1991, 1992, 1996, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Baby
1997, 2003, 2004, Snakes, Them or Us, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That
2006, 2008 on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Frank
Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended
Someone?, Halloween, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
Lady Bianca 1978 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vocals and
Vol. 6, Philly '76 Keyboard
David Ocker 1976, 1981, 1983, Sheik Yerbouti, You Are What You Is, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1, Clarinet
2004 QuAUDIOPHILIAc
Lucy Offerall 1987 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Voice
Rumi 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Percussions,
Ogawa-Helferich Vocals
Franck Ollu 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Brass, Voice
Yoko Ono 1971, 1992 Playground Psychotics Vocals
Tony Ortega 1972, 2004 The Grand Wazoo, Joe's Domage Woodwinds
Shuggie Otis 1969 Hot Rats Bass
Charles M. 1972, 2007 Wazoo Woodwinds

Owens
P
Les Papp 2005 Joe's XMASage Drums
Don 1976, 1978, 1996 Zappa in New York, Läther Narration

Pardo
Linda Sue 1976, 1997 Zoot Allures, Have I Offended Someone? Vocals
Parker
Dave 1976, 1978, Zoot Allures, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Frank Bass
Parlato 1979, 1981, Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Imaginary
1996, 2004, Diseases, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
2006, 2007, 2008
Marty 1989 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 Voice

Perellis
Richard 1968 Lumpy Gravy French horn

Perissi
Joel 1972 Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo Woodwinds

Peskin
Kris 1972 [1] Vocals

Waka/Jawaka
Peterson
Charlie 1968 Lumpy Gravy Voice

Phillips
Mark 1981 You Are What You Is Voice

Pinske
Jim Pons 1971, 1988, Fillmore East - June 1971, 200 Motels, Just Another Band from L.A., You Can't Do That on Stage Bass, Vocals
1989, 1991, 1992 Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics
Jean-Luc 1968, 1973, Hot Rats, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Can't Do That on Violin
Ponty 1974, 1981, Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, One Shot Deal
1992, 1996, 2008
Thomas 1968 Lumpy Gravy Percussions

Poole
Lisa 1982, 1992 Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 Vocals
Popeil
Roy 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Trumpet
Poper 1996, 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal
Don 1966–1974, Absolutely Free, We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Keyboards,
Preston 1988, 1989, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Fillmore East - June 1971, Just Another Band Vocals
1991, 1992, from L.A., Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Roxy & Elsewhere, You Can't Do That on Stage
1993, 1996, 2004 Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics, Ahead of Their Time, The Lost Episodes,
QuAUDIOPHILIAc
George F. 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy French horn

Price
R
Tom Raney 1978–1981, 1996, 2004, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Percussions
2008 Joe's Domage, One Shot Deal
Michael 1994 Civilization, Phaze III Voice

Rapaport
Mac 1966 Freak Out! Piano

Rebennack
Ray Reed 1978–1981, 1996, 2004, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Woodwinds
2008 Joe's Domage, One Shot Deal
Kurt Reher 1966 Freak Out! Cello
Jerome J. 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin

Reisler
Emil Richards 1968, 1978–1981, 1996, Lumpy Gravy, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Percussions
2004, 2008 QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage, One Shot Deal
Lyle Ritz 1968 Lumpy Gravy Bass

Trefoni Rizzi 1968 Lumpy Gravy Guitar
Tony 1996 The Lost Episodes Saxophone

Rodriquenz
Rainer Römer 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Percussions
Linda Ronstadt 1987 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Voice
John Rotella 1966–1969, 1972, 1978, Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, Lumpy Gravy, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Läther Woodwinds
1996
Alan Rubin 2003 Halloween Trumpet
Jürgen Ruck 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Guitar,
Banjo
Peter Rundel 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Violin
S
Claudia Sack 1993, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Everything Is Healing Nicely Violin
Bobby Saldana 2005 Joe's XMASage Bass
Dave Samuels 1976, 1978, 1992, Zappa in New York, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have Percussions
1996, 1997 I Offended Someone?
Sheldon Sanov 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Violin
Emmet Sargeant 1966 Freak Out! Cello
Lewis Saul 1989 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 Voice
Joseph Saxon 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy Cello
Ralph Schaeffer 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin
Jürgen Ruck 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Bassoon
Leonard Selic 1968 Lumpy Gravy Viola
Ron Selico 1969 Hot Rats Drums
Lakshminarayana 1992, 1999, 2003 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Everything Is Healing Nicely, Violin
Shankar Halloween
Sidney "Sid" 1968 We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy Conductor
Sharp
Archie Shepp 1991 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 Saxophone
Kay Sherman 2005 Joe's XMASage Voice
Jim Sherwood 1966–1970, 1981, Freak Out!, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben Saxophone,
1984, 1988, 1991, & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, You Percussions, Vocals
1992, 1993, 1994, Are What You Is, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1,
1996 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 5, Ahead of Their Time, Civilization, Phaze III, Läther
David Shostac 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Flute, Saxophone
Kenneth Shroyer 1968, 1972, 1978, Lumpy Gravy, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Orchestral Brass
1979, 1981, 1996, Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage,
2004, 2007, 2008 Wazoo, One Shot Deal
Jeff Simmons 1969–1974, 1988, Chunga's Revenge, Waka/Jawaka, Roxy & Elsewhere, You Can't Do That on Guitar, Bass,
1992 Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Vocals
Mark Simone 2003 Halloween Voice
Linda Sims 1973, 1974, 1997 Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Have I Offended Vocals
Someone?
Daryl Smith 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Tuba, Voice
Paul Smith 1968 Lumpy Gravy Keyboards
Marshall Sosson 1967 Absolutely Free Violin
Craig Steward 1979, 1981, 1983 Joe's Garage, You Are What You Is, The Man from Utopia Harmonica
Sting 1988 Broadway the Hard Way Vocals
Sheridan Stokes 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, Flute, Saxophone
Wolfgang Stryi 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Woodwinds
Stumuk 1979, 1987 Joe's Garage, Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Saxophone, Voice
Hilary Sturt 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Viola, Voice
Michael Svoboda 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Trombone,
Euphonium,
Didgeridoo,
Alphorn, Conch,
Voice
T
Ernie Tack 1972 The Grand Wazoo Brass
Mathias 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Violin
Tacke
Thomas J. 1968 Lumpy Gravy Guitar

Tedesco
Detlef 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Mandolin
Tewes
Chester 1973–1975, 1978, Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, You Can't Do That Drums
Thompson 1979, 1988, 1989, on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2, You Can't Do That on
1991, 1996, 2004, Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, The Lost Episodes,
2007, 2008 Läther, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, QuAUDIOPHILIAc,
The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Randy 1976, 1997, 2004 Sheik Yerbouti, Have I Offended Someone?, QuAUDIOPHILIAc Vocals
Thornton
Scott 1981–1989, 1991, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Them or Us, Bass,
Thunes 1992, 1997, 2002, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong in Music?, Keyboards,
2006, 2007, 2008 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version), Jazz from Hell, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vocals
Vol. 1, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, The Best Band
You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz
Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 6, Have I Offended Someone?, Trance-Fusion, The Dub Room Special, One Shot
Deal
Gilma 1968, 1994 Lumpy Gravy, Civilization, Phaze III Voice

Townley
John 1968 Lumpy Gravy Voice

Townley
Bobby 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Bassoon
Tricarico 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal
Arthur 1968–1970, 1988, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Drums,
Dyer Tripp 1991, 1992, 1993, Flesh, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Percussions,
III 1996 Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, Ahead of Their Time, The Lost Episodes Voice
Tina 1973, 1974, 1997 Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Have I Offended Someone? Vocals
Turner
U
Ian 1967–1976, 1988, We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Hot Rats, Burnt Woodwinds
Underwood 1989, 1991, 1992, Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East - June 1971, 200
1993, 1996, 2004, Motels, Just Another Band from L.A., Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Zoot Allures, You
2007, 2008 Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You
Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You
Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics, Ahead of Their Time, The Lost
Episodes, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Domage, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
Ruth 1969–1979, 1984, Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, 200 Motels, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Percussions
Underwood 1988, 1989, 1991, Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Zoot Allures, Zappa in New York, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt,
1992, 1996, 1997, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
2007, 2008 Vol. 2, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Läther, Have I Offended
Someone?, The Dub Room Special, Wazoo, One Shot Deal
V
Steve 1981–1989, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late Guitar, Vocals
Vai 1991, 1992, to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the
1997, 2006, Mothers of Prevention, Jazz from Hell, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You
2007, 2008 Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't
Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Have I Offended
Someone?, Imaginary Diseases, Buffalo, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
David 1971 200 Motels Conductor

Van
Asch
Don Van 1969, 1975, Hot Rats, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Orchestral Favorites, Thing-Fish, You Can't Harmonica,
Vliet 1976, 1978, Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, The Lost Episodes Saxophone,
1984, 1991, 1996 Vocals
Jeannie 1966 Freak Out! Voice

Vassoir
Kin 1973, 1997 Over-Nite Sensation, Have I Offended Someone? Vocals

Vassy
Henry 2004 Joe's Corsage Guitar

Vestine
Alfred 1968 Lumpy Gravy Guitar

Viola
Mark 1970, 1972, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East - June 1971, 200 Motels, Just Another Band from L.A., You Can't Vocals, Guitar
Volman 1988, 1989, 1992 Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do
That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Playground Psychotics
W
Chad 1981–1989, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, London Symphony Drums,
Wackerman 1991, 1992, Orchestra, Vol. 1, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, We're Only in It for the Money (1985 Remix), Percussions
1996, 1997, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1985 Remix), Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention,
2006, 2007, 2008 Does Humor Belong in Music?, Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version), Jazz from Hell, London
Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, Broadway
the Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, The Best Band You Never Heard
in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, Uncle
Meat (1991 CD Version), You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on
Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Läther, Have I Offended Someone?, Trance-Fusion, The Dub Room
Special, One Shot Deal
Don 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Brass
Waldrop 1996, 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal
Nelcy 1969 Uncle Meat Vocals

Walker
Denny 1975–1988, Bongo Fury, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Guitar,
Walley 1991, 1992, Is, Thing-Fish, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Vocals
1997, 2003, Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Have I Offended
2006, 2008 Someone?, Halloween, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
Caronga 1996 The Lost Episodes Bass

Ward
Johnny 1975, 1984, One Size Fits All, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Have Guitar,
"Guitar" 1985, 1997 I Offended Someone? Vocals
Watson
Kenneth 1966, 1968 Freak Out!, Lumpy Gravy Percussions

Watson
Ernie Watts 1972 The Grand Wazoo Saxophone
Ellen 1993, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Everything Is Healing Nicely Harp
Wegner
David Wells 1966 Freak Out! Trombone
Becky 1968, 1994 Lumpy Gravy, Civilization, Phaze III Voice

Wentworth
A. West 1991 The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life Voice
Robert West 1968 Lumpy Gravy Bass

Ray White 1976–1989, Zappa in New York, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Guitar,
1991, 1992, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Them or Us, Vocals
1996, 1997, Thing-Fish, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong in Music?, Jazz
2006, 2007, 2008 from Hell, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 5, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The Lost Episodes, Läther,
Have I Offended Someone?, Trance-Fusion, Buffalo, The Dub Room Special, One Shot Deal
Dietmar 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Flutes
Wiesner
Ueli Wiget 1993, 1994, 1999 The Yellow Shark, Civilization, Phaze III, Everything Is Healing Nicely Keyboards,
Harp
Chuck Wild 1984 Thing-Fish Piano
Kenny 1996 The Lost Episodes Vocals

Williams
Ronald 1968, 1996 We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, The Lost Episodes Vocals
Lloyd
Williams
Ike Willis 1978–1989, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Ship Guitar,
1991, 1992, Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, The Man from Utopia, Them or Us, Thing-Fish, Effects,
1996, 1997, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong in Music?, Guitar, You Can't Vocals
2003, 2006, Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can't Do That on Stage
2007, 2008 Anymore, Vol. 3, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Stage
Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, The
Lost Episodes, Have I Offended Someone?, Halloween, Trance-Fusion, Buffalo, One Shot Deal
Debbie 1973, 1974, 1997 Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, Have I Offended Someone? Vocals
Wilson
Terry 1996 The Lost Episodes Voice

Wimberly
Albert Wing 1988, 1991, Broadway the Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, You Can't Do That on Saxophone
1992, 2006 Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, Make a Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6,
Trance-Fusion
John Winter 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Oboe,
1996, 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal English horn
John 1978–1981, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Violin
Wittenberg 1996, 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal
Peter Wolf 1977–1983, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage, Tinseltown Rebellion, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Baby Snakes, Voice
1988, 1989, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore,
1991, 1992, Vol. 4, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
1996, 1997, Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Have I Offended Someone?, Halloween, QuAUDIOPHILIAc,
2003, 2004, Trance-Fusion, One Shot Deal
2006, 2007
Lauren 1972 The Grand Wazoo Vocals

Wood
Paul Woods 2005 Joe's XMASage Bass

Y
James Youmans 1978–1979, 1996 One Size Fits All, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Läther Bass, Guitar
Graham Young 1978, 1996 Studio Tan, Läther Trumpet
Z
Ahmet 1981 You Are What You Is Vocals

Zappa
Bobby 1996 The Lost Episodes Guitar

Zappa
Carl 1987 Uncle Meat (1987 CD Version) Voice

Zappa
Dweezil 1984–1986, 1989, Them or Us, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Does Humor Belong in Music?, Guitar, Voice
Zappa 1994 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, Civilization, Phaze III
Moon Unit 1981–1985, 1994, You Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Them or Us, Vocals
Zappa 1997 Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Civilization, Phaze III, Have I Offended
Someone?
Allan 1984, 1986, 1988, Does Humor Belong in Music?, Guitar, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Keyboards
Zavod 1989, 1991, 1992, Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, You
1997, 2006 Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Have I Offended Someone?, Trance-Fusion
Michael 1978–1981, 1996, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Tinseltown Rebellion, Läther, QuAUDIOPHILIAc, Joe's Piano,
Zearott 2004, 2008 Domage, One Shot Deal Conductor
Tibor Zelig 1968 Lumpy Gravy Violin
Bob 1972 The Grand Wazoo Percussions

Zimmitti
James C. 1968 Lumpy Gravy Trumpet

Zito
References
[1] "Detroit soul singer Kris Peterson recalls working on Waka/Jawaka" (http:/ / archive. org/ details/
Zappa-relatedInterviewsOnOutsightRadioHours). Archive.org. . Retrieved 23 September 2012.
External links
• Frank Zappa
• Frank Zappa discography
• FZ Muzishnins' & Corobberatrums (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/musicians/index.html)
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Relatives
Gail Zappa
Gail Zappa (born Adelaide Gail Sloatman; January 1, 1945) was the
second wife of the late musician and composer Frank Zappa and is the
executrix of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in 1966 when she was
working at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, and they were married
on September 21, 1967, while she was pregnant with her first child,
Moon Zappa. The marriage also produced children Dweezil Zappa,
Ahmet Zappa, and Diva Zappa. She is an aunt to model/actress Lala
Sloatman.
Gail made a very brief appearance with musician boyfriend Bobby

Jameson in the 1967 documentary film Mondo Hollywood. The scene
was filmed in 1965 or 1966 before she met Frank.
Management of the Zappa Family Trust

Since Frank Zappa's death in 1993, she has overseen the release of his Frank and Gail Zappa in their Hollywood Hills
recordings, including multiple previously unavailable works, under the home, 1988
Zappa Family Trust. The trust holds title and copyright to Frank
Zappa's musical and artistic products, as well as his commercial image.[1][2] In this capacity, she often sends cease
and desist letters to venues hosting bands playing the music of and paying tribute to her late husband based upon use
of the trademarked brand "Zappa" in advertising the content of a given concert. Although no U.S. lawsuits have been
filed, one such band was forced to cancel a show during their 2008 tour due to pressure from the Zappa Family
Trust.[3]
Lawsuits
In 2008, the Zappa Family Trust sued the organizers of the Zappanale Festival, held just outside Bad Doberan,
Germany, demanding that they change the name of the festival, remove their promotional posters (which contained
an allegedly trademarked moustache similar to Frank Zappa's) and remove the statue of him that has stood in the city
center since 2002. In January 2009 the court found in Zappanale's favor after their defense argued that since the
Zappa Family Trust only sells products on the Internet and accepts only U.S. dollars they had not effectively
exercised their trademarks in Germany for over five years. Similarly, the use of the moustache was sufficiently
different in Zappanale's merchandise so as not to cause confusion between the two.[4]
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Sources
Zappa, Frank with Occhiogrosso, Peter (1989), The Real Frank Zappa Book, New York: Poseidon Press,
ISBN 0-671-63870-X
References
[1] Herald Review (January 11 2008) – Tribute bands zapped (http:/ / www. herald-review. com/ articles/ 2008/ 01/ 11/ columnists/ cain/
1029236. txt)
[2] Zappa's widow sues festival over use of his image (http:/ / www. guardian. co. uk/ music/ 2008/ apr/ 11/ germany) The Guardian 11 April
2008
[3] State of mind magazine – Project/Object Show Canceled Due to Gail Zappa (http:/ / www. stateofmindmusic. com/ entry/ 501/ )
[4] 'Zappanale' Wins in Court Against Gail Zappa (http:/ / www. spiegel. de/ international/ germany/ 0,1518,602853,00. html) from Der Spiegel
22 January 2009
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Moon Zappa
Moon Zappa
Moon Zappa, 1988
Born Moon Unit Zappa

28 September 1967
New York City, United States
Spouse Paul Doucette (June 2002)
Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress, musician, and author.
Personal life
Zappa was born in New York City, and is the eldest child of Gail Zappa, who worked in business, and musician
Frank Zappa.[1] She has three younger siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin. Zappa's father was of Sicilian,
Greek-Arab and French ancestry and her mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.[2] Zappa
attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California. She married Paul Doucette, a drummer and guitarist, in
June 2002. They have one child, Mathilda Plum Doucette, born December 21, 2004. Zappa filed for divorce in
January 2012. [3]
Career
Apart from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention in 1982, at the age of
fourteen, as a vocalist on her father's Top 40 hit single "Valley Girl". The song featured Moon Zappa delivering a
monologue in "valleyspeak", a collection of slang terms popular with teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, Los
Angeles. In the mid-1980s, Moon and her brother Dweezil were frequent guest VJs on MTV. Next to "Dancin' Fool",
"Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases such as "grody to the max"
and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on her father's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a
Drowning Witch. She later made another recording titled "My Mother Is a Space Cadet", with guitar accompaniment
by her brother Dweezil. She also guest-starred on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show as Marylin.
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comic, magazine writer, and actress in the films National Lampoon's
European Vacation (1985), Spirit of '76 and the television sitcom Normal Life. She appeared as a burqa-clad Muslim
woman in one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as Ted Mosby's cousin Stacy in an episode of How I Met Your
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Mother and on an episode ("Pampered to a Pulp") of Roseanne.[4] She worked as a VJ on VH-1 in the mid-late
1990s. She also appeared on Rock & Roll Jeopardy!, losing to Dave Mustaine and George Clinton.
She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001,[5] and articles in major periodicals.[6]
References
[1] Moon Unit Zappa Biography (1967-) (http:/ / www. filmreference. com/ film/ 80/ Moon-Unit-Zappa. html), Filmreference.com
[2] Miles, Barry (2004). Zappa (http:/ / books. google. com/ ?id=2pPgG9AXjN4C& printsec=frontcover). Grove Press. pp. 124.
ISBN 978-0-8021-1783-0. .
[3] "Frank Zappa Daughter Moon Unit Files Divorce" (http:/ / www. dailymail. co. uk/ tvshowbiz/ article-2082451/
Frank-Zappa-daughter-Moon-Unit-files-divorce-Matchbox-20-guitarist-Paul-Doucette. html#ixzz1teRYj1H2). Daily Mail. 2012-1-4. .
[4] "Pampered to a Pulp" (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0688854/ ) at the Internet Movie Database
[5] Zappa, Moon Unit. America the Beautiful: A Novel. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7432-1383-7
[6] Zappa, Moon Unit (2001-11-18). "One Street at a Time; Positively Third Street" (http:/ / query. nytimes. com/ gst/ fullpage.
html?res=9B03E6D91338F93BA25752C1A9679C8B63). The New York Times. . Retrieved 2008-11-04.
External links
• Moon Zappa's Website (http://moonzappa.com/)
• Moon Unit Zappa (http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000025345/) on NNDB
• Moon Zappa (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953262/) at the Internet Movie Database
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Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa in Denmark with Zappa Plays Zappa, October 13, 2007
Birth name Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa
Born September 5, 1969
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres Rock, hard rock, heavy metal, instrumental rock
Instruments Guitar, vocals, bass, piano, banjo
Years active 1986–present
Labels Zappa, Favored Nations, Barking Pumpkin, Chrysalis
Associated acts Frank Zappa

Ahmet Zappa
Extreme
Ozzy Osbourne
Spinal Tap
Steve Vai
Warren DeMartini
Zappa Plays Zappa
Dream Theater
Winger
Website [1]
Official website
Notable instruments
Gibson SG
Hagström Viking
Eric Johnson Stratocaster
Dweezil Zappa (born September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.
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Early life
Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa, who worked in
business.[2] He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger brother Ahmet.
He is the cousin of actress Lala Sloatman.[3] Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab, and French descent, and his
mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.[4]
Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa.[5] The hospital at which he was born refused
to register him under the name Dweezil, so Frank listed the names of several musician friends. "Dweezil" was a
nickname coined by Frank for an oddly-curled pinky-toe of Gail's. At five years old, Dweezil learned that his legal
name was different, and he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney
and soon the name Dweezil was official.[6]
Career
In the 1980s, Zappa worked as an MTV VJ and was promptly fired after badmouthing MTV on The Howard Stern
Show. He also recorded some solo albums, as well as playing for other artists. Zappa can be heard playing lead guitar
on The Fat Boys' "Wipe Out" (1987) and can be seen in the music video for Don Johnson's top 40 song, "Heartbeat".
He also played co-lead guitar (along with Reb Beach) on Winger's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". Dweezil
has said that Eddie Van Halen was his favorite guitar player, and he began copying Van Halen's distinctive guitar
style. He also had a part in the futuristic Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man as Stevie ("Don't touch that
dial!"), and gave his most famous cameo role in John Hughes's Brat Pack film, Pretty in Pink (starring Molly
Ringwald), as Andie's friend, Simon.
Since the early 1990s, Zappa has been working on a piece of music named "What the Hell Was I Thinking?", a
75-minute piece featuring guitar solos by dozens of famous guitar players. The project has suffered from numerous
difficulties and has been reworked several times since the '90s. Dweezil said in September 2004:[7] "I started
recording it on analog tape almost 13 years ago... There are probably about 35 guest guitar players on it, everybody
from Brian May to Eddie Van Halen, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young — it's quite a crazy project. I'm still
waiting and hoping to record Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as some of my final guests on there."[7]
In the mid 1990s, Zappa voiced the character Ajax Duckman on the animated series Duckman. He also briefly
appeared in the television sitcom Normal Life with sister Moon Unit Zappa and former Laverne & Shirley star Cindy
Williams. He composed and performed the theme music for The Ben Stiller Show (the solo from Spinal Tap's "Break
Like the Wind"). In 1999, Dweezil, alongside his brother, Ahmet, starred in a television series called Happy Hour
which debuted April 3, 1999 on the USA Network. The show lasted for one season.
In "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2003 eleventh studio album Poodle Hat,
Zappa performs the opening guitar solo and lends his vocal talents to
the track, "Genius in France". In 2006, Zappa organized the "Zappa
Plays Zappa" tour. He assembled a band of young musicians with a
view to bring the music of Frank Zappa to a younger audience. The
tour also featured guest appearances by Steve Vai, Napoleon Murphy
Brock and Terry Bozzio. The tour began in Europe in May with dates
in the U.S. from June. After a break it continued in the U.S. on October
18, 2006. The 2007 version of the tour ran from July, finishing in
Dweezil Zappa performing on the "Zappa Plays
Australia in early December, and featured Ray White as special guest.
Zappa" tour in 2006.
The shows ended with the promise: "There are so many songs we want
to learn to play ... see y'all next year ...", and further tours have
followed each year since 2007.[8] In 2009, Ray White left Zappa Plays Zappa for an undisclosed reason. [9]
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Personal life
For six years, Zappa dated musician Lisa Loeb. Zappa and Loeb wrote
and performed music together, and Zappa toured with Loeb's band.
The couple co-hosted the cooking show Dweezil & Lisa on Food
Network in 2004. The couple broke up in the summer of 2004.
Zappa married fashion stylist Lauren Knudsen on September 3, 2005 in
Los Angeles. They have two daughters: Zola Frank Zappa (born 2006)
and Ceylon Indira Zappa (born 2008).[10][11] In March 2010 Knudsen
filed for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court. According to the
documents, she cited irreconcilable differences and applied to share
legal custody of the two daughters.[12] In March 2012, with the divorce
case still unresolved, Zappa's former lawyer made a public issue of his
unpaid legal bills.[13] Dweezil went on to marry Megan Marsicano in a
private ceremony in Los Angeles in April 2012.[14]
Dweezil Zappa at Bluesfest 2008 in Ottawa
Musical equipment
Guitars
• Gibson SG - Custom built to replicate his father's SG (the replica is so accurate that it is often mistaken for
Frank's original guitar by fans).
• Hagström Viking - Modified with an extra switch which changes the tone.[15]
• Custom PRS - Built with materials chosen by Zappa for their "naturally occurring oddities".[16]
• Eric Johnson Fender Stratocaster - Custom fitted with a piezo pickup.[17]
• Fender Stratocaster - Originally used and burned by Jimi Hendrix and given to Dweezil's father.
• Babysnake SG - Luthier built guitar with onboard effects originally owned by his father.
• Gibson Les Paul - Late 70's early 80's model with onboard effects and coiltaps.
• Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster - Originally used during his father's early career. It was heavily modified with various
onboard effects, the functions of some being a mystery.
• Moser SG - Used as a backup for his Gibson SG.
• MusicMan EVH Signature Model - Purple (that you can see him play in "Zappa's Universe : A Celebration of 25
Years
[18]
of Frank Zappa's Music" home video).
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Effects
Some of the effects were originally in his father's setup and were restored for use in the Zappa plays Zappa project.
[19] • Systech Harmonic Energizer

• DBX 162 Stereo Compressor
• Eventide 949 Harmonizer • Chandler Delay
• Eventide Delay • Afro Fuzz
• MicMix Dynaflanger x2 • Real Octavia
• Aphex Expressor Compressor • Janglebox Compressor
• Axess Electronics MIDI Foot controller • Digitech GSP 1101
• Mutron Bi-Phase [20]
• Native Instruments Guitar Rig
[21]
• Sound Sculpture Switchblade system
[22]
• Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx
• Performance Guitar - Jumbo Foot - Parametric Eq
Amplifiers
• Acoustic 270 amplifier • Fender Super-Sonic head

[23] • Fender Cyber-Twin SE
• Peavey Wiggy
[21] • Fender '65 Twin Reverb
• Cornford MK 5011
• Cornford MK 50H • Fender G-DEC
• Cornford RK 100 • Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx
• Cornford 4x12 Cabinet (One regular and one from the RK series.) • Fuchs Tripledrive Supreme
• Blankenship Leeds 18w • Red Wirez Guitar Cabinet IR files
Discography
Solo
• 1982 - My Mother Is a Space Cadet
• 1986 - Havin' a Bad Day
• 1988 - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
• 1991 - Confessions
• 2000 - Automatic
• 2006 - Go with What You Know
With Ahmet Zappa

• 1994 - Shampoohorn
• 1996 - Music For Pets
With Zappa Plays Zappa

• 2008 - Zappa Plays Zappa
• 2010 - Return Of The Son Of...
• 2011 - In The Moment
• 2012 - F.O.H.
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Guest appearances
• 1984 - Guitar solos "Sharleena" and "Stevie's Spanking" on Frank Zappa's Them or Us
• 1984 - Guitar on Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 (album) on "Sharleena"[24]
• 1985 - Vocals on Frank Zappa's Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
• 1986 - Guitar solo on "Whipping Post" on Frank Zappa's Does Humor Belong in Music?'
• 1988 - Winger on "Purple Haze"
• 1989 - With sister Moon Unit, contributed the track "(In Love) With You Gumby" to the novelty album Gumby
• 1990 - Opening and outro solos on Extreme's Pornograffitti on the song "He-Man Woman Hater"[25]
• 1992 - Lead guitar on "Diva Fever" on Spinal Tap's Break Like the Wind
• 1993 - Lead guitar on "Dirty Love" and "Chunga's Revenge" on Zappa's Universe tribute
• 1994 - Barks on the track "Waffenspiel" on Frank Zappa's Civilization Phaze III
• 1997 - Guitar solo on Pat Boone's cover of "Smoke on the Water" (the No More Mr. Nice Guy album)
• 2000 - Guitar on Dixie Dregs's California Screamin CD performing "Peaches en Regalia"
• 2001 - 911, on "Top of the World"
• 2003 - "Weird Al" Yankovic's Poodle Hat album, on "Genius In France"
• 2006 - Lead guitar on "Chunga's Revenge" and "Bavarian Sunset" on Frank Zappa's Trance-Fusion
• 2011 - Solo guitar on "Release the Memes" from Centrifugal Satz Clock: Morning, by Steve Kusaba
References
[1] http:/ / www. dweezilzappaworld. com
[2] Dweezil Zappa Biography (1969-) (http:/ / www. filmreference. com/ film/ 45/ Dweezil-Zappa. html)
[3] "Lala Sloatman at IMDB" (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ name/ nm0806080/ ). . Retrieved ?2007-08-06.
[4] Miles, Barry (2004). Zappa (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=2pPgG9AXjN4C& printsec=frontcover). Grove Press. pp. 124.
ISBN 0-8021-1783-X. .
[5] These were the names of Frank Zappa's musicians and associates Ian Underwood, Don van Vliet, Calvin Schenkel and Euclid James
"Motorhead" Sherwood; see "What are the names of Frank Zappa's kids?" (http:/ / www. science. uva. nl/ ~robbert/ zappa/ faq/ main/ main-2.
html#ss2. 4). . Retrieved 2007-08-06..
[6] Zappa, Frank; Occhiogrosso, Peter (1990), The real Frank Zappa book (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=7lqfAAAAMAAJ& ), Simon
& Schuster, p. 254, ISBN 0-671-70572-5, , Snippet view page 245 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=7lqfAAAAMAAJ& q="five+
years+ old+ when+ he+ discovered+ the+ real+ names"+ zappa& dq="five+ years+ old+ when+ he+ discovered+ the+ real+ names"+ zappa&
cd=1)
[7] James, Daniel (September 2004). "Dweezil Zappa: 64-bit Computing & The Frank Zappa Archive" (http:/ / www. soundonsound. com/ sos/
sep04/ articles/ zappa. htm). Sound on Sound. . Retrieved 2008-02-20.
[8] http:/ / www. zappaplayszappa. com/ tourdates. html
[9] http:/ / www. killuglyradio. com/ 2009/ 04/ 03/ ray-white-leaves-zappa-plays-zappa/
[10] Edler, Molly Snyder (2007-06-17). "Dweezil and Frank reunite in "Zappa Plays Zappa"" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20080615031626/
http:/ / zappa. com/ zpz/ clippings_onmilwaukee. html). Archived from the original (http:/ / zappa. com/ zpz/ clippings_onmilwaukee. html)
on 2008-06-15. . Retrieved 2008-02-20.
[11] Zappa, Dweezil (2008-06-06). "On the road again/Dyna Flangers" (http:/ / www. zappa. com/ zpz/ tourlog/ index. php?year=2008&
month=6& day=6). . Retrieved 2009-04-13.
[12] "Lauren Knudsen Leaves Dweezil Zappa: Pictures" (http:/ / www. zimbio. com/ Lauren+ Knudsen/ articles/ -6lRt-JTXZf/ Lauren+
Knudsen+ Leaves+ Dweezil+ Zappa+ Pictures). .
[13] "Dweezil Zappa Sued By Lawyer" (http:/ / gossip. whyfame. com/ dweezil-zappa-sued-lawyer-16964). .
[14] "Dweezil Zappa Bio" (http:/ / www. dweezilzappaworld. com/ articles/ 23-dweezil-zappa-bio). . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
[15] Hagström - Dweezil Zappa (http:/ / www. hagstromguitars. com/ zappa. html)
[16] PRS artists - Dweezil Zappa (http:/ / www. prsguitars. com/ artists/ profiles/ dweezilzappa/ index. html)
[17] Artist: Dweezil Zappa (http:/ / www. fender. com/ artists/ index. php?id=113) Fender.com Retrieved: 2009-05-17
[18] (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=F0kF1sB-vQA)
[19] In the Studio with... Dweezil Zappa (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=jRXnPcIK1V8& feature=channel#) Guitarworld.com Retrieved:
2009-05-17
[20] http:/ / uk. youtube. com/ watch?v=0gqCtPcN5NE
[21] http:/ / www. fuzz. se/ main. asp?go=8& src=& sgo=0& am=1& aid=425
[22] Fractal Audio artist - Dweezil Zappa (http:/ / fractalaudio. com/ artist. html)
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[23] "DWEEZIL ZAPPA ON THE WIGGY WORKS.(guitar amplifier)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)" (http:/ / www. accessmylibrary.
com/ coms2/ summary_0286-10228680_ITM). Guitar Player. 2001-11-01. .
[24] NOTE: although recorded 12-23-84, the above version of "Sharleena" was first released as a 7" flexidisc in the Jan 1987 issue of Guitar
Player magazine.
[25] cdUniverse.com - Extreme II: Pornograffitti CD (http:/ / www. cduniverse. com/ search/ xx/ music/ pid/ 1094638/ a/ Extreme+ II:+
Pornograffitti. htm)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4294
External links
• Dweezil Zappa's website (http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/)
• Dweezil Zappa (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005574/) at the Internet Movie Database
• 2008 Dweezil Zappa interview (http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jun/08/
zappa_resurrects_fathers_eclectic_music/) with Jon Niccum
• December 2010 interview (http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/posts/
733-dweezil-zappa-interview-december-2010) with Tom Waring
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Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Zappa
Birth name Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa
Born May 15, 1974

Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupations Musician
Actor
Writer
Producer
Publisher
Associated acts Dweezil Zappa
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa (born May 15, 1974) is an American writer, producer, and publisher.
Early life
Ahmet was born in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to
businesswoman Gail Zappa (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zappa.[1] Ahmet's father was of Sicilian,
Greek-Arab and French descent and his mother is of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.[2][3] Ahmet has
released several albums with his brother Dweezil Zappa, as well as writing the song "Frogs With Dirty Little Lips"
with his father. He also has two sisters named Moon Zappa and Diva Zappa and has also appeared in a few feature
films and television programs, sometimes appearing as a program host in the latter (see Robotica, But Can They
Sing?).
Career
In the late 1990s, Ahmet appeared on Channel 4 UK's The Adam and Joe Show, in a regular segment called 'Vinyl
Justice', in which hosts Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, dressed as policemen, examined his vinyl collection for
'criminal records'.
In 2000, Ahmet appeared in the film Ready to Rumble. Along with his brother Dweezil, he also performed a cover of
Britney Spears' song "...Baby, One More Time" for the film's soundtrack.
In July 2006, Ahmet saw the release of his debut novel, entitled The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless,
aimed at younger readers. The rights to a movie have already been bought by Bruckheimer Films and Disney.[4] The
movie is in production with screenwriter Tim Firth assisting, and an expected release is being determined.[5]
On October 19, 2006, The Jim Henson Company announced it had hired Ahmet to write a treatment for a feature
film version of the hit 1980s television show Fraggle Rock. He is also writing a sequel to The Monstrous Memoirs of
a Mighty McFearless, which had also been optioned to adapt to a screenplay.
Ahmet Zappa introduced the idea of developing a graphic novel-to-film division to Disney’s studio head, Bob Iger.
Iger, understanding the studio’s need for such an entity, allowed Ahmet to run with the idea and granted him free rein
to what became known as “Disney’s Kingdom Comics.”[6]
Ahmet was also given a first look deal at Walt Disney Studios for motion picture productions. His company is called
Monsterfoot Productions. He has since created and sold many films. The first, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, was
released on August 15, 2012 by Walt Disney Pictures, and starred Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton. However, in
2005, author Georgia T. Archer and illustrator Ancel Archer wrote, illustrated, and copyrighted, "Children of Ocha,"
which is about a boy who was born with green leaves and the ability to change people's hearts and a girl who has
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special abilities and also born with green leaves. The children were conceived in a very unusual way. Thus, the idea
of a boy born with green leaves was originated and copyrighted in 2005 by Georgia T. Archer and Ancel Archer.
Personal life
He dated actress Rose McGowan in 2001. Ahmet married actress Selma Blair on January 24, 2004, at Carrie Fisher's
mansion in Beverly Hills, California. Blair filed for divorce at the Los Angeles Superior Court on June 21, 2006,
citing irreconcilable differences. In a statement to People, a spokesman for the couple said, "Selma and Ahmet have
decided to divorce but love each other very much and will continue to be close friends".[7]
Ahmet is now married to Angeleno Shana Muldoon — designer, stylist, writer and the sister of actor Patrick
Muldoon.[6] They have a daughter, Halo Violetta Zappa, born December 28, 2010.
Discography
• Confessions (1991)
• Shampoohorn (1994)
• Music For Pets (1996)
Filmography
• Pump Up the Volume (1990) - Jaime
• Jack Frost (1998) - Snow plow driver
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) - Lazlo
• Ready To Rumble (2000) - Cashier
• Fraggle Rock: The Movie (Announced, October 2006) - producer
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) - story by and producer
Television
• 2 Hip 4 Tv - Host (1988)
• Robotica - host for three seasons (2001–2002)
• webRIOT - host (1999)
• Happy Hour - host (1999)
• But Can They Sing? - host (2005)
• Head Case Ep #105 (Parental Guidance Required) - Starz Channel Original Series - self (2008)
• Roseanne (1996)
References
[1] Ahmet Zappa Biography (1974-) (http:/ / www. filmreference. com/ film/ 59/ Ahmet-Zappa. html)
[2] Miles, Barry (2004). Zappa (http:/ / books. google. com/ ?id=2pPgG9AXjN4C& printsec=frontcover). Grove Press. pp. 124.
ISBN 978-0-8021-1783-0. ISBN 0-8021-1783-X. .
[3] Creem magazine (Creem Media) September, 1974: 16.
[4] - "'Mighty' Mouse Book Buy" (http:/ / www. variety. com/ index. asp?layout=story& p=0& articleid=VR1117931232& s=h). -.
[5] "The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless at IMDB" (http:/ / imdb. com/ title/ tt0485678/ ). .
[6] The Daily Truffle: L.A. Native Ahmet Zappa — King of Disney’s Kingdom Comics (http:/ / www. thedailytruffle. com/ 2010/ 07/
disney-gets-into-comics-l-a-native-ahmet-zappa-paves-the-way-2/ )
[7] E! News - Selma Blair Legally Divorced (http:/ / www. eonline. com/ news/ article/ index.
jsp?uuid=face81ca-e904-462f-8aa7-144beb845aea)
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External links
• Ahmet Zappa (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm953257/) at the Internet Movie Database
Diva Zappa
Diva Zappa
Born July 30, 1979
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation Artist, businessperson, actor, musician
Website
[1]
divazappa.com
Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa (born July 30, 1979) is an American artist, also known for several acting roles in
film and television, as well as recording a one-off comedy single. She is the youngest daughter of musician Frank
Zappa.
Personal life
Zappa was born in Los Angeles, the youngest child of Frank and Gail Zappa. She has three older siblings, Moon
Unit, Dweezil, and Ahmet.
She was given the name Diva by her parents, according to Frank, "because of the loud quality of her voice. She's
audible at 300 yards."[2]
Zappa won an award at age 12 in a poster contest to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect.[3]
Career
Zappa's first film appearance was in the 1998 film Anarchy TV, along with her older siblings. Since then, she has
also appeared in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998), National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006), as well
as various TV shows including Felicity, Brothers & Sisters, and The Mighty Boosh.
In 1999, Zappa released a comedy single called "When The Bell Drops" about her "hunt for someone to make out
with on the Millennium".[4] Tipper Gore played drums on the recording[4] and Kristen Gore sang backup vocals.[5]
Zappa runs her own website/business called "Hand Made Beauty" where she sells her own self-designed and made
clothing.[6] The clothing is primarily knitted or crocheted, and consists of hats, ponchos and skirts.[7] A percentage of
all sales are donated to the Creative Visions Foundation.[6] She was initially taught how to knit by Laurie Metcalf.[8]
She does not plan her work, preferring to work in a spontaneous manner.[8]
A full-length dress she knitted was worn to the 2009 Grammy Awards by Chloé Trujillo, the wife of Metallica
bassist Robert Trujillo.[8] She also made a cape for Diablo Cody.[8]
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References
[1] http:/ / www. divazappa. com/
[2] Mary Campbell (January 31, 1980). "Zappa still lives in the world of the weird". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
[3] Gary Libman (April 29, 1992). "The Hardest Words". Los Angeles Times.
[4] Staff (December 28, 1999). "Tipper Gore Plays Drums for Diva Zappa". Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
[5] "Diva Zappa: Two Gores and a Record" (http:/ / news. google. com/ newspapers?id=8FdIAAAAIBAJ& sjid=7B4EAAAAIBAJ&
pg=4103,6180594& dq=diva+ zappa& hl=en). Wilmington Morning Star. 1999-12-29. . Retrieved 29 March 2011.
[6] "Hand Made Beauty" (http:/ / www. divazappa. com/ ). .
[7] Sarah Taylor (August 10, 2006). "Purl Girl". Women's Wear Daily.
[8] Vickie Howell (Spring/Summer 2009). "Knitting Diva". Knit 1. Magazine.
External links
• Diva Zappa (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953259/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Hand Made Beauty (http://www.divazappa.com/)
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Studio Tan Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=501448917 Contributors: Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Ebear422, Ferdinand Pienaar, Flowerparty, Friginator, Headbomb, Hmains,
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Sleep Dirt Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=510265502 Contributors: Aerosmith366, Alvareo, Aspects, Bunnyhop11, Cdl obelix, Chairhomie101, Chairman S.,
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Sheik Yerbouti Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=515087868 Contributors: Aerosmith366, Analogdemon, Andyzweb, Angelo.romano, Aspects, BigrTex, Burro, Cdl obelix,
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Joe's Garage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=514410166 Contributors: Agadant, Alan Liefting, Alex Ex, Amigan, Andyzweb, Antaeus Feldspar, Aquillion, Audiori, BMF81,
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You Are What You Is Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513614090 Contributors: .jhc., Alcuin, Aspects, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chris the speller, D-Rock, Dave Cohoe,
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Rondo66, Scrapdog, StanBlackey, Sugar Bear, Tbhotch, That Guy, From That Show!, Totz the Plaid, Vinciryan, W guice, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 37 anonymous edits
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513614256 Contributors: Bluezy, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., DVdm, Danialwilford,
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The Man from Utopia Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513801149 Contributors: Alexr, Aspects, Brad Eleven, Chairman S., Crew.ict, Dave Cohoe, David Be, Discordia23,
Emersunn, Erik9, Flowerparty, Friginator, Frunobulax19, Geniac, Gigantic Killerdong, Gihanuk, Googuse, HJensen, Habu974, Hamster Sandwich, Inx272, JeroenVanB, Ka5hmir, Knucmo2,
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Them or Us Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513614733 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Ferdinand Pienaar, Flowerparty, Friginator,
Frunobulax19, Geniac, Georingo, HJensen, JamesMLane, Koavf, Krash, Mike Garcia, Mikeblas, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu, PEJL, Pengyanan, Rich Farmbrough, Rjwilmsi, Rondo66, Sugar Bear,
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Thing-Fish Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513088664 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, Agadant, Bhuston, Bill37212, Bossk-Office, Carbonite, Cdl obelix, Cdw1952,
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Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=489396036 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, ANGLESEA, Aditya, Arcandam, Cdl obelix,
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PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Sugar Bear, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 25 anonymous edits
Jazz from Hell Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=512995074 Contributors: A&MFan, Abce2, Another Believer, Bobblehead, CS42, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chris the speller,
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Bergemann, Totz the Plaid, Twsx, Wiki libs, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zappafreakesque, 87 anonymous edits
Civilization Phaze III Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=488882504 Contributors: Alex 101, Alvareo, Ary29, Bigswifty, Brenont, Bunnyhop11, CanisRufus, Cdl obelix, Dave
Cohoe, DougScripts, Flowerparty, Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb, Hmains, Its Pytch.. Hon, JD554, Jacj, JaneGrey, Jeff3000, Jhsounds, Jogers, Jpbowen, Koavf, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu,
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Fillmore East – June 1971 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=514207520 Contributors: .jhc., Akdrummer75, Andrwsc, Billyrobshaw, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chdodd01,
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Steelbeard1, Sugar Bear, Theuniversal, Thomas279, TobyKJ, Totz the Plaid, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zephyrad, 45 anonymous edits
Just Another Band from L.A. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=487257481 Contributors: Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chris the speller, Cmdrjameson, Eroomgf, Flowerparty,
Friginator, Fritz Saalfeld, Gamaliel, Grenavitar, Grm wnr, Headbomb, Ikespirit, Kiore, Knucmo2, Koavf, Lurulu, MCBastos, Mikeguy, Oliviosu, PEJL, RHodnett, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66,
Rothorpe, SY0017, Slysplace, Steelbeard1, Sugar Bear, Tomwhite56, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 22 anonymous edits
Roxy & Elsewhere Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513957372 Contributors: .jhc., Alexfrentz, Aspects, Badger Drink, Bobo192, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Charles Matthews,
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VEO15, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zellin, 31 anonymous edits
Bongo Fury Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513649933 Contributors: Aeonx, Aspects, Betacommand, Calliopejen1, Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Dogfood85, Egglord,
Emdebe, Ferdinand Pienaar, Fisherjs, Flowerparty, Friginator, Frunobulax19, Gamaliel, Geniac, Guy Harris, HJensen, Jogers, Jweiss11, Koavf, Lightmouse, Lurulu, Mike Selinker,
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Bear, The 5th Silver Beatle, Theuniversal, Totz the Plaid, Varlaam, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 48 anonymous edits
Zappa in New York Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513957349 Contributors: .jhc., Abrasivenut, Allenstone, Allreet, AmitTheSomthing, Aspects, Baltojoe, Bobak, Cal42,
Chairman S., ChrisGualtieri, Elevendaysinmay, Emdebe, Erik9, Flowerparty, Friginator, Gigantic Killerdong, HJensen, Headbomb, Hmains, Hughgotit, Inx272, Jokestress, Keraunoscopia,
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Slysplace, Sugar Bear, Taestell, Tcncv, Thiseye, Welsh, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 54 anonymous edits
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=503390876 Contributors: .jhc., Abmulder, Alcuin, Billyrobshaw, Blanchardb, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., DVdm,
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Tinseltown Rebellion Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=491956845 Contributors: DVdm, Mrmoustache14, Sugar Bear
Broadway the Hard Way Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=495681004 Contributors: .jhc., Abmulder, Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Erik9, Ferdinand Pienaar, Flowerparty,
Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb, Jogers, JohnnyLurg, Knucmo2, Koavf, Krash, Mikeblas, Oliviosu, PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Ruziklan, Squids and Chips, Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, The
Invisible Man, TheOldJacobite, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 14 anonymous edits
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513089337 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, AaronRichard, Angelo.romano, Casperonline, Cdl
obelix, Chairman S., Cheesebox, DCEdwards1966, DVdm, Dave Cohoe, Deltabeignet, Design, Drumsac, Ferdinand Pienaar, Flowerparty, Friginator, Funkybassuk, HJensen, Ich, Jdmccallen,
Knucmo2, Koavf, Krash, Lightmouse, Mikeblas, Mrmoustache14, Nlu, Oliviosu, OwenX, PEJL, Pugs Malone, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Slysplace, Sugar Bear, Teklund, TheNethero, Toby
Woodwark, Vinciryan, Wahoofive, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Witchwooder, 39 anonymous edits
Make a Jazz Noise Here Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511906696 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, AmitTheSomthing, DVdm, Drumsac, Flowerparty, Friginator, Gilderien,
HJensen, JustAGal, Koavf, Mikeblas, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu, PEJL, Pgcarman, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Sprecher, Sugar Bear, Thatcher, TheNethero, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 11
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Playground Psychotics Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=478858874 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, A13ean, Backtable, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Design, Flowerparty,
Friginator, Koavf, Mikeblas, Notreallydavid, Oliviosu, PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, Robert Weemeyer, Rondo66, SlubGlub, Sugar Bear, ThaddeusB, Thomas279, 8 anonymous edits
Ahead of Their Time Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=493978243 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, Angela, CapitalR, Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Flowerparty, Friginator, Jogers,
Koavf, Marek Koudelka, Markhadman, Mike Garcia, Oliviosu, PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Rothorpe, Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars, Sugar Bear, Toby Woodwark, W guice, Warpozio,
Guitar Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513614870 Contributors: .jhc., A&MFan, Ary29, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chris the speller, DVdm, Emdebe, Equal, Erik9,
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Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, The Haunted Angel, Theuniversal, Totz the Plaid, Triedradio, W guice, Welsh, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Woohookitty, Zappafripp, 10 anonymous edits
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513957288 Contributors: .jhc., Abstrator, Bubba hotep, Chairman S., Cmdrjameson,
Ferdinand Pienaar, Flowerparty, Headbomb, Hmains, J36miles, Jasper420, Jaxl, Koavf, Krash, Meddling, Michael Slone, Mrmoustache14, Nv8200p, Oliviosu, PEJL, Quackfoot, Rich
Farmbrough, Rubblesby, Simo90, Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, 16 anonymous edits
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511946571 Contributors: .jhc., Action Jackson IV, AmitTheSomthing, Berolina, CapitalR,
Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Flowerparty, HJensen, J36miles, JesseW, Koavf, Krash, Mailer diablo, Mike Garcia, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu, PEJL, Pengyanan, Pikiwedian, Rich Farmbrough,
Salamurai, Skarioffszky, Sugar Bear, Timberline, Wasted Time R, Wikielwikingo, 17 anonymous edits
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513786987 Contributors: .jhc., Chairman S., Dental Floss Tycoon, Flowerparty, GoingBatty,
J36miles, Jaxl, Koavf, Krash, Lurulu, Maester mensch, Mrmoustache14, NuclearWarfare, Nv8200p, Oliviosu, PEJL, Reallybored999, Rich Farmbrough, Sugar Bear, W guice, 15 anonymous
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513089030 Contributors: .jhc., Bigdread, Bjones, Chairman S., Dave Cohoe, Flowerparty,
Grm wnr, Headbomb, J36miles, Jaxl, Koavf, LeRoytheKing, Mike Garcia, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu, PEJL, Pjoef, R7, RAHB, Rich Farmbrough, Sc147, SteveHopson, Sugar Bear, Thomas279,
Webcor, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zappatista, 8 anonymous edits
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511946984 Contributors: .jhc., Abstrator, Bubba hotep, Chairman S., Cmdrjameson, FA010S,
Flowerparty, Geniac, J36miles, JHunterJ, Jasper420, Jaxl, Koavf, Krash, Mrmoustache14, Nv8200p, Oliviosu, PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, Sk'py Skwrrrl, Sugar Bear, Thomas279, Tony1,
Wisdomtenacityfocus, Xihix, 13 anonymous edits
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513092168 Contributors: .jhc., Abstrator, Arnvidr, Chairman S., Cmdrjameson, Derek R
Bullamore, Ferdinand Pienaar, Florigen9, Flowerparty, FunkMonk, Geniac, Giraffedata, Headbomb, Hmains, J36miles, Jaxl, Koavf, Les Ward, Lisapopeil, Mrmoustache14, Oliviosu, PEJL, Rich
Farmbrough, Sugar Bear, TheRingess, 17 anonymous edits
FZ:OZ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513091019 Contributors: Al E., Alvareo, Cdl obelix, Flowerparty, Friginator, JustAGal, Koavf, Ledpoison1, LittleWink, Marek
Koudelka, Mrmoustache14, PEJL, Ptamras, Rich Farmbrough, RobyWayne, ShelfSkewed, Sugar Bear, Total-MAdMaN, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 9 anonymous edits
Halloween Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513321679 Contributors: Cdl obelix, Flowerparty, Friginator, Gczffl, Headbomb, Ivan Bajlo, Koavf, Lopers, Marek Koudelka,
Mrmoustache14, PEJL, Rich Farmbrough, ShelfSkewed, Sugar Bear, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 9 anonymous edits
Imaginary Diseases Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511947550 Contributors: Alai, Bobblewik, Cdl obelix, Chickyraptor, Crystallina, Friginator, HJensen, Inx272, Ivan
Bajlo, Koavf, Lurulu, Marek Koudelka, Mrmoustache14, PEJL, Pjoef, Pruxo, R'n'B, RWhite, Rich Farmbrough, Room429, Scwlong, Sugar Bear, Veniyanwarrior, Waacstats,
Trance-Fusion Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=501253138 Contributors: Balloonguy, Bossk-Office, Cdl obelix, Emdebe, Friginator, GRPunk17, HJensen, Hmains, Ivan
Bajlo, Koavf, Midaiz1221, Munci, N.Nahber, Notreallydavid, Pjoef, RAHB, RTC, Rich Farmbrough, Rothorpe, Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 17 anonymous edits
Buffalo Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513809993 Contributors: Badger Drink, Cdl obelix, Friginator, FunkMonk, HJensen, Jackol, Koavf, Lurulu, Mrmoustache14,
OverlordQ, Pjoef, Pruxo, Rondo66, Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme, Sugar Bear, Tbhotch, W guice, Waacstats, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 7 anonymous edits
Wazoo Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=472128860 Contributors: Armbrust, CWesling, Cdl obelix, CheepnisAroma, Gongshow, HJensen, Keraunoscopia, Koavf, Lurulu,
Marek Koudelka, Mrmoustache14, Pjoef, Saltywood, SilkTork, Sugar Bear, Veniyanwarrior, Vivio Testarossa, W guice, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 15 anonymous edits
One Shot Deal Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511948002 Contributors: Bazka, Cdl obelix, CheepnisAroma, Friginator, GoingBatty, Gongshow, GregorB, HJensen, Koavf,
Lurulu, Marek Koudelka, Mdeloia, Mikelerch, Mrmoustache14, Redxx, Rhebus, Rothorpe, Salamurai, Tassedethe, Veniyanwarrior, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zazaban, Δ, 7 anonymous edits
Philly '76 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513455600 Contributors: BruceCMcD, Cdl obelix, Derek R Bullamore, Eeekster, Fastilysock, Friginator, Gczffl, Koavf, Lurulu,
Mrmoustache14, Mudwater, Mystery Roach, PamD, Rothorpe, Rugby007, Veniyanwarrior, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zazaban, 15 anonymous edits
200 Motels Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513609855 Contributors: CasualVisitor, DVdm, DominEl, Erik9, Friginator, GoingBatty, Headbomb, Keraunoscopia, Koavf,
Lightmouse, Mrmoustache14, Pjoef, Rjwilmsi, Rlholden, Rondo66, Sugar Bear, Tigre do oeste, Topolgnussy, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Woohookitty, 26 anonymous edits
Baby Snakes Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=496416310 Contributors: .jhc., Andreascg, Betacommand, Cdl obelix, Egglord, Frank0508, Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb,
Hmains, JohnnyLurg, Koavf, Matharvest, Nahnite, Rich Farmbrough, Rjwilmsi, Rondo66, Sugar Bear, Topolgnussy, Uzisuicide, Wisdomtenacityfocus, Zidane tribal, 9 anonymous edits
The Dub Room Special Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511947873 Contributors: Armbrust, Cdl obelix, Chickyraptor, Friginator, HJensen, Koavf, Mrmoustache14, Pruxo,
Scottmsg, Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, Veniyanwarrior, Waacstats, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 5 anonymous edits
Does Humor Belong in Music? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=494760410 Contributors: .jhc., 2rusty22, Acather96, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., ChrisGualtieri, Flowerparty,
Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb, Knucmo2, Koavf, Oliviosu, PEJL, RAHB, Rich Farmbrough, Rondo66, Salamurai, Slysplace, Sugar Bear, Warpozio, Wasted Time R, Wisdomtenacityfocus, 9
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Uncle Meat Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=509571693 Contributors: Analogdemon, Angelo.romano, Author23, BNutzer, Barewires, Cdl obelix, Charles Matthews,
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Orchestral Favorites Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=515022539 Contributors: .jhc., AxelBoldt, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Flowerparty, Friginator, Inx272, LIRAPROD,
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London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=478102454 Contributors: .jhc., Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Discospinster, Flowerparty, Friginator,
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London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=478102360 Contributors: .jhc., Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Chrisch, Cmdrjameson, Flowerparty,
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Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513614528 Contributors: .jhc., Cdl obelix, Chairman S., DISEman, Flowerparty,
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Francesco Zappa Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=501689994 Contributors: Benzh, Cdl obelix, Friginator, Helpsloose, Ilion2, Jacopo Franzoni, Koavf, Lightmouse,
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The Yellow Shark Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=515192707 Contributors: Angelo.romano, Aspects, Backtable, Californian Treehugger, Cdl obelix, Chairman S.,
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=512824255 Contributors: Alvareo, Anetode, Boonspender, Brewcrewer, Bryan Derksen, CaliforniaDave, Cdl
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The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=508818018 Contributors: Cdl obelix, Emdebe, Friginator, GrahamHardy, Koavf, PEJL, Rich
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Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=487262210 Contributors: Cdl obelix, DGMDGM, Dave Cohoe,
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Have I Offended Someone? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513090541 Contributors: Cdl obelix, Emdebe, FileJunkie, Flowerparty, Friginator, Gabe19, Hmains, Koavf,
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Mystery Disc Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=514060590 Contributors: Flowerparty, Friginator, Fuhghettaboutit, Ghmyrtle, Hmains, JohnnyLurg, Klassikkomies, Koavf,
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Cheap Thrills Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513088844 Contributors: Bobyllib, Dboyles, Friginator, FunkMonk, Hakkahakkabazoom, Headbomb, JohnnyLurg,
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Joe's Corsage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511947438 Contributors: Cdl obelix, DavidWBrooks, Demogorgon's Soup-taster, DragonflySixtyseven, Flowerparty,
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Quaudiophiliac Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=509593303 Contributors: Analogdemon, Bueller 007, Cdl obelix, DLetersky, Danretegan, Dave Cohoe, Dori, Flowerparty,
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Joe's Xmasage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=488245374 Contributors: Alai, Cdl obelix, Friginator, Fuzzy510, Koavf, Nixeagle, PEJL, RWhite, Rich Farmbrough, Sugar
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The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle (2006) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513321606 Contributors: Alai, Arxiloxos, Bossk-Office, Friginator, HJensen,
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The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle (2008) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511949563 Contributors: Friginator, HJensen, JaGa, Koavf, Lurulu, Misbeliever,
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The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle (2010) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513321425 Contributors: Agnamaracs, Friginator, Koavf, Mrmoustache14,
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Joe's Domage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=500128704 Contributors: BD2412, Cdl obelix, Flowerparty, Friginator, Headbomb, Juryen, Koavf, Luisgdh, Lurulu, Marek
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Joe's Menage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513810083 Contributors: Cdl obelix, CheepnisAroma, Digitalmover, Dima6, Friginator, HJensen, Jakk6, Koavf, Lurulu,
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Greasy Love Songs Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=508831652 Contributors: Bearcat, Cdl obelix, DVdm, Doomsdayer520, Friginator, Headbomb, JohnnyLurg, Koavf,
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The Old Masters Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=493499282 Contributors: Cdl obelix, DVdm, Headbomb, Koavf, Magioladitis, Marek Koudelka, Neelix, Pengyanan, Rich
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Beat the Boots Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513571574 Contributors: 2A01:E35:87BB:BCC0:464:339B:5EC6:71D, Bftrock, Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Daemonic
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Beat the Boots II Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=512796231 Contributors: A. di M., Cdl obelix, Chairman S., Dankitti, Emdebe, Flowerparty, Jafeluv, Jogers, Koavf,
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Beat the Boots III Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513321385 Contributors: Eggthang, Emdebe, Headbomb, Mrmoustache14, Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars
Läther Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=514327677 Contributors: Alex 101, Alvareo, Alxndr, AmitTheSomthing, Arevco99, AxelFendersson, Californian Treehugger,
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The MOFO Project/Object Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=511947607 Contributors: Alai, Arthena, CapitalQ, Emdebe, Erik9, Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb, Heaven's
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The Lumpy Money Project/Object Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=513810132 Contributors: CapitalQ, CheepnisAroma, Friginator, HJensen, Headbomb, Koavf,
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"A Token of My Extreme" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=489418527 Contributors: Alai, Alan Liefting, Antaeus Feldspar, Auntof6, Cirt, DH85868993, Dr bab, Dugwiki,
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"Absolutely Free" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=409495052 Contributors: AmitTheSomthing, Dycedarg, Emperornortonx, Fibbo, Jimiloughlin, Moxy, Pustelnik,
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"Advance Romance" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=514815111 Contributors: Derek R Bullamore, Eeekster, LindsayH, Mrmoustache14, Rcsprinter123, Stuartyeates
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=493497931 Contributors: Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The, Badger Drink, Bkonrad,
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"America Drinks and Goes Home" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=504940899 Contributors: Djodjo666, John of Reading, JustAGal, Lawoot42, Minnaert, Moxy,
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"Billy the Mountain" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=506230671 Contributors: AvicAWB, Balloonguy, Bedient, Cmdrjameson, David Gerard, Duplojohn, E-Kartoffel,
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"Bobby Brown (Goes Down)" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=495055571 Contributors: Akerans, Big Bird, CommonsDelinker, Durova, EvanKok, Friginator, Frédérick
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"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=493721350 Contributors: AmitTheSomthing, CopperKettle, Djodjo666, Doozy88, DoubleACbg, Grenavitar,
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Frank Zappa and The

Classical music 241

Box sets 305

Related articles 418

Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977

Birth name Frank Vincent Zappa

Born December 21, 1940

Died December 4, 1993 (aged 52)

Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician, conductor, producer

Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synclavier, drums

Years active 1955–1993

Labels Verve, Bizarre, Straight, DiscReet, Zappa, Barking Pumpkin

Associated acts The Mothers of Invention

Website [Zappa.com Zappa.com]

Youth and beginning of career (1955–1960)

Early 1960s: Studio Z

Late 1960s: The Mothers of Invention

Debut album: Freak Out! (1966)

New York period (1966–1968)

Disbanding the original Mothers of Invention (1969)

After he disbanded The Mothers of Invention, Zappa released the

1970s: From The Mothers to Zappa

Rebirth of The Mothers and filmmaking (1970)

Accident, attack and their aftermath (1971–1972)

Top 10 album (1973–1975)

Business breakups and touring (1976–1979)

In the mid-1970s Zappa prepared material for Läther (pronounced

Zappa as an independent artist (1979)

1980s: Productive as ever

From hit single to classical performances

Digital medium and last tour

1990s: Classical music and death

preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this

Acclaim and honors

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll

Guitar Player devoted a special issue to Zappa in 1992, and asked on

Artists influenced by Zappa

References in arts and sciences

[14] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, p. 22.

[66] Lowe, 2006, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, p. 5.

[157] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, p. 284.

[202] Miles, 2004, Frank Zappa, pp. 357–361.

The Mothers of Invention

"The Grandmothers", composed of former Mothers of Invention bandmembers, in 2000.

Years active 1964-1971; 1973-1975

Labels Verve, Reprise, Bizarre, DiscReet

Associated acts Canned Heat

Debut album: Freak Out! (1966)

New York period (1966–1968)

Rebirth of The Mothers and filmmaking (1970)

This version of The Mothers debuted on Zappa's next solo album

Accident, attack and their aftermath (1971–1972)

Top 10 album (1973–1975)

• Ian Underwood - woodwinds, saxophone, July 1967 - August 1969

• Playground Psychotics (1992, recorded 1970-71)

Frank Zappa discography

Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977

↙Tribute and cover albums 40

1966 Jun Freak Out! 130 — — — — — —

1967 Apr Absolutely Free 41 — — — — — —

Aug Lumpy Gravy 159 — — — — — —

1968 Mar We're Only in It for the Money 30 31 — — — — —

Nov Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 110 — — — — — —