Frank Zappa - born 1940 together with his schoolmate DON VAN VLIET he founded a
first band called the BLACKOUT, back in the late 50s.
Around this time  50s & early 60s he wrote songs some recorded by his band The SOUL GIANTS.
In 1966 his new named band MOTHERS OF INVENTION  signed to MGM-Verve and
released FREAK OUT (1966), a great psych influenced double album  (must be one of..if not
the first double LP in Rock) produced by Tom Wilson.
This and the following albums, showed him as a musical forerunner ahead of his time.... mixing
psych-rock, Doo-Wop, orchester-parts, avantgarde uncluding jazz influences toped and
garnished by his great guitar playing and with his special lyrics.
In 1969 he established his own label Bizarre - Straight, producing and releasing other acts ,
like CAPTAIN BEEFHEART ; WILDMAN FISHER or ALICE COOPER .
In Dec. 1993 he died of cancer, what a loss for the music.

Style:  Psych ; Progressive ; Avantgarde ;

Connection of the first 10 years..See :
Captain Beefheart ; Geronimo ; Jimmy Carl Black  (one last appearance see: Boogie Stuff);
Fraternity Of Man ; Factory incl. Lowell George ; Buffalo Springfield ; Ruben & The Jets ;
Grandmothers ; Rhinoceros ; Turtles ; Flo & Eddie ; Don Preston ; George Duke ; J.L.Ponty ;
Sugar-Cane Harris ; John Mayall ; Aynsley Dunbar Ret. ; Journey ; Jeff Simmons ; U.K. ;
Monkees ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Terry Bozzio ; Jack Bruce ; Shuggy Otis ;

Musicians:
1966-1969 :
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals; Elliott Ingber, Jim Fielder - guitars;
Roy Estrada - bass; Jim Carl Black, Bill Mundi - drums, perc., voc.;
Don Preston - keyboards; Bunk Gardner - horns; Ray Collins - voc.;
68: Ian Underwood  - piano, sax; Jim Motorhead Sherwood - sax;
69: Arthur Tripp III  - drums; Ruth Underwood (Komanoff) - marimba, vibes;
Mothers - 1972:
Frank Zappa + Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan - lead vocals;
Ian Underwood -  winds, keyboards, voc.; Jim Pons- bass, voc.;
Aynsley Dunbar - drums, perc.; Don Preston - keyboard, mini-moog;
1976:
FZ - guitar, bass, synth, keyb.;lead- vocals; Ruth Underwood - synthy, marimba;
Roy Estrada, Dave Parlato,  - bass, voc.; Andre Lewis - organ, voc.;
Terry Bozzio - drums; Davey Moire - lead voc.; Sparkie Parker - back-voc;
Don van Vliet - harmonica; Napoleon Murphy Brock - sax;Lu Ann Neil -harp;

1979:
Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals; Warren Cucurullo - rhythm guitar, voc.;
Denny Walley - slide guitar, voc.; Ike Willis - lead vocals; Ed Mann - perc.;
Peter Wolf, Tommy Mars - keyboards; Arthur Barrow, Patrick OHearn - bass;
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums; Jeff - tenor sax; Marginal Chagrin - baritone sax;
Stumuk - bass, sax; Dale Bozzio, Al Malkin - vocals; Craig Steward - harmonica;

Side One      (Act II   18:51)
A Token of my Extreme  5:18
Stick it out   4:33
Sy Borg       8:50
Side Two     (Act II  19:17)
Dong work for Yuda   5:03
Keep it Greasy   8:22
Outside Now      5:52

Side Three   (Act III   20:12)
He used to cut the Grass   8:34
Packard Goose   11:38
Side Four   (Act III  17:25)
Watermelon in Easter Hay   10:00
A little green Rosetta    7:25

Zustandsbeschreibung / grading:

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 vg++ to nm  (FOC; knees on the opening;
               minor edge wear)

has the rare insert