Label: Discreet-WB DIS 59201 (D) kW
Medium: LP

29.99EUR

ZAPPA, FRANK (Mothers)
[Apostrophe (1974)]

ZAPPA, FRANK   (Mothers)

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;

1974:
FZ - lead guitars, bass, vocals; George Duke - keyboards, voc.; Ruth Underwood - perc.;
Ian Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock - sax, voc.; Bruce Fowler - trombone;
Sugar Cane Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty - violin; Sal Marquet - trumpet; 
Jack Bruce, Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski), Tom Fowler - bass;
Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Gordon, John Guerin, Ralp Humphrey - drums, perc.;
Ray Collins, Kerry McNabb, Susie Glover, Rob.Camarena, R.L. De Guevara, Lynn - b.-voc.;
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;

Side One     all titles written by  FZ  if not shown...
Dont eat the yellow Snow   2:06
Nanook Rubs it   4:37
St. Alfonzos Pancake Breakfast   1:52
Father Oblivion   2:18
Cosmik Debris    4:10

Side Two
Excentrifugal Forz   1:31
Apostrophe  (Zappa-Bruce-Gordon)   5:53
Uncle Remus   (Zappa-Duke)   2:54
Stink Foot     6:35

 

 

 

Zustandsbeschreibung / grading:
RECORD =
m- 
COVER  =
vg++ to nm   (minor edge wear; ) 
 

 

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