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, bass, 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, clarinet; Jim Motorhead Sherwood - sax;
69: Arthur Tripp III  - drums; Ruth Underwood (Komanoff) - marimba, vibes;

1971 :
Frank Zappa - guitar, bass, vocals; Ian Underwood  - keyboards, piano, sax, clarinet;
Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jimmy Carl Black - vocals, special effects; Martin Lickert - bass;
Aynsley Dunbar - drums; George Duke - keyboards, trombone; Jim Pons - voice;
Guests:
The Top Score Singers - conducted by David Van Asch ;
Classical Guitar Ensemble - supervised by John Williams - narrated by Theodore Bikel ;

Producer : Frank Zappa ;  Engineer: Bob Auger & Barry Keene  (re-mix);

Design: The Institute Inc. - Dave MacMacken ;



Side One    all songs composed by F.Zappa
Semi-Fraudulent / Direct- from Hollywood Overture
Mystery Roach
Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers
This Town is a sealed Tuna Sandwich (prologue)
Dance of the just plain Folks
This Town is a sealed Tuna Sandwich (reprise)
The sealed Tuna Bolero
Lonesome Cowboy Burt

Side Two
Touring can make you crazy'
Would You like a Snack ?
Redneck Eats
Centerville
She painted up her Face
Janets big Dance Number
Half a Dozen provocative Squats
Mysterioso
Shove it right in
Lucys Seduction of a bored Violinist & Postlude

Side Three
Im stealing the Towels
Dental Hygeine Dilemma
Does this Kind of Life look intersting to You ?
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Penis Dimension
What will this Evening bring me this Morning

Side Four
A Nun Suit painted on some old Boxes
Magic Fingers
Motorheads Midnight Ranch
The Lad Searchers the Night for his Newts
The Girl wants tofix him some Broth
The Girls Dream
Little green scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce
Strictly Genteel  (the finale)

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