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The Mothers of Invention

Index The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California. [1]

137 relations: Absolutely Free, Ahead of Their Time, Album cover, Ant-Bee, Apostrophe ('), Arrangement, Art Tripp, Audio mixing (recorded music), Autocracy, Avant-garde music, Aynsley Dunbar, Beat the Boots II, Billboard charts, Billy Mundi, Billy the Mountain, Bizarre Records, Blonde on Blonde, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bob Harris (musician), Bongo Fury, Bruce Fowler, Bunk Gardner, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Buzz Gardner, Cal Schenkel, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album), Chester Thompson, Chord chart, Chunga's Revenge, Counterculture of the 1960s, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Culture of Los Angeles, Dada, Deep Purple, Denny Walley, DiscReet Records, Don Preston, Doo-wop, Elliot Ingber, Experimental music, Fillmore East – June 1971, Flo & Eddie, Flower power, Frank Zappa, Freak Out!, George Duke, Gook, ..., Henry Vestine, Herb Cohen, Hippie, Howard Kaylan, Ian Underwood, Inca Roads (song), Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jeff Simmons (musician), Jim Fielder, Jim Pons, Jim Sherwood, Jimmy Carl Black, Joe's Corsage, John Lennon, Just Another Band from L.A., Keith Moon, Larynx, Little Feat, Lowell George, Major third, Mark Volman, MGM Records, Micky Dolenz, Montana (Frank Zappa song), Montreux Casino, Mother's Day (United States), Motherfucker, Mothermania, Music industry, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Necessity is the mother of invention, Novi Novog, One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album), Over-Nite Sensation, Overdubbing, Peacefrog Records, Pinewood Studios, Playground Psychotics, Rainbow Theatre, Ray Collins (musician), Reprise Records, Rhythm and blues, Ricky Lancelotti, Ringo Starr, Road Tapes, Venue 3, Rock music, Roxy & Elsewhere, Roy Estrada, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royalty payment, Ruben and the Jets, Ruth Underwood, Session musician, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Simon & Garfunkel, Smoke on the Water, Some Time in New York City, Sound collage, Terry Bozzio, The Beatles, The Grand Wazoo, The MOFO Project/Object, The Monkees, The Rite of Spring, The Turtles, Theodore Bikel, Tom Fowler (musician), Tom Wilson (record producer), Tony Palmer, Trouble Every Day (song), Uncle Meat, Underground music, Van Dyke Parks, Verve Records, Videotape, Waka/Jawaka, Watts riots, We're Only in It for the Money, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Yoko Ono, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2, YouTube, 200 Motels (soundtrack), 35 mm film. Expand index (87 more) »

Absolutely Free

Absolutely Free is the second studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa, released in 1967.

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Ahead of Their Time

Ahead of Their Time is a live album by The Mothers of Invention.

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Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

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Ant-Bee

Ant-Bee (stage-name for Billy James) is an American experimental musician and writer.

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Apostrophe (')

Apostrophe (') is an album by Frank Zappa, his eighteenth, released on March 22, 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Art Tripp

Arthur Dyer Tripp III (born September 10, 1944) is a retired American musician who is best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Autocracy

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Aynsley Dunbar

Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer.

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Beat the Boots II

Beat the Boots II is a box set by Frank Zappa.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billy Mundi

Billy Mundi (born Antonio Salas, September 25, 1942 in San Francisco – March 29, 2014) was an American drummer best known as a member of The Mothers of Invention and Rhinoceros.

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Billy the Mountain

"Billy the Mountain" is a Frank Zappa song first made available on the album Just Another Band from L.A. in 1972.

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Bizarre Records

Bizarre Records, self-identified simply as Bizarre, was a production company and record label formed for artists discovered by rock musician Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen.

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Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in mid 1966, on Columbia Records.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Harris (musician)

Robert Maurice "Bob" Harris (born 1941 in Los Angeles, California - July 6, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and arranger.

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Bongo Fury

Bongo Fury is a collaborative album by American artists Frank Zappa and the Mothers, with Captain Beefheart, released in October 2, 1975.

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Bruce Fowler

Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American trombonist and composer.

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Bunk Gardner

John Leon Guarnera, professionally known as "Bunk" Gardner (born May 2, 1933, Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is an American musician who most notably played for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention until the group disbanded in 1969.

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Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Burnt Weeny Sandwich is an album by The Mothers of Invention, released in 1970.

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Buzz Gardner

Charles "Buzz" Guarnera (1931 – February 1, 2004) was an American trumpet and flugelhorn player.

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Cal Schenkel

Calvin "Cal" Schenkel (born January 27, 1947, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) is an American illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist, specializing in album cover design.

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Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.

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Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album)

Carnegie Hall is a quadruple live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released posthumously on October 31, 2011, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records.

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Chester Thompson

Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer, percussionist, session musician, producer, and teacher.

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Chord chart

A chord chart (or chart) is a form of musical notation that describes the basic harmonic and rhythmic information for a song or tune.

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Chunga's Revenge

Chunga's Revenge is the third solo album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth studio album by the Mothers of Invention.

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Culture of Los Angeles

The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.

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Denny Walley

Denny Walley is an American guitarist who was born in Pennsylvania 4 February 1943.

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DiscReet Records

DiscReet Records, self-identified simply as DiscReet, was a record label founded by Frank Zappa and his then business partner/manager Herb Cohen.

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Don Preston

Donald Ward Preston (born September 21, 1932) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Elliot Ingber

Elliot Ingber (born August 24, 1941) is an American guitarist.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Fillmore East – June 1971

Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1971.

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Flo & Eddie

Flo & Eddie a comedic musical duo consisting of Mark Volman (Flo, short for "Phlorescent Leech") and Howard Kaylan (Eddie).

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Flower power

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Freak Out!

Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966, on Verve Records.

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George Duke

George Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres.

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Gook

Gook is a derogatory term toward East and Southeast Asians, especially Filipinos, Koreans, and Vietnamese.

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Henry Vestine

Henry Charles Vestine (December 25, 1944 – October 20, 1997) a.k.a. "The Sunflower", was an American guitar player known mainly as a member of the band Canned Heat.

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Herb Cohen

Herbert Cohen (December 30, 1932 – March 16, 2010) was an American personal manager, record company executive, and music publisher, best known as the manager of Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley, Odetta, Tom Waits, George Duke, and many other Los Angeles-based musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan (born Howard Kaplan, June 22, 1947) is an American rock and roll musician and writer, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles, and as "Eddie" in the 1970s rock band Flo & Eddie.

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Ian Underwood

Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, perhaps best known for his work with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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Inca Roads (song)

"Inca Roads" is the opening track of the Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention 1975 album, One Size Fits All.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Jeff Simmons (musician)

Jeff Simmons (born May 21, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American rock musician best known as a former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.

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Jim Fielder

Jim Fielder (born October 4, 1947 in Denton, Texas) is an American bassist, best known for his work as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears.

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Jim Pons

Jim Pons (born March 14, 1943 in Santa Monica, California, United States) is a former bass guitarist and singer for several 1960s rock bands, including The Leaves, The Turtles, and The Mothers of Invention.

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Jim Sherwood

Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood (May 8, 1942 – December 25, 2011) was an American rock musician notable for playing soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, tambourine, vocals and vocal sound effects in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.

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Jimmy Carl Black

James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (February 1, 1938 – November 1, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Carl Black, was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.

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Joe's Corsage

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).

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Just Another Band from L.A.

Just Another Band from L.A. is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music).

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Keith Moon

Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who.

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Larynx

The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Lowell George

Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979) was an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.

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Major third

In classical music from Western culture, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third is a third spanning four semitones.

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Mark Volman

Mark Volman (born April 19, 1947) is an American rock and roll guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Turtles.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Micky Dolenz

George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a vocalist and drummer of the 1960s pop/rock band the Monkees.

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Montana (Frank Zappa song)

"Montana" is a song composed by Frank Zappa for his 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation.

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Montreux Casino

Montreux Casino (Casino Barrière de Montreux) is a casino Located in Montreux, Switzerland, on the shoreline of Lake Geneva.

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Mother's Day (United States)

Mother's Day in the United States is an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

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Motherfucker

Motherfucker (sometimes abbreviated as mofo, mf, or mf'er) is an English-language vulgarism.

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Mothermania

Mothermania (1969), subtitled The Best of the Mothers, is a compilation album by the Mothers of Invention.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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Napoleon Murphy Brock

Napoleon Murphy Brock (born June 7, 1945) is an American singer, saxophonist and flute player who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, and Bongo Fury.

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Necessity is the mother of invention

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is an English-language proverb.

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Novi Novog

Novi Novog, born in North Hollywood, California is an American viola player.

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One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)

One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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Over-Nite Sensation

Over-Nite Sensation is a studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (the process of making an overdub, or overdubs) is a technique used in audio recording, whereby a musical passage is recorded twice.

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Peacefrog Records

Peacefrog Records is an independent record label based in London, United Kingdom.

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Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, about from Slough, from Uxbridge, and approximately west of central London.

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Playground Psychotics

Playground Psychotics is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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Rainbow Theatre

The Rainbow Theatre, originally known as the Astoria Theatre, is a Grade II*-listed building in Finsbury Park, London.

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Ray Collins (musician)

Ray Collins (November 19, 1936 – December 24, 2012) was an American musician.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Ricky Lancelotti

Ricky Lancelotti (August 25, 1944 - April 7, 1980), also known as Rick Lancelot, was a singer best known for his work with Frank Zappa in 1973.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Road Tapes, Venue 3

Road Tapes, Venue #3 is a posthumous album of Frank Zappa, which was released in May 2016.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roxy & Elsewhere

Roxy & Elsewhere is a live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, which was released in 1974.

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Roy Estrada

Roy Estrada (also known as "Roy Ralph Moleman Guacamole Guadalupe Hidalgo Estrada" and "Orejón"; born April 17, 1943 in Santa Ana, California) is an American musician and vocalist, best known for his bass guitar work with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and for having been a founding member of Little Feat, playing on their first two albums.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), based in London, was formed by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946.

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Royalty payment

A royalty is a payment made by one party, the licensee or franchisee to another that owns a particular asset, the licensor or franchisor for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

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Ruben and the Jets

Ruben and the Jets was an American, Los Angeles-based rock band, active between 1972 and 1974.

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Ruth Underwood

Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff, May 23, 1946) is a musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple.

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Some Time in New York City

Some Time in New York City is a studio album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory, and paired with the live album Live Jam as a double album.

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Sound collage

In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as montage.

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Terry Bozzio

Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Grand Wazoo

The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 Jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers.

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The MOFO Project/Object

The MOFO Project/Object is an album by Frank Zappa.

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The Monkees

The Monkees were an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed.

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The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps; sacred spring) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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The Turtles

The Turtles were an American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, later known as Flo & Eddie.

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Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist.

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Tom Fowler (musician)

Thomas W. Fowler (born June 10, 1951) is an American bass guitarist and upright bassist.

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Tom Wilson (record producer)

Thomas Blanchard "Tom" Wilson Jr. (March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978) was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, the Mothers of Invention, Simon and Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon & the Animals, the Blues Project, the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and others.

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Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941 in London) Retrieved 24 September 2011 is a British film director and author.

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Trouble Every Day (song)

"Trouble Every Day" (labeled in early 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 residence of a methamphetamine chemist referred to by Zappa as "Wild Bill the Mannequin-Fucker"Zappa, p. 71 after watching news coverage of the Watts Riots.

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Uncle Meat

Uncle Meat is the fifth studio album by The Mothers of Invention, released as a double album in 1969.

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Videotape

Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.

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Waka/Jawaka

Waka/Jawaka (also known as Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats) is the fourth solo album by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972.

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Watts riots

The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965.

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We're Only in It for the Money

We're Only in It for the Money is the third studio album by the Mothers of Invention.

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Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the seventh studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, and the tenth overall by Frank Zappa, released in 1970.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.

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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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200 Motels (soundtrack)

The 200 Motels soundtrack of 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.

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35 mm film

35 mm film (millimeter) is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography (see 135 film).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention

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