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The Mothers of Invention (also known as the Mothers) were an American rock band from California. [3] Formed in 1964, their work is marked by the use of sonic experimentation, innovative album art , and elaborate live shows.
Members of the multiple incarnations of Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention. Pages in category "The Mothers of Invention members" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
We're Only in It for the Money is the third album by American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on March 4, 1968, by Verve Records.As with the band's first two efforts, it 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.
Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on June 27, 1966, by Verve Records.Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, it is a satirical expression of guitarist/bandleader Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the nascent freak scene of Los Angeles.
"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 , the residence of a methamphetamine chemist referred to by Zappa as "Wild Bill the Mannequin-Fucker ...
Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977.
Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the eighth album by the American rock group the Mothers of Invention, and the tenth overall by Frank Zappa, released in 1970.Following the Mothers' late 1969 split, Zappa assembled two albums - Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh - from unreleased studio and live recordings by the band, as well as some outtakes/leftovers from his 1969 solo album Hot Rats.
Frank Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo ...