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Frank Zappa/Mothers. Despite his universally acclaimed musical genius, Frank Zappa's foremost desire remains unfulfilled to this very day. He has yet to be credited with an honest-to-goodness hit single on Top-40 radio. Those of you so moved, be it by pity or the desire to witness one of rock's giants, can catch Zappa with his newest collection of Mothers at the Orpheum, Nov. 9 at 7 or 10 p.m. Tickets are $4.50, 5.50, and 6.50 and are available at the box office, Out-of-Town, and Minuteman-Soundscope...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Rock and Folk | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

...Angeles rock group with a transvestite look. At that point, Alice Cooper seemed more appropriate than Nazz or Spiders, names the group had worked under previously. The group was so weird that it naturally came to the attention of that master zapper of the Establishment Frank Zappa, who released Alice's first LP (Pretties for You) on his own Straight label. It was not until Shep Gordon, their current manager, saw them and took them on that the Alice Cooper phenomenon began to happen. "When I saw 2,000 people walk out on them," said Gordon, "I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Schlock Rock's Godzilla | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...more theatric rock performance. To call his performance antilife, when it is really an attempt to augment a medium that is in danger of stagnation, is to deny his innovative efforts, and is wildly paranoic to boot. Concern for society is one thing, witch hunting is another. Besides, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention were performing almost precisely the same things almost four years ago. Zappa's atrocities, as they were called, included dismembering dolls, a particularly juicy interlude where a salami, attached to a guy wire, runs through the audience and smacks a doll in the ass, a replies...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: In Defense of Alice Cooper | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

...Alice Cooper is the name of both the leader and the group that have climbed to infamy as the chief practitioners of what can only be called Grand Guignol rock. The discovery of Frank (Mothers of Invention) Zappa, Alice the group is a gaggle of allegedly straight males who started out by pretending to be transvestites. Now they are into horror and, as they describe it, the purging of the evil within the souls of their young fans. Alice the leader sometimes throws live chickens to the audience, axes dolls to death, carries a snake that sometimes works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vaudeville Rock | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...Motels, Frank Zappa's first and only movie. Harvard Square, 2:30, 6:05, 9:40. With Mississippi Mermaid. 4:15 and 7:50. Until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

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