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...Sept. 23 -Frank Zappa's wife gives birth to another child, which they name Nylon Zappa...
...Five thousand young people are there," TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler wrote, describing a Frank Zappa concert in Philadelphia. "They are expecting to be blasted out of their seats by a succession of rock groups like Jeff Beck, and Sly & the Family Stone. But the Mothers of Invention, who come on first, take the heart right out of the kids. They look old, entirely too old to be a rock group, and underfed, and definitely weird. Especially Frank Zappa, scrawny and at his most unappetizing in long red underwear, straggly black hair tied in a ponytail, a sinister goatee elongating...
...happens, that was one of the Mothers' last concerts. For five years, Zappa and the eight other Mothers tried to make satiric hash of rock, displaying a suicidal urge, or so it seemed to many, to play music so weird, as Zappa put it, that "you just have to run screaming from the room the moment you hear us." To many people, Zappa, in fact, has often seemed to be a force of cultural darkness, a Mephistophelian figure serving as a lone, brutal reminder of music's potential for invoking chaos and destruction. Zappa sees himself merely...
...move was far from suicidal. Zappa already has enough material recorded to produce twelve more Mothers LPs. If they are like the first eight, that will mean words too dirty and music too complex to be played on the radio. No matter. It is plainly time to branch out further. Zappa is now president of the first underground rock conglomerate ever, Bizarre, Inc. It includes two record labels-Bizarre and Straight-as well as a management firm, a public relations agency, an advertising agency, several music-publishing companies, a film-production company and a book division that will start...
...group calling itself Ruben & the Jets (which is really Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention) has cut an album which re-creates the sounds of the '50s. Says the album's liner blurb: "This is an album of greasy love songs and cretin simplicity. We made it because we really like this kind of music...