Where Is Frank Zappa?
(previous – Part 1) The second in a series of articles dealing with Frank Zappa—head mother of the Mothers Of Invention. The series, generally, will present some of Zappa’s thoughts about various subjects, including kids, politics, music and today’s society. In so doing, the reader may get some insight as to where Frank Zappa is at—if that is at all possible. Describing Zappa or The Mothers is, at best, difficult. But we’ll try anyway by quoting the liner notes (by Suzy Creamcheese) on the LP ‘Freak Out’—Verve 5005-2. “These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were gonna get them for a dance after the basketball game but my best pal warned me you can never tell how many will show up … sometimes the guy in the fur coat doesn’t show up and sometimes he does show up only he brings a big bunch of crazy people with him and they dance all over the place. None of the kids at my school like these Mothers. ‘specially since my teacher
