#frank zappa and the mothers of invention

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Frank Zappa.

‘Hamming it up’

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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Atlantic City Pop Festival, NJ, 1969

photo by Frank Stefanko

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The Uncle Meat Variations by Frank Zappa and The Mothers from the compilation album Meat Light (Section 2: Uncle Meat's "Original Sequence")

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Restored Zappa and the Mothers Footage is Historic, But Boring

- Shot in 1968, 14-minute film is restored, synched to audio

It was nice of the Zappa Estate to provide free viewing of a 14-minute clip of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Whisky a Go-Go.

But it wouldn’t have been worth paying for.

Shot July 23, 1968, and recently restored and synched to 2023 mixes of the band’s performance, it’s something Zappa fans will want to see. But this Zappa fan also found it pretty boring.

The film - with cameras trained on the band, the audience and the scene outside the Whisky - is choppy, shot sporadically, and, therefore, so too is the music, which comes in snippets rather than songs.

“Frank Zappa never had the opportunity to see this footage synced to the music,” the estate said in releasing the video. “Now you do.”

Quite frankly, Zappa didn’t miss much.

6/25/24

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frank zappa and the mothers -- billy the mountain [live, 1971]

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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Atlantic City Pop Festival, NJ, 1969

photo by Frank Stefanko

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december 10, 1971

During a concert in London, Frank Zappa is thrown into the orchestra pit by a fan's jealous boyfriend, breaking his leg and ankle and fracturing his skull. Zappa takes months to recover.

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zappa ⭐️

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Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention, BB King, 1968

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Claudia Cardinale and Frank Zappa:

The following photographs taken by the renowned photographer Richard Avedon, were published in October/December 1967 by various magazines such as: Epoca (Italy), Paris Match (France), Cavalier (USA), London Times (England), Vikan ( Iceland), SE (Sweden).

The story of this iconic meeting and portrayed in photographs between Cardinale - Zappa began in the studio in Los Angeles, California when Claudia was filming the summer movie "Don't make Waves" on June 16, 1967 at the request of the magazine "Época" as the fame of the eccentric Frank Zappa was rising among the hippie crowd.

"Overnight music began to be valued. Even the London Times asked me to pose with Claudia Cardinale for a photograph! -Frank Zappa in his memoirs.

As always, there was never a lack of gossip about whether Zappa had something more than a photographic encounter with Claudia but there was never anything, except a beautiful friendship.

"I know you want me to explain some little post-photography adventure, but you don't have to compromise the good name of an Italian lady." - Frank Zappa.

Here Claudia posing with Frank Zappa and his "Mothers of Invention" but there is a story behind those fringed ankle boots that Claudia is wearing…

"The departure of Elliot Ingber (who offered his boots to Claudia Cardinale for a photo session) requires FZ to be the only guitarist…"

Here is the photo by Alain Dister from August 1966 (taken from Urban Gwerder's book Im Zeichen des magischen Affen) with Elliot Ingber on the foreground. Now in "Epoca" you can see Claudia is wearing Elliot's boots. And Elliot himself is barefoot.

Claudia Cardinale was in California to make a movie "Don't Make Waves" and met protesting students...

housewives in supermarkets...

Hells Angels...

and working woman...

Pictures from the same sessions were published later in October 1967 in US magazine Cavalier – "Claudia Cardinale on the California pop circuit".

The photos speak for themselves; If we look at their outfits we can understand that the late 60's was a time of liberation, rebellion and Hippie protest and yes! Eternal summer!

📷 Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1967.

*Please, don't crop the source of my photos*

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Frank Zappa

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frank zappa and the mothers of invention -- florentine pogen

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Mothers Of Invention - Frank Zappa