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Sharing URL. One Account. Unlimited Benefits. It was only many years later that Zappa examined his birth certificate and discovered that, in fact, his first name was Frank, not Francis. The real Francis Zappa took a job with the Navy during World War II, and he spent the rest of his career working in one capacity or another for the government or in the defense industry, resulting in many family moves.
Zappa's mother, Rose Marie Colimore Zappa, was a former librarian and typist. The same year, Zappa had first shown an interest in becoming a musician, joining the school band and playing the snare drum. Although the Zappa family continued to live in California for the rest of Zappa's childhood, they still moved frequently; by the time Zappa graduated from Antelope Valley Joint Union High School in Lancaster in June , it was the seventh high school he had attended.
Meanwhile, his interest in music had grown. After his high school graduation, Zappa studied music at several local colleges off and on. He also switched to playing the guitar. Zappa married Kathryn J. Sherman on December 28, ; the marriage ended in divorce in Meanwhile, he played in bands and worked on the scores of low-budget films.
He and Buff began writing and recording pop music with studio groups and licensing the results to such labels as Del-Fi Records and Original Sound Records. On March 26, , he was arrested by a local undercover police officer who had entrapped him by asking him to record a pornographic audiotape. Convicted of a misdemeanor, he spent ten days in jail, an experience that embittered him. After completing his sentence, he closed the studio, moved into Los Angeles, and joined a band called the Soul Giants that featured his friend, singer Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada and drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
In short order, he induced the group to play his original compositions instead of covers, and to change their name to the Mothers reportedly on Mother's Day, May 10, In Los Angeles, the Mothers were able to obtain a manager, Herb Cohen, and audition successfully to appear in popular nightclubs such as the Whiskey Go-Go by the fall of By this time, Elliot Ingber had joined the group on guitar, making it a quintet.
An excess of material and Zappa's agreement to accept a reduced publishing royalty led to the highly unusual decision to release it as a double-LP, an unprecedented indulgence for a debut act that was practically unheard, much less for an established one. Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde appeared during the same period, but it was his seventh album. Freak Out! It was not an immediate success commercially, but it entered the Billboard chart for the week ending February 11, , and eventually spent 23 weeks in the charts.
In July , Zappa met Adelaide Gail Sloatman; they married in September , prior to the birth, on September 28, , of their first child, a daughter named Moon Unit Zappa who would record with her father.
She was followed by a son, Dweezil, on September 5, He, too, would become a recording artist, as would Ahmet Zappa, born May 15, A fourth child, Diva, was born in August During the summer of , Zappa hired drummer Denny Bruce and keyboardist Don Preston, making the Mothers of Invention a septet, but by November , when the Mothers of Invention went back into the studio to record their second album, Absolutely Free, Bruce had been replaced by Billy Mundi; Ingber had been replaced by Jim Fielder; and Zappa had hired two horn players, Bunk Gardner on wind instruments and Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood on saxophone, bringing the band up to a nine-piece unit.
The album was recorded in four days and released in June It entered the charts in July and reached the Top After a two-week stint in Montreal, they returned to California, where Fielder left the group in February. In March, Zappa began recording his first solo album, Lumpy Gravy, having signed to Capitol Records under the impression that he was not signed as an individual to Verve, a position Verve would dispute. Later that month, the Mothers of Invention returned to New York City for another extended engagement at the Garrick Theater in Greenwich Village that ran during Easter week and was sufficiently successful that Herb Cohen booked the theater for the summer.
That run began on May 24, , and ran off and on through September 5. During this period, Ian Underwood joined the band, playing saxophone and piano. On October 1, Verve failed to exercise its option to extend the band's contract, although they still owed the label three more LPs. They finished recording We're Only in It for the Money in October, but its release was held up because of legal concerns about its proposed cover photograph, an elaborate parody of the Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was finally resolved by putting the picture on the inside of the fold-out LP sleeve. Another legal dispute was resolved when Verve purchased the tapes of Lumpy Gravy from Capitol. Zappa then finished recording this orchestral work, and Verve released it under his name and that of "the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus" on May 13, ; it spent five weeks in the charts.
In the fall of , he began recording Uncle Meat, the soundtrack for a proposed film, with work continuing through February The label was intended to record not only the Mothers of Invention, but also acts Zappa discovered. Early in the summer, Ray Collins quit the Mothers of Invention, who continued to tour. The LP spent 12 weeks in the charts. Zappa was then free of Verve, although his disputes with the company were not over.
Verve put out a compilation, Mothermania: The Best of the Mothers, in March , and it spent nine weeks in the charts. It reached the Top The movie it was supposed to accompany did not appear until a home video release in In May, Bizarre released Pretties for You, the debut album by Alice Cooper, the only act discovered by the label that would go on to substantial success after switching to Warner Bros.
Records proper, that is. Zappa began working on a second solo album, Hot Rats, in July On August 19, the Mothers of Invention gave their final performance in their original form, playing on Canadian TV at the end of a tour. One week later, Zappa announced that he was breaking up the band, although, as it turned out, this did not mean that he would not use the name "the Mothers of Invention" for groups he led in the future. Hot Rats, the second album to be credited to Frank Zappa, was released on October 10, It spent only six weeks in the charts at the time, but it would become one of Zappa's best-loved collections, with the instrumental "Peaches en Regalia" a particular favorite.
Although the Mothers of Invention no longer existed as a performing unit, Zappa possessed extensive tapes of them, live and in the studio, and using that material, he assembled a new album, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, released in February ; it made the Top Chunga's Revenge, released in October, was billed as a Zappa solo album, even though it featured the current lineup of the Mothers; it spent 14 weeks in the charts.
After touring the U. But this strategy backfired when the Royal Albert Hall canceled the concert, alleging that Zappa's lyrics were too vulgar. He added to his expenses by suing the Royal Albert Hall, eventually losing in court. On June 5 and 6, , the Mothers appeared during the closing week of the Fillmore East theater in New York City, recording their shows for a live album, Fillmore East, June , quickly released on August 2.
They continued to tour into the fall. Meanwhile, the Mothers' European tour was eventful, to say the least. On December 4, , the group appeared at the Montreux Casino in Geneva, Switzerland, but their show stopped when a fan fired off a flare gun that set the venue on fire.
The incident was the inspiration for Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water. He suffered a broken ankle, among other injuries, and was forced to recuperate for months.
This was the end both of the tour and of this edition of the Mothers. While convalescing at home in Los Angeles, Zappa organized a new big band to play jazz-fusion music; he dubbed it the Grand Wazoo Orchestra and recorded two albums with it.
The Grand Wazoo, credited to the Mothers, appeared in December and missed the charts. By September 10, Zappa felt well enough to play two weeks of dates with the group, now billed as the Mothers, starting at the Hollywood Bowl.
He then cut the personnel down to ten pieces the "Petit Wazoo" band and toured from late October to mid-December. The start of marked a new and surprisingly popular phase in Zappa's career.
He assembled a new lineup of Mothers, made a batch of new recordings on which he himself sang lead vocals his voice having dropped half an octave as a result of injuring his neck when he was thrown from the stage , and hit the road for the most extensive touring of his career.
Inaugurating the new band in Fayetteville, NC, on February 23, he spent days of on the road, including tours of the U. The album reached the Top 40, stayed in the charts nearly a year, and went gold. The LP also went gold. Zappa continued to tour extensively in The shows were recorded, but the material was not released until May as Orchestral Favorites, which spent several weeks in the charts. Starting on September 27, , Zappa launched another extended period of touring, staying in the U.
This ended another phase in his career. He split with his longtime manager Herb Cohen and disbanded his group, which, because of legal disputes with Cohen, would turn out to have been the last one called the Mothers or the Mothers of Invention. Hereafter, he would perform and record simply as Frank Zappa.
There were also other legal issues. In September, he launched his first world tour under his own name, playing in the U.
Zoot Allures, the last album to be credited to the Mothers, was released on Warner Bros. Records on October 29, , the DiscReet label apparently being claimed by Cohen; it reached the Top Zappa was also seeking to end his deal with Warner. In the summer of , he announced that he had concluded his contract with Warner. Warner then sued to block its release. His shows from October at the Palladium in New York City were filmed and recorded, the material later emerging in the movie Baby Snakes.
The European leg of the tour opened in London on January 24, The resolutions of Zappa's legal disputes led to an unusually large number of releases over the next year. Studio Tan appeared in September and charted. Orchestral Favorites completed the releases of the material Zappa had delivered to Warner in March The album managed to distinguish itself from all the other Zappa albums in the record bins and peaked at number 21, Zappa's best showing in five years, promoted by the single "Dancin' Fool," which made the Top Zappa toured Europe and Japan in the spring of , then returned to the U.
The home studio and his continuing practice of recording his shows, along with greater control over his record releases, seemed to free Zappa to issue more records. A soundtrack album did not appear until Zappa spent much of on the road, beginning a tour of North America and Europe on March 25, with dates continuing through July 3, and then touring again from October 10 through Christmas.
Amazingly, Zappa did not release an album during But he made up for that in By now, Zappa had perfected a method of melding studio and live performances on his records, such that the finished versions were a combination of the two. Dance Me This. Roxy The Movie. Joe's Camouflage. Roxy By Proxy. I'm the Slime. A Token of His Extreme. The Interview Sessions. Lumpy Money Cd3. Lumpy Money Cd2. Lumpy Money Cd1. FZ:OZ Disc 1. FZ:OZ Disc 2.
Ensemble Ambrosius- The Zappa Album. Muffin Men Plays Zappa. Cheap Thrills. Have I Offended Someone? Lather Cd2. Lost Episodes. Lather Cd3.
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