Zapzapzappa – Das Buch der Mothers Of Invention
Kinder der Geburtstagpresse, Köln
1968
ISBN –
58 pp, paperback, 29,5 x 10,5 cm
German/English
Probably the first book ever dedicated to Frank Zappa. Written by late Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, who's other Zappa books are:
- Song-Magazin IEST 68, 1968
- Underground? Pop? Nein! Gegenkultur!, 1969
- Das Buch der neuen Pop-Musik, 1970
- Frank Zappa, 1971
- Rock-Zeit, 1972
Cover photo – Mothers arriving at airport to IEST 68 (Internationale Essener Song Tage) – is taken by Jens Hagen. Book layout is by Reinhard Hippen.
Reinhard Hippen:
"Ein seltenes Dokument des Undergrounds in deutscher Sprache, natürlich mit vielen englischsprachigen Originalzitaten."
(A rare underground document in German, with many original quotes in English.)
The Zappa quotes (some in English, some in German) are taken from an interview Kaiser did at Zappa's home. Parts of the same interview are published in Das Buch der neuen Pop-Musik and Konkret, Nr 11, 1968.