It has become apparent that any rock fan worth his salt should own the complete works of Frank Zappa. More than anyone else, Zappa is the cartographer of the aesthetics of rock music whatever they may be. His own records and various 'discoveries' (Beefheart, GTO's, etc.) are, without doubt, music of first importance, created by musicians that have long forgot the sometimes awesome vagaries of technique. (read more)

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Frank Zappa made them do it, they claim. It's just another inverted joke among two hours of inverted jokes, of course, but then again it's perfectly true. No one else but Zappa could have made something like this happen. "200 Motels" is a direct visual extension of Zappa's bizzaro-poo-poo music and his frenzied satirical vision. There's never been anything quite like it before. (read more)

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It all happened at the Casino Montreux, the "Swiss Fillmore", right on Igor Stravinsky Street in Montreux, on the afternoon of December 4, 1971. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention did their first concert in Switzerland. Half of the Mothers European tour already behind them, they enjoyed themselves in the snowy mountains with cheese and all that Swiss stuff – then they came down to do the concert in that unbelievably over-decorated old-fashioned big crazy building that was packed with a nice audience from all over Switzerland, Italy and other places. (read more)

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