The article "San Francisco at (psychedelic) night" includes short overview of Frank Zappa's thoughts (and named Mothers Of Invention as San Franciscan group).

On the cover is featured Czech singer Marta Kubišová. She was very famous in these years, especially after her song "Modlitba pro Martu" (A prayer for Marta) she did during the Prague Spring of 1968.

This is the first interview by any Czech journalist with Frank Zappa. Alexander Goldscheider did it in Fillmore East before the 22 February 1969 shows. (read more)

p 203. Zappa has a new band with Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Ruth and Ian Underwoods.

p 217. Guitarist Pavel Fořt

Magic Fingers (F. Zappa), LP 200 Motels. Mothers Of Invention. United Artists UDF 50 003
Automatic translation: It was hard rock, which I like – long solos on one chord, that doesn't suit me. The interludes with bass, guitar and vocals were very imaginative. What was it? Well, after all. Perhaps I would listen to the first part again . . . No overcombined, just simple forms. And there are a lot of elements that you discover later — for example, a piano that plays very nice things, but you only hear them for the second or third time, and if I play it for the fifth time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

Captain Beefheart has signed to Virgin and a new, completely different LP Unconditionally Guaranteed has been released. Some other artists, such as Zappa, have also changed their style. His latest album, OverNite Sensation, which should appeal to a wider audience, is good, but has not lived up to its hype. New album Apostrophe with Cream bassist Jack Bruce is coming.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

On page 209 there is a quote from Zappa that, loosely translated, reads something like this:

"Most young Americans don't think politically," says Frank Zappa, one of those who most consistently transferred the folk song motto of "songs about something" to rock. "They have too much free time. And they only use it to enjoy themselves. But if we could make them think, that would mean something. . . I feel a certain responsibility that certain things must be said or done in the context of the situation of our society."

Source: Václav Pěnkava

Zappal celebrated 10 years of performing on stages with The Mothers Of Invention with a concert in Paris.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

The list of people who influenced Frank Zappa on the Freak Out! album cover includes the Czech composer Alois Hába.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

p 201. Article on the Royal Albert Hall concert case.
p 203. Beefheart is now the lead singer of Zappa's band.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

Aleš Sigmund is Czech guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, band leader and producer.

Zomby Woof (F. Zappa). Mothers. Discreet K 41000
Automatic translation: Hachacha, he starts as Zappa . . . Is that him? A real madhouse, that's an original guy, that Frank Zappa. He has such crazy songs, with completely unusual procedures, full of musical forms. At times they are completely etudes, fast runs, twists in rhythmic division. Just a kind of free pop, but written and calculated. Is Zappa terribly afraid of the conventional concept of the songs, he wants to be different than everything at all costs. A kind of El Salvador Dali pop music. There is an interesting moment about him: his work is also a reaction to the main streams of American music. He ignores all the laws of the hit and so despises them. It sounds similar to me like Sparks – the band that has hit me in the ear the most lately.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

It's about Zappa's two last albums – Apostrophe and Roxy and Elsewhere.

Source: Václav Pěnkava

Article contains review of the Zoot Allures.

 

Petr Hapka was a Czech composer, one of the most significant composers of Czech film music scores.

Don't You Ever Wash That Thing (F.Zappa). Frank Zappa a Mothers. Discreet 257 741 [probably Roxy & Elsewhere]
Automatic translation: A genius shines from it. You can see that it is played & written by people who know that at three o'clock they don't have to drop out of the studio to catch a bus that takes them to the water, who doesn't think they have to record, just think of music. They wake up at night if the tone they played in the afternoon is good, and the next day they will listen to it and then rewind it and come back to it in three days. It's the same as a South American shepherd taking a whistle & someone accidentally rotates it, because that guy just thought about music, and it doesn't matter if there are thousands of arranger loops or one flute to which someone is blowing. It's just music that goes from within, and no plagiarists can ever do it.

Article about the album Zappa In New York, about planned 4-record album [Läther], the quarrel with Herb Cohen, the change of record label and moving from Discreet to Warner Brothers.

 Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.

Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage in Copenhagen). (Frank Zappa) Mothers Of Invention. LP Uncle Meat, Bizarre

 

On page 139 is a short story on Joe's Garage albums. On pages 146-147 is an article on John Lennon, which includes some words about Lennon's and Zappa's Fillmore East 1971 concert.

The series of articles by L. Dorůžka about fusion music was printed in all issues of 1980.

Half of the article on page 183 is about film Baby Snakes. 

Daniel Fikejs is a Czech composer. He's talking about "Dong Work For Yuda".

 

The article on Ringo Starr contains references to 200 Motels film.

Jan Antonín Pacák was a painter and musician. He is talking about "Brown Shoes Don't Make It."

The article on Ringo Starr contains references to 200 Motels film.

Pavel Pelc is a Czech musician, bass player, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur. He is talking about "I Promise Not To Come Into Your Mouth".

 

On page 235 is a short notice about Zappa's Europe Tour 82. 

On page 105 is a short notice that Zappa is again in Europe, but this time not on tour. With a hundred-member London Symphony Orchestra he recorded digitally music for three ballets.

 

This interview is translated from German MusikExpress/Sounds #11, November 1984.

On page 177 is a picture of Frank Zappa and Mejla Hlavsa, the founder, bassist and main songwriter of the legendary Czechoslovakian underground band Plastic People Of The Universe.

Source: Václav Pěnkava