Frank Zappa (the founder and benevolent dictator of the Mothers of Invention) has always struck me as a masterful mutant, Los Angeles' ace freak representative to the rest of the world. His music is like the city itself, a lot lof suburbs without a center or core: Stravinsky abuts Ed Sanders, Motown is next door to Webern, who lives around the corner from the Four Deuces, etc. Which makes Zappa the musical equivalent of a Gray Line bus tour, or does it? (read more)

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