The very first Creem edition has on page 13 in the "Take it or leave it!" section a note: "Eric Clapton is the mystery voice on Zappa's Only In It For The Money brainchild, "Nasal Retentive Music".

Source: Steve Hecht collection, creem.com

Page 22 has an ad for the Mothers of Invention Detroit concert and a picture.

Source: Steve Hecht collection, creem.com

We have pictures of only some pages from this early Creem issue and it is not clear, what Mothers' content – announced on the cover page – it contained. The Straight label full-page ad was included. Maybe there was something more.

Worthpoint: [Two parts of the vol. 2 #1 issue.] Both say Volume 2, # 1 on the covers, but are totally different. The issue on the left with Pete Townsend on the cover has a masthead, but the other one does not. The issue on the left is mostly devoted to artists who will appearing at the 1st Annual Detroit Rock & Roll Revival on May 31st, 1969. It also has the schedule on the inside front page. The other issue is mostly record company ads (like the Straight Records and Velvet Underground ads), and local Detroit events and businesses.

Source: Worthpoint, creem.com

“Uncle Meat” is a collage, devoid of logic or even free associations in the order of the different “songs”. And it is perfect (protean non-structure at its zenith). (read more)

Source: Steve Hecht collection, creem.com

page 10, "Rock & Roll News": The GTO's, truly bizarre girl "band", have a record called (more GTO's) "Circular Circulation" on Zappa's Straight label. Zappa has a talent for drawing people like that, you know.

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Hot Rats ad on page 13. Didn't notice any more Frank Zappa related material.

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page 5, "Rock & Roll News": The Mothers of Invention have reformed with Aynsley Dunbar on drums and ex-Turtle Howard Kaylan (the lead singer) on vocals. While the MOI were in Britain Kaylan payed a visit to Tyrannosaurus Rex in the recording studio where they are as work on their fifth album. He ended up doing vocal harmonies with Ty Rex instigator Marc Bolan on a tune called "Seagull Woman".

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Apart from the two record reviews, Zappa's name can be found repeatedly in the article about Wild Man Fischer "Let us now praise famous wild men" (pp 18-23). Film news on p 68 reports that filming has begun on 200 Motels.

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The familiar face is in the photo on page 10. The text there is as follows: "Whatever this is, it was painted on Glendora High School during Easter vacation. The words read K&LEG, XXXX 4-12-71 2:00 AM. Done in 11/2 hrs. Tho first line stands for Ken, Larry, Ed and Garry. Ken’s the artist, the others just watched. The principal of the school didn’t mind at all. As a matter of fact, he said that the school needed a paint job soon and “It isn't hurting anyone!” But is it art?

Note. See also The David Allen Blog. “They did a pretty good job of it, so it was left up for the entire year.”

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“What’s the deal?” Somebody gave weird old Frank Zappa a bunch of money to make a moving picture. Is that just like years ago when somebody gave Zappa a smaller bunch of money to make records? Well, sort of similar. (read more)

page 10: Frank Zappa's a mother after all. Noted rock muckraker David Walley has just written a book about smutlord Frank Zappa. Chances are you'll never see it, though. Outerbridge and Lazard, and Fusion magazine (the book publishers) are holding it up due to Zappa and manager Herb Cohen's refusal to grant permission to quote song lyrics.
Permission to print the lyrics had been granted previously, but once Frank and Herb read the proofs, they weren't sure. So they returned the check. Fusion, Walley and O&D are all expected to take a financial bath on the deal.

“And that pantalooned duck / white goose neck / quacked, ‘Webcor, Webcor.’” Those are the last lines on Clear Spot, from a song called “Golden Birdies.” Not exactly “I Can See Clearly Now,” I know, but if you find it hard to make sense out of lyrics like that, or feel that you must, rest easy. Captain Beefheart has come out of the haze. (read more)

Included are The GTOs, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart.

The article contains a review of the As They Were, a book by Tuli Kupferberg and Sylvia Topp.

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This is pretty much an extension of the Mother's Overnite Sensation which is a shame because Zappa's records used to be noticeably different (better) than the Mother's records as opposed to say Rod the Sod's records and what's-their-faces records. (read more)

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No, this isn't the newest dance craze. This is our boy Frank Zappa demonstrating the tricks of his trade. It may look like monkeyshines, but how would you like to be responsible for riding herd on a pack of mangy instrumentalists, each hot to solo his grand wazoo off given half a chance? You'd have to keep a firm hand, and that's what Frank demonstrates here in ten freeze frames, each commemorating one of his years in the business and immortalizing his distinctive brand of body language. Some say the hand is quicker then the eye, but our photographers disproved that old axiom and caught Frank in his famous fickle fingers act. So the old fart decided to fess up and tell us what all the hand jive means.

Source: The Waldo Scrapbooks

The living room could be anyone's. A cheerful, grey-haired grandmother tries to coax her tiny grandson into a state of slumber. An older blonde boy sprawls on the couch and watches a re-run of Hee-Haw. Upstairs, a little girl patters about unseen. It's Los Angeles' answer to suburban Long Island. I sit in the corner, loading my tape recorder, awaiting the subject of this interview. Ozzie Nelson? Glen Campbell? Gerry Ford?

Nope. Frank Zappa.

As I slide the tape cartridge into the sputtering Sony, I try to envision Zappa's entrance. This has to be some sort of set up. Being a fan of Frank's for ten years, I just KNOW he'll do something bizarre. Maybe he'll throw up on the carpet. Or carry in a large stuffed giraffe with a likeness of Jimmy Carl Black strapped on its back. Or burn a carrot on a cross. (read more)

You Mothers make more noise. The response to our Mothers contest in the December CREEM was staggering but we worked our stringy fingers to the bone and are now proud to present the results. (read more)

On page 16 is a picture titled "Frank takes measurements on a model for Ruth Underwood's latest stage outfit".

Frank Zappa is incapable of writing a solid, memorable, hummable pop/rock melody; the kind of melody with a hook that sticks in your mind so well it may overstay itself and become obnoxious. (read more)

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We combed the countryside, the concert circuit, the claptraps, jukejoints and ginmills, and came up with a leading panel of the most celebrated lushes in pop-dom. Trek with us now through their rotted lobes as we struggle to get straight answers to the questions "What is your favorite kind of booze?" and "What is the worst thing that ever happened to you when you were drunk?"
FRANK ZAPPA
FAVE DRINK: Only Chateau Batailley 1961 or 1967.
WORST EXPERIENCE: "I've had no experience."

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The radio programmer has his nose pressed flat against the glass which separates his padded cell from our studio recording booth. Kids are wandering outside our room, waiting for the release of Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa so they can smother them with hostile affection (and receive the usual cold snub). (read more)

Source: The Waldo Scrapbooks, creem.com

On page 22 is a picture of Zappa subtitled "Gregg & Cher Reunited Again!". No other Zappa-related content in this issue.

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Rock'n'roll News, page 16: This is a crazed maniac?? This sober gentleman sitting in front of the tools of his trade, taking a break from the routine of producing the likes of Grand Funk and the Starland Vocal Bond? What year is this?
Now that he's all Funked out, Frank Zappa has joined up with a new manager, Bennett Glotzer (chosen on the strenght of his name), who will coordinate Frank and all of his worldwide concerns in the future. Plans include a world tour with Frank's new Zoot Allures (like the French phrase -- get it?) touring group, which has already started, along with the release of Frank's Zoot Allures album, which you should have in your hands now.

On page 37 are pictures of Flo & Eddie in a "Kiss camouflage" together with Kiss. No other Zappa-related content in this issue.

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Frank Zappa is the creeping terror. X the Unknown, That's Mr. Z., who set himself up ages ago as the spokesman for the dawn of social correction (listen, Barry McGuire was just clowning around, and Sgt. Barry Sadler just happened to hate gooks, so what?) and told a whole generation of innocent babes (not yet exposed to warfare like Starsky and Hutch but still being fed on Star Trek and Joe Pyne) to TURN OFF THEIR TV SETS (that's what Freak Out was all about, a justification for Zappa's own paranoia, suggesting that the Brain Police were actually seeping out of the tube). (read more)

Beside Zoot Allures review on page 34 you can find Zappa in Best Producers list.

Few people pay them credit today, but the fact, is that Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention set the stage for a lot or the rock 'n' roll that emerged in the early part or this decade. Specifically what they did was wear dresses on the cover of their We're Only In It For The Money album in 1968. That simple. While it may be hard to believe, nobody else had done anything quite as outrageous (and on such a scale) at that juncture in the history of rock 'n' roll. Even the most dedicated of the rock rebels wondered in their heart of hearts: "What are they? Transvestites or something?" They weren't. The Mothers were just carrying on in the grand rock tradition or shock and defiance. Nevertheless, it took a year for it to soak in at all.

In 1969 Zappa started Straight Records, and one of his first releases was an album by a band that posed in mini-skirts and billed itself as Alice Cooper. It would still be a while before drag rock cauqht on commercially, but with Alice, it was here to stay ... for the time being. The band hit the road with a stage act that teased audiences with androgyny and morbid "dead baby" jokes.

Funny short article on Zappa playing Leather in KROQ station for everybody to tape this album.

It’s not surprising and only a little disappointing that Zappa’s new two-record set deals with the same old shit. (read more)

Article on Moon and Frank Zappa based on interview with them.

The first time I heard Frank Zappa’s “Valley Girl” on the radio, I turned up the volume, pulled my car off the road, and sat there slightly shocked. I was turned to KFRC, a very powerful, very popular Top 40 station in the San Francisco Bay Area, a station that generally plays hits like “Waiting For A Girl Like You” and “Keep The Fire Burning.” (read more)

It's Frank Zappa. At last. By trying to have this interview coincide with some of his upcoming releases, I've almost missed connecting with Zappa. He's gearing up for his first tour in over three years, rehearsing his band eight hours a day, all the while trying to tie up loose ends in a number of areas. One of our foremost musicaholics has been as busy as ever: Frank and the band are scheduled to be in Europe as you read this, and "there has been some talk about doing 10 weeks in late summer, outdoor festival type things," west of the Mississippi – his dates earlier this year were confined to the Midwest and Northeast. (read more)